This past Halloween season, Lafayette High School hosted many festivities. These ranged from boo grams, which are little bags of candy sold for only $1 each, the football game against Oldham County on Halloween, and the Fashion and Interior Design haunted house.

The concept? Turning the usually well-lit Fashion and Interior Design room into a series of scary vignettes, or in other words, brief, expressive scenes. It means the room was transformed into a series of small, self-contained, scary scenes. Each vignette was a separate thematic display with its own specific characters and atmosphere. Think of them as individual displays, like little windows into different horror stories. Each one was a mini-scene where they came together to create a chilling impression.

So, the room wasn’t just generally decorated; it was organized into a sequence of distinct, visually striking scenes that the visitors would move through, where every character—from the “Stanley Hotel” to the “Cannibal Kitchen”—was dressed in a student-created costume. The annual fright house happens in room 140 every year. Patrons paid $2 for the privilege of navigating through a dimly lit room filled with styled dolls, scientists, and even a Mad Hatter. During the 10-minute time frame you chose, the guides from the fashion class come and escort you to the room for the haunted house.

Mrs. Mullins, the fashion and design teacher, is behind the whole project, while all three Fashion classes helped. Our amazing Fashion classes work hard to bring you spine-tingling thrills and chills. For example, sophomore Julia Voskuhl worked with the ‘Horror Land’, a room themed to be a dark twist of Wonderland. She spent the past two weeks leading up to the haunted house, designing props and bringing them to life. Everyone who works on the haunted house is very dedicated to it. Being a scare actor isn’t the only option; you can also serve as a guide or sell tickets, and there are even more opportunities available. Every student enrolled in one of the fashion classes finds a way to dedicate themselves and help out with the haunted house.

Mrs. Mullins throws a great haunted house yearly. It takes a lot of creativity to make something like that fun for the students at Lafayette. The dedication to detail was clearly visible in the lengthy line of students wrapping through the hallway. Ms. Mullins reuses things from the previous years as well as buys new supplies like fake blood. One thing is certain: Lafayette’s fashion class has proven that sometimes, the best way to make a statement is by making your audience scream. If you didn’t get to go this year, make sure you go next year!