The new Chilling Chambers haunted maze coming to Knott’s Scary Farm takes visitors through a greatest hits revue of 50 years of Halloween Haunt history with tributes to six former mazes plus Easter eggs offering nods to many more.
Chilling Chambers joins the 50th anniversary lineup at Knott’s Berry Farm that will feature 10 haunted mazes, five scare zones and four live shows on select nights from Sept. 21 through Oct. 31.
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This year’s Chilling Chambers, located next to the park’s main gate, pays tribute to the Ten Chilling Chambers — the first haunted maze specifically created for Knott’s in the 1970s.
The Keeper character will guide Scary Farmers through the maze, showing up in the chambers between the mini-maze tributes that consist of three or four rooms each.
“The Keeper is the keeper of Haunt history,” Knott’s maze designer Gus Krueger said. “The Keeper’s Cathedral is the repository where mazes go once they’ve finished their life here. The Keeper will be your guide along the journey.”
The Knott’s creative team modeled the distinctive look of the Keeper after Sinister Seymour — the host of the first haunted Halloween event at the park in 1973. Seymour, played by late actor Larry Vincent, served as host of low-budget horror movies on local television stations in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
“When you go inside, you enter into the Keeper’s Cathedral,” Krueger said. “Throughout the cathedral there are portals or keyholes that lead to mazes from the past. The Keeper recurs in videos throughout the attraction as a palate cleanser and tells you what’s next.”
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