SANTA ANA, CALIF. • The new Chilling Chambers haunted maze coming to Knott’s Scary Farm takes visitors through a greatest hits revue of 50 years of Halloween Haunt history with tributes to six former mazes plus Easter eggs offering nods to many more.

Chilling Chambers joins the 50th-anniversary lineup at Knott’s Berry Farm that will feature 10 haunted mazes, five scare zones and four live shows on select nights from Thursday through Oct. 31.

This year’s Chilling Chambers, located next to the park’s main gate, pays tribute to the Ten Chilling Chambers — the first haunted maze specifically created for Knott’s in the 1970s.

The Keeper character will guide Scary Farmers through the maze, showing up in the chambers between the mini-maze tributes that consist of three or four rooms each.

“The Keeper is the keeper of Haunt history,” Knott’s maze designer Gus Krueger said. “The Keeper’s Cathedral is the repository where mazes go once they’ve finished their life here. The Keeper will be your guide along the journey.”

The Knott’s creative team modeled the distinctive look of the Keeper after Sinister Seymour — the host of the first haunted Halloween event at the park in 1973. Seymour, played by late actor Larry Vincent, served as host of low-budget horror movies on local television stations in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

“When you go inside, you enter into the Keeper’s Cathedral,” Krueger said. “Throughout the cathedral there are portals or keyholes that lead to mazes from the past. The Keeper recurs in videos throughout the attraction as a palate cleanser and tells you what’s next.”

The Asylum mini-maze takes visitors through a surgery room and maximum security ward filled with nurses and patients.

“We’re trying to give people the mazes that they’ve been asking for the most and also give them a good variety,” Krueger said. “The Asylum was always one of our biggest hits.”

Visitors travel in quick succession through tributes to The Underground, Carnival of Carnivorous Clowns, Lore of the Vampire and the Doll Factory — popular haunted mazes from the 1990s and 2000s.

The marquee attraction in the Chilling Chambers maze: A moving floor in the Doll Factory that makes it feel like a doll is holding and moving the room.

“In the Doll Factory, you’ll see some things you’ve seen before, but it’s also been updated to use some cool tricks that we didn’t have the first time around,” Krueger said.

The big finale of Chilling Chambers takes you through The Keeper’s cemetery.

“The Keeper will be there in animatronic form to guide you through his cemetery,” Krueger said. “The cemetery is inhabited by the dead monsters from Haunts past. You’ll go through this dirt into a hole and you’ll become part of Knott’s Scary Farm history.”

The catacomb-like chambers in between each tribute will be filled with callbacks to other former mazes.

“There are tons of Easter eggs everywhere in this maze,” Krueger said. “We’re trying to pack every nook and cranny with a reference to our history.”