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Trapped in Purgatory
5050 Hylan Blvd.
Staten Island, NY 10312
(718) 967 – 5039
www.trappedinpurgatorynyc.com
Date: October 2, 2011
Fright Rating: 
pur·ga·to·ry – A place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven. A temporary state of punishment.!
Trapped in Purgatory was a fresh wake up to the senses for the start of this years tour. Haunting patrons during the month of October with two attractions including Hotel 666 and The Wizard of Gore, the crews at The Green Side Up Nursery have created something unique.
Arriving at the nursery we thought it had just closed, the ticket booth was empty and there was no one in line for our first attraction of the night, Hotel 666. This was a given considering it was the first week in October as well as opening weekend for Trapped in Purgatory. However, that didn’t really matter considering I love when there is no one in front of us or behind us. It sort of gives us a chance to take our time while walking through as well as take everything in. Now of course with hardly anyone walking through that means less actors inside. But those working that night definitely made up for the missing actors.
So before we even made it to Hotel 666 we entered a very tight and confusing corn maze. This is how a corn maze should be done! The walkway was very tight, only allowing one person at a time, the leaves of the stalks hung very low sometimes touching the top of your head and the walls were very dense not allowing you to see through to the next part. The maze even had dead ends and wrong turns which would take you in a complete circle! I was very happy with this because we have been through a good amount of corn mazes and none of them intimidated me as much as this one. The low lying corn stalks, dense walls, dead ends and tight walkways really made me uncomfortable while walking through. I found myself wondering when and where the scare would come throughout the entire maze.
While I loved the first part of Hotel 666 I am still having a hard time connecting the corn maze to the actual Hotel. Maybe I am reading into it a little to much but was the hotel in a cornfield or was it a dream with everything crammed together? Whatever the connection, it just didn’t fit in my book.
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