Crypt Haunted Attraction

I read somewhere that the Crypt/​Asylum was one of the better haunted houses in Arizona. While I can’t say that I’ve visited a lot of haunted houses, I’d be really disappointed if this was the best.
With that said, in full disclosure, every year I always long to go to a legitimate haunted house such as Haunted Hoochie in Ohio, Dead of Night in New York, ScareHouse: Basement in New York, The Cult in New Hampshire, Blackout in California, and the Freakling Bros: Victim Experience III in Nevada. These are not the type of haunted houses that people jump out of a dark corner and startle you… these are haunted houses that make you walk in alone, in the dark, may abduct you, may force you to watch certain things (no hiding your eyes), and will certainly put their hands on you.
So needless to say… any haunted house that simply tries to startle you isn’t going to do it for people like me.
With that said, the people who are simply looking to walk into a dark room and be startled and/​or have an excuse to break their boyfriend’s hand… this is a fine place to visit. Even if it is not a super scary place it is a nice place to get into the spirit a little more than you would without it.
In 2015 there was an express line that would cost you an extra $ 10 on top of your ticket. This line had nobody in it. The main line will net you an hour wait for each house. It isn’t super bad to wait as they have people going around in the crowd and scaring people as well as a movie with scary movies playing on it so it seems to go fast. Your feet may not agree with it feeling fast, but you’ll have to decide on whether or not the extra cost is worth it.
PRO TIP: Look on Groupon at the beginning of the season and see if this place is included. I think we paid $ 35 for two tickets on Groupon and when we got there the tickets were $ 40 for one ticket.

There are 2 listings on Unilocal,but the other is for the combination of all of the attractions (The Crypt, Asylum, and the maze); this one is only for The Crypt. Since you can pay to go to just one or all of the attractions, this seems fair. I’ll base this review solely on my experience with The Crypt.
The Crypt has nice props and F/​X throughout and that’s really about it. No scare factors for us hardcore Halloween & horror fans, and no thrills. It was kind of just like, oh wee… Look at the cool display. That’s it. If you an 8 year old kid, or just an easily frightened person, you’ll love it.
However, if you’re on a budget (or time schedule) and can’t afford to do all of the attractions, so you’re wondering which of the 3 you should pick, choose this one; it is by far the best of the 3.
Located in the Fiesta Mall parking lot (which is typically a dead giveaway for impending lameness), right off of US-​60 and Alma School Rd. Plenty of free parking.
Go to their website for a $ 3 off coupon.
Even if you have a Groupon, you must stand in the ticket line to get a physical ticket.

Went tonight, surprised my boyfriend with tickets. I’m a horror junkie, and also appreciate set design more than anything. The set design in these attractions was great. If you aren’t too busy running through the attractions screaming, please take the time to admire all the props and settings if you can. The Asylum was the best design-​wise. I also appreciate that each scare wasn’t just jumping out from behind curtains, each scare was unique in its own way. Last thing, I’ve heard complaints about haunted houses and how busy they get. I hear so many people go through at once that the scares usually get ruined due to big crowds. The way The Crypt attractions works it is that only 1 – 2 groups go at a time. It really enhances the experience. 5 stars!

Not really worth the money we paid. Not that scary. Short walks through all three attractions.

Two starts may be a little generous… more like 1.5. We went early in the season and purchased fast passes (which were not necessary). There were three different haunted attractions and all of them lacked staffing. There were not enough entertainers… but there were plenty of shower curtains used to build mazes. I didn’t like touching them. Thank goodness it was opening day before they were filthy. That’s all I really remember about this place and I was there less than a week ago.

POSSIBLE SPOILERS in this review. — Haunted Attractions.
All 3 attractions are located on a parking lot near the mall. It is not in the mall itself. This is a review for all 3 maze attractions. Had a Groupon for the even, and got VIP Fast Passes. We got to skip maybe 5 people in each maze. It was the opening Saturday. The people said it would pick up as the season went on, but I would be surprised if it did.
We’ve been to several other haunted house type attractions in town and this was the worst. It seemed as if a few kids got together, put up some plywood walls and tarps, and made these mazes, which are only 4 – 5 feet wide. So you’re always smushed in so to speak. It makes sense since it exists on a small footprint in the parking lot.
The parking lot had some cars, but in the end we think those were all the employees cars.
There was only a couple of animatronic devices. The rest of the scary part was motion sensors that let out sprays of water, air, noises, sounds. And after that, it was a handful of workers in each maze. One was funny because it led you down one path, but you passed the same worker. So they double dipped on that one.
One maze was literally that, a maze. It had many paths and was hard to find the right path to proceed. We ended up at the start several times and the person in there scaring us had to tell us where to go each time. We finally got out.
Not much was scary. It all depends on how amped up the worker happens to be, how good they are at startling you at the right moment.
All in all, this is worth about $ 10, $ 15 VIP, max. My friend will be going to another one because she didn’t feel this one was hardly anything.
All 3 mazes had open tops above head so you could see out when it was super dark. A couple of times the special effects kept you from seeing above though.
I know not to go to this one ever again. If you ever go once, you really don’t need to return, no matter how much they say they «changed it up».
Go to The 13^th Floor, or the one that was/​is at Rawhide, or some other popular one.
I can see why there are multiple Unilocal «locations» as they are possibly trying to rename it each year to keep not good reviews from stacking up. There should just be one «location» for this.

For a haunted house located in the parking lot of a mall it was quite awesome. Last minute decision decided to go check it out with my mom. Reading the reviews looked like the Crypt was the only decent house but for $ 8 more we decided to get a ticket for all three. Went to the Asylum first. The female «patient» @ the door never once broke character. Semi annoying but def my favorite. Have to say the Asylum for me was the best. A lot longer than it looked or expected. The maze one was ok. Got a lil lost in the tarps. And the last one we walked thru the crypt was freaky bc it was pitch black in most areas and couldn’t see a thing. But the Asylum was awesome filled with trap doors and dead ends. Felt like we were going in circles then found ourself in a whole new room. They did a great job with these. I def recommend checking it out at least once.

This was way too expensive. …however, the haunted houses were awesome! They scared the crap out of my wife and kids. They really put a lot of effort into this production. I just dont like paying close to $ 100 for my family of four. The extra charge per ticket for using a credit card was STUPID! So, it was a great expensive haunted house with a stupid extra charge. On the positive side… the expensive cost kept the tweekers and gangster jerks out. It was good for families.

I would honestly give 2 ½ stars if possible and here is why.
1.Parking is crazy. Once you park you have to back out of the lane because there is only one way to go.
2. List 3 haunted houses but honestly 2 ½ and that is stretching it. The Maze part (Chaos) at the end is not worth the wait– and you have to wait in line even if you have a fast pass which we had.
The props in the first and best attraction was
«The crypt» and worth a visit. I would have them expand that haunted house and ditch the other two.
If you want to try it go with the Fast pass.

The Crypt is a great haunted house, even if it is in the parking lot of a mall. There are 2 houses and a maze. The maze is not all that great in my opinion. But both the Crypt and the Asylum are fun to go through. Like all haunted houses your experience can vary depending on when you go through the line — timing is everything. But we’ve been a couple times now (this year and last) and got a few good screams in both so we were happy.
It’s good halloween fun and nothing too scary for older kids.

very cool haunt! we had such a great time very cool haunt! we had such a great time, We paid an extra 7 bucks for the speed pass, and it was worth it. There was no wait at all with the speed pass. They have three haunts. The first one was called «chaos maze» that was ok, gets you ready for the main houses. Then we headed to «The Crypt» there was a pretty long line, but we had a speed pass, so we went right in. They did a really good job here, it was really scary, I won’t give it all away. We then went through «The Asylum» it was great. I recommend this to everyone.

The Asylum was OK, not really scary at all and not worth it.
The Crypt was a lot better and more freaky and it seemed longer. I got a few scares out of it, but nothing that would haunt me. It’s just like you get scared and laugh it off right away. It’s fun.
Saved some money by getting it from LivingSocial.
The line when we got there on a Wednesday when they opened at 7pm was really long and they only had one cashier. A really inefficient process even when needed to only pick up the tickets. Waited in line for 10−15minutes.
By comments of my other friends, they said it’s not nearly as scary as Fear Farm.

We had a blast! Got a Groupon 2 for $ 20, both houses and wasn’t expecting too much because it was cheap compared to most. It was definitely worth it. They even got my fiancé who was trying to be tough and my heart was still racing on the way home! Lower budget haunted house but so much fun!