The Creek Woods Sawmill hasn’t been open for years, but a new job advert had come out. The family who own the sawmill, the Buckwheats, are looking for new recruits. It seems like they’re willing to spend an arm and leg for the best…or maybe just take an arm and leg!

Opening in 2019, Creek Freak Massacre was the last free Fright Nights maze to open at the park. But it stood the transition to being a paid attraction very well, thanks to its high intensity, good theming and use of loads of chainsaws.

After the pre show, a small selection of the group would be made to crawl through the “rotten wood” tunnel, whilst the rest of the group would carry on through a hidden door. This meant you might be split up from your friends for the whole maze!

From here, you would explore the inner workings of the sawmill, where it was clear that the Buckwheats weren’t after new workers, they were after new victims. You would navigate corridors of rotting wood, body bags hanging from the ceiling and more, all whilst being assaulted by axes and chainsaws.

The maze also had a terrific ‘heat corridor’, which blasted you with heat and made you forget that you were in October. The build up to the finale was a 2-route chain link fence maze, reminiscent of The Asylum, with flashing strobes to go with it. And even here, you wouldn’t be safe from the Buckwheats’ chainsaws. 

The ending of the maze was, of course, a chainsaw run out, but it was very common for there to be 2 actors with chainsaws, giving a grea visual of people running down the exit ramp and out of Old Town altogether.

The maze was closed in 2020, as the park didn’t feel they could comfortably and safely run it under the Covid restrictions at the time. However, it reopened – as a paid attraction – in 2021, and then for the final time in 2022, with the tagline “The Final Cut”. Creek Freak Massacre didn’t receive many changes during its tenure, thank to being so well-designed in the first place, but did receive minor tweaks to streamline operations. The maze did receive a scare zone spin-off, Creek Freaks Unchained, in 2020, which ran in 2021 as well.

Being based in the old Loggers Leap station, which had been unused for 4 years prior, gave it a slightly authenticity, and the exterior (being a 30 year old wooden building) further added to the believability that this was a Sawmill.

Despite building up a huge fanbase and being largely beloved by all, Creek Freak Massacre had to go due to construction of Hyperia. The maze building stands roughly where Hyperia’s exit path and first cattle pen is now. Indeed, the Buckwheats referenced this during the pre show in the final year, saying how “Project Exomudus” was taking over the Sawmill.

Creek Freak Massacre was gorey, bloody and intense, and was introduced at a time when the park hadn’t seen something like that for years. Filled with loud noises, effects and intense jump scares, it didn’t do anything different or special, but it took all the basics of a scare maze and dialled them up to 100!