Six Flags Fright Fest is stealing a page from Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights playbook this Halloween season by introducing a pair of haunted mazes based on major horror movie franchises – R…
Six Flags is rolling out new haunted mazes this Halloween based on “Saw X” in Los Angeles , Chicago , New Jersey and Atlanta and “The Conjuring” at Magic Mountain and Great Adventure. Six Flags announced the Fright Fest mazes based on the Hollywood horror heavyweights just as Universal unveiled plans to build ain Las Vegas to capitalize on the success of annual Halloween Horror Nights events at its theme parks in California and Florida.
Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights has long dominated the bloody battle royale for the best haunted theme park attraction in Southern California with a stellar lineup of mazes based on well-known Hollywood intellectual properties like “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “The Walking Dead,” “American Horror Story” and “Halloween.”Magic Mountain quietly unveiled the Conjuring haunted maze last week and plans to open the Saw X maze next week. The latest film in the Saw franchise debuts in theaters on Friday, Sept. 29. Magic Mountain kicked off Fright Fest on Sept. 8 without either of the marquee mazes. Six Flags has partnered with the filmmakers behind the horror franchises to create the two new Fright Fest mazes and is already working with Warner Bros. Entertainment and Lionsgate Entertainment on 2024 mazes based on other intellectual properties, according to Six Flags officials.In addition to the $2 billion Conjuring franchise, the Warner Bros. catalog reads like the greatest hits of horror with titles like “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Friday the 13th,” “The Exorcist” and “The Shining” — all former Universal mazes. Lionsgate is a horror powerhouse with several films like “Hostel,” “The Cabin in the Woods,” “My Bloody Valentine” and “House of 1,000 Corpses” that have already been turned into Universal mazes. Universal has tapped Lionsgate’s $1 billion Saw franchise for several mazes. The first annual Hallomania Smackdown won’t go into the record books as a particularly memorable event, but years from now we may look back on Halloween 2023 as the initial volley in an ever-escalating fight for haunt supremacy between Six Flags and Universal Studios theme parks.I walked through the Conjuring maze several times on opening night and was impressed — and relieved. Magic Mountain has done a masterful job recreating scenes from the Conjuring films with detailed sets, distinctive characters and a robust backstory — all essential elements if Six Flags hopes to compete with the Hollywood expertise on display every Halloween season down freeway at Universal Studios. I was relieved because attention to detail has not always been Magic Mountain’s strong suit when it comes to Fright Fest — the perennial third place finisher in the Southern California theme park market behind
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