Nobody does it like Industrial Nightmare!  Did you hear that?  NOBODY!  This place is a masterpiece in every sense of the word!  Sounds are horrific and loud - audio enhancement in the séance room makes your skin crawl, and elsewhere music sometimes morphs as initial moments of ever so brief tranquility give way to utter chaos, like the calm before the storm!  Connection zones are appropriately adorned with a variety of vacuum form panels.  Costuming is unique, and characters are soaked in blood, agitated in disposition, and even involve customers in the scares by forcing them to oink like pigs, and do other unimaginable things before permitting them to proceed.  Monsters attack out of the swamp water, and within the claustrophobic "marsh" itself, and "Silent Hill" nurses stalk the maze.  Impressive props include swamp monster, gushing water, red-eyed actor-tronic beast, CGI's, etc.   The attraction is limited only by its duration, and the fact that very few changes were justified from a design standpoint this year, as explained below.

Sadly, this is the final season of this attraction's 4-haunt home, Industrial Terrorplex.  The building's been sold, and 2015 marks your last chance to visit this amazing attraction that's dominated multi-venue Haunt of the Year Awards for nearly the last decade.  Let's hope a building and location can be acquired so this legendary attraction can live on other than as a memory.  One visit is all it takes to see why Industrial Terrorplex is known as America's Scariest Haunted House!

Troll, claustrophobia, converging walls, and graveyard surprise are appreciated, and excellent sounds and lighting continue to set appropriate moods.  Haunted Network style morph is present in the torture chamber, where slower, suspenseful music perfectly sets up the emergence of the scene's villain, who remains hidden, and doesn't make his presence known until he's cued by the soundtrack, at which time he commandeers the scene, and all Hell breaks loose.  On the down side, this particular haunt has suffered since its 3 sister attractions received major overhauls a few seasons ago, and this being the final year for Terrorplex (at least at this location) doesn't help its cause, as last year's shortcomings weren't addressed.  Shower was unoccupied and surprise was missing, surgeon is AWOL, and chainsaw chase-out pales in comparison to The Black Blessing.  Cast size in general isn't populated enough to adequately staff all the scenes. Santa, bunny, blasphemous chainsaw assassin, and the return of Wacko Jacko are positives, and a few minor tweaks have taken place here and there, but for the most part Dementions  has been neglected now for far too long.

Lots of outstanding props are on display at Infected including virus detection screen, elevator, red-eyed monster, infinite zombie hallway, gator gnawing on a human arm, living statues, CGI's, bridges, etc.  Accompanying soundtrack is once again loud and atrocious, morphs in the elevator upon emergence of the burlap-sack masked Gimp, and gives everybody the creeps with its distorted rendition of Hush Little Baby, the latter of which is a much stronger scene because of its revised audio enhancement.  Character appearance is consistent with the centralized theme, and while dialogue declines beyond the opening scene, zombies don't speak, so this isn't a major flaw.  Gimp is the top performer by a landslide, and the course is cleverly designed to exit into a holding room at the entrance to CarnEvil.

As far as clown themed haunts go, this one boasts more unique designs and paint schemes than its competitors, mandating navigation through various circular portals, etc.  But attractions of this nature are always short and seldom scary without a cast of killers, or a plethora of mechanical animatronics/actor-tronics.  While CarnEvil 3D does indeed house its very own monster, clown demeanor remains playful.  Hats off to the clown with the high-pitched voice, who worked his big red nose off to insure everyone had an enjoyable experience from start to finish.  He lured groups into the wrong tunnels, joked and conversed with them throughout, and lengthened overall duration by engaging them in various activities.  While this venue is elaborately decorated and detailed, its theme is doomed from the start, and best enjoyed as a colorful funhouse, unique to the Louisville area, as opposed to thinking of it as a more traditional haunted house.