As Thorpe Park celebrates a milestone 25 years of the award-winning Halloween event Fright Nights, the theme park in Surrey launches Tenement, a brand-new scare maze that will plunge guests into darkness with only a failing shared handheld light to guide them.
With Fright Nights running on selected dates from 2 October to 1 November 2026, guests who enter Tenement will have to face their fear of the dark with only their imaginations and the creatures that lurk in the darkness for company. Inside an abandoned tenement, the power is dead, the tenants have vanished, and every flicker of light reveals something getting closer. As the light fails, guests will be hunted and disorientated as they enter deeper into a maze of reflections, illusions and sensory scares. In Tenement, shining a light might just make you the problem…
Ruth Storey, Vice President at Thorpe Park said: “We are so excited to reveal a Thorpe Park first to celebrate 25 years of Fright Nights – a fully immersive, pitch-black scare maze. Fright Nights is an iconic part of Halloween in the UK and we love being able to bring our guests’ nightmares to life through our award-winning line-up. This time, we’re playing on one of our most instinctive fears – the fear of the dark – and we can’t wait to challenge our guests to confront what they can’t see.”
Tenement isn’t the only experience lurking in the Thorpe Park shadows this Halloween at Europe’s top theme park scare event:
The four fearsome scare mazes are back. Trailers returns with a new screening, Blood Red Roses, where iconic horror nightmares are reimagined into something far more sinister in the SuperSpark Cinema, while Stitches reopens the doors of Howell’s Toy Emporium with new toys waiting to make unsuspecting guests part of the creepy collection.
Survival Games once again throws guests into a labyrinth of shifting pathways where assassins and brutal obstacles make escape anything but guaranteed, and fan-favourite DeadBeat drags visitors into an underground nightclub where every beat pulls partygoers closer to creatures lurking in the shadows.
Beyond the mazes, Purgatory Town - Thorpe Park’s first speak-to-scare zone – returns, with new inhabitants condemned to wander the streets desperate to tell their tales to anyone who will listen. The Lord of Darkness himself will be putting on an unforgettable show in Lucifer’s Lair, and The Crows have abandoned their home of Mawkin Meadow ready to spread their silent terror across the park.
Creature Campus: Reunion Reckoning will see old rivalries reignite in a high-energy live show, and new for 2026, the Rebel Ball sponsored by Fanta takes over The Launch Pad for a vibrant night of music, dance and wow-factor fire performances.
Once the sun goes down, the rides come alive, as guests can experience the likes of Hyperia, – the UK’s fastest and tallest rollercoaster – THE SWARM, SAW-The Ride, Stealth and Nemesis Inferno after dark, with Thorpe Park’s biggest coasters taking on an altogether different atmosphere when the night falls.
Thorpe Park can be found at Staines Road, Chertsey, Surrey, KT16 8PN, and can be reached by car, by train from Waterloo in just 32 minutes, or by bus.
To book Fright Nights tickets before it gets scary late visit Thorpe Park website. Prices start from £39 per person by booking online and £66 on-the-gate. Tickets that include entry to the scare mazes start from £71 online and £98 for a walk-up price.
