NEWS: Midsummer Scream Gathers 50,000 Halloween Fans This Weekend

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. Midsummer Scream takes place this weekend July twenty sixth through twenty eight at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. The event features an exhibit floor with over three hundred spooky vendors, the Hall of Shadows, Mini Haunts, the Screaming Room, panels, presentations, performances, paranormal Pixies, Pumpkin Patch, Children's Zone, the Black Cat Lounge, Day Night Party, and more. Tickets are on sale now and be sure to get them soon, as a record breaking fifty thousand Halloween fans are expected to attend this year. This year's Haul of Shadows celebrates spirits and legends with an impressive lineup of mini haunts and experiences for guests to enjoy. Enter through a dilapidated ghost town created by the team at Fear Farm and go on an experience of over a dozen spooky attractions. Lions Gate, in partnership with Plague Productions, will present Gears of Fear, explore the legacy of lions Gate Horror, inviting attendees to come face to face with the studio's greatest mad men and monsters. Survive the kill room of a psychotic madman with Scream Warriors, an

1:41 immersive audio experience from Lovecraft and Christopher Young. Join the Mystery Incorporated crew with Drake Society Scooby Doo in the Carnival of Chills. Visit a Celtic cemetery with a haunt with no name yet now with more ghosts. Popular photographer Rale of the Dead returns at the new pop up photo experience. Enter the exclusive Warehouse six with Santa Anna, Haunt haunting grounds at the Happy Hauntings Bar. Encounter familiar monsters around each corner in a one of a kind photo op. Walk through Haunt with Pizza Planet truck and art side show The Real Side Show. Try Not to Wake the Dark denizens of a Realm of Shadow Labyrinth of Lost Souls. Take a spooky and unique photo with a haunted car wash three hundred and sixty degree photo experience. Celebrate cal Haunts twentieth Anniversary cal Haunt S Phantom Express. Get a sneak peek at the beauty of handcarved pumpkins and displays coming this fall with Magic of the jack O Lanterns Los Angeles Preview. Face a mysterious force that lurks in the cursed mining town with Hellazondo. Haunt the Incident at Hope's Edge. Cheer on your favorite sliders at the daily performances from Decayed Brigade. Celebrate Dia de los Morito's with George Newman's Casa Calaveras a walk through art experience all this and more. Wait in the Hall of the Shadows Dark Zone. Get your tickets to Midsummer Screen Today to experience all of the chills.

3:05 Links are in our show notes. Nightmare Fuel Nocturnal Circus will entertain guests at this year's Halloween Horror Nights and Universal Orlando, Orlando, Florida. Step right up to the Dark Circus and get trapped in a thrilling spectacle of pyro and aerialist to the beat pulse of pounding rock rhythms. This is the fourth version of the Nightmare Fuel Show, which premiered at HHN Orlando in twenty twenty one. Halloween Horror Nights run select nights August thirtieth through November three. Tickets are now on sale. Russ mccamie, owner of mccamie Manor, was arrested last Friday on domestic assault charges. According to a Lawrence County arrest Affidavid mccamee allegedly assaulted his girlfriend. He posted one thousand dollars bail and has been ordered to have no contact with the victim. His initial court appearances schedule for August sixth in Lawrence County General Session's Court. A new fall tradition presented by Medpace is coming to the Cincinnati Zoo and Buttananecal Garden in Cincinnati, Ohio. Jack O Lantern Glow. This immersive walkthrough experience will feature more than five thousand handcarved pumpkins and fall displays along a half mile trail in the Zoo. Best of food including pumpkin spice, hot chocolate, apple cider, Sprits, pumpkin beer, and caramel apples will be available for purchase. Jack O Lantern Glow will take place select dates October third through thirty first. Tickets are on sale now for twenty five per adult and twenty dollars per child, with Cincinnati Zoo members receiving three dollars off all general admission tickets. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.

4:33 Sam's Club will debut a new ten and a half foot air blown inflatable archway based on the classic nineteen eighty eight film Beetlejuice. This Halloween season, transport trigger treaters into the afterlife with the tutular Ghost to the Most and the iconic Sandworm. The archway is now on sale for one hundred and ninety nine ninety four. Target has debuted some of its twenty twenty four Hide and Eke Boutique collections online this past week. Feel transported back to in the eighties with the punk rock, disco vibes and electric hues of the Neon Thrills Halloween collection embrace a mysteriously woodland style with dark forest decor. These new editions and many returning Favorites are available for purchase online and will come to store shelves in the coming weeks. Warner Brothers Pictures released the second trailer for the highly anticipated Beetlejuice.

5:19 Beetlejuice. The trailer gives fans a better taste of the upcomings film's plot and glimpses of the all noon returning ghouls Lydia and her daughter Astrid will face as they journey into the afterlife Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice will be released in the US on September sixth of this year. Upcoming events from July through September include Midsummer Scream July twenty six through twenty eighth in Long Beach, California, and Creep at Real Nostalgic September fourteenth and fifteenth and Santa Ana, California. Other events in SoCal this Halloween include the Oogie Boogie Bash at Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim August twenty fifth through October thirty. First Halloween Horrnites at Universal Still Studio and Universal City September fifth through November three. Write Fast Extreme Magic Mountain in Valencia September seventh through November three not Scary Farm at Knottsberry Farm in Buena Park September nineteenth through November two, The Queen Mary's Dark Harbor in Long Beach September twentieth through November second, Halloween Scream and SeaWorld San Diego September twenty seventh through November second.

6:25 And Reign of Terror in Thousand Oaks September twenty seventh through November second. 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 Haunt News Update is a production of the Haunted Attraction Network and you can sign up to our weekly newsletter at Haunted Attraction Network dot com. Support for this episode comes from Gantum Lighty and controls. Until next time, Haunters Stay Scary. This is a Haunted Attraction netwok