What is the HAUNTED HEARSE?
The Haunted Hearse is a complete production art car featuring dynamic lighting design, textile-based scenic design, a cast of spooky monsters and a groovy theme song, PLUS a souvenir shop of cool homemade items!
The 45ft long, 2-story K'nex slow-coaster takes 2 minutes to ride! Let your cell phones enjoy an eerie, sensory experience of fiber art and technology 🎃
This miniature marvel aims to present the spirit and childlike love of Halloween, but without the flashing lights, smoke, loud sounds, and jump scares. Some silly screaming, moaning and/or groaning is encouraged!
Safe for kids, families, and adults of all ages.
a fully immersive horror adventure ride for cellphones. This mixed media spectacle seamlessly combines craft, fiber arts, analog/virtual technologies, and live performance to deliver a spooky art experience like no other - Let your phone enter, if you dare!
Haunted Hearse 2025 Season- After 1 year hiatus... We’re back to haunt the next generation!
2025 NOW BOOKING September 24 - November 17… and BEYOND!
Spooky Season ‘25 - NOW BOOKING
Where do you want to see the Haunted Hearse ?
Press:
BoingBoing - Natalie Dressed - Miniature mobile rollercoaster in a hearse - Review, 2024
The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate - Doug MacCash - Give your iPhone a high-tech Halloween roller coaster ride in a hearse - Review, 2023
Happy Horror Harvest Show - The Haunted Hearse with Jane Tardo - Interview, 2023
Washington Post- Emily Kask and Hamza Shaban- These New Orleans-based artists breathe new life into hearses - Article
Antigravity Magazine - Hayden Legg - Along for the Ride with Jane Tardo- Interview
WWLTV - Eleanor Tabone - New Orleans turns spooky for Halloween - Article/Video
Haunted Hearse Season 1
When fiber artist Jane Tardo explores Halloween, they don’t conjure images of chainsaw massacres and aggressive, physical fear invoking horror. Their spooky, delightful, and surreal experience surprises audiences on first look, but induces supernatural, psychological chills on closer inspection.
Get your official hat today!! They glow in the dark!
This is the official signature hat of Push Monster!
You can see him shoving your phone through 45 feet of spooky textile art. If you like him, you can show support with his hat!
~glows in the dark~
Preorder will take up to 12 weeks to be delivered.
Select Local Pickup to have your hat waiting for you at the Haunted Hearse!
All patches are designed, embroidered and sewn onto high quality Otto-brand hats in my studio. My work is not mass produced or outsourced.
Limited re-release for this fall’s hottest cell phone attraction! 👻🐍🎢
! glows in the dark !
Preorder will take up to 12 weeks to be delivered.
Select Local Pickup to have your hat waiting for you at the Haunted Hearse!
All patches are designed, embroidered and sewn onto high quality Otto-brand hats in my studio. My work is not mass produced or outsourced.
This is the official signature hat of Count Trackula!
You can see him shoving your phone through 45 feet of spooky textile art. If you like him, you can show support with his hat!
~It glows in the dark~
Preorder will take up to 12 weeks to be delivered.
Select Local Pickup to have your hat waiting for you at the Haunted Hearse!
All patches are designed, embroidered and sewn onto high quality Otto-brand hats in my studio. My work is not mass produced or outsourced.
This immersive, role reversal, rollercoaster ride for cell phones is a haunted house attraction like no other…
Built inside of a retired and “haunted for the spooky season” 1992 Cadillac hearse, this 3 minute, 2-story, 45 foot Knex rollercoaster has been modified to ferry cell phones through an eerie sensory experience of art and technology.
Musical composition provided by Morgan Orion and the Cosmic Zombies tells the story of ecological collapse, and the chilling hellscape of our future. The point of view POV is taken out of your hands, and your cellphone (in video mode) gets to go for a ride of terror. Luring you into the magic are 2 selfie stations where the POV leaves the hearse and allows spectators to scare the phone as it passes by, becoming ghoulish monsters in the video!
Is your phone brave enough to ride? Come find out…
Tardo’s “The Haunted Hearse Rollercoaster Ride” can be seen lurking the streets of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast at your favorite bars, shows, festivals, art markets, and art galleries.
No flashing lights, smoke, or jump scares. Safe for kids and families!!!
This bundle includes ALL Haunted Hearse Rollercoaster Ride patches:
Haunted Snake Tube
Push Monster
Count Trackula
Buy all three and save $10!!
Patches glow in the dark!
This is the official signature hat of Count Trackula! You can see him shoving your phone through 45 feet of spooky textile art. If you like him, you can show support with his hat!
They glows in the dark!
Select “IN town” pick up to have your patch bundle waiting for you at the haunted hearse or to arrange free local delivery!
