When it comes to Halloween, a night watching Hocus Pocus and the Addams Family while stuffing my face with sweets is about as scary as I can manage. So it came as a surprise when I found myself at Avon Valley for the opening weekend of its FEAR Scream Park.
I’d never really heard of scream parks before, so I didn’t really know what to expect - which honestly, I think made it even more frightening. But what I realised very quickly is they pretty much do what it says on the tin - make you scream. And that’s basically all I did for the three or so hours I spent at the site near Keynsham.
There was also some crying (less than 10 minutes into arriving), hiding behind my husband (the feminist inside me died a little) and just a feeling of general dread that at any moment something could jump out at me. All in all, a pretty terrifying experience, but again this is the point.
