The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened "The Horror Show" on Sept. 26, a six-gallery exhibition on the museum's fourth floor in the Wilshire-Fairfax corridor. Bela Lugosi's original Dracula cape is on public display for the first time. To leave, every visitor must push through blood-soaked butcher curtains.

The show runs through July 25, 2027. It features objects drawn from the Academy's own collection and 62 private lenders worldwide, the Los Angeles Times reported. Gizmodo put the count at nearly 400 objects from about 200 horror films.

Senior Exhibitions Curator Jessica Niebel organized the exhibition with Assistant Curator Nicholas Barlow and Curatorial Assistant Alexandra James Salichs. Niebel told the Times the team hopes the show evokes the same emotional response horror films do, placing original objects in environments that bring them to life.

The six galleries are Gothic, Psychological, Science, Slasher, Religion and Ghosts. Visitors enter through a soundscape built from Harry Manfredini's Friday the 13th score and the screeching sound Wayne Bell created for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre by scraping a tuning fork along piano wire.

Highlights span a century of film. The Psychological gallery holds Hannibal Lecter's straitjacket and mask from The Silence of the Lambs, the chair and teacup from Get Out and the Babadook's pop-up book. The Science gallery features a life-size dripping Xenomorph and original H.R. Giger artwork from Alien. The Slasher gallery lines up Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Ghostface and Art the Clown in full costume.

The museum commissioned Oscar-winning sculptor Mike Hill to build a full-body Mrs. Bates figure after the Cinémathèque Française declined to loan the original 1960 Psycho prop head, according to Fangoria. Every visitor exits through "The Blood Room," a space by Oscar-winning special makeup effects artist Howard Berger, whose walls are layered with fake blood in varying colors and consistencies.

Robert Englund, who played Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street films, introduced the exhibition at the Sept. 24 press preview. "Back when I started, we would sort of get the lousy table in the commissary by the kitchen door," Englund told the Times. "I think we're getting some respect."

A companion exhibition, "Zombies!," curated by Salichs, sits in a stylized pretend cemetery nearby and includes a custom animatronic puppet built by creature effects studio Spectral Motion.

Programming tied to the show includes a 50th-anniversary screening of Carrie featuring star Sissy Spacek, a John Carpenter retrospective series and a Hammer Films retrospective. The museum's sixth annual gala on Saturday, Oct. 17, will honor Carpenter alongside Colman Domingo and Charlize Theron.

Admission is $25 for adults, $19 for seniors and $15 for students. Visitors 17 and under get in free. Advance online reservations are required. The museum is open six days a week, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and closed Tuesdays.