The Conjuring: Beyond Fear interactive experience to debut at HalloWeekends this fall

Cedar Point’s signature fall HalloWeekends event, with not-so-scary family fun by day and blood-curdling scares by night, returns select days and nights Sept. 11 to Nov. 2. New at HalloWeekends, the fright factor hits extreme levels with the introduction of The Conjuring: Beyond Fear, an interactive, SCREAMium experience. In addition to the park’s 67 rides and attractions, HalloWeekends features five haunted mazes, five immersive scare zones, event-themed foods, electric live shows and an entire park transformed for the sights and sounds of the season.

New for this year, haunted mazes will only be accessible to guests with the purchase of a Haunted Attractions Pass. The introduction of this event pass reflects a new chapter of scares at HalloWeekends, driven by haunted maze enhancements and the introduction of new scares designed to improve the guest experience during this event. Those seeking the heart-pounding terror of the park’s haunted mazes can enhance their visit with the purchase of a Haunted Attractions Pass, while those seeking night rides, scare zones and live entertainment only require park admission. The Conjuring: Beyond Fear is not included with the Haunted Attractions Pass and is an extra-charge experience.

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Has anyone done this? I've seen some great reports in various places, but curious what people's reactions are for this upcharge experience and also the other mazes in general.

I've been wondering the same. We haven't really heard anything.

I'll be going on Sunday, Oct. 5th.

Reactions on social media, YouTube, etc. seem to be pretty positive despite the long and slow waits.

The Conjuring appears to be $35/person as of today (Thursday). I'd imagine it will climb more as the season continues.

Although I haven't been through, a group of my friends who are former Screamster's went through last week, so I can appreciate their critique of it. Each raved about the experience and all spoke of how unique it was. I rode SkyHawk last Thursday around 8;00pm and the queue for The Conjuring was absolutely filled, had to be a few hundred there. I started to count groups of 4 and silently add $100.00, $200.00, etc.....and now TimChat2 mentions $35.00 and more going forward, what a money printing venture for CP. Weather looks ideal this and next weekend so be prepared for crowds.

They started the access pass system after the first week. It's essentially the same as the access passes the park used to try and control crowds in 2020. At 5pm (3pm Sunday) they start passing out access passes with a one hour return window. Once you return you then get in the line. Even with this system in place, plan for a 60-70 minute wait + 20 minute experience time. But it beats the 2+ hour waits from opening weekend. And a 70 minute wait + $35 entry fee *is* worth it. It's genuinely that unique and that good.

Did this experience with one of my students on Sunday. It was around 6:00 and there was absolutely not a soul in line for it (pun intended). I will say that when it opened at 5:00 I was around the area and the queue had maybe 50(ish) people in it.

We bought our tickets and wound our way through the queue, and then we had to wait because they said ideally they want parties of 5-7. So, Tom and I waited until finally a couple emerged. They said 4 wasn't the norm but that it would work, so they finally let us go through. As we went through the rooms, each actor commented "WAIT THERE'S ONLY 4 OF YOU?!@!@"

I don't want to give too much away, but after doing it I understand why at least 5 would be preferred, as they make an attempt to get everyone in your party involved in some type of interactive way. You each have a "job", which is a nice touch.

Again, I don't want to give too much away, but we both thought it was worth it. The couple with us were split; husband liked it while the wife (who carried Annabelle) said she didn't, even though she seemed super into it during our journey. She was also weird about being the one to take Annabelle, while we were indifferent about it, so have fun, lady.

It's certainly way different than any other haunted house attraction at Cedar Point. Most of the effects are top notch, and they use the space in some really creative ways.

The only negative that sticks out is one of our actors seemed really, really bored, and not into it at all. Every couple rooms you get attached to a new "guide" (for lack of a better term), and all of them were excellent except one right in the middle. It definitely sucked the fun out of that particular room, but everyone has a bad day.

The pros:

1) Town Hall was a perfect setting for this. It's also just so nice to see it getting used.

2) The effects were (mostly) very high-quality.

3) The length of the experience. You definitely forget you are simply moving about Town Hall, and it's pretty impressive they crammed so many different rooms of varying theme in that space.

4) The fact that you know the actors are allowed to touch you changes the haunt dynamic.

The cons:

1) If your experience includes an actor who seems ready to fall asleep, it will really diminish the experience. They drive the story and instruct you what you need to do. Luckily we only had one in this category.

Overall, we just had a lot of fun with it. I would recommend giving it a try.

The only downfall I think is that the volume of the guides is too muffled with the current system and room ambient noise. Overall, it was a really well done attraction and I hope it's easier to access next year.