Purgatory Haunted House Review (2022)

Using the Facebook page address and Google maps it was easy to locate the haunt. There is a large well-lit banner that points you to the haunt. Once you park in the spacious dirt parking lot you will see the ticket booth, restrooms, and food trucks.

The customer service is excellent, with staff ready to answer any questions or assist with any issues. Once you purchase your tickets, there are separate lines for general admission and VIP with creepy lighting and mood-setting music while you wait.

Purgatory sets the mood from the moment you enter the haunt. When wandering around, it is clear that you are in purgatory, trying to find your way to the afterlife. Throughout the eerily-lit haunt, you come upon scenes of other victims that were lost forever. Spacing is also well done; I only encountered another group once while I was trying to find my way out.

Purgatory uses a variety of special effects throughout. The use of lighting is very well done, with both evilly orange-lit areas seeming to look like fire to areas of complete darkness. The props are also very detailed, with many custom pieces to add to the believability.

There was also several animatronics, including hanging corpses and a werewolf that lunges from above. The design is also extremely creative, with a maze-like layout that has several dead ends.

With a name like Purgatory, you would expect some intense scares, and Purgatory delivers. The actors amp up the intensity with several of them attacking at once. Several times I would turn a corner to come face to face with a creature of the dark only to have another actor come from behind.

The animatronics also had great timing activating at the precise moment to startle you. The use of props by the actors made some unsettling noises. The haunt also had an intense chainsaw finale with a great hidden surprise.

General admission for Purgatory is 25.00 and the VIP is 35.00 dollars. The length of time from entering to exiting was 12 minutes bringing the MPD, or minutes of entertainment per dollar spent, to 0.48, which is lower than the average that is seen most often of one minute per dollar.

Overall, Purgatory is an excellent haunt for anyone who wants a great journey through the afterlife with some creative scares.