Ghoulfland's The Gauntlet - Haunted House Review: Mesa Arizona

Haunted House Review: Ghoulfland

Address: 1511 S Country Club Dr, Mesa, AZ 85210

Grade: C

Ghoulfland's The Gauntlet is a small haunted maze packed with scare actors popping out when you least expect it. The indoor haunted house is designed with corridors that have many places for people to pop out from. Ghoulfland's The Gauntlet packs a fair number of jump scares in to a fairly short maze.

The main reasons for the C grading was the length and excessive lighting which made the scenes appear pretty fake in some places and as if most of the props came from the local Spirit Halloween store.

The Gauntlet Haunted House itself is $12.

I suggest the unlimited fun pass ($30) for the ability to go through multiple times along with access to the other attractions (bumper boats, race cars and miniature golf) help to increase the value vs expense and make it a full night of fun.

Fear Farm - Haunted House Review: Glendale Arizona

Fear Farm Haunted House Review

Address: 2209 N 99th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85037

Grade: B

Overall this haunted house is well designed and decorated. Part corn maze, part indoor attraction and at $18 a good bargain.

Fear Farm is actually 4 separate haunted attractions. 3 are essentially corn mazes with buildings along the path and 1 one is all indoors.

Fatal Valley Mortuary included a headless horseman, a foggy, rickety and narrow bridge and a church. Toward the end of the haunted maze you walk through some dug graves,

Carnevil included cotton-candy body bags hanging along the trail and a crazed monkey-man in a cage. Many people have a fear of clowns and this haunted maze will play on that fear.

The Asylum might be the most frightening. The beginning has a bloody bathroom scene where two suicidal girls ask for your friendship. This haunted maze is filled with medical tools and a surgery scene.

Apocalypse was probably the most disappointing and takes place in trailer park full of cannibals. I think the overuse of chainsaws here was my biggest issue.

Overall it is an old-school haunt, full of live scare actors, only real downfalls are the lack of any animatronics and the overuse of chainsaws. Chainsaws are not really scary, just loud and stinky.