Six Flags and Universal Studios are locked in an arms race waged with blood, guts and gore as the national theme park chains divvy up the biggest names in Hollywood horror to fill their annual Halloween events with brand-name slashers, psychopaths and serial killers.
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.
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Six Flags is rolling out new haunted mazes this Halloween based on “Saw X” in Los Angeles (Magic Mountain), Chicago (Great America), New Jersey (Great Adventure) and Atlanta (Over Georgia) 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 a year-round horror theme park in 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.
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