RECAP:  Step inside The Final Resting Place, also known as The Haunted Junkyard, where honking horns serve as the attraction's welcome mat, and trunk lids of unroadworthy vehicles mysteriously open and close on their own!  Tied to a tree, a distraught girl lets loose a blood-curdling scream signaling the arrival of car salesman gone bad, Tricky Ricky springing into action from beside an old refrigerator to challenge progression up and over a wooden ramp leading into a camper having uneven floors, and inhabited by a strange disoriented monster!  Multiple school buses are maneuvered through as the course explores various sections of the isolated junkyard, soon inciting the wrath of cantankerous Hillbilly Hank, who goes on a rabid attack, then a Venetian-masked protector standing guard over his boneyard!  Headlights blink off and on, loud sirens blare, and flames burst forth from the engine exhausts, as the route enters CarnEvil – the circus of ill-tempered clowns!  

Back outdoors, a discontented nemesis armed with a pair of murderous knives leaps onto the hood of a car threatening, “I’ll put your head on her body and that chick will laugh about it!  We’ll ALL laugh about it!” Short-circuiting electric boxes spark repeatedly adjacent to a bloody kitchen occupied by a frenzied chef smashing a frying pan onto a stove, then running us out the back of the building hitting everything in sight with that same cast-iron skillet, as assailants unleash a plethora of assaults, some reaching through the broken-out windows of junked jalopies, while another blocks the path slamming a sledgehammer into the ground, and yet another hops up and down madly on top of a rusted-out truck!

Seeking refuge inside a nearby cabin kindles the fury of an order-barking, chain-wearing freak banging a barbed wire baseball bat on everything in sight, and giving chase all the way into a mausoleum of coffins, where a zombie-like gravedigger dragging a shovel stalks your every in advance of a second encounter with the barbaric baseball bat fiend!  More creatures of the night invade from all sides, brandishing a variety of noise-making weapons, with the only escape being stooping or crawling through an oversized sewer pipe!  “Turn Back!” reads a desperate warning written in blood on the window of a smashed up heap, as more deafening alarms wail prior to advancement into a wood pallet maze colonized by snorting ghouls that are heard but never seen!

Severed heads hang from large meat hooks and then it's onto a run-in with a cannibalistic girl inviting passersby to join her, "Eating a midnight snack!" as she munches on a dismembered leg, and offers free samples of recently amputated body parts!  Continuance isn't much of an option, as an enormous, axe-carrying bully complicates furtherance with no intention of allowing anyone to get past!  Pounding on walls accompanies clawing hands reaching out through openings in surrounding boards, and skeletons hang from crosses along the approach to a vicious chainsaw ambush that soon escalates into an unexpected double-team, all-out bombardment!

Still to come is a blood-drenched savage wielding a meat cleaver that ferociously takes a bite out of a decapitated head he’s grasping onto, as he begins carnivorously chewing the flesh right off its face, followed by another lethal squabble with a relentless antagonist that hoists a chainsaw up over his head, and gives chase through a skid-like entanglement, and beyond the remaining wreckage as he vaults up on demolished automobiles sending sparks shooting high into the air!  An abhorrent dentist’s office is on the horizon, then it’s on board a Chester County Fire Department ambulance before exiting through a wood shed filled with chainsaws discovers an unfortunate victim that’s suffered the fate of having a circular saw blade inhumanely embedded in his cranium!  Suddenly, he grabs a chainsaw and joins forces with a seemingly possessed girl for a dual, merciless send-off from The Haunted Junkyard!

ANALYSIS:  The Final Resting Place certainly makes the most of its theme by featuring flashing headlights, honking horns, the hoods and trunks of junked cars opening and closing on their own, etc.  Sounds are loud and complimentary pretty much throughout, and this year, characters are more aggressive than ever before, full of energy and brimming with intensity!  Most are armed with a variety of dangerous weapons that they repeatedly slam and bang to amplify intimidation.  Path-blockers, cook, fiends jumping on and off cars, leg eating girl offering bites of bloody body parts, and chainsaw fanatic giving pursuit all the way through the wooden maze are all memorable.  Chain wearing, barbed wire baseball bat attacker and meat cleaver savage chewing on a decapitated head earn best performances of the night!  Coffin room is newest addition.

Now in its 8th season, The Haunted Junkyard is the best it's ever been, and proof positive that you don’t have to invest in a lot of high-tech props to produce quality seasonal scares!  Although the cost of admission has jumped $5 this year, the attraction remains a pleasant throwback to the enjoyable haunts of years gone by, and is a lot of fun to visit.  The site also offers a Lights Out attraction and Grandma Millie's "Escape Room" that can be enjoyed for an additional $6 each. A $25 combo ticket is also available that includes all 3.  And concessions are sold on site featuring $1 corndogs and delicious $5 pulled pork sandwiches. 

Pay a visit to The Final Resting Place!  This is the way it’s supposed to be!