The Keep

I went to this haunted house with my husband & 2 teenagers. The props looked so real! This haunt is creative & unique with many details. I enjoyed watching my husband get scared the most. Lol! Plus only $ 10 this weekend.

Worst haunted house that anyone anywhere has ever seen.
And the guy that runs it is a moron.

Okay…
so we were looking for some cool haunted houses in McHenry county and this one popped up on Illinois haunted houses so we decided to check it out last Saturday. The website stated it was very scary and children should not attend (teenagers and up) and it was opening weekend. We drove to the haunted house which is a bit in the middle of nowhere (which is fine), it’s a bit hard to find though. It’s actually in the back of a golf course and you have to walk behind the golf place building, past receiving area and then enter the haunted house.
My first clue this may be a mistake would be the person taking tickets. I’m not ageist or adultist and it was an older women which if fine, but she seemed generally confused with us needing change. A family of about five with two young children arrived shortly after us and the younger ones seemed pretty nervous which was pretty cute.
A gentleman in a cheap Halloween mask took our tickets and invited us to enter the haunted house (without the family, which was a plus and a minus now that I think of it– I would have loved to see the littler guys spooked). The walls were covered in black garbage bags, there were about eight or so actors and possibly two to three really good props with the rest being dollar tree quality. Two of the actors wore the exact same mask, so I’m not sure if it was supposed to be the same masked chainsaw killer or just a buy one get one free mask. Who knows, right?
Lots of fog, lots of turns, lots of disappointments. Towards the end you can see how lazy or low the budget got when you realize that the props are just sitting on the floor. Towards the very end there is a picture of the Grinch from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas taped to the wall. Not for irony, not dirty or ripped up… just sitting there.
Friends… we’ve reached the bottom of the barrel. Do not waste your $ 17 (we only paid $ 15 which was nice).
To make matters worse… I decided to write a review on Facebook because the site did have scare warnings and it really didn’t deliver. The owner got very butt hurt and wrote some banter back and forth with me (and my partner who also reviewed and actually gave more stars than I). I think I was supposed to feel embarrassed that I have a Hello Kitty tattoo when he mentioned it in a comment… I’m not. I paid for it. Is this a gay thing? I don’t give a F!@3.
My partner gave more constructive criticism than I but was also shot down via Facebook by the owner of the haunt. Apparently any criticism is an «attack» and he decided we felt that way because the family «offended us» (go on the Facebook page– you can see all of it– my name is the same there you can see my comments and the other low stars are my partners).
I thought the family was nice, gays aren’t offended by straight people, I like Hello Kitty, I have loved horror my whole life.
Break down:
If you have young children… bring them!
Don’t be offended by families…
Don’t say anything negative
don’t ruin dreams or the owner will come for you.
don’t waste your money on this joke… even if you want a poorly excecuted scare… the guy is a jerk and joke.