The Dent Schoolhouse Rocks It with “Jasper and Jynx” and also makes “The Top 13 Haunted House” List

So every year Haunted Attractions throughout the United States begin their campaign to promote the event to get customers. Sometimes this is online commercials, viral marketing, radio ads, flyers and more.

The best part is when Haunted Houses get creative, innovative and capture the viewer and potential customer. And the top rated, Dent Schoolhouse, who have been featured on haunt tours for Midwest Haunters Convention, have a wide fan base, and yet are one of the most intense, scary, innovative haunted attraction that leaves customers screaming!

And now for 2011, they have created a fun, video with the team of “Jasper And Jynx” rocking out, setting the tone and leaving an impression only The Dent Schoolhouse could do.

After some laughs, fun and humor be prepared to scream and run in terror this Halloween Season from The Dent Schoolhouse.

THE DENT SCHOOLHOUSE was also announced on Hauntworld, that it is once again on the Top 13 list for Best Haunts In America. They also have made a new Top 13 list for the Scariest Places to have a haunted attraction!

For tickets, dates, times and more on the Dent Schoolhouse visit: www.FrightSite.com

The Haunting Truth a Documentary (“Hauntumentary”)

A few years back, you may remember Halloween: The Happy Haunting of America produced by Chuck Williams. RFR received a good nod and logo placement in the DVD Booklet as well, but it featured Halloween, the story behind it, Haunted Attractions and more. for the Haunt Industry, this was enough to get us going. Now wee fast forward to 2011 and we are ready for more, this time from Produced and Director Cliff Allen!

The Haunting Truth a Documentary (AKA “Hauntumentary”) is where you can go inside the minds of those who from childhood began a life that would lead them to be a part of the Halloween Industry. Find out how Halloween has a business side that hardly anyone knows about and prepare to learn the history of haunted attractions, in this heart stopping, scream inducing documentary, called “The Haunting Truth”. We are ready to share our scary history!

(CLICK HERE TO HEAR CLIFF ALLEN TALK ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY ON ROTTING FLESH RADIO #240)

“Mixing personal and business has never worked in the past and doesn’t work in the present. In this documentary, we’ll invite our audience to experience the year round business side of a popular fun loving celebration as well as the second largest holiday, Halloween; from the concept, to the building of an attraction, to opening night and finally the tear down, “The Haunting Truth” will be revealed. Cliff Allen is the best person to bring this topic to the world because he has been behind the scenes for more than thirteen years and has seen how it has affected those in the industry.”

“This documentary will examine the lives of haunted house owners, from the time they were children and what kind of families they came from up until the present. Going over their jobs, if needed on top of the haunted attraction that they run, their relationships and interests; exploring their education and just over all getting to know what makes them tick and get into this Halloween business. “The Haunting Truth” will delve into different attractions from haunted houses, yard haunts, theme/scream parks, mazes and many more. All of these are explored with interviews, video footage and pictures.”

Now as a Haunter, Enthusiast, Halloween Fan or more, we know you are loving this idea, right? Well you can also pull this project forward with your own help getting involved. It will take the entire Haunt Industry to bring this project full circle for all to enjoy. Cliff Allen has said: “The funding you can help with will go to paying the experts who can take this film to the finish line. Now I’m asking for your help in becoming part creating a historical document that will be seen by many for years to come.”

If you wish to get involved, stay informed, or just cannot wait for this project to be finished and playing on your television, you can find out more at: www.TheHauntingTruth.com

“The Haunting Truth” a Documentary (Trailer) from Cliff Allen on Vimeo.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL TEASER TRAILER

King’s Island Announces The Return of the Graveyard Shift to Halloween Haunt!

The King’s Island park is always full of fun and most of all Halloween Fun come the Haunt Season. And New for 2011 is the revival of the GRAVEYARD SHIFT in the Festhaus and HOT BLOODED in the International Showplace! Rumors had already been circling about a new show called “Howlin’ At The Moon” as a haunt for 2011, but instead it got halted and it will still see the light of night, in the future.

The original Graveyard Shift attraction was part of King’s Island over 10 years ago and it was held in the theater that is now called King’s Island Theater. According to Fans of KI Entertainment it has been one of the most popular shows the park has ever seen. It has won the IAPPA Award for Best Theme Park Show.

The King’s Island Halloween Haunt Event always continues to grow and remains a great starting ground for haunters to get their feet wet acting, and is also a nice smaller than the big guns, but bigger than the young guns awesome Halloween event.

I know us here at Rotting Flesh Radio – “The Original Halloween, Haunted House Radio Show” will make a venture to go see this one.

For more information of the King’s Island Theme Park visit: www.VisitKingsIsland.com and to stay connected to more on the KI Entertainment check out: www.FansOfKIEntertainment.com

Phantom Foundry Memorial Day Weekend Discount Code, New Mummy Costume

Haunters it is time to start thinking about those premium costumes, custom made for your event!

Phantom Foundry is starting out their third haunt season in business by kicking the cover off the casket, Rotting Flesh Radio style!

They figured that a product release around Memorial Day would be perfect-family, cookouts and great deals for all of your haunt costume needs! (What’s more American than zombies!) From now until Tuesday (May 31, 2011) at midnight, all
orders placed will receive FREE domestic shipping AND 10% OFF! Just enter the coupon code ZOMBIE in at checkout. (International customers are also entitled to a shipping discount. Please contact them prior to ordering.) Phantom Foundry will be available all weekend so do not hesitate to call or email with questions.

COSTUMES: Mummy2Val has really outdone herself with the 2011 premium costume, The Deluxe Mummy, a head to toe outfit consisting of distressed and siliconed stretch fabric that is sure to amaze and terrify all who come across it!

And they have perfected their version of the Creepy Ragdoll head design, offering excellent visibility and airflow as well as complete freedom of head movement. And let’s not forget the brand new Boy Doll! (If you already own one of the doll costumes, you can contact them if you’d like to get one of the new heads at a discount.)

For all the products, discounts and items available for your haunt visit: www.PhantomFoundry.com

Note: All discounts will be taken care during the online checkout process. Remember to use the coupon code: ZOMBIE or give them a call at 877.218.1372

Zombie Manor Haunted House Open on Friday the 13th

Release: 8-6-2010

Greetings to everyone in the Zombie Nation! Well it is almost that time of the year – our favorite time of the year. Time for the haunted houses in the area to start ramping up and hopefully some cooler temps ahead for us all living in Texas.

ZOMBIE MANOR will be open for One Night of Fright next Friday, August 13, 2010 from 8-11PM. Our movie quality sets, special effects and interactive performers make this THE ZOMBIE EXPERIENCE in North Texas. Check out our reviews online at: ZombieManor.com

A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS will be made available for this event so be sure to get there early as we are offering a special event price of ONLY $10.00 to be the first in the area to preview some of the new sets and SCARE-zones for 2010. There will be coupons available to some of your favorite haunts in the area available for the upcoming season and celebrity haunters from across the metroplex so you won’t want to miss out on this special sneek preview of one of DFW’s (Dallas Fort Worth) TOP RATED dark attractions!

Witness the all new ZOMBIE ATTACK (the first of its kind in the DFW market) and the lifelike work of James McCormick from EXTREME SPFX who has been adding to our zombie cast this summer.

In addition, be sure to ask about ZOMBIE-Palooza, the first ever in north Texas at J.Gilligans in Arlington on Saturday, September 11, 2010. X5 Entertainment and ZOMBIE MANOR will be bringing you 4 FREE Bands – Pushing Daggers, Ghost Surfers, Fist Full of Oi and Subversive Underground, a zombie costume contest, celebrity judges, FREE Haunted House tickets, door prizes and more. All proceeds earned through donations and door prize tickets sold will benefit the family of one of our fallen Arlington Fire Fighters.

Hope to see you all at ZOMBIE MANOR this season where the dead live…SPREAD THE DEAD!

www.ZombieManor.com

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Haunted House Association 2010 Moves Forward

The Haunted House Association (HHA) is moving its organization forward for 2010. So far there are many things to come of the newly formed association for haunted and these are are couple of the items we can expect to see to help move Haunters forward with support, networking and more.

Release:

PR Campaign:
The HHA is embarking on a new PR campaign that is solely owned and funded by the HHA. As you know last year we participated with America Haunts in their campaign, but now that we are on our feet and rolling we are prepared to launch our own campaign. As always our focus will be to protect and promote the Haunted Attraction Industry, and promote our members’ haunts. You can be assured that the knowledge of our board and members will give this new campaign great chances for success.

New Web Site:
As you know last year we developed a web site on the Hauntworld owned URL www.HauntedHouseAssociation.org. This year we are now creating our new site on the HHA owned URL www.HHAssociation.com. It is important to note that this is being done with the full support and encouragement of Hauntworld, who additionally donated funds for the NEW website. The HHA board will be fully in control of the new site at all times, and it is planned to focus equally on all projects and entities that help the HHA and the industry as a whole to protect and promote Haunted Attractions. It is hoped that the new site will be online sometime before TransWorld, keep your fingers crossed! This new site will be a great resource for haunted house owners and operators to come together and help the industry.

Safety Campaign:
As you know we began a campaign last year, an outreach to teach new haunters safety. This will be a big focus in the upcoming year, as we feel that safety education should be promoted and distributed where it is needed most, to start up or home haunts that often have no interaction with local officials. Randy Bates, our new President, is well known as one of the industry’s experts on this topic, and plans to address this fully. Also key to this is the Crisis Plan that Randy developed to help Haunt Owners and the HHA deal with assorted problems that could occur on both a local or national scale.

MEMBER BENEFITS:
Of course member benefits play a major role when it is time to join an association. Here are some of the benefits a membership in the HHA will bring your event:

Publications: Members will receive subscriptions to 3 publications while they are members – Tourist Attractions and Parks, Hauntworld Magazine and Haunted Attraction Magazine.

Vendor Discounts: Members will receive extensive discounts from many of the finest vendors in the industry. Use of just a few of these discounts can pay for your membership in short order. This list is growing all the time, but we will post an updated list soon!

Haunt Directory: Member haunted houses will be listed in our new Haunt Directory on our new web site, www.HHAssociation.com. Assorted campaigns like the PR and Safety Outreach programs will drive traffic to the site and thus to your event’s listing.

Membership Directory: Once a year HHA will produce a comprehensive listing of our members, vendor discounts, by-laws, and other important information. This will be mailed out to our members.

Heraldry: Members will receive the right to use our logos and imagery to promote that they are members in good standing of the Haunted House Association.

Exclusive Meetings and Functions: Members will be able to attend exclusive meetings and events such as the upcoming Ultimate Brainstorm meeting at TransWorld this year for members only.

Participation in the Association: Members who are the owners or operators of a Haunted Attraction can vote for the board of the HHA. Members who are Owners or Operators of a Haunted Attraction with 5 years of operation can run for the board of HHA. Members are also encouraged to participate by joining committees and helping us protect and promote the industry.

Access to Networking: Members can participate on our NEW HHA Forum and on our Yahoo Group. Plus more to come! As you can see there are many benefits to joining the HHA and many important REASONS to help us protect and promote this industry. We look forward to sharing more of our plans with you soon and having you stop by our booth and join the HHA at the TransWorld show in a few short weeks!

For more information about the association be sure to visit the current site at: www.HauntedHouseAssociation.com

The INSANE SHANE Transworld Kick Off Party

So the Transworld Haunt Show is fast approaching this March. Then you can roll around in all your bloody glory with the newest animatronics, props, haunt ideas and more. And along with a fantastic Trade Show comes some social interactions with actors, owners, vendors and everyone! One way to kick things off is with the INSANE SHANE Transworld Kick Off Party.

The event is happening on March 24th in St. Louis, Missouri at the Renaissance Grand Hotel. Being held in the Landmark Ballroom from 7:30pm until Midnight, it will be full of All the best foods you can eat, a Live DJ Spinning some Dead Tunes, a Fully Stocked Bar, Costume Contest, and $1,000 in Cash Prizes. This in addition to thousands of dollars in door prizes from the Haunt Industry’s Top Vendors.

To get all of this, hang out, relax and get your Haunt On, its only $85.00 and that covers everything we just listed and more! So if you want to mingle with the best, then try the INSANE SHANE Transworld Kickoff Party!

For more information or to purchase tickets visit: www.GraystoneManor.net

The Evolution of Ghosts in Haunted Attractions

by: RFR Casket Crew Storm

Greetings Deadites,

Over the past few years, the popular opinion of what a ghost looks like has had some major changes. The days of Casper the Friendly ghost are gone, and no more cutting holes in the bedroom linens or spray painting a zombie costume white to have a ghost terrorize visitors to you haunt. Here are some of the challenging new forms ghosts have taken and how to incorporate them into haunt designs.

Orbs: Maybe it’s Uncle Marty, maybe its dust and a camera flash, regardless there are enough believers out there that haunt owners can put away the lemon Pledge and add more strobe lights anyplace for an instant Orb Ghost room when patrons are present

Voices: Disembodied voices and EVP type effects have always been a staple of haunts, but with this growing ghost phenomenon haunters have to be more creative with the content. Gone are the tried but true deep growling “Get Out” , and more common are the soft garbled sounds that resemble a bad drive through speaker. That might be good for concessions when patrons go through asking “Did you just say you died here or asked me if I want fries?”

Shadow People: These creepy ghostly shadows like to dart behind things in abandoned buildings and lighthouses, but they make the haunt budget happy when you can have a dot room without dealing with painting any dots.

Heat Signatures: Apparently the Predator could have also scored a role in the sixth sense with this new technology for Ghosts to reveal themselves. While the FLIR goggles for patrons might be expensive, the actors will appreciate the new sauna you install for them to relax in before running through the haunt ahead of the patrons touching and sitting in props.

EM Fields: Is there an evil presence in the basement or should you fire your electrician. While both scenarios are scary just hope your patrons know to look for Electromagnetic spikes when you send them into your new Basement of Spirits attraction with the prop EMF detectors.

Blurry Glowing Things: Was that a moth on the camera of the gas station or a restless Pony Express rider? The real fear will take place as you paint a thousand June bugs with phosphorescent paint and let them loose in your haunt.

Moving Stuff: What goes bump in the night? Well in your haunted house it can be everything if you loosen some floor boards and cut 1 leg on each table and chair a little short. The pain will be hiring actors to play the role of haunt pin monkeys for the reset.

Mist: Anyone gets creeped out by the low crawling fog that begins to take unearthly shapes. Only one good way to accomplish this on demand… Remote Control Fog, I’m sure there is some military research already on that one.

So until next time Deadites, Sit Back, Relax, and Rot Away…

The Darkness Behind the Scenes Tickets On-Sale

A good way for Haunters to learn how to herlp their event is to see what their peers in other markets are doing. See how they implement animatronics, actors, and more to their event and during the upcoming Haunt Show you will be able to experience both a Live Working attraction and a Lights On Behind the Scenes Tour of The Darkness Haunted Attraction.

The Darkness is a top rated, nationally recognized Haunted Attraction, that has been seen on the Travel Channel and in a variety of Publications.

For 2010 The Darkness is giving you a great tour for the Transworld Haunt Show and Tickets are on Sale Now!

The Darkness 2010 Live Actors Tour

Where:
The Darkness Haunted House
1525 South 8th Street
St. Louis, Missouri MO 63104
Located in downtown St. Louis next to Soulard Market off South Broadway. Just two miles from the convention center.

When:
March 26 & 27, 2010.

The Darkness 2010 Behind the Scenes Tour

Where:
The Darkness Haunted House
1525 South 8th Street
St. Louis, Missouri MO 63104
Located in downtown St. Louis next to Soulard Market off South Broadway. Just two miles from the convention center.

When:
March 25, 2010

To get your tickets be sure to stop by the Official Darkness Website at: www.TheDarkness.com

MORE ON THE DARKNESS HAUNTED HOUSE
Welcome to the 2010 Darkness Haunted House Tour at Transworld Haunt Show March 25-29, 2010. The Darkness presents three different attractions inside one 40,000 square foot building. First tour the all new Darkness haunted house then enter Terror Visions 3D and finally visit our new Monster Museum.

The 3 Darkness haunted attractions have been totally remodeled for the 2010 haunt season just for this tour at a cost of over $200,000.00.

Be the first to see all the new sets, special effects, custom props and much more at the 2010 Haunt Show in St. Louis, Missouri.

For more details visit www.TheDarkness.com

Shotgun Manor Voted Number 1 in Illinois

Sullivan Ambucs is proud to announce the 5th Annual Shotgun Manor, has been voted the number one haunt and number one Halloween event on HauntedIllinois.com. Victims of haunts are encouraged to vote on the website after they tour the haunt. Sullivan, a community of nearly 4,200, is the only haunt south of Chicago in the top five!

The haunt is located on the Square in Sullivan, across from the Little Theatre. Hours are 7:30 pm until 11:30 pm every Friday and Saturday in October. For further information or to buy tickets go to www.ShotgunManor.com or email binky@shotgunmanor.com

The story of this years haunt is “Emalee’s Knightmare.” The haunt is a two sided haunt with a different ending on each side. The unique story will end either with Emalee surviving or the BloodKnight winning the battle. The ending will be decided by the side of the haunt that gets the most visits and will decide what next years story line will be.

Sullivan Ambucs use all the monies generated from the haunted attraction to assist in funding: Moultrie County Senior Center, Cub Scout Pack #39, Moultrie County Head Start, Scholarships for Jr. & Sr. college students studying physical therapy, and ramps the Ambucs build at homes of people in need.

For more on th event: www/ShotgunManor.com
For more on Haunted Illinois: www.HauntedIllinois.com