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Halloweentober Day 22

My buddy and I attended Bennett's Curse yesterday. It has been in the basement of Eastpoint Mall for a decade now, but with the closure of the mall in September, the haunted house is leaving for a new home after Halloween this year. Which is a shame, because it is obvious BC has been growing and evolving for the past ten years at Eastpoint.

Bennett's Curse is my favorite local haunt by far! There are no (well not too many) clowns or backwoods killers here. The Curse is more old school, filled with gothic influences and very Halloween influenced horror, such as the pumpkin-headed characters and the robed and hooded figure in the darkest corners of the hallways. There's an entire section, The Crypt, that is in a cemetery, with thunder, lightning and rain, with tombstones and an animatronic Edgar Allan Poe with ravens all around him, cawing. House of the Demons was another of my favorite parts of the haunt. There are all kinds of great looking monsters and skeleton corpse characters to enjoy.

The only section I absolutely hated was the small room with flashing strobe lights and heavy metal. Now, I only disliked it because my brain and eyes cannot handle the flickering and flashing lights. I'm not epileptic, but I feel close. So I closed my eyes mostly through this part and followed Dan and got outta there quickly.

I've been to some of the other local haunts, and I like some of them, but the inbred, chainsaw-wielding killers and clowns are just not my cuppa tea at all. This place is perfect really. The entrance to the haunt has the walls painted in two colors of paint, and you wear 3D glasses, so the pics on the floor and the walls seems to move all around you. It's a really cool affect but started to hurt my eyes after a minute or so. But nice touch.

There was another part of the haunt that was completely in darkness. I couldn't see anything, so I cheated and pulled out my phone. Even the couple behind us did so, because it was impossible to see. But then I realized, hey old man, it's supposed to be like this, you're supposed to have to feel your way around and be wary someone will jump out and scare you! So I put it away and just went with the flow. 

Bennett's Curse has all of the Halloween haunt attractions that I really like. It's not scary not anymore. Although I didn't think of movies like The Houses October Built and others a couple of times, but it was fleeting, and we had a great time. Afterwards, Dan did a tarot reading for me. Luckily, it was great news.

I'm sorry to see Bennett's Curse leave Dundalk. I doubt the haunt will stay here since Eastpoint's closed. This is, after all, their forth iteration of the haunt. But who knows where they will find home next. I'm planning one final walkthrough before they close down permanently.

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