Fright Fest or FrightFest is a Halloween

Halloween

Hallowe'en , also known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day...

-oriented event that takes place at some theme parks, notably Six Flags

Six Flags

Six Flags Entertainment Corp. is the world's largest amusement park corporation based on quantity of properties and the fifth most popular in terms of attendance. The company maintains 14 properties located throughout North America, including theme parks, thrill parks, water parks and family...

 parks, called "Six Flags Fright Fest", and PARC Management

PARC Management

PARC Management, LLC is an operations company based in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. which operates various parks, attractions, recreation and entertainment venues throughout North America.-History:...

-owned parks, called "FrightFest".

General information

Fright Fest events are similar between both park chains because the PARC Management parks inherited Fright Fest from their Six Flags ownership. The parks are generally redecorated for the event. They also feature added or modified attractions along the lines of haunted houses

Haunted attraction

A haunted attraction is a form of entertainment that simulates the experience of entering a haunted location that might be inhabited by ghosts, monsters, criminals, humorous characters, and other such creatures...

, Halloween based shows replacing their normal summer shows, and any number of other changes. Parks may also feature "Scare Zones" in the general park where costumed actors are allowed to scare guests, though these parks also typically include "Non-Scare Zones" where the actors are not allowed, thus allowing a "safe" area for families with small children or otherwise not wanting to be scared. As well some parks feature promotions where guests can "compete" for prizes, such as exit passes.

The events at both chains typically occur during weekends in October each year, however some parks, such as Darien Lake, operate the event earlier; others are open certain weekdays.

Six Flags Fright Fest

Six Flags created Fright Fest after testing Halloween-based events through the 1970s at some of its parks. In 1989 Fright Fest was born at Six Flags over Texas

Six Flags Over Texas

Six Flags Over Texas is a major amusement park located in Arlington, Texas , east of Fort Worth and about west of Dallas. It is the oldest park of the Six Flags chain. The park opened on August 5, 1961 following just a year of construction and an initial investment of US$10 million by real estate...

 and expanded to all of its parks soon after. The events featured haunted houses, a trick or treat

Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat is a 1952 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon, which takes place on Halloween night, follows a series of pranks between Donald Duck and his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie who are aided by Witch Hazel...

 trail for kids, and more. One of the major additions was in 1999 when Six Flags licensed and opened some of their haunted houses as Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...

's Brutal Planet

Brutal Planet

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, featuring music from the album and using similar elements in each house. Though Alice Cooper's name has been dropped, many of the Six Flags haunted houses still use the Brutal Planet name.

Attractions

Some of the attractions found in most Discovery Kingdom are categorized with different themes:

Fearful Frights http://frightfest.sixflags.com/discoverykingdom/attractions/mazesandscares

• Nightmare Manor
• Slaughterhouse Pig Farm
• shipwreck of Horror
• Scrapyard of the Dead
• Bloodbath Bayou
• The Sega Game Zone
• The Last Ride

Monstertainment http://frightfest.sixflags.com/discoverykingdom/attractions/shows

• Scary Slideshow
• The Awakening
• Dance Macabre
• The Final Freakout
• Club Cetecean: 70's Dolphin Show
• Super Spooky Sea Lion Show

Spine Chilling Adventures http://frightfest.sixflags.com/discoverykingdom/attractions/rides

• Boomerang Coast to Terror
• Cobra Monster Mine
• Hammerhead Shark Infested
• Lost Souls of Kong
• The Medusa Witch
• Toxic Pandemonium
• Vertical Velocity Rodent Attack
• Sky Coaster Mind Melt
• SkyScreamer Orc Attack
• Thunder Road Zombie Invasion
• VooDoo Siren Sign

PARC Management FrightFest

PARC Management parks rebranded their Fright Fest events in 2007 as "Fall Family Fun Fest" whilst adding new elements not found in previous years' Six Flags Fright Fest at the parks. New additions included more family oriented areas such as hay mazes

Maze

A maze is a tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage through which the solver must find a route. In everyday speech, both maze and labyrinth denote a complex and confusing series of pathways, but technically the maze is distinguished from the labyrinth, as the labyrinth has a single...

 and pumpkin painting, but also kept older elements like haunted houses and trick or treat

Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat is a 1952 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon, which takes place on Halloween night, follows a series of pranks between Donald Duck and his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie who are aided by Witch Hazel...

trails. The events were then rebranded again as FrightFest from 2008 onward. Elements have remained largely the same from that point.

External Links

Six Flags official Fright Fest website