Terenzi Horror Nights opens its doors and transforms the new site, with its four scare houses, into a dark world of madness, nightmares and gruesome encounters. A notable new highlight is the Vampire’s Club – a venue full of seductive glamour and deadly ecstasy, where blood, music and the night merge into a dangerous obsession…
A stylish venue filled with beauties and hunks, blood-red cocktails and the hottest music ensure that the Vampire’s Club truly is the hotspot for partygoers. The club offers a wild party in every sense of the word. Enchantingly beautiful vampires dance amongst the guests, champagne flows straight into their veins and the music pumps rhythm into their hearts. See and be seen – this modern bar isn’t just for Terenzi Horror Nights visitors looking to party the night away. Every Friday and Saturday, you can also attend the party with a separate ticket and party until the early hours.
Go-go girls and extravagant performances promise an extraordinary party for trendsetters. The Vampire’s Club opens its doors every Friday and Saturday from 11pm. Separate tickets are available at the box office. On Fridays, the DJ rocks the dance floor with House vs. R’n’B, whilst on Saturdays the motto is “Just Dance!” with house and chart hits. This is the place for guests to party like it’s the last party on earth.
Along sterile walls, the eerie path leads into the dark rooms of the gloomy and dilapidated institution known as The Asylum. In every room of the Knightsville Sanitarium, gruesome scenes await the intrepid guests, who are guided through the building by feisty ghost hunters. Yet, as abandoned and deserted as the Asylum may seem, mysterious noises suggest that eerie figures are lurking. With a wild look in his eyes and long strides, a terrifying doctor comes round the corner, his head held together by a vice.
He once researched a cure for ‘fear’ to save his son from a soul-collector who threatened to let the boy die of fear if the experiment failed. Dr Reeves conducted numerous experiments not only on himself but also performed operations on defenceless victims, removing the part of the brain responsible for feeling fear. He realised far too late that it is fear that actually protects people from being seized by the madness of hell. In 2009, a group of curious ghost hunters opened the doors of the abandoned psychiatric hospital to take their guests on a tour through the blood-stained walls.
Pressed together, their eyes wide with fear, the intruders stop dead at the entrance to escape the doctor’s gaze. Having escaped the mad doctor, they move on to the next room, where a woman sits on the floor in a corner, whimpering and curled up, her gaze fixed on the wall. A pungent smell fills the air. The distraught woman begins to tremble and scream in panic. What is wrong with her? Has she fallen victim to the mad doctor, who is also suspected of infecting defenceless people with repulsive diseases?
A foul-smelling, slimy secretion oozes from her mouth. Jerking and uncontrollably, she turns and runs towards the helpless intruders. There is only one way out now: to keep running forward! Past the bloodthirsty vampire lady, the invaders stumble through many more rooms filled with infernal scenes and ghastly figures, before finally dashing through the exit, completely out of breath.
This is no fairy tale! It is the grim story of a once-beautiful princess. Her face is furrowed with dark shadows. Every ray of light that falls upon her countenance hints at deep, hideous wounds. Her straw-like, greasy hair obscures her forehead and cheeks, yet the scars are impossible to miss. Rosemarie has suffered a cruel past. Her stepmother once locked her away in a dark attic, surrounded by dusty fairy-tale books and old carnival costumes, to prevent the enchanting Rosemarie from gaining more power as a princess than she herself possessed. As a little girl, the unfortunate child always dreamed of one day dancing through ballrooms as a beautiful princess. But her stepmother slashed her alabaster face with a blunt razor.
Shortly afterwards, the wicked stepmother died, leaving Rosemarie locked away in the attic, unknown to anyone. Completely disfigured, the girl withdrew – from the world and from reality. She began to imagine her life as a fairy tale. This was the only way she could hope for a happy ending. In Rosemarie’s Realm, scenes from beloved children’s stories await the guests. But the Big Bad Wolf is even more terrifying here than in the Brothers Grimm’s version. And the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland is no cuddly, loveable little creature, but a frightening figure with a diabolical glint in his eyes. Paintings on the walls depict fairy-tale princesses whose faces have been furiously scratched.
With her dying breath, Rosemarie swore that she would escape the realm of the dead to steal the face of the fairest maiden in the land. She wanted to finally be the princess she was never allowed to be.
Visitors entering Rosemarie’s Lair are greeted by darkness. Pitch blackness. It makes no difference whether you move forward with your eyes open or closed. That oppressive sensation you get in nightmares becomes something you can actually feel. A gloomy soundtrack creeps into your ears. The floor becomes uneven. Visitors venture recklessly through a labyrinth of darkness, their pupils dilating, but with their sharp vision and instincts failing them. Madness and chills go hand in hand here.
This is a whole new kind of carnival. And it could be the last one – if you dare to venture through the abyss of a demonic clown into the dark corridors of Carn-Evil. Behind every mask could lurk a serial killer, and every clown could in reality be an evil demon. Visitors need to be careful not to let the masked figures spot anyone who doesn’t belong; for only creatures of the underworld are welcome here.
Invisible figures flit past, brushing against jackets and trouser legs. When Jack in the Box springs from his box and hisses diabolical sounds, it quickly becomes clear that the cute children’s toy clown is not joking around. The colourful mix of circus and clowning gives Carn-Evil a cheerful charm that soon turns out to be a deceptive façade.
Disturbed and disoriented, visitors to Terenzi Horror Nights make their way through The Underworld, a place where the senses fade and cursed spirits draw menacingly close. This gloomy underworld labyrinth thrills visitors with piercing sound effects. Horror fans push their way reluctantly through thick, misty fog that obscures their vision and turns the demons into an indistinguishable danger.
Pulse quickening, blood seeming to boil in your veins, wooden fences block your way and the journey through the underworld burns itself into the darkest recesses of your mind. This is a horror adventure that will linger in your worst nightmares long into the night, making sleep impossible.
In The Tomb and The Temple in the Greek themed area, visitors embark on a journey into the Kingdom of the Dead. The queuing area for the Poseidon water coaster houses not only the tomb of King Antonius, but also his temple chambers. After the murder of his wife – whose death he had only just been able to prevent by selling his soul – the Rei de Morti was plagued by an uncontrollable destructive rage. He wanted to punish the Soul Collector for abducting his wife, Leonora. But to avoid having to surrender his own soul, he had no choice but to cut out his own heart and ultimately be buried without it.
But now, centuries later, his heart has been returned to him unwittingly, and King Antonius rages within the chambers of the temple. In The Tomb of King Antonius, cool mists drift across the floor and damp air saturates the room. The gloomy burial place of the King of the Dead was built like a labyrinth to keep robbers and demons at bay. In the corners crouch thousand-year-old skeletons of those who once made it in, but never made it out again. For all who enter the tomb, there is no turning back. In The Temple, the voice of the restless undead booms like thunder in your ears, whilst merciless priests with faces disfigured by ulcers and tumours wreak havoc. The Kingdom of Lost Souls leaves visitors frozen with fear and leads them through a labyrinth of despair and darkness.
