Ratings Legend (1 skull) – Poor (2 skulls) – Average (3 skulls) – Good (4 skulls) – Excellent (5 skulls) – Best of the best! USS Nightmare: Newport, KY Curb AppealScare FactorActor EnthusiasmCreativity 5.004.004.504.50 Hank As a seasoned haunt enthusiast with almost 20 years of reviewing experience, I love coming back to the USS Nightmare for a truly unique thrill! With such a unique venue and location, the setting is second to none. The old boat gives you chills before you even step aboard. USS Nightmare gives you a much longer than average experience. The length of the haunt is outstanding, but they don’t sacrifice quality in being one of the longest haunts I have toured. Each section of the boat is perfectly dark, creepy, and full of scares around each turn. The professionalism of the actors, costumes, and makeup always impress me. The USS Nightmare is a perfect blend of live actors, props, and lighting. What USS Nightmare gets right where so many other haunts fail is they build you up to each scare. You have many dark areas where you can barely see, and can either hear or see outlines of someone stalking you, but you aren’t quite sure where or when they will come out. They build the suspense extremely well, and really make you experience the fear of the unknown. USS Nightmare has continued to maintain its place as one of the premiere haunted attractions, and I would definitely recommend making a stop there during the 2014 haunt season! Frightmaster This is one of our favorite haunts in the tristate and continues to impress with new scares each year. We visited the USS Nightmare on a dark, foggy Wednesday evening and that mixed with the spectral image of the derelict boat sitting by the edge of the riverbank gave me chills before I even approached...

This is Sandyland Acres’ 9th year of scaring and it really has gotten better each year. This is absolutely one of the Frightmaster’s favorite haunts in the tri-state for a couple of reasons – they have an awesome knowledge of horror and horror movies and a feel for what scares people – really scares them and not just what startles teeny-boppers.

This one hasn’t been around long, so it doesn’t have all the production of some of the professional haunts out there. It is inexpensive, and even though the lines are long and slow, Beetlejuice was playing to entertain guests and the wait was inside, which is nice for those cold, rainy nights.

The frightfest that is Culbertson Mansion is a well kept secret in the New Albany, IN/Louisville area. The haunt takes place in a huge old carriage house behind a mansion that is really supposed to be haunted. Limited by only the space of the carriage house itself, the folks at Culbertson Mansion put on one of the best shows we’ve seen in quite a while!

Industrial Terrorplex has always been one of our favorite haunts and certainly the longest haunt in the Louisville area. It’s well worth the price of admission as one can spend upwards of two hours going through all the haunts. The night we were there the wait line snaked back almost a block from the door so get there early if you don’t want to wait. Great haunt! Highly recommend to all haunt enthusiasts!

I enjoyed The Devils Attic very much. The outside show is a must see! While you are waiting to enter the haunt you can also get your group’s picture taken and check it out online. As soon as you enter the haunt you meet Beelzebub himself who sets the tone fpr the rest of your trip through hell.

We returned to 2013’s Frightmaster award winner and were NOT disappointed!

This is one hell of an extreme haunted house. It’s also the only haunt where I have seen people come back out the front door after literally 1 or 2 minutes of being inside. This haunt is not for the weak-willed or maybe even the physically weak.

Necropolis is a huge haunt in an old factory on the edge of Indianapolis. The location and foreboding exterior makes the approach creepy. Once inside, though, you feel like you stepped into just a deserted factory.

Great haunt! All the staff very friendly and the actors did a great job! Lot of originality and just an overall different feel than most haunts. The entrance to the building has room for improvement and in the entrance where you wait – one positive is that most of your waiting time is indoors so it makes it nice when it’s cold outside!

Our good friend Tom has been hosting Fright Manor for longer than any other haunt in the tri-state. It’s grown from operating in a high school auditorium to five spine-chilling haunts taking up an entire building and then some. The actors are trained for months ahead of time and are some of the best we’ve seen anywhere! The creativity and value is excellent – where some haunts are charging up to $20 for just one haunt – Tom only charges $20 for all five! That’s $4 a haunt, people!