A Creepy Corn Maze Awaits on the ‘Clown in a Cornfield’ Activation

Clown in a Cornfield is a million-dollar title—so eerie, so evocative, and so completely descriptive of Eli Craig‘s horror movie, which hit theaters earlier this 12 months. It’s headed to Shudder and AMC+ August 8, however even should you’ve been ready to catch it on streaming, there’s a lot to scream about with its San Diego Comedian-Con immersive expertise.

Why? Properly, for one factor, it’s a haunted corn maze—and though it’s indoors, it’s nonetheless darkish and spooky as you’d count on. The queue drops you proper into Kettle Springs, Missouri because the Founder’s Day parade is getting began, then you definately enter by means of a clown-mouthed doorway for a stroll by means of the stalks.

Hold your ears peeled for the sounds of comically giant footwear, horn honks, and even a chainsaw firing up—and ultimately you’ll attain the escape room on the finish, the place Frendo places a countdown clock in your possibilities of survival. Right here’s a gallery of pictures, although it was onerous to snap images contained in the maze itself.

For these questioning, this isn’t the type of hang-out the place monsters seize you, although the advisable age of 13+ feels about proper for the scare degree. That stated, when you “survive,” you find yourself at a enjoyable carnival pop-up themed round not simply Clown in a Cornfield but in addition different Shudder and AMC+ horror titles. There, you possibly can play video games for tickets that’ll rating you sweet and (non-alcoholic) slushie drinks.

Whereas the corn maze did supply reservations earlier this week (test Shudder on Instagram and X), your greatest guess now that SDCC is in full swing might be braving the each day standby line. It’ll be open at this time, July 25, and tomorrow, July 26, from noon-8 p.m. on the Hilton Gaslamp, Entrance Entrance Grass Garden (search for the staircase with the Clown in a Cornfield indicators), 401 Ok Avenue, San Diego.

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