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Mikey interview Calum Beckett, the Creative Director of Scream Camp, the UK's only over night scare experience running today. ............................................................................................................................ BUY SCREAM CAMP TICKETS HERE: https://screamcamp.co.uk .................................................................................................

This week on Haunt Weekly we're doing something a bit different. Since we're home haunters, we get to spend much of our season not just building and running a haunt, but going to others. The problem is, that can get very expensive very quickly. Over the years, we've found a lot of ways to ethically lower our costs quite significantly including finding great deals on haunted attractions and and oth...

Welcome back to a new season of Haunting The Globe! In this interview, I chat with Steve Sheldon and Charity Hill, Executive Producers at EPIC Entertainment, about Dark Harbor in Long Beach and Dark Horizon in Orlando. Dark Harbor is one of the largest haunted attractions in Southern California and EPIC Entertainment is bringing their 'west coast style' attraction to Orlando for 2019. This is a fa...

Mikey hosts a Q&A session with the creators of the UK's first and only scare attraction documentary UK HAUNTERS. Dan and Jess spent a whole year documenting their work when visiting key players on the UK Haunt scene. The documentary includes Broadwitch Hauntfest, R-Space Productions, Zed Events, Faceless Ventures, Scareface, Horrify Me, Andy 'Cookie Rawlings, Dan Burgess, Nick Hutson, ScareTrack a...

It's easy to think about nothing but the ways that we make our customers happy. We love building great scenes, amazing scares and giving customers the screams they paid us for. But here's the thing: A lot about going to a haunt kind of sucks... and not just the ticket price. Every haunt has pain points. These are things that the customer has to do to go to a haunt, but that diminish the customer e...

For the first time on Marketing Your Attraction, we bring a listener on the show for live coaching. Gamliel Beyderman is Founder of OneBefore, America's First Jewish Escape Room in Brooklyn New York. Visit OneBefore here: https://onebeforeescape.com .

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're doing the news and, as we approach the beginning of season, we have a LOT of news to go over including some of the last HHN news, some major haunt openings and a big anniversary for one of the most important haunted attractions of all time. So, without any further ado, here's a look at what is going on in the haunt industry this past month! This Week's Episode Incl...

UK Haunters will be the first-ever documentary to showcase the Scare scene here in the UK. We interview filmmaker Dan Brownlie about the making of the documentary, his Horror Film work, HHN and more. Want to see the UK Premier of Haunters on 31st August 2019? Click this link below to book tickets. https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/faceless-ventures/t-ngojqj Follow Dan and UK Haunters on Instagram : @...

In this episode Scott discusses the power of using REAL paranormal investigation as an additional element to your haunted attraction. Scott interviews Jill Witecki, Director of Marketing at Tampa Theatre and Jeremy Rettig with Genesis Paranormal Services.

This week on Haunt Weekly illness is in the air as a severe case of stomach flu has crippled 1/2 of the team but we are determined to persevere. Unfortunately, we had to scrap our planned episode and, instead, we're pulling together a quick one as we talk about a topic we're hoping to turn into a conference talk down the road: Scare Tactics 101. This is going to be a pretty basic overview of how t...

Monster FX offers prosthetics from Zombies to Mummies! Will Harvey discusses his humble beginnings setting up the business, what Monster FX can offer you now and their plans for the future. Visit Monster FX now: https://monsterfx.co.uk ............................................................................................................................. Visit our website here: https://scaret...

At this time of year, most non-haunt folks are mourning the end of Summer or thinking about going back to school. Haunters, however, are ramping up for the busiest and most exciting time of the year...HAUNT SEASON! In this episode, Scott discusses things that haunters can be working on now before the real craziness starts.

Jac Rock has been a scare actor in the UK haunt industry since 2006. Since then she has gone onto training fellow actors, designing attractions and doing voice over work for Thorpe Park Fright Nights. Mikey interviews Jac about how she got into the industry and how she picked up her new scare skills over the years. Instagram: jacrockinsta ..............................................................

This week on Haunt Weekly we're talking about how you, yes you, can give a talk that will help improve the haunt industry. With HAuNTcon extending the deadline for speakers, now is a great time to think about what topic you may want to speak on and how you can assemble a great presentation. To that end, there's a lot that you can do. You have experiences and knowledge that is valuable to the haunt...

Marketing your Haunted House for Today's Haunt Customer It's getting harder to get people to hear about your haunted house. You've got an awesome haunted attraction but your attendance isn't growing. There are so many channels like social, radio, TV...where do you spend your marketing money for your Haunt? We interview Alex Berland and Nick Levanti with Conjured Media and pick their brains about m...

ScareTrack Episode 145 - AromaPrime / Florentina Interview Mikey interviews Forentina, the Managing Director of Aroma Prime, market leaders in scent design for attractions around the world. They discuss how the company started and how it now offers over 400 scents to attractions such as theme parks and museums. Visit the AromaPrime website here: https://aromaprime.com/ ...............................

This week on Haunt Weekly it's all about Computer Assisted Design (or Computer Aided Drafting if you're the older crowd). While many think of CAD as a highly-technical skill only achievable by those that have studied it for years, that's only really true for the upper echelon of CAD. There are plenty of CAD tools that are perfectly usable by anyone capable of clicking a mouse and those tools can b...

Join Scott at Midsummer Scream in Long Beach CA. This episode was recorded August 2-5, 2019 and includes information about the trade show, interviews with vendors and even a shout out from the wonderful people who attended Scott's class on "Communicating Fear".

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're doing the news and what a news episode it is! We have an update on our 2019 season and a possible danger to it happening. We also have the latest on the rather stupid petition to try and move Halloween (or at least Trick or Treating) to the last Saturday of month. In less annoying news, we have lots of great stories about haunt openings and a major announcement fro...

In this podcast episode, we ask Scott Swenson all the different ways that you can use your attraction’s back story and why it’s important today more than ever. If you are a Haunted Attraction that has never used a back story with your theme and sometimes you feel that something is missing from the overall experience, creating a unique story around your characters may just be what you need to take...

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're discussing year-round haunting and we're doing it by sitting down with Shelby Rodwell. Shelby runs both The Haunted Mayfield Manor and Pirates! Legends of the Gulf Coast in Galveston. The first is a year-round haunted attraction and the second an equally year-round pirate museum. We're going to talk about the challenges and opportunities in running a year-round hau...

Pretty much every haunted house has a merch booth or a gift shop. There's almost no reason not to. It's a fairly straightforward way to make extra money from your haunt and, in many cases, do some great self-promotion. However, as an industry, our merch game is often times pretty weak. Many places offer t-shirts and hats and not a lot more. There's a lot of room for many haunts to elevate their me...

*BRAND NEW BOOK FOR HAUNTERS* - 'Follow the Story' - Written by Scott Swenson Mikey interviews Scott about his brand new book, his time with Busch Gardens, his Immersive Theatre work plus much much more! Buy the book here: http://followthestorybook.com/ Scott's website here: http://scottswenson.com/ ......................................................................................................

Scott Swenson joins us on the podcast to discuss the impact Story has in marketing your attraction. Scott has a new book out: Follow the Story: The Foundation of Every Great Attraction Follow the Story’s synopsis reads, “An attraction is most effective when it follows a path and takes guests on a journey. The story determines an attraction’s physical layout, character development, and technical de...

Banshee Manor Haunted Attraction is in Fayetteville, Arkansas is located inside a family fun park called Lokomotion. Buying Ghosts is a audio drama series in the form of a podcast available everywhere you find podcasts. Jonna Summers is the one orchestrating both of these fun Haunt projects. You’ll have to listen to this podcast to hear how these two projects are similar. Start your own Haunt, or...