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xxxblackvelvetxxx
after attending on Saturday, October 14, 2006 at about 5 p.m.
Submitted: Sunday, October 15, 2006
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Signage / Visibility / Location
There is no address to get to the parking lot where you meet to get on the bus but the directions I was given were very clear and easy to find.
Wait Area / Line Entertainment
Does not apply
Most Unique
With a charge of only 5 dollars you get to save your gas money, you get free soda and snacks, and you get to participate in trivia games to win prizes.
Actors' Performance
Does not apply
Appropriate For
15 and up
Summary
The haunted bus run is a great idea to travel with a group of people and see more than one (very high scare factor)attraction. It saves you the driving and the gas. You also get to meet people from different areas.
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xxxblackvelvetxxx
after attending on Saturday, October 14, 2006 at about 9:15 p.m.
Submitted: Sunday, October 15, 2006
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Signage / Visibility / Location
The place was easy to find because there was so much traffic going on in the parking lot and there was a big ticket booth and herse in the front.
Wait Area / Line Entertainment
The waiting area was huge and there was so much commotion going on beyond it that it kept everyone interested.
Every once in a while one of the actors would be peeking through and scaring people, so it wasn't as boring as most lines. Beyond the ropes they divide the groups and lock us in cages which I thought was a great idea to just kind of bring in a claustraphobia scare right off the beginning.
Most Unique
There were a few rooms that you could tell had a lot of money put into them for instance there was room full of body parts and soom of them moved. It was very eerie looking and different.
Actors' Performance
The actors were decent, nothing real out of the ordinary. I think a lot of them don't realize that they can go farther before they reach the boundary of a customer's space to scare people.
They didn't use many props around them to their advantage to make each room interesting and different, but in place of that there was more decorations to make up for some of the lack of acting. I appreciated seeing more make up than masks though because it shows that more work went into it then costumes. I also appreciated seeing flexible actors who didn't just hide and walk around but actually crawled around.
Appropriate For
13 and up
Summary
It was decent but I still think the more the actors the better the scare. If there is too much of a lag between scenery and scare it wrecks the whole mood. I'd be interested in going another year just to see the change and possible improvements
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xxxblackvelvetxxx
after attending on Saturday, October 14, 2006 at about 7 p.m.
Submitted: Sunday, October 15, 2006
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Signage / Visibility / Location
The Mars House had absolutely no signage at all so it was a good thing that we were on a bus with a driver who knew where they were going otherwise we'd never find it. It was in a quite urban part of Milwaukee and was right next to a liquor store that seemed quite active at night. The people who worked there had no back entrance to come in through so we saw most of them walk around the block to come in. Many were in make up just walking around smoking which was kind of a spoiler.
Wait Area / Line Entertainment
We showed up early and were first so there was no real wait. It's an outside wait around the building if you do have to though. No entertainment before you get in but once you get to the ticket booth up the stairs it's quite cramped and unorganized. One negative thing I experience was that the lady working in the ticket booth was very rude and had no patiencs. I think she needs to take in the factor that people come a long way and spend a lot of hardworked money to come to their little haunted house that lasts at most 15 minutes so they need to show some respect.
Most Unique
There was a clown room that had a slow moving strobe light and it made the movements of the actors unexpected. There was not only the visual and the actor elements but they did wall air shoot outs, banging under the floor, and banging on the walls.
Actors' Performance
This place had a lot going on at every corner. They had just enough people to cover the area and in some areas an abundance. The special effects were really good and the actors scare timing was right on. For the second show of the night they were prepaired and ready for us.
Appropriate For
13 and up
Summary
I would definitely recommend this place if you're looking for a good scare and I would go back next year to see if they keep up the scare.
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Please note: this review is for the 2006 season rather than the current season.
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xxxblackvelvetxxx
after attending on Saturday, October 14, 2006 at about 8 p.m.
Submitted: Sunday, October 15, 2006
Review
Signage / Visibility / Location
Concidering the fact that it was out in the boonies/middleofnowhere doesn't make it easy to find in the first place. For such a big place it was quite dark. There was a sign in the front however that only said pumpkins and haunted corn maze which was confusing because we came for the haunted manor, so we thought we had the wrong place. There was also initially nowhere for our bus to park.
Wait Area / Line Entertainment
Don't let the ticket line fool you because once you pass through it you'll be ringin around the ropes for a while in line. It seemed like many people were confused as to which was the line for the manor and which was the line for the cornmaze. But whichever line you end up in it ends up painfully long because everyone's in the dark and there is nothing to do but stare and the same people who pass you over and over again.
Most Unique
There were a lot of neat props but that was all it had going for it. So much space but no one to fill it. There was a cool courtyard area in the beginning but once again no action in it. There was a cockroach room which I ended up seeing at another house so who knows who copied who but the redundace of that and the babydoll rooms and the clown rooms seemed to get old.
Actors' Performance
Concidering there wasn't many actors it's hard to judge. There was so much money put into the place that perhaps they didn't have any left over to pay people to work there? And the ones who did were quite timid and gave up on scaring after the first try. Main problem though was that you can't make up for live actors with plastic corpses.
Appropriate For
10 and up
Summary
I wouldn't go back but if you got nothing better to do, it's at least worth it to see the decorations inside.
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