The park’s high standards for Fright Nights continue with DeadBeat introduced, new scenes in Trailers, two of the best ever shows seen at Fright Nights and even IT 4D joining the line up!

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Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Fright Nights with Trailers, a love letter to the past, Legacy, a fire and light show, as well as find out what is at the end of the line in the last year of Platform 15.

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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the park had to complete change Fright Nights. The “Fright Nights Fearstival” focused on scare zones, but still had two outdoor mazes.

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Thorpe Park trimmed the Fright Nights line up for 2019, introducing the fan-loved Creek Freak Massacre, and starting off the Amity High dance show.

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The largest Fright Nights line up ever, with 7 mazes, a horror escape experience, 2 scare zones, and a horror cinema experience.

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The Island changes after dark, with The Walking Dead invading Fright Nights for the first time, introducing 2 attractions.

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Thorpe Park celebrates 15 years of Fear with their longest maze ever, Platform 15, a selection of roaming actors with a blast to the past, as well as a completely re-imagining Big Top!

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The Ringleader makes his debut, as he brings the Figaro Bros to Thorpe Park to set up The Big Top on Amity Beach. Fright Nights also introduces a unique horror escape room style experience in Containment.

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The Director continues to run the Thorpe Park Movie Studios for Fright Nights, including introducing his own maze: Studio 13.

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Lionsgate take over Thorpe Park! In what is remembered as one of the best Fright Nights, 4 new attractions themed to Lionsgate films joined Saw Alive and The Asylum!

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For the first time, Fright Nights has a park-wide theme, around the Thorpe Park Penitentiary, to further push their new attraction, The Passing. The Passing was also the park’s first ever attempt at an upcharge scare maze.

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Experiment 10, a ruthless scare attraction which splits groups up (a unique thing at the time in the UK scare industry), is introduced, forever changing the landscape of Fright Nights!

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Thorpe Park experiment with outdoors scare attractions, introducing Dead End Terror Zone, their first attempt at a proper scare zone.

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Fright Nights 2009 is the last year where the park haven’t added a new scare maze. However, with the new-for-2009 roller coaster Saw having just opened, the park introduced more actors to the queue line, and showed clips from the Saw films in the 4D cinema.

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In 2008, the park expanded Fright Nights, having 4 scare attractions for the first time ever, by introducing The Curse to the beach.

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There were no new attractions for Fright Nights 2007, but the park worked on improving the quality of their existing line up!

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Thorpe Park properly expanded the Fright Nights line up for the first ever time, introducing Se7en into the Ranger County Arena. This is also the first temporary maze structure to be built at the park, being housed inside a large marquee.

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Fright Nights completely changes, with both existing mazes being rethemed, introducing the world to Hellgate and the iconic Asylum.

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Realising the success and popularity of the Halloween event, the park hired in The Circus of Horrors to perform as the Carnival of the Bizarre, a show inside of the 4D cinema.

This was also the first year that the park rebranded the event to “Fright Nights”, having previously been called “Fright Nites”.

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Following a successful first year, the park carried on with what worked and changed what didn’t. This included a later opening and closing of the park, improved operations of The Freezer and the removal of the ‘Scare Zone’.

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The one that started it all! Fright Nites 2002 introduced 2 mazes, with the help of scare industry expert Lynton V. Harris, a scare zone between the mazes and an atmosphere never before seen at Thorpe Park!

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