Unsought Input

A little introduction for this one before I start into the review: We were originally going to go to both the Stalker Haunted Corn Maze and the Trail of Terror which are both haunted houses just south of Canton on the same highway exit #193 for Bolivar/Zoar.  I know, really cool town names.  Anyway when we got to the Trail of Terror’s parking lot (you take a bus over to the acutal event) the parking lot was barren.  I was confused because I had just checked their website for prices.  Eventually we found a guy in the McDonald’s parking lot and he told us that there was flooding and it had ruined the trail and they didn’t have the funds to fix it. He also assured us that this info was on their website.  Please click on the link above and tell me if you see it because I couldn’t find it.  Anyway, this was very sad for us because this is one of the best houses we had been to last year. 

Stalker Haunted Corn Maze

We went to the Stalker Corn Maze two years ago as well so I will spend some time talking about the improvements they have done since then as well as an overall review. (more…)

Pandora’s Box is a two house haunted attraction located at 6091 Heisley Ave in Mentor, OH.

Alouette’s Review:

House 1: House of the Dead

Rating for House of the Dead:

The following paragraph contains descriptions which may be seen as spoilers!

House of the Dead was pretty good.  This house was too short, though.  This house use a lot of image projecting equipment to enhance long lonely hallways (in which they have few or no actors, possibly to cut costs or something?).  The effect is cool but not scary, though it does add a nice touch to the atmosphere of the place.  The definite highlight of this house is what I referred to as “the birthing canal” for lack of a better term.  Basically it’s a black tunnel that is made in a similar manner to the Halloween inflatables in peoples yards. It’s all black and completely engulfs you, it makes you feel like you are stuck in it and you have no idea how long the tunnel is.  Also, it feels like there are people pushing on both sides of it (not sure if there are people or if it’s just from your party going through which seems more likely), pushing you around from side to side.  It is very intense, I really didn’t expect something like that at all.  My second most memorable moment was the Voodoo room where vines above you actually rain down on you as you walk through.  It also has a giant animatronic monkey skeleton which is pretty cool.

House 2: Reapers Castle (more…)

Sorry, I know that we don’t update this very often but over the Haunted House season I am planning on updating as much as I can with haunted house reviews for the local Cleveland Ohio area.  I am hoping that people will post their own feelings on the houses I review and maybe make comments about any phenomenal ones that I am missing.  I just feel there is a lack of good reviews for the houses in the Cleveland area.

Here’s the tentative list of the houses that I am planning on visiting this year.  Of course things are likely to change, so don’t hold me to this.  I haven’t created a grading scale yet but when I do I’ll post it up here and ask for your comments.

Haunted House Schedule 2008 (more…)