The Howl Scream Park is the little brother of another local scare attraction in Tulleys Shocktoberfest but don’t underestimate this park, it has a lot of high-quality mazes and a wonderful atmosphere! Here’s our The Howl Scream Park review.

The Howl kindly invited us down to check out the event in return for an always honest review of their park. We were given a nice sitting area to chill with drinks and food and fast passes to skip the queues.
I do love getting little freebies like this but I always make sure to purchase merchandise or put more effort into advertising the events that give me freebies just to give something back for their kindness.
I’m a very honest person so fancy freebies aside, let’s dive in, shall we?
The Howl Scream Park consists of roaming actors, street entertainment including fire jugglers and even a Circus of Horrors tent where sword swallowing, tongue piercings and more wackiness are on full display for all to see.
There are six scare mazes in total with Howl Valley High being the single biggest investment for the 2022 season as a zombie-infested American high school comes alive for us all to enjoy.
Let’s dive into this The Howl Scream Park review, shall we?
Howl Valley High
 
Howl Valley High isn’t your usual High School. The students, the teachers, the football team, the cheerleaders and even the janitor are out to get any freshmen who dare to enrol at Howl Valley High.
What vile specimens will win Prom King and Queen? Whether you’re a Jock or a Nerd all of the students here can’t wait for you to walk down those corridors.
So check your timetable and get to class… if you make it that far…
Insane detail and full immersion into your surroundings is the theme of the day with Howl Valley High. The quality is right up there with some of Tulleys better quality mazes and from the classroom to the gym there really is nothing left unexplored except one particular section.
I’d absolutely love this maze to have a really long corridor of lockers just like in real American High Schools. Lockers were included in the maze but the long corridors that you always see in the movies that I was expecting to see, sadly never arrived but i really am clutching at straws to find negatives here as Howl Valley High was absolutely incredible.
The costumes, the accents, the sheer detail and artistry of the maze. There’s so much more they can do with this setting and it absolutely works a treat.
There’s no other scream park in the country that has a maze themed around an American High School and growing up on American movies I absolutely loved it!
The Attic
 
There’s more to those creaking Attic floorboards.
What happens in The Attic after dark is too gruesome to imagine. Climb the stairs of this old abandoned hotel to experience this real house of horrors with live creatures, unlucky victims and toxic experiments.
These creatures have been trapped in The Attic for years, angry and upset, they’re not here for fun, they’re here to SCARE! Watch your back, there’s only one way out. 
Who’s waiting in the eaves? Not many escape… will you? 
Sick to the back teeth of The Attic at Alton Towers coming back year after year with a disappointingly dull copy-and-paste effort, I was a little hesitant to enter this one.
Thankfully after seconds of stepping inside The Attic at The Howl Scream Park, all my worries washed away as I was greeted with an immersive and quite wonderful experience.
Actors were doing their creepy best to create the mood and my friend Jake had his biggest jump scare of the evening in this maze. I’ve never seen a human jump so viciously in my entire life.
Plenty of atmosphere and a multi-level maze made this The Attic one hell of an immersive experience! 
Take that Alton Towers!
Anyways, onwards with this The Howl Scream park review.
Toppers Twister
 
Clown mazes never really immerse me in anything remotely scary, I usually find them quite fun and funny but Toppers Twister certainly embraced this with some wonderful use of set pieces from a soft play area and some energetic acting.
What freaked me out, even more, was an actor inside the maze who recognised me and it instantly dragged me into the crazy clown world he inhabited.
It’s certainly not the scariest maze you’ll walk through but the actors make good use of certain areas of the maze that make you feel almost cornered and that nervy feeling creeps over you ever so slowly. There’s so much more they can do inside this maze and it wasn’t a bad run-through by any means, it just needs that little something extra.
The Shed
 
Whilst well-themed The Shed has had mixed reviews in the past from many who have attended. I’m not quite sure what they experienced as every run-through is different but our two run-throughs on the night were sheer insanity from start to finish.
From deep dark spaces to a crazy number of actors chasing us down in packs. It was quite intense and a quite use of the space. The darkness was a little much in many areas, some extra lighting could have been used but regardless it was enjoyable and well worth going through if you dare.
This is one maze where I noticed many of the actors climbing on the scenery to deliver a more unique scare.
Squealers Yard
 
The smaller the group the better the scare as Squealers Yard certainly packs a punch as you explore the numerous rooms and outdoor spaces that drag you into the madness.
The introduction scene going into the fridge is genius, such simple theming (cling film) with the right lights and hanging carcasses and instantly you have an immersive and beautiful room to wander around.
Once again some of the outdoor sections suffered from a lack of light so some of the actors were in pitch darkness so the scares were simply just noises as you couldn’t see their faces or what would have no doubt been an actor in an epic costume/make-up.
Just a bit of ambient light goes a long way in those dark lulls between the fully lit scenes.
RED
 
Red Riding Hood with a twist RED certainly isn’t a scary maze but the beautiful cabin they have built introducing the story is beautiful, it really is.
I wanted to stay there and just take it all in as the artistry is wonderful as you wander through a forest.
Maybe a bit more foliage could be used on the forest scene as a few vines hanging over pieces of wood didn’t exactly shout ‘high budget’ where a few plants and extra leaves couldn’t go a miss but it was a good enough introduction to the beautiful maze.
Personally, I’d have had leaves on the ground rustling as you tread on them with more shrubbery and immersion. It didn’t feel like a forest so I wasn’t immediately immersed into my surroundings.
RED was the weakest maze but it wasn’t terrible. I just think there’s room for improvement and the standards The Howl have set are incredibly high and in some areas, just a handful of the mazes could just use a little sprucing up to add to their immersion.
One highlight was a wolf head puppet or animatronic or whatever it was that was genuinely impressive and terrifying! All the effort went into that puppet it seems and not the forest introduction.
Don’t consider The Howl to be Tulleys little brother, consider The Howl to be its own attraction in its own right with wonderful mazes, a great atmosphere and an always incredible Circus of Horrors addition.
Yes, a few of the mazes aren’t as strong as Tulleys but Howl Valley High easily tops quite a few of Tulleys mazes and their brand new for 2022 maze certainly impressed the hell out of me!
That maze truly was wonderful.
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