RECAP:  This year, Dayton Scream Park unveils more new scenes and scares as expansion at their new compound continues.  While waiting to enter the haunt, the queue line is entertained by a dancing, “go-go” clown performing from inside an elevated cage.  The attraction kicks off in the DSP Castle, where rules are explained arousing the interest of Dopey the Clown, then the journey itself gets underway through a twisting pipe maze.  An early visit to Plumber Joe’s discovers the dirty tradesman licking a toilet brush he affectionately refers to as a “poopsicle,” and eating feces off a soiled plunger while stuffing bloody, “candy on a string” tampons up his nose and offering to share!

Declining Joe’s hospitality, leads the way to a circus encounter exposing a groping, cartwheeling, “honk-honk” clown helping herself to several handfuls of surprises before encouraging progression through the carnival’s tour bus.  An upcoming rendezvous with the winged Tooth Fairy wanting to add to her collection of “pearly whites” gives way to howling Dr. Blackwolf, interrupting his snacking on human appendages and jabbing himself with a syringe in a frantic attempt to counteract his full-moon change into a werewolf!

Water squirting from an adjacent mechanical monster encourages the course into a refrigerator maze that exits through one of the iceboxes into a morgue of coffins that houses an undead, still moving cadaver in one of the body vaults!  The adventure continues through a “who dey” Bengal bus that’s occupied by kayfabe fans who still believe in a Super Bowl, and a strange, baby-faced "Purge" girl, having "God" written on her mask, and praying for the team’s first win!

A large, white-eyed monster warns, “There is no escape!” as the route stumbles upon a snarling brute gnawing on a hand, then a gory stop at Stitches’ Meat Market that finds the ever-irate fiend throwing around metal pans in a fit of rage, and devouring severed body parts topped with his own brands of special sauces!

Still to come is an intense attack at the merciless hands of a pig-faced assailant; a well-done "SAW" scenario that witnesses a helpless captive caught in a reverse bear trap being stalked by none other than Billy the “Saw” Puppet; a grabbing ambush courtesy of top-hatted, path blocking ghoul; a Chernobyl-like, radioactive disaster complete with a mist-showering decontamination chamber; and an unnerving squabble with an enormous, multiple-eyed, elongated clawed, beast-like creature!

A “Ring” reenactment highlighted by a snowy-screened television set sees Samara emerging from a well, and even detaining a hostage!  Additional scares ensue within a frightening Boneyard that’s ruled by a gigantic skeleton-like being armed with a knife-like tusk for a weapon; a children’s insane asylum; and a comical jailhouse incarceration where a pair of inmates caution against dropping the soap and are in desperate need of a little affection!  Who’s YOUR daddy?

Had enough yet?  There’s more on the way from a pumpkin-headed villain, and an unholy exploit in Hell that features The Grim Reaper, a horned-apprentice, and The Devil himself! 

Revisiting the circus drums up a disgusting interaction with a taunting, killer clown proudly displaying live, hissing cockroaches; a clash with evil ventriloquist, Sullivan, and his talking mummy; an eerily-lit, vision-impaired detour through Li’l Creepy’s bog-like swamp; and a quarrel with Sparky in the confines of his Funhouse!

An Area 51 alien invasion is on the horizon unleashing an out-of-this-world, venom-spitting extraterrestrial, followed by a near miss, hit-and-run collision with an ATV/QUAD that comes charging up from behind!  Then, giving new meaning to getting “rear-ended,” here comes Bubba pleasuring his little c*ck (a chicken) and promising, “I know just where I’m going to put it!”

A redneck RV maze provides The Hillbilly Clown (Bubba) with all the chance he needs for “sloppy seconds,” and then it’s onto an all-out, pool noodle battle with more eccentric clowns that peaks with a spark-emitting send-off provoking an anything goes skirmish with the infamous Mad House Gang inside Cell 69 that results in being imprisoned against your will!!

Making a break for it diverts through a coven of witches into “Hollywood,” where your worst nightmares from notorious horror films are relived beginning with a face-to-face conflict with the possessed Regan MacNeil from “The Exorcist!”  Struggles continue against the 10-foot tall Mad Hatter, who empties his teacup on an unsuspecting schlimazel, and persist with Chucky inside a life-sized, “Good Guy” box!  Michael Myers (Halloween) hides in the shadows, and Freddy and Jason fight it out to the finish!  Voorhees even throws Krueger through a wall, picks him up, and slams him through a table smashing it to pieces ECW style!  “Ki, ki, ki, ma, ma, ma!” and "Gimme my hat back, B*TCH!" 

The lengthy event climaxes with the murderous killer, Leatherface, first seen standing majestically atop a van, which he impressively sets afire causing flames to shoot skyward, then concludes with a second, spark-flying, blood-splattering, “Texas Chainsaw Massacre" chase-out of Dayton Scream Park!

ANALYSIS:  Now celebrating their 22^nd anniversary, Dayton Scream Park has really come a long way since starting off as a shorter trail known at the time as Nightmare on Valley Street!  Through the years, OVH has watched them grow into one of our favorite attractions, and this year’s presentation is outstanding!

Some of the best scares the season has to offer are right here!  Strong character interaction is provided, especially from their more seasoned actors, many of whom are armed with an assortment of threatening weapons, insects, etc., and they get more intense with each passing year.  Menacing dialogue serves to further amplify frights.  Stitches gave an Actor of the Year worthy performance!  Mad House Gang continues to exert their dominance as standouts within their entrapment.  Other top workers include Plumber Joe; Clown “Groper;” Dr, Blackwolf; Bubba; Cockroach Clown; Sullivan; Lil Creepy; Jailbirds; Mad Hatter; Samara; and the “Horror Boys,” Freddy, Jason, and Leatherface!  Everyone did such a great job, it’s hard to name each and every one!  Jason vs Freddy “Brawl to Settle it All” and elaborate Leatherface/Texas Chainsaw Massacre scenes are among the best in the OVH area! 

Always recognized for top-notch acting that earns them bragging rights when it comes to taking home awards, bigger and better props, set development, and lighting have arrived over the past few seasons and have elevated this haunt onto OVH’s coveted list of Top 13 attractions, and it’s going to be tough to dethrone them now!

Previously visited scenes remain partially visible at times through black separation screens.  Additional detailing, continued improvement in the set design department, and decorating more of the transition/connection zones between scenes will make them even better and take them to the next level.

Cost of general admission is $25 and they're open from dark until midnight.  Pay a visit to Dayton Scream Park, where you’ll get the yell scared out of you!  And if they offended you, you're welcome!