The Jaded Viewer Guide to NYC Haunted Houses

courtesy of Blackout Haunted House Happy Halloween fellow jaded viewers! If you survived the Frankenstorm, got your super duper costume ready to go and want to add a NYC haunted house to your night, here are all my reviews of each the best haunted houses in the city. **HURRICANE SANDY UPDATE** ***Unfortunately, most of these haunted houses will be closed on Halloween. Be sure to check out their official sites and Facebook pages to see when...

Categories: blackout haunted house, blood manor, halloween, happy halloween, haunted house, new york city, nightmare haunted house, nyc haunted house, times scare

American Mary (Review)

American Mary American Mary (2012) Directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska Before I begin this review, I think I have to let you know about how I got acquainted with the Soska Sisters. I found their trailer for Dead Hooker in a Trunk, thought it was cool and blogged about it.  Little did I know they'd write me back, send me a screener and an awesome personalized note to boot and then down the road to top it all off, they put my quote from my review...

Categories: 2012 horror movies, american mary, canada, canadian horror, dead hooker in a trunk, dead hooker in a trunk trailer, independent cinema, indie film, indie horror, soska sisters

Times Scare 2012 (Review)

courtesy of The Jaded Viewer Facebook page As I work near Times Square, when Times Scare opened up it kinda jumped on my radar. Last year, they seemed to be rushing to get everything ready for Halloween. There were a few hiccups but the haunted house was surprisingly solid (check out my review last year). When you're open all year round, I can imagine it would be a little hard to get the same enthusiasm and excitement in say February. I'm sure...

Categories: halloween, happy halloween, haunted house, new york city, nyc haunted house, times scare, times square

SAFETY is not an option: Blackout Haunted House Memories

I'm not sure where you're reading this. You're probably in Los Angeles or NYC trying to read up on this haunted house and what to expect. You Googled the shit out of Blackout and my blog kept coming the fuck up. Well hello there you sick bastard. In an odd twist, the rise in popularity of Vortex Productions Blackout Haunted House has somehow made The Jaded Viewer, something of an unofficial biographer of "the haunted house other haunted houses...

Categories: blackout, blackout haunted house, halloween, happy halloween, haunted house, los angeles, new york city, nyc halloween haunted house, nyc haunted house

Then She Fell (Review)

Courtesy of Then She Fell The haunted houses that populate NYC in October specialize in either cattling herds into quick scares or giving you their undivided attention as they mock you. Sometimes you need a break from the dash and slash and want something different. I experienced Steampunk Haunted House years back and though the sets were wonderful and different, it did not have an everyman feel. I felt a little out of my element struggling to...

Categories: alice in wonderland, broadway, haunted house, new york city, play, steampunk, steampunk haunted house, theater, then she fell

Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios (Review)

via The Jaded Viewer Sometimes a change of scenery is nice to break the monotony of work. And sometimes the playgrounds are just cooler on the other side. I visited Los Angeles last week and had to choose between some various cool haunted houses. Haunted Play: Delusion, Blumhouse of Horrors, Knotts Scary Farm, Queen Mary Dark Harbor. Delusion was sold out and the others had something that would be cool. But I settled on going to Universal Studios...

Categories: halloween, happy halloween, haunted house, los angeles, texas chainsaw massacre, the walking dead, universal studios, walking dead

Blackout Haunted House 2012 (Review)

courtesy of Blackout Haunted House Well a lot has happened since I posted my 2011 review of Blackout Haunted House. Blackout made the front page of Reddit and my review in turn did as well. My walk through from 2010 and 2011 was massively dissected by Redditors, message boards and readers all across the world and is now the single most viewed posts in my entire blog. I've been posting about Blackout since 2010. I've been to two October haunts ...

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KILLERS: A Nightmare Haunted House 2012 (Review)

"It's just a nightmare, let's put it that way. It's been a nightmare for a long time, even before I was caught … for years now, obviously my mind has been filled with gruesome, horrible thoughts and ideas … a nightmare." -Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer You aren't going to NOT get a controversy when you open up a haunted house based upon history's most notorious serial killers. That's what Tim Haskell has been thinking about since it was announced....

Categories: haunted house, killers, new york city, nightmare fairy tales, nightmare haunted house, nightmare superstitions, nightmare vampires, nyc halloween haunted house, nyc haunted house, serial killer movie

Blood Manor 2012 (Review)

Well I've now attended Blood Manor for 4 consecutive years. You'd think I'd be jaded now but Blood Manor seems to change up things every year which is always a plus. Jimmy Lorenzo, Jim Faro and Mike Rodriguez have a reputation of running a well oiled haunted house and it's well deserved. In years past they have outside acts consisting of painful torture and contortionists to keep the crowd entertained and it will be brought back this year. Who...

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