Review on Dungeons of Delhi for The News Record. Published Oct. 23, 2012. Click here.
Those who appreciate a good scary movie will have a screaming good time living out the experience of one at the Dungeons of Delhi haunted house.
Open for 19 years, nine-year director Mark Mateikat concocts new ways to scare each group of guests that goes through the attraction — for a good cause. All proceeds from the haunted house go to Delhi Township Police Explorers, a group of young adults training to be police officers.
Just because proceeds go to charity doesn’t mean the haunted house isn’t quality — some of the best actors around lurk within the Dungeons of Delhi’s dimly lit passages. Half-faced monsters, blood-spattered body bags hanging from the ceiling and a cylinder tunnel will send chills down anyone’s spine who tries to brave the 15-minute trip through Freddy-Krueger haven.
The dungeons provide plenty of twists and turns, strobe and black lights, bloody monsters and dismembered body parts.
While the strobe lights muddle visitors’ vision, bloodcurdling creatures come up from the floors and push guests into hanging bodies. Be prepared to snake around tight corners, push past monsters and be stalked by a girl with black hair draped in front of her face. Committed actors jump in front, behind and even overhead of its visitors.
These actors bring some of the most famous scary movies to life: Doctors with a fetish for prodding, puppet-masters looking for their next puppets and, of course, a chainsaw man out to terrify his visitors.
The haunted house proved to be a heart-stopping, hair-raising adventure — sure to leave guests in need of a cigarette. Anyone who enjoys suffering minor fear-induced heart attacks during Halloween season will thoroughly enjoy the Dungeons of Delhi, which is open on the weekends until the end of October.
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