Haunted house & scare maze design.
New rooms, full re-themes and upgrades for haunted houses and scare mazes. Sets, props, boo holes, actor spaces and interactive effects that make guests jump.
Haunted House & Scare Maze Design
For Traumatica at Europa-Park we turned the former Wax Museum into Cinema Macabre: a new route and a new story, with every screen room themed to a past maze of the event. We re-themed rooms with existing animatronics, built a Frankenstein laboratory painted completely in black-light lightning, and upgraded the space maze Unknown with activation set pieces and escape-room style puzzles.
We think about the guest and the actor at the same time. Dinner tables are strong enough for actors to walk on, tentacle arms are made of soft, safe foam, and boo holes are placed so actors can scare from several positions. Where it makes sense we reuse props from earlier mazes, so your budget goes into the scenes that matter.
Full re-themes
A new story and a new route for an existing maze, reusing what still works.
New rooms & scenes
Complete rooms, from concept to set dressing.
Actor spaces & boo holes
Hidden spaces, police mirrors and reach-through holes built into the set.
Escape-room mechanics
Levers, buttons and moving objects guests use to unlock the next room.
Black-light & UV effects
Hand-painted UV artwork that appears when the lights trigger.
Actor-worn props
Safe, flexible puppet arms and props for actors to scare with.
From brief to install.
- BriefYour story, space, budget and opening date.
- ConceptSketches, references and a clear plan.
- SculptClay, foam or 3D print, refined by hand.
- Mould & castSilicone moulds, so pieces can be reproduced.
- Paint & finishSkin tones, hair, blood and ageing.
- Deliver & installShipped or installed on site.
Recent work.
Cinema Macabre
- Client
- Europa-Park
- Event
- Traumatica
- Year
- 2024
- Scope
- Full re-theme
The haunted house formerly known as "Wax Museum" got a new route and a new story: a cinema where every screen room is themed to a past maze from the event. Each room received its own theme, built from repurposed props out of earlier mazes or from completely new scenes and props.
Unknown
- Client
- Europa-Park
- Event
- Traumatica
- Year
- 2024
- Type
- Space maze
Thematic upgrades throughout Unknown, a space-themed haunted house that uses escape-room mechanics to move guests from room to room. We added levers, buttons and moving objects for guests to unlock the next room, plus a custom activation set piece with a hidden actor space, police mirrors to watch guests walk past, reach-through holes, and lights that tie into the puzzles.
Eden Manor Entrance
- Client
- Europa-Park
- Event
- Traumatica
- Year
- 2024
- Scope
- Entrance area
The full themed entrance to Eden Manor, a secret club. The concept is a greenhouse built around the Garden of Eden, filled with foliage and plants. The centrepiece is a giant tree reaching up to the stairs that lead into the club, next to a custom goddess statue we built from scratch.
Tarot House
- Client
- Europa-Park
- Event
- Traumatica
- Year
- 2025
- Scope
- Figures
Cloaked demonic figures with hand-sculpted, painted faces for Tarot House, one of the haunted houses at Traumatica. They stand in the dark corners of the house, half hidden between books, drapes and candlelight.
Funerarium
- Client
- Bellewaerde
- Year
- 2022
- Scope
- Haunted house
- Theme
- Mortuary
A haunted mortuary where every body is in a different stage of decay. The highlight is a hallway packed with bodies in body bags. Together with Mexican Massacre we produced over 60 custom bodies, severed limbs and heads for Bellewaerde's two haunted houses.
Mexican Massacre
- Client
- Bellewaerde
- Year
- 2022
- Scope
- Haunted house
- Props
- 60+ total
A maze themed to a Mexican serial killer. Every prop was made as a realistic victim, put on display by the killer throughout the house, from the torture wheel to the pillory and the meat hooks.
More examples.
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Can you re-theme a haunted house we already have?
Yes. Cinema Macabre at Traumatica was the former Wax Museum: we changed the route, the story and every room, reusing old props where they fitted.
Do you design spaces for scare actors?
Yes. We build actor spaces, boo holes, police mirrors and reach-through holes into the set, and make actor-worn props that are safe if they touch a guest.
Can you add interactive or escape-room elements?
Yes. For the maze Unknown we added levers, buttons and moving objects that guests use to unlock the next room.