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Bennett’s Curse 10/03/14

Imagine the scariest thing you’ve ever seen. Now add the lovely sight of dead bodies impaled on 10-foot spikes rising up from hellscape littered with skulls, while disfigured beasts prowl, looking for their next victims. That’ll give you a good idea of what Bennett’s Curse looks like, and you’ve only reached the front door.

Just south of Baltimore, MD, Bennett’s Curse Haunted Attraction is a huge, portable dome (think a circus, but no clowns and much, much scarier). It’s done well enough, and grown big enough, over the last few years that owner Allan Bennett will be moving to a more permanent digs starting in 2015. For now, though, you get a backwoods drive to an otherwise empty field, which adds to the already creepy ambience. Showing up on a dark night with rain coming down doesn't hurt the effect either. It makes you feel like it's the haunted house season. Visiting haunts all over the country for years this one has risen the bar and blew away my expectations.

Bennett’s gives you the perfect combination of large animatronic sand well executed scares from actors that know their craft. The best moments come when those animatronics and actors combine forces - that room where you’re walking through, and you know one of the monsters are real, but not sure which one? Bennett’s has perfected that art and made it into a science, providing for perfect scares one room after the next. Is it a person or a figure?, you will see a figure and swear it is a real person, and its not. The effects are very detailed so, that next gruesome figure I see? I start to inspect it, and bam! I pee a little as we are surprised by the figure coming to life. I lost count of the number times I saw a figure or similar style they have what seemed to be hundreds of them strategically placed all through the haunt and 10's of animtronics that we saw, and they were all unique to any other haunt I have been to. The actors timing of when to jump out at the least expected moment was freaking awesome.

Bennett’s Curse is well designed, and the actors seamlessly provide crowd control throughout the attraction to minimize congo lines. At the end of the haunt, they transition to an outdoor maze, and top it all off with chainsaws buzzing at your legs all the way back to your car.

Bennett’s Curse? Definitely a recommendation anytime you’re in the area, and apparently you are if you are in a 5...

This by far is one of the best haunted houses I've been to. It felt never ending. I ran, I screamed, I jumped, and I ran for dear life. The moments that I would look back and see that the characters were following me gave the extra scare factor. We ended up being behind some pretty cool people we helped each other navigate through the dark and scary areas.

We only had one problem, maybe because we all ran so fast we (my group of 5 amd the 2 guys in front) ended up running into another small group headed by queen Karen herself. My adrenaline was so high I didn't realize the guys asked u did we want to go in front because it was a Karen, I truly thought they were tired of leading and wanted us to get scared first. Well I heard and was wrong. He was warning us. My group had 2 teenage boys and they walked near Karen and she had the audacity to rudely address my children, so I graciously gave her a tongue lashing for her rudeness and Karen like ways, as we exited the room Karen was in the worker started screaming get out to my group and that she didn't have to take our aggressive words to her. And we all explained no one was talking to her and honestly I never saw her until she came out and started screaming . We were only half way through at this point. Which kinda ruined the experience. I know this wasn't their fault...the worker could've been more empathetic to our situation instead of screaming at us but Karen was...

They dont open the doors on time, opened 15 minutes after 7, so we were waiting 45 minutes in the cold for some reason, I really dont understand why they opened a whole 15 minutes late. The dark maze section of the haunt is no good, it just causes people to run into eachother and strangers and I am fairly sure I accidentally groped one of the actors. Stop pretending you are an actually scary haunt, you are nowhere near the scariest in MD or you would not be allowed to allow children. The haunt also only runs like half an hour that you are inside, so why does it say so much longer on your website? Finally the price is outrageous, I paid more than a dollar for each minute I was walking through there, which may have been worth it, if I could actually see the decorations, I get its supposed to be dark and scary, but what is the point of putting all this stuff up if noone gets a chance to look at it? You also get pushed through so fast by the people behind you that you really can not see any of the props. There are much better haunted houses, if you are gonna pay this much check out laurels house of horrors, or field of screams in PA is amazing. Markoffs haunted forest is also fantastic but it out-prices this one by a bit, definitely worth it though. Gave it 2 stars for the 3D section, loved all the blacklights and glowing paint, and the glasses were...