What do you get when you mix 200 pounds of blood-red dye with hundreds of rubber snakes, bats, rats, skulls and body parts, a gigantic mutated spider and armies of eye-gouging, flesh starved zombies?
Seriously spooktacular fun at Six Flags Great America.
Halloween is in the air and no place helps you get your creep on better than Great America’s annual Fright Fest extravaganza.
The popular Midwest theme park located in Gurnee, Illinois, is pulling out its most hair-raising haunts to celebrate the 20th season of Fright Fest. Then, it’s topping itself by unveiling spine-chilling new spooks to scare even the most steel nerved visitors.
New attractions for the 2010 season include:
SAW LIVE: THE HAUNTED HOUSE
Six Flags is picking up where the horror movie left off. Jigsaw and a band of gory ghouls try to scare you silly while you navigate through a house of horrors filled with traps based on scenes from the SAW movie franchise.
STUDIO 13: WHERE FILM COMES TO FRIGHT
This hideously haunted complex houses two morbid attractions. The first is the “Back Lot Horror Tour,” which features killer zombies who delight in grabbing for unsuspecting guests. The other, “Area 51,” is home to bloodthirsty creatures that crave human flesh.
FULL MOON ROCKSPLOSION NIGHTTIME PARADE
In addition to the Zombie Jamboree afternoon parade that kicks off the daily scare-o-rama, Great America has added a new musical event at dusk. The pre-show and parade feature popular rock tunes performed live in Hometown Square.
NO ONE LIVES FOREVER
This jacked-up monster mash rolls through the park on a zombie-filled trolley which makes several stops to spook guests as they stroll Great America’s grossed-out grounds.
These new attractions join freaky Fright Fest favorites, such as:
Necropolis: Haunted City of the Dead: The place is crawling with bloodied bandits just waiting to frighten the faint of heart.
Tinseltown Terror: The park’s ode to dearly departed movie stars may seem innocent from the outside, but inside the abandoned studio is pregnant with petrifying phantoms.
Seven Sins Cemetery: Terror reigns supreme in this area where cut-up creatures recreate the seven deadly sins.
In addition to the aforementioned scare-zones and haunted houses, the park’s regular rides have also undergone a Halloween makeover complete with spooky name changes and ghastly guest appearances. For example, “Ricochet” transformed into “Ricoslay” and has been taken over by bloodthirsty butchers wearing pig masks.
Fright Fest 2010 runs weekends through Halloween, including Columbus Day. Directions to the park, ticket prices, discounts and hours are posted on Great America’s website. Just keep in mind that there’s a reason the park recommends that guests should be at 13 years old to partake in the psychotic thrills and chills that make up Fright Fest at night. Witnessing decaying zombies take revenge of giggly guests can be quite traumatic. This is not to say that Great America should be avoided by families with small children during the month of October. In my next post I will detail the scare-free activities and attractions the park has in place for its youngest visitors.
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