Client: Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Venue Type: Theme Park and visitor attraction
Location: Blackpool, Lancashire
Event: Journey to Hell, Halloween horror event
Programme: 11th – 31st October, 2025
Audience: Families and over-18s
Big Foot Services: Halloween walkabout acts, Fire Performers, interactive characters, and live entertainment
The Brief
Blackpool Pleasure Beach wanted a varied cast of Halloween performers to entertain visitors throughout spooky season in October 2025.
The entertainment needed to complement Journey to Hell while appealing to the attraction’s broad audience. It had to feel scary enough to thrill adult visitors without becoming too frightening for younger guests and families.
The brief was to provide visually striking characters who could interact with visitors, create memorable photo opportunities, and adapt their performances to suit different audiences.
The Challenge
The challenge was finding a frightfully good balance between horror and family entertainment.
Journey to Hell offered adult visitors a more intense Halloween experience, but Blackpool Pleasure Beach also welcomed families and younger guests who wanted to enjoy the seasonal spirit without being overwhelmed.
The performers therefore needed to assess individual interactions carefully. While some visitors wanted to be frightened, others preferred to meet the characters, take photographs, and engage with them from a more comfortable distance!
With approximately 25-30 performers involved across the programme, the cast also needed enough variety to make each encounter unique while maintaining a consistent Halloween identity.
The Solution
Big Foot Events created a varied programme of horror entertainment for Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
The line-up combined familiar Halloween characters with visually striking horror acts, providing different styles of performance and interaction throughout Journey to Hell.
A Varied Halloween Cast
Big Foot Events supplied a cast of roaming characters that included:
Headless characters
Witches
Pumpkin Heads
Day of the Dead stilt walkers
Possessed Dolls
Skull Heads
The range of characters created a strong Halloween spirit across the theme park. Their distinctive costumes also gave visitors plenty of fiendishly memorable photo opportunities.
Adaptable Audience Interactions
The performers adapted their approach according to the guests they encountered.
For adults taking part in Journey to Hell, the characters could offer more intense and theatrical horror interactions, contributing to the frightening atmosphere visitors anticipated from the event.
Younger visitors and families could instead enjoy meet-and-greet and mix-and-mingle opportunities, interacting with the characters and posing for photographs if they felt brave enough!
This flexible approach allowed the same entertainment programme to cater to different age groups without losing the event’s horror spirit.
Fire Performers
Big Foot Events also supplied Fire Breathers to add high-impact live performance to the programme. The combination of fire, dramatic costumes, and interactive characters created a varied experience that included both roaming encounters and scheduled performance moments.
What Big Foot Events Delivered
For Journey to Hell at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Big Foot Events provided:
Approximately 25-30 performers
Headless walkabout characters
Pumpkin head characters
Day of the Dead stilt walkers
Fire breathers
Possessed doll characters
Skull head characters
Horror interactions for adult visitors
Mix-and-mingle entertainment
Family-friendly meet and greets
Halloween photo opportunities
Entertainment tailored to different age groups
Live entertainment across the Journey to Hell programme
The Result
From 11th – 31st October 2025, Big Foot Events helped Blackpool Pleasure Beach create a Halloween experience that engaged both adult horror fans and younger visitors.
Fire breathers, stilt walkers, and roaming characters gave the entertainment a strong visual impact throughout the attraction. With more intense encounters for those who wanted a scare and approachable interactions for younger visitors, the programme offered something for guests of all ages and confidence levels!
The event proved so successful that Blackpool Pleasure Beach rebooked Big Foot’s Halloween performers for Journey to Hell in October 2026.
Key Facts
Client: Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Location: Blackpool, Lancashire
Event: Journey to Hell
Programme: 11th – 31st October, 2025
Audience: Families and over-18s
Performers: Approximately 25-30
Interactive Characters: Headless acts, witches, pumpkin heads, Day of the Dead stilt walkers, possessed dolls, skull heads
Result: Rebooked for Journey to Hell in October 2026
Big Foot Events supplies Halloween performers, interactive characters, and large-scale entertainment packages for theme parks and visitor attractions throughout the UK.
