Battle Of The Haunted Houses

Two haunted houses and a laser maze all at one indoor location! Great idea!
The price is right, too! Price per haunted house is the lowest around, yet the quality is high and the themes are great! One ticket gets you into both haunted houses.
These Halloween events are also great for kids! They are not gory but they’re also not cheesy or child-​like, like you’d expect for something the kids could go to. Perfect!
I’ve been to several haunted houses and Scream Theme Studios’ Battle of the Haunted Houses is among the best!
If you’ve never been to the Battle of the Haunted Houses, I highly suggest you go. If you’ve been before, go again. It’s never the same experience twice. Each year one of both of the haunted houses changes.

The Battle Of The Haunted Houses is an annual haunted houses that are typically set up at the Foothills Fashion Mall where the old Mervyns location used to be. The idea behind this is that there are two haunted houses that you tour through and then with a portion of your ticket stub you slip it into a voting ballot box to see which haunted house you think is best. So far for five years running the haunted house known as Destination Terror has been the winner. So the ‘losing’ haunted house gets recreated for next year.
I have been here twice so far in two different years. Both times were fun, but i think this year (2010) had a better set up in general.
Something that I noticed though is that the actors that work at these haunted houses are either really into what they are doing while others seem bored. Sometimes it seems like they try too hard to scare people. For instance there is usually a ghoul waiting to greet people at the ticket line. This year especially it seems like the actor was watching a unseen time clock where he could only interact with certain individuals for a short time and try to pick new people to scare. Scream Theme Studios is the company that puts on these haunted houses and I don’t know how ‘corporate’ they may be or if they are playing a part in the very brief and limited time the actors are supposed to talk/​scare you. So up to a point the ghoul acted like one of the animatronic props. The Old Town Scare have actors that won’t leave you and are very interactive to what you say.
I don’t want to dish out too much criticism on the place though, it is good for kids and there are genuinely creepy parts to the haunted houses, but not that many. One genuinely creepy part is when you… (SPOILER ALERT) … get into the side of a real hearse. While this is definitely creepy crawling through it makes all the more chilling when a animatronic creature jumps out at you from where the casket typically is.
So in conclusion the Battle Of The Haunted Houses is good for kids but may bore some parents and college students. There are more creepier haunted houses elsewhere but it is a good time when you want to do a Halloween activity. To what the times and dates are in regards to when this place is open, go ahead and check out their website,
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