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Crews have installed more props and set pieces for Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Florida, including a Stranger Things food booth. The scare zones announced so far are Infernal Carnival of Nightmares, Sideshow of Decay, Downtown Clowntown, and FORTNITEMARES. Entry Sign Guests will now see the black-and-red Halloween Horror Nights sign at the front of the park. It ... Read more
Much of the American vintage-Halloween look, the grinning die-cut jack-o’-lantern, the arch-backed black cat, the honeycomb tissue witch crossing a moon, was drawn for one company in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. The Beistle Company has been printing Halloween decorations since the 1920s and is still printing them from the same archive today, which is what makes dating […]
West Sussex, UK — Tulleys Farm opens its Pumpkin Festival on September 19 and runs it through October 31, 2026, with a new area called the Pumpkin Valley built for its 2026 season. The farm bills the event as Europe’s largest pumpkin festival, and it shares a site with Shocktober Fest, the scream park Tulleys […]
Jason Voorhees is heading back to the midway. Six Flags officially announced today that an all-new haunted maze, Jason: Blood […]
This fall, Howl-O-Scream at Busch Gardens crosses into dangerous territory with the introduction of two all-new haunted houses inspired by […]
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay and Busch Gardens Williamsburg each open an Anaconda haunted house on September 11, and the two are not the same show. Tampa gets Anaconda: Fear Has No Escape. Williamsburg gets Anaconda: Dead on Arrival. United Parks says it is the first time Sony Pictures has licensed the film for a Halloween […]
“I Know What You Did Last Summer: The Final Catch” opens September 11 at SeaWorld Orlando, SeaWorld San Diego and SeaWorld San Antonio. United Parks says it is the first time the film has been brought to life at a major Halloween event. The House Is Built on the 1997 Film, Not the Sequel The […]
The Anaconda franchise is making its officially licensed Halloween attraction debut this Halloween at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay and Busch Gardens Williamsburg, we’ve learned. This fall, Howl-O-Scream at Busch Gardens crosses into dangerous territory with the introduction of two all-new haunted houses inspired by the Sony Pictures movie, Anaconda. While some stories stay on the […]
The Fisherman is coming to SeaWorld this Halloween season with SeaWorld Orlando, SeaWorld San Diego, and SeaWorld San Antonio announcing an upcoming all-new haunted house inspired by the 1990s slasher franchise I Know What You Did Last Summer. This actually marks the first time the film is being brought to life at a major Halloween […]
Laws won’t save you this year at Universal Studios Hollywood, not with the return of fiery stunt show The Purge: Dangerous Waters. It’s the fourth year for this stunt spectacular, themed around the Blumhouse horror franchise, which made its debut at the seasonal event in 2023. The show centers around a race against time when […]
Six Flags has joined forces with the Jason Universe to bring Jason Voorhees to Six Flags Fright Fest this coming Halloween season, the park has announced this afternoon. The Jason: Blood Reign haunted maze is coming to select Six Flags parks this Fall! The official social media announcement tags the Six Flags Great Adventure, Kings […]
Howl-O-Scream is introducing licensed horror movies for the first time, ending a 25-year tradition built on grassroots creativity and original scares.
San Diego emptied out and the news kept coming. The past several days brought new trailers, a franchise reveal reaching back twelve years, and a haunted house forty-five years in the making. The fall calendar stopped being a list of Fridays and became a set of images: a girl explaining why she wanted to be ... Read more
SCarowinds returns to Carowinds on select nights from Sept. 11 through Nov. 1, 2026. Our complete guide covers dates, tickets, haunted mazes, scare zones, rides, entertainment, and the latest Halloween announcements.
Williamsburg, VA — Busch Gardens Williamsburg runs Howl-O-Scream on select nights from September 11 through November 1, 2026, and unlike the Orlando, Tampa, and San Diego events, it is included with regular park admission rather than separately ticketed. Six haunted houses are named. The terror-tories and shows are not. Full franchise coverage: See HAN’s Howl-O-Scream […]
Vincent, AL — Hellbilly Hollow, a haunted attraction that has run here since roughly 2012, is the shooting location and the namesake of a horror film reaching select U.S. theaters on Friday, September 25. Hell Night runs at the attraction on August 14 and 15, well ahead of the release. A Commercial Shoot Started the […]
Buc-ee’s has its 2026 Halloween line on shelves. It is called Quick Bites Spooky Nights, it runs 13 items, and Buc-ee is a vampire this year, in a purple cape outside a haunted version of the store. The catch is that none of it is on buc-ees.com. Buc-ee’s sells this merchandise in its stores and […]
Stone Mountain, GA — Netherworld has announced the two haunts for its 30th Season of Screams: Curse of the Collector and Beyond Oblivion: Legacy of Evil. The season opens September 18 and closes November 7. Netherworld frames the season as a celebration of “the mythology that has defined NETHERWORLD for decades,” reuniting “legendary villains, towering […]
The Halloweenies cool off from the hot hot heat and splish splash with giant alligators as they revisit Alexandre Aja‘s 2019 creature feature Crawl. Together, they discuss their love (or hate) for the timeless terror, their investment in Barry Pepper, and, uh, Demolition Man. Don’t ask. It should be noted this episode was recorded in […]
I’m sure there are many people that avoid sad movies the same way they avoid horror movies; they don’t want to cry or be scared. In its face, that seems reasonable, but is probably not healthy to hide from uncomfortable things completely. Whether it’s being scared or crying uncontrollably, as many of the following movies ...