NEWS: Inside Universal’s Halloween Events in Singapore & Beijing

0:07 Coming up, your weekly roundup of news from around the haunt industry. Welcome to the show. I'm Philip. On the HAN 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. This message is from Philip Hernandez, publisher of the Haunted Attraction Network. I'm writing this from Beijing where I'm attending Scares at Universal, Universal Beijing's Halloween event for the first time.

0:50 I'll share full coverage later, but so far I'm very impressed with the haunted houses themselves. They are built in standalone, custom-built warehouses, the same way Universal Orlando does it. They also seem to have a pretty good food menu. See my Black Ale Pizza post on social for a preview. Speaking of Universal, I published the full Halloween Horror Nights Singapore review this week with 50 plus images and all of the details you would need to understand how the event is structured. Pricing-wise... The $ 290 Singapore dollar RIP tour includes admission versus Universal Orlando's 5-house RIP tour, which starts at $ 299. 99 and does not include admission. House waits ran 60-90 minutes early on a non-peak Thursday and dropped to 5 minutes or less after 11.30pm. So I walked all four houses a second time. Remember that K-shape? Two more surveys this week says it's still here. CIT Bank found that 38% of Americans plan to spend $ 300 or more on Halloween, compared to 19% for Thanksgiving, and 46% plan to spend $ 100 or more on experiences such as haunted houses or hayrides. 63 say they are more price sensitive about Halloween costs than they were last year. In the Midwest, 1 in 4 adults plans to spend less on Halloween this year, according to a Harris poll from Meijer of 1,003 adults in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, taken August 24th to 26th. 91% plan to buy candy, 70%

2:24 plan to decorate their home or yard, and 33% plan to dress up their pets. Both surveys are in our spending story. along with the Halloween and Costume Association's finding that one-third of adults who wear costumes plan to visit a haunted house. As I said in July, hold both rungs, a premium tier for guests who want to spend, and a clearly communicated value ticket for those watching their budget. In Australia... Fright Nights at Warner Bros. Movie World built an online game that turns the backstories of four of its five mazes into a choose-your-own-adventure story, with a new chapter and a collectible card every night through Halloween. The first card is free. Mine was an uncommon killer clown.

3:05 Credit packs run $ 4. 99 to $ 24. 99, and the prizes include passes back into the park. In June, I wrote about Ocean Park's trading cards extending the visit beyond the rides and shows, and haunts have done this too. Haunted Hills Estate sold a 30-day remote horror game for $ 30 back in 2020. I think more backstory for each maze is a good idea, and the relationship with a guest doesn't have to end at the exit. Some updates on threads we've been tracking. Hotel of Terror in Springfield, Missouri is in its last season after 48 years. The city takes the building on January 1st to replace the bridge beside it after a seven-year fight that ended in a $ 2 million settlement in May. Owner Sterling Mathis, who was 16 when he helped open it, says that there was a settlement it is impossible to build. It's a second haunt I've covered this fall in a final season because of its property after wild waves, and buildings and insurance remain the two existential threats for independent haunts. On the insurance side, Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park sold for $ 14. 8 million in bankruptcy court.

4:10 Less than half the $ 30 million investors paid in 2020. The 2021 death of six-year-old Wangala Stefanos and the haunted mine drop left the park with more than $ 116 million in liability, now on appeal. The judge wrote that the death certainly had an impact on attendance, as did inflation and reduced consumer spending. Disney raised Walt Disney World's annual pass as $ 10 to $ 120 and left Disneyland's Magic Keys and its $ 104 entry ticket alone. Disney Experiences chairman Thomas Masloom told CNN that pricing is done market by market rather than with one broad brush. The entry-level price stayed the same at both resorts and increases went premium passes and add-ons. That's the K-shape as a pricing policy. In the original music vein, Lovecraft, which scores Dark Harbour and the LA Haunted Hayride, released a 27-track Halloween album hosted by Roger L. Jackson, the voice of Ghostface, with 13th Floor's Amy Holliman, Plague Productions' John Cook, and Monty Rivolta.

5:12 Also this week, Universal Orlando's Horror Makeup Show is coming back to Blumhouse with a new name. John Carpenter's Halloween has 1,876 screenings at 765 U.S. theaters, with more than half on October 29th to 31st. Jack's Horror Fashion Dolls sold out at Walmart within a day. Twix brought back Hello Miss and Zombie Claws. Historic Hotels of America named its 25 most haunted hotels. And a Fort Wayne family's free Halloween night draws 700 to 900 people after Hysterium sent them our way. And here's what you need to know. Halloween Horror Nights Singapore 2026 review. The RIP Tour. Four houses ranked in food prices. I went to Halloween Horror Nights 14 at Universal Studios Singapore in Sentosa, Singapore on Thursday, October 8th on the $ 290 Singapore dollar RIP tour. The event runs 18 select nights through November 1st and four haunted houses, three shows and two scare zones. Here's my full review and recap of everything the event has to offer.

6:16 Admission is still $ 68 Singapore dollars on non-peak nights with $ 78 Singapore dollars on peak nights and a Houses Only Express Pass is $ 89 Singapore dollars on top of that. The RIP tour includes an admission, a three-hour guided tour for groups of up to 12 that walk straight into each house, reserved seats for Club Pandemonium, the front viewing area of the Scaramony, and Express Unlimited for rides and houses until closing. It's worth the price if you want the rides as well as the houses. For comparison, Universal Studios' 5-House RIP Tour starts at $ 299. 99 and does not include admission. Follow the links in the show notes to watch the full tour of the RIP experience. Universal's Horror Makeup Show is coming back with Blumhouse in its name.

7:03 The Horror Makeup Show at Universal Studios Florida in Orlando, Florida, will return as Universal Horror Makeup Show featuring Blumhouse. Universal Orlando Resort announced on October 9th, the same day as Blumhouse's Blumfest panel in New York Comic Con. The comedy stage show about how horror film effects are made has opened on June 24th, 1990 and has been closed since May 12th for a reimagining. Universal hasn't named a reopening date, showtimes, or which Blumhouse films will be featured. and the announcement ends with the details coming soon. Michael Aiello, Senior Director of Entertainment, Creative Development at Universal Orlando Resort, wrote on X that the venue got an entire visual re-imaging from floor to ceiling. Blumhouse has been a steady partner of Universal's horror attractions, from the House of Blumhouse at Halloween Horror Nights in 2022 to the Exorcist Believer House at Universal Horror Unleashed in Las Vegas in since August 2025.

8:03 Castle Dark has two new mazes at Castle Park and the rides are included. Castle Dark at Castle Park in Riverside, California has three haunted mazes this year and two are new. SOS, Sewer of Screams, is set in a sewer after a chemical spill and condemned since guests threw a dark ride that was sealed for decades. Midnight Manor returns. The event runs Friday through Sundays until November 1st, plus Thursday, October 29th from 7pm to midnight. Online tickets are $ 29. 99 to $ 44. 99 depending on the night, against $ 49. 99 at the park. and the park's rides are included. Glenwood Cavens Adventure Park sells for $ 14. 8 million, less than half its 2020 price. A Denver bankruptcy judge approved the sale of Glenwood Cavens Adventure Park in Glenwood Springs, Colorado on September 19th to GVC Glenwood LLC, owned 80% by Gondola Adventures and 20% by founder Steve Beckley for $ 14, 786, 000.

9:05 Most of that. Is an estimated $ 12. 1 million bank loan the buyer takes on, plus $ 2. 7 million in cash. Investors paid $ 30 million for the mountaintop park in December 2020. The park filed for Chapter 11 on February 9th. In 2025, a Garfield County jury awarded damages over the 2021 death of six-year-old Wongo Estefanos on the haunted mine drop. and the judgment assigned the park more than $ 116 million in liability. The park is appealing, and the family's share of the sale and insurance proceeds is on hold until the Colorado Court of Appeal rules. No closing date has been made public. Disney World annual pass prices rise $ 10 to $ 120. Disneyland tickets $ 5 Magic Key unchanged, while Disney World in Orlando, Florida raised annual pass prices on October 6th. The Florida Residence Pixie Dust Pass rose $ 10 to $ 499. The Pirate Pass and Sorcerer Pass each rose $ 40 to $ 909 and $ 1, 139.

10:03 And the Incredi-Pass though. The only one with no blockout dates rose $ 120 to $ 1, 749. At Disneyland Resort Anaheim, California, one-day tickets in tiers 1 through 4 rose $ 5, while the lowest and highest tiers held at $ 104 and $ 224. Disneyland's Magic Key Passes did not change. which CNN reported as a first. Disney Experiences Chairman Thomas Masloom told CNN that pricing is done market by market rather than with one broad brush. Every Universal Orlando closure through 2027, Volcano Bay, Lost Continent, Forbidden Journey, and more. Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida has a long list of closures ahead. Volcano Bay closes October 26th for maintenance and reopens on or before April 1st, 2027. Animal Actors on Location has its last show November 2nd and then closes permanently. Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey closes February 8th to 19th, 2027, while Mythos Restaurant closes for good in 2027, as the Lost Continent makes its way for a new, unnamed land. Fast and Furious Supercharged closed permanently on August 16th, to make room for Fast and Furious Hollywood Drift Coaster. SES is tracking every closure as Universal updates its list. Halloween spending heads to $ 13. 5 billion and the people in costumes start first.

11:35 Americans plan to spend about $ 13. 5 billion on Halloween this year, $ 115. 14 per person according to the National Retail Federation's annual survey. up from last year's record of $ 13. 1 billion. NRF's survey, conducted by Prosper Insights and Analytics, asked 7,889 consumers about their Halloween plans. 74% plan to celebrate on par with 73% last year, up from 68% in 2019. The top ways they'll celebrate are handing out candy at 61%, dressing in costume at 50%, decorating their home or yard at 42%, carving pumpkins at 42%, and watching scary movies at 42%.

12:19 49% of consumers planned to begin Halloween shopping in September or earlier, up from 34% in 2016. The Halloween and Costume Association ran a separate analysis of the NRF and Prosper data that compared 3,178 adults who dress in costume with all 7,889 American adults surveyed. Compared with all adults, Costume wearers start earlier, with 57% beginning to shop in September or earlier, participate in summer ween, with one-third taking part in summer activities, and spend more. IAPA's Brass Ring Awards close October 16th, and one category is for haunts.

13:00 Application for IAPA's Brass Ring Excellence Awards closes October 16th, and one of the live entertainment categories is for walk-through haunts. Most creative new haunt production. Haunted houses, mazes and scare zones, hay rides and haunting grounds can enter if they have at least three live actors and are new or at least half revamped. A Halloween stage show or parade goes in a different category. Most creative new holiday production. Last year, Universal Studios Singapore won with Once Upon a Time to Die and the other finalists were Six Flags Conjuring Beyond Fear and and Tokyo Disney Resort's Villains Halloween Parade. The applying company must be an IAPA member in good standing. ScreamScore, the free app that scores how scared you got, now works for horror movies too. ScreamScore, a free app that turns your smartwatch's heart rate readings into a fear score out of 100, now works for horror movies as well as haunted houses, and friends can compare scores in groups.

13:57 The new version is out for iPhone and Android and pairs with an Apple Watch or a Wear OS wearable. A session starts with a choice, haunted attraction or horror movie, and one of the app's press images shows a 77.53, labeled terrified, and second place, recorded at Factory of Terror on September 25th. The app. as it is designed as entertainment, not a medical device. Transworld launches a 100-person escape room summit in St. Louis. Transworld Trade Shows is launching an escape room summit on Monday, February 22, 2027 in St. Louis, Missouri. A day of advanced education, hands-on learning, and networking for up to 100 established escape room owners, senior operators, designers, and industry leaders. It opens a week of escape room events ahead of Transworld's three trade shows, which run February 25th through 28th, 2027 at America Centre. The summit builds a Transworld original escape room conferences held in Chicago, Niagara Falls, Nashville and San Antonio with a new program built around the challenges and future of today's escape room businesses. Sessions will cover business, growth and profitability. along with design, technology, and guest experience. Friends World plans to keep attendance to about 75 to 100 people so the conversations stay focused.

15:16 Full programming, speakers, participating companies, workshops, tour locations, pricing, and registration haven't been announced yet. The Best New Costumes of 2026, picked by industry judges. The Halloween and Costume Association has named 24 finalists for its third annual Spooky Awards. The awards are open to Halloween product makers, both HCA members and non-members. A panel of industry experts judged each entry on five criteria. Innovation, marketability, trendsetting potential, appeal, and usefulness. The judges picked three finalists in each of eight categories. accessories, adult costume, child costume, licensed costume, most unique costume, decor masks, and most innovative product. Fans can vote for a favorite from October 1st through 15th, and the HCA will name the winners January 11th in the Halloween Party Expo in New Orleans. Queen Mary Dark Harbor returns for its 13th season with one new maze and three reimagined mazes. Now in its 13th season, Queen Mary Dark Harbor in Long Beach, California, runs select nights through Sunday, November 1st. Staged aboard the Queen Mary, the retired ocean liner that has served as a Long Beach floating hotel and attraction since 1971, the event uses the ship itself as a haunted setting, running mazes through its interior spaces and staging entertainment across the shipyard next to the ship. Dark Harbor is running six haunted mazes in 2026, and we have videos of each.

16:44 Los Angeles Haunted Hayride opens for its 18th season. The Los Angeles Haunted Hayride in Los Angeles, California is open in Griffith Park for its 18th season, running select nights through Sunday, November 1st. I attended to film walkthroughs of the new and returning mazes for this season. Fallen Angel, the new maze, Elvira's Trick or Treat Mayhem, Elbilly Halloween, and there's a full tour that you can find by following the links in our show notes. Blood Manor is open in Tribeca. And for $ 350, you can be one of the monsters. Blood Manor in New York, New York, a 10,000 square foot haunted house in a landmark Trebekka building on Broadway, opened its 2026 season October 2nd and runs 27 nights through November 7th. General admissions start at $ 50, RIP Express at $ 75, and the $ 350 Scare Actor Academy experience puts you in professional makeup and costumes, trains you on landing a scare, and sends you into work for the night as one of the cast. Jenna Bush Hager and Michelle Boutteau have joined a cast for a Today Show segment, and a New York Post reporter worked a night as a cast member. Blood Manor has run live for more than 20 years under co-founder Jim Lorenzo, and its building is where Civil War photographer Matthew Brady leased his studio in 1853, which the haunt's backstory turns into a ghost story. The 17th door is open for its 12th season and a backstage tour takes you into the control room. The 17th door in Buena Park, California is

18:16 open for its 12th season on select nights through November 1, continuing its perpetuum penitentiary prison story across 17 doors in about 35 minutes. The season's effect includes rotating rooms, earthquake effects, and hurricane force winds. General admission runs $ 38 to $ 47 depending on the night. The backstage tour, which debuted in 2024, Starts after you finish the maze. A guide takes the group through the cast area, costume room, scare routes, and the technical systems. Then into the control room when the haunt is operating. It's sold with VIP entry at $ 78 to $ 88. Photos aren't allowed. and the tour page says written notes are allowed exclusively for idea sharing, for idea stealing.

19:00 Tour times in October 14th and Halloween night each showed eight or fewer spots left. The Reign of Terror Haunted House adds two new sections in 2026, including the Blue Bayou Hotel. Reign of Terror Haunted House in Thousand Oaks, California premiered two new walkthrough sections for the 2026 season, Backwoods and the Blue Bayou Hotel, plus a reimagined fun house. Cinema of Horrors turns 10 with a vampire mining town and a military bunker and an old movie theater. Cinema of Horrors in Kelso, Washington celebrates its 10th season with two new haunted houses built inside a former movie theater. Bloodstone Gulch is a western vampire haunt set in a once booming mining town where residents have found something more dangerous than the outlaws who once ran its streets. Guests walk through the town's main street saloon, hotel, courthouse, and holding cells as the story plays out around them. Bunker 13 sends guests into a deteriorating military installation full of warning systems, industrial rooms, and disturbing discoveries. Cinema of Horror says whatever happened inside was never meant to escape. Both were built for the anniversary season with new sets, characters, and storylines. Horror House Nights Psycho Circus is a central Florida haunted house from the Spanish crew. Horror House Nights Psycho Circus is open at La Loma Ranch in Haines City, Florida between Orlando and Tampa. Fridays through Sundays through November 1st with general admission at $ 19 before fees. The Spanish

20:32 crew started the haunt in Spain in 2022, brought it to the United States last year, and tears the house down after every season to rebuild around a new theme. The crew says it isn't trying to match the polished set of Florida's theme parks. The goal is a house that smells bad and feels dark and dirty. We want you to feel like you're somewhere wrong, the media kit says. Haunted Soiree's 2026 Halloween party is built on a real 1928 hex murder. Haunted Soiree The two-hour Halloween party with drinks and immersive theatre at the Nocturne Theatre in Glendale, California takes on true crime for 2026. Its new story is built on Pennsylvania's 1928 Hex Hollow murder, a killing over a book of German-American folk magic, and it runs select nights October 10th through 31st. Each year, Haunted Soiree becomes a new immersive world. This year it's set nearly a century after a suspected warlock was killed over a mysterious book of German-American folk magic. The Secret of Autumn Society keeps its strange tradition alive through a festival of drinks, masks, music, ghost stories, and games that the ticket page calls Haunt Oberfest.

21:41 As the night goes on, guests find out the festivities aren't what they seem, and every toast, game, and tradition is part of a ritual. Halloween season is almost upon us, and the haunts around the country are announcing their dates, new additions, special events, and more. To help you manage the myriad of updates, the Haunted Attraction Network has compiled comprehensive guides to the top haunts in the U.S., and top theme park events around the world. Make sure you bookmark these important pages for reference and check back often for updates as new information is released. The latest updated guide is Halloween Horror Nights 2026 The Complete Guide to All Universal Park. Previously announced include The Halloween Streaming Guide New Horror Movies and Series to Stream Fall Food and Drinks Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Hollywood Every Food and Drink at Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood in 2026, Scarrow Winds 2026 Guide, Halloween Inflatables, Halloween Candy, Fright Fest 2026, Not Scary Farm 2026, Kennywood Phantom Fall Fest, Alton Towers Scarefest, Halloween TV Specials, Dollywood Harvest Festival 2026, Cedar Point Hello Weekends, Spirit Halloween Locations for 2026, Netherworld Haunted House, When Do Haunted Houses Open, The Best and Scariest Haunted Houses in America,

23:11 Halloween Horror Nights 2026, Disney Halloween, Fright Fest, Hello Scream, and Orlando Halloween Events, Every Park, Party, and Haunt. In event news, the Boulay Brothers Halloween Ball 2026, Poppy, human-sized marionettes, and a $ 1, 000 costume contest. The Boulay Brothers Los Angeles Halloween Ball in Los Angeles, California takes over all three floors of the Globe Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, October 31st from 10pm to 3am for its 26th annual edition. Poppy plays the top-billed DJ set and the Halloween stage spectacular has the Boulay Brothers, Rasputin's marionettes with their human-sized puppets, a Vogue show from House of Ninja, and a burlesque review from Jake Dupree. The costume contest pays a $ 1, 000 cash grand prize. Tickets are $ 59 or $ 99 for VIP, and the party is 21 and over. Clifton's in downtown LA hosts The Dark Wedding, a three-night immersive Halloween show.

24:17 The Dark Wedding in Los Angeles, California, an immersive theater show where its audiences play the wedding guests, runs October 31st through November 1st at the Sanctuary at Clifton's in downtown Los Angeles. Guests choose how much to take part. The observer watches with a cocktail, the seeker talks with the characters and solves quests, and the VIP guest of honour sits down to a multi-course dinner that is part of the story. Sanctuary DTLA produces the show. Monster Mall runs a vendor market inside it called the Gloom Lantern Fair. and a live DJ plays an after-party each night. Tickets on event pride are $ 65. 87, $ 81. 88, and $ 193. 92 with fees, and the event is 21 and over. Dave & Buster's is throwing two Halloween parties, one for kids, one for adults.

25:09 Dave & Buster's has two ticketed parties on Saturday, October 31st at participating locations. Boo Bash is a family pancake breakfast from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with a costume contest, pumpkin decorating, and a scavenger hunt from $ 21. Moonlight Mixer is an 18 and up night from 7 to 10 p.m. with a buffet, a costume contest, and three hours of unlimited video games from $ 24. 99. Tickets are sold online only, and the Halloween menu with three cocktails, a mocktail, and a funnel cake fries have been in restaurants. since October 6th. Every Halloween card sent to Children's Hospital in Los Angeles earns $ 1 from the LA Kings. The Children's Hospital Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California has opened its Halloween card drive and every card sent earns the hospital $ 1 from the LA Kings up to $ 50, 000. Sending one is free.

26:04 Pick one of three designs on the hospital site and add a Halloween greeting. The hospital prints each card as coloring pages for patients and hands him out at its pumpkin party. NBC Los Angeles reports that cards must be sent by October 30th. Fright Nights at Movie World adds Clayface and Evil Dead Burn for nine October nights. Fright Nights at Warner Bros. Movie World in Gold Coast, Australia runs nine nights this October with five horror mazes, eight escape rooms, and two new character encounters. Clayface and the Deadites from Evil Dead Burn the film that is also Halloween Horror Night's house in Orlando and Hollywood this fall. They replaced The Crooked Man and Regan from The Exorcist.

26:46 All five mazes return from 2025. The event has one more night than last year, and the top general admissions price dropped to $ 99 Australian dollars from $ 109 Australian dollars. Fright Night's horror quest turns four movie world maze backstories into a nightly card game. Village Roadshow Theme Parks, which operate Movie World, also built Fright Night Horror Quest, an online choose-your-own-adventure game with the Australian company Taste Labs. It turns the backstories of four of the event's five mazes into a new chapter and a collectible card every night through Halloween. The Sir Curse Circus burned on October 13, 1941, and the liner and hellship vanished in 1927. The first card is free, and mine was an uncommon killer clown from Sir Curse. After that, the game runs on credit packs from $ 4. 99 to $ 24. 99. Ghostface, Jason, Pinhead, and Billy the Puppet are now $ 39. 97 fashion dolls at Walmart. Jack's Pacific New Dollhouse of Dread line turns Ghostface, Jason, Pinhead, and Billy the Puppet into 11-inch collector fashion dolls with nine points of articulation, sold only at Walmart for $ 39. 97 each.

27:59 Pinhead wears a gown, Billy the Puppet wears a pinstripe tuxedo, And Ghostface gets two dolls, including the limited Bling Mask edition sold only on Walmart's website. On October 10th, four of the five dolls are out of stock from Walmart's site, and Marketplace sellers were asking for $ 110 for Pinhead and from $ 175 for Ghostface. Twix Hellimus is back, Zombie Claws, a $ 20, 000 photo contest, and new Twix skulls. Twix brought back Hello Mass, its Halloween meets Christmas campaign, for a second year with its mascot, Zombie Claws, a Santa who is bitten by a zombie. The photo and video contest runs through November 8th and pays $ 20, 000 in cash, $ 10, 000 for the grand prize, and $ 5, 000 each for the most Halloween spirit and best Zombie Claws lookalike. No purchase is needed, and entries made with AI are void. Twix skulls are new for 2026, and on October 31st, Zombie Claws will hand out Twix to trick-or-treaters in New York's Williamsburg neighborhood.

29:03 Rivian Halloween Mode 2026 is Ghostbusters, Proton Beam Headlights, the Ecto R1 Tour and Event Dates. Rivian's Halloween Mode for 2026 is Ghostbusters, made with Sony Pictures. A software update to the R1S, R1T and R2 adds Proton Beam Headlights, Ghost Trap Sounds, a mini-pot game, and a trick-or-treat mode that greets costume visitors through November 1st. Bill Murray appears in Rivian's 71-second ad, and a custom-wrapped Ecto R1 is touring Rivian's showrooms. Ghostbusters nights are scheduled with the Austin, Venice and Miami showrooms on October 22nd and in San Francisco and New York on October 29th. Outdoor Halloween decorating ideas.

29:49 The five layers a professional installer uses. Light up your holidays. A Chicago company that designs and installs seasonal displays says a Halloween yard works in five layers. Lighting the house itself before any prop goes out. One focal point visible from the street. Pieces at the curb. in the yard, and at the door for depth. One mood for the whole yard, and a lit walk to the front door with sound. Its free Halloween house blueprint also sorts displays into three styles, kid-friendly, fall-forward, and full theatrical, and lists the five mistakes its crews see on most do-it-yourself displays, starting with no focal point and the wrong scale. The Exorcist Martyrs trailer is out, including Blumhouse announced a Blumfest with 2027 release dates. The first trailer for The Exorcist Martyrs, Mike Flanagan's film with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Scarlett Johansson, debuted October 9th at Blumfest. Blumhouse Atomic Monsters panel in New York Comic Con. The panel also dated three 2027 films, River on January 15th, Anything But Ghosts on May 7th, and Moles People. starring Lakeith Stanfield, August 27th. Craig Zobel will direct the film of Something is Killing the Children.

31:05 Malpette is developing an Amanda the Adventurer film, and Paranormal Activity on Broadway is extended through February 28th of 2027. Halloween Horror Nights' Jack the Clown is a $ 1, 500 V-Bucks Fortnite outfit until October 12th. Jack the Clown, The Halloween Horror Nights icon is a playable outfit in Fortnite for $ 1, 500 V-Bucks, with the Jack-in-the-Box bling, or $ 2, 000 V-Bucks in a bundle that adds a mallet pickaxe and a chainsaw balloon remote. Fortnite's item shop lists both items until Monday, October 12th at 6pm. Halloween 1978 is back in 765 US theaters, every theater and date by state. John Carpenter's Halloween is back in theaters for the season. The film's night holders sent out the full list on October 8th. 1,876 screenings at 765 U.S. theaters in 40 states and Washington, D.C.

31:55 from October 9th through November 5th, and 1,105 of them fall on October 29th, 30th, and 31st. California has the most theaters with 106, followed by Texas with 91. Our page lists every theater and date by state. Click on the links in the show notes to read the full story. Krispy Kreme's 2026 Halloween Donuts are Looney Tunes. Bugs Bunny, Taz, Tweety, and Lola Bunny. Krispy Kreme's Halloween Donuts are a Looney Tunes collection in participating US and Canadian shops from October 6th through October 31st. A Bugs Bunny Vampire, a Taz Mummy, a Lola Bunny Witch, and Tweety and Sylvester Pumpkin. Krispy Kreme says it's the first time the characters have been on its donuts. Three of the four also come in a six-pack at Walmart, Kroger, Publix, and Stater Brothers. The announcement lists no prices. Bojangles Boojangles Bite Box Stacks Into a Haunted House and Donut Bites Are New Bojangles Halloween Box, the Boojangles Bite Box, comes with three designs that stack into a haunted house. Each holds a biscuit, a side, a drink, a dipping sauce, and 6, 9, or 12 Bow Bites. And at participating restaurants, it adds three of the chain's new Donut Bites with salted caramel dip. Bojangles didn't announce a price, but on October 5th, the Charlotte location listed a box at $ 9. 29, $ 10. 99, and $ 12. 79. The chain has also wrapped three restaurants in Bojangles' designs. In Charlotte, Plano,

33:32 and Conway, South Dakota. Tropical Smoothie Cafe's first Halloween smoothie is a Fanta orange phantom with purple popping boba. Tropical Smoothie Cafe's first Halloween menu item is the Phantom Fanta smoothie, which blends Fanta orange syrup with mango, banana, nonfat yogurt, and cinnamon, topped with purple vanilla popping boba. It has been at participating cafes since October 7th for a limited time, served in the chain's first clear smoothie cup, and the boba can be added to any other smoothie. The chain has nearly 1,800 cafes in 44 states, and the announcement lists no price or end date. Upcoming events in November of 2026, Creep It Real OC Festive in Santa Ana, California, November 20th through 22nd.

34:20 And that's all for the news this week. Today's episode was produced by me, Philip Hernandez, with reporting by Daryl Plunkett. 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 hauntedattractionnetwork.com. Support for this episode comes from Gantam Lighting and Controls. Until next time, Haunters, stay scary. This is a Haunted Attraction Network production. Haunted Attraction Network