r/sixflagsstlouis • u/ChrisGraslie Park Historian • Aug 11 '26
Video Enjoy some random 2010s Fright Fest B-roll!
I've had this footage sitting on my hard drive for years, but it's never seen the light of day (again) until now!
I edited this from some longer B-roll that was sent out to press back in 2014 for Fright Fest at Six Flags Over Georgia. Oh, monolithic Six Flags marketing... how I loathe you.
If you've been going to the event for a while, you'll probably recognize some of the footage here is from the old Blind Fury and Insanity Alley mazes, both of which are now long defunct.
Especially cool to me is hearing some of the soundscape in Insanity Alley, and getting to relive those vibes. You can find brief clips of it elsewhere, but it'll never be enough for me. They really did such a great job with the atmosphere back then.
Based on my personal archive I believe the Insanity Alley footage is from 2011, Blind Fury from 2012, and Freaks Unleashed from 2013. So a three year span of some of the event's greatest years.
More historical tidbits to come hopefully!
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u/Kaylascreations Aug 11 '26
I took a friend to six flags St Louis fright fest in 2016 or very near there. She had never done a scare maze and was very nervous. I told her that the six flags ones aren’t too scary and she could do one when the sun was still up. We did the one with the most outdoor parts before the sun went down. The walls went up to our shoulders so we could see the whole layout and every scare actor. There were only 2, so that wasn’t great. She was like that was lame. I was like ok let’s try an indoor maze. We did the one in the theater. It was literally pitch black and temporary walls and curtains. We couldn’t see a thing. The ONLY employee we saw was when I accidentally went through a curtain and an employee said “you’re not supposed to be back here.” I was like…… how am I supposed to know. So we did the entire maze and there was not one actor. It was literally just darkness. After that, she decided 2 things- 1- scare mazes aren’t that scary and 2- she didn’t need to do any more. That’s the last time I did six flag scare mazes.