Scary Rotten Farms Brings The Fear With 3 Halloween Haunts At Farm Market Site In Brick

BRICK, NJ — They are calling it the Endgame. Scary Rotten Farms is gearing up for what may or may not be its last go-round of scaring the daylights out of visitors.

And they do take pride in their level of scare: you must sign a waiver and you must be at least 13 years old to enter without an adult.

Scary Rotten Farms, the Halloween alter ego of Berry Fresh Farms, is a three-pronged haunted attraction at 151 Brick Blvd. in Brick Township. It's filled with creepy clowns, twists on fairy tales and its own terrifying story concoctions.

There's Delirium's Requiem, the tale of a tortured soul who was teased and victimized, and his unrequited love twisting his heart to a place of evil. "Dellas lives his life behind the mask he wore as a child, inflicting pain and revenge on all," the story goes.

At Sinister Sneed's Chaotic Carnival of Chaos, Jacob Sneed's deal with the Devil to save his failing carnival has tied his soul for eternity to the task of gathering souls for the Prince of Darkness as the carnival rolls from town to town. "So enter Sinister Sneed's Chaotic Carnival of Chaos at your own risk and relinquish the notion that you will ever return home. Simply accept the joyless dread that your dwindling days of life now offer, as your exit is not guaranteed," the haunt says.

In Twisted Tales, the childhood fairy tales we loved have become an evil reflection of the joy they once brought, and happy memories will become the fodder of nightmares.

Scary Rotten Farms is calling it the Endgame because the property has been sold and the farm market that has hosted the scarefest, Berry Fresh Farms, is closing at the end of the year. Wayne Dickenson, the owner, said he is retiring. The property has been approved for construction of a self-storage facility.

"When the news reports came out about the sale, people were more concerned about Scary Rotten Farms," he said with a laugh. The popular Halloween attraction — it's the top fan-voted "must-see" haunt and No. 4 on the best New Jersey haunts list on The Scare Factor — started as a display more than a decade ago, Dickenson said.

From a small display, it evolved as visitors to the farm market encouraged him to do something bigger, first taking over a greenhouse on the property before becoming the three-attraction haunt that exists today.

The haunts, with live actors and plenty of scary details, are $18 per haunt, and combination tickets are available; $30 allows you to enter two haunts, and $40 gets you into all three. A VIP pass for $50 allows you to see all three and skip the lines.

The haunts are open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays starting at 7 p.m., with the last tickets sold at 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and the last sales at 9 p.m. on Sundays.

There are special events scheduled for Oct. 20 and Oct. 27 that require the three-attraction mega-ticket purchases, and the last tickets for those will be sold at 9 p.m. Additional details and the waiver form that is required are available on the Scary Rotten Farms website.

"It was a good three-year process to go from the little display to what it is now," Dickenson said. "It's turned into a monster."

"It's just a little too much," he said.

But is this the final harvest of fear for Scary Rotten Farms?

"We are stating this as the endgame, but will there be a possible rebirth? Only time will tell," Dickenson said with a laugh.