Killdare Haunted City 

Kildare is located at  8110 Ferdinand Avenue Bridgeview IL 60455.

You must park at the Commissioners Park District building and is also where you will purchase your tickets at. Tickets are $20

A little background history for Killdare Haunted City. We saw a few familiar faces such as Bummer the Clown, Not blade, Pastor and Jimbo. John Viritti from Dead Rising Haunted House passed away  in 2020 and the owner of Killdare decided to help out and honor the new haunt by adding a few familiar pieces to his haunt. Another fun fact is that the owner of Killdare makes his own ANIMATRONICS! 

Now as you enter, you are greeted by a few scary faces! Jimbo likes to interact with you and possibly leave his tongue hanging. So if you see him, he is friendly…I  think. We were also followed by two prisoners. One prisoner would walk behind you slowly and the other was crawling on the grass with a metal pipe. They would NOT stop following us until we got into the haunt. Well.. one prisoner left us alone. The one crawling on the ground followed us to the front of the haunt where we met Blade. Oops, I mean…NOT Blade. Remember the prisoner clawing on the ground? Well now he was on top of a car parked outside a trailer. A mental patient named Kylie Smiley came running out of the trailer and started screaming at the prisoner to get off her car!!! This was pretty fun to watch, seeing how these two interact with each other. Not Blade will explain your rules and if you’re not nice to him, he will separate you from your group. I guess one of our reviewers was naughty and he sent her by herself! 

Inside the trailer, we saw chains hanging everywhere and a man was being electrocuted. We then AGAIN ran into Kylie Smiley the mental patient. She kept asking us if we love electric shocks, cause she seems like she really enjoys it. She also kept asking us for our tongues. She LOVES to snack on tongues!

As you walk through the haunt, you will be given gifts of teddy bear intestines! Also, I would give you some friendly advice: keep your mask on correctly and up otherwise you may have to smell a poop stick. I thought that was the funniest part of the haunt. They really interact with you and the characters hide iN the shadows so well you don’t even see them coming!

I thought I could only see gorillas at the zoo, but King Kong also lives in Killdare Haunted City as we ran into his army of gorillas. You see what I mean when you visit Killdare. Now before we continue  we should let you know to wear appropriate footwear because there is a lot of uneven footing and also be sure to check the height of the church building before you enter it. One of our reviewers (Amanda) bumped her head even after hearing the priest say, “Watch your step”. She thought that meant looking down at your feet and clonked her head on the doorframe. The priest will blaspheme you to hell while at church.

We next walk into the clown area. Where we were greeted by Sticky the Clown. Sticky was telling us jokes, and then kicked a barrel across the room. Then we heard a very familiar voice, IT WAS OUR GREAT FRIEND BUMMER THE CLOWN!!!!!! We went nuts when we saw Bummer! Bummer told us that the priest married her and Sticky. After that, she told us some real bummer jokes. Both clowns put on amazing performances!! The way they worked off each other was great. 

Many people think that this is the first year of Killdare. This was actually a home haunt in the previous years. Tim, the owner, put a lot of time in moving it from a home haunt to the Bridgeview Commission Park Center. Him and his team put in a lot of work to make Killdare happen this year. In the end it paid off between the acting, the handmade sets, and hand made animatronics. This was an amazing show!! You can tell Tim put in a lot of love and passion into the haunt. So check out Killdare to see what all the fuss is about!!