WELCOME TO CITY BLOOD’S 2025 HAUNT AWARDS
City Blood’s annual Haunt Awards celebrate the best of the best in haunts we toured for the 2025 season. We had an incredible time and we survived the madness. Drum roll please. Haunt of the Year is none other than
1: Nightmare on Edgewood
Nightmare on Edgewood in Indianapolis, Indiana is once again our Haunt of the Year. This touch haunt is interactive, intense and one hell of a good time. It’s bittersweet since 2025 is their final season. They’ve always taken it to the extreme with memorable characters and creative scenes. Nightmare on Edgewood is one of the best haunts around and we’ll surely miss it. Farewell you frightening haunt.
Rest of the Top 10:
2: USS Nightmare
3: Face Your Fears: Hotel of Terror
4: The Dent Schoolhouse
5: Black Orchard Haunted House
6: The Devil’s Attic
7: Forsaken Forest
8: American Horrorplex
9: Grim Trails
10: Nightmare Manor
ENJOY THE REST OF THE HAUNT AWARDS!
Check out the rest of the Haunt Awards. We congratulate all the winners and only haunts we toured in 2025 were considered.
Best Ohio Haunt
Face Your Fears: Hotel of Terror
Best Kentucky Haunt
USS Nightmare
Best Indiana Haunt
Nightmare on Edgewood
Best Haunted House
Nightmare on Edgewood
Best Haunted Trail
Forsaken Forest
Best Haunted Hayride
Brimstone Haunted Hayride
Scariest Scream Park
Land of Illusion
Most Confusing Maze
Dark Harvest Productions’ Strawman’s Stalk
Best Side Attraction (Not A Haunt)
Nightmare on Edgewood’s Fear Chamber
Best Mini Escape Room/Rooms
The Dent Schoolhouse
Best Old School Haunt
Nightmare Manor
Most Interactive Haunt
USS Nightmare’s RIP Experience
Most Physical Haunt
Nightmare on Edgewood
Most Improved
Nightmare Manor
Best Design
The Dent Schoolhouse
Best Lighting
USS Nightmare
Best Sound
The Bog at Brimstone Haunt
Best Use of Darkness
Mt. Healthy Haunted Hall’s Dark Maze
Best Use of Fire
Dark Harvest Productions’ Harvester Ride
Best Use of Fog
USS Nightmare’s RIP Experience
Best Use of CGI
USS Nightmare
Best Facade
Nightmare on Edgewood’s Cinema 13
Most Unique Scene
Nightmare on Edgewood’s Claustrophobia Finale
Best New Scene
USS Nightmare’s Chapel
Most Sadistic Scene or Prop
Human Mulcher at Forasken Forest
Best Introduction
USS Nightmare’s Mitchell Museum
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
Most Unique Haunt
Grim Trails
Scariest Building
Face Your Fears: Hotel of Terror
Spookiest Graveyard
Face Your Fears: Hotel of Terror
Most Electrifying Laboratory
The Dent Schoolhouse
Best Swamp
Dark Echoes at Hanna Haunted Acres
Best Church Scene
USS Nightmare
Best Hospital Scene
USS Nightmare
Most Disgusting Scare
American Horrorplex Bedpan Feces Feast
Best Props
The Dent Schoolhouse
Best New Prop
Hotel Staff Table Scare at Face Your Fears: Hotel of Terror
Best Actormatronics
Nightmare on Edgewood
Scariest Animatronic Monster
USS Nightmare’s Impaler
Most Interactive Prop
Electric Chair Simulator at The Dent Schoolhouse
Best Vortex Tunnel
USS Nightmare
Most Original Special Effect
Hanna Haunted Hayride’s Train Crash
Best Secret Passageway
Fireplace Entrance at Malice Manor
Best Acting
The Devil’s Attic
Best Actor
Reverend Mordecai Black Played by Matt Mateikat at Middletown Haunted Trail
Best Actress
Momma Played by Tori Huffman at Nightmare on Edgewood
Most Unique Characters
American Horrorplex
Most Intimidating Characters
Nightmare on Edgewood
Most Sadistic Chainsaw Maniacs
Black Orchard Haunted House
Best Chainsaw Chase
Black Orchard Haunted House
Hungriest Zombies
Nightmare Manor
Most Blood Thirsty Vampires
The Devil’s Attic
Best Backwoods Killers
Black Orchard Haunted House
Craziest Killer Clowns
Hell’s Dungeon
Most Wicked of Witches
The Devil’s Attic
Most Convincing Victims
Forsaken Forest
Best Horror Movie Recreations
The Devil’s Attic
Best Headless Horseman
Brimstone Haunted Hayride
Favorite Michael Myers
Fright Manor
Favorite Jason Voorhees
Sandyland Acres Haunted Hayride
Favorite Freddy Krueger
Nightmare Manor
Favorite Leatherface
The Devil’s Attic
Favorite Frankenstein’s Monster
GAG at The Harvester Ride (Dark Harvest Productions)
Favorite Devil
The Devil’s Attic
Favorite Mad Doctor
Doctor Dent at The Dent Schoolhouse
Most Ferocious Werewolf
Chained Beast at Nightmare Manor
Most Frightful Queue Line
The Dent Schoolhouse’s Fall Festival
Best Queue Line Entertainment
The Dent Schoolhouse
Best Queue Line Characters
Nightmare on Edgewood
Favorite Stilt Performer
Female Clown With Scissors at Scream Ridge
Best Slider
Little Red Riding Hood at Grim Trails
Best Bungee Scare
Goblin at Grim Trails
Best Aerial Scare
Psychopath at The Dent Schoolhouse
Best Makeup
USS Nightmare
Best Masks
The Devil’s Attic
Best Mask
Devil Mask at USS Nightmare’s RIP Experience
Best Costumes
Grim Trails
Favorite Costume
Medusa at The Devil’s Attic
Best Midway
Cincinnati Fear Fest
Best Gift Shop
Land of Illusion
Favorite Gift Shop Item
Horror Dolls at Sandyland Acres Haunted Hayride
Best Food Concessions
Cincinnati Fear Fest
Favorite Food Concession
Mini Donuts at The Dent Schoolhouse
Favorite Drink Concession
Paradise Island Tea at Grim Trails
Favorite Bar
Voodoo Lounge at Land of Illusion
Best Apparel
The Dent Schoolhouse
Best Photo Op Stations
Hanna Haunted Acres
Most Spooktacular Hearse
Brimstone Haunt
Most Organized Parking
Land of Illusion
Most Professional Website
Hanna Haunted Acres
Best Commercial
The Devil’s Attic
Haunted History Award
Pop’s Landing Haunted Hayride
Most Halloween Spirit
The Dent Schoolhouse