Cheap airplane tickets, discount hotel rooms, and cheap vacation packages remain available close to many of the top theme parks in the country for October. Many theme parks have added new features to their Halloween events with the intent to scare the daylights out of you.
Some of the scariest parks include Universals Halloween Horror Nights and Atlantas Netherworld Haunted House. Guests are trapped in creepy mazes, disoriented by strobe lights and fog, and come face to face with crazed monsters.
Such attractions are not recommended for the faint of heart. However, people who enjoy the tingle of terror resulting from a really creepy horror movie should have a blast.
Some theme parks are offering behind the scenes tours including Bush Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia. It offers All Access Inside, Eerie Insider and Monster Stomp Revamped Insider tours in the parks Howl-O-Scream. On these tours, guests are introduced to the cast, given front of the line access to a haunted house, and the opportunity to be made up to look like the performers.
Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, is offering 13 mazes, including Terror of London with foggy streets and Jack the Ripper, three scare zones, 1,000 monster actors, and seven live shows.
Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois has a new Saw Live haunted house developed after the Saw movie series, with props, characters and scenes from the movies.
What ultimately makes so many of these haunted houses so scary is disorientation. Strobe lights and ultraviolet lights dilate guests eyes, maze like corridors and darkness makes it difficult to figure out where they are going, and mirrors make monsters appear next to them when they are not close by.
Haunted houses offer terror as a form of entertainment. Actors are trained to invade their guests space without every touching or harming a guest, making them safe while scaring the wits out of them.
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