Six Flags Enlists Saw, Texas Chainsaw Massacre And More For Fright Fest

Six Flags amusement parks is bringing familiar horror icons as part of its annual Fright Fest Halloween celebration. Fright Fest has been scaring attendees since 1986 with various themed attractions and collaborations between different horror properties. This year the parks are leaning into huge horror franchises like The Conjuring Universe, the Saw movies, and Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the latter two of which were previously showcased at Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights.

Fright Fest is set to open on September 7 at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey and Six Flags Magic Mountain in Los Angeles. Both parks will have the bulk of the haunted house mazes, with Texas Chainsaw Massacre exclusive to Great Adventure and DCeased exclusive to Six Flags Mexico, based on the zombie event at DC Comics.

The remaining Six Flags locations across the country will have a mix of the mazes with themes tied to Saw, the Conjuring films, Stranger Things--another Halloween Horror Night collab--Trick 'r Treat, and Army of the Dead.

Talking to Variety, Edithann Ramey, the so-called "Chief Fright Officer" explained how he wanted to go all-out this year with the spectacular.

"We knew we wanted to make it big. We wanted the big ones that people recognized, and the list grew from there. We started to reach out and a lot of the different movie companies and distributors were very interested in working with us because they felt it was a great way to showcase their films," he said.

Him and his team got a collective idea of what they were aiming for and how they wanted to approach the level of scares and make sure there was something for everyone.

"We wanted it to be an assortment of films that were a little bit for everybody. You've got your slasher films, and suspenseful films, which are more about pondering and walking through Annabelle and The Nun and the scares, and we were delighted with the addition of Stranger Things because it just widened the appeal and brings in all the people that might not love slasher films."