The Conjuring Is Getting a Franchise-Spanning Series of Mazes

One of horror’s biggest franchises is making a immense splash this spooky play and io9 has your exclusive archetypal look and details. The Conjuring Universe is coming to Six Flags Fright Fest this autumn and the all-new maze volition incorporated not conscionable scenes and characters from the halfway Conjuring franchise, but The Nun and Annabelle films arsenic well.

“Millions of fans astir the satellite person made The Conjuring Universe a fearfulness icon. From its superb storytelling to its legendary characters, the franchise is perfectly suited to accommodate into a maze, taking fans into the satellite of the Warrens and their astir celebrated cases,” Kathleen Wallis, vice president, Warner Bros. Discovery Global Themed Entertainment told io9 successful a statement. “Our partners astatine Six Flags and RWS Global stock the aforesaid obsession for item and accuracy, and we can’t hold for Fright Fest attendees to acquisition The Conjuring Universe successful this caller way.”

As hinted there, the maze starts arsenic you participate the Warren Museum of the Occult. Objects are missing though and, implicit the people of the maze, you’ll find them and acquisition each their creepy fallout. The Conjuring Universe mazes volition beryllium a portion of Six Flags Fright Fests astatine Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Six Flags Over Texas, and Six Flags Fiesta Texas from aboriginal September done November 3. Below, you tin cheque retired immoderate never-before-seen images from the maze and work our Q&A with the Chief Fright Officer of Six Flags, Edithann Ramey, astir each things Conjuring.

The beforehand of The Conjuring Maze – Six Flags

Note: the beneath interrogation was conducted via email.

Germain Lussier, io9: While The Conjuring, Annabelle, and The Nun stock a beingness connected screen, we’ve ne'er seen them unneurotic successful 1 acquisition before. What was it similar putting the afloat Conjuring Universe unneurotic into 1 story?

Edithann Ramey: We consciousness some fortunate and conscionable precise excited to person our parks beryllium the archetypal spot wherever these 3 iconic brands volition conscionable for the archetypal time. This was thing we didn’t instrumentality lightly. We wanted a earthy hold of the movies that besides worked unneurotic successful an over-arching way. Ultimately, on with our friends astatine RWS Global, we were capable to physique retired thing that was not lone authentic to the franchise but to marque definite each marque had large moments successful the maze. I similar to say—it’s similar speechmaking a large publication that’s made into a movie, present is simply a large movie that’s made into a Haunted House. People who cognize and emotion the films volition person precocious expectations, and we intent to conscionable them.

io9: Will the stories overlap astatine each oregon volition it beryllium 3 chiseled flavors?

Ramey: It’s a mix. The maze takes spot successful the Warren Museum of the Occult which allows america to propulsion from each the brands astatine the aforesaid clip successful a precise integrated way. It besides truly sets the signifier that immoderate of these frightening characters tin amusement up astatine immoderate time. As guests spell room-to-room they’ll beryllium much afloat immersed successful the circumstantial franchises arsenic we bring them into places similar Bathsheba’s Den, Annabelle’s Playroom, and St. Carta wherever they cognize thing tin happen.

A hallway successful the Conjuring Maze – Six Flags

io9: What are immoderate ways this maze is unsocial from others that’ll beryllium astatine Fright Fest?

Ramey: This is the lone maze wherever we are combining franchises. It’s 3 mazes successful one! We were fortunate to enactment with WB past twelvemonth wherever we did a maze that was conscionable astir The Conjuring, truthful to beryllium capable to grow that retired is truthful breathtaking for us.

io9: Six Flags is leaning heavy into the IP this year, which places successful overmuch much nonstop contention with Universal Horror Nights. What tin you accidental astir the inspiration to get much recognizable franchises portion not butting heads with the competition?

Ramey: Conceptually it made sense—we are the spot for large thrills, what amended than partnering with fearfulness movies? Both enactment truly hard astatine scaring you, thrilling you, and leaving you wanting more. But we wanted to beryllium it retired too, due to the fact that we worth feedback and privation to marque definite it would enactment astatine Six Flags. We did a trial tally with Conjuring and Saw to spot what benignant of absorption IP-centric mazes would person and it was overwhelmingly positive. We learned guests loved these houses, and thought the movie storytelling was exciting. We learned it was truthful exciting, that they were consenting to marque two-hour lines to get in. But this year, we worked connected amended flow, truthful we tin acceptable much radical in. The feedback was that they wanted much scares, adjacent much Conjuring, truthful we [went] with the Universe concept. We listened, learned, and activated connected that feedback for 2024.

Another spooky Conjuring Hall – Six Flags

io9: With caller Conjuring movies successful the works, tin fans look retired for immoderate teases from the future?

Ramey: I can’t truly talk to thing astir the upcoming films but I tin accidental the maze should lone substance wide instrumentality excitement of the franchise and springiness them thing amusive to bash arsenic they await the adjacent film. You tin sojourn Six Flags arsenic the eventual trailer for immoderate movie to come!

Beyond The Conjuring, Fright Fest volition besides person mazes focused connected Stranger Things, Army of the Dead, Trick R’Treat, and Saw arsenic good arsenic an acquisition centering connected Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Specific mazes alteration by park. See the afloat details here. Below, we’ll permission you with 2 much exclusive images of a plan successful the maze: the Malthus Demon.

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