The 2022 Haunt Awards

WELCOME TO CITY BLOOD’S 2022 HAUNT AWARDS!

We congratulate all the winners and please enjoy our annual Haunt Awards! Let’s first start with the Haunt of the Year and our Top 10 Haunts. Drum roll please. Haunt of the Year is none other than

1: The Dent Schoolhouse

The Dent Schoolhouse has come out on top once again. What can I say, but wow. The Dent Schoolhouse has some of the best detail of any haunt in the united states along with amazing animatronics, crazy characters and scenes that will make you cower in fear. Their new Monster Midway was incredible. Congratulations to The Dent Schoolhouse on being our 2022 Haunt of the Year.

Rest of the Top 10:

2: The Thirteenth Hour
3: Nightmare on Edgewood
4: USS Nightmare
5: Face Your Fears: Hotel of Terror

6: The Devil’s Attic
7: Escape From Blood Prison
8: Fear Fair
9: American Horrorplex
10: The Haunted Hotel

Enjoy the Awards!
We congratulate all the winners. Only haunts we toured in 2022 were considered for an award.

Best Ohio Haunt

The Dent Schoolhouse

Best Kentucky Haunt

USS Nightmare

Best Indiana Haunt

The Thirteenth Hour

Best Haunted House

The Dent Schoolhouse

Best Haunted Trail

Middletown Haunted Trail

Best Haunted Hayride

Sandyland Acres Haunted Hayride

Scariest Scream Park

Land of Illusion

Most Confusing Maze

Dysphoria at Land of Illusion

Best Side Attraction (Not A Haunt)

The Dent Schoolhouse’s Mini Escape Rooms

Best Old School Haunt

Fright Manor

Most Interactive Haunt

USS Nightmare’s Rip Experience

Most Physical Haunt

Face your Fears: Hotel of Terror

Best Design

The Dent Schoolhouse

Best Lighting

The Thirteenth Hour

Best Sound

The Thirteenth Hour

Best Use of Darkness

Escape From Blood Prison

Best Use of Water

Fear Fair

Best Use of Fire

Sandyland Acres Haunted Hayride

Best Use of Fog

Mohican Haunted Schoolhouse’s Laser Swamps

Best Use of CGI

Acres Manor Haunted Mansion

Best Façade

Fear Fair

Most Unique Scene

Walk Through Jack-O’-Lantern at Twisted Trails

Scariest Scene

Human Castration at Nightmare on Edgewood

Best Introduction

Fear Fair’s Pre Show

Most Memorable Finale

Nightmare on Edgewood

Most Intense Vehicle Chases

Sandyland Acres Haunted Hayride

Best Backstory

American Horrorplex

Most Unique Location

USS Nightmare’s Haunted Steamboat

Scariest Building

Escape From Blood Prison at Ohio State Reformatory

Spookiest Graveyard

Mohican Haunted Schoolhouse

Most Electrifying Laboratory

The Dent Schoolhouse

Most Out of this World Alien Scene

Area 49 at Middletown Haunted Trail

Best Swamp

Mohican Haunted Schoolhouse

Best Church Scene

The Thirteenth Hour

Best Hospital Scene

USS Nightmare

Best Props

The Dent Schoolhouse

Best Actormatronics

Nightmare on Edgewood

Best New Animatronic

The Mutant at USS Nightmare

Scariest Animatronic Monster

Necromancer at Fear Fair

Funniest Prop

Car Falling on Mechanic at Malice Manor

Best Vortex Tunnel

Land of Illusion

Favorite Hellevator

The Haunted Hotel

Best Acting

The Thirteenth Hour

Best Young Cast

Literally, A Haunted House at Culbertson Mansion

Best Actor

Nurse Bubbles played by Samantha Gray

Most Unique Characters

American Horrorplex

Best New Character

Anguish at Literally, A Haunted House at Culbertson Mansion

Most Sadistic Chainsaw Maniacs

Face Your Fears: Hotel of Terror

Most Blood Thirsty Vampires

Mohican Haunted Schoolhouse

Hungriest Zombies

Fright Manor

Best Haunt Mascot

Warden’s Widow at Escape From Blood Prison

Best Backwoods Hillbillies

Nightmare on Edgewood

Craziest Killer Clowns

Hell’s Dungeon

Best Horror Movie Recreations

The Devil’s Attic

Best Headless Horseman

Sandyland Acres Haunted Hayride

Favorite Serial Killer

The Boogeyman at Forgotten Forest

Favorite Michael Myers

Middletown Haunted Trail

Favorite Leatherface

Ohio Fear Farm

Most Frightful Queue Line

The Dent Schoolhouse’s Fall Festival

Best Queue Line Entertainment

The Dent Schoolhouse

Favorite Queue Line Character

Naughty Nurse at Mochican Haunted Schoolhouse

Best Aerial Scare

Flying Ghoul at The Dent Schoolhouse

Most Disturbing Childbirth

Mohican Haunted Schoolhouse

Best Makeup

USS Nightmare

Best Masks

The Devil’s Attic

Best Mask

Anguish at Literally, A Haunted House at Culbertson Mansion

Best Costumes

The Devil’s Attic

Best Midway

Monster Midway at The Dent Schoolhouse

Best Gift Shop

Escape From Blood Prison

Best Food Concessions

Zombiezi Bay

Best Apparel

The Dent Schoolhouse

Best Photo Op Stations

The Dent Schoolhouse

Most Spooktacular Hearse

Nightmare on Edgewood’s Angel of Death Hearse

Most Professional Website

The Dent Schoolhouse

Best Commercial

Escape From Blood Prison

Most Halloween Spirit

The Dent Schoolhouse

Thanks for joining us. We hope you enjoyed our Awards. See you next time!