My last Blackout review ever.
The original and first extreme haunted house experience: Blackout is counting down on their final shows of their large scale Halloween haunt here in NYC. So this is probably the last time I write about it.
Blackout is like an old friend who wants to reminisce about the old glory days, nostalgia the fuck out of doing wild and crazy shit and immersing yourself in being the protagonist of your own horror movie. It's the originator of WTF, sexual depravity and waiver hesitation. There is nothing like going to a random street in NYC, seeing that door with 3 dots and saying, "Oh shit." Seeing the faces of frightened newbies and relaxed past survivors is mesmerizing. A Blackout experience is a story waiting to be told to friends and having them go "You fuckin did what?"
And so I went again. To get my Blackout on.
And this last run of The Blackout Experience is full of the crazy, the depraved, the WTF and the horror nostalgia of its last 10 years. As a veteran, I classified it as a hits parade of the best it has to offer. For the uninitiated, it can offer an alternative to the traditional HH and give you a merit badge of surviving an "extreme haunted house. It's for these reasons, anybody who is up to the challenge should experience it.
This years version had all the classics of intense touching, crawling and suffocation. It had scenes from years past resulting in ridiculous interactions with full frontal nudity acting and play acting as a serial killer victim. There was also new scenes of insane which was refreshing. You'll laugh as your jerked around from room to room, you'll have to walk through a landmine of icky and be yelled at to follow instructions to a tee.
The ending will stimulate and then you'll get your party on.
It's always a challenge of what will work and what won't. My perspective on Blackout 10 is that I am clearly jaded and having been through the mass Halloween version and off season haunts so nothing phases me anymore. But I still get thrills and chills every time I go. In retrospect, I now began to appreciate the sheer assembly line dedication of the Blackout team, the actors and everybody who gets this up and running every night they perform. Each scene/room has Blackout dialing up things to a 10 be it with simulated torture, then dials it back to an interactive format that makes you go WTF, then revs it up again to get all confused.
Blackout is choreographed engineered chaos and horror that will 100% leave its experience like a splinter in your brain.
When I went in 2010, I was a full on horror blogging and haunted house enthusiast. I wanted to challenge myself to to see the most fucked up horror movies and go to fucked up haunted houses.
My memories of going to my first Blackout were full of dread and happiness when I finished. To say
I did it was an accomplishment. I survived.
I did it was an accomplishment. I survived.
I survived...
the haunted house with a safe word....
the one where you had to sign the waiver...
the one with simulated torture....
the one with sexual imagery....
the one with immersive horror scenes....
That is the legend of horror house lore that is Blackout.
From one of my other reviews, this still holds true.
Blackout Haunted House is the haunted house other haunted houses are afraid of. But it hasn't lost it's edge. Blackout continues to remove you out of your normal world, scars you with imagery you will have dreams and nightmares about for days to come and if you survive it, welcomes you in becoming part of the scariest and challenging horror events you will ever go through. Because of Blackout, I will never see a haunted house the same way again. You won't either.
The Vitals
Blackout Haunted House Reviews
From one of my other reviews, this still holds true.
Blackout Haunted House is the haunted house other haunted houses are afraid of. But it hasn't lost it's edge. Blackout continues to remove you out of your normal world, scars you with imagery you will have dreams and nightmares about for days to come and if you survive it, welcomes you in becoming part of the scariest and challenging horror events you will ever go through. Because of Blackout, I will never see a haunted house the same way again. You won't either.
The Vitals
Blackout Haunted House Reviews
- Blackout: House Review (2014)
- Blackout: Elements Review (2013)
- Blackout Haunted House Review (2012)
- Blackout Haunted House Review (2011)
- Vortex Theater's NYC Halloween Haunted House Review (2010)
Blackout Haunted House Walkthroughs
- Blackout Haunted House Walkthrough and Spoilers (2012)
- Blackout Haunted House Walkthrough and Spoilers (2011)
- Vortex Theater's NYC Halloween Haunted House Walkthrough and Spoilers (2010)
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