The Abyss (Lemp brewery) Haunted House review
The Abyss Haunted House is located at 3500 Lemp Ave, St. Louis, MO 63118. Tickets for General admission cost $25. Fast Pass is $31 online, $35 at the door.
This site has line actors, so your fun starts before your descent into the abyss. You spend about 20 mins being entertained by people getting scared out of their wits before you hit the stairs. One of the first actors, we’ll just name them “Pumpkin”, caught my attention walking in the door. We entered the dining room and Pumpkin comes running in ranting about how something smells good. Pumpkin walks up to me, smiles and leaned right in my face and just…sniffed me. I laughed hysterically when they pulled back and said , “Ewwwww!!!! It’s not her!!! Definitely not her!!!” and wandered off muttering, “just NASTY…”. They legitimately sounded so offended, I was tempted to sniff myself. We get a few rooms away and the people that were in front of us are standing there with this guy with a jar. One of them turns to me and says, “watch it…he’s a little handy”. I go to walk past and the guy with the jar steps in front of me and asks if I want a pickle. I decline and he INSISTS I smell that what he is holding is REALLY pickles. I had to tell him 3 times that I could smell that they were pickles before he would let me leave. Nothing against the guy, i just don’t really like pickles. There a part of the haunt that was pitch black. I kept following the goblin in front of me, until I realized that the curtain in front of me was the same one I had entered from. I swear, this was the only time in a haunt I’ve ever had to ask a haunter for directions out of a room. I passed a guy who looked like his face had been melted off all alone in a room by himself, crying and wandering aimlessly. I offered him a hug as a joke and he actually walked up to me and put his head on my shoulder. Really good acting on that guys part. He didn’t scare me at all, but he pulled some unexpected emotions to the forefront all the same. I tried helping some people in the room full of stacked barrels, but they weren’t inclined to follow my lead and just keep a hand on the wall. It was around this point that I realized I had lost my only crew member somewhere in the haunt. I continued to the end and waited for my crew mate. As you go up the first flight of stairs to leave, you can actually see more of the brewery that was never used. Supposedly, the brewery is haunted. Don’t know if that’s the reason that part of the brewery was never used or not though. Overall, I enjoyed this haunt. It takes about 45 minutes from start to end, but it really doesn’t feel like you are here that long at all. I’d give it a 7/10, and I’ll probably stop by again next year to see what’s new, just because I liked the idea of a haunted house inside an abandoned brewery.
13 floor krumpus
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Statesville review
Statesville Haunted House is located at 17250 Weber Rd, Lockport, IL 60441. Tickets are $30. VIP tickets are $45. Now, I know a lot of people make a mistake and they assume that Statesville Haunted House is the actual penitentiary that is across the way; this is not the case. Starting off, right away you enter the bottom level of the Watchtower and they basically make up a whole bunch of stuff I love. They put on a marriage ceremony between strangers and had us singing SpongeBob’s theme song. It was pretty much a big “laugh now, cry later” situation. Then they take you inside and you wait in the hallway where they repeatedly play their commercials. This is probably the only part I didn’t like, as it was so repetitive.
Finally you go into the haunt and you meet the new Warden. He says his speech and the haunt begins. We soon came to a room that had a hole in the wall that a guy would slide a bed in front of, and we each had to give him an item for him to grant us access into the room. (Note: bring small things you don’t mind giving away). The next room is another room where they line you up single-file (there are a lot of rooms like this) and where I was standing, the ground just happened to have been slightly messed up. An actor picked up a rock as a prop and gave it to me. I can now say I carry a piece of Statesville wherever I go. They had a room with a bunch of cages that had mechanical dogs, which I really, really loved. I remember a room with this clown that is sitting on a trapeze that’s swung right in front of my face that I thought was really cool. I really thought he was gonna hit me though and stopped until he stopped swinging. One of the last things I remember from the first part of the haunt was this female clown that came running at me in a mirrored hallway and her getting really upset because I refused to react no matter what she did. So, she played a prank on my teammate and made her walk face-first into a wall. Best part of the haunt right there, hands down!!!
The next half of the haunt was the City of the Dead. It was a really cool animatronic base part of the haunt. The winning feature…giant spiders that had me curled up screaming all over again. Also, not a super fan of snakes; at least, not as big as they were in this haunt. Overall, I think the best feature of this half was it was an old decrepit mine and the architecture is just awesome. The walls actually feel like real stone in some spots. I’m pretty sure I scratched up my arm on one of them. I think the only balloon wall was the very end…watch for the step, I wasn’t, and I had security laughing pretty hard when I almost fell over. I would definitely come back here next year. I had so much fun and it was well worth the wait. I can’t wait for next year now. http://www.statesvillehauntedprison.com/
Past best haunts winners
This is a list of the past winners of the best haunted house
2017 Statesville
2018 Hells Gate
2019 Midnight terror
2021 Disturbia
Basement of the Dead Review
Basement of the Dead Haunted House is located at 42 W New York St, Aurora, IL 60506. Their tickets are $25, VIP for $45 which lets you skip the line, and the Ultimate Package for $99 skipping all lines for both Basement of the Dead and Shattered 3D (the second house), and a complimentary T-shirt, lanyard, wristband, drink coozie, and $5 off concessions.
Alright, first off? They got me. Their spiders had me screaming myself hoarse, curled in a ball, crying. I’ve never had a haunt do more than make me flinch. You guys know what you’re doing. Keep it up! Somehow, as terrified as I was, this was my favorite part. I really liked outside how they have a DJ going non-stop and the clowns on a bike. was something I haven’t seen before. A fellow crew mate said he had never seen them throw shirts into the crowd. That was something new and creative to me. Another part that I liked was the mirror room. You aren’t expecting it and I’m not going to spoil the surprise but it was pretty amazing what they did. I will say it’s small though, and thank god for that!!! The only part I didn’t really like was the rooms that were pitch black. You have no idea where you’re going and walk into a lot of things. There’s not even an occasional flash to give an idea of where you are. Pretty sure I walked around in a circle at one point and went back wards. The second half was ok to me. My teammate said it was really cool, and I take his word for it as he’s not easily impressed. If I had to pick a favorite part, I would say the tilted room. There was a lot of reflection going on that messed with my head and I liked the drop away floors where it looked like a 10 ft. pillar with a really tiny top that you had to walk on or basically fall a break a few things. Again, LOOKED like!!! There was a glass floor involved people!!! I promise you won’t fall to your death. I really, really loved this haunt and would 100% go back next year!!! I’ve never been so scared by a haunt before and I want more!!! I finally get haunt junkies and their need for the adrenaline rush. I think I’ve found a new addiction. for tickets go to https://basementofthedead.com/
Catacombs review
The Catacombs Haunted House is located at 3935 N Melvina Ave, Chicago, IL 60634. Tickets are $10 and VIP are $18. The Halloween Blast team has been coming to Catacombs since back when it was St. Pascal’s Haunted House. We’ve been coming to St. Pascal for almost 10 years now and from then to now there been so many changes over the years. This year is their 30th anniversary and out of the 10 years, I have never seen them so busy before. They have come so far and it only gets better from there.
As we waited in line, we saw Stitches with a live rat scaring people. The messed up part was HE PUT THE RAT IN HIS MOUTH!!! Next we saw Shut Down the clown. Shut Down chased this little kid around his father singing ring around the rosy. Then he pull out this small bike and starts riding around on it like a true clown. We finally get into a funeral room with a real casket. The lady explains the rules and as we were listening to her, Bubbles the clown comes walking into the room having a stare down with this teenager sitting up front. He stared down this guy for like 2 minutes before finally scaring the teen by screaming when he looked away. Not going to lie, Bubbles got me too and I was watching the stare down the entire time.
There was a lot of stuff that stood out as we walked through the haunt. First thing was the mirror maze. Now yes, there are haunts that have this but the catacombs put these red laser dots that bounced off the mirror. To my review team, it was really cool. Another thing that stood out was the zombie containment box. You walk into this room and they lock you in with the zombies and sterilize you in the room with smoke just like in the movie. As we walk through the haunt we got to this hallway. There was this girl saying help me, then all of the sudden she started screaming and banging her body into the wall like a crazy person. Then started banging her head against the wall then started flipping out again. I’m sorry for my laughing but holy crap, this girl bang her body again the wall then started banging her head against the wall. I’m an ex haunter. I have worked for haunts before I created Halloween Blast. I never ever done anything like that before. This girl took it to a whole new level of crazy. Great job to that actor in that hallway. I take my hat off to you.
For a haunt that you pay little money for, not many people hear of The Catacombs. Every year they try to take it to the next level to keep up with the big haunts and they do a great job. A lot of the big haunts have heard of St. Pascal’s Catacombs and even they have said that St. Pascal does a really great job and this is coming from the top haunts of Illinois. I’m not making this up, I swear to you. St. Pascal does a very good job of putting on one hell of a show.Yes, it takes 15 minutes to walk through the haunt. The only bad thing I can say about them is there not long enough. When you get to the end, you want to see more. That’s how good they are. Everyone at The Catacombs from management, people who builded the set, and of course all the actors did an amazing. Everyone who works for The Catacombs, great job, don’t stop what you doing and keep up the great work! And to the people who read this review please go check them out. Yes, it’s a small haunt, but it a haunt you won’t forget!!!!!!
Six Flags Review
Six Flags Review
So this year is the same haunts from last year at Six Flags in Gurnee, IL. They still have the six haunted houses: Big Top Terror, Apocalypse, Manslaughter Manor, Massacre Medical Center, and Gates of Hell. Now for some reason, the haunts from last year that were horrible are great this year. The ones that were great last year, are…not so great. Which is weird, because it’s like it flip flopped this year. Okay let’s get into this.
Massacre Medical Center, nothing really changed. It’s still the same as last year and they haven’t change anything that I saw. No new scenes, and I felt like the acting in that haunt went way down. All they do is scream at you. It was not just the one actor, it was all of them. So it has gotten a little worse. There’s nothing really to say.
The same goes for Manslaughter Manor. It’s still the same thing. Nothing changed and I felt like with these two haunts they really to put time and work into them. It’s like the said, “Hey! Just throw people in there and let them go nuts!”. There really nothing to say. If it’s your first year to fright fest, then you might like it. If you went last year and you don’t get a chance to visit the haunts this year? Don’t worry, you’re not missing anything.
Last year Big Top Terror and Apocalypse were amazing. Big top had my family jumping and screaming. It was done so well with the scares. Apocalypse had amazing set up with army trucks and the zombies were zombie soldiers. These two haunts were designed so well and they were our top pick from last year. Again, that was last year. This year they took everything that made that haunt so great away. Big Top wasn’t the same at all. They didn’t have enough actors for a Saturday!!!!!! They took away the maze which was awesome! Now it’s set up so you can’t get lost. The only good thing was they had this one actor that looked like a clown doll. When you walk by, she (or he) would jump at you and you’re like “wait, that’s a real person!”. THAT WAS THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT BIG TOP! Now Apocalypse, they took the military theme out of Apocalypse. Where there used to be trucks and zombies dress up as soldiers, it is now gone. Now it’s just a lot of dark areas. They also had the same problem that Big Top had…there is not enough actors. These two haunts we had high hopes of being great again and it was the opposite.
Now Fright Fest wasn’t all bad. Infestation was really bad last year. There was hardly any actors, and not a lot of stuff to look at. Six Flags fixed all of that. They put more props inside and more actors. Last year it was called Infestation, but they had bugs here and there. This year, they cover every room with bugs…a lot of bugs. This felt like you were walking into an infested haunt. They made this haunt a whole lot better than last year.
Now Gates of Hell wasn’t bad last year, it was actually good. This year they made it even better. Let me say this, the acting and scares were on point. I’m an ex-haunter. I worked for haunts as an actor in the past. Scaring me is kinda hard. This one actor scared the hell out of me. I mean this guy came out of nowhere. I was talking to one of the Halloween Blast members because he was going the wrong way, when I turn around and this dude jump out of nowhere scaring the hell out of me. This one is also the longest haunt Six Flags has. It also has some great detail to some parts of the haunt.
In the end, Six Flags is a hit and miss with it’s haunts. Yes people come to Six Flags Fright Fest to get scared. There was even a sign at the entrance saying this year is on steroids. But to me, I didn’t really care for it. It way over priced, like for a haunt pass is like $35 and $50 for a fast pass to the haunts. Plus if you don’t have a season pass, you’re spending $73 for one ticket. So in the end, you’re spending around $100, which is crazy. So you’re hoping it’s good and that you do get scared. Now the Uprising show was awesome and I loved it. It was something different to me. It was a show and not a haunt, but I thought it deserved and honorable mention. Overall, you’re taking a gamble with Six Flags on if if it will be good or not. It’s really up to you.
Halloween blast history
Halloween blast was created in 2012. We where on mission to find the best haunted house in Chicago. Every year we pick the best haunted house of that year. In 2017 we decided to bring our Halloween blast to the world. we want to bring our experience to you. so we decided to do reviews, and yes we still look for the best haunted of that year. but we also wanted to do something different. we want to bring you closer to the haunt with history video on the haunts and a special look with our you tube channel. So we have a question to you. Can you handle the horror of October
Hells Gate Haunted House review
HellsGate Haunted House is located at….oh right…they don’t have an actual address. To get to this haunt, you have to take a shuttle (look for the school bus) from Lockport Metra Lot, 1300 South State St., Lockport IL 60441. Tickets for General Admission cost $28 and for little to no wait in line, VIP tickets cost $40. This is yet another first for our review team, and HellsGate did not disappoint. They got me before my group even got to the line. We immediately started driving. When you hit the woods, the whole bus goes dark. All you see out your windows is a stream on one side and woods on the other, maybe a foot and half of clearance on either side. The whole ride took about 6 minutes. We got our tickets and decided to take pictures at the entrance. I was wondering what was taking so long with the camera. It wasn’t until I leaned over and looked at the picture after it was taken that I saw this one actor dressed like a demented version of The Joker in black/The Crow standing behind us in the picture. We turned around and he was gone!!! Turned back to look at the picture again and he’s now standing behind my group just staring at me. This all happened in the span of maybe 45 seconds. I knew then, that this was gonna be good. We get in line and there a zombie hillbilly running on all fours scaring people. He comes over, pops a squat next to me and leans his head against my leg so I can pet his head. Then proceeds to scar the people in front of us laughing. They learned quick you don’t poke fun at zombies. He wanders off and a girl dressed as a clown comes up to me wanting to dance. We danced for a bit to some Rob Zombie they had playing and then she took my notebook from me. I explained that I was part of Halloween Blast’s review team and she got all excited and started nibbling on the notebook in approval with a smile. It took 10 mins to get to the front of the line and we approach a fire where the executioner gave instructions. He comments on my notebook and again, I explain it’s purpose. His only comment…”write ‘give the big guy in front a raise…and lots of food!’” It’s always more entertaining when actors crack a couple jokes in character rather than desperately try to scare you. People come to haunts to be scared AND have fun. Halfway through the woods, this witch pops out of the wall, scaring the heck out of one of my party members making him back up. We pass a couple of stone monoliths and come across this body hanging from a tree. This was the only time an actor got me. The body had a white shirt, which draws the eyes in the dark. It wasn’t until right before he jumped out that I saw the actor dressed as a goblin twitch, crouched below the body. It was the realization that someone was there that scared me, not him jumping out. Probably the best shadow play I’ve seen yet!!! We finally arrive at the house and meet Sir Sere dressed in his sunday best; cane, top hat, and all. He’s standing there creeping out the guy in front of us, calling him “sister” and asking where and how she’s been and this guy’s just standing there staring at him like…I know you? They let us in and we meet The Twins. Was not expecting them, nor their unexpected exit. We’ll just leave their story to them, shall we? I enjoyed the experiments room the most, what with their animals. I got to pet a little albino snake one of the actors was using as part of their character. I’ve seen other animals used as like this before, and this snake was so well behaved and mild tempered. Made my whole night as an animal person. Had some trouble looking for the key though. Accidentally stuck my hand through a crate only to walk away and then realize….it was probably designed that way. By then, time was up. At least the end was cool, so I kinda forgot about the key. Giant heads crashing through walls will do that. Is the haunt worth it’s price? HELL YES!!! Would I go back to this haunt? Already planning on it before the season’s out. So come on out to HellsGate guys!!! Better hurry!!! Last one there is thrown through the gates of hell!! for tickets go to http://hellsgate.com/
