2025 Question and Answer With Ultimate Zombie Hunt

“When your tired of being Ordinary”

TennesseeHauntedHouses.com recently sat down with Rick Pope of Ultimate Zombie Hunt, to discuss what's new at Ultimate Zombie Hunt for the 2025 Halloween Season!

What's new at Ultimate Zombie Hunt for 2025? Do you have any new rides, attractions, or special features that Haunt Seekers should know about?

This year our hunters will be protecting a lab assistant during the hunt to retrieve his notes, formula, and frozen virus. This year will be a mix between hunting zombies, finding clues, protecting individuals, and a flare of the escape room. Zombies this year can only be stunned and not killed. The mutation has become worse and this is a free roaming adventure.

What are you most excited about for the 2025 Halloween Season?

Hunters will have the ability this year to pick their direction and can free roam the indoor “town”. They will discover what the UBG laboratories has been hiding all these years and where the zombies are actually coming from.

What differentiates Ultimate Zombie Hunt from other local haunts in Tennessee?

We are an adventure based event that creates a scenario and the hunters must accomplish tasks in order to complete their mission. Hunters are not forced in a predetermined path, they will have the opportunity to freely explore and roam the warehouse, labs, bunker, and a surprise area.

How long has Ultimate Zombie Hunt been in business? Can you tell us a bit more about Ultimate Zombie Hunt's history?

We have been successfully running the Ultimate Zombie Hunt since 2022 with a 2021 private (non-public) adventure. Each year it gets better and the mission and scenario continues to change. 2022 was a very long maze of paths this open rooms filled with zombies to kill. In 2023, it became a mission and a labyrinth or caverns that created a scare and attacking zombies. 2024 we allowed the hunters to enter the living quarters of the scientists and the actual laboratory. Military guides were used to help the hunters accomplish their mission. 2024 also brought us the Haunted Caverns. Hunters could chose to enter this “haunted” expansion of the Zombie Hunt.

What's your favorite experience since opening Ultimate Zombie Hunt?

The favorite parts of the Ultimate Zombie Hunt for me are the reactions of the hunters as events take place during the “hunt”. Guides are fully emerged in their roles and makes the adventure fun and exciting to be a part of. Designing the layout and creating the scenario of the adventures are also a favorite part.

How long is a typical haunt experience at Ultimate Zombie Hunt from start to finish?

The average time of a zombie hunt adventure lasts approximately 15 minutes.

On a scale from 1 to 10, how scary would you say Ultimate Zombie Hunt is? Why?

The scare factor is based on the individual. Year 2022 was an 8 to 10, while year 2023 was about a 7 to 9. 2024 we made it more scenario friendly with a mission in mind and the scare factor was a 4 to 6. However, moving into 2025 we are designing the “escape room” aspect with zombies that just won’t die that just keep coming at you. We feel it will be a back to an 8-10.

Does Ultimate Zombie Hunt's property have any real haunted history? Do you have a spooky encounter you'd like to share?

We do not feel that there is any “real” haunted history at our location, except that it’s really creepy and one could easily let their mind run away with them.

What inspired you to open up a haunted attraction? What's your favorite part of the business?

Our regular business: Paintball, GellyBall, AirSoft, Nerf, ArrowTag, and LaserTag make us realize that we could create a live interaction with the customer using one of our projecting devices. Paintball was painful to the actors, AirSoft was Painful. ArrowTag was to cumbersome, Nerf was to “childish” and LaserTag was “lame”. BUT, the GellyBall Blasters were awesome and perfect for everything we needed. The Zombie shows were still very popular in 2021 and we decided to go down that path.

How has new technology (i.e. animatronics, special props, etc) helped you to enhance Ultimate Zombie Hunt?

We liked all the new technology and have implemented it in many parts of our adventures. But, we realized that it as nothing like having the real thing. We have found that only trigger devices were all we needed and using live actors was what makes it the best.

Can Ultimate Zombie Hunt accommodate large groups? How many people can experience Ultimate Zombie Hunt together as a group?

In the past we could only take up to 6 participants at one time. Now in 2025 we are using an OPEN area format that allows customers to free roam and we will be able to handle larger groups since we no longer have confined spaces. We are looking at groups up to 10-15 at one time if needed. However, we will not mix families or groups. Large groups will be from the same booking.

Does Ultimate Zombie Hunt offer any special deals, discounts, or coupons?

We have special deals, discounts, and coupons PRIOR to October 2025. Those specials will be randomly placed in social media and on our facebook page for those that visit!
Our specials are very good and we do not want them to be found easily…. After all, it’s a “HUNT”.

Anything else you'd like to let us know about Ultimate Zombie Hunt?

If you have ever visited our Zombie Hunt in the past… You do not want to miss this one! It is completely different and very exciting. Bring a friend, pal, buddy, or enemy and take on the task of becoming a famous ZOMBIE HUNTER.