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2014 Star Ratings
This list is not meant to be used to compare one haunted attraction to another. The star system (1 – 5 stars) is merely meant to reflect how well I felt each individual haunt executed their particular show. Haunted attractions are a unique breed of entertainment and the quality of a show can vary from night to night, hour to…
Sinister Infusion Fuels Resurgent Realm of Darkness
The midnight hour loomed large as we approached the entrance for The Realm of Darkness and the cold air seemed to bite down into our very bones. This would be our seventh trip through the wizard’s dominion and the final haunted attraction of the 2014 Halloween season. BOWBEE COME TO DWELL INSIDE HOUSE OF NIGHTMARES 3D Our first order of…
Weird Mishmash Spurs The Crypt
The Crypt was just about to close up shop when we pulled into the parking lot which meant that John and I had the distinction of being the last people to pass through its hallowed halls for the 2014 haunt season. The Crypt, as we first discovered during a Halloween visit in 2011, held a strange mixture of scenes…
St. Lucifer’s Haunted Asylum, 13 Feet Under Form Formidable Double Feature
We rolled into the parking lot of Playland Park accompanied by an encroaching frost, but winter’s icy grip hadn’t discouraged thrill seekers who were lined up outside St. Lucifer’s Haunted Asylum. It was a heart-warming sight and the shot in the arm John and I needed in our quest for a record-setting night of fright. While we waited in line…
Exit 13 Burns Hot during Frostbitten Finale
When John and I set out to make Horrorlust history last November 2nd it would be amidst some seriously frigid weather that threatened to sap the last burst of energy the 2014 haunt season had to offer, but as we were about to discover the lovable loonies at Exit 13 would have none of that. Our adventure began when we…
Crafting A Dark Legacy
When Dark Legacy appeared in the Fear Finder and Haunt Guide last fall with full page advertisements it was clear that somebody wasn’t playing around. The mysterious haunted attraction was new to the Detroit scene but all indicators suggested that it was being organized and operated by anything but a rookie. Located in Wixom, Michigan, Dark Legacy featured three haunted attractions…
Season Concludes with Devil’s Night Frenzy
In this edition of Hallowblog Flashback, we stir the memory of a chilly, rainswept night that would forever raise the bar for Devil’s Night. Originally posted on Monday, November 2, 2009 this entry detailed our journey through Hellblock 13 in Wyandotte, The Realm of Darkness in Pontiac and The Haunted Farm of Terror in Lenox Township. Despite such an action-packed…
Hush Evolved
On Devil’s Night 2013, we visited a rookie haunted attraction located in Westland, Michigan known simply as Hush. The experience was a memorable one and Hush would go on to be named the 2013 Horrorlust Haunt of the Year. As fate would have it, we would return one year to the day and test our will against Dr. Phineas Phun…
Somnambulism at the Sinner’s Ball
This edition of Hallowblog Flashback recalls a Word of the Week entry originally posted on Monday, October 26, 2009. The title of this entry was taken from some lines I had jotted down for a poem during the spring of 2007. The poem was never finished but I do remember that the lines were partly inspired by the song “The…
Jason’s Curse, Ohio Haunts Highlight Night
In this edition of Hallowblog Flashback, we relive a notable night of haunting in the Buckeye State. Originally posted on Sunday, October 25, 2009 this entry documented a rather interesting and amusing excursion to Terror Town in Maumee and The Haunted Hydro in Fremont. Terror Town’s House of the Dead would go on to win the 2009 Horrorlust Killer Automatons…
Wicked Ways on Tunneled Paths
This Word of the Week entry blinked into existence on Monday, October 19, 2009. The third installment of the Halloween themed WOTW has a lot of descriptions, enjoy. wicked [wi-ked] – adjective: morally bad: evil, sinful; fierce, vicious
Chaos at Deadly, Serendipitous Rain
This edition of Hallowblog Flashback was originally posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 and chronicled a most memorable night of haunting at two Michigan attractions. Deadly Intentions would go on to win the 2009 Horrorlust Monster Award and also received an honorable mention for the Horrorlust Pulse Pounder Award. It was Bowbee’s Nightmare at Haunted Hollows, the other attraction we visited…
Haunted Hexad Fuels Wiard’s Night Terrors
The air was dry, the sky was clear and the revelers were out in throngs to experience the haunted happenings that Wiard’s Night Terrors had to offer. Less than 24 hours ago I had been in the Cleveland, Ohio area to tour both The Fear Experience and Bloodview and now I stood in Ypsilanti, Michigan on the threshold of six…
Pallor of the Waning Light
This Word of the Week entry was originally posted Monday, October 12, 2009. In it, I waxed philosophical on Bram Stoker’s Dracula and George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. So many of our favorite ghouls, goblins, creeps, and freaks owe part of their terrible appeal to this week’s word. Where would Count Dracula be if he hadn’t featured…
Bloodview Burns White Hot with Witch Trials
Our return to Bloodview Haunted House last October felt, in some ways, like a homecoming. Just two years prior we had embarked on our maiden sojourn to the Butcher of Broadview Heights and had come away spellbound. This time around we found ourselves at the threshold of terror on a cold and wet Friday night. As we passed through the…
Zombies Everywhere, Haunt Schedule
This installment of Hallowblog Flashback was originally posted Friday, October 9, 2009. In this entry I wrote about some horror and science fiction of the day; there’s also a dash of haunt schedule speculation included for good measure. In addition to that, this entry detailed our plans for a fateful night of haunting, plans that were altered in a most…
Horrorlust Radio Episode #009
In episode #009 of Horrorlust Radio, I’m joined by friend and artist, Stefani Lawrence. In this installment of Horrorlust Radio, Stefani and I discussed her experience as an artist from sources of inspiration and current projects to her involvement with The CikNis and a fixation with birds. This episode also featured another installment of Nightmare Fuel, in which Stefani shared…
Trio of Downriver Haunts Spark Season
Few nights of haunting contain three separate attractions as enjoyable as those we experienced in this post from Thursday, October 8, 2009. And as you’ll read we were in desperate need of such a night after suffering a disappointment of historic proportions just one week earlier. It pains me to say that all three of these haunted attractions are no…
Insignia Shrouded Culture
This Word of the Week entry was originally posted on Monday, October 5, 2009. This Halloween season we start with a word that can represent many things but for our purposes it signifies those iconic symbols of horror that make us shudder throughout the year. insignia [in-sig-ne-e] – noun: a distinguishing mark especially of authority or honor.
Disappointment Ravages Opening Night
This entry was originally posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 and is the infamous chronicle of our highly disappointing journey to Jackson’s Underworld and subpar return to the Homer Mill. I hadn’t slept much on the day in question and did experience a memorable hallucination as we drove home that night; as we approached an underpass on the expressway I witnessed…
