There’s two days until the start of Real Escape Game‘s Escape from the Haunted House. What is it? In video game speak, it’s an online narrative puzzle from the Escape the Room genre. You will find yourself in a locked room and must pickup items and information around the room to solve the puzzle and […]
Movie fans have been dressing up at opening night movie screenings for a while now. I have no idea when it started. But I can remember the television news coverage from the midnight showings of Harry Potter that seemed to have every fan wearing some sort of Harry Potter costume. There was also newspaper coverage […]
This fall I hope to have the opportunity to watch Screamer, a documentary about the haunted house industry. Last month, I posted a few resources for entrepreneurs starting a haunted house. You should add this movie to the list. It interviews owners of haunted houses and follows two haunters as they setup a haunted house […]
Last weekend, I spent some time researching pumpkin carving. Yes, in the middle of July. But I’m now ready for pumpkin painting and carving this October. Pretty excited about it, actually. One of the things that I discovered during my research was the practice of underwater pumpkin carving. You definitely read that correctly. People voluntarily […]
The dust is now settling from Comic Con in Los Angeles over the weekend. And the big winners were Iron Man and Oz. We both knew that Iron Man was going to be hot. The success of The Avengers this spring ensured it. But when Robert Downey Jr. entered the Iron Man children’s costume contest […]
On Saturday, I stopped at a few beer stores to see if I could find any Oktoberfest and pumpkin beers. After all, the fall seasonal beers start in July. My personal goal is to try as many as possible this Fall. For the website, of course! At the first beer store, it was summer seasonals […]
Halloween Time is the Fall attraction at Disneyland which runs from September 14th to October 31st. Enjoy spooky, Halloween appropriate twists to the Haunted Mansion, Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, and Space Mountain. Tickets purchased in advance to Halloween Time are $46 for annual passholders and $54 for others. The cost for tickets to attend […]
After next week’s release of Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, I’ll be looking forward to the movies coming out in October 2012. I thought it was about time that I put together a list of some to look forward to here. I’ve already covered Hotel Transylvania and Sinister. Here are six more October movies: Frankenweenie […]
I recently discovered Top Haunts Magazine. It’s a magazine for Haunt Industry Professionals that was launched in April 2012. It’s goal is to bring recognition to haunted houses and the people behind them. Here is one of the videos from their website: They have compiled a list of the top haunted houses in the world. […]
It’s Friday the 13th tomorrow. It seems like a good day to stay home and watch a horror movie. I’m headed to a screening of a horror film in a cemetery tomorrow evening. Seriously disturbing. What are you up to? If you haven’t made plans, you might want to check out The Pact. It’s a […]