Haunted Attraction Network

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...

*This is from the Archive of A Scott in the Dark. This episode is on the care and feeding of haunt actors.

Mikey interviews Lee and Sarah from Faceless Ventures, the team behind the UK's most extreme haunt 'Cracked'. The FV team also deliver fantastic Immersive Theatre, Scare Attractions and more. We discuss all the Faceless Ventures shows throughout 2019. https://facelessventures.co.uk Visit our website here: https://scaretrack.co.uk Watch our latest ScareCam vlog episodes: https://youtube.com/scaretr...

When Midwest Haunters Convention left Ohio to head to Chicago, the Ohio Haunters Association found themselves without a conference in their backyard. So, they had a crazy idea, why not create one. Thus the Ohio Halloween & Haunters Convention was born! So how did a team of great haunt activists and organizers become a crack team of event planners and conference hosts? Well, that's exactly what we'...

Audio completes your haunt environment and makes it real.

A huge thank you to all who were interviewed on this episode: Scare Manager, Scream Camp, Scare Me, Faceless Ventures, Rspace Productions, Dead Reel Films, Twisted Experiences, Parks,Scares & Glitter, Instantly Inverted, Scream effects co, Mad About Horror, Mad About Scares, Haunted Lantern, Horrortronics, Dead Walk Designs, 1eight Creative, Fear & Sons and EVILution Events. We would like to wish...

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're doing the news and, despite it being in the doldrums of summer we have a surprisingly large amount of news to go through. We have updates about new haunts, new escape rooms, a haunt getting a beer license and a triple update on Halloween Horror Nights. So while the temperatures are rising outside, why don't you cool off for the next 45 minutes or so with us and cat...

It's halfway to Halloween and the best way to celebrate is with some scare at Scare Kingdom Scream Park! On this episode, Mikey is joined by guest hosts Ryan Nixon (The Inevitable Theme Park Podcast) and Jenna Bulmer (Theme park geek) to give their first impressions of Scare Kingdoms three attractions on offer. -Follow guest host Ryan on Twitter and Instagram: @therealrnixon -Follow guest host Jen...

Last week, we talked about what we wished we'd known when we started haunting, this week, we're looking at it as customers and talking about things that big haunts forget to do. However, we're not really focusing on things IN the haunt itself. Instead, we're talking about the things that impact the customer experience around the haunt and help keep the haunt safe. All of these things are simple, e...

In this episode, Scott discusses the elements involved in starting a Haunted Attraction for the first time. He discusses everything from budgets to location to staffing to preparing for the unexpected.

Main Topic: Adapting your attraction to a new target market’s culture Step 1: You should have the demographic and psychographic analysis of this new target market done. Additionally, your team must have decided the new market is worth testing. Step 2: What that we’re doing now needs to change? You’ll go through each of the below considerations before deciding on tactics. Tactics/Considerations: Di...

Haunting is a learning process and, no matter how much you know, there's always more to learn. However, there are still some things that we really wish we had known before we got started. We made some major blunders simply because we didn't know what we were walking into. So what do we wish we had known? There's a lot but here are just seven things to get you started. This Week's Episode Includes:...

Haunters and often avid games and there's not a genre of games haunters love more than horror games. But can horror games help make us better haunters? What lessons can we learn from them? Well, we're going to list ten horror games that definitely have lessons haunters can learn. Even if they're not all the best horror games ever, they're great educational experiences. So sit back, relax and let's...

In this podcast we interview Edward Douglas and Gavin Goska and get these key takeaways: What Type of Haunt Music to Use in Your Haunted Attraction How Midnight Syndicate Got Started in Gothic/Horror Music The Reasons They Keep Playing Live at Cedar Point in Ohio Which of Their Soundtracks is their Favorite Ones Midnight Syndicate is a Gothic - Horror - Haunt musical group that has been producing...

It's an episode that's divisible by four and that means it's time to do the news! And we have a doozy of a podcast for you as it has been a very active week for haunted attraction news. We have a tale of one haunt being spared by flooding, another that was badly damaged, another story about an arsonist and much more. We also have our seasonal drip feed of Halloween Horror Nights news and one lady...