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Due to Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria remake last year, I watched the original and completely fell in love with it. This house is more aimed at Orlando, and specifically SS25 where Poltergeist was. So with that here’s my design of a Suspiria(1977) maze.
Suspiria
Location: SS25
Facade: After entering the soundstage, Guests will see a giant poster of Suspiria’s iconic key art, and the Goblin theme will be blaring. This room is designed in order to make guests “feel” as though they are literally walking into the movie.
Transition: A hallway of bloodied ballerina’s dressed like the film’s poster. Some will be mannequins and some will be real, much like the room in Hollywood’s TFP maze.
Scene 1/Facade 2: Now for the real facade. A complete replication of the scene where Susie’s cab approaches the Tanz Dance Academy. The rain will be pouring as guests will hear the theme, hear Patricia’s warning about the Iris, and will see a Taxi as well as the Academy in all its glory.
Scene 2: The first room in the Academy will be Patricia’s hanging body from the stained glass and Sonia’s body with the glass in her eye. Sonia will be an actor that will reach from the floor, while giant shards of glass will cover actors in black robes with knives and glowing eyes, like the person that killed Patricia. This room will be somewhat like the Poltergeist kitchen in terms of scares, as you first see the Sonia actor on the floor, then look up and see Patricia’s corpse, and ahead will be two vertical glass shards stuck in the ground that two actors will hide behind.
Scene 3: An original scene that I call “Contortion”. This room will feature a dancer that has been deformed through dance much like Olga in the remake, however this scene will be in the studio from the original with the animatronic of the contorting dancer.
Transition: While not chronologically correct, the transition to Susie’s room will be the Red Hallway that Susie escapes the academy in at the end of the movie during the storm. In this room Madame Blanc and Miss Tanner will pop out from behind two of the doors.
Scene 4: In Susie’s Bedroom, Guests will see a passed out Susie in her bed and hear Sara counting the footsteps of the teachers while a pair of glowing eyes is seen in the window. Miss Tanner will pop out of the Closet.
Scene 5: Scene 5&6 will both be original scenes inspired by aspects of the movie that are touched on but not really directly mentioned. In Scene 5, guests will see a room that changes color(like the movie’s color spectrum) and see aspects of witchcraft and occult items. The deformed servant will pop out in this room. Both Scenes 5&6 can be described as “in the mind” of Susie scenes much like the rooms in Shining and Exorcist.
Scene 6: This room will be the attic but covered in maggots, and in this room will be a robed witch on stilts that pop out from a boo hole. Additionally, two dancers with maggots coming out of their eyes will pop out from other boo holes in the room.
Scene 7: This room will be the Slumber Party Scene in the lobby of the academy, where guests will see Mother Markos’ shadow behind one of the curtains. Two actresses dressed as Mother Markos will pop out in this room.
Scene 8: This room will be a 70s style room, and will feature the chewed up blind man with 2 dog puppets that will pop out at guests.
Scene 9: In Madame Blanc’s office, Guests will be able to walk through the secret door by the Iris’ and will see Madame Blanc and Susie with a knife pop out in this room.
Transition: This Hallway isn’t that important in the movie, but it is really pretty and a good segueway into the next room.
Scene 10: Guests will weave through razor wire as they see a Sara actress struggling to survive. A robed witch with a knife will pop out from the other side as Sara serves as a distraction.
Transition: That beautiful ivy hallway will lead into Helena Markos’ Office.
Scene 11: In Helena Markos’ Office, Guests will see the famous Peacock statue, Mother Markos behind the curtain, Sara’s corpse, and Susie. Moving in a half circle style, Guests will first get scared by Sara, then by Mother Markos, and on the way out of the room by Susie with the knife.
*Pardon the Japanese it was the best picture I could find
Scene 12/Finale: In this room Guests will see three big alcoves differently lit in a dark black room. One will read “Our mother of Sighs” in red lighting, one will read “Our mother of Tears” in blue lighting, and the last will read “Our mother of Darkness” in purple lighting. Each of these alcoves represents the 3 Mothers Trilogy Suspiria is in, which each of the 3 mothers popping out on stilts from the alcoves. 2 robed witches will also pop out in this room. As guests exit the house, if they look behind themselves they will see the burning Academy
But yeah this house would be a HUGE bucket list thing for me