Dungeons of Darkness and Doom to open Oct. 15

The “master of mayhem,” David Barnhill offers the tour: Tucked away in a former retail space at Prairie View Center he’s built the “Dungeons of Darkness and Doom.”Cannibal room? Check. Werewolf forest? Check. Evil clowns? Done and done. The Dungeons have all the elements of one creepy haunted house, the first of its kind for a number of years in Eden Prairie.

The haunted house opens Oct. 15 and will take participants through the story of the EvilHill family. Barnhill is working with the Hopkins Area Jaycees and Main Street School of Performing Arts to put on the haunted house. 

“The kids do must of the blood and thunder acting in it,” he noted, while the Jaycees provide some of the networking backbone.

“They’re the skeleton, the kids are the muscle, and I’m the, I guess the heart and brains and nervous system or something of it.”

Barnhill has been setting up haunted houses since he was in high school.

“It got me interested in theater.”

Now, he coordinates the Dungeons of Darkness and Doom, acting as “script-writer, director, master of mayhem, coordinator, you name it.”

The house will run Oct. 15-18, Oct. 24 and 25, and Oct. 30 and 31 at the Prairie View Center, 968 Prairie Center Drive, which is next to Rainbow Foods. It’s not recommended for anyone younger than 10. Tickets are $10 with $2 off if a canned food donation is included.

For more creepy details about the EvilHill story, visit www.evilhill.net.

The Dungeons of Darkness and Doom

* Open from 7 to 10 p.m. starting Oct. 15-18, Oct. 24 and 25, and Oct. 30 and 31 at the Prairie View Center, 968 Prairie Center Drive, next to Rainbow Foods.

* Tickets are $10, with $2 off for food shelf donation

* The Haunted House is being put together through the Hopkins Area Jaycees, EvilHill Productions and the Main Street School of Performing Arts.

* Scary Info Line: 952-886-3366.