The Fear PDX gets your heart pounding

Step alongside the abandoned wrecking yard and take a spot in line while terrifying monsters wander around, getting up-close-and-personal until it’s finally dark enough to open the horrid doors of The Fear PDX.

Located in northeast Portland, The Fear PDX is a series of haunted houses with tremendous detail set up to make you jump out of your socks.

It opens at 7 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays, through Oct. 29, with four more nights of horror on Oct. 30-31 and Nov. 3-4.

The Fear PDX features six haunted houses to help your anxiety levels spike through the roof: the Decayed, the Condemned, the Harvest, the Pit, the Carnage, and last, but not least frightening, the Slaughter.

Yes, welcome to your worst nightmares all rolled into one event. Just when you think you’ve hit the scariest part of the haunted house, there’s more.

You’ll walk through an asylum, encounter criminals, zombies, evil doctors, scare crows, clowns and even more. You’ll spot shadows in the corner, and just when you decide it’s nothing to be afraid of – SCREECH – it jumps out at you.

The Fear PDX has amazing

props and lots of detail in its settings and actors. It feels as if you are in a real horror movie.

This is no ten-minute walk-through. Mentally prepare yourself for approximately an hour of fear and trembling once you have passed the entrance gates. Enjoy heavy heart pounding as an actor rips the guts from a realistic body only inches from your face. Suffer immediate claustrophobia as you squeeze your body through a twisted version of a bouncy castle.

It’s almost like an obstacle course: You must wander around in pitch darkness, known as the Pit, while squeezing and crawling through tight spaces, and you’ll have to move the hanging bodies out of the way to continue – if you can handle it.

Although actors are not allowed to touch any participants, they still succeed in making you want to throw a punch. They’ll threaten to pull your teeth out, chainsaw you in half, and serve you on a platter. It’s gory, it’s disturbing, and it’s humorous.

Oh yes, imagine a Pennywise look-alike screaming knock-knock jokes as it pries the bars off its cage. Or the clown getting offended you won’t listen to his punchline and jumping over barriers to ask you why.

You’ll experience the paranormal, be completely relieved when it’s over, and yet long for the opportunity to go again.
Purchase your tickets online at www.fearpdx.com