Top Haunted Houses in Arizona 2016
Arizona Top Haunt: 13th Floor Haunted House How About A Room On The 7th Floor? FrightFind’s top haunt for Arizona for the second year in a row, the 13th Floor Haunted House is a real pro operation. Spread over multiple floors of a single horror-filled building in downtown Phoenix, you get access to two terrifying attractions for your ticket: “The Deadhouse” and “The Frenzy.” The former is occupied by zombies that are actually manifestations of childhood nightmares, while the latter is described as a “visceral manifestation of humanity’s most crippling fears.” And they nail it. Designed by award-winning haunted house designers,… Read more »
Top Haunted Houses in America 2016
2016 Guide to the Scariest Haunted Attractions in Every State The ghouls have spoken. The undead have risen. The clowns have done that weird thing that is freaking everyone out, whilst gaining national attention. FrightFind’s annual guide of haunts is here. We’re not here to rank or tell you whose chest is hairier, but to bring you at least one haunted house to visit in every state. With thousands of haunted attractions across the nation, some states are laden with frights, while some states are lucky to have even one. This year, we lost a few friends, but they’ll be back… Read more »
Top Haunted Houses in South Dakota 2016
South Dakota Top Haunt: Terror in the Dark South Dakota’s Largest Haunted House If you are freaked out by the true tales of creepy clowns wreaking havoc on cities and towns across the country, then prepare to be petrified by South Dakota’s largest haunted house: Terror in the Dark, with live actors dressed as demented clowns. Scary as it may be to many, the attraction is considered “safe” and “fun” according to their Facebook page, though young children will not be permitted. Proceeds benefit various charities and youth groups. The attraction features a 12,000 square foot haunted house, including a maze… Read more »
Top Haunted Houses in Tennessee 2016
Tennessee Top Haunt: The 13th Realm You Will Get Your Monies Worth, If You Can Last Featuring live actors and a very serious warning, the 13th Realm takes the top spot for Tennessee. The haunt takes 30 to 45 minutes to traverse and is mostly outdoors, but features live cast members within tight tunnels and narrows corridors, “intense audio, lighting… moving floors, special effects… and an overall physically demanding environment…” While children are allowed, no refunds are issued to those who are forced to flee. The attraction includes a Minions Lair, which they claim is a great place to hang out… Read more »
Top Haunted Houses in Texas 2016
Texas Top Haunt:Cutting Edge The Longest Adrenaline Rush Money Can Buy One of the largest haunted houses in the United States, Cutting Edge is located within a 235,000 square foot multi-level warehouse. The attraction features a haunted maze with live actors and in the fine print boasts that patrons will “receive ELECTRICAL SHOCKS.” Guests will get covered in bubbles and foam from head to toe, so be prepared to be cold and wet when you leave. Cutting Edge is “the longest adrenaline rush money can buy,” according to the Denton Record Chronicle. It better be, for the cost of admission… Read more »
Top Haunts in Utah 2016
Utah Top Haunt: Nightmare on 13th Going Strong Since 1990 Nightmare on 13th was once featured as one of The Travel Channel’s scariest attractions in the United States. It has been in operation since 1990 and continues to terrorize throngs of patrons with new nightmarish themes year after year. They spare no expense in creating the most realistic reenactments from your favorite Halloween classics. Its 36,000 square feet feature the grotesque half-humans of The Hills Have Eyes, who compete with the Freddie himself in this scream-inducing house of all too familiar horrors. FrightFind It: Nightmare on 13th in Salt Lake City, UT More… Read more »
Top Haunted Houses in Virginia 2016
Virginia Top Haunt:Mad Haunter’s Madhouse Make Yourself Comfortable, You May Never Leave Madhaunters Madhouse has been terrorizing tourists since 2013, but this year’s new location is within the walls of the Old Lorton Workhouse Prison. While the prison is no longer housing inmates, the institution is be open to the public until Halloween, and Madhouse visitors can traverse the maze of homicidal history in under 30 minutes. The website claims that the attraction will bring “nightmares for those brave enough to enter,” and warns that inmates – I mean, visitors – may be showered with various liquids throughout the malefic… Read more »
Heck’s Haunts for Hunger & Kids
Haunted, not hellish If your idea of a haunted house is having to take a Valium to keep your heart from bursting through your chest, then this is NOT the haunted house for you. Chad Heck created Heck’s Haunted House in 2014 as an alternative to the ultra frightening Halloween attractions that were not suitable for younger children. Why? Because Halloween is still about the kids. “It’s called a haunted house because it’s a kid friendly haunt,” Heck said. “It was made for the community kids who enjoy Halloween [to] have a safe environment to get candy and food and more.” The… Read more »
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Thank God It’s October October begins on a Saturday this year. That means we get 5 weekends of October! Many haunted attractions are opening this weekend and will have a good full month of Octoberific scares across the US. Here’s a few things going on across the states that might be up your alley. The whole town is damned in Bucoda, Washington The town of Bucoda was originally named Seatco, which means “evil spirit” or “devil.” You can see why they changed the name to Bucoda. The jail has quite the history of paranormal activity, but the real party in… Read more »
Don’t Get Scared, Get Local — and Drive Traffic to Your Haunt
You have an amazing haunt. You have an amazing website that’s all about your amazing haunt. So why aren’t you getting a flood of visitors to your haunted house? The answer may be as simple as people searching for you can’t find you. Granted, the fever pitch for all things scary and haunted is in October, but all year long there are plenty of tourists looking for a good spook. The key is to make sure your website or haunt is easy for them to find. With travels apps and smartphones being the main way visitors are searching for things… Read more »
5 Easy Tips For Getting Your Haunt Found Online
5 Simple Ways to Help Your Haunt Get Found Online You have an amazing old house, there’s a ghost that bumps around in the night and scares the hell out of your guests, and you have a website set up to attract people to your haunt. But for some reason, no one ever visits your website. Worse yet, when you try searching on Google, your haunt is nowhere to be found. What do you do? Without getting too deep into search engine optimization (SEO) or pay per click advertising, there are a few easy things you can do help your site get… Read more »
Of Sound Mind – The Most Overlooked Sense in Haunt Design
Contributed by Ken Webster of Sinful Audio Let’s be honest. For most haunts and escape rooms, the exhilaration of introducing new props, puzzles, animatronics and lighting effects has traditionally far outweighed the excitement of implementing new sound effects and audio reinforcement. It’s a well-established pattern that also includes film and stage productions. The reasons, which we won’t go into here, are various and often based on budget and what is perceived as the greatest value or “wow” factor in a production. So as I’m flying to Alaska to capture field audio and wild sound (makes us audio people sound like… Read more »
AtmosFX Now Featuring Trick ‘r Treat Movie
New Scenes with Sam from Cult Fav Trick ‘r Treat are Latest Digital Display Offering from AtmosFX Seattle-based digital decorations pioneers AtmosFX has partnered with Legendary Entertainment and director Michael Dougherty to release a new product featuring the character of Sam, the mysterious being in the burlap-sack mask who ties together Trick ‘r Treat‘s intertwined Halloween-themed stories. This product allows fans to digitally decorate their homes and yards this Halloween season with unique animations that capture the spirit of Dougherty’s cult horror classic Trick ‘r Treat. The release date for the product is set for late September 2016 so you can add… Read more »
Amazing Effects for Your Halloween Display with AtmosFX
Looking to ramp up the scream factor for your trick-or-treaters this year? Then add some pro-level 3D effects from AtmosFX Digital Decorations and be the terror of your neighborhood. A leader in digital Halloween decorations, AtmosFX illusions are the real deal. They allow you to project realistic images onto walls, windows, floors, TV monitors, your yard, or anywhere else you want to create an unforgettable scene indoors or out. Using the same technology that you’ll see in Disney’s Haunted Mansion, AtmosFX digital decorations are unmatched in quality and detail. You can literally transform your home into your own haunted mansion! Ranging from pee-yourself scary to… Read more »
Buyer Beware – Make Sure Your Scary Props are the Real Deal
Like you, we at FrightFind are big fans of all things horror. That includes all the clever and talented artists who create the make-up, masks, and other effects used in movies and attractions to bring nightmares to life in the best, most horrifying ways. So when we learned that Jim Brown of Eville J’s Creepy Closet was the victim of intellectual property theft we got fired up. We’re a big fan of Jim’s work and even travel with one of his nightmarish clown candy bowls. So when we heard this story, we thought the more people that hear it the better. Plus, these… Read more »