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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, […]
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, […]
Midsummer Scream runs August 7 to 9, 2026 at the Long Beach Convention Center. Single-day passes run $42 to $60. Weekend and VIP Gold Bat passes are sold out. The largest Halloween and horror convention on the West Coast draws roughly 50,000 attendees for over 300 exhibitors, the Hall of Shadows dark zone, panels, and […]
Long Beach, CA — Midsummer Scream and Paramount Scares have announced a weekend-long celebration marking the 30th anniversary of Wes Craven’s Scream at the 2026 convention, bringing much of the original Scream cast, Ghostface voice actor Roger L. Jackson, and composer Marco Beltrami to the Long Beach Convention Center from August 7 through August 9. […]
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation has announced new Blair Witch: No Signal haunted mazes for the 2026 Halloween season, coming to Dorney Park’s Halloween Haunt in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Six Flags Great America’s Fright Fest in Gurnee, Illinois. The two mazes tie a licensed horror IP to Halloween events at two of Six Flags Entertainment Corporation’s […]
Orlando, FL — Universal Orlando has discontinued all of its “Fear with Express Pass” products for Halloween Horror Nights 35, ending the multi-year practice of packaging Universal Express access with the event’s multi-night Fear passes. The change affects guests who would previously have added Express access to the Rush of Fear, Frequent Fear, Frequent Fear […]
LEGO Icons Mayor Manor 11383, the first set from the Midnight Valley Collection. (Photo: The LEGO Group) Billund, Denmark, The LEGO Group has debuted a new adult-targeted seasonal building line called the Midnight Valley Collection, starting with a 1,420-piece haunted manor called Mayor Manor. The set is set number 11383, priced at $119.99 in the […]
Home Depot’s 2026 Halloween collection launched online and in the app on July 16, 2026, with an in-store rollout starting in late August. The 12 FT SKELLY returns with app-enabled voice modulation, a new 11 FT Mummy and 8 FT Perilous Plant Monster expand the giant roster, and animatronics from Disney’s Maleficent to Warner Bros.’ […]
To get a job at a haunted house, apply directly through the haunt’s website or social pages in August or early September, when most haunts hold auditions. You don’t need acting experience at most haunts, auditions are usually group exercises rather than prepared monologues, and hiring continues all season, so late applicants still get cast. […]
Last updated: July 17, 2026. The 2026 convention is this weekend. VIP passes are sold out, but General Admission passes remain available throughout the show. This guide will be updated in place each year. Irving, TX — The Texas Haunters Convention is a two-day, cash-and-carry Halloween and cosplay convention held annually in the Dallas–Fort Worth […]
The trailer for the upcoming found footage horror movie Sundown seeks to determine whether its haunting is demonic or dementia. The found footage nightmare is set to premiere at Mad Monster Party in North Carolina and Houston Horror Film Fest in August. In Sundown, “Mary, whose husband has recently died of dementia, claims his spirit […]