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‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Volume 1 & 2. Plus, the finale announcement and more.

Published by FrightFind On February 17, 2022

Every ending has a beginning

The season is upon us. Stranger Things season 4 Volume 1 has an official premiere date of May 27th, 2022. What’s this “Volume 1” you ask? Read on for more great Stranger Things updates.

Stranger Things Season 4 will be Separated Into Two Volumes

The Duffer brothers shared in a letter to all us nerds that Season 4 will be split into two volumes. “Volume One will release on May 27th; Volume Two will release five weeks later on July 1st.” They go on to say, “Season 4 will be the penultimate season; season 5 will be the last.” That’s right, a 5th Stranger Things season is coming and it will be the end of the series.

Volume One will release on May 27th; Volume Two will release five weeks later on July 1st.

It’s been nearly three years since season 3 was released on the 4th of July, 2019. Season 3 left Hawkins in shambles after the Battle of Starcourt Mall. “The Party” is now separated from Eleven and the Byers family in California. This season is slated to be the biggest and most intense yet, spanning several locations outside of Hawkins and the Upside Down while setting Season 5 up for an epic conclusion.

The Letter from the Duffer Brothers

Stranger Things Season 4 Duffer Brothers Letter to Fans

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How long will Stranger Things Season 4 be?

Netflix teased that Season 4 is to be “super-sized,” meaning the ST4 is “2 times as long as Season 3.” There were 8 episodes in Season 3. Considering Netflix already teased the titles for Season 4’s episodes, which came to 9 total; does that mean we’re getting 9 episodes in Volume 1 and another 7 for Volume 2? We’re just guessing (hoping) at this point, but the announcements are encouraging.

Season 4 Episodes Announced

So far, the episodes announced for Stranger Things Season 4 are “The Hellfire Club,” “Vecna’s Curse,” “The Monster and the Superhero,” “Dear Billy,” “The Nina Project,” “The Dive,” “The Massacre At Hawkins Lab,” “Papa” and “The Piggyback.” No word on how these episodes will be released and if they are the entirety of the season, or if they might be just the beginning.

New Characters in Stranger Things Season 4

ST Season 4 brings us new characters, including Nightmare on Elm Street’s infamous Robert Englund. The new season also features new additions of Amybeth McNulty as Vickie, Myles Truitt as Patrick, Regina Ting Chen as Ms. Kelly, Jamie Campbell Bower as Peter Ballard, and Grace Van Dien as Chrissy.

Stranger Things Season 4 Teaser

What comes next is going to be exciting. The Stranger Things universe is setting itself up for an exciting finish. It’s sad to hear there will be an end, but just as the title suggests, it’s only the beginning of the end. We have a lot in front of us. Stay tuned, nerds!

Horror Movies Coming in 2022

Published by FrightFind On January 6, 2022

During the past two years, the film industry has needed to dodge, dip, duck, dive, and dodge some more to avoid total collapse under the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic. Simultaneous delays to both film productions and film openings have caused the release slate to become an ever-changing plate of hodgepodge. Want to know what 2022 will hold in terms of horror releases? Horror film fans need not worry because your friends here at FrightFind have got you covered with the absolute latest release schedule for 2022 horror calendars.

January Horror Releases

Scream 5

Set twenty-five years later after the original Woodsboro slayings, a new Ghostface killer has emerged leaving a bloody trail in their murderous path. Original Scream franchise players Neve Campbell, David Arquette, and Courtney Cox all return along with a new cast of potential victims in Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, and Jack Quaid. Billed as a direct sequel from Scream 4, we are all eager to see what the first Wes Craven-less sequel can do.

Morbius

Blade isn’t the only Marvel Comics vampire that’s used to fighting scores of undead rogues and hunters while searching for a cure. Dr. Michael Morbius suffered from a rare blood disease, and after a failed biochemical experience he was reborn as Morbius, the Living Vampire. Veteran comic book actor Jared Leto is set to star in the titular role as someone who must satisfy an unhealthy bloodlust to survive. Lucky for him, he discovers a criminal underworld chock full of fresh blood to drain.

February Horror Releases

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Forty-eight years after the horrifying events in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Leatherface and his bloodthirsty family are back. When a young businesswoman and her sister take a trip to Texas, neither are fully prepared for the backwoods, chainsaw-wielding madness that an “Old man Leatherface” is set to unleash upon them. Written by Evil Dead director Fede Alvarez, this direct sequel is also set to include the semi-fated heroine of Sally Hardesty from the original as well as numerous visual throwbacks to what made the original film so terrifyingly brutal. Officially confirmed to be a Netflix exclusive release.

The Devil’s Light

A troubled nun named Sister Ann feels a particular calling to perform unauthorized exorcisms against the wishes of the Catholic Church and soon finds herself at odds with her convent. But what happens when the convent soon becomes infested with the demonic, will they rely on Sister Ann to save them? Directed by Last Exorcism film auteur Daniel Stamm and starring Jaqueline Byers and Virginia Madsen, The Devil’s Light is a new take on the highly controversial exorcism horror genre.

March Horror Releases

Fear

Little is known about this film from veteran slasher director Deon Taylor. Featuring a well-rounded cast to include T.I., Ruby Modine, Joseph Sekora, King Bach, and Terrence Jenkins, upfront we can say that the teaser trailer is one of the most alarmingly violent we’ve ever seen. When a very much-needed celebration vacation is in order, a group of friends soon finds that an airborne toxin brings about a bloody and murderous rage.

Unwelcome

A high pressured couple looking to escape the turbulent London scene exchange trendiness for terror when they opt for a move to the tranquil Irish countryside. Starring Douglas Booth and Hannah John-Kamen as the ill-fated, expecting couple of Jamie and Maya, they soon discover that their quaint new home has previous tenants in the form of ferocious goblins. Director Jon Wright sets up the scares the right way in using one of horror’s most underrated creatures.

April Horror Releases

The Northman

Veteran horror director Robert Eggers, who was the mad genius behind newfound horror classics in The Witch and The Lighthouse, digs deep in his historical horror playbook once again to bring what is sure to be another terrifying hit. Starring Alexander Skarsgard, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Ethan Hawke, the film is centered around a fallen Viking king and the bloody path of revenge that his son takes up in avenging his murder.

May Horror Releases

65

Produced under the watchful eye of Evil Dead creator and all-around horror mastermind Sam Raimi, 65 is set to embrace the little utilized horror subgenera of failed science fiction space disasters. In what perhaps might be the tightest kept plot of all time, very little about this film has been publicized at all because the details are said to be so mind-blowing that any teaser could ruin the film. The only plot details we were able to dig up on this is that an astronaut crash lands on a very mysterious planet and he soon discovers that he’s not quite alone. Adam Driver and Arianna Greenblatt are set to star.

June Horror Releases

The Black Phone

Perhaps one of the most terrifying trailers to have debuted in recent horror, the insider buzz on The Black Phone is all that and more! When young Finney Shaw is kidnapped by a serial killer and thrust into a basement, he soon discovers the broken down phone locked away with him can receive calls of the undead persuasion. Filmed off a short story of the same name by Joe Hill (son of epic horror writer Stephen King), it’s directed by the mastermind team behind the sinister……Sinister (and Dr. Strange) film franchise team of Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill.

July Horror Releases

Nope

Academy Award winner and newfound horror genre hero Jordan Peele is setting to bring about another terrifyingly new take and likely twist on his favorite genre. Set to star Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Steven Yeun, this film is set to have a much bigger budget than previous Peele films to the point that a quarter of the film’s scenes were captures using IMAX cameras. As far as plot goes….there is absolutely, positively nothing to be found anywhere online or print that can shed some light on what the film is about. The only thing to go off is a poster recently released, featuring a sinister looking cloud amidst a storm straddled over a mountain town. Sequel to Get Out? Alternate universe plot to Us? Aliens? Monsters? Bad weather? Nope already has a hard date of July 22.

August Horror Releases

Beast

The animals-hunting-humans horror subgenera is about to get a lot more bloody interesting in 2022. Popular British actor Idris Elba stars in the soon-to-be horror hunting movie Beast. Elba plays the main role of a father looking to gain more time with his two daughters on an African safari. When the outing goes awry, he and his daughters soon find themselves face to face with a ferocious lion, hellbent on devouring anything it can get its flesh-shredding paws on. Featuring one of the most true-to-life horror film taglines we’ve ever heard…….sometimes the rustle in the bushes, actually is a monster!

September Horror Releases

Salem’s Lot

Horror mastermind behind the entire Conjuring franchise, James Wan helps director Gary Dauberman (writing genius behind IT and Conjuring franchise films) step behind the camera in a producer-heavy role to bring bloody life a much-needed update on the Stephen King vampire classic, Salem’s Lot. When a novelist returns to his childhood hometown in Maine, he soon discovers that an antique dealer may be acting as the front to a thousand-year-old vampire who lurks about the town in search of fresh victims. Featuring one of the most terrifying bedroom window vampire visits of all time, we can’t wait to see what scares Wan’s new film will “conjure” up.

Don’t Worry Darling

Newfound director and actress Olivia Wilde steps behind the lens to bring a fresh take on housewife horror. Set during the 1950s and starring Florence Pugh (of Midsommar fame) Don’t Worry Darling tells the story of a young housewife who unwittingly discovers that her loving husband is harboring a dark secret that is set to change their idyllic lifestyle forever. Almost entirely female driven, Wilde recently spoke on the film’s content which sounds like a total physical and stylistic overload of as much sex, violence, and horror that can be possibly be crammed in a motion picture. Sign us up, please!

October Horror Releases

How will it all end for Haddonfield’s longtime slasher, Michael Myers? Trilogy director David Gordon Green is back once again to finish up what has undoubtedly become a hotly debated horror film franchise as of late. Building off the tragic events of Halloween Kills, Green has been tightlipped on what all is scheduled to go down in the franchise’s swan song. He recently was hesitant to reveal that the film will be set years after Kills takes place and that this will be “a coming of age story” in the Halloween franchise. Jamie Lee Curtis will once again return as the near-tragic franchise character of Laurie Strode, as well actress Andi Matichak as her fateful granddaughter Allyson.

Hocus Pocus 2

Disney scored big in 1993 with a little known Halloween themed film based on the Salem exploits of the witchy Sanderson Sisters. Now twenty nine years later, there’s no time like the present for a film franchise updating. Starring the original trio of Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker, Hocus Pocus 2 is set to revolve around a new group of teenagers who will take to the streets to keep the witches from taking over the historic New England town of Salem. Streaming rights will no doubt be used on this kid friendly horror property through the Disney Plus streaming app.

Horror Movies Dates TBA

Evil Dead Rise, The Grandmother, Something In the Dirt, The Innocents, Hellraiser

Top Haunted Houses in America 2021

Published by FrightFind On October 14, 2021

2021 Guide to the Scariest Haunted Attractions in Every State

“No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

Leave it to one of the greatest horror writers of all time to give those of us in the new millennium a fresh and frightening perspective on what sorts of horrific places can draw us in for a torturously devilish time. Translation? Haunted attractions.

That’s right. It’s the time of year once again when the sun darkens early, and a brisk chill from the slashing cold will slice itself across the hairs on the back of your neck. Shadowy scarecrows are perched to corners as brightly lit jack-o-lanterns lead you on an unsteady path towards a shrieking fate. For the veteran haunted attraction thrillseekers, to the newbies looking for somewhere to start, and even for those wanting impromptu weekend romp to scream yourselves silly with a group of friends…..we’ve got you covered. Before you now are the absolute best-haunted attractions that every state has to offer.

As always, we are not here to rank or tell you which killer clown is scariest (clearly it’s Pennywise); we are just here to bring you at least one haunted house to visit in every state. Some haunts draw thousands; some draw dozens. We have some repeat top haunts, but we left room for some new blood.

But enough waiting – Prepare yourselves for FrightFind’s must-see haunts in every state – 2021!

Alabama Top Haunt: Nightmare at 3008

An Unholy Trio of Terrors!

Voted the 2018 #1 Must-See Fan Favorite Haunt in the entire state of Alabama, Nightmare at 3008 is not to be missed by haunted attraction superfans! This fun-filled feast of frights has three different haunts in one. House of Voodoo takes you deep inside the witchy haunts of a slithery bayou. The Underground is a mature audience only stroll down into the foul and repulsive world of underground street ghouls. Camp Mary Lee is the bloodiest backwoods campground that boasts of bloodthirsty spirits. Voodoo, underground psychopaths, or campground killers?! Pick your haunted poison!

FrightFind It: Nightmare at 3008 in Fultondale, AL
Runner-Up: Atrox Factory in Leeds, AL

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Alaska Top Haunt: Fright Night Manor

Anchorage’s Oldest Haunted House

Anchorage’s Fright Night Manor takes top honors in the state of Alaska for the 4th straight year! Founded in 1985, this mostly family-friendly haunt is looking to secure a new location currently but it will be up and running.

If you like clowns, clowns, and more clowns, this is the place for you. The plan is for a large clown room, separate Nightmare on Elm Street and Zombie areas, and huge spiders. Expect scary 3D effects with your $15 ticket. Great scares around every corner, but not recommended for the very young.

FrightFind It: Fright Night Manor in Anchorage, AK

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Arizona Top Haunt: Mount Mayhem

Homemade horror at its finest! What started out as a simple family spook house has grown into one of Phoenix’s most best-kept horror secrets! Sets and themes are all homemade and authentic as Mount Mayhem is confined to a frightening backyard thus giving you little places to run and hide. Each year the themes are terrifying and different in their haunted capacities. For 2021, prepare yourself for an onslaught of phobias!

FrightFind It: Mount Mathem in Phoenix, AZ
Runner Up: Sanctum of Horror in Phoenix, AZ

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Arkansas Top Haunt: Carpenter’s Mortuary

Undertakers, Morticians and Grave Diggers, oh my!

Charlie Bookout tells us that Carpenter’s Mortuary Spook House is unique in that it occupies a historic 1929 building that once actually served as the Funeral Home for Gentry, Arkansas. The haunt as it is known today has been successfully scaring thrill-seekers since it opened in 2014, but the artists who run Mortuary Studios have been sharing their passion for the paranormal at this location for over 30 years. “We only use real ghosts . . . Just kidding,” says Bookout. “There are from 20 to 25 talented actors roaming the halls of Carpenter’s Mortuary Spook House each night.”

FrightFind It: Carpenter’s Mortuary in Gentry, AR
Runner Up: Twisted Intent in Benton, Arkansas

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California Top Haunt: Los Angeles Haunted Hayride

Because It’s Always Halloween Here!

Winner of Hollywood’s Halloween Icon Award, the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride is the ultimate Halloween event in Tinseltown! Back at Griffith Park! Surviving the Town of Midnight Falls is no easy feat. Look for a quick escape inside the Midnight Mortuary House! You won’t have to go to a midwestern farm to experience the Haunted Hayride which is the ultimate horror fan favorite in frights! Special VIP and Platinum access tickets are also available for the hardcore haunted attraction fans!

FrightFind It: Los Angeles Haunted Hayride in Los Angeles, CA
Runner-Up: The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor in Long Beach, CA

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Colorado Top Haunt: Hell Scream

No Tears Please…It’s a Waste of Good Suffering!

Ranked #1 Must-See haunted attraction in the state of Colorado, Hellscream is a sprawling abode of the damned featuring some of the most state-of-the-art horror special effects that have ever been used for a haunted attraction! Terrifyingly vast in its size, the site features two haunted attractions in Hellscream and the Haunted Mines. The demented, deranged, and demonic psycho clowns are the fright-de-jour for horror fans and they promise to creep not only into your mind but into your nightmares as well! Hellscream also has various haunted-themed escape rooms for those looking to get out in a hurry as well as the ever-popular Zombie Laser Tag. As one reviewer said, “We were scared before we even got to the parking lot!”

FrightFind It: Hell Scream in Colorado Springs, CO
Runner Up: Haunted Field of Screams in Thornton, CO

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Connecticut Top Haunt: Legends of Fear

Real Farm. Real Woods. Real Fear.

A real farm situated in the shadowy backwoods of southwestern Connecticut, Legends of Fear is king when it comes to frights in the town of Shelton. Different ticket packages can have the most hardcore haunted attraction fans choosing between six sinister scenarios to put themselves in! The Dark Harvest has frightening vampires lurking with every turn. Funhouse of Fear will bring the frights of a freak show gone amok. Horror legends come alive in The Hallow, which is so frightening that nobody under 12 years old is allowed. Too scared to even walk? Climb aboard the Haunted Hayride and pitch your blood-curdled screams right into the night’s sky!

FrightFind It: Legends of Fear in Shelton, CT
Runner Up: The Haunted Graveyard in Bristol, CT

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Delaware Top Haunt: Frightland

Eight Levels of Pure Hell!

Frightland is Delaware’s best when it comes to haunted attractions, even being acclaimed as one of the scariest in the nation by such publications as Forbes and The Travel Channel! Paired alongside amusement park rides, Frightland spares no expense when it comes to thrilling and terrifying horror park fans. Top-level horror special effects have you screaming as you enter The Attic as you hear the laughs of the damned from the darkest shadows. Try to escape Zombie Prison as you witness the bloody lengths the undead will use to escape their cells. Ticket levels for any and all attractions, Frightland is the best kept deadly secret in Middletown!

FrightFind It: Frightland in Middletown, DE
Runner Up: Nightmares Haunted House in Laurel, DE

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Florida Top Haunt: Enigma Haunt

Death Is Only An Option!

Ranked Florida’s #1 Haunted Attraction and USA Today’s Reader’s Choice Top 20 Haunt in the entire U.S., Enigma Haunt is critically acclaimed and brutally terrifying! Featuring three haunts inside of one gigantic location, Enigma Haunt challenges even the most veterans of haunted attraction goers to test their horror might. Cursed, Twisted Mayhem, and Realms of Terror take more than an hour to complete and will leave you shaken to the bone….that is if you can endure all three levels! The Enigma Haunt Triple Ticket of Terror is an absolute must for any haunted attraction junkie!

FrightFind It: Enigma Haunt in Boca Raton, FL

Runner Up: Murder House in Tampa, FL

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Georgia Top Haunt: Lake Joy – Trails of Terror

Take a dip in the lake they said! It will be fine.

Lake Joy sounds like any other tranquil location for gathering ones peace of mind……until you realize the name is only a draw leading straight into their Trails of Terror! A purely outdoor haunted attraction set in the most dreary of woods where a cadre of sadistic clowns, mangled women, and possible werewolves stalk you under the full moon’s bright. Consistent five star reviews adorn the social media for this mid-Georgia haunt were now upgrades in the form of line skipping and glow stick amenities are a must. After you see what’s in these woods, you’ll need all the advantage you can get to make it out. Opening at dusk and closing when……the last body is hauled out.

FrightFind It: Lake Joy Trails of Terror in Kathleen, GA
Runner Up: Floklore Haunted House in Dallas, GA

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Hawaii Top Haunt: Haunted Plantation

Not Responsible For Nightmares!

A Top 20 Haunted Attraction by MSN and featured on SyFy Channel, The Travel Channel, and chronicled in Buzzfeed….Haunted Plantation is the real scary deal! Set on a real-life haunted plantation, the Haunted Plantation has developed a reputation for being the top haunt on the entire Hawaiian Islands. Over sixty ghoulish and sickening looking horror characters are spread throughout the plantation area with demonically twisted intentions for unsuspecting attraction goers! If you are on any Hawaiian Island, make the special trip to the Waipahu area for the best fright in all the Pacific. Make sure to bring plenty of friends with you, because you’re going to need all the trauma counseling you can get after this one!

FrightFind It: Haunted Plantation in Waipahu, HI

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Idaho Top Haunt: Requiem Haunted House

Multiple Floors of Horror, Can You Survive?

Creeping into its fourth year as Boise’s premier haunted indoor attraction, the Requiem Haunted House is a multilevel fear factory for the wannabe fearless. Over 7,000 square feet and covering up to three floors of terror, the Requiem brings one of the more unique haunted attraction experiences to the area. In fact, the attraction is built on top of a former funeral chapel and has been verified by a paranormal group as haunted! Can you survive the blackout maze? Don’t worry if you need an attendant with a flashlight to come rescue you, as you’re not the first one who has needed it……or the last!

FrightFind It: Requiem Haunted House in Caldwell, ID
Runner Up: Haunted Mansions of Albion in Albion, ID

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Illinois Top Haunt: Nightmares Basement of the Dead

Guaranteed To Freak You the F**K Out!

Voted the #1 Haunted Attraction in Chicago by the Chicago Tribune, Buzzfeed, and USA Today, Basement of the Dead is king when it comes to knowing how to do scares right! Frighteningly scary clowns, demented psychopaths, gory medical mishaps with a full-on state of the art special effects crew to oversee that the carnage is real as possible, Basement of the Dead brings everything they have into scaring you senseless. A Special Friday 13th opening for the season will feature a horror legends theme including Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Pennywise, and Chucky! VIP ticket plans are available and an absolute must for this horror crowd-pleaser.

FrightFind It: Nightmares Basement of the Dead in Aurora, IL
Runner Up: 13Th Floor in Chicago, IL

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Indiana Top Haunt: Indy Scream Park

Be Afraid……Be Very Afraid!

Indy Scream Park just outside Indianapolis has not one, not two, but five haunted attractions for you to scream your head off into the night at! The Back Woods is a stop off the winding trail that places you in the midst of bloodthirsty rednecks! KillGore’s 3D Circus is the most frightening show under the big top that will have the severed body parts flying. New for this year is the Nightmare Factory Blackout, which has you and your friends stranded in an abandoned power plant that is crawling with creeping mutants! Did we mention you have to find your way out of there in total and complete darkness?!?!? No wonder Forbes Magazine called it the most, “terrifying haunted house in the state of Indiana!”

FrightFind It: Indy Scream Park in Anderson, IN
Runner Up: Hanna Haunted Acres in Indianapolis, IN

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Iowa Top Haunt: Thrasher’s House of Terror

13 Years of Fear….They Dare You To Come In!

Consistently rated as one of the top haunted attractions in the state of Iowa, Thrashers House of Terror of McMillan Park in Mt. Pleasant is one of the most popular haunts around! In fact, attendance has not only doubled but even tripled over the years because horror attraction fans just cannot get enough! Themes vary from year to year on this haunt, but (un)lucky attendees who are brave enough to test their fear factors can expect to run afoul of so many ghouls, ghosts, goblins, and demented horror freaks that you are bound to have nightmares! Or as one brave horror fan who made it out alive claimed, “the scares just keep on coming here!”

FrightFind It: Thrasher’s House of Terror in Mount Pleasant, IA
Runner Up: Circle of Ash in Central City, IA

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Kansas Top Haunt: Zombie Toxin

Enter At Your Own Risk…..They’re Zombies After All!

Looking for the ultimate Zombie experience? Zombie Toxin out in Junction City invites you and your bravest friends to come out and suffer under the watch of Dr. Von Monschture, an unethical mad doctor who has a thing for reanimating human corpses. Think you could last more than a few minutes in a horror film? You’ll get your chance if you try your luck inside Dr. Von Monschture’s Head Shed, where you’ll have 5 minutes or less to escape lest you become devoured by a pack of starving zombies. This attraction also features the ever-popular Zombie Onslaught, a virtual reality game where you have to survive wave after wave of attacking zombies! Need that Walking Dead fix? Get to Zombie Toxin and see if you can make it out alive.

FrightFind It: Zombie Toxin in Junction City, KS
Runner Up: Field of Screams in Maize, KS

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Kentucky Top Haunt: The Devil’s Attic

That’s no friendly ghost in your attic!

Since the dawn of time, the Devil has been collecting the nastiest, and most terrifyingly brutal souls that were ever known to walk among the living. Thousands of years have eclipsed and the Devil is ready to unleash his hellish figures to those brave enough to enter into The Devil’s Attic. Located in Louisville, Kentucky, The Devil’s Attic is the premier haunted attraction for the state amassing over 104 (we counted) horror industry awards since 2011. This year aims to be the best yet when the Devil not only releases his damned army of souls but also grotesque versions of classic horror monsters that will terrify you to the end of the night and beyond!

FrightFind It: The Devils Attc in Louisville, KY
Runner Up: The Haunted Hotel in Louisville, KY

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Louisiana Top Haunt: Evil Visions

What will you see?

Evil Visions Haunted House brings one of a kind terror to the northern Louisiana city of Monroe. With over 30 rooms in a jaw-dropping 30,000 plus square feet of horror, Evil Visions is one vastly awesome and scary good haunted attraction. This year, the theme runs along the lines of Campus Carnage Aftermath. Twisted teachers are hellbent on bloodying up attraction goers around every corner! Menacing psychopath students who will go as far as they can to get that A+ in bloody screaming. Special attraction is on Halloween night, Jason Voorhees….Kane Hodder himself will be on hand to help usher in the frights and make your All Hallow’s Eve a frighteningly good time.

FrightFind It: Evil Visions in Monroe, LA

Runner Up: Tree Farm Massacre in Leesville, LA

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Maine Top Haunt: Destination Haunt

In the Woods, Only the Darkness Can Hear You Scream!

If you thought that Stephen King’s house was Maine’s scariest place, you haven’t seen anything yet! Destination Haunt in Lebanon is just about the most frightening haunted attraction in the entire state. This particular haunt is not inside of a building, but rather outside in the dead of night. You and your friends must creep and crawl your way through nine sections of spine-tingling, scare you out of your mind…haunted areas! Escape the nefarious Butcher, survive the Hobo Village untouched, pass the Buried Alive Cemetery without falling into an open grave, before arriving at your final destination….Clowntown! Psycho clowns just wanting to show you their hideous faces under those demented smiles. Destination Haunt…horror with every turn!

FrightFind It: Destination Haunt in Lebanon, ME
Runner Up: Haunted Grandview Manor in Sanford, ME

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Maryland Top Haunt: Bennett’s Curse

They Just Can’t-Wait To Scare You!

Profiled in such media outlets as the Travel Channel, Making Monsters, and the iconic Fangoria Magazine, Bennett’s Curse is celebrating its 18th season in scaring up Baltimore residents. Bennett’s Curse prides itself on not being just another haunted attraction copycat, so they go that extra mile to become a trendsetter in doing what it takes to give you nightmares for months on end. Six sinister attractions await even the most unsuspecting of veteran haunt goers. The Underworld will introduce you to some of the most wicked underground creatures that you’ve ever seen! Inferno 3D takes you on a visceral ride into the fires of Hell as you journey through the abode of the damned. Legends of Halloween promises to bring both to life and your nightmares, classic horror icons of the vampire, mummy, and werewolf variety! From the beginning to end, Bennett’s curse promises the scares won’t stop.

FrightFind It: Bennett’s Curse in Baltimore, MD
Runner Up: Laurel’s House of Horror in Laurel, MD

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Massachusetts Top Haunt: Barrett’s Haunted Mansion

Taking Fear To a Whole New Level!

Chosen as one of FrightFind’s top haunted attractions in 2018 & 2019, Barrett’s Haunted Mansion is one of the more terrifying haunts in the Greater Boston area. For the most discerning and veteran haunted attraction goer, there are chilling specials at certain times during the Halloween season. Darkness Unleashes is a one-night-only experience where you’re plunged in total darkness amongst a sea of creatures with only your sense of touch and horror wits to make it out alive! Devil’s Night is another special where a night of extreme physical contact is allowed for those wanting to bring the scares to a whole new level. Sanctuary is the most popular attraction on-site, and don’t bother memorizing any scare spots or rooms, because they randomly change so as to never give scares in the same place twice.

FrightFind It: Barret’s Haunted Mansion in Abington, MA
Runner Up:Hysteria at Connors Farm in Danvers, MA

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Michigan Top Haunt: Azra Chamber of Horrors

Where Each Chamber Is More Menacing Than the Last!

Rated as the #1 haunted attraction in the state of Michigan, Azra Chamber of Horrors knows what it takes to ratchet up the scare factor. The building used to be a former laser tag arena that has been transformed into a multilevel haunted house maze. The story with this attraction is that inside the former laser tag arena was a realm known as Azra. After countless battles against the darkness, the lights finally went out and a dragon appeared that summoned demons to reside in every chamber of the layout here. Special attention here on the wildly realistic demonic special effects. Part myth, part demon, part scare-you-out-of-your-mind terror!

FrightFind It: Azra Chamber of Horrors in Madison Heights, MI
Runner Up: Hush in Westland, MI

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Minnesota Top Haunt: Fright Farm

Can You Scream For Us?

Welcome to the Fright Farm Haunted House, where any one of the five terrifying mini-haunts can give you nightmares for the rest of your year! Maybe start off in the dreaded Clinic haunt, where you can be diagnosed by demented doctors who love to show off their prize cadavers! Venture inside Frightmare Mansion, a place so terrifying that grown adults are frequently known to exit mid-tour due to overwhelming fright. Then there is the mega-popular Hayride of No Return that will have you screaming into the sky all night long. Fright Farm does offer a “Low Scare” time where the frights are tamed to smaller children who themselves just love a good scare now and again!

FrightFind It: Fright Farm Haunted House in Maplewood, MN
Runner Up: The Dead End Hayride in Wyoming, MN

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Mississippi Top Haunt: Cedar Hill Farm’s Haunted Hayride

Be One of the Thousands Scared Every October!

Located in Hernando, the Cedar Hill Farm during the year is a lovely wedding and reception locale. However, when the Fall chill of October hits the air, this once charming rural acreage becomes a sinister setting for soul seeking ghouls to prey upon the living. Haunted Hayride is an absolute must-do in this surprisingly spaced out haunted attracted. If you prefer to walk to your own grave, the quickest way is via the Trail of Terror, a late-night stroll through some not so quiet woods. And if you have the survivor skillset, then try your hand at Mid-South Zombie Apocalypse Paintball! Best of all, private fire pits are available to rent on-site for those who love nothing more than revel others with the ghostliest tales imaginable!

FrightFind It: Cedar Hill Farm’s Haunted Hayride in Hernando, MS
Runner Up: House of the Haunted Fields in Raymond, MS

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Missouri Top Haunt: The Beast

Enter at 666’ Above Sea Level!

Voted #1 in the Guinness Book of World Records for owning the world’s longest snake! Madusa measures in at jaw-dropping 25ft in length! Think she’s the only scare here? Think again! This one of a kind haunted attraction is a five-story, multilayer descent into Hell. Get as many friends as you can and try to stick together and not lose your way in this chilling abode of the damned. Do your best to navigate past bloodthirsty vampires, fanged werewolves, demented monsters of demonic description, and all the while avoid the many voodoo curses plaguing this attraction. Don’t forget there are on-site escape rooms of the bone-chilling variety where you and your friends must hasten an escape or subject yourselves to the wrath of the Beast!

FrightFind It: The Beast in Kansas City, MO
Runner Up: The Darkness in St. Louis, MO

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Montana Top Haunt: Field of Screams

Dare Yourself To Enter the Field Of Screams!

Rated as the #1 Haunted Attraction for Western Montana, the Field of Screams in Victor, just outside of Missoula, is one wicked place to visit! This is no ordinary cornfield to visit alone at night, at the Field of Screams bringing friends is an absolute must. This giant outdoor attraction has you twisting your way through a patchy cornfield maze where you could be a victim to any soulless ghoul hiding among the darkened rows. Push yourself through fog-filled graveyards and dodge the most sinister of psycho cornfield clowns. If you make it through, the final test of the Ghost Town will test the mightiest mettle of any veteran haunted attraction goer.

Runner Up: Missoula Haunted House in Missoula, MT

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Nebraska Top Haunt: Scary Acres

Midwestern Terror At Its Finest!

Voted Best of Omaha in 2019 for haunted attractions, Scary Acres is definitely the place to be this Halloween season. Spread out over twenty acres, this haunted attraction serves up three chilling attractions in the Master’s Castle, the House on the Hill, and the Haunted Woods. Attraction times vary but expect over a ninety-minute haunted attraction experience at the Scary Acres where they pride themselves as more of a Halloween theme park rather than just another haunted house. Special celebrity guest for the season-opening includes Bonnie Aarons, who portrayed the demonically centered nun Valak in the Conjuring 2 as well as her own film, The Nun!

FrightFind It: Scary Acres in Omaha, NE
Runner Up: BloodRush in Elkhorn, NE

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Nevada Top Haunt: The Asylum

Where Your Body Checks In, But Your Soul Never Checks Out!

The Asylum & Hotel Fear in Las Vegas brings Sin City to a terrifying new level of depravity! Take your bravest friends because you’ll need them to make it through the Asylum. This terrifying haunted tour takes you deep inside the dark and bloodthirsty secrets of the Meadview Sanctuary where some of the most hideous patients still reside. If you have any blood pressure left, Hotel Fear brings alive some of horror’s most frightening ghosts up close and personal to you. Fans of the horror film Rust can actually check out some places in this haunted attraction that were actually used for the film.

FrightFind It: The Asylum in Las Vegas, NV
Runner Up: Reno Fright Fest in Reno, NV

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New Hampshire Top Haunt: Haunted Overload

Just How Much Fear Can You Handle?

Winner of ABC’s hit reality series The Great Halloween Fright Fight, Haunted Overload knows just how to scare those brave enough to enter. Situated in the town of Lee, the Haunted Overload goes to movie quality sets and special effects to bring the best frights possible to unsuspecting attraction goers. Sets, themes, costumes, and characters change from year to year to keep things fresh for its fans. However, one thing that does not change is this attraction’s dedication to using larger than life skeletons and ghouls that stand nearly fifty feet tall so as to demonically tower over the easily frightened! Larger than life haunts are the star of Haunted Overload….literally!

FrightFind It: Haunted Overload in Lee, NH
Runner Up: The Ghoullog in Conway, NH

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New Jersey Top Haunt: Nightmare at Gravity Hill

You Cannot Wake From This Nightmare!

Spread out over five acres, Nightmare at Gravity Hill in Jackson literally has a fright for everyone. Frightening Ghost Town! Cursed Graveyard! The Haunted Fields! Hold those you love close as you navigate in, through, and around a chilling cavalcade of bloodthirsty vampires, flesh-eating zombies, psychopathic clowns, and demonic creatures so frightening your hair may not only turn white but fall out of your head. Creepy trails highlight this haunted attraction as does a seasonal hayride where your best running shoes are encouraged because you never know exactly who….or what….you will have to run from in the dead of night!

FrightFind It: Nightmare at Gravity Hill in Jackson, NJ
Runner Up: Brighton Asylum in Passaic, NJ

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New Mexico Top Haunt: McCall’s Haunted Farm

Can You Keep Your Sanity and Make It Out Alive?

In the 1970s, a farmer had his lands severed by a state highway that cut through his property. Named Farmer McCall, he went on a sadistic and bloodthirsty rampage slaughtering his family and any unsuspecting motorists who got stranded. As luck would have it, you and your bravest friends are dared to set foot on McCalls Haunted Farm. Will Farmer McCall make your group his next victims? This haunted attraction provides one helluva backstory that is a sure smash hit with any haunted attraction junkies who are looking for just a little bit more. If you have any pulse left, the Curtain Chaos Clown Maze is a lunatic’s delight!

FrightFind It: McCall’s Haunted Farm in Moriarty, NM
Runner Up: NW Slaughter House in Albuquerque, NM

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New York Top Haunt: Chamber of Horrors

Come See Where Fear Lives

Voted Long Island’s #1 Largest Indoor Haunted Attraction, the Chamber of Horrors brings you the scariest in haunts. Admission to this fright fest will grant you access to not one, not two, but three haunted attractions as well as a haunted stage show. Step inside the dreaded Board Room where your senses will be bombarded with gory visuals that will paint a most sinister backstory to the three attractions you will tour. Silent Evil has you fleeing in terror around the haunted traps of an already evil magician turned serial killer. Cold Blood will make you tread ever so slightly through an elaborate pathway, avoiding detection from one of nature’s cruelest creatures. Before you enter Malevolence, makes sure you pack some holy water! You are going to need it as you enter a run-down church that is now a stronghold for Satan himself. RIP Passes can be purchased for a premium and will have you drenched in your worst fears in no time!

FrightFind It: Chamber of Horrors NY in Hauppauge, NY
Runner Up: Darkside Haunted House in Calverton, NY

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North Carolina Top Haunt: Woods of Terror

The Most Terrifying Time Of Your Life!

Profiled by MSN, USA Today, and Buzzfeed, Woods of Terror in Greensboro is more than just a haunted attraction, it’s a haunted theme park! Dive into a modern-day horror film special effects quality park where nearly two hundred actors make it their personal mission to scare you senseless. This haunted park contains exactly twelve haunted areas to choose from. Arachnophobia will introduce you to the creepiest and crawliest things in the dead of night. The Blood House is home to a pick of thirsty vampires looking for unsuspecting humans of the night to feast on. Blackout Terror will have you crawling around a most maniacal maze in total darkness. Get there early every night so you don’t miss out on the Midway Monster parade that kicks off every night of screams.

FrightFind It: Woods of Terror in Greensboro, NC
Runner Up: The Darkside Haunted Estates in Middlesex, NC

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North Dakota Top Haunt: Haunted Fort

Come Get Your Fear On!

Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park in Mandan is a tourist hotspot for most of the year when thousands come from all over the country to take in the historical splendor. That is until the Halloween season hits and this location becomes a total fright fest! Celebrating its 18th year in scaring North Dakotans senseless. All are welcome to venture out to Haunted Fort where you can try your bravest to endure four different haunted houses packed into one. The Old Circus Freakshow, Custer Manor, Post Asylum, and Guard House II provide not-so-subtle levels of fear and horror that even some of the most veteran haunted attraction goers have been known to flee midway through. Darkness Unleashed is a special night when there’s no light at Haunted Fort and you have to endure the many terrors of the night in total darkness. If you’re 21 years or older and survive the scariest night of your life, descend into The Cellar where you can enjoy a cold craft beer!

FrightFind It: Haunted Fort in Mandan, ND
Runner Up: Acres of Terror in Leonard, ND

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Ohio Top Haunt: The Dent Schoolhouse

Welcome To Nightmares 101!

Selected by horror magazine icon Fangoria as one of the best haunted attractions in America, Dent Schoolhouse certainly does not disappoint. Built in 1894, the schoolhouse was actually the site of a serial killer spree committed by the janitor all those decades ago. A general admission ticket will grant access to you and your bravest friends, allowing you to roam through the halls all the while avoiding the most sinister and horrifying of creature creations in all of Cincinnati! This haunted attraction also doubles as a real-life paranormal haunt due to the sordid history associated with the building. Paranormal groups and ghost tour bookings are an absolute must during the Halloween season and can be done by simple reservation. Tickets are available for purchase now so come and get the finest in horror education!

FrightFind It: The Dent Schoolhouse in Cincinnati, OH
Runner Up: Haunted Hydro Dark Attraction in Fremont, OH

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Oklahoma Top Haunt: Psycho Path

Where the Screams Are So Loud Even Kansas Hears You!

Over forty acres of bloodthirsty haunted attraction action highlight what is the largest haunt in the entire state of Oklahoma. Open every single night during the month of October and more, Psycho Path offers up forty-four nights of absolute living hell to those brave enough to step inside and brace for the scares. Haunting horror legends prowl about this massive outdoor haunt, looking to prey upon you and your friends. Dodge them if you can, but let it be known some of the most psycho-possessed demon clowns prowl about this haunt seeking to steal your soul. Psycho Path of Tulsa is one dedicated haunt, so much so that it even offers other special haunted events throughout the year. Psycho Path is a can’t miss if you’re in Oklahoma and needing a scare!

FrightFind It: Psycho Path in Sperry, OK
Runner Up: The Hex House in Tulsa, OK

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Oregon Top Haunt: Fearlandia

The Capital City Of Hell On Earth!

Ranked as one of the top haunted attractions for 2017, 2018, and 2019 by FrightFind, Fearlandia in Portland is without a doubt the capital of scares in the Pacific Northwest. For 2021, they’ve moved to the Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon to partner with UnderHill Haunted House to bring you 3 haunted attractions for the price of one. That’s 40,000 square feet of terror throughout October. Check them out in their new location, larger than life, or should we say… death?

FrightFind It: Fearlandia in Portland, OR
Runner-Up: Milburn’s Haunted Manor in Hubbard, OR

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Pennsylvania Top Haunt: Field of Screams

If You Build It, They Will Die!

Named the Best Extreme Haunted Attraction by USA Today, the Field of Screams in Mountville outside Lancaster is the best of the best when it comes to haunted attractions in not only Pennsylvania but the entire United States! Four frightening feasts of fear are available to quench even the most scare-thirsty of horror fans! Haunted Hayride takes you and your friends on the deepest and darkest journey into the night where a demented assortment of redneck pig butchers, psycho clowns, and demonic creatures of the night await your every turn. Den of Darkness is over three stories and chock full of living nightmares. Nocturnal Wasteland is a venture into a cavalcade of cannibalistic mutants so disgusting you may faint from pure fright! Frightmare Asylum is a heart-pounding tour into the sick sad world of medical mishaps and malpractices so disturbing many people refuse to enter from pure fright. The Field of Screams claims many souls, will yours be next?!

FrightFind It: Field of Screams in Mountville, PA
Runner Up: Haunted Hollow in Somerset, PA

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Rhode Island Top Haunt: Field of Screams

25 Seasons of Screams!

They say it’s going to be their scariest season ever. So scary, that may even be their last. With several haunted attractions for the price of one, you’re in for plenty of ghouls, zombies, spirits, and screams. Test your survival skills in the Final Field of Screams season.

FrightFind It: Runner Up: Field of Screams in West Greenwich, RI

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South Carolina Top Haunt: MadWorld

They Seek To Ruin Your Soul!

One of the most immersive haunted attractions in the entire state of South Carolina, MadWorld brings the scare factor to never before seen heights. The Asylum, Clown House, The Prison, Zombie Brain Smash, and the Voodoo Experience are just a fraction of the haunted attraction frights served up at MadWorld. The frighteningly real haunted characters prowling about are truly what nightmares are made of! Gather your friends and see if you can dodge the likes of Valmoprh, a disgustingly foul and bloodthirsty vampire! Do your best to hide from Gunther, a psychotic runaway clown who cares a larger than life ax looking for his next victims. Escape rooms, brightly lit bonfires, carnival games for all, photo booths to capture your scare-face, and twisted face painting for kids, are highlights among this very un-dead nightlife at MadWorld!

FrightFind It: MadWorld in Piedmont, SC
Runner Up: The Fear Farm in Lexington, SC

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South Dakota Top Haunt: Fear Asylum

Where They Bottle Your Screams and Sell Your Soul!

Considered to be the premier haunted attraction in the state of South Dakota, Fear Asylum is looking to serve up the best scares possible. Celebrating more than a decade in the haunted attraction business, the Fear Asylum has enjoyed tremendous success and this is due soul-ly to the special effects department who goes all out in making sure they’re doing horror right. Gory, graphic, gruesome, and violent are just some of the many descriptions used by previous attraction goers who have walked away with nightmares for weeks! Journey through the asylum and prepare to cross paths with disfigured patients with a taste for human flesh. Turn corners and try your best to not get trapped by some of the most demonically shaped monsters to be found this side of Hell itself. Do you have what it takes to brave this asylum of fear, pain, and terror?!

FrightFind It: Fear Asylum in Brookings, SD
Runner Up: Terror in the Dark in Rapid City, SD

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Tennessee Top Haunt: Frightmare Manor

True Terror Lives Here!

Ranked #6 Scariest Haunted Attraction by U.S. City Traveler, Frightmare Manor in Knoxville is the most notorious haunted attraction in all of Eastern Tennessee. Spanning over twenty plus acres containing three of the most haunted houses in southern existence, Frightmare Manor is a true king in horror. Backwoods lets you get a terrifying glimpse into a real-life body farm and its unholy harvest. Rage introduces you to a chemically induced nightmare you’ll never wake up from. Carnevil contains a cavalcade of clowns, and we’re here to tell you…they aren’t funny. Special note for the Frightmare Manor Challenge, a grueling test of horror where you can receive your money back and your picture on their official “survivor wall”, but be forewarned that honor has only been achieved by few!

FrightFind It: Frightmare Manor in Talbott, TN
Runner Up: Dead Land in Lebanon, TN

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Texas Top Haunt: Thrillvania

Shudder. Scream. Faint. Repeat.

Chosen by the Travel Channel as one of the Scariest Haunted Attractions in the United States, Thrillvania is certainly bringing the scares to the Dallas area. Standing and sprawling on over fifty terrifying acres, this eerie attraction features three official haunts combined into one supremely haunting experience. Trail of Torment is a terrifying traipse around in the dead of night where only the crazy brave can survive. House of Clowns is anything but a happy atmosphere as you try to outmaneuver bloodthirsty clowns with wicked smiles on their faces. Or as one reviewer put it, “this place is way more terrifying than Alcatraz was!”

FrightFind It: Thrillvania in Terrell, Tx
Runner Up: Cutting Edge in Fort Worth, TX

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Utah Top Haunt: Haunted Forest

If You Scream In The Forest, Do The Trees Laugh?

The only thing scarier than venturing out into a forest late at night is doing it in a haunted one! Haunted Forest is just south of Salt Lake City and brings about nightmares to unsuspecting attraction goers by the hundreds every night. Tortured hillbilly redneck clowns and bloodthirsty demonic creatures are the supreme scares here as you and your friends do your best to dodge them in this 1,000,000 square foot haunt! Celebrating thirty years in the business of scaring you senseless every Halloween season, the Haunted Forest is one you’ll never forget, or forgive after they terrorize you all night long!

FrightFind It: Haunted Forest in American Fork, UT
Runner Up: Nightmare on 13th in American Fork, UT

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Vermont Top Haunt: Dead North

Need Directions To Stay Alive? Just Dead North!

Clocking in at over a mile long, Dead North is the ultimate farmland in terror. Grim reapers bear down on you with razor-sharp scythes. Disfigured psychopaths give chase to unsuspecting attraction goers. Chainsaw-roaring madmen are hellbent on giving you and your friends the scariest night of your life! And did we mention this is over a mile long? Fan reviews of this haunted attraction crowd-pleaser have documented that even the most seasoned veteran of such frights have tapped out midway through this march into madness. Creepy Farm is a “lighter” haunted attraction aimed at younger people who just can’t handle the terrors that Dead North offers!

FrightFind It: Dead North in Danville, VT
Runner Up: Nightmare Vermont in Essex Junction, VT

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Virginia Top Haunt: Red Vein Haunted House

Looking For Lambs To Slaughter!

A witch’s curse from the 1500s carries all the way to the present day as the Red Vein Haunted House in Richmond brings to you a more atmospheric haunted attracted. Blended and inspired by true-life events combined with modern-day special effects and sets, Red Vein Haunted House doesn’t rely on chainsaws or knife-wielding clowns to make you scream. Rabbits Cry Field is an absolute corn maze must for those who want to get to know their vocal cords a little better. The Redvyn Asylum will open its doors to the living and give attraction goers a firsthand look at the mentally insane and just how deep their unslaked depravities go. The Lambs To Slaughter is an 18+ experience that you must sign a waiver to participate in…and that’s as much as we will give away on that truly terrifying experience for only the bravest of the brave!

FrightFind It: Red Vein Haunted House in Ashland, VA
Runner Up: Haunted Nightmares in Winchester, VA

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Washington Top Haunt: Fright Factory

Just How Loud Can You Scream?

Quite possibly one of the most tortured inspired haunted attractions on the planet, Fright Factory in the unsuspecting town of Buckley, has been harboring a not so friendly secret. Consider yourself to have been warned about stepping inside this frightful abode full of what is quite possibly Hell’s rejects themselves. Hallways drenched in human blood, entails adorning the walls, and the most terrorizing horror hounds giving you a true horror chase the likes of which you have never seen before. Ever wonder what sound your voice makes after it gives out from screaming? You’ll find out firsthand if you’re brave enough to endure this haunted attraction from Hell.

FrightFind It: Fright Factory in Buckley, WA
Runner Up: Nile Nightmares Haunted House in Mountlake Terrace, WA

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West Virginia Top Haunt: The Asylum Haunted House

Real Asylum. Real Fear. All Abomination.

Set inside the real Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, the Asylum is taking that haunted attraction experience to a whole new and disturbing level. Legitimately haunted by former asylum patients from its bloody past, the Asylum is ratcheting up the real-life fears to give you, even more, to scream about! Tour through the tortured hallways of the past and experience firsthand the untold terrors contained within the Asylum! What’s that clawing sound? Is it a tortured patient trying to flee? The real-life Shadow Man coming for his next victim? Or maybe that’s the sound of your own heart trying to escape your chest!?!?

FrightFind It: The Asylum Haunted House in Weston, WV
Runner Up: Fright Nights in Daniels, WV

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Wisconsin Top Haunt: Misery Haunted House

Not your typical CheeseHeads

Tapped as one of the top-rated haunted attractions in Wisconsin for five years in a row, Misery Haunted House is changing up the theme this year. Bringing in some of the best and scariest horror talents and artists that they can find, this year they challenge you and your bravest friends to “Escape the Deep” with their haunted pirate theme. Surfacing from the deep of Davey Jones’s Locker itself, sea creatures and hidden ocean horrors will be upfront and very personal with you. Twisted pirates of the demonic persuasion will be around every corner to ensure that no good scream goes to waste this Halloween season!

FrightFind It: Misery Haunted House in Berlin, WI
Runner Up: Green Bay Fear in Green Bay, WI

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Wyoming Top Haunt: Nightmare on 17th St

Elm Street Has Nothing On Them!

For more than thirty years, the Nightmare on 17th Street has been scaring the resident of Cheyenne senseless and this Halloween season it will be no different! The building used as this modern-day house of horrors is an actual haunted location with a sinister past. Claustrophobia is the name of the horror game here as you and your friends muster up all the courage you can to brave over fifteen different blood-drenched, gore-filled, and spooktacular scenarios of demonic proportions. As one emotionally scarred haunt goer said, “I was so scared that I couldn’t even make it past the first room!”

FrightFind It: Nightmare on 17th St in Cheyenne, WY

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Check out our past year’s Top Haunts below.

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2016 guide to the top haunted houses in America

2015 guide to the top haunted houses in America

7 Things for Adults During Halloween

Published by FrightFind On October 13, 2021

Now that the fall is already here, Halloween is already on the fun side of everyone’s to-do list!

Today, we are taking you on a trick or treating tour through the adult type of Halloween party ideas – classic and off-beat, dark and sweet, for the trick and for the treat.

Themed horror parties, haunted houses, spooky cookies, thrilling activities, and scary Halloween costumes for adults – put your kids to sleep because today we celebrate Halloween 2021 the proper way!

What to do on Halloween for Adults: Step by Step Idea Guide

Food for thought or a straightforward step-by-step guide? You can tailor our little list of spooky Halloween celebrating ideas to your taste, then go design the perfect experience for all hallows eve. Ready to play with the night?

#1 Pick Yourself a Badass Halloween Costume

Devil Walking Halloween Costumes for Adults

Halloween Costumes above are from DevilWalking.com

First and foremost, make sure you dress up with the most stunning Halloween-themed costume for adults. Instead of relying on DIY options, go straight mental with a printed one-piece, made to make everyone’s jaws drop!

Be a futuristic interstellar warrior, be a siren from the ocean depths, be a ghost hunter, or be a Jack-o’-lantern spooky pumpkin. It’s all fine as long as it’s far from basic! Then, gather your family and friends, and encourage them to do the same. Picking the best costumes is fundamental to having the best time!

#2 Do your Halloween Makeup, Hairstyle, and Accessorizing

Now, spend some time decorating yourself as a real piece of Halloween art. Bake your look with realistic Halloween-themed makeup, a colorful wig, and a selection of cruel accessories specially picked for your costume.

For a hardcore party-starter look, you can add details such as contact lenses, fake blood, face stickers, and pumpkin jewelry. Then let the game begin!

#3 Go Trick or Treating

Gather your group of trick or treaters, then roam the neighborhood, collecting candy corn, pumpkin muffins, and jelly beans. Don’t forget to grab some cocktails on the go and treat yourselves before the tricks – the kids will never know.

The night is long and full of terrors, and a bag of pumpkin sweets is just the beginning!

#4 Visit a Haunted House

Now that the candies have been gathered, it’s time for the real fun to kick in. One of the best activities to give yourself as an adult for Halloween is, of course, to go to a haunted house near you. So gather the clique, put your ghost costumes on, and fall straight into the deep – where worlds collide, and legends are born.

All you need to do is organize a group of friends and choose the destination. It can be either a haunted attraction, corn maze, or hayride, or even a real haunted place everyone has a campfire story about. Then watch out – if you don’t see Halloween candy, the Halloween candy might be you.

#5 Throw a Wild Halloween Party With Costumes

Are you looking to get creepily festive? You will need the right place, the perfect atmosphere, and a group of adults who still know how to have fun. How to do it?

Decorate the place – carve pumpkins, buy horror candy toys, stuff the room with DIY skeletons and fake blood, light candles, and keep the Halloween spirit sweet and spooky!
Make sure you buy some Halloween food for the party-goers to eat – candy is mandatory, and everything else is a bonus!
Assemble a memorable Halloween season playlist – holiday songs, popular emo, and goth bands, and 2021 ideas everyone will recognize.
Fix a dress code and let no ordinary man in – your spooky night needs a costume game, and you will be the one making it happen!
Pass the word and make the links – make sure every person you have in mind receives your invitation by the middle of October.

Now that your Halloween party is on the way, once again, make sure you’ll plan the ultimate costume win – scary, sexy, polished, and memorable!

#6 Organize a Halloween Movie Night

If throwing a wild party doesn’t seem like your thing for 2021, you can celebrate the Halloween season with a bag of popcorn and a playlist of the scariest Halloween movies in the history of cinema. Watching all-time ghost classics and newly-released corn maze blockbusters is fine too, as long as everyone has fun.

A scary movie night is among the best ideas for a comfy, homey, and chilling activity, perfect for the whole adult family. So just make your movie research, light the pumpkins, hit play, and watch out!

#7 The Stories, The Games, and All

There are multiple activities you can add to your Halloween party list, no matter if it’s a rave dance party or an intimate campfire stories night. Need some ideas for things to do during an adult Halloween party?

- Tell each other ghost stories;
- Do a scavenger hunt;
- Make a Halloween costume competition;
- Head to the nearest corn maze;
- Watch adult realities with ghosts and serial killers;
- Carve pumpkins, bake candies, and drink cocktails;
- Go on a large-scale outdoor party with other trick or treaters;
- Make a holiday capsule to open during the next Halloween;
- Throw a Halloween pajama party and have the introvert type of fun!

So… Trick or treat?

Let the Fun Things Happen!

Halloween is indeed about the costumes, the organized activities, and the spirits of the fall. But – most of all – Halloween is about the mood! Now that you’re packed with ideas, keep your mood just as fresh as your party plans – then no creepy pumpkin can stop you from having the time of your life!

Halloween holidays are here, and it doesn’t matter if you’re a child, a woman, a man, or a jelly bean. Everyone’s invited to the night carving party, and that’s how we go – packed with ideas, stories, inspirations, and mood!

Keep it fun, keep it safe, and make the best Halloween memories to keep you warm through the winter!

Watch The Terrifying New Trailer For M. Night Shyamalan’s Old

Published by FrightFind On May 27, 2021

Gearing up for that big summer vacation? Serene mountain retreat all planned out? Perhaps some much-needed luxury spa time at a swanky resort? Or maybe the classic weekend trip to some scenic wine country? Do you want to go to the beach? Before you buy that swimsuit, grab a surfboard or stock up on suntan lotion, longstanding horror director M. Night Shyamalan knows precisely of one secluded beach you’ll want to totally avoid at all deadly costs.

M. Night Shyamalan’s Old: Plot and Trailer

Old is the tentpole summer horror film release that movie fans have been waiting on all year. Both screenplay and directed by Shyamalan himself, this psychological horror film has one of the more disturbing plots in recent horror history. A vacationing family to a seemingly tropical paradise find their dreamy getaway turning into a real-life nightmare as whoever visits the beach becomes trapped and begins to mysteriously age. We’re not talking seconds older here either….we’re talking aging years.

Not only that, but from the looks of the terrifying trailer that just dropped, people are aging at an alarmingly fast rate. As detailed in the trailer, this doesn’t bode well for the little children in the film who appear to chillingly age from seven to seventeen in mere minutes. Even worse, this terrifying aging process becomes a likely endgame of life for the parents. The most gruesome? Not only do bodies age and grow faster to die, but they also decompose just as quickly! While Shyamalan wrote the screenplay, this bloody concept of his was taken from a very original graphic novel titled Sandcastle by author Pierre Oscar Levy.

Old: Cast and Release Date

Just who will be aging and what will be left of them? Shyamalan has one of his most well-rounded and diverse horror casts yet. Golden Globe winner Gael Garcia Bernal stars in the film, alongside one of Europe’s most talented actresses, Vicky Krieps. Rounding out the cast is former Army of Darkness co-star Embeth Davidtz, and ill-fated SAW franchise actor Ken Leung.

Gael Garcia Bernal, Vicky Krieps. Embeth Davidtz, and Ken Leung

True to Shyamalan’s well-known preference for secrecy, the film’s latest trailer still does little to solve the many fan questions of the greater mystery surrounding this paradise from Hell. Is the beach haunted? The ocean tide contaminated? Perhaps maybe the whole picturesque coastline is cursed by evil? Whichever haunted horror hellscape Shyamalan is taking fans down, it’s sure to be a frightening one.

Old terrorizes horror fans everywhere on July 23, 2021.

Top Ten Most Streamed Horror Films

Published by FrightFind On May 18, 2021

Trending lists are just about the best thing going on on social media and what better trending list to eagerly read over than a streaming horror movie list? No watered down opinions or generic horror lists like other websites, we here at Frightfind aim to bring you the best and latest. Ever wondered what the ten hottest and most-streamed horror films were during the COVID calendar year?

Here are the top ten most-streamed horror films, courtesy of Redbox On Demand:

The Invisible Man (2020)

Written and directed by SAW franchise creator Leigh Whannell, this technologically advanced take on the HG Wells classic is melded with a gruesome and sinister turn. Elizabeth Moss stars as hapless Cecilia, a domestic violence victim of her ruthless boyfriend Adrian. When she leaves for a new life of freedom, strange things begin to happen in her new environment. Is it Adrian? A ghost? Smartly acted and well-paced, The Invisible Man (2020) is worth the hype.

The Hunt

Twelve complete strangers wake up in a creepy forest with no knowledge of how they got there or why exactly they are there. The group soon founds out that they are being hunted down by wealthy elitists in a bloodthirsty sporting contest. Violent and chaotic, the film has garnered a lot of attention for its highly controversial image of just what “deplorable” are.

You Should Have Left

Based on the 2017 novel by German psychological thrill writer Daniel Kehlmann, You Should Have Left welcomes back into the horror foray everyone’s favorite character actor, Kevin Bacon. Starring alongside Bacon is veteran horror actress Amanda Seyfried, together they play a married couple whose relationship is on the rocks. Taking a vacation in the Welsh countryside to sort out their lives, they soon found out the house they’re staying in could be hiding nightmarish levels of evil at frightening proportions.

Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island

An updated horror version of the popular 70s television show, Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island presents itself as a total dream, but ends up being a nightmare for those who visit. Guests only think they’re spending a week at a luxury resort run by the enigmatic Mr. Roarke, played brilliantly by actor Michael Peña. They soon find out things are more a blood-soaked reality than lavish fantasy and find themselves banding together to solve the mysterious and murderous ways of the island.

Freaky

If you’re looking for the horror subgenre of serial killing body-switching horror comedies, then directory Christopher Landon’s Freaky is just for you. Actor Vince Vaugh stars as The Butcher, a ruthless serial killer who ends up switching bodies with a seventeen-year-old girl whom he tried to kill using a magical dagger. Together, they fight against both fate and time in trying to reverse the switch, or else it becomes permanent.

Gretel & Hansel

No doubt the darkest take on one of the Brothers Grimm’s most violent works, Gretel & Hansel is a twisted take on the supposed, children’s fairy tale. When siblings Gretel and Hansel find themselves starving deep in the Bavarian woods, they find refuge with a sickeningly disturbed witch who has no trouble serving them up a feast, all in preparation for something even more murderous. A visually dark fairy tale, Gretel & Hansel delivers the horror goods.

Antebellum

A total mind-bending time travel horror film, Antebellum brings about a sinister view when it comes to Southern hospitality. The film stars Janelle Monae as a troubled author who must race against all odds to free slaves from their doomed lives on a violent Southern plantation. A provocative horror thriller, Antebellum is not an easy horror film to watch; there will be nightmares.

Wrong Turn (2020)

A remake of the popular Wrong Turn franchise original, this scare happy film is a retelling of one of horror’s most favored tropes; a group of teens lost in the backwoods who are hunted down by bloodthirsty cannibals. If that plotline doesn’t excite your horror bones, nothing will. Brutal and unforgiving in its kill scenes, Wrong Turn (2020) has one of the more favorable horror film reviews from critics in all of 2020.

Brahms: The Boy II

Creepy sequel to 2016’s surprise horror hit, The Boy, Brahms: The Boy II wastes no time in ratcheting up the scare factor. Directed by William Brent Bell, creator of the original film, the sequel shows just what happens when a boy befriends a lifelike doll after a tragic accident. If films like the Annabelle series have taught us anything, it’s that lifelike dolls are anything but safe.

Spell

One of the more original horror concepts in some time, Spell stars Omar Hardwick as Marquis, a troubled man trying to fly out to a family funeral. Once the plane crashes, Marquis finds himself not in a hospital bed, but is instead trapped in the dingy old attic of an old woman who is relying on…pieces…of his body to help offer up a bloody voodoo ritual spell. Can Marquis escape before the ritual is completed? Spell is a folk magic horror film that you don’t wanna miss.

Why 12 Hours When You Can Have The Forever Purge?

Published by FrightFind On May 18, 2021

Dystopian action horror film franchise The Purge is looking to conclude its eight-year theatrical series run by finishing off its bloody pentalogy with the most violently satisfying entry yet, deemed The Forever Purge.

Intended to be just a standalone film in 2013, the series’s first entry, The Purge, was a box office hit with action horror fans. Made from a paltry $3 million dollar budget, the film ended up grossing $90 million worldwide and along with movie critics praising the film for its originality, the producers at Blumhouse Productions instantly knew that there could be more sequels and possible franchise out of the film’s concept.

The Forever Purge Plot

For those unfamiliar, the film’s central plot centers around a modern and thriving society where just one night a year for twelve hours, all crime is completely legal….including murder. Low-category class weaponry is used by individuals to hack, slash, steal, plunder, smash, and kill virtually anyone without any judicial repercussions whatsoever. The gruesome and dystopian theme struck a powerful chord with action horror fans who long wondered, what would happen if the Purge lasted longer than twelve hours? Enter The Forever Purge.

The plot to this fifth installment plays out from the title itself, wondering if one night is ever enough. Building off from The Purge: Election Year, the ruling politicians have officially ended the annual purge night….or did they? Purge series creator and writer James DeMonaco team up with eclectic filmmaker and director Everado Gout to bring about the most satisfying conclusion to this bloody series. With some plot details still kept under wraps, the film centers around a couple fleeing from a murderous Mexican drug cartel. Hiding out in what they think is safe haven refuge at a Texas ranch, the couple soon finds out that there is a contingent of deranged people who are refusing to acknowledge the ending of the annual purge and vow to continue the murder rampage….forever!

The Forever Purge Cast

Ana de la Reguera, Tenoch Huerta, Josh Lucas, Cassidy Freeman, Will Patton.

Telenovela soap star, Ana de la Reguera has been cast to star in the film alongside one of Mexico’s busiest actors, Tenoch Huerta. Rounding out the flavorful cast is longtime actor Josh Lucas, television star Cassidy Freeman, and horror character actor Will Patton.

Purge Release Date and Trailer

COVID-19 interrupted the initial film release to theaters which was originally slated for the early summer of 2020. With a largely vaccinated world now, the film’s distributors fully intend on releasing this all-out violent film in movie theaters this summer, and a new release date of July 2, 2021 has been set.

Is one night truly enough? Watch the latest trailer for The Forever Purge and make those plans to find out July 2nd!

American Horror Story: Double Feature

Published by FrightFind On April 25, 2021

American Horror Story….known in social media circles simply as AHS to all the fans, is gearing up on production for what will be their tenth and most anticipated season on the cable channel FX. To celebrate, they’re going all out with their casting by enlisting in the acting presences of none other than Paris Jackson and former child star sensation Macauley Culkin.

Paris Jackson Joins AHS

You read that right horror fans. Series creator and longtime showrunner Ryan Murphy has indeed brought a most newsworthy buzz to the upcoming season. For those unfamiliar and not, Paris Jackson is the only daughter of the most multitalented and enigmatic music entertainer ever….Michael Jackson. Jackson himself was no stranger to horror mediums as he portrayed both a werewolf and zombie in one of the most talked-about music videos ever made, Thriller.

Perhaps the horror acting bug caught up to Paris because she herself also had acting roles of the terrifyingly transgressive kind in feature film Habit, as well as a role on MTV’s horror show, Scream: The Series. As with anything AHS or Ryan Murphy related (such as Netflix’s upcoming serial killer doc “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”) details on just exactly who….or what….she might be playing has been kept under the tightest of plot wraps.

No, AHS Isn’t Going All Home Alone

Macauley Culkin himself perhaps needs no introduction. A child star of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Culkin launched to international superstardom with the Home Alone series. Soon after he finished out his on-screen career with a role as the disturbingly sick and twisted adolescent in The Good Son. Since then, Culkin has taken to hosting duties on his highly popular Bunny Ears podcast where pop culture trivia of all types is encouraged. Given his acting chops and experience, he should be no stranger to whatever wicked storylines get thrown his way in AHS.

AHS Theme and Release Date

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As far as what the hotly anticipated tenth season will be about or unveil its theme, naturally, there is little that can be revealed in the interest of not wrecking everything with spoilers. Ryan Murphy did take to Instagram recently to announce that the name of the newest season will in fact be titled, Double Feature. Mercilessly teasing AHS fans, even more, Murphy did go on to say that the season will feature two completely different themes. The first half of the season will be centered “on the sea.” The second half of the season is said to take place, “on the sand.”

AHS: Double Feature will debut in late 2021 and we’ve got our horror calendars marked!

Dexter Is Getting Back To Nature And Showtime

Published by FrightFind On April 25, 2021

“There really is nothing like getting back to nature. My nature.”

These are the first words that everyone’s favorite serial killer, Dexter Morgan, has uttered in over eight long years, and somehow we simply cannot get enough of hearing them.

In case you’ve been living under netherworld rock these past six months and have not heard the good word, the uber-premium cable network Showtime has revived its hottest tv show property ever in Dexter for another season. That’s right, the Miami serial killer known infamously as the “Bay Harbor Butcher”, did not disappear into the Pacific Northwest with chilling finality once Season 8 ended in 2013. For years fans of the show criticized just how the series ended with a lot of uninspiring tie-ups. To counter this near-decade-long grudge, Showtime has made good on giving Dexter another season to help presumably finish out his serial killing saga.

Dexter Season 9 Teaser

Nature is calling. #Dexter pic.twitter.com/tX92KWHZLI

— Dexter on Showtime (@SHO_Dexter) April 22, 2021

In the latest teaser to drop this week, horror social media outlets and circles have been positively abuzz with grim sublimity over what they may see when the most anticipated horror series ever returns in the late fall of 2021. Breaking down the trailer of course, the dark snowscape could indeed hint that Dexter really did disappear to the mountain areas of the Pacific Northwest, just as far away from Miami, Florida as he could get, and for legal reasons obviously. Added to the snow imagery is that of a giant ax that’s become lodged firmly into a tree stump as a raging campfire lights the background. This also helps perpetuate the fan theory that when Dexter was last seen eight years ago, he took a job as a lumberjack. But about that ax though…….

Dexter’s calm and steady voice over the scene exalts to his many “dark passengers”, that…

“There really is nothing like getting back to nature. My nature.”

Many longtime fans of the series will recall that more often than not, Dexter’s weapon of choice was a gigantic butcher knife. But with the lumberjack imagery flowing, horror fans are already agog at the possibilities of Dexter taking out a few bad guys with that very ax!

Dexter Season 9 Cast

Since the info drop from Showtime that there would be a ninth season (though they never said it’s the last….) there have been other casting developments to behold. Perennial movie and tv bad guy character actor Clancy Brown has been unveiled as this season’s “big bad” as he portrays a man named Kurt Caldwell, a quite vicious and evil man who terrorizes a presumably fictional small town dubbed Iron Lakes. Don’t let that tight-lipped and vague description fool you, actor Michael C. Hall who portrays Dexter recently confided in an interview that this season’s story arc in Dexter was one worth telling.

“I was pleasantly surprised that a story emerged that felt worth telling. I wasn’t surprised that it came back in that there’s been an appetite for it, both from some fans, but also from the network. Oh, he didn’t die, let’s do more, let’s find out what happened to him. But I think the surprise was that a story emerged that felt worth telling”.

Look for further updates concerning the hotly anticipated ninth season of Dexter to be blood spattering more social media screens soon.

Jeffrey Dahmer Comes To Netflix: What We Know

Published by FrightFind On March 28, 2021

Netflix is just about the best in the business when it comes to not only streaming award-winning films and television series but also cultivating its most popular genres across their platform to bring you the very best in desired content. It’s no surprise that true crime horror is one of the hottest properties on Netflix, so what does the streaming monolith have in store for subscribers? How about a true-crime series on the lifetime slayings of notorious American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

Here are five things you need to know about Netflix’s Monster:

Jeffrey Dahmer Series Gets a Name

Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story will be the official title of this new Netflix series and early reports having it debuting and ready to stream everywhere in late 2021/early 2022.

Veteran Television Actor Evan Peters To Star

When it comes to playing the titular role of Dahmer himself, it’s best to employ a horror actor already in the acting mindset of regularly doing evil onscreen so the translation to characters is more highly nuanced and less plodding. Enter longtime American Horror Story actor and WandaVision superhero, Evan Peters, who not only has been the first actor cast in Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, but he is also set to play the cannibalistic killer himself.

Rounding out the cast at this moment in specified roles also includes Academy Award nominee Richard Jenkins who will portray Dahmer’s father, Lionel. Veteran character actress Penelope Ann Miller is also set to co-star as Dahmer’s mother, Joyce. Emmy Award winner Niecy Nash rounds out the cast at the moment in an unspecified role.

American Horror Story Creator On-Board

With such a sizable series that will chronicle the murderous exploits of “the Milwaukee Monster”, veteran horror story experience was a must. Netflix is turning over the creative reigns of the production to none other than the American Horror Story creator himself, Ryan Murphy. Given the lengthy production history between Evans and Murphy, it will be fascinating to see their take on what prompted the real-life cannibal to slaughter and eat seventeen men over a thirteen-year period.

Not Your Average Serial Killer Series

There are many streaming series and shows with serial killers that follow a ground-up, origin story. For Monster, Murphy is taking a vastly different approach as the show will take the unorthodox approach of re-telling Dahmer’s murderous exploits from a point of view from his victims. If anything the series aims to be firmly entrenched in psychological horror, rather than just straight horror itself.

Dahmer And White Privilege

One of the more interesting theories being used in the show will be examining the instances where Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested or at least held by police at different times during his killing sprees, only to be ultimately released. The aura of white privilege will be confronted and examined in detail as it will chronicle just how, “a clean-cut, good-looking white guy” accused of murder, cannibalism, and necrophilia was somehow never charged in ten court cases.

Netflix Checks In To The Cecil Hotel

Published by FrightFind On March 10, 2021

Missing persons, serial killers, demonic activity, and even mind-bending realities. No those aren’t fixtures in a new horror film, instead, they’re commonplace in one of the most haunted Hollywood spots in all of Los Angeles…..The Cecil Hotel. A place so popular amongst horror and true crime fans, that even stylish fright shows such as American Horror Story and the streaming giant Netflix have dabbled in its legend. Wanna get caught up in some true horror history?

Crime Scene: Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

Most media pundits and critics today agree that you haven’t made the big time….unless you’re on Netflix. The streaming zenith is home to just about every television series, movie, and documentary known to man and it came as no surprise that in February 2021 it debuted it’s latest talked-about hit. Famous documentary series director Joe Berlinger brought to life a new series entitled, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. Berlinger is no stranger to the true-crime macabre as his earlier Netflix show’s on, Jeffery Epstein and Ted Bundy, were massive hits with fans and critics alike.

In Crime Scene, Berlinger directed four, one hour long shows documenting the sordid and bloody history of the Cecil Hotel, serving as a backdrop to the series’s focused crime. Doctors, authors, detectives, former employees, and everyone in between, Berlinger leaves no stone unturned. Centering primarily around the disappearance of Elisa Lam, each episode is interlinked and immediately worthy of a must-do binge watch on the whole series to discover just exactly what caused perhaps one of the most puzzling personal disappearances in Los Angeles crime history.

Cecil Hotel’s Serial Killer Resident

Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker

The Cecil Hotel was known to have some of the lowest daily or weekly rates of any hotel in the area, along with a no-questions-asked sort of registration policy. Terrorizing L.A. residents on a rape and murder spree during the summer of 1985 was a young derelict named Richard Ramirez. Dubbed the “Night Stalker” by the media, his penchant for blood and Satanism knew no limits as he murdered his way into the night while lounging and sleeping off his horrendous crimes during the day at the Cecil. Ramirez often stayed on the 14th floor and while he never brought any victims in or killed on-site, people remember his behavior as low key and unassuming. A total contrast to his bloodthirsty murder sprees he’d engage in before sleeping it off to do all over again.

Jack Unterweger: The Vienna Woods Killer

The Vienna Woods Killer, Jack Unterweger as was a resident of the Cecil Hotel. Also known by Austrian media as the “Poet of Death” for his exceptional writing skills while in prison or on trial, Unterweger was working for an Austrian true-crime publication that sent him to L.A. in 1991. The murderer of at least ten sex workers and possibly more, the belief among true-crime theorists is Unterweger vehemently explored the seedy L.A. underworld of prostitution and used the Cecil Hotel as a home base to retire too and sharpen his deadly ambitions.

The Elisa Lam Mystery

“You’re always haunted by the idea you’re wasting your life.”

A quote from Elisa Lam’s favorite author Chuck Palahniuk, the 21-year-old Canadian University student tragically would find herself wasting her own life right there in the Cecil Hotel. Lam was on a trip to California from the British Columbia area in late January 2003 and chose to stay at the Cecil Hotel, likely due to the affordability. Little did she know she’d be dead five days later. Going out to explore L.A. is something she dreamed of and wrote about in her social media Tumblr blog (which is still online and can be found here: https://nouvelle-nouveau.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/text and read in its haunting entirety). Renting initially a shared room, Lam’s roommate requests she be moved due to her erratic behavior.

Lam was eventually relocated on the 14th floor (the Night Stalker’s former floor) and spent time exploring bookstores in the L.A. area while making sure to call her family every night. January 31, 2013, Elisa disappears, her family then reaches out to the police. A thorough missing person investigation is launched with little to go on as everything led to a dead-end for investigators. By February 15, 2013, investigators discovered a surveillance video in the hotel’s elevator which showed a panicked Lam hiding inside the elevator. Peeking out to check if the hallway is clear, she appears to be running from someone….or something. Lam exits the elevator and is never seen again.

On February 19, 2013, guests at the Cecil complained to maintenance manager Santiago Lopez about the taste and color of the hotel’s water. Lopez bridged the roof and breached one of the hotel’s four water supply tanks to discover Lam’s naked, and bloated corpse floating face up in the water supply. The police drained and cut through the tank to pull her body out. How could a smaller woman escape to a reclusive and hard-to-reach portion of the hotel’s roof without a ladder? How did she alternately lift the 100 lbs hatch lid and then close it from the inside? Police were dumbstruck by the scene and chalked her death up to a simple drowning. Eerily enough Lam’s phone was never found, but that didn’t stop her Tumblr posts from posting even after her death!

Spiritual Portal?

In recent years, the Cecil Hotel has absolutely been one of the most popular true-crime horror destinations in the area. Elisa Lam’s death has attracted throngs of attention, and one of the more interesting theories is her frantic button-pushing in the elevator on the day of her disappearance was not as it appeared. Theorists believe she was engaging in an East Asian paranormal act dubbed the Elevator Game. It’s a maddening button push game in which someone goes in an elevator and must go in between, up and down floors in a certain pattern, while never exiting the actual elevator. If done properly, the last floor reached will open up not to our reality, but instead to an ethereal otherworld dimension. People report seeing a woman with a red cross on her chest who somehow helps answer your questions, while others claim that they’re relentlessly pursued by a female demon who aspires for nothing more than collecting your soul before you can reverse the process in the same elevator. The consensus among these theorists is that Elisa played the Elevator Game, and permanently lost.

American Horror Story Gets Involved

Uber popular horror anthology recently took a stab at shooting some scenes for their show at the Cecil. Showrunner Ryan Murphy is a self-confessed fan of the Cecil Hotel, so much so that he incorporated season five’s theme of a hotel in the “Hotel Cortez” where guests check-in and go missing…..straight from Cecil’s history, a mix between the true life Cecil and H.H. Holmes Murder Castle in Chicago. Not to be outdone in the area of just missing guests, Murphy crafted perhaps the most terrifying episode in all of AHS history with the infamous “Devil’s Night” episode in which a recreated portrayal of the Night Stalker himself, Richard Ramirez, is featured on the show.

The long and sordid history of the Cecil Hotel is one that is of a living legend in the true-crime paranormal world……and the vacancies are currently open.

Best Pandemic Outbreak Movies To Watch

Published by FrightFind On February 23, 2021

Got those quarantine blues? Is a trip to the supermarket just hell on earth this time of day? Every other store boarded up and closed? Staying home is all anyone knows right now and it’s no surprise that streaming service use is at an all-time high. For us horror fans and our own deranged mental health salvation, we’re not afraid to watch even the craziest and most terrifying outbreak survival movies in the midst of a real-life plague to entertain us right now because…..well….we’re horror fans!

Here’s A List Of The Best Pandemic Outbreak Movies That You Should Be Watching:

The Mist

This one falls under “Supermarket Monster Doomsday Prophet Films”, and it’s a good one. Only from the mind of Stephen King is such a story like this even conceivable as it centers around a few dozen people trapped within the walls of a local grocery store as hideously shaped bloodthirsty monsters stalk their prey from deep within the mist that encircles the store outside. Doomsday sayers begin to furiously multiply inside the store forcing the heroes to decide which is worse: being eaten alive by Cthulhu-esque monsters on the outside or ritually sacrificed on aisle seven on the inside. On your next grocery trip if the parking lot is covered in a mist, then just keep on driving by!

Train To Busan

Nominated for a slew of Asian Film Awards (our Oscar equivalent), Train To Busan is a zombie pandemic film on steroids. The South Korean military can’t contain a virus that turns its helpless citizens into fast and bloody furious zombies. Film proof that quarantine zones don’t work, this horror crowd-pleaser centers upon a trainload of passengers who go from train car to train car using any and all makeshift weapons (along with tae kwon do) to beat back the zombie plague. Surprisingly dramatic and even tearful at times, Train To Busan is a real crowd pleaser and will teach you the finer points of meaty, ground and pound fist attacks to repel zombies. Ya know…..just in case you’re ever on a train….with zombies…..in South Korea.

Rec/Quarantine

The best thing about a film like Rec is that you get a wonderfully transgressive point of view about the infected and highly murderous tenants of a Spanish apartment building. It’s filmed in an almost faux-documentary style capacity as you go deeper and deeper into the dark claustrophobic confines of the seedy building (including a trip to the sewers). For those not digging the subtitles, the American version called Quarantine is every bit as good and gory as Rec and stars horror favorite Jennifer Carpenter crawling for her life in virtually every other scene. Is it zombies? A man-made virus? Witchcraft? Demonic possession run amok? You can’t go wrong with learning the finer points of apartment-style self-defense from the infected in either Rec or Quarantine.

VFW

In this Fangoria produced grindhouse-style crowdpleaser, it’s not so much about the pandemic itself that creates the chaos, but about the lack of law enforcement to keep it all in check. A runaway teen avenging the loss of her sister steals from the biggest war zone criminal in the city and is relentlessly pursued by his bloodthirsty band of drug-fueled cult followers. Taking refuge in a burned-out VFW building, she comes across a quartet of Vietnam vets who are looking to make one final last stand as soldiers against the invading punks. Quite possibly one of the most unabashedly violent and bloody films of the 21st Century, only in a film like this is using a circular saw to carve through wasteland punks a totally acceptable and routine thing to do.

Andromeda Strain

This one is about as old-school sci-fi horror can possibly get. Based on the classic novel by Michael Crichton himself, if you believe in massive military coverup disasters then this one has you covered. Satellites from outer space crash in New Mexico and reveal to have brought back with them an alien virus that literally crystallizes and eventually turns a human’s blood into powder! Racing against the viral clock is a band of ragtag scientists who at the same time try to combat the ultimate nuclear-bomb trigger that can destroy all of mankind! And did we mention that all of this is battled out in an underground Vegas bunker codenamed “Wildfire”?

And if you’re quarantine time lasts a little longer, here are some more honorable horror mentions:

The Road Warrior

If you want a glimpse into wasteland life post-pandemic, this vintage Mel Gibson smash hit does it better than anyone. Among the many life lessons are: wearing s&m bondage gear makes for perfectly acceptable everyday wear, never trust a boomerang, and fuel will be more sought after than toilet paper for some strange reason.

Outbreak

For those wanting to know just how such a worldwide, man-killing virus starts, then Outbreak has the answer. Not a space alien, but a cute little white-faced capuchin monkey is the cause of a global pandemic of epic proportions. This is a fatal four-way of man vs. military vs. virus vs. monkey and only one of those is going to win it all.

Dawn of the Dead

This one goes without saying in the horror world, but for any new viewers, this is a mega-classic. Zombies overrun the cities, so what should you do? Go to the local mall, board up the entrances, and then bask in unlimited mall shopping. Your only worry should be roaming hordes of cocaine-fueled bikers looking to overrun your mall….but other than that it’s a very rewarding safe house.

The Bay

Believe it or not, Academy Award winner Barry Levinson (of Rain Man fame) wrote, produced, and directed this little-known horror gem in 2012. A microscopic flesh-eating bacteria overruns a seaside community. A graphic and sometimes gory found footage film shows the ravages of infected quarantines. Even more terrifying is that Levinson based his film on real-life accounts of plague victims.

What Is A Ouija Board?

Published by FrightFind On February 6, 2021

Man has always possessed an unslaked thirst for knowledge from the other side. Historical texts tell of man wanting to contact the afterlife as far back as the Biblical days and the various warnings against it in Levitical texts from 538 B.C. Curiosity cannot be helped as humanity wants to know what happens when we die. Where do we go? Who do we meet? Boiled down, this curiosity evolves from a need for ultimate knowledge. Over time there have been many ways and methods used to make contact and get these answers. Divination rods, runes, tea leaves, seances, scrying, automatic writing, and even sigil spell-casting has been used to try and elicit answers from spirits. All reasonable, yet they contain the fatal flaw of personal interpretation to try and decipher what spirits are trying to say, but is there another way? Enter the Ouija board.

History of the Ouija Board

The Ouija board was first documented as being found in human history way back in China 1100 A.D. It was a newly discovered way to conquer necromancy within the Jin Dynasty by forming drawn-out Chinese letters on matted bast fiber paper scraps. Then an instrument called a planchette was uses in conjunction with the letterboard. The planchette was a crudely shaped wood disk with the center removed leaving a quarter-sized hole that reveals just what letter the planchette happens to be situated over. Subsequent boards were used for the next four hundred years until they were outlawed by the Qing Dynasty as being contrary to the moral good. By the mid-1600s, the world was in love with Eastern Asia and many merchant ships with eager traders came in and out of the Orient and by proxy, the ouija board was further spread around the world to include stopovers in India, Africa, and most of Eastern Europe.

Elijah Bond, William Fuld, and The Ouija Board

In 1890 an American inventor and businessman named Elijah Bond came across a rudimentary form of the ouija board. Seizing the momentum on the popularity of post-Civil war seances that were occurring across the country (even former First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln was a rabid user of), Bond filed a formal patent on the board. He slightly redesigned the planchette so as to have a see-through glass piece with a triangular gripping ridge to employ this as the must-have parlor game at the time. He also formally pressed and printed out the board to include the full American English alphabet complete with number board as well as smaller whole words to include “yes”, “no”, and “goodbye”.

William Fuld’s Tombstone

Bond eventually sold his patent to an employee named William Fuld who set to formally market and name the board as the Ouija Board. There has ample speculation on the name ouija itself. Some historians believe it to be derived from an Egyptian phrasing that means “good luck”. Others believe it to be a combination of the French word for yes (“oui”) and the German word for yes (“ja”). Fuld took the board to new heights as Bond eventually passed away in 1921, yet he is still formally recognized as the father of the Ouija Board so much so that even his grave is modeled after the board.

The Ouija Board Goes Mainstream

The Ouija Board was subsequently marketed as a talking board; a fun-time parlor game for attendees to try and contact the other side with any burning questions they had. Sensationalism grew from the board’s use and subsequent answers to the point science attempted to step in. Prior to the board going mainstream, British scientists and founding father of electromagnetism Michael Faraday, attempted to debunk the board under controlled tests. Faraday believed the responses from the board were not from spirits, yet an ideomotor response. He theorized that participants in the board were subconsciously moving the planchette to answer questions with answers they wanted. Faraday’s theory could have some credibility with one or two users as Ouija Board enthusiasts claim, but not party gatherings with seven or eight different people touching the planchette. For Faraday, the rules of conjuring and talking to a spirit were too informal despite having some rules accompany the game; primarily that the board must be opened and then subsequently closed.

Parker Brothers Ouija Board

Eventually, the board was sold to Parker Brothers in 1967 who took advantage of the 20th Century’s fascination with the afterlife. The gaming company redesigned the board to give it a sleek, yet dark look with an expertly crafted planchette and hailing production of the board straight from Salem, Massachusetts. Marketed as family-friendly, the gaming company and board did run afoul of protests. Christianity, and Catholicism in particular condemned the manufacture and use of the board as not a family-friendly game, but instead an ungodly way to make communion with powerful and dangerous demons. In 1973 the box office horror smash film The Exorcist hit theaters depicting a young girl wickedly possessed by a profaning demon after having played with a seemingly harmless Ouija Board in her basement.

Famed paranormal talk radio show host Art Bell had a deep fascination with tales from the afterlife to a point in which he himself privately used a board. His experience with the board yielded something so terrifying and revelatory to him that he refused to ever reveal what happened to him, which became a lifelong oath that he took to his very grave in 2019.

Today, the manufacture of the Ouija Board is still very much alive across all spectrums of capitalistic design. Shirts, hats, coffee mugs, keychains, and even doormats styled after the Ouija Board are directly available for purchase. Through social media, there are Ouija Board seances, consultations, and even how-to’s across a wide array of channels. For every video documenting its experimental use, there is another debating against it. There is no question that using a Ouija Board opens up a powerful doorway to the spirit world, but in using one must always remember that you never know exactly who…or what….you may be talking to.

7 Creepy Tombstones

Published by FrightFind On January 29, 2021

So what exactly do you want on your tombstone? While a fairly morbid question for most, it is one that some individuals have given their absolute attention to while alive so as all those visiting their final remains will have something to talk about.

Seven Of The Strangest And Most Disturbing Tombstones

Ouija Tombstone

Elijah Bond is the man who was responsible for everyone’s favorite talking board to the spirits in the afterlife….The Ouija Board. Patented in 1891, Bond used his expertise as a lawyer and knowledge of the occult to get the board made and sold in specialty stores. He died in 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland, however, his grave was looked to something as a sort of pilgrimage for occultists. Being both hard to find and somewhat faded and broken, the paranormal community chipped in to get him something a little more fitting of his life’s work.

Houdini’s Grave

While not as visually alarming or disturbing as some other headstones, Harry Houdini’s grave in Machpelah Cemetery inside New York City is one of the more respected and disrespected resting places. A famous magician, Houdini was obsessed with the afterlife and frequently attempted to contact spirits on the other side. After dying from acute appendicitis, Houdini’s remains were finally laid to rest. A bust of his head was laid atop the tombstone. Over the decades his bust has been subject to cruel vandalism and is often replaced. Due to his obsession with the spirit world, many visit his grave and conduct seances there at times in hopes he can somehow communicate back. All this coupled with the overgrowth in the quiet cemetery, Houdini’s grave definitely gives off a scare factor to most.

Specimens Grave

The Columbus State Hospital Asylum Cemetery in Central Ohio is not a fun place. The asylum was used to house scores of people including juveniles, unclaimed children, the criminally insane, and geriatric patients whom nobody could care for. The cemetery for the asylum is marked with scores of first names only, as some patients who checked in never gave formal last names. Other headstones are labeled simply, “M” or “F”, dictating that the remains were either male or female and the names unknown. However, one headstone in the cemetery is wholly thought-provoking in its chilling simplicity as it reads only, “Specimens”. The asylum has been out of commission for decades and nobody knows the true origin of the tombstone or what is underneath. Needless to say, the eerie curiosity factor on this one will likely never be answered.

Giles Corey Tombstone

The surface area on a tombstone is albeit, a relatively small one listing the name, dates of birth, and death. But what about the cause of death? Inside the Howard Street Cemetery of Salem, Massachusetts is the eternal resting place of Giles Corey. Born in 1611, the man was a farmer in the community during the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Accused of practicing witchcraft, Corey was subject to a torture method called pressing. He was laid out and heavy stones were incrementally stacked on his body forcing incredible weight upon him by the sheriff and questioning judges. Corey is famous for when being asked to confess witchcraft, he breathlessly would whisper, “more weight.” The weight of the rocks were so heavy it repeatedly pressed his tongue out of his head which the sheriff would then in turn force back into his mouth with a nearby cane. Today Corey’s grave is the most famous at Howard Street.

Victim of The Beast 666

In the Salt Lake City Cemetery lies the grave of a woman named Lilly Gray. By all accounts, she was an ordinary woman who led something of a normal life. However, the controversy surrounds her has to do with the chilling epitaph that reads at the bottom, “Victim of the Beast 666.” Lilly’s third and final husband was a man named Elmer Gray, a petty burglar who had serious issues with the government and his former parole board. When Lilly died, Elmer had this specific tombstone made for her. At first glance, people are led to believe that Lilly made a deal with the Devil and somehow lost. However, the prevailing theory now is that there are some who refer to “the Beast 666” as the government body as a whole. Since Elmer believed Lilly was somehow double-crossed by them, that’s the best reasoning for the inscription. Strangely enough, when Elmer died, he requested to be buried on the opposite side of the cemetery away from Lilly’s grave.

Baby Monster Grave

Written on the tombstone of a grave inside the Saar Pioneer Cemetery in King County, Washington is one of the more disturbing, yet bittersweet inscriptions that simply reads in bold, stone chiseled font…..”BABY MONSTER”. For anyone coming across this sad little grave, they are hit with two different sobering thoughts. One is that the grave holds the body of an infant who never got to experience life at all and died far too young. The other is that the infant was possibly born cruelly deformed, and in the late 19th Century, medical treatments would be incredibly harsh. Turns out the eternal joke is on cemetery bystanders because “Monster” is actually the baby’s surname and their father, John Monster, is actually buried next to the child.

Inez Clark Tombstone

Some tombstones have sculptures of the deceased’s face, or classic art pieces made and attached to them. But what about full-body casts? The Graceland Cemetery of Chicago contains the headstone of young Inez Clark. Only seven years old when she died, her parents were heartbroken and before burial had a full, life-size sculpture of young Inez made. It was placed atop her grave and surrounded by a full glass case to protect her from the elements. A popular legend is that young Inez was terrified of storms growing up, and during vicious storms at the cemetery, people claim her sculpture leaves its glass case until the storm is over! Others have heard crying when standing near the grave. Overly creepy, many visitors claim that being in the cemetery late at night with a slow fog rolling in is just about the creepiest experience they’ve ever had.

The Twelve Days of Frightmas

Published by FrightFind On December 13, 2020

On the first day of Frightmas my nightmare sent to me:

A Gremlin in a Christmas Tree!

On the second day of Frightmas my nightmare sent to me:

2 Shining Twins
and a Gremlin in a Christmas Tree

On the third day of Frightmas my nightmare sent to me:

3 Frightening Freddys
2 Shining Twins
and a Gremlin in a Christmas Tree

On the fourth day of Frighttmas my nightmare sent to me:

4 Killing Birds
3 Frightening Freddys
2 Shining Twins
and a Gremlin in a Christmas Tree

On the fifth day of Frightmas my nightmare sent to me:

5 or so, Golden Screams
4 Killing Birds
3 Frightening Freddys
2 Shining Twins
and a Gremlin in a Christmas Tree

On the sixth day of Frightmas my nightmare sent to me:

6 Santa’s Slayings
5 or so, Golden Screams
4 Killing Birds
3 Frightening Freddys
2 Shining Twins
and a Gremlin in a Christmas Tree

On the seventh day of Frightmas my nightmare sent to me:

7 Sharks a Feeding
6 Santa’s Slayings
5 or so, Golden Screams
4 Killing Birds
3 Frightening Freddys
2 Shining Twins
and a Gremlin in a Christmas Tree

On the eighth day of Frightmas my nightmare sent to me:

8 Mikes a Murdering
7 Sharks a Feeding
6 Santa’s Slayings
5 or so, Golden Screams
4 Killing Birds
3 Frightening Freddys
2 Shining Twins
and a Gremlin in a Christmas Tree

On the ninth day of Frightmas my nightmare sent to me:

9 Zombies Dancing
8 Mikes a Murdering
7 Sharks a Feeding
6 Santa’s Slayings
5 or so, Golden Screams
4 Killing Birds
3 Frightening Freddys
2 Shining Twins
and a Gremlin in a Christmas Tree

On the tenth day of Frightmas my nightmare sent to me:

10 Jacks a Leaping
9 Zombies Dancing
8 Mikes a Murdering
7 Sharks a Feeding
6 Santa’s Slayings
5 or so, Golden Screams
4 Killing Birds
3 Frightening Freddys
2 Shining Twins
and a Gremlin in a Christmas Tree

On the eleventh day of Frightmas my nightmare sent to me:

11 Vampires Biting
10 Jacks a Leaping
9 Zombies Dancing
8 Mikes a Murdering
7 Sharks a Feeding
6 Santa’s Slayings
5 or so, Golden Screams
4 Killing Birds
3 Frightening Freddys
2 Shining Twins
and a Gremlin in a Christmas Tree

On the twelfth day of Frightmas my nightmare sent to me:

12 Cars Crushing
11 Vampires Biting
10 Jacks a Leaping
9 Zombies Dancing
8 Mikes a Murdering
7 Sharks a Feeding
6 Santa’s Slayings
5 or so, Golden Screams
4 Killing Birds
3 Frightening Freddys
2 Shining Twins
and a Gremlin in a Christmas Tree

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