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-{{Infobox Amusement park
-| name = Halloween Haunt at Canada's Wonderland
-| image = [[:Image:Canada's Wonderland logo.svg|center|250px]]
-| location =
-| location2 =
-| location3 = {{flagicon|Canada}}
-| opening_date = October 2005
-| owner = [[Cedar Fair Entertainment Co.]]
-| rides = 48 thrill rides & 200 attractions during regular operating season
-| season = Friday - Sunday in October
-| slogan = Everyone's Dying to Get In
-| homepage = [http://www.canadaswonderland.com/fearfest/tickets.cfm http://haunt.canadaswonderland.com]
-}}
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-'''Halloween Haunt''', originally known as "Fearfest", is a [[haunted attraction]] at [[Canada's Wonderland]] located in [[Vaughan]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]. It runs after the park's regular operating hours on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings in October - up to, and including [[Halloween]] night. It is Canada's largest haunted theme park featuring over 300 monsters, 10 walk-through "maze" attractions, 3 uniquely-themed atmospheric scare areas, and a live show. During its operation, the grounds are transformed via frightening decorative props, thematic music, eerie lighting to further create its scary atmosphere. <ref>{{cite web
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-|url=http://www.canadaswonderland.com/News/detail.cfm?item_id=805
-|title=Canada's Wonderland - Halloween Haunt 2008
-|publisher=[[Canada's Wonderland]]
-|format=Media Release
-|date=2008-09-18
-}}</ref>
-==History==
-The haunted theme park concept was first introduced in 2005, then called Fearfest while the park was under the ownership of [[Paramount Pictures]]. Fearfest at Paramount Canada's Wonderland originally operated on weekday evenings through October, with 7 maze attractions alongside 2 [[motion simulator]] movie rides in the Paramount [[Action FX Theater (Cedar Fair)|Action FX Theatre]].
-Most of the park's regular rides and attractions (with the excetpion of [[Nickelodeon Central]], KidZville and Hanna-Barbera Land) continued to be staffed and operated during Fearfest, including the 'Haunted' [[Thunder Run]] coaster, which was slightly thematically changed to match the park. The park grounds were divided into 3 seperately themed scare areas- The Curse of Sleepy Hollow, [[MTV]] Rockin' Scare, and Backlot Blood Bath - each having 2-3 mazes associated with it.<ref>{{cite web
-|url=http://media.www.brockpress.com/media/storage/paper384/news/2006/10/11/Culture/Fearfest.Takes.Over.Paramount.Canadas.Wonderland-2347600-page2.shtml
-|title=Fearfest Takes Over Paramount Canada's Wonderland
-|publisher=[[The Brock Press]]
-|date=2006-10-11
-}}</ref> Each maze and scare area generally has its own unique backstory, sometimes linking several mazes together.
-The following year, Paramount extended its regular operating season through the family-oriented Halloween event "Spooktacular"[http://www.canadaswonderland.com/fearfest/spooktacular.html] in the typically closed child-oriented areas of the park, to match Fearfest's attendance in October. In 2006 the park ran Spooktacular from October 14th- 29th on weekends during the day, and would reopen the park as Fearfest in the evening.
-With the change in ownership of the park from Paramount to the [[Cedar Fair Entertainment Company]], the Fearfest name was dropped and renamed Halloween Haunt, remaining consistent with similar attractions at other Cedar Fair theme parks across North America. In addition, Spooktacular was not revived for the 2007 operating season. Despite this, Canada's Wonderland still continued regular daytime park hours during the Halloween Haunt run. With an existing history of running haunted attractions since 1973 at [[Knott's  Halloween Haunt]], Cedar Fair was able to incorporate 4 additional mazes to the roster while retiring the Legends of the Lost and Slaughter Street attractions.
-In 2008, Halloween Haunt saw an extended seasonal run into November, breaking the park's own attedance records for the event. Cedar Fair also retired the MTV Rockin' Scare area, including the Total Request Dead and Ozzburnes mazes in order to introduce 3 new ones for the season [http://www.canadaswonderland.com/News/detail.cfm?item_id=805]. The "adult-oriented'" horror musical show Dead Awakening also opened during the 2008 Halloween Haunt, performing at the Wonderland Theatre<ref>{{cite web
-|url=http://www.canadaswonderland.com/News/detail.cfm?item_id=804
-|title=Canada's Wonderland - Dead Awakening
-|publisher=[[Canada's Wonderland]]
-|format=Media Release/Casting Call
-|date=2008-08-18
-}}</ref>. There are currently 3 atmospheric scare areas with free-roaming monsters: Front Gate, CarnEVIL, and the Ghostly Pines Memorial Gardens.
-==Current Attractions==
-*'''Dead Awakening''' - Show (''debuted 2008'')
-"a live, adult-oriented musical horror performance that will take audience members into the deeply disturbed and twisted world of the contemporary human's psyche. Darkness and evil that all have dreamed but never talked about, will be unleashed in is this chilling, music-video style show depicting one woman's maddening nightmare in a performance that will leave audience members afraid to go to sleep."
-*'''Kingdom of Carnage''' - Maze (''debuted 2008'')
-"Castle Carnage had a dark and twisted reputation for using medieval torture methods on their prisoners; but what could the starving peasants do to save those captured, and where were the chivalrous knights to resettle order? Bertilak de Hautdesert gave up hope on being rescued, and rallied the prisoners to overthrow the cruel tyrannical nobility. The torture which they had long been subjected to has now come full circle on their royal oppressors in a scene of carnage that makes Countess Bathory’s castle look like a holiday retreat. Let the brave of heart and noble of spirit beware: chivalry is dead. "
-*'''Mother Noose''' - Maze (''debuted 2008'')
-"When the Grimm brothers set out to document folktales from across the country side, they had no idea about the dark horrors they would encounter. Tales of massacre, evil creatures, ferocious beasts, bloody endings . . .certainly not the romanticized fairy tales we all grew up with. Mother Noose has revitalized these forgotten and censored tales, for anyone brave enough to see just how dark the dark ages really were; and be introduced to the chilling side of such classics as Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Briar Rose. Be warned, those who escape this maze will find themselves disenchanted."
-*'''Red Beard's Rage''' - Maze (''debuted 2008'')
-"The legendary pirate known as Red Beard is said to have led his crew into a massacre when they set to the sea for a preemptive strike against the Spaniards; but neither he or his ship was ever found. A single surviving manuscript details how his mistress, a sea witch who was later burnt at the stake, cast a spell to keep Red Beard and his crew from fully crossing into death. His ship has continued to haunt the stormy seas for centuries. Now it has set up dock and Red Beard and his crew await new victims to help them fulfill their bloodlust. "
-*'''Clowns at Midnight''' - Maze (''debuted 2007'')
-"In 1857 the circus top tent caught on fire. The spectators escaped unharmed, but the performers were left behind to choke on the heavy smoke and burn in the infernal heat. The audience claimed they thought it was part of the show, but the angry spirits of the clowns and circus freaks do not believe such a claim, and know that the spectators simply did not believe the freaks were worth the effort to save. Every night, the circus freaks appear to perform their act in an attempt to lure in fresh blood until they have gathered enough to return to this world for good."
-*'''Slaughter Mill''' - Maze (''debuted 2007'')
-When Thomas Greychild died while working at the paper mill, 200 years ago, his wife swore her vengeance upon all the workers who were present on that dark day and did not help him. She placed a dark curse onto half of the workers, transforming the men into rabid werewolves who trapped the remaining millers inside the paper mill so that they too could feel her loneliness and never go home to see their wives. Years of such solitude and witnessing such carnage have turned them manic as they are unable to die, but not fully alive. Both the millers and werewolves are set to ensure complete carnage on any mortal who dares to breach their territory.
-*'''The Asylum''' - Maze (''debuted 2007'')
-"In 1923 Miles Gravestone was admitted to the asylum after surviving the curse of Slaughter Mill. No one believed his story, and most believed that it was he who gruesomely murdered his camping friends. The doctors forced electroshock therapy while the nurses cruelly sedated him with rusty needles. Pushed to his psychological brink, his sorrow and fear exploded in a rage of fury and he gathered all the other inmates to form a revolt. The inmates have taken over the asylum entirely, and those doctors and nurses who survived such actions are just as deranged as their former patients."
-*'''Miner's Revenge''' - Maze (''debuted 2007'')
-In 1934 the old mine collapsed, trapping several of the miners inside. They waited for days within the cold, dark shafts, but no rescue would ever come for them. Now they lie deep underground, maddened by darkness, in wait for those who seek what lies beneath the surface.
-*'''Massacre Manor''' - Maze (''debuted 2005'')
-"The Van Tassel boy had been warned about wandering too far into the forest, and disturbing thing better left forgotten, but he didn’t listen. He came to the grave of the headless horseman, a soldier who had died not during battle, but by execution for unjust war crimes. When the boy returned home that night, he brought with him the curse of sleepy hollow. The enraged horseman brutally murdered the Van Tassel family and the farm workers in his ever agonizing search for his head. Over 200 years later, this colonial farmhouse is still haunted by the undead occupants."
-*'''Bloodshed''' - Maze (''debuted 2005'')
-"When the headless horseman realized his head was not in the possession of the humans, he ravaged the Van Tassels’ barn, tearing through the helpless workers and animals that got in his way. The dilapidated barn is now haunted by rabid animals out for revenge against all things human, and the corpses of deceased farm hands roam about in loathsome madness."
-*'''Cornstalkers''' - Maze (''debuted 2005'')
-"With the Van Tassel family and their farm hands all dead, the fields of the Van Tassel Farmstead have become overgrown with two centuries of colonial debris and corn. The evil which occurred on the farmstead that night has sunk into the once lifeless bodies of scarecrows, which now consider these fields theirs, and will stalk and scare any crows, animals or humans who dare set foot onto their soil. "
-==Retired Attractions==
-*'''Total Request DEAD''' - MTV Rockin' Scare Maze (''retired 2008'')
-"Enter heavy metal hell! Metal heads wreak havoc, destruction and death on Zombie bubble gum pop stars in the bloodied backstage world of wardrobe, make up and roadies."
-*'''The Ozzburnes''' - MTV Rockin' Scare Maze (''retired 2008'')
-"Join Ozzy, Sharon, Jack and Kelly Ozzburne and their many burned-out (and burned-up) friends, in this intense open house of terror. The mother of all parties is over!"
-*'''Legend of the Lost: The Director's Cut''' - Backlot Blood Bath Maze (''retired 2007'')
-"A film crew shooting an action movie at the site of ancient ruins of giant warriors become the latest victims of this cursed, dark place, where legend holds that the grounds are sacred and must not be violated."
-*'''Slaughter Street Fear Zone''' - Backlot Blood Bath Maze (''retired 2007'')
-"The filming of a chase sequence has gone terribly wrong. Carnage is everywhere! A giant crater, wrecked cars belching smoke and fire ... what caused this grim wreckage?"
-*'''Spooktacular''' - KidZville/[[Nickelodeon Central]] Area (''retired 2007'')
-"We invite children to wear their favourite Halloween costume as they enjoy the fun at SPOOKTACULAR. Canada's Wonderland is decorated with thousands of pumpkins, hay bales and corn stalks to create a unique Halloween experience."
-==References==
-{{reflist}}
-==External links==
-{{Commonscat|Canada's Wonderland}}
-* [http://www.canadaswonderland.com Canada's Wonderland official site]
-* [http://www.canadaswonderland.com/fearfest/tickets.cfm Halloween Haunt/Fearfest Site]
-* [http://haunt.canadaswonderland.com Official Halloween Haunt website (taken down at end of season)]
-* [http://www.cwmania.com/parkhistory.php Canada's Wonderland Park History]
-* [http://www.cwmania.com/images/parkmaps/2007hhparkmap_lg.jpg Halloween Haunt Map; 2007]
-* [http://www.cwmania.com/images/parkmaps/2006ffparkmap_lg.jpg Original Fearfest Map; 2006]