The popular Halloween Horror Festival at Movie Park Germany will cast its dark spell on visitors for 23 days in 2020.
This year, the new horror house The Curse of Chupacabra and new interactive laser walkthrough Secrets of St. Elmo, will lure visitors into new dark worlds.
Spooky music, thick fog and plenty of zombies and monsters will soon lurk in the darkest corners of Movie Park Germany again!
When the full moon rises above the Horrorwood Studios, over 280 monsters will once again be unleashed. The event runs from October 1 to November 8.
Thorsten Backhaus, Managing Director of Movie Park Germany:
"We are pleased to be able to offer our visitors an exciting Halloween time again this year. To this end, we have been in intensive consultation with the authorities to find a way to let Halloween take place during the time of COVID-19 and at the same time provide our guests with a safe but scary experience. With our new horror maze and an interactive laser walkthrough we have two new highlights this year that will excite our guests.”
The new horror house The Curse of Chupacabra
Deep in the ruins lies the truth and danger is only a breath away. This is exactly the experience visitors make in the new horror maze The Curse of Chupacabra. The Mexican Día de los Muertos is in full swing when a few tourists get the chance to visit an old Mayan temple. However, the secret lies hidden at first: A dark curse weighs on this creepy place. Surrounded by darkness, the visitors must find their way out. Only a rope shows them the way, but nobody knows where it leads to. Rescue could be so close - if it were not for the mysterious monster that is right on the heels of the guests. But the last chance to escape is not possible without overcoming an obstacle. Will the visitors have enough courage to take the last resort or has their fate already been sealed in the depths of the Mayan temple?
Manuel Prossotowicz, Halloween Project Manager at Movie Park Germany:
"We placed particular emphasis on a good storyline and an immersive experience. The guests become a direct part of the story around the legendary South American myth of the Chupacabra. The theme of darkness plays a major role. For Halloween 2020, the new maze moves into the premises of the attraction The Lost Temple. Here we use the very detailed queue lines as a scenery, which perfectly match the overall subject of the attraction. As a special highlight, some scare actors - equipped with night vision devices - will hunt our visitors in areas of complete darkness. In this way, we combine psychological horror with the well-known jump-scares to create a great new overall experience for our visitors."
Hunting ghosts with the interactive laser walkthrough Secrets of St. Elmo
Since the beginning of the season, Movie Park Germany has had its sights firmly set on the opening of its new interactive laser walkthrough Secrets of St. Elmo. Planned for the opening of the 22nd Halloween Horror Festival, the new experience will be located in the former premises of the licensed attraction The Walking Dead Breakout, which expired in 2019. After Halloween, Secrets of St. Elmo will remain a permanent attraction at Movie Park Germany.
This is where accuracy is most important! In a total of six scenes, the guests, equipped with laser weapons, slip into the role of a brave ghost hunter and accompany the young ghost Adeen to finally free the city and the saloon of St. Elmo from its evil forces. A mining accident laid the town in ashes 140 years ago. Thus, the guests not only discover the mysterious history of St. Elmo but also a well-kept secret that threatens to endanger the mission and raises the final question: Who is on whose side?
As the Halloween Horror Festival has been a tradition at Movie Park Germany for 22 years, guests can of course look forward to their favorite horror houses, too! A total of eight horror labyrinths and three scare zones will give the guests cold shivers again. In addition to the two new attractions, Project Ningyo, Insidious - Chapter 2, The Slaughterhouse, Hostel, Circus of Freaks and Campout will also cause fear and horror among visitors.
Tickets and capacity restrictions for a safe Halloween
Since the opening of the park in May, Movie Park Germany is only allowed to let a limited number of visitors into the park which also applies to the horror mazes for the 23 Halloween days.
An online ticketing system will still be used to plan visitor capacities, handling general park admission as well as entrance to the respective horror houses.
Timed tickets for the horror houses must also be purchased online and in addition to entrance tickets. Due to smaller groups of people and the smaller capacity in the horror labyrinths, it is absolutely necessary to secure a time slot for the mazes in advance and exclusively online before visiting the park. Besides a better capacity control and the avoidance of full queue lines, ticket holders of the horror mazes are guaranteed a more intense scary experience than before. Because of the increased hygiene measures and reduced group sizes, tickets will only be available at extra charge.
More information and tickets for the Halloween Horror Festival are available at www.halloween-horror-festival.de
