I go to haunted houses every year. I conduct a search for the top rated haunts. This year however the haunts I wanted to attend either ended on Halloween night or Friday night and I was not able to go until Saturday night. Fearaphobia was one that was still open for the weekend. But was not a pick for this year's haunts, but based on prior rating I wanted to give it a shot, even with the mixed reviews I had seen.
Getting to the location was not too bad, outskirts of Denton and Decatur. Haunt is located inside of a neighborhood. Not very crowded when we arrived, actually, there was no line, probably because Halloween was passed.
They had people outside to get you ready and keep you interested, giving you the rules, touching you, nothing invasive, standing close, touching your hair.
On entry into the haunt, you will watch a vid, maybe about 5 min, and they have a few special effects to set the mood, then you enter the next room, so at this point I am thinking good potential, storyteller room was well decorated, and the acting was well played. Once that is done, then you are off to the haunt.
I will say they really put in work and thought into their room designs, so there are a series of scenes/rooms, you will walk-through, there were a few that stood out as far as making you question what was next , going into complete darkness and not knowing what's there and finding the way out, luckily there is someone quietly walking with you the whole time that will help when needed...and we really enjoyed their moving wall, inflated material on both side and trying to push/fit yourself through with ppl pushing on the material. This to me was unique I had not been to a haunt that had this vision/ creativity.
But overall it wasn't scary it was more like walking through a museum, and seeing some interesting "art" and then we were out in like maybe 5 min, it was super fast and the finale was a total let down.
A man with a chainsaw, and doesn't run after you, just kinda stood there and that was it? And we are back outside..o..k..
The money spent was kinda in line with what you got, but would not attend in the future, I need a higher scare factor, feel the effects of "steam" from old pipes, some smoke from cars "fog solution", something that builds on the scene, more constant sounds, a lil darker getting to the next scenes, there were a lot of opportunities for a real scare, so the potential is there. read more
