I posted a couple pics here last week after my birthday mess and I was curious to see other folks' setups for big messes. Of course it's easiest just to do it in the shower, but I want to see how everyone else prepares there Dexter-style "kill" rooms for their messes.

(Posting the pics again for reference)

And this was another one from about 5 years ago that I posted here. I had to put the plastic higher up because my wife was throwing pies that night and I knew the splatter would be out of control.

For now, a spare bedroom serves. It's next to the bathroom with a shower.

We're working on a heated basement room that will be specifically for WAM, and basically just a huge shower with a floor that slopes to a central drain.

We don't plan. Then again our messes are nowhere near that large. Just a couple pies or some pudding and we're set.

I always err on the side of overdoing the plastic... clean up is so much easier if you take the extra time when you set up.

We absolutely set up kill rooms for our shoots! I've always called them that and I'm so glad that I'm not the only one, lol. But yeah man, tarps everywhere and more leading to the bathroom. I wish I saved the before pics for our shoot 'A Day in the Life (of The Wife)' because literally half the house was covered in tarp.

For my birthday last week, I started setting up the garage the night before and ran a path of plastic sheeting right up to the door. But we have three kids and the oldest is 5 and 1/2 years old. So, I had to wait until we dropped him off at my parents' house the next morning before I could come home and finish the plastic path into the downstairs bathroom. This is going to get so much harder as the kids get older. May have to rent a hotel room and prep it there instead of my own home.

I don't know how well we could keep this hidden from teenage kids. Lol. Even stuff like keeping supplies hidden in the days leading up to the big mess session. Like, I had 15 tubs of cool whip to make 30 pies out of. How would I explain that if my kid walked out to the garage fridge to get a soda or some pizza rolls or something? Lol.

"KILL"rooms save save so much time on my shoots because i never know how much mess im willing to throw around and it makes it easy to clean up to 30+ L of slop

As Bosunbob will vouch, early Messymayhem shoots used to take a full evening, sometimes day to rig. Full dustsheet followed by tarp, pool then back cloth, more dist sheets and binbags! All lovingly stitched with gaffa.

The things we do for love.....

That's hilarious with the Dexter reference. First thing my wife said when she walked in the bathroom full of plastic when she had to pay a pie bet. We got messy few months later playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, Pie haha she said in her post, "Looks a lot like Dexter"

I am just imagining someone stumbling accidentally onto this site (maybe searching for a Maryland college) and they see this thread about "kill rooms"...they call the FBI, there's an investigation, lots of awkward interviews...

I remember seeing Dexter and squirming uncomfortably in my seat at recognising his Kill Room set ups!!!

I remember watching it and thinking it would be fun to have a messy session in there. He was THOROUGH! Killing someone is such a waste of a kill room.

everytime we have a new gal or new guy come in with a gal....or to help out....there is ALWAYS a dexter reference. i try to keep the tarp to a minimum bc its so fucking expensive!! haha! BUT, when we have new gals they like to swipe and FLING! lol

doing this a long time we are a little more aware of our surroundings BUT usually we throw some pies harder than we anticipated it to fly....we wipe a LOT of walls. hahahaha! but this last video i released?? it was deffo a kill room. for sure. 100 percent.