Thread: Bottomless Pit idea - how about a never ending ceiling

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I am wanting to do a bottomless pit type idea. Ideally I would make what appears to be a rickety bridge which crosses a hole in the ground. Kinda make everything look like a mineshaft. Unfortunately where the pit will be is inside a small metal building. I started thinking how about I put the bottomless pit overhead as I have all kinds of room that way. Make something like an air shaft/escape tunnel and have maybe a little bit of a rope type ladder.

Anyone have ideas of using the bottomless pit other than making a box and looking down into it? Anyone use it to make something go sideways?

That's a great idea. The bottomless pit illusion has been used before I believe for an endless hallway.

I always wanted to incorporate a black-hole type room were all the furniture appears to be sucked into a giant black-hole. I think a round bottomless pit setup sideways, and mounted into the wall (so that the mirrored surface is lined-up perfectly with the wall) And then for the final touches of the blackhole effect...Incorporate a semi-transparent video of swirling fog being projected onto the surface of the two-way mirror. It Should create a rather convincing black hole/ parallel universe effect.

The idea could even be expanded further to be a time machine portal, or a tornado, or even a giant whirl pool for pirate themes.

I've been thinking about making a boarded over mine entrance shaft using the old "bottomless pit" idea, except having it stand upright. Boards over the front of it before the first glass, do rock wall looking insides with an old type looking lantern hanging from the ceiling and a fake beam before the back mirror...

I am clueless in this area. SOrry...

We've done an endless hallway, of sorts. Made a "curio" sized cabinet from scrap wood (about 5' tall, 3' wide and about 10" deep)... all the easier to make it look distressed. A few years back Michael's had a 2 foot tall skull on a pedestal prop. Placed 2 inside added moss, used a a set of the strob/thunder lights around the edges inside and a florescent black light bulb at the top.

When the Black light is on it has a slight glow. We kept the try me button on the strob/thunder light string and when pushed it flashed enough light to "see down" the skull lined hallway.

hallways look great, but a ceiling???not sure anyone is afraid of falling up. The way the trick works, it seems like it would be very difficult to safely pull that off

Not sure about on the ceiling, but this would look awesome as a "hellevator" effect.
Guests would board an inclosed elevator, the light would flicker and the see thru grated bottom would show the floor levels (bottomless pit) The elevator would begin to shake, the lights would flicker as it appears to rapidly freefall down to hell.

The bottomless pit would incorporate rapid flickering lights to resemble a fast decline.
For added effect, the lights could begin to change from flickering white, to yellow, to red as it approaches hell. Fog could also be blasted up from the sides of the hellevator once it "hits" the bottom.