Knott’s Berry Farm looks ahead to Halloween Haunt 2009
As Halloween Haunt 2008 draws to a close, Knott’s Berry Farm is already making plans for next year.
The Buena Park theme park works year-round to plan the annual event as well as Haunts for nine other Cedar Fair parks.
> See a list of all 13 Knott’s Scary Farm mazes.
Throughout the year, a creative team develops concepts, themes and storyboards that are mapped out as ground and elevation plans that eventually become maze structures. Then the painters and costumers go to work. The final touches: adding atmosphere and developing “scares.”
Certain themes and concepts, drawn from movies and books, remain constant year after year: vampires, bloody gore, fantasy, tongue-in-cheek comedy and gimmicks (like 3-D and laser tag). And each season usually brings a movie tie-in.
This year’s Knott’s Scary Farm (which runs through Saturday, Nov. 1) includes 13 mazes — six of them brand-new for 2008. Most mazes last just a few years, some as long as five or six years. The constant flow of visitors takes a toll on the mazes — and those same visitors expect something new each season.
For 2009, Knott’s plans to change out at least two mazes, Lost Vegas and 13 Axe Murder Manor, and completely remake another maze — Asylum — with a similar theme. Re-theming or revamping other mazes remains a possibility.
> Read my review of this year’s six new Halloween Haunt mazes.
Find the latest amusement and theme park news at the
Los Angeles Times Funland blog: www.latimes.com/funland
— Brady MacDonald, Los Angeles Times staff writer
Photo: Knott’s Berry Farm
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October 31st, 2008 at 1:41 pm
scary
March 25th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
any idea of the haunt dates for 2009…I need to make my reservations for our vacation soon and we always go to the scarey farm…thanks a bunch pam
April 14th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
I really am quite excited for this year.
Even though it wasn’t all that good last year, I want to see if they improve.
The last years before 2008 were pretty good but I was very dissapointed last year.
There wasn’t near as many monsters as there was the past years.
They also werent as scary, but I bet it will be much more entertaining this year. (:
April 28th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Still no dates on the official Knotts site! allready booked vaca for the first 10 days of Oct. any news on event dates? always a must do! I heart Elvira.
May 1st, 2009 at 11:54 pm
send me information on halloween
haunt for 2009/ would like hotel
package/dinner/tickets/ect.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:00 am
soooo excited on knotts scary farm 2009. when would they give us a sneek peak on upcoming mazes this year?
May 13th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I think it sucked in 2003 but like a movie it got better in 2008 they made the mazes better and better effects on people that where monster is will maybe be better this year.and king David liked it last year but they might be the one this year so make people want it more it look like that
June 5th, 2009 at 11:35 am
can i apply for a job to scare people in the mazes and how?
June 11th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Will you ever have the mistress of the dark elvira at the knotts scary farm she gives a great show and she is funny she would attract a large crowd every time, and there was a comedian by the name of ramon who also had a great show will they ever bring them back be cause the last few years the shows have been boring and not funny hope to hear from someone
June 24th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
When the dates are officially up, can someone e-mail me? I’m trying to plan an 18th birthday party and I really need 6 tickets.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Didn’t care for Knott’s Scary Farm 2008 due to lack of “people” scary us. Years past were very very scary compared to 2008. Hoping that 2009 is more scary and not so predictable. Looking forward to getting the dates for 2009 and to get scared this year!
July 5th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
cool
July 10th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Tried Universal in 2008. It was horrible. Back to KBF for sure. So looking forward to it. We always have a good time.
July 13th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
knotts scary farm 2008 really sucked this year there was too much light and there werent as many monsters and it was complicating to find some mazes and i hope 2009 will be better and tey should shut down all of camp snoopy and make that one big maze it would be really cool
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:24 am
I am looking forward to the haunt this year. Last year was really fun.