Additionally, they also have some of the most amazing hollywood style make up effects to find outside of a film production. It’s perfectly safe to walk through (hold on to the rail), but it’s disorienting just by optical illusion. I don’t think I’m giving anything away because you don’t know it’s coming until half way through the room, but one of the rooms is slanted so that you lose track of gravity and aren’t sure which direction is down. It’s actually quite impressive.Īlthough they change the walls, rooms and gags every year, some of their rooms are annual staples and always memorable. It’s gone from black walls to spray foam walls, and now it has a full on production team for film quality production sets, make up effects and stunts. Over the years, House of Torment had raised the production quality to the point where it feels like walking into a big budget movie. This former laser tag building was perfect for a haunted house because it had multiple stories, paths to walk through and the walls were already painted black. Eventually it was shut down and in 2005 the building was renovated into a haunted house attraction. Back when I was in high school, Laser Quest was a rad laser tag attraction that had multiple stories (and before that it was the movie theater for Highland Mall). Starting in 2003 at North Cross Mall, House of Torment eventually moved to the former Laser Quest building in Highland Mall’s parking lot. However, in the last ten years House of Torment has dominated the market in Austin, becoming the go-to place for Halloween scares. I never used to think of Halloween haunted houses as having large or small budgets. Every year, one of the things I look forward to in Austin is our coolest haunted house, House of Torment.
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