Clown in a Cornfield Corn Maze Pop-Up

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 in the event 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, then you definitely enter by a clown-mouthed doorway for a stroll by the stalks.

Maintain your ears peeled for the sounds of comically massive 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 probabilities of survival. Right here’s a gallery of pictures, although it was exhausting 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 beneficial age of 13+ feels about proper for the scare stage. 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’ll be able to play video games for tickets that’ll rating you sweet and (non-alcoholic) slushie drinks.

Whereas the corn maze did provide reservations earlier this week (examine Shudder on Instagram and X), your greatest wager now that SDCC is in full swing might be braving the every day standby line. It’ll be open in the present day, 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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