The city was back in control of the land, and various offers to develop it came and went. By 2011, the park’s post-apocalyptic appearance began to attract the attention of Hollywood movie scouts.

Matthew McConaughey thriller Killer Joe was filmed there in 2011, and included a cameo role for the Mega Zeph rollercoaster. The clapboard fronts of park attractions like those pictured were perfect for doubling up as disaster-ravaged shops and houses on film sets.

In 2012, the park’s French Quarter-inspired Main Street Square, pictured here, was used as a movie location for Stolen, starring Nicolas Cage. Keen-eyed viewers will recognise the theatre was used as a villain’s lair, while a car was driven into the park’s lagoon.

Fantasy film Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, meanwhile, transformed the park into Circeland, the spooky site of the film’s finale, where the Mega Zeph was used for a key scene.

Tour this abandoned Six Flags theme park in Louisiana