Alton Towers Scarefest 25/10/07

WildMouse · Alton Towers Scarefest 25/10/07

I went to Alton’s Scarefest yesterday. Here’s my take on the attractions:

Terror of the Towers had a good storyline, top notch acting and amazing sets/special effects. The final set piece had a fair few of our group running out of the door in terror!
Whilst the experience wasn’t particularly scary, it was a lot much fun and a good laugh.

The Field of 1000 Screams had some good set pieces, but lacked scares in between. Groups were too big, but I can see why they did this as throughput was dire.

Room 13 was stunning. I found myself leading our group (a regular occurrence for some reason), which I thoroughly regretted after watching the introduction video showing the ‘characters’ we’d be encountering inside the hellish realm within Room 13!
The ‘maze’ itself was a relentless tour de force of both terror and laughs with a good plot and excellent acting talent who really knew how to terrify us.

Fright Lights was ‘ok’ and provided a welcome diversion.

Haunted Hollow after dark was alright. Though I think it could have done with a couple more actors.

So overall, a pretty darn good event with room for improvements. The lack of Halloween theming being one of them.

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Thats the same throughts we had the themeing they could of done alot better like thorpe did. The day was good but not a scary one as they kept on about. The filed of screams I have heard different storys about some good some bad so if it comes next year may just do it. Good report there Carl