Team Cleaverland Haunted House Reviews

18/06/2025

We had such a fun time at Factory of Terror Haunted House’s Slasher Weekend! (June 13-14) FOT just keeps on improving with age. It seems to be bigger and better each time we visit.

Slasher Weekend more than lived up to its title. Of course Jason and Freddy made appearances, but the sizable cast dug into some deeper cinematic cuts that all proved to be very satisfying. We caught sight of Jason’s mom, Ash, Toxic Avenger, Otis Firefly, Patrick Bateman, Jame Gumb/Buffalo Bill, Predator, Sam from Trick ‘r Treat, and probably a couple others we are forgetting. All very well costumed up and entertainingly performed.

Once you get through the entrance line, the whole massive interior is a knockout with a tremendous amount of quality props, scenery, and photo ops everywhere. Plus games, boozy bars, thumpin’ dance floors, snacks, indoor plumbing, an axe-throwing annex, and a lengthy and tricky mirror maze.

The haunted attractions themselves are first-rate. Terrific effects, lighting, sets, animatronics, and actors, as well as a fast and fun ride down a slide! The exit of the pirate-themed attraction gave way to an eye-popping buccaneer shanty town. Top flight stuff.

It looked like everyone was having a great time in there. We sure did. There was a whole helluva lot to do and fun galore for the base $25 ticket price. We recommend you get to their next show whenever you can, whether in the fall or for an off-season event!

15/06/2025

It's Father's Day, Bedelia! Hope all you daddy-o's enjoy your cake

To all of you out there, even the fur baby and haunt Dads!

14/06/2025

Fantastically fun times at FOT's Friday the 13th show!! More details later...

13/06/2025

And he'd fit right into the Stanley Cup being played right now. Machete in lieu of a hockey stick, we would pay to see that! Find a Friday the 13th show near you on TheScareFactor.com's off-season listings. As for us, we will be checking out the action at Factory of Terror Haunted House tonight!

It's Jason's Birthday!

12/05/2025

Hope y'all had a great one!

🖤🌸🥀

30/04/2025

Ah Yeeeaahhh on its way!!!

Happy Halfway to Halloween 🎃🦇

16/02/2025

Always a good show and cool new stuff to look at here! More of a date night kind of experience at the Valentine show, as the theming, decor, and music evoked a fun/funky alien dance party. Many of the ET and astronaut actors tried to get us to boogie on down to the thumpin' beats. Great time!

08/12/2024

Tremendous job on the holiday show here! Excellent seasonally themed actors, super festive decorations, and they leaned hard into the holiday-ness with props like giant nutcrackers, effects like lights simulating a snowfall, and homages to the Rudolph cartoon (Bumble!), A Christmas Story (yeah Ralphie shot his eye out and there it was dangling on his face), and Krampus. The two bars had fabulous drinks and were set up as the Griswolds' house complete with fried cat silhouette staffed by Cousin Eddie and an ice cave inhabited by a Jack frost barkeep. One of the best Christmas haunts we've been to. Fantastic job!!

07/12/2024

Visiting Fright Nights WV tonight for their The Fright Before Christmas show. Also been enjoying all the other fabulous things they have here at the site, Resort at Glade Springs. Pool and hot tub, massage spa, yummy meals, holiday movie screenings, trail of lights, very nice!!

23/11/2024

It’s awards time! Our actor shout-out for Trail of Terror goes to Mike McFarland as the Power Plant Worker. The utility laborer covered a lot of ground in one of the largest rooms in the power plant set, a multi-floor deal with stairways and metal catwalks. Power Worker addressed us from afar when we first entered the room, didn’t like what we replied, and ran up to us threatening us and making hilariously rude comments and off-color jokes. It delivered a great blast of energy right near the end of a very long walkthrough that had us smiling and chuckling on the way out!

And, we give our 2024 Most Intense Walkthrough Award to Trail of Terror on behalf of The Scare Factor. Superior actors, heart-stopping scares, and a sfx tour de force of sets, props, lighting, and audio formed the basis of a stunningly designed, laid out, and executed trail. We are still thinking about scenes from our visit, from a twisted cartoon village of monstrous Smurfs and a realistically industrial power plant to an impressively novel pumpkin distillery and picture-perfect recreations of scenes from Halloween and Terrifier movies.

From our review: “Between the awe-inspiring sets and the intricate design of the walkthrough, we never knew what would be coming around the next corner; and there were lots of corners in this crazy quilt labyrinth of a walkthrough, as well as actors doing their thang. We were not prepared for the scope, quality, and sheer volume of scenes, props, and effects. The nonstop parade of sensational sets had us stunned, staggered, and stupefied. Masterful positioning, elaborate detailing, and a highly skilled use of space led to an extraordinary presentation. Reviewing the comment card for choosing your favorite area, we counted no less than 27 scenes! It’s difficult to express in words the amazing sets and effects work that must have taken an immense amount of effort, and truly displayed an ingenious creative spark and dedication to design and ex*****on. We hope The Scare Factor can capture video here in the future. For now, we would direct you to YouTube recordings of past years to get an idea of the walkthrough, although we have to say it doesn’t even do justice to being there in person, and only scratches the surface of what’s on display. Seriously, Trail of Terror was simply incredible in the SFX department. We’d have to go back and look at all our other reviews to know for sure, but it’s likely this is the highest effects score we’ve ever given. Trail of Terror is a must-see for any true haunt fan.”

We would also like to mention the immense value Trail of Terror delivers, with a mere $25 providing nearly 50 minutes of top-flight entertainment. And, it’s a charity haunt that has donated millions in its 30-year history and somehow recruits up to 200 volunteer actors who do a great job. Truly incredible!

23/11/2024

It’s awards time! Our actor shout-outs for The Trail of Nightmares go to Travis Young as the Crematory BBQ Cook and Caden Stewart as the Cannibal Clown. Crematory Cook started off with a great jump scare by materializing out of a blast of smoky fog, then commanded us to climb up on the platform to slide into the furnace saying “it only hurts a lot!” and then signed off by thanking us for visiting the family barbecue where everybody gets cooked, followed by lunatic laughter. Cannibal Clown followed us through the funhouse making funky noises and stating their ravenous hunger, desire to eat us, and loneliness (due to their eating everyone else who had ever showed up…makes sense). Great stuff from both of these actors!

And, we give our 2024 Best Scares Award to The Trail of Nightmares on behalf of The Scare Factor. This is one of our favorite, and in our opinion one of the very best, haunted trails in Ohio. The high scariness level is a big reason why. This attraction had the highest rated Scare Factor score for our team's entire season by a wide margin.

From our review: “The actors are committed and talented, the sets are fabulous, the effects are absolutely dialed in, the scares are there and they are many and honestly nerve-jangling. This place really knows how to establish mood, create tension, and manage space, light, and shadow to pay off in terrific scares. Props, sets, effects, and actors all worked together to bring off fright after fright. It was a concerted group effort from a team focused on engineering scares out of expertly executed haunt elements. These folks understand how to set up, stage, and deliver genuine sparks of unease and panic. In fact, some of their scare scenes have been in place for all three of our review visits and they’ve managed to make little tweaks that still have us jumping and skittish. Hats off for keeping those scares coming!”

23/11/2024

It’s awards time! Our actor shout-out for The Haunted Hydro goes to Chace Heath as Loogie. This was the very first character we met on our Extreme Pass visit and we spent nearly 5 minutes getting worked over by Loogie! That’s a long time to be around any one actor, but it did not get old. Loogie kept the intro fresh, involving, varied, and moving along at a good pace. We got thrown up against a wall, smeared with blood, and subjected to manic machine-gun commentary on ourselves and what we were about to experience. It was a fantastic sustained interaction that seemed all the more impressive when we considered Loogie must have been doing that all night long with everyone who came in!

And, we give our 2024 Most Fun Experience Award to The Haunted Hydro for their Extreme Pass on behalf of The Scare Factor. This add-on was an absolute riot and we’re glad it’s the only thing we did that night because we had an intense, filthy time there, and probably nothing else would have stacked up after that.

From our review: “We took on the Extreme experience. The new bright white shirts they gave us to mark us as targets stayed in that condition for about the two minutes that we waited in line. We got drizzled and smeared with blood, pelted with soil, separated, touched, and subjected to extended interactions with gonzo actors. No doubt we got to spend more time with, and received more attention from, the Hydro denizens because of our Extreme pass. Each new creep piled on the enjoyable weirdness …to an Extreme extent. Our personal space was compromised as soon as we stepped in the door. The Extreme Pass certainly greased the fear gears. We were fair game and didn’t know who would do what to us, when or where. Plentiful hiding spots, effective distraction set-ups, and actors toeing the over-the-top line fed an unpredictable and fun atmosphere.We can’t stress enough how fun this place was. We laughed and screamed the entire way through. Seriously, this was the most fun we’ve had at a haunt in a good long while.”