NEWS: 3 More Haunted Houses Announced by Horror Nights; Fantasy Springs Tour

0:07 Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Philip on the hn Show. We bring you the haunt news, information and education you need to prepare for Halloween. On Tuesdays, we bring you a roundup of news from haunts worldwide. Read more about these stories and so much more in our free weekly newsletter. Subscribe at the link in the show notes, and as always for the news roundup, I'm passing it off to Darryl. Halloween Horror Nights and Universal Orlando in Orlando, Florida has announced another three mazes in the Museum Deadly Exhibits. Visit the Rotting Stone, the Local Folklore Museum's infamous new exhibit. An evil spirit escapes from within, possessing the other displays and decaying everything in its path. After a successful debut at Universal Studios Hollywood last year, Monsteros the Monsters of Latin America makes its way to Orlando with Lea Muerte as your guide. Based the bloodsucking slahu Plucci, Owl Faced which La la Chuza and the bone ripping El Silbon.

1:15 View a walkthrough of last year's Hollywood version by following the links in Our Shona. Finally, in Triplets of Terror, attend the Barmes triplets birthday bash, but prepare for a gory gathering as they celebrate by recreating their family's murders. Scare zones have not yet been announced, but last year we did see a scare zone for the major sweets Haunt, and Hollywood's version of Monstros saw a companion scare zone. El Terror de las Momias. Tokyo Disney c in Tokyo, Japan is officially opening their new Fantasy Springs area on June sixth, twenty twenty four, but the Haunted Attraction Network's very own Philipernandez was able to get a sneak peek on behalf of Attractions Magazine. In his video walkthrough, Philip showcases all the new facades, fountains and more in the three sections of Fantasy Springs Frozen Kingdom, Peter Pan's Neverland and Rapunzel's Forest, as well as the new in park Disney Fantasy Springs Hotel. After a year long hiatus, Phantasmic has returned to Disneyland in Anaheim, California. The show features a newly reimagined final battle between Sorcerer Mickey and Moleficent. Instead of a return of the infamous dragon animatronic Mollificent now rises thirty five feet atop a tower, dotting her dark gown and scepter to light the River of America Aflame. Another change is the return of the classic Peter Pan sequence on the sailing ship Columbia. Peter Pan has been featured in Phantasmic until twenty seventeen, when a Pirates of the Caribbean

2:47 scene replace the classic Pan versus Captain Hook battle aboard the ship. Midsummer Scream has announced its lineup of theme park and attraction presentations for their July twenty six through twenty eighth event in Long Beach, California. Saturday, July twenty seventh will feature presentations from Castle Dark, Queen Mary's Dark Harbor, and Six Flags Magic Mountains. Fright Fest Sunday July twenty eighth will feature presentations from Not Scary Farm, the Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group, including the La Hunted Hay Ride, Delusion and Magic of the Jack O Lanterns, Universal Studios, Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights, and the Winchester Mystery House. Plan and schedule your spook Field Days at this year's event with the Midsummer Screams Free Official App with nearly one hundred hours of panels, presentations, and performances, over three hundred vendors to browse, as well as haunted Houses, Black Cat Lounge, Screaming Room, and more. The app is the perfect way to schedule your day so you can see as much as possible. Event tickets are on sale now starting thirty five to fifty dollars for single day passes, sixty five for weekend passes, and one forty five for the VIP Gold Bat passes. Monster Palooza's fifteenth anniversary event will take place this weekend May thirty first June second at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California. Monster Peluza celebrates the art of monsters and movie magic with over four hundred and fifty exhibitors, monster Museum, makeup demos, celebrity guests, and more. The official Monster Paluza Afterlife Party on Saturday will honor Tony Gardner and Alterian Effects and feature an awards show, live music by Strange

4:21 Days, the Doris Tribute Band, bars, and special guests. Tickets are on sale now starting at forty dollars for Friday admission, forty five for Sunday, and ninety dollars for a three day pass. Saturday advanced tickets are currently sold out, but tickets will be available at the door on Saturday, June first, four to fifty dollars each. Early bird prices for Midwest Haunters Convention and on May twenty nine to eleven fifty nine Central Time, taking place July seventh through ninth, and the show floor the eighth and ninth at the Donald East Evens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois. Midwest Haunters Convention features a lively vendor floor, educational seminars, pre show, US tours, and more. Early Bird pricing starts at forty five to fifty dollars for one day floor access tickets, sixty five for weekend show floor access, and three hundred and sixty five for weekend passes including the Friday Night Haunt Tour and the Saturday Night Party.

5:14 Fearworm has won a Silver Telly Award for its video commercial for Scarehouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Established in nineteen seventy nine, the Telly Awards honor outstanding video and television productions receiving over thirteen thousand entries from around the world each year. We are immensely honored to receive this Telly Award, said Ernest Cordor, present of Fearworm. Our team is passionate about creating immersive, engaging content that delivers real results for our clients. This award is an outstanding reflection of our dedication to the haunted attraction industry, but also an exciting feat to win an international award in this business category. The commercial feature professionally filmed scenes along with security camera footage from inside the Haunt. View the award winning commercial at Fearworm's official YouTube channel. Zombie Joe's Underground Theater Group in North Hollywood, California, presents Elijah Connelly's Enter the Void May thirty first through June second. Enter the Void centers around the doomsday cult known as the Union of the Void, that has discovered a way to bring about the end of the universe through maximum entropy.

6:15 Step into the cult's shadowy realm and navigate through a dreamscape of fear and wonder, experiencing the ultimate demise of existence in a way that only Zombie Joe's Underground Theater group can Deliver. Tickets are on sale now for twenty dollars in advance and twenty five at the door. Screenfest presents a screening of Brian to Palmer's nineteen seventy six classic horror Carrie at the Freeda Cinema in Santa Ana, California, on Friday, May thirty. First. Tickets are on sale now for fifteen dollars each. Scare City in Shorley, United Kingdom announced its return for the fifth year to the abandoned Camelot Theme Park. Over the next six weeks, the attraction will announce each of its ten Scare zones. Currently announced zones include Slaughterhouse, where Camelot's resident Cannabiate hosts his annual dinner party, Carney Valley, where evil clowns take all the fun out of the Funhouse, The Basilica of Gagani, where an altar of evil awaits, and the all new Arakne, a horrifying spider experience where visitors will enter the spider Queen's web of Fear and her cluster of sinister spiders. The event runs September twenty sixth through November three. Tickets are on zial now starting at twenty six pounds ninety five for standard entry and thirty six pounds ninety five for a gold entry. Deadmonton Haunted House in Alberta, Canada is now hiring for the twenty twenty four season.

7:33 Interested individuals can now submit their applications for positions such as scare actors, makeup FX artist, customer service staff, concession staff, parking lot attendants, store personnel, and custodians. Scare actor auditions will be held in person on July twenty seventh and August seventh. Thirteenth and eighteenth. Video auditions will be accepted through August seventeenth at nine pm Mountain Time, It's showtime. Warner Brothers Picture is released the official trailer for the upcoming Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The film is directed by Tim Burton, with returning cast Michael Keaton, we own A writer, and Catherine O'Hara. The trailer featured glimpses of some new faces joining the cast of the Strange and Unusual, including Justin Threw, Monica Balucci, Arthur Conti, Jenna Ortega, and Willem Dafoe Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice will be released in the US. On September sixth, twenty twenty four, Mars Wrigley has announced its candy lineup for Halloween twenty twenty four. At Mars, we celebrate Halloween every day all year long, said Tim LaBelle, the Chief Halloween Officer and President of Sales at Mars Wrigley North America, shared in a statement, our twenty twenty four Mars Wrigley Halloween product lineup is a direct reflection of our consumer obsession and offers a playful blend of taste, creativity, and on trend seasonal offerings to deliver products we know we'll end up in the good pile on Halloween Night. New for twenty twenty four is the M and M's Milk Chocolate Pumpkin Pie, featuring on trend pumpkin spice flavors in a milk chocolate shell deliver that

9:03 feel good flavor of fall. Other offerings include Snickers Pumpkins featuring redesigned packaging, Mars Wriglely mixed variety bags, Twigs Ghoulish Green, Snickers Goulish Green, Eminem's Ghoules blend of milk chocolate, peanut and peanut butter, and Snickers Fun sized Buckets. Mars is also launching their inaugural Tricks, Treats and Trends report. With the majority of Americans planning to celebrate Halloween in some way, report looked at generational differences in how people celebrate the occasion. Gen Z celebrates Halloween early and often. Thirty six percent of gen Z Americans who plan to celebrate Halloween plan for the holiday more than a month in advance, and some gen zs are already planning for Halloween now. They are also most likely to make multiple trips to purchase candy throughout the season compared to other age groups, and they are more likely to hand out full sized candy bars. To plan your trick or treating route accordingly. For all of our So Cal event people, make sure you head over to Santa Ana Cala, Fournia for Screamfest Presents Carrie on May thirty first. In Pasadena, California, Monster Poluza is happening May thirty first through June second, and in North Hollywood, California, Enter the Void is happening May thirty first through June second. Some upcoming events this year include Monster Palooza and Pasadena, California from May thirty first to June second, the Midwest Haunters Convention in Rosemont, Illinois from June seventh through ninth, a Texas Haunters Convention, Mesquite, Texas July thirteenth and fourteenth, and Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, California, July twenty sixth through twenty eight And that's all for

10:37 the news this week. Today's episode was produced by me Philip Hernandez, with reporting by Darryl Plunky, post production by David Swope. This Haunt News Update is a production of the Haunted Attraction Network and you can sign up to our weekly newsletter at hantattrastionnetwork dot com. Support for this episode comes from Gantum Mighty End Controls. Until next time, Haunters, Stay Scared. This is a Haunted Attraction Network production.