REVIEW: Dangling carrot creative’s grisly garden

OCTOBER 22, 2023

review: DANGLING CARROT CREATIVE’S GRISLY GARDEN

One of our biggest surprises this season was attending the debut year of “Dangling Carrot's Grisly Garden”. This haunted house takes place inside of the Dangling Carrot - an entertainment business in Santa Clarita that specializes in numerous behind-the-scenes departments like 3D Printing, UVR printing, backdrops, props, and more. The immersive, 25 minute walkthrough takes you through an incredible, original story of a gardener and his daughter caught up in a fantastical world of horror and mystery. By using the Carrot's massive 40,000 square foot warehouse, the creative crew of film industry experts has made one of the best attractions of the season along with raising funds for out-of-work film industry tradespeople.

The Grisly Garden really has it all. Throughout your journey you will encounter a variety of special effects and amazing features that include fake fire, animatronics, and puppetry - which are all executed with the precision and quality of a feature film. The lighting and sound are wonderful and perfectly complement the sets inhabited by very convincing scare actors. These characters run around within the garden walls, constantly frightening anyone who dares to enter. 

We witnessed lighting effects and illusions - like a hallway projection that kept moving forward and a pulsating neon-lined room - that we’ve never seen before in a haunted house. In one room we saw massive, robotic machines taking apart bodies. This build would be impossible in an ordinary haunt, but at Grisly Garden they accomplished this feat by incorporating some of their actual printing machines they use during the day to be part of the haunt itself at night. We loved everything we saw, but our favorite scene was the one in which a gigantic snake hovers above a spinning, frightened child who is curled up and wishing to be saved from imminent doom.

We heard that it is possible this might be the only season for Dangling Carrot's Grisly Garden. While we understand they created this haunt during a period of uncertain employment (and we absolutely support the need for better working conditions and fair contracts), we hope they can make the time next year to bring back their epic haunted house. For overwhelmed haunters, it is worth noting that the Grisly Garden is open this week on "off haunt days" like Wednesday and Thursday. We really encourage everyone to go and support the talented workers who created this while also enjoying what is one of the best haunts of the season.

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