My Haunted House whirlwind tour continued at the Franklin Mills Mall. This was another three-attractions-in-one deal, so I will review each independently! 1) The first thing was some sort of generic haunted series of hallways. People in masks jumped out at you and yelled. Good parts: the bloody car accident girl holding the severed head that had a moving mouth, the trio of ghouls that followed us for 5 minutes offering three dollars to buy Maggie from me. Bad parts: the actors were pretty unprofessional. Maggie made one of them laugh by saying something about monkeys, and we snuck up on one ghoul guy who then said, "Oh man. Didn't hear you coming. That's a blooper reel." And one other dude took his mask off and talked about how hot it was. 2) "The Dark Room" - this was another series of hallways, but it only had a few people lurking in it. Mostly, it was just pitch black. I found it mostly annoying, because it was really long and I could only take so much blind navigation with my hands. Also, whenever you encounted an actor, they shined a flashlight in your eyes and blinded you, which made it even harder to move around. My verdict: too long, too little variety, needed to have dead silence with some heavy breathing noises for optimum effect. 3) I will call it "Slut Sideshow" - it was a guided tour where teenage girls from philly in bondage clothes walked you through maybe 4 or 5 rooms that had little skits with special effects. Stuff like a kid getting hanged, a girl getting a knife through her arm, people getting whipped, hands chopped off, etc. This was my favorite part because of 2 dudes who kept following us around. One was totally dressed like the bridgekeeper from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. And the other was sort of hunchbacky. They were pretty funny. Overall: Meh. Largely unprofessional staff (stay in character, dammit!) and not a ton of scary. Mostly just funny-because-it-was-lame. They also have a website: http://www.scarebrothers.com/. |