Catacombs Review 2024
Catacombs Review 2024
Halloween Blast visited Catacombs Haunted House located at 6143 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60634. Tickets are $15 for general admission and for VIP it’s $25. Parking is free. To buy tickets online, please visit https://scarypopcorn.com . The waiting is inside and so is the haunt. Just some fun facts for you: did you know they are actually the only haunted house IN the city of Chicago? They are also located in a Church. Before you come into the haunt, they have a little cool photo opportunity where you get your photo taken for you. This year their photo op is inside a FUNKO box. I thought that was really cool because they had a bloody doctor to pose with you if you wanted to take your photo with a character.
Let’s get started on the haunt! When you walk in you are greeted by a ghost lady. She tells you that if you’re wearing a bright color, or if it’s your birthday, you’re toast! The zombies can smell you from afar. They know you are coming. She tells you the rules and some jokes. We love this part because it’s always different from another haunt. You’re entertained. It’s not your usual, “don’t run, don’t use your phones!” The ghost lady does it in a way that’s fun and funny so you remember not to use your phone because she does it so well!
After the rules room, you enter the haunt. Although you end up in a dark hallway that gets kind of hot. This is where they split you up so that it’s not one giant conga line. We thought they did a wonderful job not having conga lines throughout the haunt. The character at the beginning who was splitting us up asked our group if we were hungry and held up a plunger covered in what looked like feces Then Karen made a joke saying she wanted to speak to a manager. He said he was the manager, then she said, “I want a different manager!” and he just pointed at the skeleton on the door! He was very amusing.
Here are some of the rooms that pop out to us. One of them is the children’s room. It has a bed with stuffed animals laying around. The girls in this room are so creepy. They were hanging off the bed begging us to play with them. As we were leaving, they asked why don’t we stay and play with them. Great job girls! A new room they have is the freezer room, with hanging bodies swinging and the room felt very cold. How they pull that off but it’s amazing! The last room we will highlight is the clown room. It was like a neon painted room with cage bars all over the room. Now let me tell you, these clowns are insane! They were jumping on boxes, hanging off the cage bars…these clowns were like they came from the asylum. We don’t know how much candy they were eating, but man were they crazy! Catacombs has been around for 45 years. That is the longest running haunted house in Chicago AND Illinois. That is very impressive! If you know the history of Halloween Blast’s, then you know we hold Catacombs close to our hearts. If it wasn’t for Catacombs, then we don’t think there would be a Halloween Blast. Catacombs was the Halloween Blast owner’s first haunted house and it made him fall in love with the industry. We were coming to catacombs back when it was called St. Pascal’s Haunted House. Over the years we see how much they have grown. It’s truly amazing how far they have come. All we have to say is congratulations to Catacombs for 45 years of fear and terror in the Chicagoland area. So everyone, please go visit Catacombs and let’s make their 45th year something to remember!
