Thread: Trapped in your Worst Nightmare Theme - Phobias & Fears

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As I do so often, I bounce some theme ideas around each year before I decide what I am going to do. All of you on the forum have always been so helpful.

I can't really put a name to the theme but I was thinking of doing something about being trapped in your worst nightmare, tortured by your fears and phobias. Hell comes to mind but I don't want to offend anyone.

Our decor is haunted mansion and each room would really lend itself to different fears and nightmares but I am not sure what to do for an invitation and how to pull it all together.

Any thoughts?

Sounds like it would be great but also alot of work. Maybe you could send out a pre party poll type slip to all on your party list and ask what they are afraid of? When the polls are returned you could base your room themes and decorations accordingly.Also it could make it so that you could actually personalize the actual party invitations tp prey on thier fears before they even arrive. I know there are alot of different phobias and fears but usually a few come up the same every time. Claustrophobia, snakes,spiders,water. Hope this helps some.

Try the following link for the Top Ten phobias (spiders are #1), but a list of most (if not all phobias). I like Autophobia (the fear of oneself) and Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (the fear of long words). Some might be easier to reproduce than others; Nucleomituphobia - the fear of nuclear weapons or Aerophobia (the fear of flying).

One idea that came to me is see how many phobias you can account for in your haunt.

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HTH

Iffy

I like kprimm's idea! Sounds almost like a movie, where the haunted house is tailored to terrorize guests based on their specific fears. Sort of like in SAW when the drug abuser girl was thrown into the pit full of hypodermic needles.

Maybe ask in the pre-poll a childhood story from each guest where they were totally scared. Then you can tap into their childhood nightmares!

devious...

Love the ideas guys. I'll keep you posted on what I come up with.

I went to a haunt a couple of years ago that was based on people's fears. One room had a wall with hundreds of dolls attached to it and when we walked past the wall, someone wearing black and covered with dolls jumped out of the wall.

There was a pitch dark hallway for the claustrophobic where you had to go through black inflatable walls and push your way through.

Another room had a strobe light in it and was filled with mummies that we converge around you little by little.

Another room was a bedroom scene and there was a girl sleeping in it. She heard something under her bed and was suddenly grabbed by something underneath that pulled her under the bed completely. We then had to climb over that same bed to get to the next room.

Another room looked like a mental hospital padded room with an insane person sitting in the corner. There were bugs all over the place. Strobe in this room too, which made the bugs look like they were moving all over the place.

Sorry, that's all I could remember - everything else is pretty much a blur.

Last year our theme was 'Face Your Fears'

Fear of self... heh

Mirrors *shudder*

I like the "Face Your Fears".... you could then do things around reflections in a mirror... invites and decorations....

I'm not coming, though - I'm too chicken for that.

FYI there is a website that has a list of phobias, they also have a poster that I bought that has all/ most phobias on it, google phobia list.

Originally Posted by natascha

Last year our theme was 'Face Your Fears'

Please tell me more -- do you have pictures?