Snuffhouse After Dark 2017
Extreme endurance attractions are very much a Marmite product for scare fans. This reviewer wanted to see what all the fuss was about, so we headed along to Snuffhouse After Dark. If you're planning to go - bring bin bags, spare shoes and clean clothes. Ours were ruined, and we had to change in the car park before getting back into our cars.
Snuffhouse is not enjoyable. It isn't meant to be. There is a fulfilment from completing the challenges and seeing how far you can be pushed. It's clear how hard the staff have worked on this event - the Tormentors managed to work a wellbeing check, taking your pulse and a toilet break, while still maintaining tension which isn't an easy feat.
You get out what you put in with Snuffhouse. Throughout the night we bounced back from the actors, disobeyed and spoke back - this then resulted in further punishment or specific treatment. We said the safe word half an hour before the end, as we refused to be forced fed certain foods. We were also very wet and cold - if you don't tolerate the cold then this experience is definitely not for you.
It was, however well designed and we were glad to see they hadn't purely opted for vulgarity and sexual humiliation - there is a fine line between a survival event and fetishistic humiliation, even if I did spend a lot of time in just my underwear! All of my clothes, including my underwear stink of tuna. I did get something positive from it and I'm glad that I lasted as long as I did. We really took the "you get out what you put in" mantra to heart, constantly talking back to the Tormentors, and it was great to see the cast were prepared for this, with a perfect response to everything we said.
So, we survived Snuffhouse After Dark. I made it through 3 and a half hours and I'm feeling it this morning. It was more intense than I imagined, certainly a lot damper. I wouldn't call having a bucket of water poured over your face a "water splash!" as described in the waiver!
But would we call this type of experience a scare attraction? It isn't, it just isn't scare at all. At one point the Tormentors asked me if I was shaking because I was scared. It was actually just because I was cold and tired. I'm glad I experienced it but I would NEVER chose to do it again. I view it more as a one off piece of performance art than a scare attraction in the traditional sense. But I am glad I experienced it. Now time for a hot bath!
Snuffhouse is not enjoyable. It isn't meant to be. There is a fulfilment from completing the challenges and seeing how far you can be pushed. It's clear how hard the staff have worked on this event - the Tormentors managed to work a wellbeing check, taking your pulse and a toilet break, while still maintaining tension which isn't an easy feat.
You get out what you put in with Snuffhouse. Throughout the night we bounced back from the actors, disobeyed and spoke back - this then resulted in further punishment or specific treatment. We said the safe word half an hour before the end, as we refused to be forced fed certain foods. We were also very wet and cold - if you don't tolerate the cold then this experience is definitely not for you.
It was, however well designed and we were glad to see they hadn't purely opted for vulgarity and sexual humiliation - there is a fine line between a survival event and fetishistic humiliation, even if I did spend a lot of time in just my underwear! All of my clothes, including my underwear stink of tuna. I did get something positive from it and I'm glad that I lasted as long as I did. We really took the "you get out what you put in" mantra to heart, constantly talking back to the Tormentors, and it was great to see the cast were prepared for this, with a perfect response to everything we said.
So, we survived Snuffhouse After Dark. I made it through 3 and a half hours and I'm feeling it this morning. It was more intense than I imagined, certainly a lot damper. I wouldn't call having a bucket of water poured over your face a "water splash!" as described in the waiver!
But would we call this type of experience a scare attraction? It isn't, it just isn't scare at all. At one point the Tormentors asked me if I was shaking because I was scared. It was actually just because I was cold and tired. I'm glad I experienced it but I would NEVER chose to do it again. I view it more as a one off piece of performance art than a scare attraction in the traditional sense. But I am glad I experienced it. Now time for a hot bath!
Screenshot from the Snuffhouse After Dark live feed of Vicky during the attraction.
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Official Website: www.scarekingdom.com/snuffhouse
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Mildly scary
Last night my friend and I visited Snuffhouse After Dark, have to admit have quite mixed emotions about the attraction as a whole.
First thing to note this attraction is definitely not for everyone, it is extreme and not what you would call enjoyable.
The sense of achievement at end is the enjoyable part, also I did laugh quite a lot at my friends misfortune which did get me into trouble.You get two chances at safeword and then its game over, our group got smaller as night went on.
The tormentors are brill very well acted and constantly on you all night. The night is compared by a Jimmy Grin giving you tasks to fulfil throughout the night, I felt this character didn't work as opposed to the serious menace of the tormentors.
The scenarios were all unpleasant have to admit I was very shocked when we were all asked to strip to our underwear. We were degraded as a group, which has been the most extreme thing I have seen in a UK horror attraction.
I was told to roll in puddles in my tshirt in the mud, which led to me literally being freezing throughout the night. The physical tasks, cold, soaking wet clothes all the while being hooded gets VERY unpleasant and if not careful you will start panicking.
All in all I'm glad I did it and completed it, was it scary NO. Was it degrading and physically demanding, massively. Would I recommend, probably not as I think this attraction is for a very niche audience.
I do have to give credit to Atmosfear to putting on such a brave attraction and having such a talented cast.
Last night my friend and I visited Snuffhouse After Dark, have to admit have quite mixed emotions about the attraction as a whole.
First thing to note this attraction is definitely not for everyone, it is extreme and not what you would call enjoyable.
The sense of achievement at end is the enjoyable part, also I did laugh quite a lot at my friends misfortune which did get me into trouble.You get two chances at safeword and then its game over, our group got smaller as night went on.
The tormentors are brill very well acted and constantly on you all night. The night is compared by a Jimmy Grin giving you tasks to fulfil throughout the night, I felt this character didn't work as opposed to the serious menace of the tormentors.
The scenarios were all unpleasant have to admit I was very shocked when we were all asked to strip to our underwear. We were degraded as a group, which has been the most extreme thing I have seen in a UK horror attraction.
I was told to roll in puddles in my tshirt in the mud, which led to me literally being freezing throughout the night. The physical tasks, cold, soaking wet clothes all the while being hooded gets VERY unpleasant and if not careful you will start panicking.
All in all I'm glad I did it and completed it, was it scary NO. Was it degrading and physically demanding, massively. Would I recommend, probably not as I think this attraction is for a very niche audience.
I do have to give credit to Atmosfear to putting on such a brave attraction and having such a talented cast.
Mildly scary - I really liked the athmosphere in snuffhouse after dark- and the event were very well thought through. Great actors- and it was easy to understand the storyline.
Unfortunately many of the "participants"/subjects didn´t follow the rules of the event. If it´s clearly stated that as a participant you have to obey the actors, do as you´re told and not refuse some of the things during the event-THEN YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW THE RULES!!! At least 6-7 people during our event should have been disqualified and removed from the event quite early... They just refused to do things, they talked back to the tourmentors and ruined it for the rest of us.
-This was very unfortunate, since it was a very nice event. In my opinion they could have been much tougher on us- both physically and mentally, but it was interresting.I wouldn´t say it´s an "extreme" haunt- but perhaps that´s because of the other participants behaviour...
Unfortunately many of the "participants"/subjects didn´t follow the rules of the event. If it´s clearly stated that as a participant you have to obey the actors, do as you´re told and not refuse some of the things during the event-THEN YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW THE RULES!!! At least 6-7 people during our event should have been disqualified and removed from the event quite early... They just refused to do things, they talked back to the tourmentors and ruined it for the rest of us.
-This was very unfortunate, since it was a very nice event. In my opinion they could have been much tougher on us- both physically and mentally, but it was interresting.I wouldn´t say it´s an "extreme" haunt- but perhaps that´s because of the other participants behaviour...
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