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 yr. It’s headed to Shudder and AMC+ August 8, however even when 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? Nicely, for one factor, it’s a haunted corn maze—and regardless that 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, you then enter by a clown-mouthed doorway for a stroll by the stalks.
Maintain your ears peeled for the sounds of comically giant sneakers, 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 probabilities of survival. Right here’s a gallery of photographs, although it was onerous to snap photographs contained in the maze itself.
For these questioning, this isn’t the type of hang-out the place monsters seize you, although the really useful age of 13+ feels about proper for the scare degree. That mentioned, 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 (examine Shudder on Instagram and X), your greatest wager now that SDCC is in full swing might be braving the each day standby line. It’ll be open at the moment, 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 Okay Avenue, San Diego.
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