Hoppers Haunted House Review 2024

Hoppers Haunted House Review 2024

Halloween Blast visited Hoppers Haunt this weekend. They are located at 1156 IL-2 Rockford, IL 61102. Tickets are $20 each. They only accept cash. If you do forget they have an ATM on site available. Parking is free. The haunt is an outside haunt, so dress appropriately as well wear appropriate shoes.

While you’re waiting in line keep your eyes peeled. They have some amazing artwork both in and out of the haunt. The artwork while you wait in line is so colorful and vibrant, it was all airbrushed. This haunt reminded us of a bunch of movies, because every room you walked past had a different theme and we absolutely loved that. 

Walking through this haunted house was so creepy. One of Karen’s favorite parts was when we heard a bat dragging on the ground in the distance as actors were popping out of the dark trying to scare us. They can’t touch you and you can’t touch them, but our imagination ran wild, not sure what was going to pop up next because we were so focused on the creepy guy dragging the bat.

Next, we were in the forest and suddenly saw a clown just standing there. It made us think of the clown from Terrifyer when we saw him. The clown was so incredibly still that he made us think he was an animatronic, so we didn’t even think twice till we walked past him and he scared us. He then chased us with a chainsaw but we couldn’t actually run from him.

While staring at all the cool art work in the dimly lit haunted house, we were super distracted because the art work was so cool. All of a sudden, a clown in a glow in the dark mask popped up to scare us! This was a good scare because they used amazing art work and distraction to do it!

Then we came across a wall full of crosses, and we knew that could only mean one thing: a Nun! Well, we walked past a room with a nun in there and she was so creepy the way she said , “give me your soul”. When Karen told her no, she got angry and wanted our souls even more, causing Karen to walk faster just a little faster. 

At the end of the haunt, we walked past a room where this clown said, “wanna play with me?”. Karen said “no thanks” then he called her a loser making us laugh. We couldn’t stop laughing all the way to the door, in which we got chased by 3 clowns with chainsaws!

Hoppers Haunt made a lot of changes this season. They installed more lighting, but still kept some areas in the dark. It was a great job of balancing light and dark throughout the haunt. They also put in concrete in the haunt as well, so Hopper’s was very busy with the new changes this year. Another thing that stood out to us this year was the acting. We feel like the actors stepped up their game this year. It wasn’t screaming and “get out!”, they acted like they were hungry for blood! They wanted you to stay and be friends so they could torment you. They kept acting even when you walked out, begging you to stay. You can hear them in the next room screaming for you to come back. Hoppers stepped up BIG time! They are not playing around for their 30th season! Hoppers was like, “Here we are Chicago, we challenge you to try to survive our haunt!”. Even on the back of the ticket it says, “see you in the woods 2025” so they are already thinking of next year. They’re not done yet with taking their haunt to another level. So if you visited last year, they aren’t the same haunt you remember. If you haven’t visited them at all, then what are you waiting for? Check out Hoppers Haunt, and like we said, if you saw them last year check them out again this year because it is their celebration of 30 years of fear and still going!