Sounds of screeching kids, squealing adults and people screaming out in terror fill the park. If this is what you’re looking for, come and spend your night at Six Flags for Fright Fest. There are four haunted house scare zones plotted all around the park, as well as shows for your entertainment.
The park’s “Thrills by Day and Frights by Night” experience starts at 7 p.m. You can’t leave without seeing the awakening of the zombies and all the rest of the ghouls. The show, almost like a play, starts off with the hosts of the show talking and releasing all of the zombies out from behind the carousel. The zombies then all come together on the stage and do a mixture of old Halloween songs which leads to songs that today’s teens might be familiar with and ends with strobe lights, along with different effects with the zombies making their way toward the front entrance where they roam for the rest of the night.
If you plan on experiencing the haunted attractions, here is what you need to know. There are wristbands that you can purchase right outside the haunted houses or online. The wristbands are $25 a person and will get you unlimited visits to the haunted houses for the night, but each haunted attraction itself will be $8.63 per ticket. So you’ll save money by purchasing the wristband.
As for the scare zones, they’ve decided there will not be any “Boo-Sticks” this year, meaning the ghouls can scare anyone and everyone no matter how old you are. I wouldn’t recommend bringing smaller siblings or family if they get scared fairly easy considering things are slightly more graphic than what most are used to. There’s no hiding from them. They are everywhere and if you attract attention to yourself by screaming and running away, you could cause the characters to turn all their attention to you.
Each haunted house always starts off scary but as you keep going through them, you realize that they’re not made up of spine-chilling content. After you’ve made it through the beginning, going on forward is just a lot of jump, scares and people popping out of corners and dark rooms screaming in your ear to make you yell and take off running. Or if it did creep you out, head for the closest exit. This all goes on until the end of the night when you come back to the front and there’s a final show with singing and dancing.
Fright Fest is definitely something worth spending your money on. Not only will you have access to all the normal rides but a scary experience.