This was so much fun! My bf and I took his two kids (7, and 9) and they had so much fun. Not too…read morescary, only two or three actors that jumped out in the entire thing. It's mainly just super creepy items placed around the building. If your child gets scared during the haunt you can say "child- no scare" to the actors. Luckily we didn't feel the need to do so, but it was nice they gave us that option.

This is the third year that House on the Rock has done a halloween tour at night after the normal…read moreattraction has closed. Even for being fairly new in the "haunted house" game, they are doing a phenomenal job in creating something that isn't your stereotypical warehouse scary fake scenes with boring Halloween-theme-song music. It was the most unique and eerie halloween attraction we have ever been to. The unique layout of the rooms lay an already perfect groundwork for creepiness, paired with cleverly placed actors, created a very stimulating atmosphere. The maze of the dollhouse rooms and the old-timey crackling music in particular are going to give me nightmares for weeks. I highly recommend the trip to make it to this event, and I hope that with every coming year, they are able to make it even better!

I ended up going here twice. Both times it was a very solid haunted house. It was way better than…read moreexpected as it was their first year. I'll go check it out again next year.

This was easy to get to. Plenty of parking available. We went on October 19. You can pay at the…read moredoor instead of getting it online. It was a good half hour wait before getting in. Prices were reasonable for general admission. The only downside is having to wait behind this group of tweens and their chaperone was basically a rug that you can walk all over. The security had to tell them twice to knock it off. They were destroying some of the props. They should have all been kicked out with no refund. For the haunted house itself, it was great. I liked all of the details that went into them especially for their first year. I noticed from YouTube videos as well as our walkthrough, that there were two different paths. Our path didn't have the giant troll or the church. There is a small souvenir shop at the end as well as some spots to take pictures.

I'm the last person who should be reviewing a haunted anything as I can't handle even the most…read moreinnocuous ghost stories enjoyed by tots (e.g. was totally freaked out by Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit). So, the physicality of enclosures designed to terrify adults is just not something that interests me. However, I couldn't be more enthused about this bit of local flavor: Every October, a family in the sleepy town of Roselle sets up three big tents in their front yard and crafts within them a truly excellent Halloween experience for the community. We'd been noticing the tents for a while, but only started investigating them last year. I figured it was going to be the usual cutesy Halloween stuff, but no. The level of creepiness and goriness was such that I couldn't handle actually entering the tents, so I mostly looked on as my partner Wolf R. had a good time checking everything out. But even he got a little surprise at the end: While looking into the coffin in the last tent, he was spooked by a large vampire swinging down from above, and a second later, he was further startled by a person dressed in all black, including a black face mask, creeping up behind him. I'd have laughed if I wasn't so busy making sure nothing was creeping up behind me. This year I felt a bit more bold and decided to follow a whole group of little kids into the leftmost tent, themed like a haunted carnival with evil clowns. This ain't so bad, I thought, enjoying the creative clowns and even snapping a pic. And then, I don't even understand what it was, but the odd noises and spinning lights they'd set up conspired to get under my skin and I felt like I was going to totally lose it if I didn't retreat *immediately*. My god. The middle tent was the gory cannibalistic one, with zombies and body parts and -- well, I won't spoil it for you. It was so gross that I couldn't actually look at it long enough to take a picture. And this year, the last tent was themed like a haunted hotel with black lights. Nothing jumped out at my partner this time but he still loved it. As it turns out, the haunted house also promotes a good cause: They collect non-perishable food for the Bloomingdale Food Pantry. The family also accepts donations if you'd like to chip in to their haunted house efforts. I'm just hoping they'll do a set of friendly winter wondertents one of these Decembers :) Hours: According to the listing on this page (http://www.wlsam.com/calendar/default.asp?DATE=10/11/2012), they're open 6-10PM Thursdays through Sundays in October, with extended hours in the last week of October.

This homemade haunted house (front of a yard) was very impressive! My kids and I had a blast…read more Definitely worth the visit.

It says touch our actors go to jail. But the actors kept on running into me and grabbing my arm. It…read morefelt very rushed with way too many props and you're put in groups in the group we were with were a bunch of middle school girls who were trying to have conversations with every actor and they were in front of us so it just ruined the experience. They would scare or try to scare the people in front of us and then we would already know what was coming. It was very predictable. Definitely not worth more than $10. The actors were very fruity way too many props and costumes that were not even close to scary. I kept a straight face and didn't jump once. There are plenty of other haunted houses in the area I would definitely would not recommend this one.

Genuinely the most fun we've ever had at a haunted house. Like anything & everything, the…read moreexperience is what you make it. Any downers I've seen in previous reviews are likely going into this with an attitude of a fortress wall, which isn't fair to this place. Sure your group influences your time, but you can easily go to the back and space out a little! This is not the haunts fault, they do a good job of scaring the front and back of the group. You've got to go to a haunted house ready to be spooked and to have fun, if you do that here, you will have an amazing time! Just saying, this place deserves way more credit & I'm disappointed at the inaccuracies of the reviews. Also this is a local small business, so huge kudos to their efforts. I've been to haunted houses all over the country and for the last 20+ years almost yearly, so take my word for it.. this place is putting in the work to make it cool for people. The scenery is insanely cool & there's so much attention to detail. The diversity and the length of the experience sold it for us. The bang for your buck is there; we were there longer than any other we've done, probably 1.5 hours with the extra haunt experience and hanging by the bonfire with drinks. So many textures, lighting, effects, animatronics, different themes, probs, actors, and even smells while you're being led through many many fields, houses, buses, warehouses etc! The actors were also scary yet didn't make me uncomfortable like others have before, they knew the line and didn't cross it. I loved how dedicated they were, some in cages or on the floor, some laying on the beams of the building, some blending in with the room or other props. We went on Halloween night & everyone we saw there had tons of fun too. Way to go, and thank you Screamin Acres! We'll see you next year.

We went and had a great time for a friends birthday. While there we lost our keys and we reported…read morethem as lost. The keys were found in less than 10 minutes ! ‼

We checked out desolate acres and it was a great haunted house. It was put together very well, and…read morethe production value was great. The haunted house was very short though, so that was a bit of a bummer. If they make the haunted house a bit longer, it would have been 10/10

Great time. I told family friends and coworkers they had to check this one out. Demented screaming…read moretime. Cant wait to see how it grows.