The RISE Haunted House is likely the best haunted house attraction in Louisiana. Over the years I have been to a few and the RISE easily bets the others hands down.
We first went to RISE 2-3 years ago. It was...nice. The haunted house was good, not great, and the zombie paintball was fun.
Well, they've blown pass all that crap.
The Zombie paintball is off next door and is run by a separate entity. We did not try it, the ticket lady told us that it is the same as what we did before...get pulled on a trailer by a tractor and shoot at actors as they charge you.
The Haunted House is now to the amazing level. They have cranked it up and gone all out. The settings are great. You walk through this maze into a dilapidated house going room to room--bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, etc--when suddenly you are in and abandoned hospital. Then a cemetery. Somewhere in there was a bus and a garage and and Airstream. It seemed like it would never end.
The actors were amazing. I'm very impressed with the talent there. They must have hired the entire high school gymnastics team.
Then there is the Asylum. I thought that they had done good with the Haunted House, but I was truly taken back by what they crafted in the Asylum.
In the Asylum you enter as a patient and get processed and led room to room. Pretty soon the staff have lost control and the lunatics are running the place. Or maybe that was the staff, I'm not sure. The key point is IT IS INTERACTIVE. The actors touch you. They question you. They react to your responses. The story drives your progress and that is what moves you along. With Haunted Houses I always feel like there is something more to see, another scare in this room or a fright in that room that I did not get to see because the crowd is pushing me forward too fast to take it all in. Not in the Asylum. The actors guide your progress through each area and they give you a hell of a show.
We ended up doing the Haunted Hayride as well and it was quite fun. They used the track from the old zombie paintball and turned it into an open air haunted house. The story is that this was a research facility where they created monsters and you have stumbled in there with mercenaries trying to get you out. There are different stations and the actors jump onto the trailer with you. If you were thinking haunted hayride as in sipping hot cocoa while a kid in a sheet jumps up and goes "Boo" then you would think wrong. Not little kid friendly, let's say PG-13. That would likely describe the RISE as a whole.
Overall, this was great. The RISE puts The Mortuary to shame and probably surpasses the 13th Gate (we haven't been there yet this year). It is well worth the trip and the money. I highly recommend the fast pass/VIP tickets. With ours we got to go through the Haunted House and the Asylum alone and it was awesome. This year they have a VIP club thing where if you buy the VIP tickets to one attraction they honor them at the others (Scream Island, the Mortuary, 13th Gate, and the RISE). Well worth it. read more