I manufactured the torso of my brother in law who played an autopsy victim for the last room of the haunt.  While it was not as detailed as I it could have been, I think it managed to get the reactions that I had hoped it would.

Bob (my father in law) did a great job of accessorizing the torso with some clamps and extra pieces of rubber tubing that I had pre-bloodied for him to use.

I ended up skipping the casting process completely and instead manufactured a couple of stake pieces from extruded foam insulation and coated them with a layer of latex.

She spent the evening saying that whoever had tried to kill her had made a "Miss-stake".

Lots of airbrushing and custom paint mixing went into the stake and bloody mess we made of a perfectly good wedding dress.

The dress was a resale shop find.

It was in the low 40's on Halloween night, so Becky and I modified a pair of long johns so she could wear them under the dress without ruining the look of the dress.

Oh, I almost forgot - we had to go to the girls school for parent/teacher conferences and Becky went in full costume.  As she walked down the hallways the kids made a wide path for her - quite a few of them got real quiet and made sure that she couldn't get within reach of them.  It was pretty awesome and a real compliment to our hard work to make the costume look somewhat authentic. <grin> 

I spent the entire evening (more or less) in the haunt, so I didn't get much talk time myself.  Next year I need more helpers or I need to automate even more of the haunt.

This is a shot from the entrance of the haunt down the first hallway to the mirror at the end.  The mirror allowed the guests to see me pop up behind them from the secret hole in the wood panel behind me in the picture.

A lot of people were really taken by surprise when I appeared from seemingly nowhere and started walking behind them.  I didn't make any noise at all.  I just followed them very quietly and slowly through the entire haunt.  Sometimes they didn't notice me until a ways into the haunt.  It worked out no matter where they noticed me.

The small picture on the right hand wall was a spy window that allowed us to see (somewhat) when people were in the right position to drop the spiders.  My friend Jimmy ran the spiders and the first barrel prop from a secret room located just outside the haunt.

The guests turned to the left and got ready to go through another curtain when Jimmy got them with the barrel pop-up that was hidden behind a scrim wall.  The pop-up seems to appear from nowhere as the house lights in the area cut out and the jumper pops up all at the same time.

Basically there's a lot going on in the room and it's hard to describe everything...  Robin had a pneumatic switch that made his "guts" flail about violently.  About the same time Bob would hit a switch that cut the house lights and kicked on a strobe.  Finally, Bob would hit a handheld remote that would activate another barrel prop directly behind the guests and automatically open the exit door at the same time.  It was kind of a 1-2 punch scare since in the middle of the first scare the guests get hit again from behind.  And of course, if that wasn't enough to get them moving out the exit - I would come through the curtain and give them something else to run from.

Robin (on the table)
Jimmy
Myself
and Bob

The wall panels all accordion fold into groups of 3 and stack away nicely, so that helped to make the disassembly a bit less of a chore.  It took about 3 hours to move the entire haunt back into the carport.