NEWS: Horror Nights House Announcements; Summer Haunt Tours

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. Universal Orlando revealed the first two of ten haunted houses coming to Halloween horror Nights in twenty twenty four. Slaughter Cinema two. Slaughter Cinema opened in twenty eighteen as a house based on various fictional B movies set in a drive in movie theater. This year's house, we'll take guests through eight fictional movies and only the film Heavy Metal three D was announced. Universal announced the maze and discussed it in more depth at their panel during Spooky Empire.

1:04 Follow the links in our show notes to watch the video by camin Hemneck. Goblin's Feast was teased earlier Monday on social media. The description reads, Welcome to the Goblins Feast Tavern and visit the Goblin Village where a lavish feast is being prepared for goblins, orcs, Hobgoblins and witches and You're the main course. Halloween Horror Knights at Universal Orlando will have ten haunted houses. The houses will mix intellectual property with original stories, and so far both announcements are original stories. The events return select Knights from August thirtieth to November three. Tickets are on sale now starting at eighty two to ninety nine for single night admission and one twenty nine ninety nine for express passes. Fans of Nightmare Before Christmas Rejoice Creep at Real Nostalgic in Santa Ana, California announced two exciting celebrity guests for their September fourteenth and fifteenth events, Chris Sirr and Ken Page.

2:00 An Academy Award winning nominated actor, Chris Sarandon not only voiced Jack Skellington, but has also appeared in the classic horror films Fright Night and Child's Play. Ken Page is a noted director of musical theater, performer and voice actor voicing the infamous Oogie Boogie. Both actors will be available for meet and greets during creep at Real Nostalgic. Tickets are on sale now, starting at seventeen dollars for single day admission, twenty seven for a creep In Weekend pass, and forty nine dollars for a dual festival Weekend pass, which is both creep at Real Nostalgic and creep it Real Festive. Tickets are now on sale for the Midwest Haunters Convention Haunt tours. The pre convention Haunted House Bus Tour on Thursday, June sixth will take attendees to disturb a Haunted House in Downers Grove, Illinois, Evil On Eerie, Haunted House in Lafayette, Indiana, Thirteenth Hour Haunted Attraction in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Niles Scream Park in Niles, Indiana.

3:00 Bus tour tickets are three hundred dollars. Self driving tickets are two hundred and twenty five or two hundred and fifty. After May twenty ninth, guests brave enough to embark on the Friday Night Haunted House Tour will visit Hellsgate Haunted House in Rosemont, Illinois. Bus tour tickets are one hundred and five. Self driving tickets are eighty. Pride or Die, the lgbtqia Plus event produced by Horror and Color, returns to Media Pollution in Los Angeles, California, on Saturday, May twenty fifth, from six pm to ten thirty pm. Now in its fourth year, the event features a DJ set from host Suckubus, immersive art health resources from Somos loud La, two live podcast iHeartMedia's Black Fat Fam and three brown Jodos with special guest Satana. The Boulet Brothers Dragula season five on Shutter Drag performances, a short film screening of picture by filmmaker Sadie Sellers, a marketplace of lgbtqia plus vendors, food from Rice and Barbecue, mocktails from Beautiful Poisons, and more, all in a haunting atmosphere.

4:04 RSVP on their website to attend. Creepy Hollow Haunted Woods in spring Hill, Tennessee, suffered extensive damage during a tornado on May eighth. While owners Rocky and Debbie Fritch and their many animals could remain safe throughout the severe weather event, their haunt and home were destroyed. Thirteen years in the making, gone in thirteen seconds, said Rocky in an interview with a local news station. The couple will not be able to return to their home until Christmas, and they hope that they will be able to reopen Creepy Hollow Haunted Woods in the twenty twenty five Halloween season. A GoFundMe page have been organized in their honor, hoping to raise fifty thousand dollars to mitigate the rebuilding costs. Blumhouse announced their twenty twenty five slate of horror film the year. We'll start with wolf Man on January seventeenth of twenty twenty five. Next are two new titles, The Woman in the Yard on March twenty eighth of twenty twenty five and Drop, coming out April eleventh of twenty twenty five. The rest of the year is filled with highly anticipated sequels, Megan two point zero in June twenty seventh, untitled Insidious sequel in August of twenty twenty five, The Black Bone two in October of twenty twenty five, and The Greatest Christmas Present of All Five Nights at Freddy's two coming out December fifth of twenty twenty five. Party City has announced two new animatronics for this year's Halloween lineup. Standing at nine point seven feet tall, Doctor Payne the fire Eater on stilts for three hundred and twenty five dollars is quite the sinister show man. With his next stretch towards the sky, he appears to breathe fire into the night and bursts of light

5:38 and smoke escaping his ghastly grin. The animatronics eyes, mouth, and torch light up, and the piece is fog machine compatible. A Terrifying Teddy Bear skill Crane two hundred and fifty dollars appears to be a standard claw game, but instead of using the claw to find a teddy Bear, a petrifying plushy finds you instead. The piece is five points seven feet tall with a claw that moves side to side and an evil looking teddy bear that pops up to frighten unsuspecting trigger treaters. Neither animatronic is on sale just yet. Stay tuned in Party City's website for announcements and release details. For those of you living in southern California, we've got a few events to highlight, including the Haunt super Show in Pomona, California. Apologize for previous mispronunciations and spelling errors.

6:26 Coming to you until May twenty seven. Then there's Pride or Die in Los Angeles, California, on May twenty fifth, and Monster Palooza in Pasadena, California, May thirty first through June first. In other parts of the country, the Midwest Haunters Convention is appearing June seventh through ninth at Rosemont, Illinois, the Texas Haunters Convention in July thirteenth and fourteenth in Mesquite, Texas. And Midsummer Scream July twenty sixth through twenty eighth in Long Beach, California. And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode was produced by me Philip Hernandez, with reporting by Daryl Plunky. Post production by David Swope. This hant News Update is a production of the Haunted Attraction Network and you can sign up to our weekly newsletter at Haunted Attractionnetwork dot com. Support for this episode comes from gantum Lighty and controls. Until next time, Haunters Stay Scary.

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