AUBURN — As spooky music played and fog crept into the room, Dylin Aspinall lay on a stainless-steel table. He was covered by a sheet and held down by thick chains.

Keegan Kane stood beside him, wearing a white coat stained with blood. She held up her buzzing power drill and gave a menacing smile.

“This is fantastic,” she said, then got back to her task: giving her victim a lobotomy.

It was one of the features of the Great Falls High School Haunted House on Friday night.

“This person didn’t do too well. She’s dead,” said Community Little Theatre President Daryel Duhaime, pointing to a lump on a gurney covered with a sheet. Another bed with chains was waiting for the next patient.

The opening night of the haunted house was staffed by drama students from Edward Little, Lewiston and St. Dominic Academy high schools and members of Community Little Theatre.

The haunted house is 10 rooms, plus halls, on two floors in the Great Falls Performing Arts Building on High Street. The building is scheduled to be demolished in December.

“What better opportunity for the community for the last time to walk through the school and turn it into a fundraiser,” Duhaime said.

For decades, hundreds went to school there. Old lockers, blackboards and student graffiti — it’s all there. “I opened up a locker and saw, ‘DD and RD. I love you, 1959,’” Duhaime said. “All these people’s memories.”

The old school is perfect for a haunted house, he said. “It’s a blank canvas. The kids can do whatever they want.”

The high school students let their creativity flow, setting up themes to horrify guests. Walls are covered in graffiti. “Let the blood flow,” one message warns.

One room is a graveyard with tombstones and a corn maze, looking like a scene from the Stephen King horror novel, “Children of the Corn.” A strobe light and fog add to the atmosphere.

Next is Dracula’s Room. Is that a dummy in the coffin? Nope. Dracula (Michael Danforth) pops up, leering at visitors as if he wants to take a bite of them.

The group enters another room, a haunted classroom where the teacher looks bad.

“Teacher, you have new pupils!” Duhaime announces. “Step up to the desk, young lady. You’ve been bad. What will you give her for punishment?” he asks as the monster teacher shows off her ax.

In another room is a raven’s funeral. Those paying their respects to the dead have human bodies and crow’s heads. As guests enter the room, the creatures get up and move toward the visitors, cawing, like in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “The Birds.”

Out in the hall is a bride with a long gown and a longer veil. She glides back and forth, looking for her groom (or victim).

In yet another classroom a girl in a gown is tied to the floor. She’s squirming and screaming. The room’s a mess, strewn with a bare mattress, ripped paper and other destroyed materials.

A priest holds a Bible and yells out in Latin. Crosses hang from the ceiling. Without warning, the girl’s screams grow louder. The priest turns to visitors and yells: “Get out! Get out! Get out!”

After the tour, Diane and Gerry Leblond of Lewiston, who brought their preteen granddaughter, Kendra, were all smiles. But Kendra wasn’t smiling.

Gerry said one of his favorite rooms was the graveyard and corn stalks. Diane said she enjoys seasonal scares and the festive lights. “I love Halloween,” she said.

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The Great Falls High School Haunted House will be open from 6 to 11 p.m. Oct. 15, 21 and 22. Admission is $10, with proceeds benefiting the theater and drama clubs.

A tamer fun house for children under 12 will be offered from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Oct. 15, 21 and 22. Admission is $5.

For more: http://www.laclt.com/events/halloween.html