Introducing the Movie Park Germany Halloween Horror Festival as it celebrates 25 years of horror attractions and entertainment this anniversary year.
This year, the hour of horror strikes louder and scarier than ever before – The Halloween Horror Festival at Movie Park Germany celebrates its 25th birthday!
Europe’s largest Halloween event knows no mercy in its anniversary year and invites all Halloween fans to the darkest party in the park’s history.
The apocalyptic program plan includes two new horror attractions: “Final Stop” and “Murder Museum – The Art of Killing” are the devilish birthday present of the park to all Halloween guests.
Entertainment and shows are also coming to life in a bigger way to celebrate this milestone: the horror live show “Madhouse – Insanity Lives Here” continues with a new talent and last year’s most popular horror artists.
This year, the diabolical clapperboard S.I.K. leads the marsh of monsters as a walking character. Further scary surprises await Halloween fans with an hourly light show on Horrorwood Boulevard as well as the new 4-D movie “The Conjuring.”
The mapping show “Horrorwood Rises”, DJ Max Bering & Friends and the popular hypnosis casting with Stephan Nölle will also return.
Meanwhile, more evil lurks in the back of the park: The Western-themed area transforms into “Hillbilly Town”. In this context, the horror house located in this zone gets a slightly revised storyline with the new name “Secrets of St. Elmo – Last Hunt”. The food offerings also receive a Halloween update.
“25 years of the Halloween Horror Festival is an important milestone for us and one we are very proud of,” says Managing Director Thorsten Backhaus. “With the introduction of the event in 1998, Movie Park was the first pioneer to establish Halloween in German theme parks. In recent years, our event has evolved more and more into a festival, and we have been able to set new attendance records. Of course, we have some scary surprises planned for our guests for the big birthday.”
On a total of 25 event days between September 30 and November 12, 2023, the Horrorwood Studios will welcome all fearless guests in keeping with the anniversary motto “Don’t Try to Hide” and put their courage to the test.In cooperation with the U.S. initiative “Haunters Against Hate,” a symbolic Halloween day for a good cause will take place on October 7.
Immersive Horror Experience – Final Stop
Soulless evil lurks in the depths. An old, abandoned Los Angeles metro station harbors dark secrets.
Those who had the guts to go down there never saw the light of day again.
A film crew from the Horrorwood Studios has also disappeared into the endless catacombs of the Los Angeles metro while shooting their latest splatter movie.
The studio management asks the guests for urgent help in finding the actors and the director, to bring the blockbuster to the screens on time. A last survivor of the production crew equips the volunteer search party with construction helmets and high-visibility vests.
But as the group embarks on a dangerous rescue mission into the black void, a hideous nightmare comes true. Ominous creatures cavort in the tunnels and metro shafts. Infected by the Acid Rain, they are just waiting for their next victims.
Surrounded by narrow corridors and leaky pipes, water and eerie sounds, the group must find its way out to survive. Those who do not want to be left in the sewers forever have only one choice: run, crawl and definitely do not turn around! But then the small light, which should initially show the way, dies out and leaves the group to its fate…
This new experience will take place underneath the grandstand of Studio 6, Movie Park Germany cooperates with the company “Haunted Lantern”, which was commissioned for the horror houses “Wrong Turn” and “Secrets of St. Elmo” in the past.
Equipped with just a small lamp on top of a guest helmet you must navigate the underground labyrinth.
IMAscore and IMAmotion are responsible for the music, project management, media content, concept design and structural implementation.
Petro Art Production takes care of the design on site together with the IMAmotion team to put the guests directly into an authentic sewer setting.
Murder Museum: The Art of Killing
An unprecedented novelty becomes part of the 25th Halloween anniversary: Germany’s first true crime horror house is coming up with “Murder Museum – The Art of Killing” and was inspired by true events.
The recondite depths of a serial killers’ mind still leave mankind speechless nowadays and attract a lot of interest.
For some years now, the true crime scene has been booming like never before. The “Murder Museum” has made it its business to present the gruesome deeds of some notorious American serial killers in a unique exhibition.
But it quickly becomes clear that the exhibition is increasingly departing from the museum character from room to room – and a back door opens to the bitter reality of the scenes. While the guests lose themselves more and more in the exhibition, a dark realization comes to light: among those present is a murderer…
Replacing the Hostel maze you will dive into various murder mysteries.
The new horror house is developed in cooperation with IMAscore and IMAmotion, Dekowerk and the STAR FM Creepy Hour podcast team. The latter were not only intensely involved in the research, but also provide thematically appropriate content for the queue with their voices.
But Wait… There’s More!
In addition to the two new mazes new entertainment such as another horror live show that has been added to the stage in Studio 7 with the return of “Madhouse – Insanity Lives Here” and live screenings of The Conjuring in the Roxy 4D Cinema.
In total there will be eight horror houses and four scare zones. The two aforementioned new additions will be joined by established mazes such as “Hell House”, “The Slaughterhouse”, “Project Ningyo” and “The Curse of Chupacabra” (this year for guests from 12 years of age) herald the doom in proven manner.
The “Circus of Freaks” gets a completely new location and moves its ring of horror to the fourth themed area “Fear Pier”, which is resurrected this year and awakens with new details. The Bochum-based show ensemble “Wallfahrer” also presents its immersive theater show on the pier up to four times an evening.
With “Secrets of St. Elmo – Last Hunt”, the horror attraction located in the Western area also gets a slightly revised storyline.
But there’s much more lurking in the dense fog of the Western area: The themed area “The Dead West” is transformed into “Hillbilly Town”. Belongings left behind by missing tourists can be found in the middle of the Wild West, backwoods cannibals roam around. Every half hour, the time of doom sounds and a curse haunts the godforsaken place: The inhumanly deformed creatures know no limits and go on the prowl – time to run for your lives!
Apocalypse of the senses: DJ Max Bering, hypnosis casting, mapping show
Scary Rides and Spooky Nibbles
After dark, the scary editions of some coasters await guests! The “Movie Park Studio Tour – Final Cut” goes into operation. Meanwhile, the “Baboo Twister Express” lurks in the Western area.
This year again, the Halloween version of the suspended looping coaster draws visitors into new in-between worlds with light effects and rock music. The wooden coaster “The Bandit” also shines in a new light. Movie Park Germany has specifically invested in a new lighting concept to highlight the Western area even more effectively.
A small food mile will be created on the forecourt of the “Baboo Twister Express”. In addition, Van Helsing’s Club will offer a themed Halloween buffet with appetizers, main course, and desserts in the anniversary year.
Additionally, group bookings with seat reservations for up to a maximum of 150 people per time slot can also be made in advance. Three time slots will be available for this.
For the first time this year, there will also be a VIP ticket, which will include, for example, a VIP parking space next to the box office, a backstage tour and other Halloween highlights. More information will follow shortly.
More details can soon be found on the park’s website at www.movieparkgermany.de
