Haunted Attraction Network

We're more than just haunt builders, we're major haunt customers. It's one of our favorite things to do and we spend north of $1,000 per year just going to haunts. But, as much as we love it, there are times that haunts kind of tick us off. Usually not intentionally, but they're things where, if the haunt had just done nothing, we would have been much happiier. So, with that in mind, here are seve...

The ScareTrack team experience the Tulleys Shocktoberfest VIP Press Night! Tulleys Shocktober Fest the world-famous Scream Park, located in Crawley England. The Scare attraction features over 18 nights of fright, book now or miss out! Click and listen too our full review of Tullys 2 brand new attractions along with the rest of this amazing Scream Park.

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're playing catch up as we cover all of the news we didn't get to cover in Episode 200 due to our anniversary celebrations. And news we do have as it's the busy season for haunted attraction news. We start off with a two-fer about a haunt in Missouri that was so bad it hurt other haunts in the area, We discuss the second coming of both the Slipknot haunt and the Six Fl...

The multiple award-winning event ‘Horror Nights – Traumatica’ takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. In the immersive live story world, 5 factions all vie for control of Traumatica. The more you know about the world of Traumatica, the more immersed you can become. Visitors (minimum age 16) can experience their very own horror movie here. During Horror Nights – Traumatica, visitors follow a trail...

“This isn’t just an old warehouse building in some downtown area. It's an actual fort with real buildings that give people a completely different haunt experience.” Those are the words of Matt Schanandore, Creative Director for Haunted Fort, which is a seasonal attraction that takes place every October at Fort Abraham Lincoln near Mandan, North Dakota. The site is a reconstructed military fort fro...

Blackpool Pleasure Beach is an amusement park situated along the Fylde coast in Blackpool, Lancashire, North West England. Mikey and Hannah visit Blackpool Pleasure Beach for the Freak Nights Press Preview event. We find out more about this first time event and interview some of the creative minds behind it.

It is our 200th episode and, to celebrate, we're going through our entire library and highlighting the best of the best. That's right, we both blindly picked 12 episodes we thought worthy of mentioning. Of the 12 we each picked, we had four we agreed on leaving us with 16 episodes we each wanted to highlight and 4 that we both agreed on. This gives us our top 20 episodes (with some extreme caveats...

Evac Scare Attraction returns to the National Emergency Services Museum in Sheffield on Fri 11th October 2019 - Sat 12th October 2019. For nearly half a decade all had been quiet at the Museum, until in the dead of night the telephone rang! A dark, mysterious voice spoke just three chilling words. “They’re Back... Again.” After four years the award winning Scare Attraction returns to the National...

The ScareTrack team experience the biggest launch night ever at Farmaggedon. Click to listen to on-location screaming, crying and laughter with our review of all 4 attractions. ............................................................................................................................ BUY FARMAGGEDON TICKETS HERE: https://farmaggedon.co.uk .............................................

It's been a rough few days around here. Earlier this week we learned that we have no choice but to cancel our 2019 season due to road construction and safety concerns. This, obviously, has us gut wrenched and we were forced to throw away our planned episode this week and, instead, talk about this. So, if you don't want a bummer of an episode, skip this one or revisit any of the other 198 that we h...

An abandoned theme park sat deserted for years after a horrific accident, but now, the chaotic and haunted remains of what was once a fun-filled playland are coming back to life. Slaughterland, located in Binghamton, New York close to the Pennsylvania border, will feature four attractions—Dark Magic, Wendigo Woods, Frightmares 3D, and Fallen Fairgrounds. Two of these are indoor haunts, and two are...

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...