Dr Frights HorrorWorld 2022 Review

Dr. Frights returns as HorrorWorld for the 2022 season! Featuring 4 brand new mazes with deranged killer Clowns and iconic movie villains, expect to come face to face with some terrifying memorable characters from the world of horror. 

Dr. Frights is one of the only events, if not the only event that guarantees a completely new lineup each year. With it all linking up with an overall theme, it really does stand out as one of the top events in the UK! Last year’s theme was World Tour, featuring 4 different countries and you can read more on that in our review found here! 

The HorrorWorld theme takes on an amusement park feel for 2022, where all your SCREAMS can come true. Within you can experience the thrills and spills of their  bone chilling, unique attractions. Upon entry into the event, you are given an amusement park guide which gives you all the info like a theme park map would. You are also presented with your maze ticket, which gets holepunched at each attraction. They are also themed like a theme park ticket, which was a cool addition and shows how the small details go a long way. Not forgetting the audio around the main hub, which was a playlist of Halloween hits with a radio style voice over, setting the atmosphere of a theme park just a little more. 

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For anybody who does not know about Dr. Frights, it’s located near Northampton and is easily found literally just off the motorway. Two ticket options are available, with the standard ticket option providing 1x entry through the standard queue line. Or you can pay a little extra for 1x fastrack through each of the 4 mazes. Dr. Frights does have queues most nights for each of the mazes; however, you are pretty much guaranteed to go in your own group instead of with others, which is pretty neat and not seen at any other event. 

Once you’ve done all the mazes, you are allowed to enter the Horror Bar to get a tipple of your choice at reasonable prices! Beers, wine, soft drinks and even cocktails are for sale. Across the indoor marquee event, you can get some food from a burger and hot dog van, some sweet treats at the donut shack or even some merchandise including hot sauce, t-shirts or stickers!

House of Wax

“The House Of Wax was once a popular small town attraction. Until the local townsfolk labelled eccentric owner Madame La’trusse a witch! Sentencing her to a fiery death! But legend has it, she still haunts the rooms and corridors. Reanimating the twisted remains of her beloved wax works to take revenge on anyone who dares set foot inside.”

House of Wax was our first attraction of the evening and it was a great starting attraction. As highlighted above, you get to go in your own group and it set the scene of what was expected throughout our evening. Many, many statues took centre stage and as you could imagine, not all of them were statues! It had many terrifying scenes and set pieces, and the actors just added another layer on top of this. All combined created top scares and a fantastic maze created by the Dr Frights team! 

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Monsters and Madmen

“Reclusive millionaire Bob Bixby has spent years building up a terrifying collection of live exhibits for his ‘Monsters & Madmen’ museum. Prepare to come face to face with the worlds most feared killers, creatures and demons that lurk around every corner!”

Monsters and Madmen was a really great maze and made us realise you don’t need the biggest budget to create a scary maze. It had very similar vibes to a previous attraction at Dr Frights, with many scenes including well known villains from books and films. As you can see by our ratings, we were pretty terrified throughout with meeting Scream, Freddy Krueger and even some aliens! Nothing was out of the question and this was one of the longest mazes of the night, so it made it that touch more nerve wrecking for us. Scares happened from both sides and even above, so nowhere was safe, so you can imagine we moved swiftly through the many different scenes to hopefully find the exit. Overall, a real strong attraction that we are sure many guests would love! 

Grindhouse in Wonderland

“The crazed, chainsaw wielding hillbillies from our hit ‘Grindhouse’ series of mazes are back . . . and have taken up residence in ‘Wonderland’. A defunct fairytale village attraction deep in the louisiana swamps. Experience a blood soaked journey through a once magical land of enchantment. Welcome to your deadly never after!” 

Grindhouse in Wonderland was just simply fantastic. Based on fairytales but not as you know them, they were all beyond twisted and disturbed. As with every iteration of Dr Frights Grindhouse mazes, chainsaws are featured for good measure. The team in Grindhouse are many return actors so, they really know how to get the best screams out of you and they did just that! With many stop, start moments created by the actors, some funny references to long queue times to fairytale movies, it had it all. We even got to meet Alice in Wonderland, but she was more interested in knocking your head off than offering you a cup of tea! We really did enjoy all aspects of this maze and overall, it created one of the most original mazes we experienced in 2022. 

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Killer Clowns Of the Caribbean

“Batten down the hatches! The notorious killer clowns have commandeered a popular pirate themed attraction, transforming it into the perfect venue for their latest killing contest! Will you survive to tell the tale? Or will you end up another digit on the scoreboard?” 

Killer Clowns has been one of the most stand out attractions year upon year. With themes such as In a spaceship & in Ibiza, it has always been a fan favourite to returning guests. Last year, it was one of our favourite mazes overall, and we were interested to see how it would stand in 2022. 

The opening few scenes really sold that it would be a favourite again, with the introduction being spoken to you by a skeleton and parrot before entering the pirate village which was obviously over ran by clowns! The rooms were filled with actors and they got us time and time again. One of our favourite scenes had to be the laser room, where ghost clown / pirates got us and we couldn’t see if they were coming or going! Another note worthy feature is the audio, playing many party anthems on the pirate ship attraction, with audio updates of which clowns had the highest kill score, so clever! Overall, still one of the highest rated mazes we have experienced and will be a maze we will continue talking about for a while. 

Overall, Dr Frights HorrorWorld was a fantastic theme with 4 very high rated mazes. Each maze had an incredible façade that really sold the type of attraction it was. With many humorous moments amongst the scares goes a long way, with great references to an amusement park across the event. Dr Frights never disappoints and with this being our second year at the event, we won’t be missing next year so, we can’t wait to see what they conjure up next, as it’ll be another 4 mazes with a new theme! If Dr Frights isn’t on your radar yet, we would make sure it is and if you can attend this year, do so! 

Tickets can be bought still directly through the website and we would love to hear your thoughts! A huge thank you to Dr Frights for inviting us to attend to review there Halloween world! They gave us 2x fastrack tickets to go through the mazes in return of our review and ratings. We already cannot wait for 2023!!

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