Visitors enter the Cutting Edge Haunted House at 1701 E. Lancaster Ave. on Oct. 7, 2007.
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It’s opening day for the “world’s scariest haunted house,” which resides in Fort Worth’s Hell’s Half Acre.
Cutting Edge Haunted House is back for another Halloween season in its legendary 100-year-old abandoned meat packing plant, filled with live actors and special effects. They use the existing old meat packing equipment to turn the horror house into a human processing plant.
HauntWorld, a website with hundreds of reviews and thousands of listings for spooky attractions, ranks the Fort Worth haunted house as the scariest in the world.
USA Today Readers Choice Awards has ranked the attraction as one of the country’s scariest for 2021, 2023 and 2024. Cutting Edge is once again nominated this year.
If you are interested in tickets for a good scare, keep reading at your own risk.
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Brent James of Mesquite poses at Cutting Edge Haunted House in Fort Worth on Oct. 20, 2011. Khampha Bouaphanh Star-Telegram What makes Cutting Edge the scariest haunted house in the world?
Cutting Edge is a “legendary Halloween experience” that has grown over the past 35 years, earning accolades that include four Guinness world records and national reader choice awards.
“A towering force in the haunted attraction industry, Cutting Edge has earned its place at the top by crafting an experience that lingers long after guests exit its shadowy halls,” HauntWorld writes.“Hidden within the walls of a century-old meatpacking plant, this Fort Worth legend draws guests into a multi-level journey where dim corridors shift, illusions flicker, and the line between reality and nightmare quietly disappears.”
Cutting Edge trains its actors through a program called “Boo University,” where each cast member goes through multiple rounds of auditions, described as similar to a Broadway production. The 55-minute experience is scary enough to carry a warning and disclaimer.
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Cutting Edge Haunted House is photographed in Fort Worth on Thursday, October 20, 2011. Khampha Bouaphanh Fort Worth Star-Telegram How to get Cutting Edge Haunted House tickets
For those who want to get the spookies scared out of them, here’s how you can get tickets for Cutting Edge:
Tickets are “extremely limited, so buy early,” suggests the Cutting Edge website. Tickets must be bought online ahead of time.
Guests choose a date and time slot online to attend.Depending on that, tickets range from $29.99 to $44.99.Parking is $20, cash only.There are no refunds, unless ticket insurance is purchased for $5.No purses.Children must be at least 42 inches tall.The last date to attend Cutting Edge is Friday, Nov. 13. The latest time slot available for purchase on this date is 8:45 to 9 p.m.Tickets are emailed in a PDF
Cutting Edge Haunted House is located at 1701 E. Lancaster Ave. in Fort Worth. It is open only Friday through Sunday except for a few Wednesdays and Thursdays. Visit its website to see the full schedule.
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Ella Gonzales is a service journalism reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She is part of a team of local journalists who answer reader questions and write about life in North Texas. Ella mainly writes about local restaurants and where to find good deals around town.