Haunted Attraction Network

*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...

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're wrapping up our room trilogy as we discuss the best room in your haunt. We've done the first room, we've done the last room and now we're doing the best room. But the best room is more important than some people realize. Your customers, when they walk away from your haunt, will likely only remember one or two things. Having a room that stands out and gets attention...

Last week, we discussed the importance of the first room, the approaches to it and the purposes it can serve. This week, we're doing the bookend and talking about the last room, and the importance of it. The last room, however, is somewhat unique among haunts in that it's the only room (or haunt element) that has a de facto standard. We've grown to expect that haunts will end with chainsaws the sa...

The common logic when it comes to building a haunted house is that you put most of your energy, detail and work into the first room and the last room. The idea is that these are the rooms that will be the most memorable to your customers. But is that really true? In thinking about first rooms we've seen we struggled to remember many. That said though, the first room does play a key role in a haunt...

Content Marketing is one of the most misunderstood tactics, and we explain it all in this episode. “Content marketing is a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience — and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action. In short, instead of pitching your products or services, you ar...

This week on Haunt Weekly we're doing the news and boy do we have a surprisingly stacked show for an episode that's as far away from Halloween as we can get. We have two announcements from Universal Studios, two more from Disney and a slew of local haunt news across the country. It's one busy episode with a few fun items at the end so stick around as we go through all the haunt news that's fit to...

Another episode based on suggestions from the "A Scott in the Dark Listener's Group" on Facebook.

It's the time of year when haunts are either ramping up their recruitment or are thinking about doing so. It's also the time of the year newbie actors are considering if they want to come on board and, if so, what haunt they want to work. So we've reached out to our resident actor expert, Japes Palles, to tell newbie actors what they can expect and to help haunt owners figure out how to make the p...

Rick is an award winning photographer of Horrify Me. Turning 'normal' people into Vampire, Zombies, Horror Icons and much more. Hannah gets a bloody make-over photoshoot and we interview Rick on this episode of the ScareTrack podcast. For more information, to book and shoot or buy the horrify me book, click here: http://www.horrify.me.uk/ Watch our latest ScareCam vlog episodes: https://youtube.co...

How to view criticism as a gift that can help you make your haunt the best ever

This week on Haunt Weekly, we're about as far as Halloween as possible, the weather is getting warmer and it can pretty much not feel less like Halloween. Luckily, we're haunters and we have a lot of great ways to keep Halloween alive 365. However, there's always room to improve so that's why we're sharing 31 ways that we keep the Halloween and haunter spirit alive, no matter what the season outsi...

When it comes to creating an extreme haunt, how do you know when you’ve crossed over the line?