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Happy Monday, Back in April, when gas first topped $4 a gallon, I wondered whether guests would keep spending on entertainment into the fall, and the latest AMC earnings suggest they’re at least spending locally. AMC posted the highest quarterly revenue in its 106-year history, with attendance up 13.5%, then set its highest-grossing single weekend […]
Dr. Loomis has arrived in a new teaser for 'Halloween: The Game' that recreates one of the film's eerier moments.
Universal Studios Hollywood announced “Shriek of the Banshee,” a street experience coming to Halloween Horror Nights 2026. Shriek of the Banshee Follow your curiosity through the fog and stumble upon this sideshow featuring the strange, the unnatural and the deadly. And don’t miss the main event: a demonic banshee that escaped its confines. Street experiences ... Read more
Wednesday, August 19, 2026 @ 4 PM Pacific Time Join us live for a chat with the authors of Make: Volume 98 about getting out of the workshop and putting rubber to the road for our Action issue! Engineer and inventor Saul Griffith will show off his all-wheel-drive, electric go-cart that’s just as fun to […]
Frendo is not done. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives, a sequel to last year’s slasher hit, is officially in development at Temple Hill Entertainment, sending the killer clown after final girl Quinn Maybrook once again. What We Know The sequel adapts Adam Cesare’s follow-up novel of the same name and is written by […]
Halloween season on TV means a wave of animated specials, spooky one-offs, and returning traditions across broadcast and streaming. This guide rounds up the Halloween 2026 TV specials and streaming events we know about so far, and we will keep adding titles, dates, and where to watch as networks confirm them. New for 2026 Family […]
Family Guy is spending Halloween in Hell. The show’s 2026 Halloween special, titled Happy Hell-o-ween, sends Brian and Stewie to the underworld with Succession star Kieran Culkin guest starring as Satan. It streams on Hulu this fall. The Premise In Happy Hell-o-ween, Brian and Stewie wind up in Hell and are forced to answer for […]
Fortnite is having a big Halloween this year. Spirit Halloween has rolled out a lineup of officially licensed Fortnite costumes for 2026, letting fans drop into the season as their favorite skins, and it lands the same fall the game gets its own scare zone at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights. The Costumes Spirit’s officially licensed […]
Alton Towers turns into one of the UK’s biggest Halloween destinations each autumn, and Scarefest 2026 leads with a brand-new scare maze, Final Exhibit. The award-winning event runs on selected dates from September 26 through November 1, 2026 at the Staffordshire resort, and it splits into two sides: Frightful Nights for scare-seekers and Spooky Days […]
Emeryville, CA — Pumpkin season starts at Peet’s on Tuesday, August 19, when the chain’s fall menu lands nationwide with three new Vitality Protein Smoothies, a pumpkin lineup crowned with Vanilla Dream Top, and three fall food items including a chicken sausage sandwich on a pretzel bun. The Vitality Protein Smoothies The smoothies are the […]
It’s almost Halloween Horror Nights time and Universal Studios Florida is decked out with props and stages for the 2026 event. Infernal Carnival of Nightmares Guests will enter Halloween Horror Nights through the Infernal Carnival of Nightmares scare zone based on Dr. Oddfellow and Jack the Clown. This acts as the overall theme of the ... Read more
Atlanta, GA — The killer from the Scream movies is getting his own soda this Halloween. Fanta Ghost Face Punch, a berry punch flavored soft drink in a black can with Ghost Face’s screaming mask across the front, has started surfacing in retail listings, as first reported by horror outlet Dread Central on August 12. […]
Fort Collins, CO — Michael Myers has his own beer this Halloween. New Belgium’s Voodoo Ranger has released the Halloween Hoppy Pack, a limited 12-pack built around Slasher IPA, a new 7.5% ABV beer that puts the masked killer from the Halloween films on both the can and the box. Horror outlet Bloody Disgusting first […]
Thousands of carved pumpkins, a glowing 40-foot pumpkin tree, and a hillside of luminous owls turn Dollywood into one of the country’s biggest family Halloween-season draws each fall. The Harvest Festival presented by Humana runs September 14 through October 31, 2026 at the Pigeon Forge, TN park, with the award-winning Great Pumpkin LumiNights lighting the […]
Atlanta, GA — Chicken and waffles is coming to Chick-fil-A nationwide. Starting August 24, the chain adds Chicken & Waffles Sandwiches in breakfast and entree sizes alongside two new campfire-flavored sips, the S’mores Milkshake and S’mores Frosted Coffee, all for a limited time this fall. The Chicken and Waffles Sandwiches The sandwich pairs maple-flavored waffles […]
Disney confirmed the story and both attractions for Villains Land, the dark-themed land coming to Magic Kingdom, at its D23 fan-convention showcase Saturday night in Anaheim. Guests will leave the safe path, enter a dark forest, and find a broken, twisted Wishing Well “corrupted due to a mysterious figure’s evil wish that infused all the […]
Well, Michael Myers may not be welcome in Australia, but you can’t kill the Boogeyman that easily. Just a week […]
Orlando, FL — Hotel Transylvania’s monsters are checking into SeaWorld Orlando this fall. For the first time, Sony Pictures Animation’s Hotel Transylvania joins Spooktacular, the park’s daytime, family-friendly Halloween event, with character meetups, a dance party, and a separately ticketed monster breakfast. Spooktacular runs on select dates from August 29 through November 1, 2026, and […]
Earlier this week, IllFonic had announced that Halloween: The Game was denied a rating by the Australian Classification Board, effectively preventing it from being released in Australia. However, many were quick to point out that IllFonic’s statement about the rating denial included the game being blocked from being sold in Australia and New Zealand, which […]
Universal Studios Hollywood announced another scare zone for Halloween Horror Nights 2026: Blood Bog. Blood Bog Scare Zone Deep in the murky swampland lies a mysterious bog. It’s dark. It’s damp. And it’s a hotbed for beastly creatures that will make your blood run cold. Halloween Horror Nights 2026 will be on select nights September ... Read more