Tulleys Shocktober Fest, the home of Halloween, returns this October. Running for 25 selected nights from 3rd October to 1st November 2025, the world-famous scream park delivers award-winning haunts, live music, adrenaline-pumping rides, and mouth-watering food in a festival atmosphere like no other.
The event unveils a terrifying new haunt, Glitch for 2025! An abandoned barn hides a government experiment where a doctor’s vision for humanity fractured into chaos. A glitch in time changed everything, and now C.A.D waits inside, ready to hack your thoughts, control your senses and delete who you are.
The award winning haunts event is home to 11 terrifying haunts, including fan-favourites and returning classics!
* Glitch: New for 2025. An abandoned barn hides a government experiment where a doctor’s vision for humanity has fractured into chaos. Now CAD waits inside, ready to hack your thoughts, control your senses and delete who you are.
* Electrick Circus: A shocking journey led by Sparky the Clown and his army of undead performers.
* Doom Town: An award-winning haunt where the dead walk and evil reigns in a terrifying world trapped in the past.
* Wastelands Penitentiary: Chaos reigns as prisoners take over this crumbling penitentiary.
* Haunted Hayride: Route 666: Take a chilling ride through the abandoned Horrorwood Studios, where long-forgotten spirits haunt the land.
* Chop Shop: A car garage run by chainsaw-wielding maniacs. Enter if you dare.
* Hell-ements: A sensory deprivation experience where you journey through darkness, facing the forces of earth, wind, fire, and water.
* Creepy Cottage: Our legacy haunt is filled with ghostly residents who have been haunting visitors for 29 years.
* The Carving: The perfect Appleton family invites you to their Halloween dinner, but when the clock strikes 9, their warm facade turns into a nightmare of ritualistic terror.
* Purgatory: Step inside the haunted Havistock Manor, abandoned since 1892 and shrouded in sinister mystery.
* Coven of Thirteen: Venture deeper into the witches’ coven, a realm where malevolent forces rule. The sisters of the coven are waiting, their eyes gleaming with wicked intent.
Shocktober Fest is more than just haunts. It is a festival of live entertainment, including a dark and thrilling show, blending burlesque, illusions and daring stunts, also an electrifying 360-degree experience featuring dancers, prisoners, and an incredible fire display called Wastelands Fire & Light Show.
Shocktober also has plenty of live music on three stages, featuring Halloween themed music from live bands and DJs, along with street theatre with frightening and funny street performers to keep guests entertained between haunts, who are always up for a selfie or social media moment with you! Theres also the award winning show, Poker’s Party, every night at 10pm with street characters performing epic dance-offs!
For the thrill seekers, there are extra screams to check out! Offering high-adrenaline rides and games, including a towering funfair ride that spins you high above the park at dizzy speeds, there are shock chairs for those wanting to prove their endurance, axe throwing and Slingshot that will launch you into the nights sky for the ultimate adrenaline rush!
In between all the shocks and scares, you will need to keep your energy up and Shocktober Fest have you covered with multiple choices from Bentley’s BBQ Grill for your American style comfort food, as well as other more Halloween themed venders such as the Reaper Bar, giving you a Transylvanian-inspired tavern at the heart of the park and The Crooked Hag Tavern where you can go for a more relaxed getaway before returning to the horrors of the event!
This year, Shocktober Fest have teamed up again with NYX Professional Make-Up, who are known for their powerhouse partnerships in entertainment, and NYX promises to be bigger and bolder than ever!
Speaking to Rachael Easterbrook, NYX Professional Make-Up Brand Director, she said:
“Halloween is one of our favourite times of the year at NYX Professional Makeup. Known for professional, accessible artistry, we continue to push the limits to inspire and be bold in all we do. We are pleased to be again partnering with Tulleys Farm Shocktober Fest this Halloween season, to inspire beauty looks and entertain in true NYX Professional Make Up style.”
Guests can step inside the immersive Boots shop in Doom Town, catch the jaw-dropping NYX Cosmetics billboards along the Haunted Hayride, and new for 2025 – uncover the secrets from inside ‘NYX Cosmetics Manor House’.
Also, new for 2025 is an exciting partnership with Greggs, bringing horror to the high street favourite in a way never seen before. Guests can step inside a fully immersive, interactive vintage Greggs walkthrough, overrun with the undead and swarming with zombies, located within the award-winning Doom Town. No treats are being served in this Greggs, only screams.
Hannah Squirrell, Customer Director at Greggs, said:
“We’re excited to be partnering with Tulleys Farm Shocktober Fest for the first time this Halloween season, bringing our immersive scare attraction to the heart of Doomtown. At Greggs, we’re always looking for different ways to leave lasting impressions with our customers, and we’re hoping our haunting new attraction will be no different!”
For more details about Shocktober Fest and to book your tickets, head over to their website, click HERE.
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