Although the Spooky season isn’t quite the same for us this year I thought I’d keep the Spooky season alive on my blogs! The UK scare events have a tendency to create characters which are just brilliant and perhaps don’t get spoken about quite enough! So, I thought I’d pop together a list of my top 5 we’ve had encounters with!
Buckwheats – Thorpe Park:
There are no characters that quite compare to the energy these guys have. The Buckwheats to me were a genius idea from Thorpe Park they brought their whole story to life with Creak Freak Massacre to expand further with Creak Freak Unchained but now sadly their home has been destroyed and removed. But these characters will forever be iconic for the rest of time. The individual personalities that were created were everything. Thorpe Park needs to try to incorporate them for the rest of time in my opinion. More importantly, these characters were performed beautifully by some of the most gifted actors & actresses to date. They just embraced their characters so beautifully.
The Crows – Thorpe Park
No character have I ever met that has made me crumble with fear like these guys. Yet again another Thorpe Park character invention that has really altered everything for Fright Nights in my opinion. These guys are just haunting to look at I physically can’t bring myself to ever go through their scare zone because I think it would possibly end me off completely. It’s the way they walk, stand & just be a scarecrow. I’ll never forget the first time I saw the way their masks looked so realistic. These are just scare perfections that can’t go anywhere for sure.
Alton Ancestors
These guys are just Scarefest. If they ever removed them I genuinely think a bit of Scarefest would be lost too. There’s nothing better than on that cold autumnal morning walking into the park to be welcomed by these guys then standing with a coffee and watching their flash mob. They aren’t always the same characters every year they do shake it up and that’s always exciting to see what costumes you’ll see year after year. They are brilliant at interacting with guests too.
Cast From Hillbilly Joes Zombie Zoo – Screamfest Burton
An entire scare maze filled with such a mixture of characters and quite honestly the ones you’d least predict in a scare maze and that’s just what works. It’s hilariously amusing how good the scares can be by someone dressed as a hot dog. I love the absurdity yet cherish the jump scares combined into one. I know it’s not perhaps a firm favourite amongst many but I bloody adore it. Please keep this maze for as long as possible with these silly characters!
Brian – Tulleys Shocktoberfest
An individual character who I absolutely adore each season & very sad to miss this year, it’s Brian! This man is absolutely fantastic never fails to crack us up and is a true gem to Tulleys. Not scary as such but hilarious for sure. I hope this guy never leaves and his actor returns again each year because it wouldn’t be the same without him!
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What are your 5 favourite casts or characters?
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