Hoppers Haunted House Review 2023

Hoppers Haunted House Review 2023

Hoppers Haunted House is located at 11576 IL-2, Rockford, IL. 61102. Tickets are $20 at the box office. This is cash only, if you have a card they do have an atm next to the box office. As you arrive at Hoppers, you see an ambulance with the lights going. Once we stepped into the queue, we were blown away by their amazing artwork on the wall. This was all hand painted. You can see Freddy Krueger, Jason, Chuckie and so many iconic horror characters painted on the walls. The black light shining on the artwork really put the cherry on this masterpiece. We cannot tell you how much we loved it! 

So Hoppers Haunted House is kinda like the dark of a black out haunt. Not all of it is in darkness. So the halls of the haunt are so dark you start to get a sense like an actor will jump at you. One thing that I really wanted to point out was that the actors did an amazing job of popping in and out of scenes. Now like we said, the whole haunt is not dark. When you get to the scenes with the actors, the room is lit up. Sometimes, they would even jump out of their scenes and would follow us around the haunt up to a point. 

As you travel from scene to scene, everything goes dark. David, the Halloween Blast owner, was using his hands to figure out where we were going and he accidentally touched an actor, but instead of the actor immediately jumping out to scare us, they waited and followed us around for a bit then jumped out to scare us. So this actor did a really great job making you think, “oh, you’re safe”, but just when you’re not expecting it, bam! Also, when they walk in the dark, you can’t hear their footsteps at all! They are so quiet moving around in the haunt. It is amazing how they get such great scares with something so simple. Hoppers did a great job with the darkness, because it starts to create an anxiety feeling of, “ok, where are the monsters? I can’t hear them or see them.” They really throw you off and catch you off guard a lot in the haunt. Now, one of David’s favorite scenes was when they threatened to put us in a refrigerator. It was a whole scene like an industrial freezer. It had smoke as if you had left the door open for too long. At one point in the haunt, we walked out into the woods and one of the actors was so quiet that when we walked past, he jumped out from the side and scared Karen half to death!

As we said in the beginning, Hopper Haunt is kinda like a black out haunt but not the whole thing. They do have lit up areas where an actor does their thing. Sometimes, they will move from room to room to stalk you in the haunt which is insanely creepy. When you do walk into the dark areas of the haunt, they take full advantage of it. Just when you think you are safe is when they attack. If you have never been to Hoppers Haunted House, go check them out!