Your Worst Nightmare Haunted House Review (2022)

Each scene has a cast of characters that could easily crawl right from the recesses of your sleeping mind. The crew stays in character and moves beautifully through their scenes, helping immerse you into the world of your own personal nightmares.

While we’d love to see more actors (it’s quite rare that we don’t want more), the people they have can cover their areas well and they have a good variety of creeps that could be the reason you wake up from your slumber in a cold sweat. We especially enjoyed the creepy, undead Bellhop and, of course, the menacing Doctor and his poorly treated nursing staff.

Even though this is a first-year (on the east coast) haunt, the staff knows how to welcome visitors, and they are a joy to speak with. From the people selling you the tickets to the actors, and even the behind-the-scenes people, not a single person we met that night wasn’t an absolute delight.

GPS will get you to Your Worst Nightmare in Loris easily enough, but just in case you come from the same angle we did, be on the lookout for it, because it’s hiding behind a large building. The good part of that is that the large building sits next to a lot that’s perfect for parking! The Little Spider staff and backing have a long history with haunts, so while this is a first year (and was opening weekend during our visit), expect a high degree of professionalism from these folks.

From the outside, Your Worst Nightmare is unassuming. A large sign covers the wall of the building they’re in, and there’s a well-lit tent to buy your tickets, but there’s little else to greet you. Don’t let that fool you, however, because once you walk in and see the incredible set design you’ll easily forget everything outside.

More than once we were stunned into inaction and we just had to stand and gawk at the rooms we were presented with. One consisted of a set of stairs we had to walk up that all of us were convinced at first look was actually a painting. Too, the huge padded room we were briefly trapped in was very believable.

We’ve said it before, but it’s worth saying again, that Little Spider Creations created sets that were stunning and full of visual masterpieces. Even the few places that you have to touch like railings and walls have been crafted to perfection so that it’s a delight to interact with.

Sounds early on in the haunt were largely atmospheric music seemingly coming from antique radios, but other realistic effects soon followed. As time goes on, we expect to see more from Little Spider and YWN, but as a first year haunt building up a new location, there was a lot to see and love already.

Your Worst Nightmare delivers the fear from the first person in your group to the last, but if you want to make sure they’ll really get you, stick toward the middle of the group. Scares can come from any direction, but the unnerving beauty and strangeness of some of the sets really push the unease home. Of particular note was a hotel room we checked into early in our escape that featured a ghostly young woman passing by outside the window of the room. While she didn’t directly interact with us, it was such a great effect that we were squealing with delight (and a little terror).

The finale of the haunt – a question posed by the (hallucinatory?) clowns before the doctor’s gas wears off, is not a trick one! They really, really want to know if they scared you at all. So, have the chicken in your group grab the chalk and answer the question so that you can all escape… Your Worst Nightmare!