The new Cinema Slasher haunted maze coming to Knott’s Scary Farm will pay tribute to four former attractions during the 50th anniversary celebration of the granddaddy of Halloween events.

Cinema Slasher joins the 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.

The villain of Cinema Slasher is the Slasher of the Dark — a throwback to a maze from the mid-1990s at the Buena Park theme park.

The Slasher of the Dark killer has taken over a movie theater in the backstory of the new maze.

“He’s in every scene,” Knott’s maze designer Gus Krueger said. “He’s the guy that’s going to get you.”

Scary Farmers walk through movie screens as they pass through scenes from horror films based on three throwback Halloween Haunt mazes: Camp Gonnagetcha, Trick or Treat and Slaughterhouse.

“They’re not straight-up tributes,” Krueger said. “It’s more of a tongue-in-cheek way of throwing back with our history.”

Visitors pass through a campsite for Camp Gonnagetcha, a neighborhood house on Halloween night for Trick or Treat and a meat grinder filled with cannibalistic butchers in Slaughterhouse.

“You go into different horror films until you finally get to the finale, where you do come face-to-face with a big monster that’s actually coming out of the screen at you,” Krueger said.

Visitors will step into a different theater as they enter each horror movie within the Cinema Slasher maze.

“You get to see the progression of the condition of the theaters,” Krueger said. “The first theater you go into is still pretty nice. As you go into these other movies, you’ll find that each theater is more and more of a disturbing horror scene.”

The marquee scene of Cinema Slasher takes you through a boathouse to a full-size boat built in the middle of the Boardwalk Ballroom during the Camp Gonnagetcha segment of the maze.

The Slasher of the Dark maze ran during the mid-1990s, followed by Camp Gonnagetcha in the late 1990s. The Slaughterhouse first appeared in the mid-1980s and returned in the late 2000s and early 2010s, while the Trick or Treat maze reigned during the mid-2010s.

Knott’s maze designer Daniel Miller oversaw the creation of Cinema Slasher, which joins seven returning mazes: Bloodline 1842, Grimoire, Origins: Curse of Calico, Mesmer: Sideshow of the Mind, Wax Works, Dark Entities and The Depths.