Running since 2002, Fright Nights is the premiere event for Thorpe Park.
In recent years, the event has gone from strength-to-strength, improving both the quality, quantity and diversity of the event. In 2023, Fright Nights won “Best Theme Park Halloween Event” at ScareCon, which recognises scare attractions all across Europe.
The 2024 line up features a new maze, DeadBeat, accompanying the three returning mazes: Stitches, Survival Games and Trailers. All of these mazes are indoors and cost extra, running from 3pm until park close. The Crows of Mawkin Meadow and Lucifer’s Lair return as scare zones, and gorgons join the Creature Campus dance show. Also new for 2024, the IT 4D Experience shows in the Sunset Cinema.
We have archives of all events and all attractions throughout Fright Nights’ history, which can be seen below (we’re still re-adding these to our new website, watch this space if your favourite isn’t back yet!)
Event Archive
We have visited every single Fright Nights event since it started in 2002, and have reviewed most of them! Below are our reviews for each year (we are re-adding them over time – watch this space!)
Fright Nights 2024
The park’s high standards for Fright Nights continue with DeadBeat introduced, new scenes in Trailers, two of the best ever shows seen at Fright Nights and even IT 4D joining the line up!
Fright Nights 2023
A new indoor maze, Stitches, and a new scare and entertainment zone, Lucifer’s Lair, add to an already diverse line up, which increased the high standards that are expected for Fright Nights!
Fright Nights 2022
With money raised from making mazes paid-for attractions being reinvested directly back into Fright Nights, Fright Nights 2022 introduced 3 new attractions, including Survival Games, their most expensive Fright Nights investment at the time!
Fright Nights 2021
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Fright Nights with Trailers, a love letter to the past, Legacy, a fire and light show, as well as find out what is at the end of the line in the last year of Platform 15.
Fright Nights 2020
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the park had to complete change Fright Nights. The “Fright Nights Fearstival” focused on scare zones, but still had two outdoor mazes.
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2019
Thorpe Park trimmed the Fright Nights line up for 2019, introducing the fan-loved Creek Freak Massacre, and starting off the Amity High dance show.
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2018
The largest Fright Nights line up ever, with 7 mazes, a horror escape experience, 2 scare zones, and a horror cinema experience.
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2017
The Island changes after dark, with The Walking Dead invading Fright Nights for the first time, introducing 2 attractions.
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2016
Thorpe Park celebrates 15 years of Fear with their longest maze ever, Platform 15, a selection of roaming actors with a blast to the past, as well as a completely re-imagining Big Top!
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2015
The Ringleader makes his debut, as he brings the Figaro Bros to Thorpe Park to set up The Big Top on Amity Beach. Fright Nights also introduces a unique horror escape room style experience in Containment.
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2014
The Director continues to run the Thorpe Park Movie Studios for Fright Nights, including introducing his own maze: Studio 13.
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2013
Lionsgate take over Thorpe Park! In what is remembered as one of the best Fright Nights, 4 new attractions themed to Lionsgate films joined Saw Alive and The Asylum!
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2012
For the first time, Fright Nights has a park-wide theme, around the Thorpe Park Penitentiary, to further push their new attraction, The Passing. The Passing was also the park’s first ever attempt at an upcharge scare maze.
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2011
Experiment 10, a ruthless scare attraction which splits groups up (a unique thing at the time in the UK scare industry), is introduced, forever changing the landscape of Fright Nights!
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2010
Thorpe Park experiment with outdoors scare attractions, introducing Dead End Terror Zone, their first attempt at a proper scare zone.
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2009
Fright Nights 2009 is the last year where the park haven’t added a new scare maze. However, with the new-for-2009 roller coaster Saw having just opened, the park introduced more actors to the queue line, and showed clips from the Saw films in the 4D cinema.
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2008
In 2008, the park expanded Fright Nights, having 4 scare attractions for the first time ever, by introducing The Curse to the beach.
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2007
There were no new attractions for Fright Nights 2007, but the park worked on improving the quality of their existing line up!
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2006
Thorpe Park properly expanded the Fright Nights line up for the first ever time, introducing Se7en into the Ranger County Arena. This is also the first temporary maze structure to be built at the park, being housed inside a large marquee.
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2005
Fright Nights completely changes, with both existing mazes being rethemed, introducing the world to Hellgate and the iconic Asylum.
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nights 2004
Realising the success and popularity of the Halloween event, the park hired in The Circus of Horrors to perform as the Carnival of the Bizarre, a show inside of the 4D cinema.
This was also the first year that the park rebranded the event to “Fright Nights”, having previously been called “Fright Nites”.
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nites 2003
Following a successful first year, the park carried on with what worked and changed what didn’t. This included a later opening and closing of the park, improved operations of The Freezer and the removal of the ‘Scare Zone’.
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Fright Nites 2002
The one that started it all! Fright Nites 2002 introduced 2 mazes, with the help of scare industry expert Lynton V. Harris, a scare zone between the mazes and an atmosphere never before seen at Thorpe Park!
TPM Review (reappearing soon!)
Attraction Archive
Take a look at every single Fright Nights attraction that’s ever existed, from the legendary The Asylum, to the short-lived Dead End: Terror Zone, right up to Legacy and Stitches, as well as extras like Face it Alone and overnight experiences.
We are still re-adding attractions to our archives – watch this space!
DeadBeat
Scare maze, 2024-present
IT 4D Experience
Cinema show, 2024-present
Stitches
Scare maze, 2023-present
Lucifer’s Lair
Scare zone, 2023-present
Survival Games
Scare maze, 2022-present
Death’s Doors
Scare zone, 2022-2023
The Terminal
Experience, 2022-2022
Trailers
Scare maze, 2021-present
Legacy
Fire/light show, 2021-2022
Birthday Bash!
Scare zone, 2021-2022
Roots of Evil
Scare maze, 2020-2020
(Coming soon!)
Creak Freaks Unchained
Scare zone, 2020-2022
The Crows
Scare zone, 2020-present
The Fearsitval Arena
Scare zone, 2020-2020
(Coming soon!)
The Swarm: Invasion
Scare zone, 2020-2021
The Howling of LycanThorpe High
Scare zone, 2020-2020
(Coming soon!)
Creak Freak Massacre
Scare maze, 2019, 2021-2022
Platform 15
Scare maze, 2016-2021