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The spooky comic book series Afterlife with Archie is getting a live action television series adaptation from Disney+, and Deadline reports that it’ll premiere for Halloween 2027. The upcoming series from Warner Bros. Television and Berlanti Productions brings to life the comic book from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla. Afterlife with Archie turns the town […]
Scream Factory brought Frank LaLoggia’s 1988 Halloween movie Lady in White to Blu-ray several years back, and now Vinegar Syndrome gives the film a 4K Ultra HD upgrade. Vinegar Syndrome’s Lady in White 4K release is available now and shipping now! Watch the trailer below and grab your copy from Vinegar Syndrome today. This limited […]
The story of 2026 Halloween retail isn’t a single big-box winner or a viral 12-foot skeleton. It’s the fandoms. This year’s shelves and search bars are dominated by licensed IP: Five Nights at Freddy’s, Hocus Pocus, and The Nightmare Before Christmas are running the tables at the biggest retailers, and a second tier of Ghostbusters, […]
HalloweenCostumes.com has released its 2026 animatronics lineup, and it is the largest and most ambitious the retailer has ever put out. This year’s collection tops more than 75 new pieces, including one that stands nearly 14 feet tall and costs as much as a car. Leading the class of 2026: a $24,999.99 Lord of the […]
Anthropologie's Halloween 2026 collection is live with 439 pieces from $12 to $498, including new Icon glasses, cat stoneware, and illuminated vines.
Redlands, CA — After 45 years running Southern California’s largest pumpkin patch, Live Oak Canyon in Redlands is opening its first-ever haunted maze this October. It is called The Hollow, and it takes over the farm after dark on weekends from October 2 through October 31, 2026. As the farm’s own tagline for the event […]
Disney runs Halloween on six resorts across three continents, and no two do it alike. This hub tracks every Disney Halloween celebration for 2026 with dates as announced and a full guide for each covered resort, updated as the remaining parks make their announcements. Every Disney Halloween at a Glance Resort Event 2026 Dates Walt […]
Shanghai Disney Resort has not announced its 2026 Halloween event yet, but it has confirmed one is coming: the resort’s 10th Anniversary celebration materials promise an autumn “spook-tacular cavalcade” on this year’s calendar. The standalone Halloween announcement has landed in late August each of the last two years, so the wait should be short. Here […]
Disneyland Paris has confirmed its Disney Halloween Festival for September 26 through November 1, 2026, an earlier start than last season. The park’s own pitch sets the tone: mischievous Disney Villains join Mickey and Friends “in conjuring up a happy haunting in Disneyland Park, filled with spellbinding décor and exclusive entertainment.” The full program is […]
The Legendary Haunt Tour is the haunt industry’s post-season field trip: every November, haunted attraction owners, actors, makeup artists, and enthusiasts travel together to tour haunts that have earned legendary status, with the kind of access the public never gets. The 2026 tour runs November 5 through 7 in North Carolina, visiting Woods of Terror, […]
Field of Screams in Mountville, Pennsylvania enters its 34th season as one of the biggest names in American haunting, an HAA-certified Iconic Top Haunt that bills itself as America’s number one haunted attraction. Brothers Gene and Jim Schopf founded it on the family farm in 1993 and have scared more than a million guests since. […]
No city on earth packs more Halloween into one season than Orlando. Four theme park events run overlapping calendars from early August through November, and the area’s only HAA-certified Top Haunt operates a short drive west. This page lists every major Orlando Halloween event for 2026 with dates and a link to our full guide […]
Sir Henry’s Haunted Trail in Plant City sits at exit 22 of I-4, about an hour from Orlando and half an hour from Tampa, and it enters its 13th season as one of the five best haunted attractions in the country by USA Today’s 10Best ranking. The nonprofit haunt is an HAA-certified Iconic Top Haunt, […]
After years of Freddy Fazbear haunting screens, theme parks, and every Halloween aisle, Spirit Halloween is finally bringing him home. The retailer’s first-ever life-size Freddy Fazbear animatronic from Five Nights at Freddy’s is real, priced at $499.99, and set to arrive when Spirit’s flagship store opens August 1, 2026 in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, […]
Costco has a lot of Halloween on shelves this year. The showstopper is a warehouse-exclusive 3.6-foot Mickey Pumpkin with Infinity Mirrors at $219.99. Around it: a returning 62-inch Giant Ground Breaking Skeleton with LCD moving eyes, a full slate of Disney Nightmare Before Christmas licensed decor, spinning Disney character lanterns, and giant animatronics stretching from […]
I’ve never seen a movie so completely and totally fucked by its trailer. It’s rare these days that movie trailers don’t spoil important plot points, if not give away the entire movie. An even worse sin is to spin a movie to appear as something it’s not. Before we go any further, watch the trailer: ...
Universal Beijing Resort’s autumn Halloween event, branded Scares at Universal (惊彩”环球, Jīng Cǎi Huánqiú), runs from September 4 through November 1, 2026, marking the resort’s 5th anniversary season under the theme “Infinitely Your Way.” The 2026 program is anchored by two new marquee haunted mazes based on major Chinese entertainment IPs: The Grave Robbers’ Chronicles […]
The best haunted houses in America carry a certification most visitors have never heard of: the Haunted Attraction Association’s Top Haunt status. It is the closest thing the haunt industry has to a seal of excellence, and the attractions that hold it include the biggest, longest-running, and scariest haunted houses in the country. This page […]
Rumors of an Ozzy Osbourne haunted house at Halloween Horror Nights 35 are heating up after an alleged leaked radio advertisement surfaced online, adding to months of fan speculation.
Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Japan returns for its 15th anniversary from September 11 through November 8, 2026, running inside the wider Universal Extreme Autumn ~Discover U!!!~ umbrella event that opens September 10. The 2026 lineup adds a new Resident Evil Requiem: The Dive maze in partnership with Capcom, a 15th-anniversary retrospective stage show, […]