Second of my local
haunts, and with a low expectation, I was surprised to find a couple of things
that I actually enjoyed. But it really
does say something when you finish an event like this within 45 minutes, have
the ability to do the haunts again, and don’t really want to.
HOBART’S DOLL FACTORY
The music is catchy,
annoying, and I kind of like it. I’m not
sure if it’s the same music played at Great America, but it’s definitely
close. The problem with this maze is
that it’s full of young kids who don’t seem to have any real direction. They wander the maze, not really scaring,
just walking aimlessly around. There was
one really cool hallway where the light would flash and a creepy scareactor
kind of walked slowly down the hall. I
thought that was really well done.
THE LITTLE SHOP OF CARNAGE
I think I mentioned
in another post that all haunts have to have a maze dedicated to capturing
humans and turning them into food, bbq style.
This is pretty much it. Same
thing as I mentioned earlier, dead bodies hanging, guys with cleavers, and a
freezer walk through. When we first
walked in, a scareactor told Tiffany to have a seat, so she did. Apparently yes was the wrong thing to say.
CANNIABLE CABIN
I do love a spooky
cabin. The outside of this maze is
actually really well done. The first
time we came up to it, it was covered in fog and really had a cool creepy feel
to it. Inside, more creepy cabin which
was pretty cool. The scares weren’t
much, and the environment was interesting enough. Just nothing memorable.
BLACKOUT LIVE
Not as dark as I
remembered, same people running around in black costumes whispering or yelling
at you. They also hit the walls to creep
you out. Nothing much to it. I’m pretty sure I could put one of these
together. Funny, I actually lost a
contact in this maze. Not sure if it
rolled up into my eye or fell out. Mix
of fake fog and darkness, as well as being tired from the previous haunts, made
me one eyed.
DISTORTED MAZE
These are more like
headache inducing experiences. It’s a
maze with fences as walls, characters walking around, and a strobe light and
loud noise. Not my favorite of
locals. You wander around until the
character thinks you’ve had enough and opens up the exit and we go the hell
out. You end in a dark tunnel with a
scareactor or two.
JATINGA THE FORBIDDEN TEMPLE
Another voodoo maze,
I’m seeing a pattern. This one was
really well themed with some scareactors that really enjoyed working in this
one. We went through caverns, spooky
rooms filled with voodoo rituals, and even walked by a house with people on the
roof and in the bushes. Plenty to look
at. The last scene had a witch doctor
stabbing a man, which I stopped to enjoy both times I went through. If nothing else, spend money on spooky candle
lighting and I’ll enjoy it. Definitely
my number one maze at Fright Planet. We
went through this one twice.
RED (18+ ONLY)
If you follow me on
Facebook, you saw that I vented quite a bit about a dumbass mother who sent her
13 year old daughter to Universal Studios Hollywood Horror Nights and the girl
got called a slut and put up for auction.
The mother is looking for an apology, and my guess will be suing
Universal shortly, which I think is ridiculous.
Here’s an idea, research what you are putting your kids into before
sending them off on their own.
That being said,
this maze is 18 and over. They check ID,
it’s legit…well, after going through the maze I would put it at PG13 at best,
come one people, make an R rated maze already.
Before going in, we were behind a mother with a 10 year old boy. The guy took the mom’s id, made sure she was
okay that a 10 YEAR OLD BOY WAS GOING THROUGH AN 18 AND OVER MAZE, mommy
dearest said yes, and off they went.
Seriously? I don’t understand
people.
The “janitor” took
us into RED and asked if we liked clowns.
Then said, welcome to my hell f&^ckers and off we went. Each room filled with a clown doing something
menacing. In one room, I had a feeling I
was back in Trapped at Knotts…I know, I’ll write it up after Halloween. A clown wanted to put makeup on us to turn us
into clowns. He was sad, and
demented. Another room had a clown on a
couch watching tv. Another room had a
sexy clown asking if we wanted to join a clown orgy, apparently yes wasn’t the answer. Down some strobe filled hallways with blood
dripping clowns and we were out. Besides
the small amount of language and the orgy suggestion, nothing that would give
it an R rating compared to the other haunts.
SKIPPED AND OUT
We didn’t do the
BURIED ALIVE, or see much of the NIGHTLY ENTERTAINMENT. We had some fun with some scareactors, one
who said we smelled nice and a couple that slid around on their knees. Some of the scareactors would weave in and
out of different haunts, which I think is a great idea, as long as their
costume fits. Gives that feeling that
you are being followed. We skipped the
movie too, saw that two years ago and it was a huge waste of time.
CONCLUSION
New to haunts and
want to see if you like them, Fright Planet would be good for you. I think that’s really the only time it would
be good for someone to go there. The
lines are short if you go early enough so you don’t have to worry about long
lines. Later in the evening it probably
got busy, but not while we were there. For it’s location, they need to put a lot of
money into it and really make it big…I’m thinking Gyros from the 90’s. That would be cool.
NEXT UP: HEARTSTOPPERS
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