March 12, 2024

NEWS: 2024 OSCARES from the Haunted Attraction Association

NEWS: 2024 OSCARES from the Haunted Attraction Association

This week: The 2024 OSCARES Winners from the Haunted Attraction Association; "Nightmare Fuel Wildfire" from Universal Studios Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights named Most Creative Halloween Production at this year's IAAPA Honors; TransWorld's...

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This week: The 2024 OSCARES Winners from the Haunted Attraction Association; "Nightmare Fuel Wildfire" from Universal Studios Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights named Most Creative Halloween Production at this year's IAAPA Honors; TransWorld's Halloween & Attraction Show will return to St. Louis February 27th - March 2nd, 2025. Read the stories here.

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Coming up your weekly roundup of news
from around the haunt industry. Welcome to

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the show. I'm Philip on the
HN Show. We bring you the haunt

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need to prepare for Halloween. On Tuesdays,

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we bring you a roundup of news
from haunts worldwide. Read more about

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these stories and so much more in
our free weekly newsletter. Subscribe at the

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link in the show notes, and
as always for the news roundup, I'm

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passing it off to Darryl. At
the twenty twenty four OSCARS Awards, the

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Haunted Attraction Association recognized attraction owners,
vendors, and others who have excelled in

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the haunt industry with the annual OSCARS
Awards ceremony on Saturday at trans World's Halloween

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and Attractions Show in Saint Louis.
The OSCARS Awards are the highest achievement in

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the Halloween in Haunted attraction industry.
The Haunted Attraction Network produced this year's awards

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ceremony with Froggies Fog as the premier
sponsor. Over two hundred and eighty attendees

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gathered to support this year's winners,
making it the highest attended ceremony ever a

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full video will be available later this
week. Here's a summary of the winners

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Vendor Excellence Awards. The New Business
under five years goes to Savage Silicone,

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founded in twenty twenty. Savage Silicone
first debuted in twenty twenty one at trans

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World and has taken the Internet by
storm with its Big Khuna cheeseburger mask.

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While the business is new, the
owner, Arthur Donaldson, has been sculpting

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masks since two thousand and eight.
In the ten plus years category, Inferno

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Effects, Inferno Effects is best known
for its durable and lightweight half masks crafted

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with a scare actor in mind.
Owner Adrian Noriega began in the industry as

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a scare actor and takes time each
season to continue acting. That connection to

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the scaring craft informs his The Legacy
Vendor with twenty plus years goes to Haunted

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Hills Productions. The Legacy Vendor Excellence
Award recognize a company that has consistently delivered

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the community for over twenty years,
no small feat in this industry. The

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Hill Family is a Haunt family through
and through, encompassing three generations, beginning

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with Haunts in the nineteen eighties and
now expanding into props, masks, and

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effects. Haunted Hills production has become
an industry staple. The Home Haunter Award

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goes to Stanley House. What began
as a simple display has evolved into an

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experience spanning eight houses over the last
twenty three years. Stanley House has an

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entire block, eight houses united in
a single Helloween theme, and the theme

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changes each year. The Stanley family
loves creating this display to spread the spooky,

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but they also use it to give
back to those who serve our country.

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Donations from the display go to the
Marines at Camp Pendleton Board of Director's

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Awards. To Your Haunt goes to
Terror Roulette in South Barrington, Illinois.

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Terror Roulette is a first year haunt
that accomplished what many thought impossible. It

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created a new successful event in the
crowded Chicago market by offering something unique.

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Terror Roulette blends a walk through with
immersive theatrical elements for an established haunt.

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Terror Vault in San Francisco, California. Terror Vault is a two part theatrical

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horror experience held in the historic San
Francisco Mint. Guests arrive in the San

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Francisco Mint and enjoy the first segment, the fang Bang, before entering into

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the Initiation. The Initiation is a
linear experience at the intersection of a haunt,

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a theatrical show, and an escape
room. Guests play their part in

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a sixty minute story that unfolds through
the mint. It's a fabulous mixture of

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comedy, horror, jump scares,
and outrageousness that has garnered a local cult.

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Like following in the Legacy Haunt category
its Fright Kingdom from Nashua, New

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Hampshire. The final bo Board of
Director's Award was reserved for haunted attractions that

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have become legend in their communities,
and this award is for the best of

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the best. Freight Kingdom, located
in Nashau in New Hampshire, opened its

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doors over twenty years ago, starting
with two small attractions across eight thousand square

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feet and about twenty five cast members. Over the past twenty years, Fright

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Kingdom has become New England's largest indoor
screen park, entertaining tens of thousands of

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guests across its one hundred and fifty
thousand square foot haunted attraction, powered by

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its one hundred and thirty person staff. Five haunted attractions a walk through horror

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museum in an outdoor midway. Fright
Kingdom delivers an immersive experience you will never

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forget. Special recognition. Nick and
Beverly pappis dubbed official cheerleaders of the industry.

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It's tough to find anyone who doesn't
know of and has a picture with

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the Papas. The Papas have made
it a mission to travel to every East

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Coast Haunt and connect with haunters whatever
possible. The annual Papas Haunt Tour spans

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four thousand to six thousand miles over
six weeks each September and October. They

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have traveled over sixty five thousand miles
in their Haunt tours and attending conventions,

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visited twenty four states and three Canadian
provinces. They connect people wherever they go

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and have over ninety thousand pictures with
haunters. Also Canon Beasley, after surviving

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a battle with cancer, this young
home haunter has used his haunt to raise

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over forty seven thousand dollars for the
same children's hospital that saved his life.

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Canon chose to attend trans World this
year is his wish from Make a Wish.

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Canon has always loved Halloween and runs
the House of Doom Home Haunt.

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In twenty twenty one, Canon was
diagnosed and successively treated for Wilm's tumor.

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After Cannon's experience with the IWK Children's
Health Center, he decided that using the

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thing that he loves most, Halloween, to give back was a great idea.

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Thus Canon's Warrior for the IWK campaign
was born and continues today. The

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Lifetime Achievement Award went out to Ben
Armstrong from nether World Haunted House in Stone

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Mountain, Georgia, the Haunted Attraction
Association's highest honor as the Lifetime Achievement Award,

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recipients are individuals whose contribution to the
industry are fundamental to the industry itself,

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people without whom the industry wouldn't be
what it is. Described as the

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undercurrent of the industry, Ben has
spent decades protecting and nurturing the industry.

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Jen Thaylor, president of trans World
Trade Shows, introduced this year's recipient,

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Ben Armstrong. In her speech,
Jen highlighted how Ben remains humble and takes

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time daily to help any Hauntery can. In his acceptance speech, Ben spoke

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to the nature of Haunters, their
drive to build and why making positive memories

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for guests is critical. In Theme
park news, Nightmare Fuel Wildfire from Universal

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Studios Orlando's Helloween Horror Nights in Orlando, Florida, was awarded the most Creative

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Helloween Production at this year's IAPPA Honors
in Las Vegas, Nevada. In its

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second year, the spectacle has become
the highest rated show in the hhn's history.

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The production blends fire performances, illusions, and specialty he acts to create

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a unique and unforgettable experience. Trans
World Helloween, an attraction show, announced

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they will return to Saint Louis,
Missouri, on February twenty seventh through March

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second of twenty twenty five. Will
We See You There? In film and

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TV news, Crypt TV and Eli
Roth have partnered with Meta for a new

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VR episodic series, The Faceless Lady, premiering on April fourth at five pm

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Pacific daylight time. The series will
consist of six episodes, with new episodes

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each Thursday. Based on Irish folklore, The Faceless Lady follows three couples invited

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to a medieval castle for a weekend
competition in Ireland, the winner shall inherit

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killol Castle and all that lies within
it, both the living and the dead.

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Attendees canaris VP for the event at
Meta Horizon Worlds, with the series

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available in the Creepy Cabin world.
For those unable to tune into episodes when

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they premiere in the Meta Horizon Worlds, the Faceless Lady can be watched on

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demand in VR with Medical West TV
bands without a medic Quest br headset can

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watch the first two episodes on Crypt
TV's Facebook page when they premiere in VR.

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Some outcoming events through May of twenty
twenty four include Fear Expo April twelfth

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through fourteenth in Owensboro, Kentucky,
The Spooky Swap Meet April twenty six through

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twenty eighth in Los Angeles, California, East Coast Haunters Convention April twenty seventh

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and twenty eighth in Oaks, Pennsylvania, and Monster Palooza May thirty first through

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June second in Pasadena, California.
And that's all for the news this week.

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Today's episode was produced by me Philip
Bernandez, with reporting by Darryl Plunky,

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post production by David Swape. This
Haunt News update is a production of

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the Haunted Attraction Network, and you
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Controls. Until next time, Haunters, stay scary. This is are Haunted

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