Ominous Descent Review (2018)

OMINOUS DESCENT is home to some of the most dedicated and intense scare actors we have seen, featuring aggressive and committed scares with a strong follow through. It is rare that a performer will only get one scare out of a group, due to the clever design and strong direction for the performers.

The team at Ominous Descent once again was able to find the tallest men of Central Florida to act as maniacal henchmen in the attraction. From quick, agile, aggressive scares to slow-moving, looming, and ominous (for lack of a more appropriate word), characters are strong, passionate, and never break character or ease up on a scare.

Customer Service at I4 PREMIER FEAR PARK is always the best. The ticket booth, food stand, and haunt workers are friendly, engaging, willing to help and go the extra mile to engage in conversation when appropriate. The haunt owners of both attractions are also extremely accommodating, friendly, and passionate for what they do, which gets carried through to their Guests, creating a very friendly atmosphere. Safety is also a top priority, and although these attractions take place in the middle of the woods, the team goes to great lengths to ensure safety on the trails including level pathways, and illumination of any potential hazards.

I4 PREMIER FEAR PARK features amenities including restrooms, and though they may be portable restrooms, they are by far the cleanest we have ever seen at a haunt. The ticket booths also have extra bug spray on hand for those buggy evenings, which are plentiful in the Florida forests.

I4 PREMIER FEAR PARK has spent extra time on improving the general atmosphere of the attraction for 2018. They have created an impressive entrance arch and fence, along with adding more atmosphere effects (more themed music and lighting) to create an enhanced atmosphere. They added a projection screen behind the SIR HENRY statue to display a loop of trailers and other videos for the haunted attractions, perfectly setting the mood and atmosphere for the location. With the fire pits and other great features of the scare grounds, I4 PREMIER FEAR PARK has worked hard to create a destination for a night out, rather than a couple haunted attractions to visit briefly.

OMINOUS DESCENT has upped the stakes more than imagined with even more effects, detail, theming, and improved layout, creating an even more impressive level of effects than their extremely strong year in 2017. We hope to see that OMINOUS DESCENT continues to find new ways to do what they do best in haunts, including misdirection, entrapment, and using commonly used effects (laser swamp) in less than common applications. We are also excited to see the variety in different themes that OMINOUS DESCENT can provide as they expand in the future.

OMINOUS DESCENT does a great job of packing scenes with details, giving Guests so much to look at that an effect or scare is very well camouflaged.

Aggressive, relentless, and thorough. These are the words I would use to explain the scares found at OMINOUS DESCENT. Performers work from unsuspecting angles, scaring Guests multiple times while using the scenery as a jungle gym to climb and jump over props to achieve dynamic scares, as well as hitting and moving props and scenery to create noise-induced scares.

OMINOUS DESCENT is also scary by design, with the heavy use of fog, lighting, and winding pathways through rugged corrals and sheds, adding to the theme of a decrepit wasteland in the woods. Effects are well hidden and camouflaged among the scenes to provide true surprises and shock, adding to the strong performer-driven scares.

I4 PREMIER FEAR PARK features a combo ticket option for all three trails, totaling 30 dollars, prior to any add-on options (escape room, laser tag, multiple admissions, etc.) For a mere $45 dollars, Guests can access the three haunted attractions multiple times, along with one admission to laser tag AND the escape room, which is a great value for an entire night of entertainment. We spent a total of 26 minutes in all haunted attractions, giving them a MPD (minutes of entertainment per dollar) of 0.87.

Food, snacks, and beverages are also very reasonable and help round out the evening with even more to do. For much less than the local theme park Halloween events (and MUCH less crowded), and just as many (if not more) scares, I4 PREMIER FEAR PARK (featuring SIR HENRY’S HAUNTED TRAIL and OMINOUS DESCENT) is a Central Florida ‘Must-See’ this Halloween season!