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Creepyworld Haunted Screampark - St Louis Missouri Haunted House Review Rating
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Missouri's Haunted Houses are some of the scariest and best in America! Hauntworld.com rates and reviews the best and Scariest haunted houses, haunted attractions, and Halloween events in America! Creepyworld is located in Fenton, Missouri. Please share this page and leave your reviews of one of America's best and scariest Haunted Houses. When you find yourself in St. Louis go to Creepyworld. Hauntworld reviews Creepyworld!
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Haunted houses were always a part of Larry Kirchner's career. Larry’s first experience was building a haunted house under his 4-family flat in St. Louis and charging twenty-five cents. After moving to Houston Texas, Larry would convince an apartment complex manger to let him build a haunted house in the complex rec building. Fast forward to 1988, he worked for his first professional haunt, but after not getting paid (typical of early haunts), he decided to approach another haunt owner, billing himself as A HAUNTED HOUSE DESIGNER. Did this term actually exist back in 1989? Was Larry a haunted house designer at the young age of 20, pre-internet, before any knowledge of a tradeshow, haunted house magazine, videos or anything else? NOPE. But that didn't stop someone with a dream of building a better haunted house, so he created House on Haunted Hill with the help of his cousins and Pat Voss (yes, the same Pat Voss of VFX today).
Finally in 1998, Kirchner was ready to open a second haunted house location and called it SCREAMWORLD. After a name debacle with an old friend in Houston who ended up buying the URL from another owner, Larry decided it wasn’t worth the upset, so he changed the name to CREEPYWORLD. Twenty years and tens of thousands of screams later, Creepyworld is actually the biggest, longest, and most popular haunted house in St Louis (not The Darkness). Creepyworld has attracted higher attendance and more revenue than The Darkness and Lemp Haunted House COMBINED! Creepyworld has accomplished all of this above The Darkness despite not being featured on Transworld haunt tours, not being featured on multiple national TV shows, and not being consistently ranked as one of the best haunted houses in America. The Darkness overshadows its little sister. People within the haunt industry who tour the Darkness year after year and sing its praises will sometimes ask which haunted house is better… The Darkness or Creepyworld? Larry Kirchner always replies CREEPYWORLD!
When it comes to renovation & improvements, Creepyworld doesn't follow the same model as The Darkness. Creepyworld replaces an entire attraction each season, and in some cases two whole entire attractions. Creepyworld markets each year around the NEW haunted house, playing up only that new theme as part of a bigger screampark. In 2019, Creepyworld added a new Haunted Asylum. In 2018, they added the Haunted Midway plus Camp Blood and a massive interactive queue line. In 2017, the haunted hayride was replaced and re-themed from ground up. “Every year, there’s been a brand new haunted house, either an addition or a complete re-themedrenovation,” says Larry. “We now have 11 very different, highly detailed haunted attractions, so deciding which to revamp is simple; the oldest attraction gets totally torn down and rebuilt from scratch. Some of these haunted houses are up to 20,000 square feet and take tons of actors to fill all the spots... and its only one haunted house.”
Today, Creepyworld features a Krampus haunt, a Hayride, Zombies, Asylum, 3D, Mansion, and so much more. For 2020 Creepyworld will replace its aging clown themed 3D haunted house with a new Sleepy Hollow 3D, complete with CGI FX and a spinning windmill facade, plus a new 5-minute escape room in the Midway. The Creepyworld Haunted Midway features zombie paintball ($5 upgrade), 5-Minute Coffin Escape ($5 upgrade), Zombie Axe Throwing ($5 upgrade), Game Booths, Dead Zombie Band, Famous Faces Pumpkin display, Photo Ops, a big movie screen playing the latest released horror movies (actually licensed for legal play), gift shop, food and more. “The midway was a HUGE addition which has drastically improved customer satisfaction,” says Larry. “In total, an experience at Creepyworld could take a customer up to an hour or more to complete.”
Even though Creepyworld is outdoors, it features nearly as many animations & props as The Darkness. The Darkness has highly detailed scenes which most haunts can't match including Creepyworld. Still, Creepyworld is themed from start to finish across 7-acres, giving customers a totally different experience. The Hayride, called Trick-R-Treat Haunted Hayride, has a theme of every house or town you would never want to visit on Halloween, and every stop along the way features a massive CGI or FX which brings each set to life. Creepyworld is absolutely one of the best haunted scream parks in the United States. Although it doesn't get the accolades of The Darkness, it’s a must when planning haunted house visits outside your area.
For years, Larry Kirchner has hoped to open Creepyworld for the Transworld tradeshow, but each year he realizes just how hard it would be to hire the staff to set up a 7-acre screampark, get all the lighting, fog, sound & FX all ready to go for just ONE NIGHT. The staff of Halloween Productions typically start Creepyworld set-up immediately after the Transworld show, and it takes every minute up until they open in late September. For the past 4 years, the crew has modified Creepyworld towards becoming more of a one-switch-&-it-opens haunted house to attempt an opening for Transworld. So far, they haven't gotten there. Still Larry encourages, “If you're planning a trip across the country this Fall to visit the best haunted houses, and you think to skip St Louis because you've already seen The Darkness and Lemp Haunted Houses, keep in mind you haven’t seen the biggest, longest, and best haunted house. Creepyworld is overlooked because of the popularity of The Darkness, but trust me; Creepyworld is the true #1 haunted house in St Louis.”
Creepyworld Haunted Screampark is one of the best haunted houses in the entire country and ready to make you SCREAM this Halloween 2020! Be ready for one of the longest haunts you'll ever experience, most detailed, and just very traditional!
FAST FACTS:
Number of Haunts: 11
Number of Hayrides: 1
Staff for Operation: Up to 150
Location: Fenton, Missouri
Year Opened: 1998
URL: www.Creepyworld.com
Cost: $25 per person - w/ Hayride $30
Fast Pass $15 upgrade / Parking $5
Midway Costs: Zombie Paintball $5
Zombie Axe Throwing: $5
Coffin 5-Minute Escape: $5
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