The Witch Hunter at The London Dungeon 2016
Every October, the London Dungeon celebrate Halloween with a new show, or a makeover of an existing one. This year sees The Witch Hunter take over three of the main shows in one of the biggest Halloween makeovers of recent years.
Earlier this year the Dungeon had a big re-organisation of several of its rooms, to squeeze in the technically impressive Escape the Great Fire of London. As part of this - the Plague Doctor was moved, and this room is used for the main part of the Witch Hunter story. But before that - we were led into the house of a woman accused of witchcraft, and through typical Dungeon's trickery, we were plunged into darkness as the the witchfinders started to attack. Multi location speakers echoed with the curses of the witch, whilst physical effects such as bangs and other loud noises clattered around us.
Once the "witch" was uncovered, we were led through to a new scene with Matthew Hopkins, The Witchfinder General, torturing her to try and get her to confess her crimes. Again, the scene made great use of darkness and sound effects to bring the story to a dramatic conclusion, and as we were rushed out into the next scenes, we thought we had seen the last of the witches. But this was not the case...
The tour continued with some of the more regular characters and shows (Jack the Ripper in the Ten Bells pub STILL making people scream!), but we had one more encounter with the witch before we could escape. The use of the final scene really finished the story off well and was a fitting send off as we prepared to be "hung" on Drop Dead.
Although not the scariest of the seasonal shows (that accolade has to go to last year's Seance), The Witch Hunter really added to the experience and with the pumpkins scattered all over the attraction, The London Dungeon was certainly in the Halloween mood.
Earlier this year the Dungeon had a big re-organisation of several of its rooms, to squeeze in the technically impressive Escape the Great Fire of London. As part of this - the Plague Doctor was moved, and this room is used for the main part of the Witch Hunter story. But before that - we were led into the house of a woman accused of witchcraft, and through typical Dungeon's trickery, we were plunged into darkness as the the witchfinders started to attack. Multi location speakers echoed with the curses of the witch, whilst physical effects such as bangs and other loud noises clattered around us.
Once the "witch" was uncovered, we were led through to a new scene with Matthew Hopkins, The Witchfinder General, torturing her to try and get her to confess her crimes. Again, the scene made great use of darkness and sound effects to bring the story to a dramatic conclusion, and as we were rushed out into the next scenes, we thought we had seen the last of the witches. But this was not the case...
The tour continued with some of the more regular characters and shows (Jack the Ripper in the Ten Bells pub STILL making people scream!), but we had one more encounter with the witch before we could escape. The use of the final scene really finished the story off well and was a fitting send off as we prepared to be "hung" on Drop Dead.
Although not the scariest of the seasonal shows (that accolade has to go to last year's Seance), The Witch Hunter really added to the experience and with the pumpkins scattered all over the attraction, The London Dungeon was certainly in the Halloween mood.
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