Please note: this review is for the 2010 season rather than the current season.
by CC2 (Newbie Review Crew Member) after attending on Friday, October 15, 2010 at about 3:30 p.m.
Submitted: Sunday, October 17, 2010
Creative, innovative, intimate, imaginative and startling.
This year's House of Bathory is darkly themed around the recent Alice in Wonderland movie, and its characters and sets represent that story nicely.
This is the first and only haunt I've visited this season that holds one theme throughout, and that made the trip through it very different and enjoyable.
The journey through the house takes you through multiple rooms on different floors that will bring you into direct interactions with the principle characters of Alice in Wonderland, except with startling twists and turns. They aren't quite what you saw on screen anymore.
Your trip through the House of Bathory is at a leisurely pace and staff do a good job of creating distance between tour groups so that you may not run into one another.
Visitors should be aware that some crawling and climbing throughout your tour is required.
Concessions and restroom facilities are provided at an adjacent shop.
On my visit, we did not experience any in line entertainment, but I have read that it occurs.
In particular, I have to make mention of the Alice character that cheerily greeted us when we entered the house who giggled and skipped as she led us through the haunt.
Also remarkable were the Tweedle Dee and Tweedly Dum performers who affected nice British accents and shared amusing rhymes as we walked through their area.
I don't ordinarily like a lot of dialogue from performers at houses as I don't feel they add a lot to the experience, but with this particular theme the remarks of the performers complimented the experience nicely.
The creators of the house did a remarkable job of making a coherent portrayal of the Alice in Wonderland theme and did a nice job of developing the story as you pass through the haunt.
Make up and costuming were well done. Keep an eye out for the very impressive caterpillar.
I appreciated the costuming and dialogue of the characters in various points of the trip and there are some surprise scares that follow those words.
There is a glowing sensory effect in the middle of the tour that is probably what I would consider most remarkable if limited to one pick.
April 26th, 2024 9:29 a.m. CDT 24.07
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