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    It's currently 11pm as I'm writing this. I've been in line since 7pm and it's not moving. Fuck this place.

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    Haunted Hoochie - The entrence

    Haunted Hoochie

    3.0(79 reviews)
    56.3 mi

    This place kept popping up as a good haunted house to attend, so I finally decided to buy tickets…read morethis year. The price for a standard ticket was average compared to other places. We got there about thirty minutes early and the line was already very long, so get there early!! Employees in costume were scaring people as they walked to the line, including a guy with a chainsaw. Super cool! In order to make this review easy to follow, I'll make a list of what I did and didn't like. What I liked: The actual haunted house is huge! I kept thinking it was going to end soon, but we kept on going. I really liked how different rooms had their own themes. I don't want to spoil what's inside, but they have some animatronics and effects that make it feel like you're tripping on drugs. I was blown away! The sensory overload was awesome. What I disliked: There's no way to put this kindly, but there are some *tasteless* people who attend this haunted house. So many people were smoking cigarettes or weed in line and blowing it on people. I reeked of weed afterwards. Two guys actually peed IN LINE. It was disgusting. There's music and videos to watch/listen to while waiting, but be aware that a lot of it is conspiracy theory stuff. For example, there were videos of the twin towers falling with text saying it was an inside job. The last thing I didn't like is the amount of people that go inside with your group. I can't really blame them for this though because they have to keep the line moving. So, be aware that you'll constantly be butted up against other people while making your way through. Overall, would I recommend it? I would go if I was a teenager. As an adult, it wasn't scary. If anything, it was cool because of the creativity. They definitely did their best to use every inch of space!

    DO NOT GO TO HAUNTED HOOCHIE!!!!!! we waited in line for 2 hours only to get the worst haunted…read morehouse experience ever. The actors pulled us by our arms, choked us using our hood and put their hands in our faces and hair. We asked to stop they would take it even further. When we asked staff when we were leaving where it says that you will be touched by actors, and they told us to read the back of the ticket. The back of the ticket only has a paragraph about legal liability about if you are injured while walking through it. Nothing actually explaining what will happen inside, shitty company, shitty people working there. AVOID AT ALL COSTS

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    Hauntville Haunted House - Wicked Clowns in 4-d

    Hauntville Haunted House

    4.2(6 reviews)
    47.2 mi

    I'm an experienced "houser," if that is our term, and I came to Hauntville after having not gone…read moresince I was about 9. Reason being I moved out of Ohio and before that I lived about three hours away from it's old location, near (now) Great Wolf Lodge in Sandusky. That said, it impressed me even then with its combo stylishness/slyness. It's not enough to just scream and pop out. That's cheap. You have to be creative and use standard props in an interesting way. Hauntville did and does this. I visited them this Halloween season in the Elyria location and despite being woefully understaffed the creativity remained in high order. one of the most interesting psychological elements was in the Prison house. Not to spoil the surprise but the Warden character (good actor, btw) was always in an "elevated state," making the customer feel more helpless. Little atmospheric touches like this abound, especially in the succinct but suspenseful "Unknown" pitch black maze with multiple awesome "fun house" elements mixed in. Hauntville has HIDDEN RIDES within a few rooms. So fun. AND more BIG HEAD PUPPETS than any other haunt which are more customizable than animatronics, especially when the actors are strong and they are here. You can tell they care. Most of them could improv for days, especially the ticket taker at the Haunted Bayoo/Shanty house. (How many people can riff about "sister-cousins" breathlessly for ten mins straight?) Shout-out to Kristi for really making me feel welcome and appreciated.

    My husband and I visited on a Friday right around 7:30pm. We didn't have to buy fast passes as the…read morelines weren't long. I don't want to give away too much...but it was a good haunted house. I'm not a fan of being scared by loud noises and there were a TON of horns and whatnot. Hauntville had a lot of unique scares and things that were different than other houses. The actors with the chainsaws touched your legs with the fake saws and there were a couple big objects that ran right into me.

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