Cutting Edge Haunted House

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Cutting Edge Haunted House
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Cutting Edge Haunted House
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Location Fort Worth, Texas, US
Coordinates 32°44′47″N97°18′37″W / 32.7464°N 97.3103°W / 32.7464; -97.3103
StatusOperating
OpenedOctober 1991 (1991-10)
Operating seasonHalloween
Website Official website

Cutting Edge Haunted House is a haunted house attraction located in Fort Worth, Texas. Originally opened in Austin, Texas in 1991, it was relocated to an abandoned meat-packing factory near the intersection of I-30 & I-35W in 1998. [1] [2] The haunted house uses the factory's old conveyor system to suspend human mannequins on S-shaped meat hooks as a prop element. [3] [4]

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From 2009 - 2010 and briefly in October 2015, Guinness World Records recognized the attraction as the "longest walk-through horror house (indoors)". [5] [6] [7]

Description

Cutting Edge Haunted House was built on the foundation of a 100-year-old abandoned meat-packing plant in a section of Fort Worth, Texas that had once been referred to as Hell's Half Acre. [8] The equipment is still in use as a "two-story human conveyor system". [3] Mannequins are hoisted up to the second level and brought through the entire meat packing process, until the conveyor system brings the "butchered corpses" back to the first level. [3] It includes live sets, animations, and dozens of live actors inside and outside the building. The average duration of the experience is 45 to 55 minutes and is a total of around 2,261 feet (689 m) linearly as of 2009. [9]

Awards

Guinness World Record

In 2009 and 2015, Cutting Edge held the Guinness World Record for the "Longest Walk-through Horror House". [10] [11] [12]

Other awards

References

  1. ↑ Bennett, Rene (October 28, 2025). "Texas' Guinness World Record Holding Haunted Attraction Is A Legendary, Heart-Stopping Fort Worth Thrill". Static Media Inc. (which owns "Islands.com"). Retrieved November 6, 2025. Its length is a product of over 30 years of development: Cutting Edge started in Austin in 1991 before moving to a century-old, defunct meat-packing plant in Fort Worth.
  2. ↑ Curry, Kerry (October 12, 1998). "Another Ballpark nightmare" . Dallas Business Journal . Retrieved November 6, 2025. He's also involved in the Cutting Edge Haunted House in Fort Worth, which opened last week and involved a similar investment.
  3. 1 2 3 Hennessy, Kaity (October 2011). "Haunted House in Dallas Texas Cutting Edge". Hauntworld.com. Retrieved November 5, 2025. The haunted house uses the meat-packing equipment as a two-story human conveyor system. Bodies are hoisted onto meat hooks, transported up to the second level and then brought through the plant to endure the meat packing process until the conveyor brings the butchered corpses back to the first level.
  4. ↑ Beamen, Johnny (October 13, 2016). "Record Breaking Haunted House". Eagle Media. Retrieved November 5, 2025. The meat packaging equipment is in fact still in use, where instead of meat being hoisted, human mannequins ripped to shreds are pulled along on the conveyer belt from floor to floor for an extra scare factor.
  5. ↑ Janda, Greg (October 2, 2009). "Guinness Says Cutting Edge is Largest Haunt in the World". NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
  6. ↑ Swatman, Rachel (October 30, 2015). "Top ten most festive and frightening Halloween-related records". Guinness World Records . Retrieved November 5, 2025. Cutting Edge Haunted House (USA) aimed to scare when they created the longest walk-through horror house (indoors), measuring 1,642.16 m (5,387 ft 8 in) and located in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, as verified on 9 October 2015. They had previously held the record in 2009 and 2010 and were determined to re-establish their record this Halloween season.
  7. ↑ "Longest walk-through haunted house (indoors)". Guinness World Records . Archived from the original on October 5, 2024. Retrieved November 5, 2025. The longest walk-through horror house (indoors) measures 2,189.59 m (7,183 ft 8.4 in) and was achieved by Dragon's House of Horror (USA) located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, as verified on 3 November 2015.
  8. ↑ "Welcome to Cutting Edge Haunted House". Cutting Edge Haunted House. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
  9. ↑ Casstevens, David (October 22, 2009). "Fort Worth haunted house has scared up a lot of attention" (PDF). Star-Telegram. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 25, 2010. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  10. ↑ Cheung, Nadine (October 1, 2009). "Guinness world records names worlds largest haunted house". AOL LLC. Archived from the original on October 6, 2009. Retrieved October 10, 2009.
  11. ↑ "Cutting Edge Haunted House of Fort Worth proclaimed World's Largest Haunted House by Guinness World Records". Pegasus News . PanLocal Media, LLC. October 1, 2009. Archived from the original on February 26, 2012. Retrieved October 10, 2009.
  12. ↑ Jones, Paris (October 11, 2016). "World's largest haunted attraction open for Halloween season". TCU 360 (which archives The 109). Retrieved November 5, 2025. Last year it was awarded two Guinness World Records for being the World's Longest Walk Through Haunted House as well as the World's Largest Haunted Attraction.
  13. ↑ Jackson, Matt (October 29, 2021). "Cutting Edge Haunted House Named 'Best Haunted Attraction'". NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
  14. ↑ "Top 13 Haunted Houses in America". Haunted Attractions. Haunted Houses.com. September 22, 2016. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  15. ↑ Berard, Adrienne (October 23, 2015). "America's 10 scariest haunted houses". Fox News. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  16. ↑ Mullins, Jenna (October 7, 2014). "The 7 Craziest, Scariest, Most Extreme Haunted Attractions in America". E! Online. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  17. ↑ "Longest Haunted Houses in America". Hauntworld.com. 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
  18. 1 2 "The Top 13 Best Haunted Houses of All Time rated scariest". www.hauntworld.com.
  19. ↑ "Haunted House Chosen as "America's Best" Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas - Yahoo Finance". Archived from the original on September 10, 2014. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
  20. ↑ "Haunted House Ratings". www.hauntedhouseratings.com.
  21. ↑ "Cutting Edge Studios". screams.eventnewscenter.com. Archived from the original on July 10, 2011. Retrieved May 22, 2022.
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