Evil Intentions Review 2024
Evil Intentions Review 2024
On October 20th we visited Evil Intentions at their new location. If you have been to Evil Intentions before, they were in the Elgin area. Their new location is 45W050 Beith Rd, Maple Park, IL 60151. Ticket prices are $35 for General Admission, VIP is $50 which lets you skip the line, and finally the Instant Access which is $75 lets you enter the haunt right away, no waiting at all. Now the haunt is in Forsaken Hollow, which is a park that has Evil Intentions Haunted House and Monster Purge (which is a paintball attraction). In the future, Forsaken Hollow will have more attractions in the upcoming years, but for now it’s just the two. This however, is a review on Evil Intentions, so we will not talk about Monster Purge. Plus we ran out of time to even try Monster Purge that night anyways. So let’s get into the review on Evil Intentions!
Like we said, Evil Intentions is at a new location, so everything is different. A huge change is that they have a corn field now. To get to the haunt, you have to walk through the corn field. They tell you to stay on the path or you will get lost in the field. As we walked through, some of the monsters appeared out of nowhere from the corn stalks. We didn’t even see them coming! You can hear them, but you don’t know where they are because you are surrounded by corn that is blowing in the wind. Every stalk is making sounds. We were honestly amazed to see corn still in the field. We thought it would have been picked by then. As we followed the path, we found shoes on the ground along the way. Later, we saw a girl sitting on the ground with no shoes asking us to stay with her. Karen said, “absolutely not” and started speed walking because she was so freaked out. The paths are pretty dark as well, so you can’t see anything. Finally, we got to a house that was at the end of the corn field.
Once you get out of the field you see (queue the evil music) EVIL INTENTIONS! You walk up to the house and you see a bunch of coffins as a tribute to the last location. Karen thought monsters were gonna pop out of the coffins and scare her, so she was very cautious. Then when you actually enter the haunt, you see a demon bug pop out of nowhere and scare you! They did choose to keep parts of the old haunt such as the coffin maze. We really enjoyed that and they made it longer this time. If you are claustrophobic, this is probably not the haunt for you. Coffins are purposely tight spaces. You can’t see anything and it’s really dark. Also, another part of the haunt we really liked was the room with all the mannequins. They added onto that and added more of them. They had mannequins, and a few actors, but you don’t know which is which. The last thing we want to say is that they did a super good job of line control. There was a group in front of us and they made sure that the other group got split up and we didn’t end up with a conga line.
After the haunt is over, they have bathrooms with sinks in them, which is great. They also had some booths that sold artwork and stickers. When talking to the owner we mentioned the corn field felt kind of empty as much as we loved it. Turns out they only had 3 months to get stuff up and running, so looking back you can see they did a lot in those months. A lot happened behind the scenes which we will not talk about, but the Evil Intentions put in a lot of hard work. To people reading this, it is not easy moving to a new location and putting a haunt up in the amount of time they had. It takes time. The amount of time they had and the amount of detail they put in so far is a pretty fantastic feat, so for that we have to give them a lot of credit. It was still a good show. We still had a good time seeing the new scenes and sets they built, while bringing some scenes from Elgin to Forsaken Hollow. You’re still going to have a great time. We heard people in other rooms and in the cornfield screaming their heads off. After the haunt, we heard people saying how much fun they had and how scared they were, so Evil Intentions is still bringing fear to the people! The plans they have for this location and for the haunt itself is going to be a game changer in Chicagoland. They are onto something big that is going to blow people away! So to walk through it now and see how it looks, and to then come back next year is going to be something very special. This is the beginning for Evil Intentions on their new property. They killed it in Elgin with an amazing show and they are going to do it again at Forsaken Hollow! This time they are doing it big and Evil Intentions will be a must place to visit! We can’t wait to hear what you all think, so come see them soon!
