Dark Imaginings

Were you one of the Haunters at Transworld, or maybe didn’t get a chance to attend? Well Dark Imaginings wasn’t able to attend as well so now they are passing on a deal for haunters to take part in.

“We here at Dark Imaginings have got some bad news and we’ve got some good
news.

The bad news is that we didn’t attend the Transworld Haunt Show this
year, which makes us very sad. The good news, however, is that we are pleased to announce our first-ever “NO SHOW” SPECIAL!

What is a “No Show” Special and why are we doing it? That’s easy. It is not always possible for us to attend every show that we would like due to various circumstances, travel costs, or other obligations. However, we
don’t want our loyal customers and new friends to miss out on our fantastic show discounts, either. While we will certainly miss seeing your ghoulish grins and smiling faces in person, we are very excited to be able to bring these savings to you.

But hurry, these “No Show” Specials will expire on March 31, 2012!!!

For more information, please go visit: www.darkimaginings.com

SHOW NOTES FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 2, 2012 SHOW #250

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Transworld is just a short time away and to get you in the Haunting mood Deadites we have CREEPY COLLECTION stopping in this week. Creepy Collection is going to give you hints to their ALL NEW item in the interactive Haunted House at Transworld, some new items and vendors for the upcoming Haunt Season and more.

In addition we have some attraction goodies for you as RFR Casket Crew’s Rabid Badger comes to us from two events in the HORROR FIELDS and TWISTED WOODS. The owners of these attractions talk with RFR about the event, highlights and what to expect in a good scare from their Haunts. And if that wasn’t enough we RFR Casket Crew Storm back with In A Haunt Minute, ranting as only a haunter can do and Master of the Ethermuse VIRGIL FRANKLIN comes to the show to announce a brand new huge project he is working on.

This week in Haunt Industry News we have information covering Dark Imaginings, Toxic Toons, The Darkness, Transworld, Mad Monster Party, Trick or Treat Studios, The Garage of Evil and more from the Haunt and Horror Industries this week.

So look at what the Bat Dragged in this week Deadites all you Fright Freaks, Haunters and Halloween Junkies, you can…
Sit Back, Relax and Rot Away to Rotting Flesh Radio!

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Cedar Fair Entertainment

With many amusement parks, the Halloween Season continues to be a fun time for their guests and special events. This also goes beyond just the Halloween Season and the rest of the entertainment years as well.

The All-New CEO has outlined Cedar Fair’s Long-Term Growth Strategy this week with a look at what the park has planned.

Release:
Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, a leader in regional amusement parks, water parks and active entertainment, hosted an investor meeting in New York City today at which its president and newly named chief executive officer, Matt Ouimet, outlined his long-term growth strategy – known as “FUNforward” – and the corresponding financial goals for the Company.

“This is truly an exciting time for Cedar Fair,” said Ouimet. “Given our favorable industry dynamics – including significant barriers to entry and a loyal, high-repeat customer base – as well as the significant momentum we have created for the Company over the past two record-setting years, we see several attractive strategic growth opportunities in both the near and long term. We believe there are many compelling reasons for investors to choose Cedar Fair, and we are committed to rewarding them for their confidence in us with meaningful and sustainable value creation through a balanced approach of distributions, growth investments, debt reduction and unit repurchases.”

Ouimet cited Cedar Fair’s high-quality, well-maintained parks, its recognized stature within the industry as an innovation leader and its strong brand positioning as the core drivers of the Company’s financial and operational momentum.

“We are very proud of our properties and the men and women who ensure families and thrill-seekers alike have the ‘best-day-of-the-year’ experience they expect when they visit one of our parks,” Ouimet said. “It’s not an accident that we enjoyed our second straight year of record attendance – 23.4 million guests – at our 17 locations across North America in 2011.”

Cedar Fair’s award-winning parks – including Cedar Point, which was named the number-one amusement park in the world for the 14th consecutive year, and Kings Island, which was voted “Best Kids’ Area in the World” for the 11th straight year – are home to four of the top 11 steel coasters in the world and top-rated Halloween events.

“We believe we offer our guests compelling value by providing wholesome, exciting, quality experiences with the greatest thrill rides and family attractions, which is an especially strong entertainment proposition in today’s discerning consumer market,” Ouimet added. “Likewise, our goal is to continue to be a total return investment for our unitholders. Our recession-resistant business continues to generate strong free cash flow, which has allowed us to further strengthen our financial flexibility and make meaningful distributions to our unitholders while at the same time experiencing appreciation in our unit price.”

Components of the FUNforward strategy include:

Enhanced guest experience – Maintaining an unwavering focus on delivering compelling value for the price paid, at every park on every day. In the near term, the Company will continue to add new rides and attractions while at the same time expanding evening event activities to provide enhanced value and extend the length of each visit.

Improved consumer messaging and relationship management – Modernizing the marketing and sales strategy and execution to ensure the Company is most effectively segmenting its customer base and speaking to each audience with messages that “break through the noise” and create the proper emotional connection that drives action within the operating season.

Dynamic pricing and advance purchase commitments – Incorporating a new e-commerce platform common to other industry players. The new platform will provide real-time data and dynamic pricing modification, while supporting incremental programs such as season pass installment sales and up-sell of benefits and value.

Premium product offerings – Expansion of premium experience offerings for benefit-oriented guests. Examples of this will include premium parking and dining experiences, “fast lanes” at various high-demand attractions and “Fright Lanes” during Halloween events, among other things.

Strategic alliance fees and promotional leverage – Industry benchmarking indicates an opportunity for the Company to expand its strategic alliances while still protecting the integrity of the guest experience.

Capital and expense productivity – Prioritizing capital to the highest return-on-invested-capital opportunities across the Company’s portfolio, encouraging manufacturers to innovate at lower costs and remaining disciplined in the management of costs. The Company will also look to utilize its undeveloped land to drive additional park admissions through activities and investments that leverage its installed asset base.

“It’s important to have a balanced mix between thrill rides and family attractions,” said Ouimet. “We are investing approximately $90 million across all of our properties and have a very strong rides and attractions menu for the 2012 operating season.”

OUTLOOK

According to Ouimet, the Company’s preliminary results project 2011 net revenues to be approximately $1.028 billion, and project Adjusted EBITDA of approximately $375 million. Both projected net revenues and Adjusted EBITDA are at the high-end of the Company’s most recent guidance of net revenues between $1.015 billion and $1.025 billion and Adjusted EBITDA between $365 million and $375 million.

“By 2016, we believe Adjusted EBITDA will be in excess of $450 million,” he said.

The Company anticipates a 2012 annual distribution rate of $1.60 per unit, to be paid in $0.40 per unit cash installments, and a record 2013 annual distribution rate of more than $2.00 per unit. “As this record-setting 2013 target distribution would suggest, we are very excited about the future of Cedar Fair,” said Ouimet.

To find out more about their goals, outlook and more visit them at: www.CedarFair.com

The 2011 Podcast Awards

Hey there Deadites,

Since 2005, you have been loyal Deadites, spinning RFR from the grave, visiting us at Conventions, Tradeshows, and more. And most of all, keeping The Mortician Rotting Away from the Morgue every week for the last Six Years!

Well it is because of you, ROTTING FLESH RADIOM is nominated in the national podcast awards at www.PodcastAwards.com.

Rotting Flesh Radio is the Only Haunt / Halloween Industry Podcast Nominated in the Annual Awards and this is because of YOU our Haunt Friends and Family.

Rotting Flesh Radio: The Original Halloween / Haunt industry Podcast

Let’s see if we can show the world us Fright Freaks, Halloween Junkies, Haunt Lovers and Weirdos can take the top spot.

Spread the word Daily and THANK YOU DEADITES!!! Sit Back, Relax and Rot Away…

V-O-T-E DAILY:
Where: www.PodcastAwards.com
Who: Rotting Flesh Radio
Category: General Category

SHOW NOTES FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 29, 2011 SHOW #241

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THIS WEEK’S SHOW NOTES:
What better way to beat the heat from the Morgue Deadites than to close out the month with a Morbidly Merry Christmas Celebration! This week we cool off in the morgue with Twisted Christmas tunes, Morbid Fun and more. To kick the fat man down the shoot we have RFR Casket Crew’s The Unknown Scare Actor coming to us all show long Live from the Waverly Hills Sanatorium haunt and ghost tour. He is going to begin us the stories, the shadows, the terror and more from Waverly Hills Sanatorium. In addition we have the Rabid Badger back at the Heavy Rebel Weekender. Badger is on location at this Psycho-Rockabilly event with interviews from Rick Frine, Psycho Charger, the Memphis Morticians and more.

We have RFR Casket Crew’s Storm with another rant In A Haunt Minute and the new Fresh Meat with Pierce is back counting down those days until Halloween!

This week in Haunt Industry News we have information covering the RFR Smartphone App, All-New Casket Crew Members, Midnight Syndicate, Scarehouse, Delirium Dog, The Fear Fair Haunted Attraction, The Fear Camp, The Bates Motel and Hayride, Fearfest, the Travel Channel, Disneyland Paris, Terrorific Nights, Halloween Horror Nights, The Thing, Bush Gardens, Howl O Scream, The Fear Experience Haunted House, All-New Haunt Tees, The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror, Dexter, The Haunting Truth Documentary, Hellfest the Movie, Seaworld Entertainment, IAAPA Expo, the Casey Anthony Latex Mask, Six Degrees of Hell, Corey Feldman, Hotel of Horror Haunted Attraction, Evil Clown Bar Crawl for A Child’s Place Charity, The Gnombies, Flashback Weekend Horror Convention, Voltron Defender of the Universe, Pee Wee Herman and more!

We have a special treat for our Morbidly Merry Christmas Celebration at the closing of the casket at the end of the show and other rotting goodies.

There are ALL-NEW Rules to Win the Screamline Studios Graverobbing Giveaway and Twisted Tunes from the Grave.

So all you Fright Freaks, Haunters and Halloween Junkies, you can…
Sit Back, Relax and Rot Away to Rotting Flesh Radio!

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PAST SHOWS:
RFR 7-8-2011 Live at ScareCon, Cliff Allen, The Haunted Hagen Stop In
RFR 6-24-2011 Dent SChoolhouse’s Damien Reaper and Nightmare on Elm St. Lisa Wilcox
RFR 6-17-2011 Week Two of the 8th Annual Midwest Haunters Convention Coverage
RFR 6-10-2011 Week One of the 8th Annual Midwest Haunters Convention Coverage
RFR 5-27-2011 HEATHER LANGENKAMP Stops In and Kelly Collins of Midwest Haunters
RFR 5-13-2011 Jon Bernthal and Haunt Apps Stop In
RFR 5-6-2011 Live HAuNTcon 2011 (Tom Devlin Stops In and more)
RFR 3-18-2011 Live from Transworld Haunt Show 2011
RFR 3-4-2011 Chad Savage of Sinister Visions
RFR 2-18-2011 Exec V.P. of Transworld Jen Braverman and Insane Shane Sue
RFR 2-11-2011 Tyler Barnett and Ministry 80 Stop In
RFR 2-5-2011 Canadian Haunters Convention & Live at Spookywoods
RFR 1-24-2011 Haunt Vendor Surverys, Haunt Owner Rich Strelek
RFR 12-3-2010 LIVE from Arx Mortis and HAuNTcon’s Leonard Pickel
RFR 11-19-2010 LIVE Spooky Ranch and Hauntville
RFR 11-12-2010 LIVE at Wells Township Haunted Attraction
RFR 11-5-2010 LIVE at Hundred Acres Manor and Legendary Haunt Tour Stops In
RFR 10-29-2010 LIVE at Nightmare Factory Haunted House
RFR 10-22-2010 LIVE at Legends of the Fog Haunted Attraction
RFR 10-8-2010 RFR Annual Haunt Tours Kick Off
RFR 10-1-2010 w/Terror on the Fox & Myers House NC
RFR 9-17-2010 w/Meg Foster, Adrian Barbeau & Carson Aune
RFR 9-10-2010 w/DOUG BRADLEY, LOST BOYS & Pumpkin Teeth
RFR 9-3-2010 w/RFR Kicking Off the Haunt Season
RFR 8-27-2010 w/Miko Hughes & Julian Sands
RFR 7-30-2010 w/Robert Carradine & East Coast Haunt Club
RFR 7-16-2010 Live at Heavy Rebel Weekender
RFR 7-9-2010 w/Deneen Melody & Comic Book Divas
RFR 7-2-2010 Celebrate the 4th w/RFR
RFR 6-25-2010 RFR Reborn with MHC Coverage
RFR 5-14-2010 with Alex Vincent and RA Mihaioff
RFR 5-7-2010 LIVE from HAuNTcon 2010
RFR 4-30-2010 RFR Crew Heads out to 3 Cons at Once
RFR 4-23-2010 w/Prop Master Paul Byers
RFR 4-9-2010 Coverage of Transworld & Horrorhound
RFR 3-26-2010 with G Tom Mac
RFR 3-19-2010 LIVE from Monstermania w/Eric Roberts and more
RFR 3-12-2010 with Trick or Treat Studios
RFR 3-5-2010 Haunting Scares Into March
RFR 2-12-2010 with Midwest Haunters Convention
RFR 2-5-2010 OUR 200TH SHOW! RFR:The Musical
RFR 1-29-2010 with The Mortician and Casket Crew
RFR 1-22-2010 with Brian Lashchuck of Beyond the Grave Prod.
RFR 1-15-2010 with Kevin Alvey of Gore Galore
RFR 1-8-2010 with RFR Ringing in 2010
RFR 12-18-2009 with Oderus Ungerus of Gwar
RFR 11-27-2009 with Spookywoods Haunted Attraction
RFR 11-20-2009 with Ben Armstrong of Netherworld
RFR 11-13-2009 with Scream Queen Brooke Lewis
RFR 10-30-2009 LIVE at Hundred Acres Manor
RFR 10-23-2009 with ROBERT ENGLUND (Freddy Krueger)
RFR 10-16-2009 LIVE from Goatman Hollow Haunt Experience
RFR 10-9-2009 LIVE from Frightmares at Buck Hill
RFR 10-2-2009 with Bush Gardens Howl-O-Scream
RFR 9-25-2009 with Terror Behind the Walls & Toxic Toons
RFR 9-18-2009 with Los Angeles Haunted Hayride
RFR 9-4-2009 with Pale Night Productions
RFR 8-28-2009 with TVTV Transylvania Television
RFR 8-21-2009 with Lexington’s Scream Park
RFR 8-14-2009 with Screaming Zombie Energy Drink
RFR 8-7-2009 with DEREK MEARS (Jason Vorhees 2009)

The Haunting Truth (Hauntumentary)

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.”

The Heartstoppers Haunted House

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

Home Haunter News and Reviews

Alright all you Home Haunt Deadites, the time has come for a return from the grave! Yes, Home Haunt News and Reviews the online E-Publication is returning on July 15, 2011!

Home Haunt News is an E-Publication dedicated to the home haunter! With how-to guides, make-up tricks, party ideas, and everything else
related to home haunting! This is a fantastic e-pub that really helps Home Haunters grow in their prop making, gearing up for the haunt season, getting those trick or treaters in and more. HHN has been a friend of Rotting Flesh Radio since they began, and as we have said before…we all started as home haunters!

So be sure to get articles in, submissions, and you can get back issues in the flash page format or as a downloadable PDF, on their website at: www.HomeHauntNews.com. And be sure to check them out on July 15 for the all new re-launch of the publication!

Southern Haunts Haunt Directory

Many directories out there list your haunt for free and it is a good way to gain awareness of your event. There are also region specific directories as well like Haunted Wisconsin, Haunted Illinois, Haunted R.I., and also many general directories such as HauntedHouse.com. These directories, are useful and helpful in many patrons finding events close to them, and also get reviews from other customers who attended your event.

Now let’s bring directories into a new era, fast forward to 2011 and I think we have the Winner in Southern Haunts.

Southern Haunts U.S. Map

Now What Makes Southern Haunts Different
Free basic listing.

Featured listing highlights:
Magazine style layout with hi-res image of your haunt

Stream live video from inside your haunt to your listing

Links to all of your online social network profiles (facebook, twitter, youtube, flicker, etc)

Your latest youtube video embedded on your listing

Sell tickets to your attraction directly from your listing

Driving directions to your haunt via google maps

All of your contact info easily available to your customers

Syndicated feature article about your haunt to our partners

Now looking at this Deadites, I have to say Rotting Flesh Radio has seen its share of Haunted Attraction over the last five years and it looks like Southern Haunts is going to set the trend and template for future directories to follow.

For more information about their region specific locations and how to get listed visit: www.SouthernHaunts.com

CFX Pride Contest Ends June 10

It is time to show your love of the silicone mask haunters, halloween fans and horror fanatics! From now until June 10 you can upload your own funny or interesting photo of yourself in your CFX Mask on Flickr and WIN your choice of one of the silicone masks shown below.

Composite Effects continues to make some of the most durable, detailed and realistic masks for the Haunt and horror industry.

you can always find CFX Masks at the Rotting Flesh Radio booth at many conventions and tradeshows and also on the CFX Website.

For the full list of rules and how to enter be sure to visit them at: www.CompositeEffects.com