Kreepy Hollow Review (2023)

The cast of actors at Kreepy Hollow are a great bunch of ghouls. Though a lot of the action seemed to be jump scares or screams that came from the same place or followed the same rhythm, there was still a lot of interaction between the ghouls and the guests. The bus actors were on point as always, providing a physically demanding but thoroughly enjoyable show that had the whole bus screaming and cheering. Likewise, the clown crew working the queue outside the house did a great job of providing a mix of creepy, menacing, and scary while still assuaging the fears of the occasional child visitor. The hayride actors were more sure-footed than our last visit and took the time to find and focus their attention on the most frightened of the passengers passing through their scenes.

If anything was missing, it was numbers; some of the scenes in the house and on the hayride are so big and expansive that it feels like there should be more actors in some places. However, with such a large property it can be hard to find “enough” actors. Kreepy does a great job with the staff that they do have, bringing scares right into the faces of guests with a scream and a roar.

Having such a number of different scenes spread out across such a wide area, the backwoods vibe of Kreepy Hollow comes through in the costuming. While some actors – like the queue line clowns at the house – have bespoke outfits, each customized with patches and unique to each actor, much of what we saw out on the hayride were much simpler versions and variations of dirt-splattered jeans and blood smeared shirts. Which is not to say that actors didn’t fit in for their scenes – everyone seemed to fit in with their surroundings.

Moreover, some scenes did have unique costumes – the devil scene and the Puritan witch-hanging scene do a great job of presenting a singular motif across several actors. But eventually the number of masked madmen wears a little thin. Guests will enjoy seeing some classic horror movie figures in costumes that make them recognizable whether on the Masters of Horror bus or out along the hayride itself.

Despite its location in the middle of nowhere, it’s fairly easy to find Kreepy Hollow. Spotlights illuminate the huge field that serves as a parking area while leaving some shadows at the property’s tree line to help invoke a creepy feeling of being isolated even in a crowd of people. Walkways are kept clear and stairs are all clearly marked out.

Staff are friendly and welcoming with a clear distinction between Staff and actors. Kreepy Hollow also maintains an online presence that really ramps up as the season starts that helps to keep guests informed of what’s going on out in the back woods as well as help to get folks excited for what’s to come.

Like a majority of haunts, it’s recommended that guests dress appropriately for their visit – a jacket if the night promises a chill, close-toed shoes for walking through the outdoors. None of this is unique to Kreepy Hollow but every year, so we were told, there’s always someone who loses a shoe.

At Kreepy Hollow, you know you’re at a Southern backwoods haunted attraction. At the top of the attraction, music is pumping and the lights are bright while the further back in the woods that we ventured the night comes in closer as do the actors.

The bus ride is very immersive and one of the signature experiences at Kreepy Hollow; the night we visited was no different. The clowns outside the house were very good at providing a creepy vibe before entering. However, there’s not a single over-arching story to the scenes at Kreepy Hollow. Instead, we move from place to place, scene to scene, each its own piece of self-contained fear. Between each scene of the hayride, we got to chat and joke with the folks closest to us; likewise, the graveyard between the bus ride and the house provided a bit of darkened space to regather and regroup.

We would have liked to have seen more queue-line actors at the top of the attraction and while waiting for the hayride, but again with such a large property it’s hard to get coverage everywhere for so many guests.

Given that Kreepy Hollow is spread across so much of the countryside, it’s amazing what they’ve done with what they’ve got to work with. Music blares at nearly every scene on the hayride, and the scenes along the route are typically well appointed, but some of them clearly get more attention than others.

There aren’t a lot of animatronics – nearly everything here is actor driven. Most of the special effects occur in the House itself, of course, which is where some of the creativity of Kreepy Hollow gets to shine through. From a beautiful storm scene, complete with rain, sound, and lighting effects that spans two stories in the house to rooms with banging cabinet doors and an initial room with a hidden panel, the House at Kreepy Hollow provides a great variety of special effects that appeal to nearly all the senses. We enjoy seeing what the staff at Kreepy Hollow will do each year with the house, what scenes will stay and which scenes will get a remodel. We encourage guests to keep their eyes open through the House if they want to see some of the best effects that Kreepy Hollow has to offer.

A night at Kreepy Hollow is an entertaining one. While the bus ride does an excellent job of spreading scares to everyone aboard, there are times that the House and the Hayride felt like they focused in on the middle of the pack, one side of the trailer, or focused heavily on the folks who were visibly the most frightened. Which we still found highly entertaining – there’s always a bit of cheering when someone goes running from a chainsaw wielding killer or when someone else on the trailer is screaming and clutching at their neighbor.

The final scene along the hayride was better staffed than some of the earlier scenes which led to some wider audience engagement, but perhaps the scariest moment along the hayride was when we encountered the bus again roaring up behind our trailer complete with monsters on the exterior waving as if to grab us.

Kreepy Hollow provides a great night of entertainment for a reasonable cost. General admission tickets are $25 and we spent about 40-45 minutes total in the attractions. We also spent a total of about two and half hours on-site between lines, concessions, and trying to see everything we could.

As the season goes along, we don’t doubt that some of those waiting lines will grow and grow. If the line looks full when you arrive, we definitely recommend spending the money for the fast pass which will allow a guest to go to a much shorter line at each of the queues (Bus, House, Hayride). Again, there could have been more entertainment at each of the lines from queue actors or the like, but once inside each of the attractions at Kreepy Hollow, we were more than pleased to be starting off our spooky season at such a great haunted attraction.