Six Flags Fright Fest 2025 (Magic Mountain)

[Stonecoldfreak1]

Went to Over Texas' Fright fest last Friday and was actually pretty happy with it. The Strangers house was a big surprise. It looked like they put way more money into that than they did Stranger Things, which was in the same location previously. They also plussed up Conjuring a good deal.

 

[Wishmaster]

All mazes available tonight?

 

[Clive]

All mazes available tonight?

Uh we’ll be reporting in tomorrow!

 

[Jerroddragon]

All mazes available tonight?

All Houses were open

MY favorite was Trick R Treats they improved the layout and its just such a fun Halloween house every inch is just such a Fall/Halloween Vibe and Sam and his friend's had lots of fun places to hide and some fun new effects here and there

Saw my first run through was fine but man...the second time I went in the Pig guys were relentless, very fun house and my current second favorite I think

Carnage is my Third favorite house, it has some impressive sets at the end and some fun set pieces along the way. The actors were having fun with this one

Willoughby's: Ressurected is one its last year but the cast and layout design this year are the best in years. I have been going to fright fest since 2010 or before and this house has always been here and its last run is very well done

The Conjuring Universe is fun and about the same as last year but the one more actor was added and I think the most like last year of the IP houses.

The rest of the houses had some great casts and my late night runs of those were super fun

The Opening Scaremoney now takes place in the middle of the city Scare zone and the fire tower and DJ are also located here this year and the opening show is the best its ever been with Carnage leading the way

Margo Rita's Monster Ball is a blast almost a perfect show for that stage, I saw it twice and its a fun time excited to see it more and wonder if more then one character will win it. The first night the same character won it twice. Thank you Six Flags for the amazing show and please bring this energy to holiday in the parks

Sliders of the Night has heart and you cant tell the sliders trust one another and did a great job in helping create this great stunt show, one of the highlights being one slider surfling on another slider. A very well put together show

The Scarezones were fun but one of my complaints is some scarezones had just too little actors in it. Oz was cool and Dorthy is a nice addition but I did not see the Tinman or Lion
Alice was also great and the actors killed it but no Red Queen or Mad Hatter. But a well done zone that I cant wait to go back to

Thunderbolt Alley had some fun actors but the ice cream truck was cut or not there night one. But the actors killed it

The rest of the zones were great as well, just tired and can right more later

But great/amazing event so much fun but heads up there is a new bag policy after 6 PM, so look up the rules before going

 

[Rideguy70]

Great to hear! Kinda disappointed Conjuring didn't change much (they really need to do something with that "attic"/wood slats only for a long time section), but excited to hear the improvements on the others, the new maze, and the show!

I hadn't heard this was the last year for Willoughby's... is that confirmed? I would get why, it's been around for a very long time, but to me, it's still pretty classic and I always get a lot of scares in it.

 

[Jerroddragon]

Too many photos to count

 

[Rideguy70]

Went last night. Everything was open, and park felt relatively crowded, but lines for mazes weren't too bad overall, and generally, I think this could be one of the stronger FF years! Impressions of mazes:

• Trick 'r Treat is the standout for me! It's been totally redone, and essentially has no black walls anywhere! Feels very much like a Knott's Scary Farm quality maze. Yes, there is one long hallway, but even it is lightly themed, and (should it be staffed), there's a surprise at the end. There's also a great cornfield maze at the end where we genuinely got lost! Felt it could use a few more scareactors, but to me, this was one of the best mazes FF has recently created. Not super long, but for FF, highly detailed and themed.
• I think Carnage will be divisive. There's some good bones here, and it's certainly an improvement over ST's super large rooms. Not 100% clear about the theme/story, and there were not a lot of scareactors in the first half. But when they did show up in the second half, they were very interactive... at one point, we were given a handstamp to enter the "bar"! I think this needs to get its sea legs, but it seems to me they're going more for interaction than jumpscares. It'll be interesting to see how this maze develops over time, but I think if you come in with the proper expectations and go with it, it could be pretty fun. And I'm not necessarily a big fan of large projections in a maze, but there is one at the end of this I found fairly impressive.
• Saw is mostly the same inside, but most of the rooms/scenes have been rearranged. They added a lot of quotes from the movie painted on the walls throughout the entire maze, which is actually a genius move: it's a low budget way to honor the movie, theme things, and create a distraction for the scareactors to get you. Speaking of which, the scareactors were much, much more aggressive than last year, and a lot more prominent. I suspect the rearrangement created backstage space so scareactors can cover multiple rooms, making the scareactor cast feel larger than it actually may be--but it works! Yeah, it's all pig mask villains and victims, but they're omnipresent.
• Conjuring is about 95% the same, with some very minor (and one major) improvement. They added one of the "banger" machine in the attic/slat room space. And surprisingly, it creates a heck of a lot more tension. Towards the end of the maze, they added a projection that makes it look like spirits are writing on the wall. Best for last... FF got their first (as far as I know) large scale puppet, and it's actually pretty good! Worth going through to see that. It also had virtually no line after about 8/8:30 pm
• Willoughby's, Vault 666, and Truth or Dare have minor improvements (which, unless you've gone through them a lot, you wouldn't be likely to notice), but they were well populated with scareactors. Oddly, Condamned had one of the longest lines of the night, and after doing it so many times over the years, we skipped it and will do it on a future visit.

Shows and overall impressions:

• Margo Rita's show is the gayest straight drag show I've seen--this is a complement. Just Margo and Tequila bantering, introducing other monsters (who all appear to be doing their own singing--and they're quite good!) and some dancers. Nothing special on paper, but fun to watch nevertheless. They also do a very short shout out to Spring Break. It also makes HHN look even more sad that FF can now manage a live show, and they can't.
• There's DJ"s in a few locations: City Under Siege, and the area in front of Full Throttle. Their music rocks, and really adds a lot of great energy to the event. Only downside: when they go on a break, it's dead silent, and the energy drops like a rock.
• Be aware there is a new policy that there is NO PARK RE-ENTRY after 6pm. Also, bags much be no larger than 12x12x6 after 6pm. This was mentioned to us as we pulled in the park, there were multiple signs on the walk over, security mentioned it, and it was said as we exited.

I do think my prediction of fewer houses are meaning better quality of the ones we have has come true. On the whole, staff was on top of things, and most things operated smoothly. I didn't miss Aftermath at all (Sewer of Souls, a bit, haha). Are the mazes HHN quality? Of course not. But on a relative scale for Fright Fest, this may be one of their better years. I do love they are able to pulse groups in, and avoid conga lines. In fact, there were many mazes where we felt like we were in there alone, which really elevates the experience.