With Halloween fast approaching, what better way to celebrate spooky season with a good scare? In this blog, I’ve listed some of the best rated Halloween scare events in Southern England, so you can get all the fright without the faff. It’s what we do best at Hunting Horror.
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Thorpe Park Fright Night
The award winning Thorpe Park Fright Night event is back for another year, hosting various Halloween-themed activities and scare events including scare mazes, theme park scare zones, and immersive shows. The scare mazes this year include Deadbeat, Stitches, Survival Games, and Trailers, while scare zones and shows include Lucifer’s Lair, Crows of Mawkin Meadow, and Creature Campus. Fright Night also welcomes a new addition to the event, ‘IT: The 4D Experience’; a cinematic experience with special effects and 3D projectors to heighten the storyline and film experience, so you can watch your favourite clown like never before.
Dates: 17th October until 3rd November, Thorpe Park, UK. Click here for details.
Dreadflix at The London Bridge Experience
This Halloween Scare Maze includes a high-intensity evening scare show, hosted at The London Bridge Experience in Central London. During the experience, you’ll encounter some of your favourite classic horror characters while experiencing physical scares, psychological mind games, and a terror-fic (pardon the terror-ble pun) Halloween experience that you’ll never forget, in a good way, hopefully…
Dates: 24th - 26th October and 30th October - 2nd November. Click here for details.
Shocktober Fest at Tulley’s Farm
Shocktober Fest, hosted annually at Tulley’s Farm, is renowned for it’s fun yet frightening scare mazes and Halloween events that are sure to haunt you for days afterwards. It offers a huge selection of terrifying haunts and rides, accompanied by some fantastic street food, so you can make it a true evening out. Some of the scare mazes included in this years line-up are the iconic Haunted Hayride, Purgatory, The Carving, and Electrik Circus, just to name a few, plus live shows including Carnival Cabaret and the Fire And Light Show.
Dates: This event runs throughout late October but gets booked quickly, so I’d recommend heading to their website to check availability. Click here for details.
Fear Scream Park at Avon Valley
Located in Bristol, Fear Scream Park at Avon Valley hosts a variety of spooky scare experiences and attractions. Each scare experience comes with its own backstory to make it feel even more immersive and realistic, and there are a variety of storylines to try and choose during your visit. Some of the stand out haunts for this years line up include House of Clowns and The Exorcism. Fear Scream Park also host attractions for under 16’s, such as Fearless, so the whole family can get involved.
Dates: Every weekend from October 11th until 2nd November (including Thursday 31st October). Click here for details.
Halloween at Warwick Castle
If you’re looking to celebrate Halloween in a historic setting, then this one is for you. Warwick Castle are hosting multiple Halloween events this year, including The Haunted Castle and Castle After Dark.
'The Haunted Castle' is a family friendly event running all through October, that includes over 15 live shows and attractions. It also gives you the opportunity to learn more about the history of the castle itself, too, which goes back around 1000 years.
'Castle After Dark' is the scarier of the two events and is better suited to adults. It consists of various scare mazes and haunts around the UK’s supposedly scariest castle. Castle After Dark includes the Festival of Fright live performances, scare mazes, and eerie musical and DJ entertainment.
Dates: Dates vary from 26th October onwards. Please check the Warwick Castle website for details.
Things to do at Halloween in the UK
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