A SPOOKY Halloween spectacular will bring visitors face to face with dinosaurs in the dark as they journey into a lost world that time forgot.

The Spooky Spectacular and Halloween festival at West Midland Safari Park will provide close encounters for visitors with these giant, life-sized models.

Visitors will come face-to-face with 38 life size moving and seemingly breathing dinosaurs at "Land of the Living Dinosaurs", the UK's largest animatronic dinosaur attraction that opened this year costing £2.5m.

It is a walking trail that is lavishly planted and themed with pools, fossils, volcanic vent and a geyser that intensifies the whole experience.

The entrance to the exhibit is in the Parks' Discovery Trail with the skeletal remains of a mighty T-Rex, setting the tone, bringing visitors into a recreation of the Earth millions of years ago.

After dark the entire atmosphere changes as once the daylight fades, a lighting system comes into play casting dramatic shadows and illuminating examples of some of the most formidable creatures to have terrorised the planet.

These include the awesome Allosaurus, curiously named Dilophosaurus, and gruesome Gorgonops.

Two of the largest stand at 8 metres tall, the Apatosaurus measuring 25 metres long and Argentinosaurus 30 metres.

A life size adult Tyrannosaurus Rex is elevated on four metre rockwork, whilst the Sarcosuchus, meaning 'flesh crocodile' represents one of the largest crocodile-like creatures that are thought to have ever lived.

Hours during Spooky Spectacular will be extended to 9pm (last admission 8pm) on weekends and during the October half term holiday throughout the Discovery Trail and Adventure Theme Park, with the event finishing on Sunday, November 1.