The Hill Has Eyes

Be careful these people charged me 3 times for the lame house trail with high school kids who looked more bored than scary. I have been told 3 times that someone would call me back and guess what nada. Apparently Monday is the day they process refunds but… Monday is also their day off. Even the general manager Tom Johns was absolutely no help, told me to email someone else who guess what? She’s off work today as well.
Keep your credit cards close with these people.

I went there last October and had a blast! It was pretty scary and had my fiancé screaming and jumping a lot! It is definitely a haunted experience I would recommend to my friends.

It is one of the best haunts I have been too! it is scary and interesting. Totally different than any haunt my friends and i have visited since your are in the woods and you even go on a chair lift; not your ordinary haunted house. If you live in the Milwaukee area you need to check them out!

Inappropriate, Inappropriate, Inappropriate !!! We left after the second event. My Niece was pretty much sexually harassed, after we told the «Owner» what had happened he offered to buy us all a beer, which we declined and left. We are not prudes at all it was just so in appropriate. There were 6 girls, we all paid for the speed pass, that is almost $ 240.00 for that kind of money to be talked to that way, not too mention groped. While my one Sister got talked to for touching the actors in which she was just reacting to someone jumping out at her and pushing them away. But their actors can hug my niece and tell her that she is giving him an erection??? Really, that is okay? While leaving we were telling everyone we could how bad it was and another group of woman told us that we were the second group to say the same thing while exiting the park. We are disputing the charges on our Credit Card. It was supposed to be such a fun night and it turned out so bad. Don’t go!

This place just keeps getting better and better, the ghouls were outstanding but the staff really made it fun. Definitely worth another go round.

I had a blast at Hill Has Eyes, and recommend it to any avid haunt goer. For Starters, the haunt was huge, took a good long time to get through it all. Having surprising and fun ways to navigate through it. I wont spoil some of the surprises, although an old ski lift being one of them. I have gone to plenty of haunts; know many people who work in the haunt industry world wide; am a big fan of horror myself. That being said, I enjoy a well thought out theatrical experience. I don’t get scared per say, not that I didn’t see plenty of people screaming and running. The haunt is scary. What I appreciated the most was the engagement of the actors with the people going through. They invite you to watch a performance. they chastise you and joke with you and have a pretty good sense at understanding the group coming through. That is what makes a good haunt over a bad one. Another big plus for Hill Has Eyes is the fact they serve food and alcohol. I love going out on a Friday night to a bar with friends. Why not a haunt with a bar, and an awesome pizza joint? It’s a bunch of fun rolled all into one package.
Check this place out! It is worth the money.

One of the best haunted houses I’ve ever been to, bar none (haunted house is probably a bad term considering the whole tour is completely outdoors). I had so so much fun. If you need something awesome to do this Halloween season I don’t think I could recommend this place any higher.
It had EVERYTHING. This includes, but is not limited to… (********SPOILER ALERT for anyone who wants to be surprised by the tour’s attractions********) a haunted trailer park with mutants, zombies, Satan’s Church (we loved the priest), getting a bag put over your head and wandering around in the dark, a giant slide (complete with dancing bear), riding on a rickety old ski lift, a graveyard, many chainsaws, an inflatable anal exam (Yes, I said it), a haunted carnival, beer tents, bonfires and a ton of fantastic characters/​amazing scenes to experience. (*****SPOILER DONE****)
Hands down, the most fun I have ever had at a haunted house (and I’ve gone to at least one every year since I was 8) I traveled all the way from Madison to go to this so I also decided to buy the VIP tickets. This means we got to skip all the lines and go right to the front (I promise, it was worth every penny) Even without the lines the whole tour took us quite a while to walk through which was fantastic! Nothing felt rushed or lacking and overall I give it an A++ (Although I love them, this is something I rarely give to haunted houses) I actually want to go again, it was THAT good.
This haunted house wasn’t «terrifying» per se, but what haunted house is? You know you’re not going to die or be touched by the actors in anyway and that’s usually enough to keep me relatively unterrified. But scary? Yes, of course it was! I was definitely clinging to my boyfriend throughout most of the haunt and I even found myself screaming at a few points. But on the whole, it was just ridiculously fun. These guys are so into their characters! You will find NO «Boos», «Rawrs» or «Hisses» at this haunt. These guys are professionals with well thought out character names and backstories. You can just tell that they live and breathe the Halloween season and they’ve got the sort of creepy charisma coursing through their veins that you can only experience at a great haunted house like this. They were also very complimentary telling me that I smelled good (you just don’t hear that enough, you know?)
Small disclaimer: This is probably not a place for children for sure. Although I did notice the actors were very good at reading us before we got to them. (Side note: I’m 24 years old) They were able to measure our age and type of humor so it was a lot of fun to see them interact with us and joke around with us. At some points it really felt like we were in on the whole thing which was awesome (if that makes any sense) but they never fell out of character or took us out of the illusion (This is very hard to do without looking cheesy! I used to work at a haunted house as well, I know how it goes). But yeah, I probably wouldn’t recommend this to anyone under 15, unless you are with a parent and are mature enough to get that this stuff isn’t real (just read through the haunt guidelines, I’m not sure what their age policy is) I also probably wouldn’t recommend this to any closed minded parents or people who are easily and seriously offended by language, visuals and/​or scenes as well. These are great actors who are just having a great time and living off the moment (and that’s what I really like to see and what we want to encourage) So this haunt should be avoided by anyone who is preparing to rain on their parade and looking for things to complain about (why would you even come?)
SO, to conclude… I had an awesome time! I highly recommend it and I hope that my review really got you fired up to go. I’ll definitely be coming back next year for another walk through.
P. S. Do yourself a favor and buy your tickets online ahead of time! It will save you a ton of waiting. Also, the haunt was actually sold out the night that I went so I’m really glad i decided to I order the VIP tickets off of their site.

The Hill Has Eyes is a new haunted house at the Crystal Ridge ski area in Franklin. We decided to go here because it relatively close to home and had a beer tent. Since it’s the first year, we expected some growing pains. But — for $ 23 for 3 «haunts» they’ve got significant work to do to earn repeat visits.
First off, the scariest part of the whole experience (by far) is parking + getting to the ticket booth. Not because of any ghouls or monsters, but because there are NO LIGHTS. Once you park, there’s a ¼ mile walk down a steep slope which is muddy, pitted and completely unlighted. I was scared I was going to fall or sprain an ankle. Seriously, consider a flashlight if you’re coming here — it was not safe at all.
Once you get to the ticket booth, there is a big waiting area and beer tent, as well as a DJ pumping out douchey dance music (Gagnam Style, Baby Got Back). Beers are about $ 4. One nice thing about this venue are two big bonfires outside, so you can warm up. Bathrooms? Ugh — very, very filthy portajohns. There’s also a Topper’s pizza tent if you get hungry. The crowd at this haunt is definitely older, and I was told some local bars were running shuttle buses, so it’s a party crowd.
The first two haunts are trails through the woods — being outside is inherently scarier but really there wasn’t much here but masked teenagers jumping out of the woods. Meh. Between the two trails, there’s another beer tent so props for that. At the end, you ride the ski lift — scary, because there is no bar to hold you in — and go through the final haunt which is more of the same, just inside a plastic tent. Double meh. Be warned that the trails and site are extremely muddy, so wear shoes you don’t care about.
Bottom line — this place has a lot of potential but right now, it just isn’t scary. They need more scenes + props and less of the Halloween Express masks.