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Creepiest and Most Disturbing Mazes


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Not the scariest or the most frightening or startle worthy! The mazes that you had an eerie sensation walking into, or that you looked at and it was almost too much!

creep·y - causing an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease
dis·turb·ing - causing anxiety; worrying.

Here are my top 5 for each! (You don't have to do a 5 too, but I will)

CREEPIEST

5. Nightmare on Elm Street: Never Sleep Again (In 2010, NOES got a lot of blind hate from nerds who hated repeats but who had never been through the 07-08 incarnations before. However, as someone who saw all variations of what NOES could be, Never Sleep Again was easily the best version, serving all sorts of creep factor. As the 07-08 versions were more fun-centric, this one put guests smack dab in the middle of being Krueger's victim. There was a sense of dread throughout the entire maze that made it actually scary to go into the next room. The creepiest imagery had to be Tina's dead body in the body bag just staring at people though. Leaving this maze, I just felt icky)

4. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Back In Business (In my opinion, the scariest maze ever isn't necessarily creepy because it spent most of its time being dreadful and, well, scary instead. This is the only maze I've ever felt like I was going to DIE in. While the dread was certainly high, especially before entering the maze and hearing that music that was about to lead you to your doom, the creepiness was seeing people in cages. Also, this was the first time someone's face was ripped off in a maze (a tactic done to death now), but it was actually very creepy back than to see that in person)

3. El Cucuy (I mostly find this a fun and disturbing maze with a few scares, but the second half in Cucuy's lair is some uber creepy stuff. Inspired by the Island of Dolls, this has some of the most haunting imagery that'll probably stay with me ever. It's the stuff nightmares are made of and Haunts were made to recreate.)

2. Insidious (Our first foray into the paranormal certainly had a creepy, dusty old feeling while walking through. With all the white faces staring on, it really felt like walking among ghosts -- well, not like I'd know for sure.)

1. La Llorona (This supernatural maze is a winning combination of dread, scares, creepiness and disturbing imagery [and in 2012, gore]. The 2011 iteration had some particular creepy moments going through graveyards. It all had a very cold and damp feeling to it, which left me feeling spooked.)

Honorable Mentions: Silent Hill, Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare

MOST DISTURBING

Honorable Mention - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Back In Business

5. Hostel (In a way, Hostel just feels over the top, which is why it's low on the list. In reality, the idea is very sick -- people killing others for money and for fun, or to get the kicks, or because it turns them on, whatever. One scene that comes to mind is the Bathory scene. Also, the pile of human beings with an alive person reaching out. Gore galore and very sick.)

4. House of 1000 Corpses (A more concentrated approach to sadistic pleasures than Hostel, "Corpses" focuses on a family participating in killing together. The maze featured many scalpings and feeding their victims to their underground ghouls. The murder ride was especially disturbing, celebrating all the real life horrors of the past.)

3. Halloween (A giant portion of the maze is dedicated to Michael Myers as a kid and his first killings. Later in the list, we look at children dying at the event, but here we have a child doing the murders himself. It's pretty dang disturbing to see scratched into little Michael's door KEEP OUT, making us wonder what kinda thoughts were going on in his mind. But it's even worse when he comes at you with a knife after you've seen his sister's boyfriend's brains bashed in with a baseball bat in the kitchen.

2. La Llorona (A soft spot for some, but the death of children played a pivotal part in La Llorona. Not only do we see a few face down in a river and a tortured mother's spirit looking for them, but there's plenty of tombs awaiting with other children reaching out. It was in 2012 when they raised the bar, heightening the "eating children" aspect. We caught what is now considered "a glimpse" of it in the original maze, but there's a scene entering the room where a giant Llorona is eating a child with her feet still kicking. It's probably the single most disturbing sight in an HHNH maze to date.)

1. El Cucuy (As where child deaths played a part in La Llorona, El Cucuy was ALL ABOUT killing off the kids. In every scene, it seems like there were children laid about throughout the maze just ripped to shreds. If that weren't enough, there's a birthday party scene where little ninos are stuffed with candy. El Cucuy then takes some unlucky souls back to his lair where he enslaves them and later stuffs them with pumpkin guts. There's an especially disturbing moment when walking through what is known as a usual "hanging body" room, but with bags -- you then realize you are walking through bags with dead children stuffed within them. And I guess it's up to your interpretation if you want to believe the Island of Dolls inspired moments was supposed to represent dead babies at some points [Murdy claims most of them are tokens Cucuy has taken from the children]. Easily the most disturbing maze we've ever had.)

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I have to agree with you that El Cucuy was probably the most disturbing maze HHN has ever done. That birthday scene with the broken record, the crying children, blood smeared on the walls, the parents with smashed heads....geez.

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El Cucuy sounds terrifying!!! Thats the first description Ive read of it. Maybe we'll get that in Orlando sometime...

A lot of people on here and that I know didn't really like it that much. Aside from the black hall of nothingness, I really liked it. That was my second favorite house from Hollywood last year.

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I have to agree with you that El Cucuy was probably the most disturbing maze HHN has ever done. That birthday scene with the broken record, the crying children, blood smeared on the walls, the parents with smashed heads....geez.

The parent that had her insides filled with cheap toys like a pinata was what did it for me.

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Well... you didn't specify that it had to be HHN related so I'll toss this place into the list.

http://www.bennettscurse.com/

It is a haunt in Maryland.

There is a section of it where you walk for a significant length of time through a fairly narrow corridor that twists and turns in the pitch black. You can see absolutely nothing for a good 15 or so minutes while walking through. If that wasn't bad enough, there are scare actors tucked away in the stretch with you that occaionally yell in your face or slightly bump into you as you make your way through.

I often wondered how some of the people even make it through, considering how unhinged I've seen certain other people get for almost nothing.

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Haven't been on the site for a while so I thought I would weigh in on this post. In my opinion, creepiness is fear in the sense of being uncomfortable mentally, while being disturbed is fear in the sense of feeling physically unsafe in the environment. With that being said, here are my top 3 for each category!

Creepiest:

3) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Saw is the Law (I put this iteration in the maze as one of the creepiest because it had a much different feeling--to me at least-- than its superior sister maze, Back in Business (more on that below). There was something about standing outside the house that was extremely unsettling. Everything seemed "normal" from the outside, yet you knew what was coming up when you stepped inside the maze. The first room was a simple foyer, and having no scare in the first room further built upon the mood of uneasiness. I didn't really dread this maze, but instead felt a heightened amount of unease from the apparent "normality" and familiarity of the situation. While I wholly dreaded Back in Business, in this maze I just felt uncomfortable, almost as if I didn't belong in the house.)

2) A Nightmare on Elm Street: Never Sleep Again (This maze was easily one of the creepiest for me because of the dreamlike state it was set in. The whole nature of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street" is a loss of sanity, and this maze captured that perfectly. Freddy chasing you throughout the dreamlike maze got under my skin and made me feel wholly uncomfortable the whole maze. To me, it wasn't the scares that made this maze creepy but rather the environment it was put in.)

1) Insidious: Into the Further (It was that damn "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" that got me every time. I never "dreaded" this maze--I never felt as though I was going to die for lack of a better term. But something about wandering through the house with the sounds of Tiny Tim made me extremely uncomfortable. The house and the nature of the maze itself had this placebo effect on me, where I would constantly think I was seeing and hearing scares even if they weren't there. The maze itself, as DTH316 put it, had this dusty and "stuck in time" feeling to it that escalated that feeling of creepiness. Something just felt weirdly off the whole maze which solidified its position as the creepiest maze.)

Disturbing:

3) Friday the 13th: Kill, Jason, Kill! (Okay, I know this wasn't a particularly good maze. The maze itself was uninspired. But I will never forget walking into the maze and seeing the man trying to free himself desperately from one of Jason's traps, screaming at us in pain and agony while we passed by. Something about that as a setup for the rest of the maze added the disturbing nature to the whole maze. The somewhat repetitive, wooded setting of the maze actually benefited this feeling of dread, as I never knew where to expect Jason next. Overall a mediocre maze with a surprisingly disturbing feeling.)

2) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Back in Business (DTH again put it perfectly: this maze offered the closest feeling to death of any maze I've ever been in. I literally felt unsafe the entire maze, even having a passing thought that maybe this maze wasn't all fiction. Seeing all the victims was quite a disturbing experience, especially at this time because it seemed way more violent than any other maze. I definitely dreaded walking into the next room each time, and to me this maze exemplifies a "disturbing" maze.)

1) El Cucuy: The Boogeyman (I think I have some biased towards this one because the situation I was put in, but overall this was the most disturbing maze for me. My (small) group and I were sent into this maze totally alone-- no one behind and no one in front. This was the first time I ever experienced this (perfect timing in my opinion). The operator actually told me, quote, "there's no one in the maze right now". That feeling that all the scareactors were waiting just for us was extremely dreadful. Add that to the already disturbing concept of the maze--hunting children-- and this was easily the most disturbing maze experience for me.)

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