Spooky World 2020 was certainly a mixed bag that’s for sure! Take a look at all the mazes ranked best to worst at this year’s October event.
Out of all the Halloween attractions we have attended so far this year Spooky World was certainly the most tame.
Aimed at a younger audience I was expecting less jump scares but heaps of theming etc.
Sadly I got quite a mixed bag experience where 50% of the event was bareable and 50% was truly awful.
One maze that did stand out amongst the rest was..
Slaughter House
This Texas Chainsaw Massacre styled maze was certainy the most engaging with actors on point with great costumes and hillbilly accents to match.
Set dressing was minimal one minute and wonderful the next.
Scares were socially distanced more than any other maze we experienced as most actors were behind metal fencing or miles away from the action.
Whilst this did detach me from the jumps and the immersion it was still the best maze of the night by a long shot.
Carnevil
Compared to Slaughter House, Carnevil was a considerable step-down but it was still fun, not scary, just fun.
All mazes at Spooky World are based in metal farm sheds and this fit the storyline of Slaughter House perfectly.
The stage was already set.
With Carnevil the lights were much darker and UV was used to guide us through the crazy clown experience.
I mean, it was enjoyable, it certainly wasn’t scary but if you love your theming you certainly won’t find high levels of it here at Spooky World.
Nevertheless the actors were having a great time and that certainly made the maze stronger than I should really be giving it credit for.
Haunted House
Just scraping through the acceptable standards I set for scare mazes Haunted House wasn’t even a house at all.
A metal shed of cobbled scenes that made no coherent scene and weren’t structured or built to resemble rooms of any home at all.
A very strange name for a maze completely unrelated to a Haunted House in everyway shape and form.
The actors inside the maze certainly did it justice but it all felt a bit all over the place.
It felt more like a walkthrough ghost train than a scare maze.
Very unusual.
Field of Screams
On paper the premise sounds amazing.
Walking through a corn field at night with creatures jumping out at you along the way.
Sadly for us it was just a nine minute walk through a mostly empty corn maze.
We met around 7 characters in those 9 minutes (2 straight at the beginning) and every jump scare was met with a laugh.
Laughing because of how muddy and sloppy the ground was that the actors were walking back into the mazes just trying not to fall over.
We were walking through the maze doing the exact same thing!
Field of Screams was a wasted opportunity.
Such a poor attempt and an attraction that shouldn’t be listed or even advertised.
Haunted Hayride
Jumping onto a tractor is great, i’d never done it before and that was cool.
Once I jumped off only then I realised this was meant to be scary as all we had done is drive around a few LED lit paths and a tunnel and then got sprayed with water.
On a cold night in October a few folks weren’t too happy with getting wet let alone getting jetwashed right at the very end.
I found this hilarious watching people moaning about this and for my own twisted entertainment purposes thought it was great.
However, as an attraction, it was shockingly bad.
But not as bad as…
Tunnel of Terror
We crawled through a tunnel, we had two dudes shining a light in our eyes and that was it.
Maze over.
Wow, just wow.
Truly awful. There’s nothing else I can say about the maze because that was it from start to finish.
The maze lasted around 17-18 seconds (if that) and we were done and out the otherside eager to get home.
A shockingly poor experience.
Head on over to https://www.spookyworld.co.uk if you want to go and check it out for yourselves!
