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| - Consider me jaded, but if the Goretorium's goal is to become THE adult haunted house in the nation, they've got a long road ahead.
First of all, the place is pretty damn expensive for a 15 minute Vegas attraction, definitely moreso than haunted houses in general. They say it is an "experience" and that you can take your time to truly enjoy the haunt. That's bullshit, considering every single set piece actor basically tells you to go ahead after their done with their act.
It seems the Goretorium wants to attract based on a pedigree of violence. The problem is haunted houses have been springing up all over the country based on the same premise; most notably Chambers of Horror in Atlanta, GA. If the Goretorium came around during the height of Roth's popularity, circa 2005, this would have been a new experience. Instead it's just another name on the list of "adult" haunts.
What really disappointed me was that I assumed this would be an amazing experience. Everything on Vegas is blown to larger-than-life proportion, so I naturally assumed a brand new haunted house in Vegas done by a recognized genre director would really set the pace.
It didn't.
I really don't want to spoil things, but there are a TON of just lazy special effects and poorly thought-out set pieces. I'll give a few pretty obvious examples.
- In the very beginning of the haunt, there are two elevator shafts they tell you to avoid. Two big problems here: the illusion of an actual elevator shaft is easily discernible by wear around the edge of the mirror that is set into the wall. You basically see the border of the trick, so to speak. In addition, there is a light elevated about 10 feet into the shaft. It perfectly reflects 10 feet below the shaft. When trying to trick someone, you draw attention AWAY from the product causing the illusion, not TO it. This should be really dark, dark enough for you to casually look and think it is a real elevator shaft you might fall down,
- There are two set pieces where a bride gets her armed ripped off and a woman gets her head ripped off. The problem is they just sort of pull and off it goes. There isn't any force behind it. It's just lazy. On top of that, the bride has a slight mist of water that sprays out from literally the opposite direction she's standing at. Why would I get sprayed from the left from an action that happened to my right?
- There is a fairly cool set piece right afterwards of a zombie attack of the dinner party. There are all these cool gory dinner meals that have maggots on them. The maggots are a light filter above. There is no sense of dimension obviously.
- There is what I can only describe as a "tunnel of guts". Netherworld and tons of other haunted houses have the same thing, a spinning tunnel that is meant to make you nauseous by creating an optical illusion in the tunnel that messes with your depth perception. In addition, they usually mechanically shake the bridge to make it worse. There is no optical illusion with this that I can tell, just a spinning wall of meat you walk through on a fixed bridge.
- There is a reliance on LCD screens for WAY too many things, from the ticket line to the exit. The act that occurs in the elevator is totally ruined by the all-too-obvious glow of LCDs. I can only describe it as that awkward feeling when you see bad CG in a movie.
Now, on a positive note, the exit is actually pretty cool. I can only describe it as you being birthed to the exit which leads to an overpriced bar and a cool wall of severed baby heads on saws..
Frankly the best part was an awesome white t-shirt with a bloody stain around the neck. You can buy that online. If you're a real horror fanatic like I am, maybe if you have nothing better to do you can see it once just to say you did it. Otherwise, save your money.
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