Haunted House Association

Finally the haunted house industry has come together to formulate the one and only association for the professional haunted house owner and operator. Over the past few years (HHA) has been funding a national public relations effort for the entire haunted house industry. Single handed the HHA has increased the national awareness of the industry and raised the amount of patrons who attend haunts. HHA will now roll out an entire program for the industry industry, and will introduce new bylaws, a board, and much more at the first even National Haunted House Tradeshow (www.HauntShow.com)

A new website will be replacing the old one and additionally new logos everything when the new association rolls out for the whole industry. Finally industry professionals will have a new voice for their industry. As we stated last year HHA promote national PR. Here is video of one of those efforts on Fox News Coast to Coast... Join the haunted house association today and support professionals!

Several of America Haunts Haunts to be Featured on National Television

Several Haunted Houses Shows are set to air over the next few days...here is a partial list.

Travel Channel: America's Scariest Haunted Houses Part 3

Sunday October 26 at 10pm Central Time
Thursday October 30 at 6pm Central Time
Friday October 31 at 3pm Central time

Modern Marvels: Halloween Tech

Monday, October 27 07:00 PM Central Time
Tuesday, October 28 11:00 PM Central Time
Friday, October 31 07:00 PM Central
Saturday, November 01 11:00 PM Central Time

Travel Channel: America Haunts

Sunday October 26 8:00 PM
Monday October 27 12:00 Midnight
Wednesday, October 29 7:00 PM
Thursday, October 30 12:00 AM

National Geographic Channel: Halloween UnMasked

Friday October 31st (Halloween) 8am

FOOD TV: Pumpkin Challenge

Sunday October 26, 7pm

Also check Travel Channel all day and night on October 26th as they will air one haunted house or Halloween show after another all day and all night long. Another great show is Halloween Extreme also featured on Travel Channel and America's Scariest haunted attractions part one and two.

Set your TIVO!

HAUNTWORLD ANNOUNCES TOP HAUNTED HOUSES 2008

Hauntworld’s 2008 Top 13 Haunted Attractions

1. 13th Gate, Baton Rouge, Louisiana – http://www.midnightproduction.com
2. The Darkness, St. Louis, Missouri - http://www.scarefest.com
3. Netherworld, Atlanta, Georgia - http://www.fearworld.com
4. Haunted Overload, New Hampshire – http://www.hauntedoverload.com
5. Scarehouse, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – http://www.scarehouse.com
6. House of Torment, Austin, Texas - http://www.houseoftorment.com
7. Bates Motel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania http://www.thebatesmotel.com
8. Headless Horseman, New York - http://www.headlesshorseman.com
9. Dead Acres, Columbus, Ohio - http://www.deadacres.com
10. Spookywoods, North Carolina - http://www.spookywoods.com
11. House of Shock, New Orleans, Louisiana - http://www.houseofshock.com
12. Erebus, Detroit, Michigan - http://www.hauntedpontiac.com
13. Cutting Edge, Dallas, Texas - http://www.cuttingedgehauntedhouse.com

Top 10 Amusement Park
Halloween Events
1. Universal Studios Horror Nights, Orlando, FL
http://www.halloweenhorrornights.com

2. Knott’s Scary Farm, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.halloweenhaunt.com

3. Kennywood Amusement Park
“Phantom Fright Nights’, Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.kennywood.com

4. Universal Studios Horror Nights, Hollywood, CA
http://www.halloweenhorrornights.com

5. Tampa Busch Gardens, Tampa, FL
http://www.howl-o-scream.com

6. Busch Gardens Williamsburg, PA
http://www.howl-o-scream.com

7. Kings Island Haunt, Cincinnati, OH
http://www.visitkingsisland.com

8. Cedar Point Haunt, Sandusky, OH
http://www.cedarpoint.com

9. Six Flags Fright Fest, NJ
http://www.frightfest.com

10. Old Tucson Studios Nightfall, Tucson, AZ
http://www.oldtucson.com

Top Haunted Amusement Attractions 2008

1. Universal Studios Hollywood, House of Horror
http://www.universalstudioshollywood.com

2. Disney World Haunted Mansion, Orlando, FL
http://www.disney.com

3. Ghostwood Estates,Kennywood Amusement Park, Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.kennywood.com

4. Towers of Terror, MGM Studios, Orlando, FL
http://www.disney.com

5. Revenge of the Mummy Ride,
Universal Studios Hollywood, CA
http://www.universalstudioshollywood.com

Best Charity

Haunted Attraction 2008
1. Terror on the Fox - 73%
Green Bay, Milwaukee
www.terroronthefox.com

2. Trail of Terror - 23% - Wallingford, CT.
www.trailofterror.com


Best Haunted Hayride 2008

1. Headless Horseman - 65%
www.headlesshorseman.com

2. Bates Motel, Philadelphia, PA. - 32%
www.thebatesmotel.com


Best Home Haunted House 2008

1. Graveside Manor - 30%
www.gravesidemanor.com

2. Rot Haunted House - 25%
www.rothauntedhouse.com

3. DC Cemetery
www.dc-cemetery.com


Rate, Review, and Find Haunted Houses Nationwide at http://www.HauntWorld.com
or http://www.HauntedHouseOnline.com

CREEPYWORLD SET TO OPEN

CREEPYWORLD is set to open for the 2008 season bigger and better than EVER BEFORE!



From the creators of the WORLD FAMOUS Darkness brings you the all-new Creepyworld. Larry Kirchner owner of Creepyworld says "For years we made The Darkness our focus, all of our creative energy went into making The Darkness the best haunted house in the nation'. Kirchner continues by saying, "But two years ago when we finally came up with the idea of Creepyworld, we made a financial and creative commitment to make Creepyworld the biggest and best outdoor Halloween and Haunted Attraction in America'.




Now in 2008 Creepyworld has taken a HUGE step in that very direction to being one of the biggest and best Halloween Haunted Attraction in the nation. Tens of thousands of dollars, and months and months of design, construction and planning has gone into taking Creepyworld to the next level. Every aspect of Creepyworld has been improved adding many high tech effects such as pyro and multi motion animations. But the biggest improvement is the attention to detail, no stone was left unturned this year.



Creepyworld is NOW FIVE HAUNTED HOUSES IN ONE LOCATION FOR ONE PRICE. Start your journey through St. Louis' biggest event into the all new and redesigned 'Ravens Mansion' with all sorts of new high tech screams, inside a highly detailed haunted mansion. Then enter an all new attraction for 2008 'Grisly's Graveyard' and travel past animated werewolves, crypts, enter forbidden tombs, and through an eerie swamp.



Then get lost in the all-new Cornfield where you will finally discover Arnold Hornbuckels farm house where you might be the next meal! Be chased through endless rows of corn through St. Louis' only corn maze. Next board St. Louis' ONLY haunted hayride at Tombstone. The town of Tombstone has doubled in size, now explore falling buildings, the Tombstone Hotel, House of Redemption, travel through a turn of the century western graveyard and be amazed at pyro effects and massive monsters that leap over the hayride.



Finally its the ALL NEW SILO-X the scariest haunted house in St. Louis. You will be stalked to multiple chainsaws, blood thirsty mutated monsters through endless tunnels and radiated ruins. Silo-X has a new section a mutated jail filled with experiments gone wrong.



Creepyworld now FIVE haunted houses in ONE location for ONE price will be open weekends in September and every night in October start the 3rd through November 2nd.



Come to Creepyworld and experience the longest and scariest attraction in the Midwest. Creepyworld takes over 1 hour to complete!



Learn more about Creepyworld by visiting http://www.ScareFest.com

Creepyworld is a member of America Haunts Group

DARKNESS HAUNTED HOUSE SET TO OPEN

The Darkness haunted house located in St. Louis, Missouri is one of the nations best haunted houses is set to open for the 2008 Halloween season. Recently the hit show 'Modern Marvels' came to St. Louis to film segments for an upcoming show titled 'Halloween Tech'. Travel Channel is also producing a show entitled 'America's Scariest Haunted Attractions' and both Creepyworld and the new Darkness will be featured. Last season National Geographic Channel featured the Darkness on a show called "Halloween Exposed".



The Darkness was also recently ranked the SECOND BEST Haunted House in the WORLD by www.HauntWorld.com known as the best website on the web to find, review, rate haunted attractions.

Recently Davud Glover toured the Darkness from talk 97 and said it was better than Disney World. So HOW cool is the new Darkness haunted house 2008? Well let me tell you COOLER THAN ANYTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN IN YOUR LIFE... over $200,000.00 was invested into upgrades for the attraction and new things were created that you can see no where else in the entire nation.

The new Darkness features HIGH END costumes, to upgrade the realism of the actors inside the attraction. Secondly several new scenes where built at cost of THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of dollars built by the same people who built the Spiderman Ride or the multi million dollar Ghostwood Estate in Kennywood Amusement Park.




So what is new you might ask? Try entering a massive swamp house, that MOVES, TILTS, RAISES and LOWERS it is a TRUE MODERN MARVEL and well will be featured on the show 'Modern Marvels' in October on the History Channel. We also build a MASSIVE graveyard that is so realistic that Hollywood could pull up tomorrow and start filming a movie. Inside the Graveyard you will come face to face with werewolves and real ghost and spirits.



Our favorite new scene and effect inside the new Darkness is a MASSIVE SKELETON T-REX room where you will be attacked by this gigantic beast... you will smell his breath, you will feel the bite from its jaws.



Upstairs you can also experience a true mirror maze which will keep you lost for what seems like an eternity. The Darkness is just a TRUE MODERN MARVEL, that is known WORLD WIDE, and visited by scare seekers from all over the WORLD each Halloween season. St. Louis you are blessed to have this WORLD CLASS attraction just sitting a few miles from your house in Downtown St. Louis next to Soulard Market.




The Darkness opens September 12 and stays open weekends in September and nightly in October 3rd through November 2, 2008. Visit their website at http://www.scarefest.com

TRANSWORLD ANNOUNCES NEW HAUNT ONLY SHOW

For Immediate Release - July 1, 2008

TransWorld Exhibits, Inc. Moves 14th National Haunt & Attractions Show
to the America’s Center in St. Louis
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New Venue Selected in Response to Growth of Haunt Industry

(Northfield, IL) – In an exciting move, TransWorld Exhibits, Inc. announced its decision to move the 14th National Haunt & Attractions Show (HauntShow) to St. Louis, Missouri, at the America’s Center, March 27 – 29, 2009.

Previously held in conjunction with TransWorld’s International Halloween, Costume & Party Show (HCPShow), the HauntShow will stand on its own in St. Louis, Missouri, giving the buyers and vendors of the Haunt community convenient access to the industry’s #1 trade show in a business environment created just for them.

“After extensive market research and input from vendors and buyers alike, we decided to spin-off the 14th National Haunt & Attractions Show and have it stand alone in a Midwest location that is central to the greatest number of participants in this industry,” said Joe Thaler, chairman and chief executive officer of TransWorld Exhibits, Inc., owner of the show. “The Haunt industry continues to grow with advances in special effects, animatronics, sound & lighting, and props. More and more, these products are used in venues on a year-round basis whether it is in a theme park, theatrical production or a haunted house. This growth within the industry demands a stand-alone trade show dedicated solely to the Haunt industry,” Thaler continued. “St. Louis is the perfect gateway to a marketplace where the Haunt community can come together.”

The complete schedule of activities for the 14th National Haunt & Attractions Show in St. Louis will be announced in the coming weeks. Highlights of the show will include:

• New product introductions from the industry’s leading companies
• Extensive seminar programming
• Networking events and competitions
• Special events and tours, and much more

The TransWorld International Halloween, Costume & Party Show will continue to host a Haunt Pavilion as Haunt products are also fundamental to the celebration of the Halloween season and the buyer of Halloween and
seasonal merchandise. The HCPShow will take place March 6 – 9, 2009 at the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas.

Special exhibit packages are available for exhibitors that wish to participate in both the St. Louis and Las Vegas events.

For more than 60 years, TransWorld Exhibits has been a leading producer of independent trade shows. The business, which had its roots in the housewares and consumer electronics industry, has over the years expanded its offerings to include general merchandise, Halloween merchandise, giftware, seasonal items, luxury merchandise, jewelry, fashion and accessories. The firm runs trade shows in Chicago, Las Vegas, and St. Louis.

For more information on attending or exhibiting, please call 800-323-5462 or 847-446-8434 for international calls. Information is also available at www.hauntshow.com and www.hcpshow.com.

HAUNTWORLD MAGAZINE FEATURES TWO AMERICA HAUNTS ATTRACTIONS

Hauntworld Magazine the haunted house industries number one source of information is featuring two attractions on the cover from America Haunts. The first attraction features is the 13th Gate, and the second is 7 Floors of Hell. The magazine is set to release mid-February and be on hand at the Transworld National Halloween and Haunted House show.

You can subscribe to the magazine by visiting www.hauntedhousesupplies.com.