Welcome back
for another installment of Halloween Haunts 365.com. Tonight we visit the
Zombie World Theme park at Shocktoberfest.
Before we
start the review, let us take a look back at some of the Haunted Attractions we
have covered. Looking back on this seasons adventures, we remember all the
great nights we had visiting these amazing Haunted Attractions. As well as
watching this site grow from five to ten views a day to up to thousands a day.
We really cannot thank everyone that helped make that possible enough.
Looking back
on the crazy adventures through Haunts of all kinds, we really enjoyed this
season and we will keep the season alive throughout the year. Keep it here for
one of a kind interviews, previews, behind the scenes looks, Horror Conventions
and More.
This year we
were able to cover Field of Screams, Terror Behind the Walls, Bloodshed Farms,
Frightland, Camp Evans Base of Terror, Pennhurst Asylum, Valley of Fear,
Brighton Asylum and Shocktoberfest. Not to mention the three home haunts we
will be covering this weekend including, Nightmare on 2nd Street in
Delanco NJ and Psycho Trail right in Blackwood NJ. So our reviews are not over
yet!
With twelve
reviews for the first year, we are looking to grow by double for 2017. So like
we always say at HH365, if there is a Haunt, we are there. Please reach out to
us. Anytime. The email is read every day and we can always make something
happen. Big or small, if you want us to review your haunt just click
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Now let us
get into the very unique Zombie World at Shocktoberfest.
Zombie World
is setup a lot like Jurassic World. Except instead of Dinosaurs they have
Zombies for the world to see. We really enjoyed the park as a whole. With great
stores and setups, you can really spend the entire night in this theme park.
Like pictured below, a pretty good band was playing and entertaining some
guests before or after they got to go through the Zombie Zoo.
Zombie World
is made up of a few attractions.
Ground
Assault Zombie Laser Tag. This attraction takes you right into your favorite
first person shooter games. You are given a high powered multi optional
tactical laser gun to control the heard of zombies trying to escape Zombie
World. We did not try this attraction but did hear nothing but great things
about it. This is a timed ticketed attraction with limited tickets available.
Shocktoberfest recommends you register online for this attraction.
Next
attraction we saw walking through Zombie World was The Zombie Night Run.
Most Haunts
have this event but not nightly like Shocktoberfest. You are given a flag
football belt that represents your Brain, Heart and Entrails, then you run for
your life through the hayride trails that are filled with Zombies looking to
eat. Very Cool idea. We saw some of this live and looked like fun. Not a
runner? That’s fine as well as long as you keep moving. There are two waves of
this event a night. One kicks off at 7pm and the other wave starts at the end
of the evening.
Now let’s
get to the meat of our review, our first walk through of the evening. The
Unknown 2.0.
The Unknown
2.0 starts off in a staging area where you get to watch a 3-D introduction to
the attraction. This attraction is setup where you are test subjects of a Crazy
Scientist researching fears that people have. That is where the fun begins.
After your introductory video, you enter the walk through. We really don’t like
to give anything away but the first room in this attraction was incredible. The
team that built this must have had the patience of a saint to get all of that
in there. We needed to shout out the creativity and originality of that room
that tests peoples fear of clutter. I was pretty sure my neat freak Vice
President was going to go into convulsions. As you continue on through the
attraction there is a ton of very original and great scares around every
corner. The one miss for myself was that some of the actors gave themselves
away before performing the scare. I could see or hear movement before the drop
window came down or an animatronic set off. Gave away the scare factor, but
still didn’t take anything away from this great attraction. Also with the
Unknown 2.0, You can add to the fear by doing the walk through in just your
underwear. Yes, you read that correctly. Just check out the website for
details. Let
us get to the scoring.
The next
journey for the team in Zombie World was Zombie Safari Co. Adventure Hayride
Tours.
Zombie
World’ s version of the Haunted Hayride. As you enter the staging area, you get
the main story of the Zombie World tale. After receiving your instructions and
goals for the attraction, you head on out to board the Safari carts. This
extremely long hayride takes you through what it takes to create and control
the zombies created at Zombie World. As we said in the opening line, this
hayride was very long but very good. Every scene added a prop or scare for the
entire cart with more than just actors providing jump scares. Great use of the
continuing story line as you entered scene to scene. This was one of the most
impressive Hayrides of the season for the team, but like the Unknown 2.0 some
actors came out prematurely and lowered the scare level just a bit. But again,
did not take much away from the wonderfully designed hayride. Another cool feature with this hayride was the combined paintball and regular hayride. Most Haunts have a whole different trip for the paintball attraction. Not here. Every customer experiences the same hayride. Here is how we
voted for the Zombie Safari.
Now it is
time for HH365’s favorite attraction of the night. The Prison of the Dead
This
attraction starts you off boarding a prison bus.
Full metal
cages blocking in the very dark windows. Creates the feeling that you are
really going to prison. Then out of the caged windows you see the search
spotlight on top of the prison watch tower. After leaving the bus, you are met
by a member of Zombie World that provides instruction and some more Zombie
World details before you begin your tour of the prison. Then your journey
begins. As you tour through the now condemned Willow Glen State Penitentiary,
you will see where Zombie World has renovated the facility to hold zombies for
you to see up close.
Now this
attraction is a symbol of everything an attraction should be. This was an
extremely detailed, original, very long haunted attraction. With amazing use of
lighting, your hardcore writer jumped out of his shoes in this attraction. My
hat goes off to the young man working the boiler room in prison of the dead.
Very impressive. The entire prison tests your entire imagination. From a
walk through on a school bus to trying to figure out which way to go. The Prison
of the dead was a non-stop fear factory, pouring out scares at every crazy
turn. This was a perfect attraction in our books. With no surprise, here is how
we graded Prison of the Dead.
After Prison
of the Dead, we headed back into the Theme Park and had to buy a very cool
stein from the shop. Then headed over to the snack bar to enjoy some burgers
and fried oreos. Another great perk about Zombie World at Shocktoberfest was
that there was always something to do. You could hangout and watch scare actors
attack the line, watch a zombie puppeteer great customers walking into the
theme park and just sit back and watch a band. We really enjoy these features
in Haunted Attractions. Who wants to sit in a car for two hours to just do a couple
walk throughs and go home? This Scare Park was very impressive and we had a
great time at Zombie World. Here is our Overall Score of Zombie world.
Now, our
fans may have noticed that we have a few 5 bloodspat Haunted Attractions. So we
need your help! We will not end this season in a tie! To the right of this page
is a poll we have set up to get a fans perspective of the most popular
attractions we reviewed. Make sure you vote now and we will see who will take
home the coveted award. So Vote Now! And a big thank you goes out to everyone
for making this page such a success this year. Stay tuned as we enter the Home
Haunt world this weekend! Have a safe and productive Halloween, and get to a
Haunted Attraction before time runs out. They live to scare the shit out of
you, so go let them! Until next time. HH365.com
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