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2009 Halloween Theme Park Scare Guide: Knott's Scary Farm

Where: 8039 Beach Blvd [map], Buena Park, CA, United States, 90620
October 6, 2009 at 4:28 PM | by | Comments (0)

It's hard to believe that California could be home to anything labeled "The Oldest" but at Knott's Berry Farm in Anaheim, the theme park's Scary Farm is the world's first haunted theme park attraction in the U.S., having opened in 1973.

Drawing mostly from gory horror movies and crafted by professional "scare-masters", the park fashions itself into a giant haunted house with mazes, scary zones, frightening attractions--like the Slaughterhouse, The Asylum and The Doll Factory--and showing off short horror films.

Additionally, the park sets up "specially employed" monsters throughout the place who sole job is to scare the living bejesus out of you. Fun, right?

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Knott's Scary Farm
Scare Tactics
Scary Zones, mazes and labyrinths created from your worst nightmares and gruesomely made-up monsters waiting to pounce on you. Here's a description of the park's happy boardwalk area which transforms into "The Carnevil" at night:

The Boardwalk has taken an evil turn as gruesome carnival characters perform their bizarre side-shows and evil clowns show their true colors.

Eeeeeee.

Where
8039 Beach Blvd., Buena Park, CA 90620

2009 Dates:
September 24-27, September 30 - October 4, October 7-11, 14-18, 21-25 and 28-31. On these days, the park closes at 5:30pm and reopens at 7:30pm as Knott's Scary Farm. On Fridays and Saturdays, you can get spooked until 1am.

Cost
Tickets (which are different from regular Knott's Berry Farm tickets) range from $31.99 to $49.99 pre-sale. On the day of the event, it's $53.99

Event Hotel Options:
Buena Park is next to Anaheim which is also home to Disneyland so there are plenty of hotel and motel options. But we say give the Try the on-site Hilton Anaheim a go since it just completed a renovation two years ago.

5 Skull Scare Factor:

Related Stories:
· Knott's Berry Farm Annual Events [Wikipedia]
· Knott's Scary Farm [Official Site]
· Universal's Halloween Horror Nights [Jaunted]

[Photo: RJBejil]



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