MOVIE WORLD FRIGHTING BACK AFTER PANDEMIC
AFTER two long years of waiting, Movie World has announced that its spookiest event, Fright Nights, has finally returned for a month of “world-class” scares.
After the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the biggest celebration of Halloween in Australia, Fright Nights will return at the theme park bigger than ever.
“Fright Nights became more or less the event of the year – given how Halloween has tracked in Australia (and) in the last few years before Covid, it certainly got a lot of traction,” Village Roadshow Theme Parks chief operating officer Bikash Randhawa said.
“This year, from the minute you walk into Warner Brothers Movie World there will be literally an explosion of entertainment.
“We work with world class IPs, whether it’s IT or The Conjuring, and the mazes we create are second to none – so this has always been an event that has sold out.”
And having undergone a major expansion, this year’s nine-day long event features five gruesome precincts and five mazes to get lost in.
But if you really want to amp the thrill factor, try your best to escape from their terrifying panic rooms.
And for the first time this year, the fun is here to stay well into the witching hours.
“There will be an unprecedented number of characters that will be engaging with guests and for the first time we are extending the mazes so they will be open until 11pm unlike the traditional 9.45pm closing time,” Mr Randhawa added.
And with more than 50,000 people expected to flood the park on any single night – Fright Nights’ return will see a much-needed boost to the economy. Fright Nights begins October 1.