Mayo drive-thru experience is coming to save Halloween!
HALLOWEEN is coming – and if you were worried that Covid-19 would spell the end of haunted attractions in 2021, you’d best buckle up and get ready for something new and innovative, the Hollywood Hocus Pocus Party and the Hollywood Horror Night.
The Scream Team at Crossmolina Festival Events were disappointed in 2020 when Covid restrictions meant their sold-out Halloween events had to be cancelled, but everything is now ready for Saturday (October 30).
Choose from the family friendly afternoon event or, if you're feeling brave, get ready to journey into the world of five classic Hollywood horror movies and witness them come to life all around your vehicle as you journey to the Lakeside Movie Theatre, where famous horror movie characters may appear a lot closer than on the screen. Hopefully you’ll make it to the end credits.
A family-friendly version of the event – the Hollywood Hocus Pocus Party – will be available during the afternoon. The daytime event will feature an adaptation of the immersive scenes and storyline but trades screams for Halloween fun that the entire family can enjoy.
Celebrate all the tricks and treats of Halloween from the comfort and safety of your car as this not-too-scary adventure takes you and your family on a lively journey along the trick or treat trail, where there will be photo opportunities plus plenty of scares and laughs. Kids will love screaming “trick or treat” at socially-distanced candy stops, where the friendly characters will hook you up with your sugar fix. Later, the whole family can enjoy the Disney classic Hocus Pocus on an 18 square metre drive-in movie screen.
When the sun sets it’s time for the Hollywood Horror Night – and you can be the star of the show.
It’s Halloween 2021, the world is in lockdown, and only the insane roam the streets. You have decided to join your friends on a drive when you realise that the unexpected diversion takes you along Hollywood Boulevard. Suddenly you find yourself immersed into five Hollywood horror movies (Nightmare On Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, The Fog and The Shining), where the unexpected lies around every corner. LAPD officers are on hand to help you safely through, but who can you trust at Halloween?
Later on you can enjoy one of those Hollywood horror movies at the Lakeside Movie Theatre – and you won’t even have to leave your car. Then again, would you want to?
Just remember, those Hollywood horror characters on the big screen may be closer than you think, so keep your windows rolled up!
The events take place at Gortnor Abbey, Crossmolina. Admission tickets are €25 per vehicle per event, but if you would like to attend both events a combi ticket is available at €40. Tickets can be purchased online at www.eventbrite.ie or at Centra Crossmolina. For telephone queries, call (086) 2648495 or (086) 4082458.