Universal Horror Unleashed - Las Vegas, NV

[Jonathan]

Visited Horror Unleased today: Here’s some quick thoughts on the experience:

Horror Unleashed was fun for what it is. Let’s start with the negative & finish with some positives. I realize there’s a Vegas surcharge for admission, but $89 a person is way too much for what we got. We ended upgrading for an additional $43 to go through each maze a second time.

We ran into a problems where they closed the houses for breaks, but they closed them all at the same time. So there was a point where no house was open for 20 min. The lone show was a bore. I would recommend using that time doing houses and skipping the show.

They need signage with times listing when the houses will be closed and stagger the closings.

Scarecrow: This house had two great scenes, but both times we did it had long stretches with no actors.

Uni Monsters: We had good runs on both try’s. The queue with the Monster’s busts was great!

TCM: Had a couple of good scares. But timing was off in a couple of sections

Exorcist: The actors in this house gave it their all. Hats off to them.

The positives of the experience: No conga lines. Getting the personalized experience of going through with just your party made for an awesome time. Set design for all 4 houses was top notch.

We didn’t eat at the venue so I can’t speak to that. They probably need 2 more houses to make the $89 we paid worth it.

Would I go again? Probably not anytime soon unless I’m here with someone who’s never been and wants to go. Am I glad I went, definitely. There’s some growing pains. If you go, go on a cheaper night & choose an early time slot

 

[Rideguy70]

Yeah, if they’re closing houses, they really need to be transparent about that with a schedule. Guess we take double casting for continuity for granted, but I can see how that would be unduly expensive for a year round location.

But staggering the breaks really should be a given. Having all houses down at once for 20 min is pretty bad.

 

[DarkMetroid567]

I’m back home and still haven’t made it to Horror Unleashed (busy with work) but I talked to my sister who still lives here and has a pretty solid pulse on what’s popular. What she’s heard from her friends is that it’s “cute, but not all that.” Obviously super anecdotal, but it might be a struggle to reach Omega Mart-level popularity.

 

[Brian G.]

I’m back home and still haven’t made it to Horror Unleashed (busy with work) but I talked to my sister who still lives here and has a pretty solid pulse on what’s popular. What she’s heard from her friends is that it’s “cute, but not all that.” Obviously super anecdotal, but it might be a struggle to reach Omega Mart-level popularity.

I think they need to get a better handle on ops, and the Jack show needs some tweaking. It's too safe.

I'm also surprised they didn't play off the Vegas schtick more, but that's more of a nitpick.