History Main / AmusementParkOfDoom

* In an eerily similar turn of events to the above incident, Ride/LunaParkSydney was shut down in June 1979 after six children and one adult were killed when the park's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Sydney_Ghost_Train_fire Ghost Train went up in flames]]. The cause of the fire has never been determined, with speculation ranging from faulty electrical wiring to arson (an investigation by Creator/TheABC in 2021 revealed possible links to police corruption and organised crime). The park has since reopened, and while it has occasionally closed again due to safety issues, this tragedy has not been repeated.

** Things go wrong again in ''Film/JurassicWorld'', this time with a genetically-enhanced monstrosity (which surpasses every genetically-recreated prehistorical up to this point in sheer ferocity and ''sadistic streak'') roaming the park.

* ''Film/{{Us}}'' has an amusement park as the locus of its SurrealHorror, with the [[EvilDoppelganger Tethered]] coming up from the tunnels beneath the house of mirrors. The movie also shows how the park changes over time: at the beginning of the movie, in what appears to be the 1980s, the house of mirrors has a MagicalNativeAmerican "vision quest" theme, while in the scenes set in the present day, it's been retooled for a more generic Merlin theme - a little more culturally sensitive, but just as sinister behind its facade.

* ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'': The final mental world of the game (not counting [[spoiler: the FinalBoss fight against Maligula in Lucrecia Mux's mind]]) is "Fatherland Follies", a peek inside the mind of [[BigBad the mastermind behind the scheme to bring back Maligula]], [[spoiler: Gristol Malik, AKA "Nick Johnsmith"]]. It takes the form of a parody of Ride/ItsASmallWorld that's basically propaganda for [[TheCaligula the selfish and decadent former rulers of Grulovia, the Maliks]] and [[spoiler: Gzesarevich Gristol's evil plot to find Maligula and put himself back in charge of the country so he can go back to being one of the IdleRich.]]

** The 2005 special edition OVA short, ''The Genius Nobita's Airship Amusement Park'' have Doraemon and friends visiting the titular location, an amusement park built into a CoolAirship. Unfortunately, the villain Jester and his RobotClown army invades, hijacks the facilities and kidnaps everyone.

* ''VideoGame/ApeEscape'' (the first one of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation) had a deadly Amusement Park of Doom to traverse through in the second-to-last level. Everything from [[MonsterClown an evil killer clown]], a deadly remote-controlled car and a deadly roller coaster ride.

* ''{{Videogame/Noctropolis}}'' combines this with an induced Main/NightmareSequence by one of the villains to make things really unsettling.

--> '''Michael Reynolds''': This is not an attraction that you merely ''sit and watch'', the characters and settings of this story are all ''real''. So if the enemies get you, you ''will'' die!

%%* This is the entire setting for ''VideoGame/{{CarnEvil}}''.

* The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''One Day at Horrorland'' and its related media. The ''Goosebumps Horrorland" series also includes information on a second Amusement Park of Doom, Panic Park, which was once located on the same site as Horrorland and actually frightened some of its guests to death.
** In a tie in video game, you can explore Horrorland in its entirety, and it’s just as dangerous as you’d expect, not to mention you aren’t allowed to leave once you enter. Fittingly, the final ride, which even the staff won’t go on, is named "Certain Death".

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* In the short manga ''Jet Coaster'', the amusement park employees take a sick delight in watching people suffer and/or die... so in the middle of a roller-coaster ride, they suddenly ''stop'' the coaster, at the top of a loop at that, and warn the eight passengers to hold onto the safety bar before dropping their seats out from under them. The eight people must try to hang on for dear life, falling one by one to their deaths until only one remains. And ''all the employees'' are in on this, so ''no one is coming to help them.'' [[spoiler:Also? It's not the first time this has happened.]]

* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
** ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': The textbook example is any amusement park where the Joker has moved into. In ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', the story quoted above, he even leaves the grinning corpse of the estate agent sitting on a carousel horse as a "welcome" sign.
** ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'': In ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' Annual #8, Zarn terrorists take over the amusement park Bizarro World in order to assassinate Ambassador Ermel Vootie, who is attempting to negotiate a peace treaty between the Zarn and the Zentauri. The park security guard Phisto, who is secretly working with the terrorists, uses his access to the system to turn the attractions (most of which are dangerous alien animals) against the visitors.
** ''ComicBook/NewGods'': Darkseid creates one called "Happyland" in ''The Forever People''. The attractions are all people being tortured, but [[InvisibleToAdults only the children can see what's really happening]]. Their parents, hurrying them along, are thus tricked into teaching their kids to ignore the suffering of others, [[HopeCrusher which Darkseid finds at least as satisfying as the actual torture]].
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': In Dazzleland from ''Wonder Woman'' #122, the life force is drained of park visitors to maintain the cryogenically frozen corpse of park founder [[MrAltDisney Wade Dazzle]].

* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
** The villain Arcade is known for his Murderworld DeathCourse, often by letting his victims think it's a real amusement park before the carousel tries to kill them. It also includes a giant pinball machine of death. Every now and then, the ComicBook/XMen (and other Marvel heroes) wake up here and say "OhCrap, it's going to be one of ''those'' days." Arcade actually [[CutLexLuthorACheck makes a lot of cash]] by [[WelcomeToEvilMart letting other supervillains use it as a training ground]]. He had to do ''something'': the fact that he'd never actually managed to murder a hero in the place was [[VillainCred making him a laughingstock among supervillains]]. This trope is {{averted|Trope}}, however, in ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'', in which Murderworld is a massive sealed environment with trees, mountains, and everything in between.
** ComicBook/{{Cable}} would go on to rent out one of these and use the death-trap-filled park as a training ground for his team. But then, [[GeneralRipper that's Cable for you]].
** ComicBook/TheAwesomeSlapstick got his start trying to save his friends from [[MonsterClown Evil Clowns]] from Dimension X. No, really.

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%%* The After Dark Horrorfest flick ''Dark Ride'' was, as the title suggests, set in such a place.

* ''The Happiest Apocalypse On Earth'' is a Powered by the Apocalypse game set in an un-named, but possibly rodent-related, amusement park, where strange, eldritch and often horrific events happen with distressing frequency.
* the game ''Unfair'' has players competing to make the best local amusement park. Part of the game is sabotaging fellow players with bad press, dangerous rides, food poisoning, and the like.

** Carnival Night Zone from ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'', what with all the spikes, robots, and the [[GuideDangIt/PlatformGames infamous red-and-white barrel]].