LAS VEGAS – What are the scariest places in Las Vegas?
Good query, horror fans, and we have now the answers here.
If you're within the mood for some clown-themed scary motion, a visit to essentially the most macabre joint on the town, or simply an excellent old-fashioned slice of “murder pizza,” here's your guide to the five scariest things to go to in Las Vegas.
Zak Bagans' Haunted Museum
He calls it an inn for the afterlife.
Zak Bagans could be seen on the screen announcing the spooky tour of his haunted museum (600 E. Charleston Blvd.).
The right hand within the air begins the experience with a vow that we recite in unison: “This building is known to be infested with ghosts, spirits and cursed objects. By entering, we agree that the management will not be held liable for the actions of these invisible forces.”
Does that appear a bit much?
Well, wait until you see an actual severed head, Ted Bundy's ice pick, or the unique picket staircase from the Demon House in Gary, Indiana.
Unless your stomach is coated in iron and/otherwise you don't have a Pepto-Bismol IV readily available, likelihood is this truly unsettling journey will turn your stomach sooner or later.
Exploring over 30 rooms of this elaborate and labyrinthine 12,000-square-foot property, originally inbuilt 1938, we’re confronted with a combination of real-life horrors—the replica of Robert Berdella's torture chamber stands out as the most annoying thing we've ever seen—and the supernatural, from recordings of exorcisms to an encounter with the Dibbuk Box, considered by some to be essentially the most haunted object on the planet.
You'll see Jack Kevorkian's Volkswagen van, which he used to help in a whole lot of suicides, the shovel Ed Gein used to dig up women's bodies, and perhaps even experience the odd scare from a creepy clown – seriously, is there the rest?
This two-hour tour will test your courage for the macabre.
Cemetery cardboard
“Welcome to the Creepshow,” reads a small, foldable sign on the sidewalk outside, “a wondrous place where we put your kidney in a jar and show unsupervised children how to prepare a dog.”
This is a fitting introduction to perhaps essentially the most atypical shop in Las Vegas: Cemetery Pulp (3950 Sunset Road), the town's first – and doubtless only – curiosity and comic book shop.
It is the town’s self-proclaimed “home of the weirdos and nerds.”
Oh, and the dead.
In addition, there are almost weekly courses on attach tarantulas, beetles and moths, in addition to Dungeons and Dragons sessions, tarot card readings, concert events and occasional discussions with undertakers.
All in all, it's a fairly energetic place – you already know, considering all of the dead stuff.
Escape him
“Where are you?”
The disembodied voice of a clown accompanies our journey, singing and eerie at the identical time, a lullaby with bite.
A dilapidated house rises out of the fog, its weathered facade suggesting rot and decay.
It is a life-sized totem of death.
In this house, Pennywise lives, sleeps and feeds on stray children within the successful horror series “It”.
It's been recreated here at Escape It (273 S. Martin Luther King Blvd.), a hybrid of escape room, haunted house and immersive horror attraction, with such attention to detail that we feel transported to the outskirts of Derry, Maine, where “It” is about.
With a floor space of 30,000 square feet and over 20 interactive rooms in a large warehouse owned by Walker's Furniture round the corner, the venue is nearly as big because the $1.1 billion in worldwide box office revenue of the movies It Chapter 1 and It Chapter 2 on which the venue relies, with each installment within the series presented here in its own attraction.
You'll go through sewers and slaughterhouses (with the smell of a slaughterhouse, in fact), damp garages and way more. Most of the rooms have puzzles to resolve, which generally is a real challenge, especially for those who're on edge.
The complex also includes a collection of “It” memorabilia from the Warner Bros. archives.
To use Pennywise's own words, that's a complete lot of “tasty, delicious, beautiful fear.”
Army of the Dead
The zombie tiger waves.
Missing a watch and looking out like one in every of Siegfried and Roy's giant cats that's been bathed in acid, the large, artificial creature looms within the lobby of the Army of the Dead VR experience in Area15 (3215 S. Rancho Dr.) like a harbinger of things to return.
But first, our guide gives us some marching orders before the games begin.
“Shoot them in the face before they eat your face,” he orders.
Got it.
Army of Dead relies on the 2021 Netflix horror film of the identical name, which opens with some truly gross scenes during which Las Vegas is ravaged and destroyed by zombie Elvis impersonators, undead showgirls, and more in a geyser of blood and guts paying homage to the atmosphere of Old Faithful, spewing blood and guts as a substitute of water and steam.
The experience takes place on this landscape.
The motion begins when players board the Las Vengeance Tactical Taco Truck, which we use to drive down a destroyed strip with a VR headset on and a gun in hand, declaring war on rapidly approaching brain eaters.
We pass a destroyed MGM Grand, are chased by a spear-throwing zombie on a horse, and, yes, encounter the aforementioned tiger.
I even have to say, shooting seemingly limitless hordes of the living dead really does whet your appetite.
Speaking of …
Cut
Freddy Krueger is on TV and this system says “Murder Pie.”
While horror movies are shown on the massive screen behind the counter, “Forbidden Fried Pickles” and “Haunting Jalapeno Poppers” function an appetizer for anyone with a penchant for blood, guts and pizza.
Here at Sliced (2129 S. Industrial Road), Vegas' spookiest eatery, you'll find dishes named after axe murderers (the Voorhees BBQ Chicken Pizza), chainsaw murderers (the Leatherface Meat Pizza), serial killers (the Buffalo Bill Chicken Pizza) and more, all topped with Sliced's signature black crust, which, as everyone knows, is far, much nastier than the regular dough from the scaredy-cats at Pizza Hut.
For horror fans, this place is price a visit even for those who're not hungry: It's like a mini-museum of the macabre, with Art the clown from Terrifer on the DJ booth, life-sized werewolves, a pair of nasty little bastards from the '80s cult classic Ghoulies, and more, in addition to a number of arcade games, including the Alien pinball game.
If you eat on the restaurant, you’ll want to leave room for dessert: the “Killer Cannoli” and the “Terror Misu” are to die for – perhaps literally.
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