Check your heart and guts at the front door.
By Ani Mikaelian
QuailBellMagazine.com
QuailBellMagazine.com
Every year, Knott’s Scary Farm Haunt at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Vista, California begins on the final Friday in September and lasts through Halloween. The park's packed with a total of thirteen mazes, three scare zones, and seven different shows.
Three of the thirteen mazes are brand new this year. “Invasion Beneath” takes place at the park’s well-known Calico Mine Ride, but twists and turns literally fill the adventure. “Delirium” shows you just how insane your worst nightmare could be whilst revealing how much your own present sanity is lacking. Another new maze, “Endgames,” throws you into an apocalyptic world where anyone and everyone in your path is an enemy.
An eclectic variety of seven shows—from a hypnosis to a hanging and even the pranks of celebrity magician, Ed Alonzo--merge together for additional volumes of horror.
Four scare zones mark the park, with creatures scattered all over the grounds. “Necropolis” brings you vampires, where you’ll have to run to keep your blood safe. “Carnevil” is a freak show gone terribly wrong, and now the clowns want more than applause and laughter. “Ghost Town” loses you in its smoke, and you just might come out soulless yourself if you’re not careful. Finally, with “Gypsy Camp,” remember that while the Roma may charm you, looks can be deceiving.
Knott’s has put together quite the ensemble of performers this year, filled with the few who come at you personally and others who simply glare at you from afar. The park has come a long way from what its tamer origins in 1973. What makes the experience? Everything, high and low, prompts a haunting chill.
Knotts.com
Four scare zones mark the park, with creatures scattered all over the grounds. “Necropolis” brings you vampires, where you’ll have to run to keep your blood safe. “Carnevil” is a freak show gone terribly wrong, and now the clowns want more than applause and laughter. “Ghost Town” loses you in its smoke, and you just might come out soulless yourself if you’re not careful. Finally, with “Gypsy Camp,” remember that while the Roma may charm you, looks can be deceiving.
Knott’s has put together quite the ensemble of performers this year, filled with the few who come at you personally and others who simply glare at you from afar. The park has come a long way from what its tamer origins in 1973. What makes the experience? Everything, high and low, prompts a haunting chill.
Knotts.com
