WILMINGTON — While Port City Fear Factory is offering scares in its PG-13 haunted house throughout the Halloween season, it’s making things kid and family friendly for one day.
On Saturday, Oct. 21, Port City Fear Factory — a collaborative effort of veteran film crew Bearded Skulls Makeup FX and entrepreneur Justin Smith — will host a fall festival in the Soda Pop District from noon to 4 p.m.
The eerie haunt typically filled with gore and horror, will instead offer a trick-or-treating event with the lights on at the former Coca-Cola building. Kids participating are encouraged to bring their own bags and photo opportunities and pumpkin painting will be available.
Neighboring businesses Hi-Wire Brewing, Bowstring Burgers and Brewyard and Cugino Forno are participating in the festivities with live music, snacks and games. Vendors will be at Hi-Wire offering fairy hair, handmade apparel, horror collectibles, face painting, pottery and more.
Tickets are $12 to enter but kids ages 4 and under are admitted free. To enter the pumpkin painting contest is $8 with purchase of a day pass or $10 without.
Family passes are also available, starting at $40 for a pack of four, $50 for five, up to $100 for 10.
Purchase tickets here.
Then at 6:30 p.m., the Chapel of Horrors re-opens with its immersive haunted house experience highlighting the tale of an old, cursed church where evil abounds. The previous two weekends sold out; purchase haunted house tickets early here. The haunt, at 921 Princess St., runs through Sunday and will reopen Friday, Oct. 27 through closing day, Oct. 30.
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