Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors is set for a triumphant return starting with the London based attraction.
First discussed on the Madame Tussauds: The Full Wax documentary that aired on ITV this Wednesday shows artistic meetings as the creative team discuss the return of Chamber of Horrors to the Madame Tussauds brand.
Not only will grizzly torture devices and gory corpses return in wax work form but famous serial killers will be dotted around the returning area.
The team were also discussing the addition of serial killer / horror figure masks that would be lifelike masks that staff members would wear that would bring these people to life.
That sounded absolutely insane to me and if done right could be a really immersive experience rather than the cheesy experience that Madame Tussauds has in abundance.
The attraction brought to life the history of crime and punishment over the last 500 years. Such figures as Vlad the Imapler, Genghis Khan, Guy Fawkes and Adolf Hitler.
Having a real life Ted Bundy walking towards me would be insane!
Once upon a time what is now known as the Chamber of Horrors was once called the Caverne Des Grands Voleurs (The Cavern of the Great Thieves). The exhibit was founded by Dr Phillppe Curtius as an adjunct to his main exhibition of waxworks in Paris in 1782.
Curtis displayed notorious French criminals who had been executive along with French royal family who had been guillotined during the revolution.
When Marie Tussaud moved to London in 1802 she brought some of these figures with her and kept them in a separate gallery.
The Chamber of Horrors attraction was removed in 2016 due to it being in bad taste but Madame Tussauds seem to be confident in bringing this adults-only attraction back with a bang.
The Chamber of Horrors section in the Blackpool Madame Tussauds is now completely abandoned with some old horror props gathering dust and the area is now being used a storage space.
With many of the figures still down in the basement of the Blackpool Madame Tussaud’s (including an abysmal Freddy Krueger figure) there is plenty of potential there.
The goal is to get the Chamber of Horrors section at Blackpool open in the next few years although no date was officially confirmed as of yet.
It’s still great to know that the Chamber of Horrors will be returning to Madame Tussauds in the future but the main question on my and now everyone else’s lips is… WHEN ARE YOU REOPENING IT?!?!
Whilst the Blackpool Chamber of Horrors is a few years away it seems as though its full steam ahead with the London Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors as this became quite the focus of the ITV show.
Items including Dr Crippen’s glasses and the guillotine blade that was used to behead Marie Antoinette were featured in the episode as a replica of the blade to go on display in the chamber of horrors.
A silicone mask of Ronnie Kray as part of the prototype masks ideas moving forward was being worked on as part of the new interactive element that Madame Tussauds is thinking for this new Chamber of Horrors attraction.
Blending the old school waxworks with a new interactive element could work really well but it has to be done tastefully and immersively or it could very quickly feel tacky.
Update – 31/10/2022
The Chamber of Horrors officially opened on October 22nd and we were the first website to release a guided tour of this brilliant new addition.
You can check out the walkthrough of the Madame Tussauds London Chamber of Horrors below:
