Halloween Horror Festival
Movie Park Germany's large-scale Halloween event with scare mazes and horror zones.
Movie Park Germany
Theme park · Europe
🇩🇪 Bottrop, Germany
Film studio thrills in the Ruhr
Overall score7.0
Opened
1996
Size
110 acres (45 ha)
Rides
40 attractions
Avg. visit
6 hours
Ticket range
$35–$69 USD
Events & shows
Visual Archive
Movie Park Germany turns a former Warner Bros. studio park into the Ruhr region's main film-themed destination.
Star Trek Operation Enterprise is a Mack launch coaster with a top-hat and inverted stall, MP Xpress is a Vekoma suspended looping coaster, and the Excalibur dark ride and Van Helsing's Factory show the park's dark-ride strength. Halloween Horror Festival each autumn is one of the largest scare events in Germany and doubles attendance for six weeks.
Plan Your Visit
Hours & tickets
- Operating hours
- Typically 10am-6pm, extended to 8pm in summer and during Halloween Horror Fest
- Seasonal closures
- Closed roughly November to late March apart from event dates
- Queue-skip pass
- Express Pass available in tiers on busier days. From about $25 USD.
- How long to stay
- Full day
- Multi-day tickets
- Single-day tickets only.
- Season pass
- Annual or season pass from about $90 USD.
Getting there
- Nearest airport
- Düsseldorf (DUS), ~50 km; Dortmund (DTM), ~55 km
- Public transit
- Train to Feldhausen station, then a short walk or shuttle bus to the entrance
- Parking
- On-site parking available. Around $9 USD per day.
- Staying over
- No on-site hotel; partner hotels in Bottrop and Gelsenkirchen offer packages
Accessibility
- Accessibility
- Flat, largely step-free site with accessible toilets and a companion ticket. Most coasters require independent transfer from a wheelchair.
Good to know
- Who it suits
- Good family park with strong Nickelodeon and Peanuts areas for younger children, plus a few genuinely intense coasters
- Best time to visit
- Weekdays in May, June or September; Halloween Horror Fest in October is excellent but adults-oriented
- Dining
- American movie-themed quick-service; solid rather than exceptional
- Outside food
- You can bring your own food and drink.
- Weather cover
- Good indoor share for a German park — several dark rides, studio-style attractions and covered theatres make rainy days manageable.
- Baby care
- Baby changing and nursing rooms available with bottle-warming.
- Rentals on site
- Stroller / pushchair hire and Lockers available on site.
- Currency & payment
- EUR; cards and contactless accepted, though cash is still handy at kiosks.
- Official app
- Movie Park Germany app (iOS/Android): wait times, park map and show schedule.