The Scare Room at Seattle’s MoPop was my second-favorite exhibition because of the explanations and boards which laid out the history of horror and why we find horror films so beguiling!

(I wrote about my favorite exhibit in a post earlier this week: the room being the Sci-Fi room, of course!)

Scared to Death: The Thrill of Horror Film features more than 50 props and costumes from film and television including A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, The Walking Dead, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bride of Frankenstein, Dawn of the Dead, Hostel, Jeepers Creepers, and Pet Sematary.

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Themed gallery sections evoke the unsettling sensations associated with cinematic terror.

+ A vampire’s lair drips with blood

+ Zombies shamble through an abandoned containment center

+ A thicket of suspended corpses frames a killer’s den

+ In addition, the exhibition offers extensive exhibit films, oral history interviews with the genre’s top directors, and interactive photo ops.

Tickets to the museum start at $25 up.