Summary:

This house consisted of various scenes that were separated by short lengths of dark hallways.  In a number of the scenes, they played out little vignettes and in others they used regular pop-out scares.  This mixture of strategies kept you off-balance the entire time.  Inside the house, there were a number of good distraction scares and surprise endings to scenes. My favorite scene was the morgue, which featured a doctor working in a morgue's storage room. He had just pulled out one of the drawers, exposing a "body", which was covered with a white sheet.  Addressing our group, he said "What I am about to show you is pretty graphic".  While everyone was focused on the "body" under the sheet, an actor burst out of a hidden door in the scene, attacked the doctor, then advanced on our group.  That was great!.  In the school room there were desks and  a clock, as well as a chalk board mounted on one of the far walls. There was a school girl who was writing "I will not sleep" over and over on the chalk board, then something totally unexpected happened. The "chalkboard" was actually a panel that dropped down, revealing Freddy Krueger who then reached out at her.   There was a polka dot room, with an actor dressed up in a matching costume. When you approached the scene, the actor moved toward you, making it seem like the walls were coming alive.  As one of my favorite pop-out scares, there was an area illuminated by a strobe light that was painted with diagonal black and white stripes.  That was pretty disorienting; the angled stripes made it seem like the whole room was tilted.  Just when you thought nothing was going to happen, an actor jumped out of a clever hiding place and scared our group. 

At first, I wasn't thrilled with having a tour guide ahead of and behind our group.  It was actually a little distracting. I'm one of those individuals who likes to walk through a haunted house at my own pace; however, I realized that the tour guides did have a practical purpose. They helped keep the group together and properly position us for the scenes as they played out, resulting in more effective scares.     

For one of the smaller attractions I have been to this season, they really packed in some creative scenes and effective scares.  Since the last time I had attended (which was a couple of years ago), they had changed over the entire attraction.  I look forward to seeing what they have in store for us next year.      

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