Roundup: Howl-O-Scream Rises Nationwide; The Weeknd in Singapore

0:07 Coming up your weekly roundup of news from around the haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Philip 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. Get ready for this year's Haunted Attraction Network Hauntathon. Starting September first, we will celebrate haunted attractions daily via videos, podcasts, and articles. Stay tuned to the podcast this week for a preview of this year's Hauntathon content. Hallow Scream at Bush Gardens, Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida. We'll return night September eight through October thirty first with an all new haunted house, two new scare zones, and new interactive entertainment offerings. This year's event will feature six spine chilling scare zones, five hair raising haunted houses, and four elaborate entertainment productions. Fan favorite haunted houses such as Stranglewood Estate, which of the woods and the residents home for the holidays, will return, as well as infamous scare zones including the Junkyard, Beyond the Vale, the Short Cut, and Ravens Mill. New for twenty twenty three are scare Zones Big Ads, Demolition, Derby and Sin City, Zombies, and a Haunted House dh Pagham's Circus of Fear. The Forgotten Uprising Haunted

1:41 House has been reimagined with all new chills and thrills. Eerie entertainment will include the Rock the Grave Stage Show, musical performances by the Rolling Bones, Rave Yard Dance Party, and Cirque x Screams, death defying acts and stunts joining in the musical fun with the all new Scary Oak Experience where fans can sing along to their favorite tunes. Hallow Scream is a separated ticketed event. Tickets, upgrades and packages are on sale now at the event's official website. Hallow Scream at SeaWorld Orlando in Orlando, Florida, returns select nights September eight through October thirty feet with three new houses, three new scare zones, five Sirens, and the return of four fan favorite attractions. New House Delirium six six six Laboratories, Beneath the Ice, the Meltdown, and Dead Vines. Nolan's Nightmare join the reimagined Captain's Revenge, Drowned in Darkness and Blood Beckoning. The three new scare zones Toxic Turmoil, Blood Light District and Carnevil Pier join returning favorites Portal of Passage, Frozen In Terror, Alive in the Ice, Witchcraft Bayou, and Terrors of the Deep. The Hallow Scream experience would not be complete without SeaWorld's darkly entertaining, high energy shows like The Haunting Sirens Song and the award winning Monster Stam. Guests can wench their thirst per fear at a variety of fiendishly interactive bars, Carnevil curiosities new for twenty twenty three, The Longshoreman Tavern, Tormented, Poisoned Grotto, and Siren's Last Call. Hello Scream

3:14 is a separately ticketed event. Single day and multi night tickets are on sale at the event's official website. Prepare to delve into the enigmatic world of Grammy winning artists the weekend at Universal Studios Singapore Halloween Horror Nights in Santosa, Singapore, after successful houses in Universal Orlando Resort in Universal Studios Hollywood last year. This new house will feature chart topping hits from the Weekend's album After Hours and Dawn FM. The Weekend After Hours Till Dawn Nightmare promises a spine tingling journey into the singer's mind, where guests will traverse through the eerie corridors of his nightmarish nightclub. The house will feature five new rooms inspired by Dawn FM. Halloween has been significant to my music, and that makes Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights such a fun and novel stage to bring my music around the world.

4:02 I'm thrilled to have a haunted house in Singapore and share this experience with my fans in Southeast Asia. The Weekend said in a news release. Universal Studios Singapore Halloween Horror Nights eleven will spend eighteen sli nights from September twenty nine through November fourth. Tickets are on Ziale now starting between seventy nine to eighty nine dollars. Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, held its opening night on August eleventh. This separately ticketed nighttime event features the spell Binding Entertainment Tricker, treating, festive foods, photo ops, Disney characters dressed in their Halloween fast and more. Entertainment highlight includes Mickey's Booty You Halloween Parade, Disney's Not So Spooky Spectacular featuring projections, special effects, music, firework, and the Pumpkin King Himself, Jack Skellington, and the Hocus Pocus fill In Spectacular stage show. Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party runs select nights through November First. Tickets are on zale now starting one hundred and forty nine dollars two hundred and ninety nine dollars for adult admission. The Taste of Terror at Universal Studios Orlando in Orlando, Florida, opened on August tenth and runs select nights through August twenty six. The special event features an exclusive All You Care to Enjoy preview of select items that will be featured at the Halloween Horror Nights, and options for alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages. Tickets are on sale now for one thirty five ninety nine per person. Castle Park and Riverside, California, will celebrate fifteen years of Fears this Halloween season as it transforms into Castle Dark Fridays through Sundays September twenty second through October twenty nine.

5:38 For its fifteenth season, Castle Dark will feature five all new experiences, the Cinema of Fear and Night Shift Haunts, Shipwreck Cove and Slider Alley interactive shows, and the Haunted Highway Antique car ride overlay. Tickets are on sale now starting at twenty four ninety nine, Warner Brothers, Discovery Global Themed Entertainment, and Eagan Escape Productions have joined four once again to bring fans a second installment of Escapeit in Las Vegas, Nevada. Escape It Chapter two features over sixteen interactive rooms that bring the hit film to life, from the Jade of the Orient Restaurant to the Dairy Canal, Days Midway and Pennywises Lair. The Escape Room utilizes special effects, lighting, animatronics, and live actors to create a creepy and immersive experience. In addition to the two Escape Room experiences, the venue hosts a lobby area with props from the film, carnival style midway games, and a full scale It themed retail store with photo ops and exclusive custom merchandise. Tickets for Escapeit Chapters one and two were on sale now starting at fifty four ninety nine for single experience general admission, seventy four ninety nine for single private VIP admission, eighty nine ninety nine for Chapter one and Chapter two combo general admission tickets, and one twenty nine ninety nine for combo VIP tickets.

6:54 Learn more about these escape rooms in their creation from our interview with Jason Egan from March twenty three. Follow the links in our show notes to find this interview. Zombie Joe's Underground Theater Group is thrilled to bring Urban Death Tour of Terror back to North Hollywood, California, from select nights October sixth through October thirty feet of twenty twenty three. Part twisting Haunted House and part theater production, Urban Death Tour of Terror will reach into the depths of the darkest corners of the Human Psyche to bring you their most horrifying show yet. The monstrous Freaks are here to terrify and shock you to your core. After facing the spine chilling and often risk a maze upon entrance, guests will be treated to a captivating live show consisting of a series of shocking and bloody wordless vignettes and mind blowing physical performances. Guests will then face frightening new creatures hiding within the reversed version of the scream inducing Tour of Terror Maze on their way back to the real world. Tickets are on Ziale now, starting at twenty two dollars for advanced purchases twenty seven at the door. Dark Harvest Haunted Attraction will be housed in a new location for twenty twenty three, a three acre lot in Garden Grove, California. The expanded location will allow for two fully themed walkthrough attractions, photo ops, and entertainment. This year's haunt include a sequel to the event's twenty twenty two Maize Shady Pines Asylum, The Escape, and The Scary Clowns. Celebrating its eighth year, Dark Harvest will employ twenty five actors, high tech scares, and spooky sets to startle and scare the communities of Orange County. Tickets are on sale now, starting at thirty dollars for

8:26 general admission and forty five for express queue. In music news, Midnight Syndicate have released their fifteenth studio album, The Brimstone Club, featuring the soundtracks from Imaginary Films concepts. The band helped pioneer. The Brimstone Club blends orchestration and sound effects to take listeners into a shadowy theater club where the strangeness of its exotic entertainment and libations are matched only by its peculiar clientele. The album was inspired by the Parisian Cabaret de la Alpha, the nineteenth century hell themed cabaret that was a four runner to the Haunted attraction and themed restaurants from the taverns of today, said Midnight Syndicate founder and co composer Edward Douglas. Sometimes a piece of history can prove to be as fascinating as anything one might imagine, added Midnight Syndicate co composer Gavin Goscott. Similar to Midnight Syndicate's other albums, The Brimstone Glub utilizes music and sound to tell a story whose details are left up to the listener. We hope people can listen to it at least once, from start to finish, in a quiet, darkened room. There's a lot in this world to explore in your mind's eye, said Douglas. All set for summer Camp. Creep It Reel OC and Santa Ana, California, returns to the Heritage Square Museum of Orange County on September sixteenth and seventeenth, twenty twenty three, with a Creepy Camp theme and a celebration of thirty years of Disney's hocus Pocus. In its fourth year, creep It Reel is presenting its largest event to date, filled with over one hundred and twenty spooky vendors, live music and entertainment, food trucks, spirited drinks, photo ops,

9:56 scare actors, and attribute to the fan favorite film hocus Pocus. The hocus Pocus Museum will be a curated exhibit showing off actual props, costumes, and creative treatments from both original feature films. Also meet with the stars of the nineteen ninety three classic hocus Pocus, Vanessa Shaw, Allison, Amri Kats Max and Jason Martston, the voice of banks Cat. Our goal is to create and share the environment where local artists, vendors, dei wires, and Halloween enthusiasts will join together as a season ramps up to further ignite the excitement of the spookiest time of year. Co producer Kevin Valentine says tickets are on Ziale now starting at fifteen dollars for single day admission twenty five dollars for weekend passes.

10:41 Admission is free for children ten and under. The Food Network has released their twenty twenty three Halloween programming lineup. The networks Devilishly Delicist slate of programming will include five returning favorites, the Halloween Baking Championship, Halloween Cookie Challenge, Halloween Wars, Kids Baking champions Blood Curdling Bakes, and Outrageous Pumpkins. Are you ready to attend some events this August through October? Make sure you make it. Two Creep at real oc Expo September sixteenth and seventeenth in Santa Ana, California, The West Michigan Halloween Expo September twenty three and twenty fourth in Grand Rapids, Michigan. And the Son of Munster Palooza October thirteenth and fourteenth in Burbank, California. There's still a few. There are still a few haunts across the countries that are doing auditions and casting calls, including Seven Gates Scream Park in Niagara Falls, New York. The Darkness in Saint Louis, Missouri, Demon Acres in Hannibal, New York, Arabis, Haunted Attraction in Pontiac, Michigan. Right World America's Scream Park and Buffalo, New York.

11:43 Hallow Weekends in Sandusky, Ohio. Haunted Calgary in Balzac, Alberta, Canada. Nightmare on Edgewood in Indianapolis, Indiana, The Haunted Hotel in Beaumont, Texas, The howl at Meat Open Farm in Billington, United Kingdom, Jail of Terror in Newark, Ohio, Spooky Ranch in Columbia Station, Ohio. And the Village Evil Harvest in Fairburn, Georgia. 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 Swolpe. This Haunt News Update is a production of the Haunted Traction Network and you can sign up to our weekly newsletter at Haunted Traction Network dot com. Support for this episode comes from Gantum Lighty and controls until next time, Haunters Stay Scary. This is a Haunted Attraction Luve production.