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Hi everyone! Sorry it has taken me so long to write this review, I realise Halloween 🎃 was a good few weeks back, hope you enjoy the review in any case!

On Thursday 24th October 2024, me and my good friends Lou and Aaron went to the highly popular, multi-award winning, and greatly anticipated ‘Fear Factory’ for Halloween celebrations at Thornhurst Manor, Doncaster. 5 year running! It was incredible!

As soon as we arrived, even in the queue, there was a petrifying clown 🤡 chasing people with a chainsaw! And also a creepy woman who looked like the scary woman from ‘The Ring’, with dark hair falling eerily in front of her face.

We had our photo taken with props before entering the manor. In total, there were 5 different scary mazes to experience;

Diabolus: Witches of Salem
The Pogo Club
Crackle Hill: The Summoning
The Chasm
Friargate Foundry (the brand new maze for 2024)

Diabolus: Witches of Salem – The theme of this maze was salem witchcraft. The story; Thomas Parker, the town’s new priest (1962) investigates black magic, his daughter Martha suspected to have the mark of the devil! 😈 The torturous church awaits those brave enough to enter, and come face to face with the malevolent witches 🧙‍♂️ of Salem! Ready to pounce and terrify!

The Pogo Club – The Pogo Club is an epic nightclub, refurbished last year and under ‘new management’. It’s mint! All around the walls, everywhere, there is fluorescent colourful bright and bold glow paint, it really is immense. Such fun, loads of twists, turns, wrong ways and surprises!

Crackle Hill: The Summoning – The theme of this maze is paranormal investigation. Scientists hold a seance in hopes of summoning Agatha Stone, leader of an occult, and involved with worshipping the devil! 😈 She even sacrifices her own children, their young bodies buried under floorboards! Can you hear their screaming souls? 😱 Is Agatha’s spirit still lurking, waiting for new sacrifices? Beware!

The Chasm – The Chasm is a mine. Workers were sent underground but unfortunately the Chasm started collapsing. All escaped, except one miner. Rescuers were feared trapped and buried, as they did not return. Has something more sinister happened? It is our mission to explore the darkest, deepest crevices, avoid falling debris, beware sharp turns, and apprehensively crawl through confined spaces, in the dreaded darkness, to rescue the missing miner!

Friargate Foundry – Apparently, the scare park, with all it’s rooms, every year for Halloween 🎃 at fear factory, were all meticulously designed by the twisted and sick mind of ‘The Operator’. Thinking of ways to unlock new fears, manufacturing and amplifying your worst nightmarish visions, so hellish, so deranged, so petrifying! He has always been there, in the background, unseen, unheard, conjuring new methods of terror to unleash this Halloween. Past, present, future, there is no escape! Mwah-ha-ha!

I have always wanted to go to a proper official Halloween scarefest. And I was not disappointed!

In every maze there were elements of flashing strobe lights, pools of smoke, pitch black darkness, very disorientating! The actors were fantastic 👏 dressed up in Halloween costumes; jumping out, screaming in your face, pulling your hair, taunting, etc. The whole experience was both terrifying and terrific!

At the venue, there were burger vans and also sweet treats, such as chocolate marshmallows and Belgium waffles. They also had entertainment in the form of contemporary sci-fi inspired dance, and Waltzers. Classic. I observed while Lou and Aaron went on the Waltzers, I was feeling a little queasy by that point, ha! 😆

Overall, a fantastic event. I would definitely go again next year, except I have heard rumours it may close 😢 What would be brilliant next year is to go Halloween at Alton Towers, that’d be amazing!

Here are a few photos from the night: