The best and the worst of the six FRIGHT FEST 2025 flags

Warner Bros. And the legendary horrors have taken over the six Fright Fest flags to add more sensations to the national themed parks. The combination of fears with metal giants of adrenaline roller coaster is the main draw, but over the years, while competitors have started to rely on major intellectual property to increase the bet, six flags has made efforts to make up for their delay. Each year tends to improve the last; It is always overwhelmed by the biggest names in the themed park industry, but with its fusion initiated in 2024 with Cedar Fair (which manages the frightening farm of Knott), we hoped that things could change for the best.

Io9 was invited to attend the media evening for the opening of the annual Fest Fest at the Six Flags Magic Mountain in southern California, which this year presented houses haunted with a crowd of cinema, including the HEONiverse, TRICK ‘R TREATAnd Saw. While the last two are repeated labyrinths from 2024 this year Conjuring House has been updated to reflect the last film, Conjuration: Last rites. Here is what we have thought of Halloween offers in this year.

Good

THE Conjuring Universe: This house plays the greatest successes as the Warren family. It is good, however; When you enter, you are met face to face with Annabelle behind the glass (at the beginning) before venturing through some of the most scary moments of Warren files. It is the best house of Fright Fest that perfectly evokes the fear of the most horrible cases of the Warrens. You can browse their collection of haunted relics because they are invoked around you. Yes, there is a nun behind the portrait, but even if you know, you are just not ready to have this experience.

As in the film, Valak comes out of the walls just towards you, and your soul comes out of the room faster than you can follow your body. This seems almost everywhere, because the formidable protruding include the case of possession of Perron among the chaos of emblematic demonic entities, an old -fashioned cinema film of the twisted man being extended to the walls warning of his presence, and Annabelle is released in so many forms. Then, of course, there are devilish forces that wait to put their claws on you, which ends up manifesting itself as a dark hidden shape in the shadow that hands you with long black claws while you escape yourself.

Trick ‘R Treatment: Based on Halloween’s anthology film, this house is so festive and fun that you venture into its horrors. Fright Fest has done a very good job to establish the atmosphere of a neighboring neighboring neighborhood house that you want to enter that only becomes more and more nightmarish as you advance. TRICK ‘R TREATWhile you relive the most scary moments in the film, which is a spokshow genre. There is the feast of a teenage wolf in the forest where a girl disguised as a red hood hides a dark secret. Another great recreation includes the obsessive school bus of deceased children ago Halloween who included the crushed vehicle, as well as the frightening masked children who arise on you beyond. The fog in this room is perfectly deployed to make you discombobubulated enough so as not to see them coming. But this is the end, where Sam pursues you through a mirror labyrinth (I completed it twice) before meeting him in his throne room, which really shines as one of the most fun Halloween experiences in the park.

SO-SO

Frightening areas: There were several new interesting concepts this year! The Wonderland Twisted region was a pastel fever dream with crazy hats and demented rabbits pursuing you. And just in time for the rebirth of Oz, there was a steampunk version of tradition with a evil witch, a man of Tin, a lion and flying monkeys hiding. However, although makeup conceptions were the culmination of creations of inspired monsters, the parameters were really rare, and there were no very entirely formed environments to feel immersed. If there was one, he was too dark.

Saw:: THE Saw House plays the sets of torture devices in a creative and rising manner thanks to the actors of the houses, but it is the lack that are missing. The monsters that happen to you are mainly hooded figures masked on the pig, which have become really repetitive. And there was a big lack of Billy the puppet. He really appears only once on his trike, if It works, which undermines why it is so frightening when it is supposed to be the figurehead asking: “Do you want to play a game?” When we crossed, he was stuck on his automated track and we almost missed. There were more Billy on the merchant!

MERCH: Fright Fest shines with its original art goods based on the original houses of the park and itinerant characters, such as clown cursors, mediums inspired by Medusa or retro zombies ladies. These conceptions really capture the energy that makes Fright Fest unique and is generally an instant purchase. This year, he came out of frightening Looney Tunes Equipment that was great although there is nothing Looney In Bugs Bunny World in addition to a frightening carnival area. I was delighted to buy a truly dislocated shirt that presents Sylvester like the bride of Frankenstein and Tweety as a Frankenstein monster, who in a really bizarre way that I receive in a way. The film merchant, however, was a mixed bag; It would have been cool to ensure that the artists of six flags make a vision of the characters Conjuration, But these shirts were mainly felt like marketing images under license to go on things.

Carnage: New for this year is a house that takes you to the fortress of a hub of madness and recruitment of an anarchic clown in a “besieged city”. Although the house was fun and filled with chaotic jumps, I couldn’t help but think it may be supposed to be a joker house. This does not help it literally in the DC Universe zone of the themed park! By going through, some pieces reminded me of the Joker moments of Suicide team And even Joker in aesthetics. At one point, the clown leader jumps on a car and speaks to you. So I was very distracted by the way a Gotham was cool by Joker and his henchmen could have lived as a labyrinth. The rights that Fright Fest has on the way he can use the DC characters remains so confusing, so maybe it would have been better to try to avoid parallels here.

The bad

Themed foods / drinks: There were a variety of articles based on Halloween, but none inspired by the main IP houses, which I was looking forward to. But I will preface this with I was preparing for this disappointment here: I saw the six official Instagram flags promote drinks based Conjure Universe and thought they would be in Magic Mountain. I mean, it is the closest park to Hollywood and other competitors of major haunts, so it would have made sense, right? So I was very surprised when I realized that the drink in question, the vice of Valak, was nowhere to represent the best house of the event.

Old houses: The last time I went to Fright Fest, it was before having my child now a child. So I was a little disappointed to discover that a good number of houses that I have already experienced were still there. And if there were recent additions, they felt so generic similar to older houses that I could not tell you what is new. This is something that I hope to change, because I hope there will be more collaboration within the merger, allowing a little of the magic of the frightening Knott farm to be sprinkled with Fright Fest. Historically, Knott is the first park to really transform haunted houses into an immersive narration that you can live through its legendary frightening farm offers and stands out from parks that are based solely on the properties of cinema and television. Six flags has the possibility of being the best of both worlds with its WB and DC horror connections And Its original houses in the same amount of good spaces on which they were given to rely. Hoping that the potential for the merger of Knott has seen an upgrade in the years to come.

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