Screemers vs. Halloween Haunt

These past two days have been filled with frightful experiences.  I had the pleasure of checking out Screemers at the Ex and Halloween Haunt at Wonderland.  

Here's a comparative break down of those two experiences...

Screemers:
Location:  The Ex.  Which works out perfectly, when you have a friend that lives a 10 min. walk from it.  Shitty when it's pouring rain for all 10 min. of that journey.
Cost: $25 with $5 discounted coupon found online
Attractions:  6 Haunted and some more carnival rides (shut down due to rain).  The haunted each had their own theme with one all dark, another in 3d, another asylum, and a few that had mazes at the end.
Best Attraction:  3d Haunted House.  You get distracted at the cool 3d effects only to get scared by a real person.
Scare Rating:  I was genuinely scared at least 2-3 times at each attraction.
Best feature:  Indoors, a variety of attractions, and they gave you 30 seconds head start from other groups to ensure that you were frightened.
Worst feature:  Due to the rain, only 5 attractions were open and the evening can go by quite quickly.

Halloween Haunt
Location:  Wonderland.  Which means that you need to drive.  Get there early, we were aiming for 7 and didn't get in until 7:30.  Traffic was a horrible bitch.
Cost: $32 with corporate discount.
Attractions:  I believe there was 12-15 different haunted attractions and then most of the rides are open.
Best attraction:  I don't recall the name.  But it was a long wait, but it certainly delivered.  Lots of darkness, scary music, and a bunch of 'scary' ppl popping out all throughout.  Plus, my friend was scared shitless at one point by a small person popping up in front of her.
Scare Rating:  I was genuinely scared about once per attraction, so that bodes well.
Best feature:  Because there's so much to do, you can't really get through it all.  So it makes you want to try it again.
Worst feature:  Everybody goes in at the same time.  Park is only open for 5 hours, which doesn't seem like enough time.

For me, Screemers was the better experience.  It may be that I went with only one person.  This makes decision making much easier.  Plus, due to the rain, there was only the option of doing scary stuff.  As well, not having to drive 1.5 hour total makes me a happy lad.  Finally, having your own time in a haunted space with just your friends means that you don't see everything coming ahead.  It's hard to be scared, when you know when the monster jumps out.

Only one more weekend to check out both of these experiences.

Happy Halloween!