The new Cinema Slasher haunted maze coming to Knott’s Scary Farm will pay tribute to four former mazes during the 50th anniversary celebration of the granddaddy of all Halloween events.
The new Cinema Slasher haunted maze 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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The villain of the Cinema Slasher maze is the Slasher of the Dark — a throwback to a Scary Farm maze from the mid-1990s at the Buena Park theme park.
The Slasher of the Dark killer has taken over a movie theater in the backstory of the new maze.
“He’s in every scene,” Knott’s maze designer Gus Krueger said. “He’s the guy that’s going to get you.”
Scary Farmers walk through movie screens as they pass through scenes from horror films based on three throwback Halloween Haunt mazes: Camp Gonnagetcha, Trick or Treat and Slaughterhouse.
“They’re not straight-up tributes,” Krueger said. “It’s more of a tongue-in-cheek way of throwing back with our history.”
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Visitors pass through a campsite for Camp Gonnagetcha, a neighborhood house on Halloween night for Trick or Treat and a meat grinder filled with cannibalistic butchers in Slaughterhouse.
“You go into different horror films until you finally get to the finale where you do come face-to-face with a big monster that’s actually coming out of the screen at you,” Krueger said.
Visitors will step into a different theater as they enter each horror movie within the Cinema Slasher maze.
“You get to see the progression of the condition of the theaters,” Krueger said. “The first theater you go into is still pretty nice. As you go into these other movies, you’ll find that each theater is more and more of a disturbing…
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