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The Best Halloween Theme Parks: Knott's Scary Farm

Where: 8039 Beach Blvd. [map], Buena Park, CA, United States, 90620

9/29/2008 at 2:00 PM
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For the last 35 years, Knott's Berry Farm, in Southern California has been celebrating Halloween with its share of spooky decorations and scary attractions. This year will be no different, as the Knott's Scary Farm kicked off September 25.

The park closes to regular visitors at 5:30 pm and then reopens to scare you silly--or at least try to--at 7 pm, Wednesday-Sunday nights.

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Leo Loves The Screamers in California

Where: 8039 Beach Blvd [map], Buena Park, CA, United States, 90620

8/20/2007 at 8:51 AM
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Looks like we're not the only ones who enjoy a little roller coaster action. That's Leonardo DiCaprio and his girlfriend, model Bar Rafaeli, on the Xcelerator at Knott's Berry Farm in California.

The star couple may be pleased to know the Xcelerator hasn't made our list of the world's scariest coasters, although it does take lucky riders from 0 to 82 in 2.3 seconds when it launches. Leo could probably afford his own -- the coaster, which opened in 2002, cost Knott's "just" $13 million.

[Photo: Just Jared]

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Knott's 'Scary' Farm is Open for Thrills

Where: 8039 Beach Blvd, Buena Park [map], Anaheim, CA, United States, 90620

10/09/2006 at 9:52 AM
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Knott's Berry Farm is a big-time amusement park located in Orange County. While we would never consider going to this attraction unless we were saddled with some whining kids that we needed to shut up, their annual "Scary Farm" is worth a stop.

This isn't some old haunted house with twisty mirrors and a few skeletons popping out of a coffin. No, this place is a "160-acre living horror movie" designed by professional "scare-masters" for you to enter and hopefully find your way out of. New this year is The Grudge 2 maze (another way for the movie to cross-promote itself):

Pass through the threshold of the house that is determined to possess any soul that enters. What horrific crimes have been committed here that would give rise to such a grudge? Visitors to this dwelling of the damned will come face to face with the tortured spirits and will find themselves,much like characters in the movie, fighting for both their sanity and their lives!

Some other mazes are Lost Vegas in 3-D, The Asylum and Hatchet High, all with familiar elements found in your favorite horror movies.

For those a little too scared to check out these Haunt mazes, you can catch the Haunt Shows like "Dead Idol" where deceased rock n' roll legends perform again "live," or the "Haunted Hypnochick" who performs hypnosis, or walk through four of the Scary Zones like Ghost Town or Silver Bullet Mine Town which are probably less scary than a maze and probably have a few more exits when you need them.

Open from Wednesdays through Sundays starting at 7pm, now through Halloween.

[Photo: Knott's Scary Farm]

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