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| - I've gone to Scarehouse almost every year it's been opened and look forward to it every year. This year's trip was just OK.
We went on a Sunday night and know the golden rule of "Buy your tickets online" so you can wait in a short line. The staff is efficient at keeping things moving and spacing groups out the best they can.
There are 3 parts to Scarehouse: The Foresaken, Creepo's X-mas in 3D and Pittsburgh Zombies. The Foresaken is like a normal haunted house. It had scene from a carnival and then you were inside a house. I'm not sure if there is a "story," but it works with some decent scares, but there could've been more and seemed like some were missing. Forgive the pun, but there was a lot of dead space in scenes where scare could have happened.
After the Foresaken you reach Creepos and are handed a pair of 3D glasses. You meet Creepo right away and it kinda throws things off as you see elves and other surprised thru this section and they just say "Creepo is coming." I kept thinking, "We all ready saw him so what's the point?" Creepos replaced Delerium which was another 3D section which was as scarey, but cool and funny and had an awesome puppet. Creepos X-mas to me was a huge miss and a disappointment.
The third part was Pittsburgh Zombies. It's just like you think, Zombies take over Pittsburgh. It had some fun seens, but few scares.
Eventhough I was disappointed in this trip to Scarehouse, I will return as they switch out one part everyyear for something new, base on the pattern The Foresaken will go away, next year, but I hope they rethink the 3D section and restructure it. I was will friends who usually end up crying at the end and they are in their late 20s. This year it was "Eh it was OK. Cool, but not frightening."
The scenes are well crafted and high quality. The lighting is great, but in the end the scare were not there.
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