Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:14 pm
#26383
Hello ZP friends!
This year a friend has hired me to help her plan, construct, and set up a haunted hollow at a local historical farm. The theme is Grimm's Hollow of Terror. If you read the actuall Grimm's tales they are really pretty ghastly. We have been having so much fun putting twisted versions on the fairy tales; it's been the best job I've ever had.
However, yesterday we found out that the independent group that was doing half of the hollow backed out. We have 2 1/2 weeks before opening and we are trying not to feel the panic that we now have that little time to fill the whole thing. I am coming to you hoping that you can help us fill in gaps, suggest better/more things that might fill in or add to what we've got. At this point my brain is feeling tired and I'm looking for great ideas.
This is what we've got so far:
At the entrance:
Jakob Grimm- he'll be handing out maps telling more details about the stories we've used because we don't expect all of them to be familiar.
We start by going down a covered bridge strung with lanterns. As you approach the end, a warped, slowed down version of Heigh-Ho will be playing. We will have a dwarf chained to a mining cart in zombified makeup. Snow White (either a dummy or a real person) will be bound and gagged to a coffin, like she was going to be buried alive. We'll have a cracked mirror, and the Wicked Witch handing out apples.
Next we have a low limb on a small hill. We will have a fellow in a hidden body harness with a noose. He will look dead, but will suddenly twitch and frantically point in the next direction and slump back down again.
On another branch we will have a dummy Rapunzel hung from a noose made of her own hair. And just down from her we will have a prince dummy skewered through the back by a pitchfork and posted as a trophy on the road.
We have a dillapadated carriage for Cinderella and her prince. The carriage will have crashed and they will be dead inside. The two stepsisters will be real. They will have their feet bloodied and one will be blind from the ravens that have pecked out her eyes. The evil stepmother will be laughing manically and ushering people on to the next area.
We have some wrought iron fences and an archway with a tarnished flickering chandelier that will take you right past Sleeping Beauty. She will be a decomposed corpse that will be oozing body fluid dangerously close to the walking path.
Then you will pass a boy sitting on a crate with an apple in hand his sister is trying to get him to wake up when his head falls off. She screams and the stepmother says that they will chop him up for the stew. This is from the story of the Juniper Tree.
Next is Little Red Riding Hood skipping happily through the trees, she goes around a corner and screams. You will hear two blank shots go off and then you see the woodsman with a bloody axe and little reds torn cloak and a wolf pelt hanging near him while he is roasting marshmallows.
Hansel and Gretel will come walking by looking very cute, but will stop and look at you with an evil face and laugh. On one side is the candy house and then on the other you see the witch with a huge cauldron. Next to the cauldron we will have a large pile of bones (cow bones, but they are real) and piles of bloody torn up kids clothes. She will approach and ask whose next for the pot.
We are looking into doing something with the Goose Girl, and The Princess in the Coffin and the Sentry, The Seven Ravens; but those details are still hazy and I've made this long enough.
At the end we will have Wilhelm Grimm handing out treats wishing everyone a happily ever after.
In just thinking about it I'm hoping it will be scarier than it sounds. Any thoughts???
This year a friend has hired me to help her plan, construct, and set up a haunted hollow at a local historical farm. The theme is Grimm's Hollow of Terror. If you read the actuall Grimm's tales they are really pretty ghastly. We have been having so much fun putting twisted versions on the fairy tales; it's been the best job I've ever had.
However, yesterday we found out that the independent group that was doing half of the hollow backed out. We have 2 1/2 weeks before opening and we are trying not to feel the panic that we now have that little time to fill the whole thing. I am coming to you hoping that you can help us fill in gaps, suggest better/more things that might fill in or add to what we've got. At this point my brain is feeling tired and I'm looking for great ideas.
This is what we've got so far:
At the entrance:
Jakob Grimm- he'll be handing out maps telling more details about the stories we've used because we don't expect all of them to be familiar.
We start by going down a covered bridge strung with lanterns. As you approach the end, a warped, slowed down version of Heigh-Ho will be playing. We will have a dwarf chained to a mining cart in zombified makeup. Snow White (either a dummy or a real person) will be bound and gagged to a coffin, like she was going to be buried alive. We'll have a cracked mirror, and the Wicked Witch handing out apples.
Next we have a low limb on a small hill. We will have a fellow in a hidden body harness with a noose. He will look dead, but will suddenly twitch and frantically point in the next direction and slump back down again.
On another branch we will have a dummy Rapunzel hung from a noose made of her own hair. And just down from her we will have a prince dummy skewered through the back by a pitchfork and posted as a trophy on the road.
We have a dillapadated carriage for Cinderella and her prince. The carriage will have crashed and they will be dead inside. The two stepsisters will be real. They will have their feet bloodied and one will be blind from the ravens that have pecked out her eyes. The evil stepmother will be laughing manically and ushering people on to the next area.
We have some wrought iron fences and an archway with a tarnished flickering chandelier that will take you right past Sleeping Beauty. She will be a decomposed corpse that will be oozing body fluid dangerously close to the walking path.
Then you will pass a boy sitting on a crate with an apple in hand his sister is trying to get him to wake up when his head falls off. She screams and the stepmother says that they will chop him up for the stew. This is from the story of the Juniper Tree.
Next is Little Red Riding Hood skipping happily through the trees, she goes around a corner and screams. You will hear two blank shots go off and then you see the woodsman with a bloody axe and little reds torn cloak and a wolf pelt hanging near him while he is roasting marshmallows.
Hansel and Gretel will come walking by looking very cute, but will stop and look at you with an evil face and laugh. On one side is the candy house and then on the other you see the witch with a huge cauldron. Next to the cauldron we will have a large pile of bones (cow bones, but they are real) and piles of bloody torn up kids clothes. She will approach and ask whose next for the pot.
We are looking into doing something with the Goose Girl, and The Princess in the Coffin and the Sentry, The Seven Ravens; but those details are still hazy and I've made this long enough.
At the end we will have Wilhelm Grimm handing out treats wishing everyone a happily ever after.
In just thinking about it I'm hoping it will be scarier than it sounds. Any thoughts???
It should be fun. I'll see if I can post pics when we are finished with stuff. 
