OVERALL RATING :

Scare Factor

Actors

Set Design

Length

RANK #8 out of 21

RAW SCORE : 7.938

RATING

REVIEW

I am in love with the opening of this haunted house. All I can say is, "Do you want to play a game?!"

The set is awesome. Most of the haunt is in the corn. There are several rooms scattered around. The first room is well worth the entire amount of the admission. The corn is always grown different and the paths always change. The corn was really tall this year. There are parts where the sky is hard to see!

It is a very long haunt. For the length there needed to be more actors. The ones they had did a good job. They were excited to be there and made the haunt fun. They need to have roles and have a scare tactic. I like when the actors scare the people in the front, middle, and back of the group. I also like to hear sounds and not always "rarrr" or" boo." The growling and creepy noises are the best when you walk by.

More props in the room would have been more convincing as well. You can't beat the corn and the first room. Check this one out!

PROS

Has the best beginning and tall corn

CONS

Not to scary and needs more props

RATING

REVIEW

Either this haunt has stepped it up a notch or cornfield haunts are growing on me: I really enjoyed Haunted Field of Screams this year! They took the best parts of the last two years' setup and combined them into one. For the most part, there is one clear-cut (although very narrow at times) path to follow. At one point, however, the path splits into several different directions, bringing back the maze idea from years past. The maze is just what was needed to keep the path from feeling a little too long.

Along the path are different scenes, starting with the first room where a riddle needs to be solved to escape...what a way to start off the haunt! One of the scenes that need to be navigated is an old school bus, so filled with fog that it's nearly impossible to see (or breathe). I just find that to be one of the creepiest experiences. Some of the other scenes include a school room, graveyard, and a field of scarecrows. The 12-foot or so cornstalks were quite impressive and oppressive.

Much of the acting here involves characters rustling through the corn, which is creepy in itself, and jumping out at you. The actors in the different scenes did a pretty good job, but the most entertaining were the 2 guys in the last room. They were alternately funny and frightening...I didn't know whether to laugh or cry!

PROS

Entertaining actors, intermittent scenes in corn, great atmosphere

CONS

Long-ish set up time between groups

RATING

REVIEW

This is an outdoor corn walk with maze at end. I was told that the owner plants this cornfield just for the attraction - very commendable. This is a long haunt - almost too long, because there is a lot of time walking in the corn in-between the different sheds and settings. In that time there are monsters who just love to jump out of nowhere in the dark, sometimes stand there at the end of a path after turning the corner - only to disappear.

We spent a lot of time just walking though, with the anticipation of getting surprised, but no such luck. The various settings are great. Everything from an actual school bus, graveyard, field of scarecrows, electrocution, classroom; but the best room is the first.

Without giving too much away, it involves a lot of blood, a bathtub and toilet, a locked door, and a countdown timer. Oh yeah, and plenty of strobes.

Good luck!

PROS

Very creative beginning room, settings, props and F/X

CONS

Too long, not enough actors throughout

RATING

REVIEW

This is a great haunt with some killer scenes right out of the movies. I had lots of fun with the monsters that can crawl from the fields out and get you anytime. Because most of this haunt is outside much of the scare comes from sudden appearances of monsters and not wanting to go inside the uninviting buildings. All in all this is a great haunt with lots of attention to detail when it matters. It is pretty long for a haunt so the value for the time it takes to complete the trail makes it a good value.

There were some funny actors near the end of the haunt that made you laugh for a moment only to turn on you and scare you the next moment.

What could have helped this haunt receive a higher overall score (not that their score is bad) is a few more scenes in the field, and better flow as groups tended to catch up to each other.

PROS

Movie scenes, good scares, original ideas

CONS

Blank space with no scares or scenes

RATING

REVIEW

This is an outdoor haunt that is in a corn field, but does have rooms to go in along the way.

I enjoyed this haunt quite a bit. The trails leading up to the actual entrance were well done, and I liked the lighting they chose for this. The instructions received outside the door seems like it's just done to get everyone psyched out, but they mean it. Pay attention and follow directions. The first room of this haunt was done very well. When we first entered the room, the lights were flickering and it's hard to tell what's going on. Once we realized where we were, it was pretty scary. It was a bit tough to understand the instructions, but we ere able to figure out what we needed to do to get out.

The trails were done well, and some places got very narrow and helped to creep me out even more. One room was like coming up to a house, and the actors in this were room were great. They were funny and creepy at the same time. I was pretty creeped out when I went through the scarecrow section.

Some areas were too well lit and that took away from the scare factor.

Length of this haunt is long, and at some points it felt like we were walking and nothing was going on for a very long time. It seemed like the actors along the trails were clustered together, and they should have been spaced out better to avoid lulls in the scares along the way.

The set was great, the corn is high this year, and that was great. This was thought out well, and the actors all did a good job throughout. Even if you don't go for any other reason but to see the first room of this haunt, you won't be disappointed.

PROS

Layout/rooms, actors

CONS

Inconsistency of actors, lighting

RATING

REVIEW

You should go see this haunt for the first room alone. It was perfect. The set, the incredibly realistic blood, the scare, and the feeling of being trapped. It was a great way to get revved up for running through a giant field of corn in the dark. But unfortunately, running through the field is what you end up doing most of the time after the initial amazing scare.

I felt that Field of Screams started way too strong to allow me to spend so much time walking through the corn without being scared. For this reason, the haunt was too long for my taste. However, there are some great actors sparsely scattered throughout the corn. One of these actors must be part raptor, because they had an impressively strange vocal emission.

A couple of the sets really stand out. The bus was just creepy for its enclosed space and effects used. The house which required a password to enter really stood out for being interactive. The actors here were fun, clever and entertaining. Also I like clowns in haunts, and the ones I saw in the field did a great job of scaring the heck out of me.

PROS

The first room is AMAZING, corn is creepy

CONS

Too long

RATING

REVIEW

I feel like I say it every October, but this place gets better every year, and this is the best it's ever been!

The intro alone is worth the price of admission and the wait in line. The scenes in the corn are great, and I personally felt like the downtime between each scene in the corn was enough to keep a good pace going. You get worked up in a room, then get some time to cool down, albeit amidst a sprinkling of monsters hiding in the corn itself.

I love that it's long and feels like a good, lengthy experience instead of dumping you out in a hurry. Some of the actors were great; others were still learning, but all of them at least made an attempt to scare, which ranks high in my book.

This is an excellent haunt, and definitely my favorite cornfield haunt of 2006.

PROS

Long, good quality in acting, great sets, awesome corn

CONS

A few sparse areas, could use more actors

RATING

REVIEW

Walking through enormous corn stalks in and of itself could be quite scary. Now take the day light out of the picture, add some scary music and monsters, and you've got yourself a haunt.

This kind of realistic set and props never gets old. Especially when your eyes can play tricks on you in the darkness. Sometimes it's hard to know if that's actually a monster up ahead, or a corn stalk with monster like qualities. This mystery intensifies the scare, especially when there really are monsters hidden throughout the maze.

However, I felt that this haunt could have used a few more actors throughout...there were quite a bit of empty spaces that could have been filled with more screams. One outstanding scene in this haunt was the very first room you entered. This scene from the movie, Saw, was so amazing...I was freaked! The blood really did look real, everything about the room made you feel uneasy, and the audio with instructions about what to do was sweet. The clock counting down minutes was probably the best part though; this kind of interaction is really a thrill that was utilized well.

One thing that bugged me about walking through the actual corn stalks however was the fact that I could see the boom boxes where the scary music was coming from. The soundtrack to a scary movie is a huge factor in what makes it scary. When one can see the actual CD player with the red light on sitting right out in the open, the scare factor decreases.

Length was alright, but started to get a little long... walking through gigantic corn stalks is really a trip, but after awhile, when space isn't utilized to its best, it starts to get a little old. Overall, I enjoyed this haunt though.

PROS

Freaky corn stalks, awesome Saw scene

CONS

Quality and quantity of actors, length