Halloween
 Cutting
Edge
Located at 1701 East Lancaster Ave. in Fort Worth,
Cutting Edge claims to be the “World’s
Largest Haunted House.”
Found in a new, permanent location at an abandoned
meat packing plant, the haunted house features
crazed clowns, giant alligators, possessed beds,
flying corpses, and a life-size animatronic Tyrannosaurus
Rex.
Cutting Edge is open through Halloween, 7 p.m.
to 10:30 p.m., Sun.-Thurs., and 7 p.m. to midnight
on Friday, Saturday, and Halloween night.
Tickets cost $19.75 and $17.75 for adults and
children under 10, respectively A portion of the
haunted house’s profits are donated to the
Fort Worth marshals and the Fort Worth Fire Safety
House.
 Screams
Screams, which calls itself the “World’s
Largest Halloween Theme Park,” is open for
its ninth season of operations.
The theme park is located near Waxahachie, about
30 minutes south of Interstate 35E off exit 399A.
It reports an annual attendance of 60,000 and
features four haunted houses and a number of other
attractions, ranging from their Maze of the Macabre,
to a Louisiana Bayou-themed Ghoulish Graveyard,
to a children’s area called Spooky Hollow.
Tickets are $18.99 and cover all attractions
in the park. Children under five are admitted
free. Parking is free. Screams is open Friday
and Saturday nights from 7 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.,
and Halloween night from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
 Hangman’s
House of Horrors
The non-profit haunted house, Hangman’s
House of Horrors, which claims on its Web site
to be the “largest nonprofit haunted house
in the country,” is opening for its sixteenth
year.
The charity haunted house claims to have been
voted the top haunted house in the Dallas/Fort
Worth area in 2001 by The Dallas Morning News
and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
It features four attractions at its location
on Interstate 30 and Forest Park Boulevard, about
a mile west of downtown Fort Worth.
The haunted house’s main attractions are
the Hangman’s House of Horrors, Mayhem Manor,
Pitch Black and the Mortuary of Madness.
Tickets can be purchased separately for each
attraction. Tickets for Hangman’s House
of Horrors costs $16, Mayhem Manor is $8 and Pitch
Black and Mortuary of Madness are each $5. A ticket
for admission to all four attractions costs $20.
Hangman’s is open every Friday and Saturday
night and Halloween night from 7 p.m. to midnight,
and nightly during the rest of the week from 7
p.m. to 10 p.m. Net proceeds are donated to the
local Multiple Sclerosis Society.
 Halloween
At North Lake College
The Alpha Zeta Eta chapter of Phi Theta Kappa
is co-hosting the North Lake College Halloween
Carnival with Mosaic Alliance.
The Haunted House will be open from
6:30 p.m.-10 p.m. in T-155, Oct. 27-29. Tickets
cost $3, but for those younger than 14, the cost
is a donation of a nonperishable food item.
All children must be accompanied
by an adult. Phi Theta Kappa will also host its
Second Annual Healthy Halloween, Oct. 29 from
6 p.m.-9 p.m. in the cafeteria.
Admission is free for the children’s
event that includes library card registration,
games, snakes and a costume contest.
The first one hundred children to
donate a nonperishable food item will receive
a free goodie bag.— David Olmstead
— Compiled by Tom Ritchey |
