Six Flags Great America starts getting ready for Halloween
Vampires, zombies, ghouls, and ghosts have already begun wandering through Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, in anticipation of Halloween.
According to an October 2, 2014 news article, the creatures come out throughout the month of October each year in the park’s annual Fright Fest. The frightful fun is no minor project: daily, 15makeup artists work for a total of more than twenty hours combined, and use more than 150 pounds of fake blood and makeup to change 250 actors into the zombies, monsters, vampires, and other creatures that creep around Six Flags during Fright Fest.
Kristopher Jones, the Entertainment Manager for the park, calls Fright Fest “the most immersive Halloween event in the region”, noting that Six Flags tries to increase the fear every year, so that guests run into newer, scarier things everywhere they go.
For the entire month of October, the park is open until midnight on Saturdays. There are six shows with Halloween themes, six haunted attractions, and the park is decorated so that it exudes an atmosphere of danger and darkness.
Among the shiver-inducing elements are a reflecting pond that appears to be full of blood, and a 200lb spider named Tiny, who sits atop the American Eagle, where it has crouched for the last 22 years.
Park officials could work with a banner printing company to create suitably creepy banners to hang throughout Six Flags to enhance the sense of danger.
According to an October 2, 2014 news article, the creatures come out throughout the month of October each year in the park’s annual Fright Fest. The frightful fun is no minor project: daily, 15makeup artists work for a total of more than twenty hours combined, and use more than 150 pounds of fake blood and makeup to change 250 actors into the zombies, monsters, vampires, and other creatures that creep around Six Flags during Fright Fest.
Kristopher Jones, the Entertainment Manager for the park, calls Fright Fest “the most immersive Halloween event in the region”, noting that Six Flags tries to increase the fear every year, so that guests run into newer, scarier things everywhere they go.
For the entire month of October, the park is open until midnight on Saturdays. There are six shows with Halloween themes, six haunted attractions, and the park is decorated so that it exudes an atmosphere of danger and darkness.
Among the shiver-inducing elements are a reflecting pond that appears to be full of blood, and a 200lb spider named Tiny, who sits atop the American Eagle, where it has crouched for the last 22 years.
Park officials could work with a banner printing company to create suitably creepy banners to hang throughout Six Flags to enhance the sense of danger.