Louise Pachella set out to design a Barbie Halloween house of horror with a functioning guillotine, as she gets inspiration from a line in the popular 2023 movie
A former embalmer and funeral director, who has been “fascinated with death” since age 10, has decorated her house in a “harrowing Barbie theme” for around 5,000 US dollars this Halloween, complete with Barbie’s dream hearse and pink caskets, as well as a pink guillotine, which her daughter, who will be dressed as executioner Barbie, “wants to be in charge of operating.”
Since the pair bought their house together, in 2012, they have decorated it extravagantly for Halloween with the help of their three daughters – Ashley, nine, Rachel, seven, and Dani, five. Louise’s middle child is even dressing up as executioner Barbie as she “wants to be in charge of operating the guillotine” – Louise admits that this is a “bit of a strange thing” for a child to want to do, but asserts that she will be learning about the historical aspects of the decapitation machine.
“We also have rollerblading Ken and Barbie off to the side, and a friend of mine constructed a pink guillotine.” Louise continued to be interested in anatomy, and when she was 13 years old, she saw a dead body for the first time, when she accompanied her mum to a cadaver lab. In 2008, when she was working at a mortuary, Louise met her husband after he helped her tow her car, and she was thrilled to discover they shared an interest in all things spooky.
Since then, the family has done a different theme every year – last year, Louise chose a medical theme and had an ambulance full of skeletons, body bags, her daughter jumping out of people, and even staged a car crash with one of her husband’s smashed cars from his junkyard.
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