Review: Lots of flashing lights and very disorienting but not very many jump scares.
He said, "I felt like y'all were getting sucked into the green light, so I crawled below it, just in-case."
Highlight: My dad crawled through some of the house.
Notes will not spawn while the player is being chased, meaning that room with notes are safe-zones.
Review: This was eight minutes of terror, featuring the classic chain-saw chase. Along the many rooms in Spookys Jump Scare Mansion, the player will often find notes containing important details regarding the mansion, such as stories of the victims having succumbed to the darkness of the manor, or sometimes, the origins of certain Specimens and other sinister events.
Highlight: My dad ran into a wall and dramatically slid down to the ground, screaming "IT'S A DEAD END.".
Review: This was better than all of Howl-O-Scream combined.
Overview: Scarier houses than Howl-O-Scream, much shorter lines and less walking between the houses. Photos courtesy of Morissey and Asher Montgomery Scream-A-Geddon A collage of scene from Scream-A-Geddon in Dade City.
Review: Cool decorations and costumes but no jump scares and only lasted about two minutes.
Highlight: Gross prison toilet with guts in it.
Review: Good jump scares and lots of actors, but the costumes and rooms were repetitive. Okay, so to begin with the absolute basics before working our way to secret lore: Spooky is a cute little ghost girl who owns and operates the titular House of Jump Scares/Jump Scare Mansion.
Overview: The houses were lacking and the lines so long we only got into two in three hours. Here are their tips for navigating local haunts: Howl-O-Scream Asher and Morissey Montgomery and Gianna Settimi at Busch Gardens' Howl-O-Scream.
They braved Busch Gardens' Howl-O-Scream ($74.99 per ticket day of) for three hours Saturday, then let Ben tag along to Scream-A-Geddon ($60 per ticket day of) in Dade City.
We asked Ben's teenage daughters and a friend to hit two of the area's major Halloween events and give us the guano on super scares.