The new Chilling Chambers haunted maze coming to Knott’s Scary Farm takes visitors through a greatest-hits revue of 50 years of Halloween Haunts, with tributes to six former mazes plus “Easter eggs” offering nods to many more.

Chilling Chambers joins a lineup at Knott’s Berry Farm that will feature 10 haunted mazes, five scare zones and four shows on various nights from Sept. 21-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,” said Knott’s maze designer, Gus Krueger. “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 actor Larry Vincent, served as a 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 catacomblike chambers 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.”

Chilling Chambers joins seven returning mazes at Knott’s: Bloodline 1842, Grimoire, Origins: Curse of Calico, Mesmer: Sideshow of the Mind, Wax Works, Dark Entities and The Depths.

This season is expected to be the last for The Depths and Dark Entity, according to Screamscape.