Alton Towers Scarefest - 2011 Review
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Carnival of Screams- this maze was Alton's humor maze - unless you are serously scared of clowns that is. The opening scene was very well thought out and made good use of the ape from last year. The maze again was full of light and didnt really seem to have too many actors and far too many bare scenes and corners. The new carricter in the maze (the living ventrilaquist doll) looked fantastic but didnt really scare people as much as I would have hoped. There were a lot of false doors though and the rubber doors really felt very heavy which are nice additions. Overall, the whole maze just was just like one big 5 minuite joke and created alot of laughter but not much scare. Great for a first time maze and lot of fun but not very scarey but fun anyway and worth a visit
Terror of the Towers - was almost the same as last year but they have mixed up some of the twistsd and turns inside the maze and improved the opening video and pre show. The maze room order is the same as last year starting with the caos of the ruins and a low tunnel with airguns. The boxes no longer move or bang. areas of the maze felt more claustrophbic than before. On saturday the strobs in the finale werent quite in sequene and were dark for too long so you could see the actors movements before the scare but on the sunday this was fixed and they were bouncing around all over the place. Overall this maze really stole the show from the rest and will be improved over the course of scarefest and has really improved from last year. it does need somthing new but it still is a great theme and it does work as a fantastic scaremaze and had the very high qulity I expect from it
The Boiler House - There was an overall improvemnet in some places but the whole thing felt quite a bit shorter than before. The scares started as soon as the briefing was over and the introduction story was fantastic. The only problem was it didnt feel like you was escapeing like the year before. it felt like you was just being pushed through the gates of hell so to speak. The scares were alot better than last year and some of the scenes were swapped about plus some noticable efects from Terror of the Towers were added - nice to see them used in a diffrent light. The ending was fantastic again offering some great scares and alot of places for the actors to jump out.
Scare Rooms at the Alton Towers Hotel - the scare rooms were extramly frightening and very enjoyable at the same time. There were many different types of scares with ghost storys, phycological scares, parts of the night just leaving you wondering what the hell is going on and big very intimate scares from chefs, hotel staff and men in black cloaks. The night started with a phone call telling you to stay in your room then get scenes from the 2 main story lines which you are then told about by the conciege when he comes to see you. he also tells you of 1 evil man which they dont know anything about. I dont want to give much away about the night but belive me that we had to clean our room 3 times, huge amouts of screams and laughter at times, some very very very personal space intrusive scares and very odd goings on with everyone from every room being dragged out (literaly) into the hall for the big final scare.
Terror of the Towers - was almost the same as last year but they have mixed up some of the twistsd and turns inside the maze and improved the opening video and pre show. The maze room order is the same as last year starting with the caos of the ruins and a low tunnel with airguns. The boxes no longer move or bang. areas of the maze felt more claustrophbic than before. On saturday the strobs in the finale werent quite in sequene and were dark for too long so you could see the actors movements before the scare but on the sunday this was fixed and they were bouncing around all over the place. Overall this maze really stole the show from the rest and will be improved over the course of scarefest and has really improved from last year. it does need somthing new but it still is a great theme and it does work as a fantastic scaremaze and had the very high qulity I expect from it
The Boiler House - There was an overall improvemnet in some places but the whole thing felt quite a bit shorter than before. The scares started as soon as the briefing was over and the introduction story was fantastic. The only problem was it didnt feel like you was escapeing like the year before. it felt like you was just being pushed through the gates of hell so to speak. The scares were alot better than last year and some of the scenes were swapped about plus some noticable efects from Terror of the Towers were added - nice to see them used in a diffrent light. The ending was fantastic again offering some great scares and alot of places for the actors to jump out.
Scare Rooms at the Alton Towers Hotel - the scare rooms were extramly frightening and very enjoyable at the same time. There were many different types of scares with ghost storys, phycological scares, parts of the night just leaving you wondering what the hell is going on and big very intimate scares from chefs, hotel staff and men in black cloaks. The night started with a phone call telling you to stay in your room then get scenes from the 2 main story lines which you are then told about by the conciege when he comes to see you. he also tells you of 1 evil man which they dont know anything about. I dont want to give much away about the night but belive me that we had to clean our room 3 times, huge amouts of screams and laughter at times, some very very very personal space intrusive scares and very odd goings on with everyone from every room being dragged out (literaly) into the hall for the big final scare.
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