Zero connection to the advertisement online...too dark with a sliver of a flashlight light to light up any decorations....can't flashlight towards "actors" (and I use that term very loosely) the 2022 trailer on the website is NOT the Fremont location decorations or actors or makeup apparently. It's a $10 attraction AT BEST read more

Very good . Jack's Bar next door has great burgers . Definitely one of the best places in Bay Area -- they have one in Sacramento also.

we waited for 2 hours in line and they cancelled the event on us who paid for tickets No refund and no event! unbelievable! read more

Fear Overload Scream Park - Haunted Houses Near Me - Newark, California

Warning: Long Lines & Potential Cancellations The event shut down multiple times this past month without warning based on prior reviews. It happened last night around 8PM as well. Unable to contact them via phone. Managed to receive a response and refund after contacting them via email. I can't recommend the event but I appreciate that a prompt refund was given. read more

If I could give zero stars I obviously would. The line is too long, your time slot doesn't matter. You spend a significant amount of time in the line than you do in the actually event. By the time you get into the haunted scream park you're too tired to be scared and it honestly isn't even worth it. Horrible waste of money whether you get the fast pass or not ‍ don't go, there are better ones! They also ran out of water (for sale of course) while we were waiting in line. Also, please don't go dressed in sweats or anything because there are no fans and no air circulation. Participate at your own risk. read more

Best scare of my life! Arrived around 8:00pm on a Friday night and no line. Scares and photo ops before the haunted house. Screamed throughout the entirety of two haunted houses. Took about 15 minutes to get through both, but felt so much longer. I definitely recommend to anyone wanting a good scare! read more

Guys save your money. This place SUCKS. Waited 4 hours in the line with no explanation. Asking for a manager or a refund is nearly impossible. Haunted house isn't even worth it. Would rather use the money I spent here to eat amazing food. read more

Ricardo was the nicest guy ever accommodated our disabilities! Very scary experience I almost couldn't finish I got so scared!

3 hours to get in. 100's of paying customers behind us sent away and told to come back another day. Looked nothing like the promo. No bathrooms, Staff told me to go in the parking lot read more

Waited 3 hours in line in a miserable HOT room. Then a fight broke out and one of the security guards told a customer she was going to "Molly Whop her" (so professional right?). This altercation (as the staff liked to word it) put the show on "pause". Which we had to ask a staff member what was going on so if we would have never asked we would of been waiting hours before being told it was on "pause". We ended up leaving because we were told they had no idea how long we would be waiting. I do not recommend this place at ALL. It's a waste of time and you might not even get to enjoy the haunted house anyways. read more

Absolutely do not waste your money on this place. DO NOT GO HERE. We drove an hour to get here in the storm because the website says they do not cancel due to weather and that they do not give refunds, only to show up and see them closed "due to weather"! No email or notification from them letting us know that we shouldn't plan on coming or that our tickets will be refunded or rescheduled to another date. Super unprofessional. It's also completely unmarked outside and is very difficult to find. Save yourself the $25 per person, the drive over there, and just watch a scary movie at home. read more

This place was such a disappointment. Went last night and was not worth the drive or the money. The decorations looked cheap the animatronic were cheap, there was no real ambience, the walls are kind of short you can hear everything going on through the whole place which ruins the experience. The acting was terrible. This place really lacked it did not immerse me in the experience at all. I expected more and way better with the videos I saw and all the hype behind it but it was nothing like what you see in the photos or videos. I've been to a bunch of haunted houses and theirs was the absolute worse one I've ever been to. Utah has better haunted houses than this place. Don't waste your money on this place ever!!!!! read more

I don't scare easy so I can't really comment on that aspect. I can say that the young actors were working really hard and from all the screams I heard they were doing a good job. Their costumes and makeup were great. I liked the fact that they had actors with different abilities in their cast, that was awesome. It was a bit disorganized to start and they opened late, but it moved fast afterwards. Something fun to get into the Halloween spirit and I prefer the new location at the NewPark Mall in Newark. read more

Ngl, this really sucked. Not worth the money, actors makeup was not too bad but the haunted house itself sucked. Not as long as they claim it is, we waited in line for triple the time we were inside and we got the fast passes. They seemed to be short staffed by a lot, there was no as many actors as hoped. Overall, don't recommend. Don't go. read more

I'd give 0 stars is I could. We got lost trying to find the entrance, which is all the way in the back around target. There were no signs, no staff out there to help guide, nothing. Then we get in line it starts raining, and we're in line for up to 3 hours. It doesn't even matter what time slot you payed for, there's so many people even with a fast pass people were waiting for hours on end. I guess there was some sort of scuffle, and not only were the staff not telling us a damn thing about what was going on, they were yelling at people the whole time and so unprofessional with how they talked to customers. We eventually left before we could even go through because after 3 hours it was paused and no one would let us know what was happening or if we'd get to go in eventually. No transparency at all, the lines are way too long and they just gut people for money. Don't waste your time. read more

They are extremely disrespectful and I'm planning on taking legal action...!! They were unfair especially the ppl there giving poor communication and disrespect to their customers some "girl" that was working there wanted to fight us... really unprofessional Yes, we hand our phone light on by accident .. but they were rude about it. Told us to shut up or made us us leave. This whole team needs to be fire. Please be free to contact to me for more info. read more

Actors were great, well timed. Props were a bit sparse and repetitive, and hard to see because you are not supposed to raise your provided dim flashlight, and it's very dark. For the price of admission, it was very mediocre. If you are easily scared, this is great. If you are one in search of the best scares in the USA, travel to Kansas City.... Those haunts make this look like a Sunday aT church.js read more

If I could leave less than a one I would. This was extremely misrepresented. Totally false advertisement we literally walked through a few hallways with blood on the walls. The actors barely had any makeup on (nothing like the website shows). Everything was really dark, there was no fog, nothing was lit up and there were no decorations. It was really awful totally waste of money don't go. read more

Not even scary for a little kid! Waste of money!!! I can scare a child more than the workers. Pay me to scare your kids if you want to waste money to wait in a long line for some poor performance!!! read more

DO NOT GO HERE! It is by far the worst haunt in the bay area. They scam and catfish people, so you can't trust anything they post. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if all these positive reviews were written by friends of the owner or were somehow bought or posted by the owner himself. I have gone here for a few years because I keep thinking THIS time will be different! This review will be for the 2022 haunt that they catfished me with false pictures on their website. The lines are generally pretty terrible, which just adds insult to injury when you finally get into the haunt only to be disappointed with it. They have a cart they wheel around with a few snacks for astronomical prices, in case you get hungry while you wait 2+ hours for the haunt. This is kind of ridiculous, since there is a vending machine the line eventually snaks around that you could get sodas and chips for much cheaper prices. So if you get hungry, avoid the cart, and just look for the vending machine further up the line and save yourself money. As for the haunt itself, there is almost no props for a haunt this size and most of the props are disappointing. Instead of reinvesting their profits into the haunts, they just use the same haunt theme every single year using the same props over and over again. You would think there would be a few cool animatronics or gory stuff, but no. It's old broken toilets, wooden tables with old dirty dishes on it, broken tvs, ect. They built a few shelves out of wood and then stuffed some paper in a few garbage bags on top of the shelf to make it look like a dead body, but that's about it. They just ransacked a junk yard, slapped a bit or red paint on it, then called it a prop. That's fine for a few of the props, but you can't rely on that for ALL props in a haunt. All the rooms are mostly empty, which is why they give you one flashlight for your entire party and tape over 90% of the light so you barely have any light to really see how empty the place is. You mostly fumble in the dark and can't see much. One room had nothing but old, dirty stuffed animals stapled to the wall. I'm not sure what their theme was on this one. We had several rooms of dirty toilets, a room with a wooden table and dirty dishes, a few rooms with wooden shelves with the garbage bodies and then the one room with the toys. Then the rooms just repeat. There were a few people that jumped out to scare you, but there were only a few children hired to scare you in the haunt, so most rooms you walk by with no actual scares. Just dirty, broken garbage. I guess that's supposed to be scary? They CLAIM there are two haunts, but that's not really true. They built one giant haunt then stuck a lady in a wheelchair to guard a door. Her sole purpose was to stop you from continuing through the door and tell you that going through that door is technically the entrance to the second haunt. There is no actual entrance for the second haunt. It's seriously just a random door they chose in the middle of the first haunt. This may have made a tiny bit more sense if the "second haunt" was different from the first, but it wasn't. Same rooms with broken toilets and garbage bag bodies. But why did I go on this haunt 3 times over the course of the past 5 years if it sucked so much? That's a good question. The first time, I had no clue how terrible it would be. The second time, they said they had made a WHOLE NEW haunt and opened it up on Valentines Day, so I thought I would try it a second time and see if maybe this one was better. This WHOLE NEW haunt was just the old haunt, but they make you enter the exit, so you go through it in reverse. But it's still the same rooms. I think the owner is able to leave the haunt as it is all year round and the mall just blocks that section off. As a result, this guy doesn't have to breakdown and rebuild the haunt, so it never changes year after year. It's the same haunt every single time. I vowed to never go there again. But after a few years they changed their website and posted pictures of their haunt with actual real props and uplighting and it looked legit cool, so I went again. To reiterate, there was no cool props or uplighting at all. The photos on the website are absolutely 100% false and are nothing like the actual haunt. I don't know if he stole the photos from the Sacramento location or if the photos are from an entirely different haunt that isn't even Fear Overload. If you want a good haunt, I recommend Pirates of Emerson at the Alameda Fairgrounds, Winchester Mystery House in San Jose or Scotts Valley High School in Scotts Valley. Yes, it's a high school, but they have a TON of people to scare you, they change the haunt every year and it's very creative and great. And they even have zombies that walk around and do an entire Thriller mob dance every few minutes while you wait. And I don't mean 1-2 zombies wandering around, I mean more like 10. read more

I dont usually put out reviews but this is one of my worst experience in an event before and i would like to warn people about all the bad things weve experienced. 1st, they sell 3 tier tckets. We bought the "fast pass" but it took us about 2 hours before getting in and we were one of the early ones. Once u get in, there will be another hour long wait. Theyre entire system is chaotic. 2nd, the staff are extremely rude. They were giving wrong information to the customers. They do not have any signs and instructions on what to do hence most people will have to ask but they seem extremely unhelpful. They are using airhorns, cussing and cursing out loud infront of customers. I understand that they are busy and they did not get toplan the entire event properly but the last thing you would want to do to CUSTOMERS who bought tickets and actually spent to see YOUR event is to give attitude because of YOUR lacking. 3rd, the venue itself is mediocre, after waiting for almost 4 hours with a "fast pass", is filled with cheaply made images, and underwhelming experience. It is not worth it. I will not recommend this and I care enough to let people know how bad this event. Its a wast read more

Fear Overload at Newpark Mall was underwhelming. Park near 24 Hr Fitness. Our party of 2 (general admission) arrived at about 6:10 pm and waited in line for about an hour. Not so scary clowns entertained people in line. The attendant who checked people's tickets did no scanning at all. The 2nd attendant were letting people in too soon. That meant at some point you'll reach the group or two who went in before you, hear their screams, and basically let you know that there will be something "scary" around the corner. The props and actors were ok. read more

The hamburgers were very dry, the pizza was hard, my son almost choked. The actors were not scary at all. The mazes were not good, the hay ride was ok. And the lines were very short. read more

Fear Overload Scream Park - Haunted Houses Near Me - Newark, California

Literally the worst haunted house I've been to . Not allowed to have phones out & even if we taking selfies they wanna be on your case . Security followed is more than halfway through & literally HARASSED US ‼‼‼ Absolutely the worst experience of a haunted house that I've EVERRREE BEEN TO ‼‼ read more

Fear Overload Scream Park - THIS WAS THE PHOTO I WAS TAKING WHEN SECURITY APPROACHED ME - Haunted Houses Near Me - Newark, California

Not worth your money. Scares are predictable and it goes by super quick. Tops are in there 15 min and that's is not worth how much you pay for a ticket. Look elsewhere read more

I wish I could give this 0 stars. We waited in line for 3 hours. As we got closer to the front, we could see the disgruntled faces of the people exiting the building. Some said to turn around, not to waste our money, but of course we prepaid online and it was far too late to turn back. The most entertaining part was one performer standing outside scaring people in line. All this is not to mention the emergency evacuation they had to do because a child that was far too young to go in began to panic and cry. I will never go back and I encourage anyone wanting to go to do literally anything else. This was not at all scary or themed as advertised. read more

The haunts would be a solid B-grade experience - cute, not very elaborate, not enough scares but long enough - if it weren't for the absolutely absurd lines. General tickets took more than 2 hours to get into the haunt, while "fast pass" tickets took at least an hour. The only solutions would be to have duplicate haunts or sell fewer tickets. Right now it's an absurd experience to wait two hours for a ten minute haunt read more

What a waste of money. The actors had cheap costumes. Very expensive. I would not recommend this wack haunted house.

time slots aint crap and they need to put ac up in here. we reserved a time slot for 8 and didn't get in till close to 10. needs better organization if you dont want angry customers. thank you for listening to my ted talk read more

Before you come to this event, you need to ask yourself: are you a believer in supernatural? If yes: this event is for you. This place's designs and costumes look so realistic, so whoever is in this side should make a firm commitment. But at least know that the actors can not touch us, just surprise the heck out of us If no: well, my friend who's immune to this horror stuff basically just laugh some part of the way. The only complaint was that somebody scream right to her ear, which made her a little surprise There was two haunted house, one that is durable and other suppose to be the scariest and they're right. But with an unclear line structure, I went to the scariest one first so for the second one it was a bit not that scary. Also, the "tour" was short, it ended so quick I thought "huh, that's it?" The funny part is me and my friend got lost many times and was just shouting "where, where do we go" and some of the actors broke characters and helped us, so nice of them. I suggest going right when they open (7:30pm), there's few people. Oh there's ATM right next to the ticket register area in the second floor so no need to wonder around like we did. -,-" Happy Halloween month to whoever is reading this ^^ read more

Fear Overload Scream Park - One of the theme for 2016 - Haunted Houses Near Me - Newark, California

I've been wanting to check this out so I was so excited when I won 2 tickets through a contest from Fun Cheap SF. My friend and I arrived at 6:45pm since it starts at 7pm for the Glow Stick Night on Nov 1st, last day of the Halloween season. There was already a long line since they only had 2 glow stick nights for the season. I laughed seeing others in the line getting scared by one of the actors. Since it was a long line, we agreed to be group with 2 others behind us. I read the rules like no earrings and took off my earrings. It also said no high heels and no pregnant woman. They gave me a glow stick, explained the rules like no touching the props and actors, and led us into a dark room. Boy oh boy... I screamed at the first few people who popped out and couldn't lead anymore. I tried to give the glow stick to my friend but she refused. The guy behind us bravely took it and led the way. His girlfriend was screaming uncontrollably and sometimes we laughed. It was so scary walking through a dark haunted house!! The guy gave the glow stick to my friend for the second haunted house about a madman stealing people's teeth. My friend laughed instead of scream after getting used to people popping out. I still screamed quite a bit cause I hate the dark. It was the scariest haunted house I've been to since it was glow stick night... read more

Fear Overload Scream Park - Haunted Houses Near Me - Newark, California

After some research I found Fear Overload Eternal Nighmare Haunted House in San Leandro. Voted 2012-2013 Scariest in California per Hauntworld.com, I knew that we were in for a good scare. Upon arrival we were a little put off after discovering that the haunted house was located inside the mall, but always up for a new adventure I went into it with an open mind. This is what we found: Parking aplenty within the Century Theatre's parking lot $20 cash only at the door $27 cash only VIP (front of the line priority) admission On the evening of our visit, the lines were minimal and we waited (at most) 10-15mins before making our way to the front of the line. We were given a flashlight and cautiously made our way inside. *disclaimer I genuinely enjoy all things scary. That being said, I still freak the f**k out when it comes down to it. Although I am fully aware that what I am about to encounter is NOT real, I feel fear/anxiety/excitement all at the same time. Somewhere between laughing and crying you will find me hidden behind and grasping tightly to whomever it is that has the courage to face all things scary with me. Back to my review of Fear Overload... This place is not for the faint of heart and definitely not for children. I believe that the site recommends thrill seekers be a min of 15 years of age. I think that's an appropriate age. As I mentioned earlier, Fear Overload has been voted Scariest in California, and for good reason. I don't want to divulge too much about what we encountered on the evening of our visit, as I would hate to ruin it for you. If you go, and I think you should, I recommend you go as soon as possible. I can only imagine how crazy the lines will be as we get closer to Halloween. Btw... I think I partially lost my voice from all the screaming. Screams so loud that even I surprised myself. read more

Fear Overload Scream Park - Haunted Houses Near Me - Newark, California

I liked it , it coulda been bigger I think but this place had my friend jumping ten times his height and my shoulders jumped a bit. I am a fan of haunts so if you could get me jumpy you did good. THe first one is a trip, you just walked through with a flashlight an a teensy bit of light. THat was the Zodiac haunted, I went in that one first to represent our famous notorious bay area serial killer. It was pretty decent some trippy characters and people flying and jumping out at me . It was pretty cool. There was a second one the psychotic one. It was pretty awesome. I liked this one better. I loved the cut open faces, the gore was nice. The ladies seemed pretty crazy and crazy is good, especially if I don't have to take you home. It was a good scare. Ha people were even popping out of walls from random openings I totally wouldn't have known was there. I had some good jumps from the people jumping from up above at me. The womens bathroom scene was the trippiest ha it was very different from the rest. I really had to find my way out. I loved the murdered bodies in the stalls. The one room with the tv was cool too, great set up with the flashing pictures. I think overall it was a good 25 minutes to get through both. THe customer service upfront was cool, that lady rocks. 20 bucks for the whole thing is really fair priced, not a rip off at all. read more

This is the second year my family and I visited Fear Overload. It's located inside the Bayfair Mall, but don't let that fool you - this is as legit a haunted house as any other. For $20, you get admission into two haunted houses.Cash only, or you can buy tickets online with a card (you also save 50 cents by doing so). Tthis year the themes were Ward 9 and Baylor Amusement Park. In Ward 9, my flashlight didn't work very well, so I was SUPER scared, but can't remember much about the actual house. Baylor Amusement Park was my favorite. It seemed to take FOREVER (in a good way) to get through it, and each room was scarier than the last. There's plenty of parking, because it's inside of a shopping center. There isn't much going on before you get into the actual sets, but they did add a photo station w/backdrop (see photo posted to business). Fear Overload has become a regular Halloween stop for my family and I, and I am sure we'll be back in the future. Happy haunting! read more

Dude honestly this place was so worth it i went during the week the line was super short took us about 10 min to get in I was kind of skeptical because of location but as soon as you get in the haunted house you will not regret itI love how the characters were so theatrical everything was decorated so well they really pay attention to detail I was definitely scared 100% recommend this awesome haunted house I will definitely be coming back next year read more

If haunted houses are your thing and you absolutely need to go to one on Halloween, fine... Fear Overload will suffice. It is worth noting that it is in a suburban mall versus a corn field in the middle of nowhere so temper expectations. I honestly believe we spent more time in line waiting to get into both haunted houses than we did in them. And we even got the fast pass tickets. As a group of six, we were a little larger and I think that ruins some of the scares and surprises but there are a couple of really good ones. There are some detailed sets but you have to keep it moving with the crowds, but at the same time because it was pretty crowded, you also kinda bump into the groups before or after you which ruins some of the surprises too. Well at the very least I can say, "been there done that" for Fear Overload but I highly doubt I'll be back. Didn't think the $35 fast pass ticket was worth the experience and trek out here. read more

I went last year with a friend of mine & we got the VIP passes....the experience was fun & crazy!! I didn't know what to expect around every turn. As a grown adult, I can't lie....I was scared but it was fun! I laughed & I would definitely do it again! read more

Fear Overload Scream Park - Haunted Houses Near Me - Newark, California

We started our lovely drive from San Francisco to the attraction and it appeared the stars weren't aligned from the beginning. Our map led us to a mall in Hayward, but we had to take the reigns and reroute ourselves to the new location in Newark. Still we were anxiously excited for all the spook that was going to occur. Once we arrived we were faced with a long line that appeared scarier than the attraction itself. However, we are not ones to shy away from hardship. We get in line with joy in our hearts. We come to the conclusion the line is roughly 1-2 hours long. We are patient people who enjoy each others company so we took this opportunity with grace. We played many games, and time seemed to fly by. 2 hours into our wait the gateway to the haunted house seems within reach. As we inch closer and closer to the door, we come to the realization that this is reminiscent to a Christmas morning. Sadly, this Christmas morning was full of coal, cold cookies, and spilled milk. When we reached what we thought was our gateway, we were faced with an equally as arduous line. We were alerted we would face another two hours. Broken hearted and disappointed we came to the hard decision that it was our time to leave the line that had now become a second home. On the car ride home we came to the realization that it is our civic duty to warn our neighbors near and far of the challenges we all faced here tonight. Signing off, Analese & Zach, Two Heart Broken Children on Christmas morning. :( read more

+We went on Halloween day and the wait wasn't too long compared to other mazes we've been to in the past (1st maze) +It was closer to San Jose +There's an actual parking lot +They let you go with your full group +you can buy tickets online for a no line wait inside for tickets ($27) -Being indoors didn't set the scene so it wasn't too scary -The line to the 2nd maze was about 1 hour -It was so hot in the mall -cash only for tickets inside with 1 ATM machine I would have given more stars, but this is a major problem: ------in the 1st maze there was someone grabbing people's butts!!!!!! So inappropriate!! This happened to 5 of our friends read more

This haunted house is not a "Park". The haunted house is in an abandoned mall, there are 2 mazes to walk through and maybe take a total of 20 min. Most of the wait is when the lines back up in side the maze and you need to wait for the crowd to filter through. We arrived at 10:45pm on a Saturday (don't waste the money on fast pass) there were no lines to get in. On the plus side, the mazes were decorated great, the actors were good, and overall, i got a couple good screams. read more