The Dreamland programming team, award winners themselves for scare attractions are delighted to be working with AtmosFEAR! Scare Entertainment to bring the first ever scare festival to Dreamland. Their creativity and production values are inspirational and we are confident that by working together, Screamland will become one of the most talked about Halloween scare festivals in the South East of England and worth travelling to Margate for.Eddie Kemsley, CEO of Dreamland says
AtmosFEAR Scare Entertainment are excited to bring the first ever scare festival to Dreamland Margate. For its first year we have pulled together our years of knowledge and technical no-how to create an event like no other. In using the latest technologies and creative processes from advanced special effects to Hollywood produced music, Screamland will be an immersive and theatrical scarefest.Jason Karl, Creative Director of AtmosFear! Scare Entertainment says
Screamland will run from 16th October until Halloween on 31st October and as night falls the site will be transformed into an experience of six fully themed interactive and immersive scare attractions, which cleverly play on the history of different elements of Dreamland.
Festino’s Forgotten Fun House will be based on an old style travelling freak show by a crazed show man, echoing the site’s days as Hall By the Sea (prior to becoming Dreamland in 1919). The Final Cut will travel back in time to 1950’s horror B movies. Both will be set in Dreamland’s Dark Space under the Dreamland Cinema.
Screamland will introduce sideshows with new frightening seaside characters such as Punchello a twisted version of the original Mr Punch and Ice Scream Man Margate’s darkest and grungiest ice scream vendor.
The theatre of the event will be delivered by over 60 professional actors, trained in the art of scare acting and many of who will be recruited locally in Thanet. Auditions days will be announced shortly.
For younger guests Screamland will offer a less heart racing, family friendly visitor experience during the daytime. Abracamabre will offer a mystifying and magical maze of mirrors, where guests can follow the great Victorian magician The Amazing Mystero searching for a rabbit, escaped from his top hat. Taking inspiration from Dreamland’s Menagerie cages, Monstrous Menagerie a zany Victorian Menagerist character will entertain and repel children with his collection of spiders, lizards and bugs.
To compliment Screamland, Dreamland Margate will add to the twisted theme with a host of additional Halloween events, such as a Singalong The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Dreamland Dance Club’s Monster Mash and Sink the Pink’s, Cockles and Muscles, Halloween Special.
