Spookers Haunted Attraction Theme Park is New Zealand's award-winning scream park on Kingseat Road in Auckland — billed as the number one Haunted Attraction in the Southern Hemisphere. It's a live entertainment experience in which the victims are the visitors themselves: you move on foot through themed sets, encountering visuals, sound effects and live scare-actors at every step, and you're not safe until you manage to escape.
A standard pass covers all of the park's headline attractions — The Haunted House, Disturbia and The Woods (outdoor) — and includes a group photo. Nights are tiered by nerve: Scream Nights for ages 13+ run Friday and Saturday from 8.00pm with last entries at 9.00pm, while R18 Scream Nights on selected Sundays push the experience to its most extreme for adults. For younger or more cautious visitors, Taste of Terror (Friday and Saturday afternoons) offers a guided, toned-down tour with behind-the-scenes secrets, and Creepers on selected school-holiday Thursdays brings all the atmosphere without the full intensity — both for ages 8+, with experienced actors able to scale the scares to suit the age of their victims.
The park rotates its themes across the year — Season of Monsters (April–June), Season of Folklore (July–September) and Season of Madness (October–December) — and rounds out the night with an onsite cafe and bar serving nibbles, burgers and pizzas. Functions and events, merchandise and gift vouchers complete the offering. Door sales are available; bring photo ID and a torch, as phone torches aren't allowed inside.
Out on Kingseat Road in Auckland's south, something waits for you after dark. Spookers Haunted Attraction Theme Park is New Zealand's homegrown scream park — a live entertainment experience in which the victims, quite deliberately, are you. The billing is suitably bold: the number one Haunted Attraction in the Southern Hemisphere, and an award-winning one at that.
The premise is simple and effective. You move on foot through themed sets, and as you go you'll come across visuals and sound effects designed to scare the hell out of you — with live scare-actors haunting your every step. Some people walk through. Some sprint. Most do a combination of both. As the park cheerfully warns: don't be fooled — you are not safe until you manage to escape.
A standard Spookers pass gets you into all of the park's headline attractions. The Haunted House is the cornerstone — an indoor maze of themed sets where the park's experienced scare-actors lurk, leap and linger. Disturbia dials up the disorientation with its 3D take on the scare walkthrough. And The Woods takes the terror outdoors, sending you into the night itself among the park's frightening creatures of the dead.
Every Scream Nights and R18 pass also includes a group photo — proof, should anyone doubt you, that you made it out.
Spookers structures its nights around different appetites for terror. Scream Nights are the standard experience, strictly for ages 13 and up, running Friday and Saturday with doors at 8.00pm and last entries at 9.00pm. On selected Sundays, the R18 Scream Nights push things further — Spookers at its most extreme, with claustrophobic corridors and face-to-face encounters with the disturbed and the damned, who will chase you, grab you and pull you into your darkest fear. Once you enter, there are no safe zones, no mercy, and no guarantees you'll make it through with your nerves intact.
For younger or more cautious visitors, the park runs genuinely family-oriented sessions. Taste of Terror, on Friday and Saturday afternoons, pairs a guided tour of the Haunted House with a self-guided, actor-free trip through Disturbia in 3D — plus a behind-the-scenes look at some of the secrets of the attractions. Creepers, on selected Thursdays during school holidays, is the gentlest entry point: family-friendly characters inspired by classic stories, spooky but playful, with all the atmosphere and none of the full intensity. Both are designed for ages 8 and up, and the park's experienced actors are able to adjust the level of scares to suit the age of their victims.
The park refreshes itself across the year with rotating themes: Season of Monsters from April to June, Season of Folklore through July to September, and Season of Madness from October to December. Each season brings its own flavour to the attractions, giving repeat victims a reason to come back and be terrified all over again.
There's an onsite cafe and bar, serving what the park calls food to die for — nibbles, burgers and pizzas among the options. Many visitors make a proper night of it, building up some stamina over dinner before facing the dark.
Beyond the nightly scares, Spookers also hosts functions and events, sells merchandise, and offers gift vouchers — the SuperScare voucher covers entry to all four attractions plus a photo, for ages 13 and up.
A little preparation goes a long way. Bring photo ID — it's required for every experience, and age limits are strictly enforced. Bring a torch, too: phone torches are not allowed inside, though you can purchase one at the park if you forget yours. Doors open at 8.00pm with last entries at 9.00pm on Friday and Saturday nights, and door sales are available — though tickets can also be secured in advance online. Spookers sits at 833 Kingseat Road in Auckland, and the team can be reached on 09 2919002 or at info@spookers.co.nz.
Whether you're a hardened horror fan chasing the R18 experience or a curious eight-year-old taking a first, carefully guided step into the dark, Spookers has engineered a way in. The only question left is how fast you'll run.