Nightmare Factory

Not the worst «haunted house» I’ve been to, but definitely didn’t live up to the hype. It was well put together, construction-​wise, well staffed, but overpriced.
The doorman was happy to allow some of his friends to jump to the head of the line after we’d been waiting for over an hour for the place to open. Of course he claimed to not see them, even though they were standing right in front of him. He then pulled several more people up (claiming he needed them to fill up a group) in what we felt was a passive-​aggressive move.

As a Halloween fan, I was anxious to try something new to us this year. So we made the long trek from Raleigh after purchasing advance tickets.
I find several problems with this attraction. Once inside it’s very well done. However its like going to an amusement park with long lines and 5 different attractions. You have to wait in line for each attraction as they aren’t a continuous run thru. That breaks up the scare factor and also gets annoying as it took 2 hours to get everything done. And the only reason it took that LITTLE is because at 10pm they amp up the scares to R rated, so they wanted to get everyone done who was there for the PG rated fun (R rated contains foul language and touching– neither of which I want to have happen to me). WE went to the head of our last line so we could get done once it was announced. The lines move s l o w l y! The crowd is rowdy! The supposed entertainment was NOT entertainment at all. And the cops drove by a lot to make sure things didn’t get out of hand. There are even protesters from the church building down the street.
A VIP line would be very helpful (I would have paid more to get through it quicker) and a continuous attraction would have been preferred.

Last night we attempted to go to The Nightmare Factory. We came all the way from Jacksonville which was an hour drive so we were hoping it was as good as some people said it was. Firstly, when we got there the venue is located in a strip mall in an alley way. There was no distinguishable parking areas so it was basically a free for all. People were constantly trying to park and having to turn around in tight spaces to get out (there was no one to direct parking). Once we found parking we went to the ticket line. Right off the bat four drugged up teenagers cut us off in line, angering us and the ten people behind us-​who had beers with them. ‘Security’ was a joke. This could’ve got out of hand really fast, but thankfully it didn’t. The majority of the people there have a thing against Marines. Yes, the venue is ran by a Marine, but to say it is military friendly is a reach. All we could hear while in the line was how so and so ‘got’ two jarheads the other day. How ‘there are so many of those mother f*cking jarheads here’, and so on. My husband and quite a few of the other Marines in line were getting quite fed up. We finally decided to leave when one of the ten people behind us said «Eh, man could you cover me up? I got a blunt here and I’m trying to light it.» Needless to say this place is NOT family friendly. The whole time I was either worried that I would be assaulted or that someone would try to steal from us. I’m sure the haunted houses themselves might’ve been fun, but I wouldn’t want to be in a dark place with the people we had around us. To sum it up, after posting a comment on the lack of security on Nightmare Factory’s facebook page, it got deleted. You be the judge. But if you do intend to go take a large group with you and don’t keep your wallets in your back pockets.