News Roundup: Monsterpalooza This Weekend & Scary Farm Auditions

0:07 Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Phillip on the h A N 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 Daryl calling all monsters not Scary Farm in Buena Park, California is hiring scare actors for their fiftieth anniversary event in person. Auditions will be held on June sixteenth and seventeenth, and twenty fourth and twenty fifth. To secure an audition reservation, individuals must submit an application via knots Very Farm official job website. See the link in our show notes. A link to book your addition appointment will be shared two to five business days after an application has been received. Walk in additions will not be permitted. Come to the addition prepared to move and act like a monster, but please no costumes, monster makeup, or props. Monster Palooza takes place this coming weekend, June second through fourth, at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California, celebrating the art of monsters and movie magic. The event will feature over four hundred and fifty exhibitors, monster museum, makeup demos, celebrity guests, and more. Programming highlights include the Shining Panel with star Danny Lloyd Friday at ten pm and a Hocus Pocus panel featuring cast and crew including Doug Jones,

1:41 Amricats, Vanessa Shaw and Moore Saturday at three. Saturday Night at seven thirty is the official Monster Palooza Afterlife Party, honoring Mike Elizalde, a spectral motion including live music, cash bars, and surprise guests. Admission to the after party is free with a Monster Paloozer wristband. Tickets for Friday and Sunday admission are available to purchase online. Saturday admission is sold out online, but a limited number of tickets will be available at the door. Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, California, debuted their first ever television commercial, now running on Pluto TV's Horror channel. The Haunted Attraction Network provided the footage and Josh Quillen, director of epic Home Haunts edited it. The spot also features music by Lovecraft.

2:23 Midsummer Scream will take place at the Long Beach Convention Center on July twenty eighth through thirtieth. The theme of this year's event is Ghoulish Games. Guests will be able to explore an enormous array of horror themed games, from video and role playing games to board and tabletop game a special game area on the show floor, along with game themed presentations. I'll join a full lineup of Midsummer Scream weekend activities that include the Hall of Shadow, Mini Haunts, the Screaming Room, panels, presentations, performances, Paranormal Pixies, Pumpkin Patch, Children's Zone, the Exhibitor Floor, the Black Cat Lounge, Saturday Night Party, and or. Tickets are on sale now with a single day passes starting from thirty five dollars for adult admission and one hundred and forty day for a three day VIP gold bat pass. Creep a Real OC in Santa Ana, California, announced a new addition to their programming. On Sunday, September seventeenth, they will present Black Flame Campfire Tales, thirty years of Hocus Pocus hosted by Jeff D. Paoli of Disney Coast to Coast Podcast Here what it was like to film Disney's hocus Pocus with original cast members Vanessa Shaw, Jason Mardsden, and Omriecats. Tickets for Creep a Real Oc are on sale now, starting at fifteen dollars for a single day passes and twenty five dollars for weekend passes. Hell's Gate Haunted House in Lockport, Illinois is hosting its first annual Spooky Garage Sale June sixteenth through eighteenth. To sale will feature over twenty five years of Zombie Army productions collection of spookiness from their flagship attractions, Hell's Gate Haunted House and Statesvale Haunted Prison. Items for sale include Helloween decor, animal

4:00 tronics, prop costumes, yard decor, furniture, antiques, and more. Zombie Joe's Underground Theater Group in North Hollywood, California proudly present Doctor Smegma's Human Petting Zoo and Sparkling Waters Waiting Room June ninth through eleventh. Step into the horrorfying realm of Doctor Smegma's macab Hospital, where the boundaries between creation and destruction dissolve into a nightmare of unimaginable proportions. In this ghastly cat cafe style immersive experience, guests will find themselves trapped within the hospital's nightmares, sparkling waters, waiting room, and air conditioned purgatory, teeming with unfathomable monstrosities that yearn for human touch. As you sink deeper into the dramatic ambiance, sip on some refreshing sparkling water, and surrender to the unhinged charm of the deformed creatures that hunger for your calming, therapeutic affection. Brace yourself for a treat unlike any other, where the boundaries between pleasure and horror blur, leaving you forever scarred by the insidious secrets that lie within. Directed by Zombie Joe and Charlotte Cocker for Audience's eighteen plus, tickets are on sale now for twenty dollars in advance twenty five at the door. Searching for a perfectly ghoulish getaway, join the Ghostly Retreat Airbnb rental for an open house on Saturday, June tenth. Enter the popular Haunted Mansion themed Airbnb. Meet Disney imagineer Bob Gurr, the mastermind behind the magic of the original Haunted Mansion, Doom Buggies, and receive an autographed Haunted Mansion Attraction poster. Explore the retreat with designer Jeff Scheffelbean to hear

5:30 stories and insights from the creation process of this enchanting experience. Light refreshments will be provided as you take in the erie atmosphere and mingle with fellow Disney enthusiasts. It's an ideal occasion to share and make new connections. Tickets are available online for forty five dollars per person. Pirate's Dinner Adventure in Buena Park, California, is adding a brand new character to their dinner theater adventure, the dreaded Leviathan. Starting this summer, guests can experience an epic adventure is the brave swashbuckling Pirates face their biggest challenge yet. Watch in Aws, the animatronic dragon moves its long neck across the ship and snaps its harrowing jaws full of sharp teeth on an all new finale. Pirates Dinner Adventure is an interactive, family friendly dinner theater that has been entertaining the Buena Park area for nearly twenty years. Learn more and book your tickets on their official website Save the Date.

6:24 Crampus Tavern at the Globe Theater in Los Angeles, California, will return on December tenth, twenty twenty three. Follow Midnight Souls Productions on Instagram for event announcements and ticket sales in the coming months. Event organizers have also shared the following message to vendors via social media. In order to improve our guest experience and to ensure a safe open floor plan, we will not be opening vendor applications for our cocktail experiences at Globe Theater. A very small group of vendors will be curated by invitation only to best fit the theme of the experience. Upcoming events this June and July include Monster Pollut June second through fourth in Pasadena, California, Midwest Haunters Convention June tenth and eleventh in Rosemont, Illinois.

7:06 Texas Haunters Convention July fifteenth and sixteenth in Mesquite, Texas. Horror Ween Cohn, Idaho July twenty first through twenty third in Boise, Idaho. Midsummer Scream July twenty eighth through thirtieth in Long Beach, California. Ghosts of Summer July twenty ninth and thirtieth in Portland, Oregon. Spring and summer haunts include All Hallows Eve, Terror Town in Williamsburg, Ohio, The Drake Society in Ontario, California, Eloise Asylum in Westland, Michigan, Freight Mare in Chesapeake, Virginia, Aller and Haunts, Hayride in Clinton, North Carolina, Riverside Entertainment in Saloam Springs, Arkansas, Scream Hollow, Wicked Helloween Park and Smithville, Texas, Castle, Blood in Menisson, Pennsylvania, Dark Castle in Elgin, South Carolina, Wicked World Scare Grounds in Nicholasville, Kentucky, Necropolis Underground in Indianapolis, Indiana, and SRD Haunted Attractions in Polkatello. Then moving into July, We've got the Ams Haunted Attractions in Maryville, Tennessee, Blood Prison in Mansfield, Ohio, Cinema of Horrors, Haunted House in Kelso, Washington, and Ever Haunt and Angela, New York. If your haunt is open, remember to add yourself to our list by contacting us through the links in the show notes or replying to your newsletter. 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 Swolk. This haunt News Update is a production of the Haunted Traction Network, and you can sign up to our weekly newsletter

8:37 at Haunted Traction network dot com. Support for this episode comes from Ghantum Lighting and Controls. Until next time, Haunters, stay scary. This is a Haunted Attraction