Traitors, Love Islanders and soap stars terrified at Screamfest opening night
ScreamFest the Midlands’ ultimate scream park welcomed famous faces from entertainment, TV, and social media for the opening night of its most terrifying Halloween event yet.
Back for 2026, bigger and more terrifying than ever before, Screamfest in Staffordshire is celebrating 15 years of scares with the addition of its most terrifying new attraction – Cortex 17.
Spotted at Screamfest:
– Love Island couple Alex and Olivia Bowen braved shock chairs and scare mazes including Cortex 17 and Hellcatraz, famed by fear fans as Screamfest’s “most intense attraction ever” which sees guests separated and imprisoned with Hell’s worst inmates. Recent Islanders Reuben Collins and Ethan Ellis also switched the villa to brave a night of scares.
– Traitors’ stars Leon Jackman and Reece Ward enjoyed a night off from tuning into the new series of Celebrity Traitors for a night with more shocks than at The Round Table.
– Star of new Netflix hit series Sidemen Outside contestant Paigey Cakey was amongst the first to experience the opening night alongside Waterloo Road’s Liam Scholes and Summer Violet Bird, Hollyoaks’ Anya Lawrence, Love is Blinds’ Jordan Taylor and Married at First Sights’ Adam Nightingale.
This year’s fear-inducing adult-only fright nights, set across the 40-acre farm site, sees seven terrifying attractions, heart-racing thrill rides, roaming characters and spinetingling live acts see scares lurk around every corner.
Cortex 17 invites guest to volunteer for Project Eidolon, a clinical trial exploring the potential to unlock dormant psychic abilities. Set within a covert 1960s hospital, volunteers are administered Cortex 17 before making their way through the facility, witnessing the wide-ranging side effects of the experiment as they unfold.
Back by popular demand, the corn maze attraction Mutation Damnation returns for its second year alongside Area 52 – which sees visitors paintball battle across 5 acres in a terrifying alien apocalypse tractor trailer ride. And of course, Hellcatraz, famed by fear fans as Screamfest’s “most intense attraction ever” which sees guests separated and imprisoned with Hell’s worst inmates.
Brave scream-park goers can face their fears at Screamfest at Staffordshire’s National Forest Adventure Farm on select dates from now on until 31 October 2026. Tickets available from £39per person*, and from £48per person for access to Screamfest and AREA 52 (paintball experience). For more information and to book tickets visit www.screamfest.co.uk
