Dungeon of Doom Haunted House Review (2026)

DoD has a great presence on all social sites and has even had a few videos go viral. Their website includes parking information, as parking is off-site and shuttles are offered to reach the attraction. We didn’t notice accessibility information on the website; however, after visiting, we found several floor-grading changes throughout the haunt, including stairs, ramps, and moving floors. Tickets are available both online and on-site.

On-site staff and security are highly present and available to answer questions and direct guests. The queue features several effects, including lighting, fog, and sound. The queue features a large screen that shows promo videos, along with fun trivia questions and facts about DoD’s 30-year experience while you wait. With plenty of queue actors roaming around, DoD creates a great atmosphere for guests while maintaining a good pace for entry to the attraction. They also have an on-site gift shop and concession stand. Make sure to grab a s’mores kit! They have plenty of bonfire stations around!

After passing through security, we walked up a ramp to a brightly lit tunnel, their most popular social-media photo op. The queue lines are marked to guide you to your appropriate ticket type. The actors roam around and set the tone for the scares you are about to encounter. As much as they beg you, don’t lick the walls!

While it wasn’t one cohesive theme, multiple mini themes made the haunt feel like we were in different attractions. The length overall also helped give the themes enough time to run as their own, not needing to sacrifice on props, details, and space. In the Dead Clown Alley, we went through a red and white plastic maze which felt like an eternity! The Mercy General Hospital went through different parts of the hospital such as a blood bag room, padded room, showers, and even a realistic moving elevator to make it more immersive!

Looking back, I felt there was no noise bleed from other rooms, which helped maintain the immersion of the themes. The multiple curtain flaps and hanging obstacles also helped prevent premature peeks into the next rooms. This also built anticipation for what was behind those curtains!

Some unique experiences we encountered were moving walls and ceilings. Inside Terra Nova, an actor was placed inside a tunnel and pushed a grate to simulate a drop, safely, of course. In The Condamned, a section of the walls kept moving back and forth, making us lose our balance but keeping us upright because we were packed in so tightly. We have to mention how awesome the sideways, crooked path up to the temple was.

Transitions between the scenes were seamless, and the themes were easy to pinpoint. The queue line flow was also well executed, as we bumped into very few groups during our journey. After exiting, a staff member announces your return to the real world after a successful trip through the terrible unknown. If you’re brave enough, Buried Alive is an additional option to keep the scares going. Just make sure to protect your balls from the balls. 😂

Where do we even begin? Dungeon of Doom did special effects right! This massive haunt threw everything at us, from subtle environmental details to entire rooms that moved. Realistic audio and ambient sounds matched the scenes, while sudden blasts and heavy bass occasionally scared us before anything even appeared. Several animatronics also moved quickly enough to deliver genuine surprises instead of simply serving as decor.

Lighting, fog, haze, snow, water, and scents, some pleasant and some downright foul, attacked nearly every sense. Dungeon of Doom also featured some of the most effective elevation changes we’ve encountered at a single attraction. We climbed steps, crossed ramps, stumbled across moving and vibrating floors, and even ducked beneath an obstacle as the floor rose beneath us! The scenes constantly changed in size and height, ensuring we never became comfortable. This was an all-out sensory assault! They even used textured lighting at times!

The impressive set designs and wild details continued through nearly the entire walkthrough. A few areas, including parts of the asylum, felt less intricate, with walls that at times looked more clown-themed than asylum-inspired. However, scenes such as the church, Warehouse 30, and The Slaughterhouse were tore up from the floor up (like the details were partying hard)! Our heads stayed on a swivel as we tried to take it all in.

Standout effects included numerous realistic, gory bodies, sideways-moving walls, a collapsing wall, and an elevator that actually transported us to another location. Many scenes also featured multiple levels for actors to climb, crawl, and practically parkour around us. Dungeon of Doom didn’t just surround us with effects – they made the entire building feel alive! For those who want to go all out and get buried alive – good luck!

The DoD actors were some of the most intense we have seen this season! With the attraction having so many narrow corridors and moments, actors can get right into personal space and even come from above. A great example of this is the Carnival scenes. The actors have free roam from the space above, allowing them to hit our group from various spots in little to no time. Being designed for guests to zigzag through the scenes, yet actors are able to get from spot to spot in just a few steps makes the scares very frequent and overwhelming at times.

Costuming is well detailed and appropriate for the various scenes throughout the attraction. One of the first scenes we walked through was a church. The characters were appropriately dressed as tattered nuns that have seen better days in worship. The makeup applied here is also well done and adds layers to the characters. The makeup team also applied a fair amount of UV paint for select scenes to create amazing details on the actors. The masked characters are all high quality and fit their costumes really well. One of the standout masks was a dinosaur skeleton with illuminated eyes! What made it so unique was the eye placement and glow effect.

As previously mentioned, these actors are intense. I would be hard-pressed to think of a moment where these actors weren’t on top of their game. They used a range of dialogue, screams, and growls to make their presence known. The actors set up scares for one another in distinctive ways and did so successfully. Overall, DoD has an excellent crew behind them and achieves the impressive goal of entertaining and scaring every guest who visits.

We’d also like to shout out the roaming characters! Between the machete-wielding clown stalking the grounds, the wheelchair chaser, and the suspicious patient wearing a Hannibal Lecter-style mask, they were wildly entertaining to watch and interact with.

Then there was the guy carrying a drill and signs who dared Nora to eat applesauce from a spoon sticking out of his nose. Did she actually do it? You’ll have to watch our video to find out!

Celebrating 30 years of experience, the actors didn’t hold back on tormenting us! Coming at us from all angles, we weren’t spared the double and triple taps, no matter our position in the group. They did such a fantastic job using multiple hidden passages to keep the scares going, giving a false hope that it would be the last time we would see them. The brief dark transitions were a blessing placed strategically to bring temporary breathers in between high-intensity scares. Generally, we don’t look forward to breathers, but we did in this haunt!

The unique layout of each room made it nearly impossible to predict how or when the scares would hit us. The walls move, the floors vibrate, and the animatronics would appear out of nowhere without warning. Those moving walls in Condamned made us lose all sense of stability and left us disoriented, vulnerable, and easy targets.

These actors were everywhere, and they came at us in a variety of ways, from climbing walls and dropping down from above to climbing over us on grating and more! But beyond them, some of the effects, and even the animatronics, left us jumping and screaming! Types of scares? Check!

If you want a standout ending that makes you question your life choices, look no further! As we made our way around the outside of a platform, a curtain was placed to show the silhouette of two mental patients. Once in the perfect place, they started jumping and hovering over the whole group, not sparing any ounce of energy. To say the least, without giving anything away, we lost our balance and found ourselves screaming our way out!

Side note: if that wasn’t enough for you, the Buried Alive additional attraction might be an excellent choice for the adrenaline junkies. There’s a reason it isn’t part of the main attraction.

Right after the end, you can pick up souvenir pictures and pay for them at the merch table. For the 30th anniversary, they made special shirt and sweater designs we highly recommend checking out!

General admission tickets (cheaper online) during our visit cost $39.98, including fees. They are $45 on-site. With the MPD at 1.13, which is above the national average, this shows that DoD knows the clientele and market very well! You will get your money’s worth here!

Fast Pass options are available for $49.99 for a shorter wait, V.I.P admission for $59.99, and a Platinum Admission Premium Experience that includes a behind-the-scenes tour and more! The Buried Alive addition is $5 more for general admission tickets and is included for the higher ticket tiers.

If you didn’t get the chance to check them out during the Halloween season, they also have special events, including Sub Thermal Nightmare that takes place in December. What a great 30th anniversary, and we wish them many more years to come! This haunt is legendary, and rightfully so!