Spookyworld presents Nightmare New England

I love Spookyworld and I return every year! It is my favorite haunted attraction in all of New England!
Since moving to RI and with inconvenient work schedules, I’ve shown up around ¹⁰⁄₁₁ pm over the last 3 years and long lines are never an issue.
We usually park in the lot that charges $ 5. I’m assuming because we arrived so late, we were relieved of that fee this time around.
This year we came for lights out and I loved it! No lights in any of the attractions. You roam around in complete darkness with nothing but a glowstick. Definitely upped the creep factor.
They brought back the haunted hayride this year, which I don’t think has been around since they were at their Berlin location like a million years back. HIGHLIGHT OF MY YEAR. I am a Halloween freak. Like, I wish for and put effort into Halloween being every single day of the year, and this haunted hayride was just awesome awesome awesome! I was so impressed and really felt like I was on a haunted hayride through a scary abandoned forest town. Utterly enchanting. Seriously, my jaw was hurting for like half an hour afterwards because the smile on my face wouldn’t leave — not for a second! I’m thinking next year I’ll buy a VIP ticket (allowing you unlimited access to all attractions and go-​karts) just to ride the haunted hayride all day long. This Halloween lover was absolutely enamored with the fantastic job they had done in the woods for the haunted hayride. I tip my hat to you, Spookyworld.
I always love the metal they play at the Bishop house, and the DJ at the beer tent this year was spinning some pretty awesome drum & bass.
Staff was a little disappointing this year. I ended up losing my ticket somehow on the hayride, and there were still 3 attractions left that we hadn’t gone through. Walked up to a worker manning the nonexistent line at «the colony» to see if there was anything I could do about my situation and she only told us that the attraction was closed, along with all the others. We found out by walking another 15 steps that this wasn’t true, as people were still being let in to at least two other attractions from what we could see. Still, no one could/​would help with my ticket issue, and actually ignored it all together. Okay so we walk over to the ticket booth. Well, it’s closed. Womps. Ended the night there but I was still beaming from the hayride so I honestly wasn’t too upset about it.
It’s still not cool though that a worker would tell you all attractions are closed (esp. when it is advertised that the ticket booth closes at 11 and you show up half an hour before that) when just by turning your head to the left you can clearly see that they aren’t, and not even pretending to try to help someone who comes to you with a question is just lame.
Other than that I had a great time, as per usual!

Not as scary as they advertise but still a great time. Lots of fun. There are long lines for general admission but haunts walk through the lines to entertain while you’re waiting. I laughed more because things were funny than I screamed because they were scary. Go if you’re looking to have a good time, but not if you’re looking to be truly scared.

This place was anything but scary. It was more comical than anything else. This tickets are WAY overpriced for the quality. The lines are epic in length. Be prepared to spend and hour or more in line for EACH haunted house. Don’t waste your money here. It’s not worth it.

Meh. We bought into the hype of the commercials all over the radio. Let me state that we only did the hay ride and one haunted house. The hay ride was less than stellar. I don’t know, it was long, and lots of things to see but it wasn’t very scary. The actors hopped on the hayride and could actually touch you but I guess I just expected more? I think part of the reason it wasn’t very scary is because you aren’t facing the exhibits and beside the occasional banging on the trailer pulling is it was really meh. We only did one haunted house where they gave you a glow stick to go through that was okay but again I think the whole thing is played out, over crowded and just rushed to be blunt. Maybe let people sit and have their feet hanging off and facing things, there is one at witches woods in nashoba valley that was better.
Other than that, a drinking area and a restaurant close by. Lots of food stands and bathrooms so there’s that !

I had a fun time, we got the vip but the go carts were shut down and they didn’t tell us so our free rides were useless. Maybe one out of the four haunted houses creeped me out. The clown 3d house was very cheesy. The hayride was fun but not scary. Like i said i had fun but the scare factor wasn’t there. We used groupon and got vip passed for general admission price. I couldn’t imagine paying the 65+ dollars to go in 5 haunted houses. Very steep

I give this 2 stars bc there are a lot of attractions and tons of things to do. But for being «scary» each and every haunted house and the hay ride was half or more empty of no actors! There’s more customers in front of you causing lines in the houses, so you basically see every actor scaring someone else! When I mean they are empty of actors, you are basically looking at decorations the 70% of the time. Maybe good for kids, but if you want a scare, nah!
It last a while but it got ridiculously boring, you will be there for at least 2 hours for every attraction. Don’t bother getting super vip, the difference between the regular vip and super vip is the unlimited hayrides. Trust me, you do not want to do the hayride more than once! It’s mostly tree watching on hayride. For the haunted houses, Most of the actors tried, but they were over taken by 25 ppl at once coming in. They lost hope. I did too.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

They sell beer, food, and have carnival games to win prizes.

The scariest party out of all of these haunted attractions was the porta-​potty.
The actors were not scary at all. None of the attractions were frightening. The only people I saw that were even remotely scared were groups of teenage girls and small children (which, IMO, should not even be there). I will admit the decorations were well done on the hayride. The scenes that were set-​up along the hayride were neat but the actors were not scary.
If I didn’t get a groupon, I would not go. Full price is absurd. And one thing we didn’t know (even though I looked at the entire website): you can buy tickets at 6pm but attractions don’t open until 7pm.
I’d recommend going to Fright Kingdom, which is a short drive away. It was much better and much more reasonably priced.

Excellent. They put in a lot of time and money. The only thing that would make it five stars is more actors to scare people. Either way, a lot of fun!

I don’t understand why anyone would ever give this place under 4 stars, especially since a lot of the other «haunted» places are a lot less scary and not much cheaper than this place. I do believe that unless you’re buying VIP tickets, it’s probably not worth it to wait 30+ minutes in a line to go through a 5 minute attraction that could go well or bad. If you go through each attraction once and you base your review of this place on that, you did not receive the full experience. You don’t get scared as often if you go in with other groups of people. The best time to enter the attractions is if you have VIP tickets and the VIP line is short, around 10 PM because they’re more apt to scare you rather than just the middle school girls in the attraction. The haunted hayride they added this year was 100 times better than the one I went on two years ago at Witch’s Woods. If you’re thinking of going here, I would suggest buying VIP tickets, and don’t listen to the others– it’s definitely worth it.

There are so many better options for Halloween in NE. It’s fine, it is what it is. Spookyworld’s biggest issue is that it’s essentially a tourist trap unlike the many other options. They have you buy a ticket online, and then make you wait in line to redeem it – which makes no sense, other than so they can charge you to buy a VIP ticket to skip this initial line (there is little other upside)
If you do decide to go, don’t buy a ticket online. You’ll have to wait in line for your tickets anyways so might as well save yourself the service charge.
But just go to Witches Woods or something instead and have a more enjoyable time while waiting less in line.

Very disappointed. Luckily, it was a rainy cold night so there weren’t long lines. Because if I had to pay that high rate, and wait in a long line for the pathetic haunted houses I’d be extra upset. Such a waste of money. And I’m easily frightened…

Years ago, in Oregon, I would see commercials for them on our east coast cable channel. I had always wanted to go. In 2009 we got a chance to go. We had dinner there at that time and played a round of minigolf. It was a fun experience.
This year Halloween was no less fun, but it was different. The restaurant has changed hands. They no longer serve seafood. Which was pretty decent before. Now it is burgers and pizza. The waitress said everyone loves the burgers so much they ordered bags to go. I doubt that, they were just okay, nothing I am skidding out of there with by the bag full.
The haunts had changed, as expected in that amount of time. I was proud I had enough brain cells left over from 2009 to remember a lot of their props and saw them recycled into the new haunts. Good for them, as an avid haunter myself, I know this is an expensive part. It was just funny we could remember them.
We bought the VIP pass both trips, and it is worth the extra money to skip the lines and get to go through as much as you want.
The difference this trip is they had more of the outdoor haunts that you walked around. I was thankful it was not raining or had not just rained as the paths are all dirt. I am really jaded when it comes to haunted houses, as we do extensive halloween but a few of the outdoor ones were creepy. They force you through a pitch black cabin to get to the other side, and something about that was unnerving. I didn’t think I would ever be afraid in any haunt situation again.
I don’t think we would go again if in the area, just because it was so close to the last time. If it is your first time I will say don’t miss it. Go and spend a little extra for the VIP ticket. it will also get you into the batting cages, mini golf and the go carts.
From Salem it is only about an hour, but here is one giant recommendation, do not go during rush hour. It will double your travel time. Traffic was horrible the entire way because we left too late. The time before we left Salem early so we could get there in time to eat and play mini golf and missed all the traffic. We had a rude awakening on t his trip.

Been awhile since I’ve gone to spooky world they have changed locations over the yes but I can honestly say this was a good time they have bout 4 haunted houses the mansion was good, close quarter scary pop outs and cemetery was creepy, a nice bon fire in middle ground is nice to warm up to, the actors are good they really egg on the people who are scared by really scaring them and following them, I will return
As a FYI buy via to ship the very long lines

We went the first Friday in October, and didn’t experience much of a line. We also went a little later in the night, around 9:30 or so.
$ 5 for parking is a total sham. I didn’t have cash on me, so I drove past three different money collectors, stating that I had to go to the ATM. I did, and then couldn’t find any of the parking people to payI Also, the sign says its $ 5 to park, and the $ goes to ‘charity’? Which charity? (not to mention, the word charity denotes ‘optional, or voluntary.’ This was mandatory). What a mess.
My husband and I started to wonder if they tell you the secret to getting in when you pay to park, because we literally could not find the entrance at first. Eventually, we found the spray painted signs that pointed to the ticket booth. We felt like idiots.
Everyone here was in their teens. I started to wonder how all of these kids could afford admission; it cost us an arm and a leg, even after downloading the online coupon (just Google spooky world coupon and they will give you the discount). The attractions were decent. I am easily startled, so they ‘got’ me a few times! I like scary stuff, so I though it was pretty good. Possibly scarier than the attractions: how many kids walk around in the dark, with their iphones glued to the end of their noses. Seriously. I was walked into more than once. Damn whippersnappers.
Even though there were things I didn’t like, I would go back. It wouldnt be cool for younger kids, though. There was lots of bloody gore, creepy clowns and zombies (real looking zombies, not the teen texters I mentioned).
Food was from carnival/​fair style food carts. $ 3 for a small fountain soda. At least it wasn’t $ 5, I guess.

People seem to think this place is associated with the old Spookyworld in Berlin. It isn’t. The trademark on the name expired and anyone is free to use it now.
I’d never been before and went with two friends who had. I was thoroughly unimpressed for various reasons I’ll bullet point.
–The 5 dollar parking goes to «charity» though this charity has no stated name and is not represented on the website in any way. So I’m calling flat out lie. If not, someone reading this from Mel’s should take the effort to better represent this charity.
— The prices are insane. $ 60 for a VIP ticket, $ 35 GA. Not remotely worth it.
— It’s not scary. At all. The lines are so huge they send 10 people through at a time. The problem with this is the actor gets to scare a group once. If you’re in the middle or back you get to wait in line to see people in front of you get the scare and walk by the guy.
–No theme to anything. The haunted manor has a guy in overalls, a clown, a woman in a masquerade mask, a werewolf. It’s a buffet of mix and match characters based on what costumes they bought and have to use.
It’s far too expensive, not scary and reeks of a money trap. The days of lawsuits and insurance liability has reduced most of these attractions to «look at me, I’m in a mask and breathing heavy while I stand here» instead of being able to chase people and care about the genuine scare. They’ve turned into more high budget theatrics and makeup and going over the top when places used to do more with less. The old Haunted Mansion at Victorian Park was a perfect example, smaller space, black cloaks, and genuine scares with somewhat thought out characters as opposed to blaring heavy metal and giant fog machines.
Witch’s Woods in Westford is as close as you’ll find in the area to the old time scare houses. While it’s not fantastic, it’s better, cheaper, and scarier than this high tech mess.

Halloween is not here yet, but the speed at which the summer flew away, it will be there before we know. Spooky world across the MA border is a fun place which has it’s clear cut positives and negatives. Here are my thoughts:
— Attractions
There are 5 different haunted houses /​sections that are set up to scare you with everything that you can imagine. Typically its a maze of one kind or another whether you are going through the Brigham Manor or walking through The Colony or the Raven’s Claw. Very dark all along the way, objects and people in costumes meant to scare you will come out of nowhere to meet the purpose of the whole experience. Even while walking through the grounds or while standing in the lines, these scary people will pop out of nowhere. Be prepared to be surprised.
— Also, be prepared for Long Lines!
If you are buying a general admission ticket (which most people will), on an average you will be in the line for at least 45 minutes to an hour. Going through each attraction won’t take more than 5 minutes. We could not do Carnage or the 3D Freak show because after getting in at 7pm (when they start letting people in the haunted houses cause it gets dark) — we were done with 3 attractions and didn’t have the energy or patience to try the other 2. You need to go there with the mindset that you will be standing for at least an hour if not more (given we didn’t even go there closer to the holiday itself). I am guessing these lines will be longer as Halloween approaches.
— Eating options once at the grounds
Quite a decent selection at the 3 or so food stands. Fried Dough is the obvious hit with most. Hot Dogs. Burgers. French Fries. There is also a restaurant right before the entrance to the grounds. As is the norm at most places, outside food is not allowed. On a side note, I was really SHOCKED at the lack of security check in at the entrance. We were Not checked for anything on person. So I guess people can easily bring in food and such. At one point while standing in the line, I was so famished, I wish I had a granola bar on me: o)
— Dance floor /​bar
Bang in the middle of the grounds is the eat /​drink /​have more fun section! That’s where there is a decent sized dancefloor in an open tent with a DJ (I think so. I didn’t join the teeny boppers shakin more than a leg or 2). The tunes were good and I almost did a Macarena — again — while standing in the line — when I heard the music coming from the tent. There is a big sign hanging at the front side of the tent which read — all in bold and in red — BEER. That’s it. I could see where the kids were getting their booze from.
— Value: General Admission ($ 35 a person), VIP /​Fast pass ticket ($ 60). I believe this place is good for people who are totally into Halloween. Did the haunted houses and the scary creatures scare me? No. But do I get scared while watching scary movies or when someone comes from behind and try to scare me and such. Not really. But I had a blast standing in the endless lines people watching and seeing all the commotion around, which consumed most of our time there. Would I go there again? Maybe or Maybe Not. I seriously wish they reduce the ticket prices and do something about the lines. This can be a big hit if they do away with the VIP tickets and make it one common entrance at an affordable price for all. Standing in lines forever to get done and over with each attraction makes no sense to me at all.
Would I recommend the place to family and friends? Only to some who I know will have a blast with the group they will be going and will be willing to make the drive all the way and will be ok with spending that kind of money. For now, 3.5 stars.
(** Spoiler Alert ** stop reading if you have decided to go anyway **) The only thing that I enjoyed the most was the end of the Colony where it is pitch dark and you can not see anything and you will have no option but to either touch the walls and figure out where one ends and where is the next turn and lead someone who is holding on to you or be at the mercy of someone who you are holding on to ahead of you. I think I had the most fun in those 3 minutes when I had to find my way out of the Colony. Also, I felt really bad to see a woman crying hysterically and almost having a nervous breakdown when a Clown came from behind and scared her. Clearly we all found out what she is scared of — the most!

It’s scary… how long the lines are. I’m literally writing this review while waiting in line… that’s how much spare time I have. The ticket process was God awful, as we already had tickets purchased but had to wait in the lime for verification anyways.
If lines terrify you, come to Spooky World. They won’t let you down.

This year the Spooky World attraction has taken a dive for the worst. The State Police were harassing everyone driving to the event which slowed down traffic to a crawl. Not fun if you are the one driving. We waited in the mud for 90 minutes in two lines to pass through the same attraction we saw last year but in more disrepair.
They tried to charge us $ 20 for parking. Don’t fall for it as you can park for $ 10 at another lot.

I went here on opening day, and had the buy one get one free tickets. I had a VIP ticket, and it was totally worth it, except for the fact it was $ 60. Luckily, since it was buy one get one free, it was only $ 30 for each of us, but to pay $ 60 a piece would have been absolute madness.
Caution — there is a fake parking place right before you get to Spooky World that charges $ 10 for parking. Keep driving past there and head to ACTUAL Spooky World, which charges only $ 5 for parking. The place next door is trying to cash in on Spooky World. Can’t say I blame them.
When we walked in they were making people take souvenir pictures and the line was huge! So we just walked around it and no one stopped us. Whatever.
We got wicked good sausage subs and fries. Pricey, but really good. Their food was carnival-​esque deliciousness. I got some fried dough on the way out with cinamon apples, chocolate, and powdered sugar, and some caramel apple cider. All of it was delicious.
There were six haunted houses advertised on the web site, but we only saw five. When we asked the staff, they swore up and down there was only five. Then I came back home and there were six on the web site. The manor and the bishop are together, the hospital is in the barn, the raven is in the woods, and the freak show is right where you walk in, but I never found the Colony, unless that, too, but tacked onto the manor and the bishop. If it was, I don’t think that was a good idea, because nobody knew that and it felt like I was getting ripped off.
Their beer was great, nice and cold and decently priced, but it felt like we were being put out to pasture as the only place we could drink was a small bonfire area. The bonfire was nice, though. We each had a jello shot which were adorable and delicious but could have been better themed.
I didn’t do the go karts because the line was waaay too long, same with the minigolf, but I couldn’t find the midway. Doesn’t really matter, I probably wouldn’t have used it anyway.
The houses were nice, a little short on some, but I’ve come to expect that from northern haunted houses. The 3D clown one was AWESOME, and the manor/​bishop one was long and spooky and just right. All the actors walking around were perfect. The scarers were perfectly timed, and the talking ones had just the right amount of humor and sass without going over the line.
All the staff was very helpful and nice, as were most of the workers I spoke with! All in all, I didn’t regret driving an hour and a half to get there.
I would definitely go here again if they lowered the price!

Okay … so Spookyworld costs about ½ what a ticket to Disneyworld does. And offers about ¹⁄₁₀^th of the fun. But, given that we are in New England and not Florida or California … its what we have to work with here. I will say that I think $ 25 would be a reasonable price to charge for what you get … a night out of the house in a crowded theme park environment. However, it costs more than that for tickets unless you find one of their coupon things.
The fact that they charge for parking is criminal. At $ 30+ per ticket, parking should be included … especially considering you are out in the cornfield burbs of New Hampshire. As I recall, even parking at Gillete Stadium was free when they used to do it there.
You will wait in line if you go during a peak weekend. But that is half the fun for me. I went on Halloween weekend a year ago and it sucked because we pretty much just walked up to the front of any line because nobody else was there. I actually like the anticipation of waiting in line and people watching. I’d never pay $ 30 extra to skip the lines.
This is MUCH better than witches woods or some of the other pretender parks. The haunted houses look more professional and you can tell that the props and costumes are of a much higher quality. Sure, its the same old, same old themes … phantom mine, 3-​D disco club, psychiatric institution, creepy mansion. But I will agree that though the houses seem small, the twists and turns you will go through make the houses seem much longer.
I hate the fact that they changed the hayride to a walking tour. I know that the hayrides did take a little longer to load and unload … but there’s just something about climbing onto that sputtering tractor and being driven through the woods. Its just not the same walking through a trail in the woods without a guide. Really takes the fun out of it and it is the only thing that falls short of Witches Woods. If they go back to the hayride (what Spookyworld became famous for) I will give it 4 or 5 stars.
I also miss the larger museum with props from horror movies … and the fact that they used to have an autograph section with people from horror movies, like Kane Hodder from a couple of the Friday the 13^th movies and Gunnar Hanson who played Leatherface once or twice. Seeing grizzled stunt men hit on the girls and make fun of the guys is always worth the price of admission.
Overall, it is overpriced (slightly) and the parking thing is criminal. You’ll also spend money on carnival food there … and they offer hot chocolate with peppermint schnappes and jello shots for sale at high prices. But overall, for a Halloween activity in New England, its not terrible. (Unless you are on a date and the bitch makes you pay for both tickets, which usually happens) Figure that picking a bag full of apples costs around $ 20 and doesn’t take as long.
If you haven’t been, I recommend you try it. I’d do Spookyworld over Witches Woods anytime. But if you hate drunken teenagers screaming, being loud and getting into fights … you might want to second guess going here with a family.