My wife & I live in the Birmingham Alabama area and we decided to hit as many haunted houses in the Atlanta area as we could in a night. So Friday, September 29th at 2 pm we left Birmingham headed to the Atlanta area. In this order, we went to Netherworld, Paranoia, Folklore, Nightmare’s Gate, & Hollis Haunted Chicken House. This is my review on Folklore.

This is the first time we have gone to Folklore & it will be the last. Let me start by saying I had high expectations for this haunt after talking on the phone to whom I suspect was the owner. He bragged that his haunt was the 2nd largest in Georgia behind Netherworld & that if you put containment & Nightmare’s Gate together that it would be about the size of his haunt. He also said that he had a bunch of animatronics & about 40 actors. His haunt may be the 2nd largest in Georgia, but size doesn’t matter in this case. There were a lot of animatronics & I’m guessing about 40 actors would be accurate as well. Upon arrival, we saw a lot of people standing in the parking lot, most of which were either workers or security. I only noticed one monster walking around. We left disappointed in the our experience. I felt ashamed for having it on our list of haunts to visit. Honestly, if Folklore is really just a little smaller than Netherworld then they need 100+ actors in the haunt to make it be comparable to the other haunts. I understand it takes guests paying money to be able to hire more actors, but it would be more logical to just have 1 or 2 haunts with a lot of actors rather than 3 haunts with only a few actors…or at least set it up so that the same actors can move through the haunt & scare you multiple times without it being overly obvious to the guest that it’s the same actors. It could have been good with more actors, but I can’t judge it based on how it could have been better, I can only judge it based on how it was.

The first haunt we entered was The Manor (I think). We were greeted by a worker dressed as a normal person who gave us a set of rules prior to entering. After entering we were able to enjoy the scenery/props/animatronics. We were able to enjoy them because of the lack of actors. There were several rooms that we walked through that there were no actors at all. It took us a total of 5 minutes to walk through the first haunt & I can’t recall my wife screaming at all….maybe once or twice at most.

The second haunt was Tremulous (I think). Again we were greeted by a worker dressed as a normal person who gave us the same set of rules prior to entering. Again we found ourselves enjoying the setup in each room, but because of the lack of actors, it was hard to really get into the mindset of being scared. About ¾ through the haunt, it merged with the first haunt & then exited out of the same doorway…btw which had 3 or 4 workers just sitting there hanging out. It took us 7 minutes to walk through this haunt.

The third haunt was Chromophobia (3D haunt). Unfortunately, after Netherworld, it seemed like a funhouse walk through that you would find at the fair or in Gatlinburg. I understand that according to their website that this is an all age haunt so I’m guessing that is why there weren’t but a couple of actors in there. We found ourselves talking about how pink & yellow pops out more than the other colors. It took us about 3-4 minutes to walk through this “attraction”.

P.S. According to a recent reviewer Folklore let them go through the first haunt & then delayed them going through the 2nd haunt until the monsters moved to the next haunt so that the customers were getting more scares & so the haunt doesn't seem as understaffed. In my opinion that is listening to complaints & trying to give your customers a better experience. Due to this I am increasing my review from 1 star to 2 stars.