Though the mortuary theme is a classic, it still works well as a theme for a haunted house. Mortuaries still have a way of creeping out even the bravest of people, so it is a very good theme for a home haunt.
Some room ideas for a Halloween haunted house with a mortuary theme would be to have your entry room be the funeral parlor. This isn’t too hard to create, you will need a long folding table, the type that you can adjust the height, and a large black cloth to put over it.
Place your coffin on this table, with a corpse prop inside. Now you’ll want a couple Halloween candelabras to place on either side of the coffin, and some flower arrangements as well. Here you can get creative and use red and black roses. Use some artwork on the walls, such as gothic pictures to help create the right atmosphere.
If you want to get really creative, the corpse you have in the coffin can be animated to where it jumps up as people walk by, or you can place some other type of animation somewhere in the room to provide a good startle to your visitors. Don’t forget to add some cobwebs to this room.
It is in this room that your haunted house guide will begin their tour and start telling your visitors your back-story. Someone in an undertaker’s costume would be best for this roll.
The next room could be just a simple dark hallway, painted black so it appears as if it is a tunnel; add some glowing eyes to the walls.
Now your visitors can step into your morgue, complete with an autopsy room, and a wall full of coolers. This wall can be created with foam board, and some paint. The autopsy table in your haunted house should have a corpse laying on it that is in the middle of being dissected; you can either make this prop, or buy it.
In this room you should have an actor in a Halloween costume to match the character. Maybe they can have a fake scalpel in which they move towards your visitors.
For the next segment of your Halloween haunted house, you can lead your visitors into a body parts room, where there are lots of gory body parts, and you just happen to catch a mortuary assistant feasting on these.
Another section could be the crypt room, where of course you may want a ghost or two present to haunt the living. Exit from the crypt room into your graveyard; where you’ll have some zombie props, and some live actors in zombie costume ready to devour the flesh of your guests.
There are many different ways you can use the mortuary theme, these are just a few ideas, but I’m sure you can find many others.
