Saw Live House

[213dittohead]

I've read mixed reviews on this house. Either people love it or hate it - and most agree that it's not worth the price of admission. Is it interactive, do you have to solve the traps to get to the next room? That alone for me, would make this house = WIN.

Who's been through it, what's it like?

[Director_Guy]

^There was a haunt like that out here last year in Brea. The year before, it was "Saw" related, having to solve puzzles and traps to get to the next scare zone. It was pretty awesome.

[acquaz10]

I haven't even gone through it and I can confirm that you don't solve anything to get through it and pass. SF would never do anything on that level. All Saw houses have failed. The one in Thorpe Park, not the coaster but Saw Live, yeah its the same exact thing was a failure there and they are a little less critical.

[213dittohead]

Well, in that case - My girlfriend and I will save our $26. If I want to see the sets, I'll watch the movies.

[sfgamguy]

Nope, it's not interactive at all. You just walk through and see scenes from the movies while tortured people and the puppet pop out at you from behind walls. It was a 5 minute walkthrough, but I only paid $7 because it was before 5PM. I would definitley do it again, but not pay $13. It wouldn't be worth it, but to me, $7 was worth it.

[Director_Guy]

All Saw houses have failed.

No, I disagree. The one out here in California at Horror Nights is two years strong and the one I mentioned being interactive was and even bigger success.

[Ilovthevu']

I'm just amazed at how Saw is a popular movie franchise around amusement parks. I liked some of the Saw movies (up to 4 and than the rest forget it), but it's just the box office numbers doesn't warrant that to me it's popular enough. It's lifetime gross (though doesn't include dvd sales) in the US is only $55 million. Though, part of that I blame on the movie coming out on October 29th instead of the middle of October, but that's hardly anything for a movie. Independence Day which I consider aliens / horror got $306 million in the US!! And yes, there have been a lot of Saw movies, but it's just weird how "popular" certain horror movies get, but yet not many people watched them when they first came out. Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street are 2 other movies like that.

Obviously, these movies made money, or they wouldn't have so many sequels and it's because of their budget being low, and I thank the movie people for creating more and more of these movies because I like all 3 movie franchises, BUT it's just amazing to me that they haven't used other more popular movie characters.

[Director_Guy]

Thing is EVERYBODY knows what Saw is even if you haven't seen it.

Same with Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger

[bob101910]

It was so dark, that you couldn't see anything. There were 3 or 4 scenes that you could actually see! The rest, you were only able to hear people saying "Help Me!" The scare actors never scared the middle of the line, which is where I was. Not worth the money. I would've rather paid $7 to go through Necropolis

[Necropolis]

^ Necropolis is free!! My favorite area of SFGAM btw!!

[ragingbull1331]

I liked it, but it wasn't worth the price or the wait... could've rode Raging Bull one more time last Saturday instead of this haunted house!

[sfgamguy]

I found out that one of my friends worked in SAW last year and we started talking about the house. He was asking me if I remembered certain scenes and I had no idea what he was talking about. That's how dark it was! I must have missed like all of the details they put into it. I understand that you don't want a "bright" haunted house, but if being pitch-black means you miss good, main points of the haunt, then I'd rather it be lighter. I also would have liked it if it was interactive, where you got to play the games from the movies, whitch I thought it was going to be like. It was still a good haunt though:).