The History of NETHERWORLD Haunted House

Year 16 2012 Banshee and The Hive – In Banshee, The energy expended to stop the Blood Night allowed the evil sunken city of YS to rise once more, unleashing a plague of Banshees, the harbingers of death! In the HIVE a vast bomb shelter sealed since the cold war cracks open releasing an army of Insect /Human hybrid intent on world domination!

Banshee – Its Scream Means Death!

The ancient evil city of Ys has risen from the ocean off the coast of Ireland bringing with it a plague of Banshees! These foul eyeless winged monstrosities feed on the dark energy of dying humans, seeking battlefields and natural disasters where life hangs in the balance. When there is no death and war they create their own by releasing mind shattering howls that summon evil from the NETHERWORLD! Thus the wail of the Banshee has always meant death to those who hear it, as it rips apart the wall between worlds and releases monstrous Fomorian warriors and other fell Celtic beasts to plunder and destroy! Drawn by the flickering pumpkins and falling leaves of the autumn season, the Banshees circle ever nearer, destined to create the most terrifying Halloween the world has even seen!

New Features for 2012

The Massive Bloody Crawling Eye! Crushed by the Primordial Giant! Portraits of the Undying! The Slime Crawler! Mauled by Crows! The Underwater City! The Beast From the Abyss! Mermaids and Tritons! The Formorian Hordes! The Wail of The Banshee! The House of the Dead! The 21 Foot Tall Tree Beast! The Moray Pits! Feel the horrors of a Halloween gone mad as the sunken city rises and Banshees fill the skies! More repulsive monsters, shocking scares and wild special effects than you have ever seen!

Descend into the Hive…

During the height of the Cold War in 1962 Robert Wellington-Hughes, a filthy rich genetics researcher, sealed up his staff and followers in an underground bunker called the HIVE. Eager to create a utopian society and a radiation survival vaccine based on insect DNA he disappeared beneath the earth for almost fifty years. Now we have discovered his horrifying plot to mutate all mankind into insect based life forms and to destroy all who dare resist him! You and you team must descend into the HIVE and discover the awful truth!

New Features for 2012

The twisted gore in the Dark Basement of NETHERWORLD grows even more vile with an invasion of giant bugs! Can you face – The Bone Snapping Crimson Hulk! The Colossal Writhing Centipede! The Flesh Shredder! Wasp Warriors! The Unstable Cobalt 99 Missile! Cocooned Horrors! Giant Spiders! Live Arthropods! Attacking Maggots! The Hideous Human Blob! More crawling, skittering, bloody insect nightmares than you can imagine!

Reviews 2012

Rated #1: Best Haunted House/Halloween Fright – Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s ‘Best of the Big A’

“There’s a very good reason that Netherworld has received so many accolades and awards and has fans coming back again and again. The folks behind this haunt take gruesomely imaginative concepts and pair them with outstanding special effects in an effort to scare you out of your wits. And they’ve been doing it for 16 successful seasons.”
Rated the #2 Haunted House in America
– Hauntworld.com

Rated #6 Most Influential Haunted House of All Time – Hauntworld Magazine

“Netherworld has more scares per square foot than any other haunt on earth”
– The Travel Channel

“Netherworld, in Atlanta, GA is the most horrifying haunted house in the Nation, boasting the biggest and baddest animatronics, insanely elaborate sets and the A list of haunt actors. Netherworld raises the bar for Halloween Terror”
– The Travel Channel

“There are things that go bump in the night and then there are things that scare the living daylights out of you. Make no mistake: Netherworld Haunted House is the latter.”
– Where Atlanta

“The grand ghoul of all horror destinations.”
– ATL Insider

“Stepping into Netherworld is like walking into another dimension.”
– MyFoxAtlanta.com

“You’ll begin screaming in the parking lot”
– Atlanta Now

“Sets the bar high…guaranteed to give thrill-seekers their money’s worth”
– Atlanta.com

“This is the mack daddy of haunted houses”
– Field Trips with Sue

“Truly a great attraction, not just a great scare”
– Duluth.MacaroniKid.com

“Packs a dark wallop. ”
– The Backstage Beat

“A 40 minute bombardment of fear”
– The Travel Channel

“Scare yourself silly. The perfect place to get spooked.”
– Uptown Square Atlanta

“You’ll probably be jittery for half an hour or so following the tour.”
– Rent Cafe Blog Atlanta

“This is a seriously scary haunted house, y’all.”
– Yelp*

“It’s as scary as any haunted house you’ve seen in any Hollywood movie.”
– Asher PR Limelight

“The Netherworld Haunted House team takes pride in putting a capital ‘E’ on ‘eerie’.”
– TripStates.com

“Hold on tight and get ready to scream your head off”
– The Travel Channel

“Extraordinarily intense and mind boggling. This is a haunted house that deserves your attention.”
– Fenux.com

“A Hollywood Caliber Haunt Mecca”
– The Travel Channel

“Netherworld Haunted House impressively captures the atmosphere of Halloween”
– The Emory Wheel

“The best scream of the season.”
– WABE 90.1 FM Public Radio

“Home to the experts on all things fear.”
– ATLBOY.com

“Every room is an interactive fear fest”
– The Travel Channel

Year 15 2011 The Nightmares and Raw Meat – The final chapter of the Blood Night story featured the Gargoyles rulers, the Nightmare Kings, locked in all-out war with vampires and humanity. Raw Meat exposed alligators, mutants and worse living in the sewers and storm drains deep beneath us all!

THE NIGHTMARES
They Know What Scares You!

The armies of Gargoyles had begun the total destruction of our world and now their ancient masters, the NIGHTMARES, are here to finish it! Primordial clawed and fanged things wrapped in tattered robes, the NIGHTMARES could also shape-shift into any form to greedily hunt human prey. Could the coalition of Vampires, Illuminati Warriors, and their freshly raised army of Zombies stand against the NIGHTMARES and the other monstrosities of the NETHERWORLD?
We dare you to discover the answer by experiencing the NIGHTMARES, the final chapter of the Blood Night Saga this Halloween season at the Legendary NETHERWORLD Haunted House during its terrifying 15th Anniversary!

New Features for 2011
Brutal Illuminati War Machines! The Blind Burrower! The Head Hunters Trophy Hall! The Snake Infested Voodoo Shack! The Mangler’s Reanimation Chamber! Buried with the Ancients! Ectoplasmic Portals! Crushing Columns! More creatures crawling, flying and slithering after you than ever before – experience a swarm of phobias unleashed by the NIGHTMARES – They know what scares you!

RAW MEAT
Your Flesh is What They Need!!!

The County Water Management system has a problem. Their workers keep disappearing, and lots of strange things are clogging the drains. Snakes, gators and human bones! Now you will explore the sewers and abandoned tunnels and learn the truth about what dwells below – In NETHERWORLD’s dark basement you will discover cannibals, giant alligators and worse in RAW MEAT!
New Features for 2011

Travel to your Doom on a Runaway Train! Infestations of Insects! Collapsing Floors! The Gator Spawning Pool! The Meat Conveyor! The Trog Tunnels! The Steam Pipes! GatorZilla! If you fear the things that swim, skitter and stalk the darkness you will lose your mind in NETHERWORLD’s RAW MEAT!

REVIEWS FROM 2011

2011 Reviews
Rated as One of the Top 13 Haunted Houses in America
– Hauntworld.com

“Psychologically thrilling, visually stunning and an overall can’t-miss Halloween experience”
– Atlanta Retro

“Seems to capture the most unnerving nightmares year after year”
– ABCNews.com

“The top of Atlanta’s haunted heap”
– Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Could literally leave you breathless with fright”
– Delta Sky Magazine

“Heart-stopping chills and thrills around every corner”
– Georgia Magazine

“An international Halloween icon”
– Westside.11Alive.com

“The number one scariest place you can visit”
– Homefellas.com

“They’ve taken the skin crawl factor up a notch…or ten”
– City’s Best.com

“The stuff nightmares are made of… will practically (or actually) make you wet yourself with fear”
– PostboxMSN.com

“Your scares begin the moment you get out of your car”
– EventSeeker

“The perfect place for a screamingly good time…you’re in for a delightful fright!”
– ATL Insider

“Known for their originality of unique monsters and innovative scares, Netherworld Haunted House offers an over-the-top production that many in the industry consider to be the top horror attraction in the country.”
– Hauntworld.com

“Extreme terror and extreme fun”
– The Savoy

“Brings the stuff of nightmares to life”
– Gwinnett Daily Post

History of NETHERWORLD Haunted House Year 14 -2010 Gargoyle and Dead Salvage – Part 2 of the Blood Night saga sees an invasion of Gargoyles betraying the vampires in an all-out assault on both humans and undead. Dead Salvage explored the return of the Mangler as he began creating zombies with robotic parts in an indoor junkyard!

GARGOYLE
The skies fill with horror as GARGOYLES invade our world under the cover of the endless Blood Night! Will a group of human mystics allied with the Vampire Lord Ghoulich be able to stop them, or will the earth fall to the winged fiends and their foot soldiers the Krampus Monsters? The fate of the Earth teeters on the brink in NETHERWORLD: GARGOYLE!
NETHERWORLD cranks it up all the way with a monster fest of epic proportions! See the 17 foot tall GARGOYLE KING feasting on his prey! Flee from gargoyles flying, swinging and crawling as they hunt for flesh! See a huge collection of REAL bones in the skull room, escape a house swarming with the supernatural as floors crack open, furniture comes to life, ghosts appear and coffins almost crush you! Confront the EYE and enter the mind warping Infernal Contraption! More monsters, more scares, more scenes, and more pure terror at every turn than ever before in NETHERWORLD: GARGOYLE!

DEAD SALVAGE
The twisted medical deviant, the Mangler, returns to carve his way even further into your nightmares! After escaping from NECROTECH Labs he has now set up shop in an indoor junkyard and surrounded himself with even more savage freaks to help with his experiments! Can you escape his underground lair before you become his next patient in DEAD SALVAGE?
Descend to the subterranean levels below NETHERWORLD to come face to face with the MANGLER once more in Dead Salvage! Escape his twisted freaks and medical assistants if you can, as he melds flesh and metal together to create an army of sick zombie cyborgs! See The Acid Room, The Drowning Tank, The Flesh Compactor, and escape mechanized death in many forms as the haunt grows even bigger this year! You may escape with your life, but not your sanity! This season, the gore and horror get supersized in DEAD SALVAGE!

REVIEWS FROM 2010

2010 Reviews
Voted The #1 Haunted House in America
– Hauntworld Magazine

The detailed sets make other haunted houses look like elementary school Halloween parties. Add the insane robotics and sheer size of this place, and you’ve got a haunted house that will make you think you’ve died and gone to hell.
– MTV Clutch

Named one of the nation’s “Spookiest Haunts” by ABC’s Good Morning America
Recognized in USA Today as the #1 Haunted House in America
Walking through Netherworld Haunted House is like stepping into a horror movie.
– 11Alive.com

Netherworld remains, quite possibly, the most intense haunted attraction… It is absolutely the most original… Netherworld has a very distinct bulldozer of a personality that makes it stand severed head and shoulders above the rest. You’ll never EVER mistake Netherworld for another haunt.
It is proudly and steadfastly its own thing.
– BehindTheThrills.com

By far the best haunted house we’ve ever been to
– Jezebel Magazine

You’ll never find a haunted house that has more passion for scaring people, certainly not anywhere in the Atlanta area…Netherworld isn’t just a haunted house; it’s an experience. Bring all of your favorite people with you, and get ready to make some memories that you’ll never forget”.
– Examiner.com

History of NETHERWORLD Year 13 2009 – Blood Night and Zombie Rampage – In Blood Night the vampire lord Ghoulich devised a plan to black out the Sun so that vampires and creatures of the NETHERWORLD could ravage the earth without the fear of daylight. In Zombie Rampage, special chemicals developed to help soldiers fight better and to heal wounds get added to a popular energy drink, and when spilled into a local graveyard cause a…you guessed it… zombie rampage!

Goulich the Foul once more heard the whispers from the abyss. They would send Goulich’s Blood Knights; his most powerful undead warriors to collect heads from the 13 clans of earth bound fiends. Once these 13 skulls were assembled, and the words were spoken the world would enter into the Blood Night, a time of chaos when the dead would rise and the Old Ones would walk the earth once more. Then at last mankind would be little more than terrified helpless food.

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Reviews from 2009

#1 Hometown Haunted House in America
– Fangoria

Rated the #2 Haunted House in America
– Hauntworld.com/Hauntworld Magazine

Rated the #4 Haunted House in America by AOL Digital City

The performers are outstanding, the movie quality special effects are riveting and the detailed sets are chillingly unique. If you’re a diehard thrill-seeker, this is one attraction that will scare the jeepers creepers out of you.
– AOL Digital City

“Hands down the best haunted house in Atlanta…it resembles more of a horror film than your old-school haunted house.
Expect to get the hell scared out of you in the parking lot,
so you can imagine what awaits inside.”
– Citysearch Atlanta

#2. Netherworld – Atlanta, Georgia
“Netherworld is truly an awe-inspiring haunted house.”
– Horrorbid.com

Rated The Scariest Hau
nt in the Eastern U.S. Region
– Rateahaunt.com

“This top-rated haunted house is not for the weak-kneed or the weak of heart – but isn’t that the point?”
– Where Atlanta Magazine

“At this haunted house, you’ll find scary stuff that seems to come straight from the set of a horror movie…nothing at NETHERWORLD is done on an amateur level.”
– 10best.com

Year 12 2008 – Carnivore and Mangler – Carnivore was a show about werewolves at war with the forces of the NETHERWORLD, the midpoint of a three year arc of famous classic monsters that had begun with Leviathan. Mangler debuted a tale of a methodical serial killer devoid of human emotion and immune to pain. The character of the Mangler became the de facto icon character of the downstairs show for years to come due to his popularity, and returned as a featured player or at least in a cameo role in all most all of the downstairs haunts from that point forward.

Check back soon for a further look into the twenty year history of NETHERWORLD Haunted House!

For long eons the Werewolves had stood at the top of the earthly food chain. Man thought himself the master, an illusion the wolves allowed. How much easier the slaughter when sheep were unsuspecting? But now powerful NETHERWORLD predators dared to challenge the wolves supremacy! There could be only one top dog, only one master of the world of man. In fire and blood the battle would begin here, the battle to determine the greatest CARNIVORE of all!

For some he is a phantom, a nightmare, a legend, a living death. But to the reporters and policemen who seek him, occasionally finding the discarded remains of his latest subject, he is know simply as the MANGLER. Enter now into his hellish domain in your quest for the truth. Will you find the answers to your questions in his twisted form, or will he find his answers in yours?
Go on, crawl down that sewer pipe…. The truth as always can be found in filth beneath us all…

Reviews from 2008

Rated one of the Top 13 Haunted Houses in America by America Online, Hauntworld Magazine/Hauntworld.com and US Airways Magazine.
“Simply put, its scope is awesome. The makeup is top-tier, the effects spectacular. It’s like someone put every kind of scary movie into a living experience.”
– NorthFulton.com

“More blood and screams than you can shake a severed leg at.”
– Creative Loafing

“One of the best in the country, the award-winning Netherworld is akin to stepping onto a movie set.”
– AJC accessAtlanta

“The attention to detail is amazing! Each room is crammed with creepy stuff.”
– Girls and Corpses magazine

“It’s not very often…actually NEVER…does Sneaky Sunday recommend trips OTP (outside the perimeter in Atlanta). But that comes with only one exception…Netherworld Haunted House.”
– Sneaky Sunday

“…A whole new level of terror…”
– Insite magazine

“They literally have it all.”
– TheHaunted.com

“Once again, Netherworld in Norcross remains my top pick.”
– Ira Miller, Forsyth County News

“Netherworld: Scariest Haunted House in Atlanta”
– Fox 5 Atlanta

“Anticipate a surprise at every turn”
– Points North magazine

“This top-rated attraction is not for the faint of heart”
– Georgia magazine

“Get ready to be scared”
– Q100’s The Bert Show

“The special effects at Netherworld have to be seen to be believed”
– The Real Estate Bloggers

“Netherworld is one of the world’s creepiest, scariest, and down right frightening haunted houses”
– My Fox Atlanta

“You [have to] make sure you come to Netherworld; man, it’s crazy. I come every year. It’s the number one-rated haunt in Georgia, so don’t settle for less. It’s the best.”
– Bow Wow, hip-hop artist and actor

“One thing about a great haunted house is not only the chills and thrills, but the actors have to be believable, too. That’s why Netherworld Haunted House is my favorite in Atlanta, since you really do feel like you are walking into another…er, I mean NETHER…world!”
– Melissa Carter, co-host of Q100’s The Bert Show