Little Fort of Horrors - Landguard Fort
Little Fort of Horrors has been running at Landguard Fort Felixstowe for a number of years now. The one-night only event takes place in a genuine fort built in the 1700’s which claims to be one of the most haunted locations in the East of England – a perfect venue for a fright!
As we walked into the Fort, we were greeted by a guide who told us about the locations many ghosts before taking us through the beautifully lit building and up to a waiting area. Each year, Little Fort of Horrors has a new theme or story and this year’s was ‘The Curse of the Dead’. We were effectively at the Fort to view a recently discovered ‘Mask of the Dead’ and it was nice to see the foyer area had some nice references to this story in newspaper cuttings on the wall – although we did feel it would be better if these were made more obvious as most guests on our tour missed these subtle touches.
As our tour began, we were let into a room to meet two professors who told us about the mask and it’s curse. Of course, it didn’t take long before the curse turned out to be real and we were hurried out of the room and into the maze. The real advantage of the fort’s architecture is that it has many long dark corridors and these were really used to the events advantage. Several times we were left walking into complete darkness with no idea what was in front of us. It’s times like this that you are reminded of the many ghosts living within this fort!
The corridors were very tight and claustrophobic, but amazingly actors were still concealed in all of them and gave us some of the best jump scares we’ve seen all Halloween. But it wasn’t just dark corridors, there were many individual ‘scenes’ where we were led deliberately into a dead end and then had a set piece play out in front of us. These were all very different and helped to give the maze a sense of progression instead of just the same scare over and over again. The only slight issue with this idea was that towards the end of the experience it started to cause a bit of congestion with other groups, not killing the scares but giving you an idea of what was to come.
The scares themselves were very strong, with our group yelping and screaming throughout as we were bombarded with actors from all sides. We were also impressed with the actor costumes and makeup – the theme of the maze being that the dead under the sea had risen, many had shells encrusted into their skin to suggest a long wait under the ocean. We found the actors very good at interaction also, often taking what we would say and using it back to create comedy and scares (the impromptu rendition of Johnny B Goode by one actor had us in stitches!).
Just over 20 minutes later and we were back in the courtyard and thoroughly thrilled with our experience. We were slightly disappointed that the story developed so well at the start didn’t have any real conclusion, but putting this small gripe aside, the combination of the creepy corridors, impressive jump scares and cleverly thought out set pieces, made this a very strong event. It’s amazing to think such a large and well thought through event only runs for one night a year, but it’s a date we will put in our diary for next year as we can’t wait to see what new story the little fort has waiting for us then.
As we walked into the Fort, we were greeted by a guide who told us about the locations many ghosts before taking us through the beautifully lit building and up to a waiting area. Each year, Little Fort of Horrors has a new theme or story and this year’s was ‘The Curse of the Dead’. We were effectively at the Fort to view a recently discovered ‘Mask of the Dead’ and it was nice to see the foyer area had some nice references to this story in newspaper cuttings on the wall – although we did feel it would be better if these were made more obvious as most guests on our tour missed these subtle touches.
As our tour began, we were let into a room to meet two professors who told us about the mask and it’s curse. Of course, it didn’t take long before the curse turned out to be real and we were hurried out of the room and into the maze. The real advantage of the fort’s architecture is that it has many long dark corridors and these were really used to the events advantage. Several times we were left walking into complete darkness with no idea what was in front of us. It’s times like this that you are reminded of the many ghosts living within this fort!
The corridors were very tight and claustrophobic, but amazingly actors were still concealed in all of them and gave us some of the best jump scares we’ve seen all Halloween. But it wasn’t just dark corridors, there were many individual ‘scenes’ where we were led deliberately into a dead end and then had a set piece play out in front of us. These were all very different and helped to give the maze a sense of progression instead of just the same scare over and over again. The only slight issue with this idea was that towards the end of the experience it started to cause a bit of congestion with other groups, not killing the scares but giving you an idea of what was to come.
The scares themselves were very strong, with our group yelping and screaming throughout as we were bombarded with actors from all sides. We were also impressed with the actor costumes and makeup – the theme of the maze being that the dead under the sea had risen, many had shells encrusted into their skin to suggest a long wait under the ocean. We found the actors very good at interaction also, often taking what we would say and using it back to create comedy and scares (the impromptu rendition of Johnny B Goode by one actor had us in stitches!).
Just over 20 minutes later and we were back in the courtyard and thoroughly thrilled with our experience. We were slightly disappointed that the story developed so well at the start didn’t have any real conclusion, but putting this small gripe aside, the combination of the creepy corridors, impressive jump scares and cleverly thought out set pieces, made this a very strong event. It’s amazing to think such a large and well thought through event only runs for one night a year, but it’s a date we will put in our diary for next year as we can’t wait to see what new story the little fort has waiting for us then.
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Very scary - This was absolutely brilliant, It was so well done that it left you feeling you had enjoyed the evening. The scarers stayed in character throughout the evening and were very convincing;
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