Trinity Scares Review (2026)

The website for Trinity Scares is easy to navigate and helpful, providing all the information you need prior to attending. We absolutely suggested using the navigational instructions on their site – we were very silly indeed and did not do this, which meant we somehow parked elsewhere on the large site and how to navigate under fences and through barns to find the entrance to the site. Certainly an eventful start to our evening, but nothing we’d suggest for other guests! The site itself is very contained, with an entertainment stage, fairground games and rides all in the central hub with the entrances to the mazes themselves on the outside. This makes coming and going between mazes and additional entertainment easy, and also means there are plenty of things going on to entertain those waiting in the queue. As we attended the mazes at the very end of the evening we had no issues with batching or queueing and felt the entire experience was quite seamless and relaxing despite the intensity of the scares beyond the maze entrances.

Each of the haunts faces the main entertainment area and has a simple frontage with its name emblazoned upon it. Around these are several full-sized props of various monsters, setting a tone for more extreme horrors within. We found immersion was generally quite high within the mazes, especially in “Cell Block T”, and “Cursed Clowns”, which did well at keeping immersion going, save for a brief break as you enter the included trailer park.

Storytelling was strongest in “Cell Block T”, where you are literally put through the prison process (either as a visitor or inmate), including being patted down and scanned. “Cursed Clowns” also maintained its devilish and crazed clown theme throughout, with “The Nightmare” more of a collection of horrors from across genres that do indeed populate the darkest of nightmares. Once you complete the maze, you are deposited back into the twinkling central area, ready to enter another or catch your breath and enjoy some refreshments and entertainment.

We were really impressed with all the special effects at this attraction, especially as they often utilised effects we usually only see at bigger parks. “Cell Block T”, while set in a prison, had a variety of different areas to explore, from a prison cell with wanted posters to a laundry room with a woman trying to clean her bloody linen, not to mention a ride in an aggressive lift, an animatronic of a guy being electrocuted, a rickety almost floating bridge we had to navigate as a murderous looking nun stared at us along the way, and numerous air cannons throughout. “The Nightmare” was probably the more simple maze of the three in regards to special effects, but there was a memorable water feature incorporating a corpse as eerie banjo music played in the background, and a horrifying slow strobe in one of the dark mazes that amped up the anticipation of scares on all sides as the darkness consumed us. “The Nightmare” also incorporated additional themed music, including chaotic music in Rat Race and film scores in the dark maze that coincided with the killer film characters that stalked and jumped at us along the way.

In terms of sensory stimuli, “Cursed Clowns” was definitely the most memorable of the three mazes, with exits which played with perception as the rooms got smaller and smaller (think Alice in Wonderland), a maze of endless doors, walls we had to climb, padded areas we had to crawl through as clowns with glow sticks chased us, spider webbing we had to climb through and slides we zipped down onto ball pits topped with mattresses. We particularly enjoyed the caravan we entered in which our party was split up and separated, forcing us to undergo quite intense scares on our own! And finally, we entered a fairground where clowns locked us into tea cups while spinning us around. One of us had such an aggressive trip on the tea cups that they were dizzy for ages afterward, making the experience quite intense indeed!

Characterisation is varied at Trinity Scares, with some brilliant interactions that felt both enjoyable and highly unsettling. “Cell Block T” starts with a clown-masked character actively cracking jokes with you as you’re cajoled into a lift, but that levity doesn’t last long, with actors putting you through the motions of being inducted into a prison. In fact, one of us was handcuffed to the bars of a grotesque monkey-headed creature’s cage and then near fed some dog food! Elsewhere, looming actors got close, using the cast height to their advantage and physically blocking your exit (for a no-touch haunt they effectively used the actors to intimate that touch COULD occur, when it did not, which was excellent direction). Inmates also have more subdued encounters here, with whispering prevalent. Actor scuttling too caught us off guard. Costumes in the main were prison overalls, with some masks to protect the identities of the condemned.

“Cursed Clowns” contained high levels of interactivity that are quite specific to Trinity Scares and we haven’t experienced anywhere else. This included having us rock a baby to sleep, entering an armoire only to be met by a gaping faced clown within with excellent costuming, and trying to add our heads to the collection on the mantel. And who could forget our magic teacup ride, with frantic actors spinning us at almost g-forces! The painted faces of the clowns leered down at us from all angles, but also playfully beckoned us forth wherever they could.

“The Nightmare” had some chilling interactions, with a woman wanting to peel our face off. But here, the costume and makeup stood out for its memorability. A bizarre Krampus with long tongue sprung to life (not a mannequin!), whilst Slenderman with only a white space as a visage terrorised us in the last maze, clinking long fingers dragging along the walls.

We were fortunate enough to attend each of the three mazes as our group of two since we were some of the last guests of the night, although we did catch up to a bigger group near the end of “The Nightmare”. This already guaranteed our experience to be much scarier than when attending with a group, but we do remember last year that the group sizes are still relatively small at this event. Nevertheless, the fact that we were only a couple really seemed to bring out all the evil that was possible in these mazes, and the actors came at us with such force with scarcely a moment to breathe!

“Cell Block T” provided a variety of different scares, with each of us split up and interrogated separately by the inmates of the establishment. After being stripped of everything in our pockets, one of us was handcuffed to a prison cell and nearly fed dog food by a long tongued monkey, while another of us was intimidated for minutes by another set of prisoners who forced us to acknowledge their superiority. There was a great amount of looming intimidation in this maze, and even though the actors were not touching us there were somehow still physical, blocking our way, getting close to us, breathing in our faces, and forcing us to do various actions such as star jumps or squats. But in addition to getting yelled at, manipulated, run at, and interrogated, there were also other methods of scaring us used by the nuns in this maze, with some whispering in our ears and staring us down as we crossed a bridge in mid-air. This constant juggling of our actions and emotions kept us on our toes throughout the entire maze, only to bring it to a shuddering finale as a guy with a chainsaw ran at us followed by a very creepy figure scuttling at us quickly across the floor.

“Cursed Clowns” had a very different brand of scares in store for us, but still just as interactive and intense. One of our party was asked to sit in a rocking chair and forced to hold a baby and sing it a lullaby, while the other member of our party was split off through the closet and kidnapped by a clown with a gaping open face. We were both asked numerous times to play a variety of games, which kept us on our toes with worsening unease. We were constantly targeted by a variety of these crazed clowns, sometimes with attempts at cutting our throats, others who followed us for ages through endless doors. Many times we were shown a way out only for it to become a dead end, with the actors laughing away and getting more and more violent as time went on. All of these actors in this maze tread a perfect line between playfulness and terror, and we loved every minute of it.

“The Nightmare” was a completely different experience than the two more indoor mazes we began the night with. This maze actually contains a series of smaller, different vignettes and mazes, and actually does really feel like you are in a series of terrible dreams, thinking you’re escaping one only to somehow lose yourself in another. In the Land of the Dead a woman attempted to peel our faces off while a weird Krampus-like creature who we thought was a mannequin came to life with a viciousness we were not expecting. We particularly enjoyed Nightmare Alley, a rather long maze of wooden pallets near the end of the experience where we were constantly stalked by terrifying figures such as a screaming Samara and the most iconic character of the night – a scarily-tall Slenderman with claws for fingers who somehow appeared at every turn!

For only £34 a ticket and with a generous 50 minutes of maze time, fairground rides and games and stage entertainment, this attraction is of incredible value, especially with how interactive the mazes are and how scary they actually felt! In and around your maze time you have the opportunity watch various stage shows but to also get a tarot card reading from Madam Zelda, play games and even step inside the Confession Box – we didn’t have time to do much of this as arrived too late this year, but have it high on our bucket list to take part in next year! There is also an add-on experience of climbing through their caves, but having done this last year we realised we are far too claustrophobic to ever attempt this again. Due to our time constraints we ran each of the three mazes back to back, which we wouldn’t recommend really as our pulses and adrenaline were out of control by the end with each and everyone of the actors giving it their all. For not being a touch-based haunt we were still somehow manipulated, chased, roughed up, chewed up and thrown back out again – we didn’t know our ups from our downs or who to trust, the mazes were just so thrillingly intense. This was definitely one of the highlights of our 2026 season, and we’re almost scared to see what next season brings!