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All New CEO Outlines Cedar Fair’s Long-Term Growth Strategy

Rotting Flesh Radio — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:14:22 +0000

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

National Podcast Awards Daily Voting: Ride The Doombuggy and Help ROTTING FLESH RADIO Take the Win for Halloween Freaks!

Rotting Flesh Radio — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:10:35 +0000

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

So now it is time to take that ride in your doombuggy and V-O-T-E for ROTTING FLESH RADIO DAILY in the General Category. You have gotten us this far as both the Original Halloween and Haunt Industry Weekly Show and recognized in the National Podcast Awards.

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 #241: Morbidly Merry Xmas in July – Waverly Hills Sanatorium, Heavy Rebel Weekener, Haunt Industry News and more..

Rotting Flesh Radio — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:35:04 +0000

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

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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…
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The Haunting Truth a Documentary (“Hauntumentary”)

Rotting Flesh Radio — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:08:51 +0000

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 (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

Netherworld’s New Haunt for 2011, THE NIGHTMARES

Rotting Flesh Radio — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:14:50 +0000

The Netherworld Haunted House

With the Haunt Season fast approaching, many haunts are full in motion with this year’s theme, style and construction. Rotting Flesh Radio is planning our haunt tours and many events like to overhaul the whole haunt in getting ready. Others just change a room or two. But Netherworld figured, it is our 15th Year, Let’s just add a New Themed Event. And so All-New for 2011 is THE NIGHTMARES!

The Nightmare is an event with such a backstory you will be thrust into horror, terror and possibly even wet yourself.

“Earths last defenders were being slaughtered. With the eternal darkness of the Blood Night wrapping the world in a fetid mist, gargoyle swarms and other foul monsters continued the hunting and subjugation of the human race. As hordes of evil creatures emerged from the NETHERWORLD, the Illuminati Warriors who opposed them fell swiftly in battle to the savage beasts. Then the most deadly blow of all was struck . With the tolling of ominous bells came the rulers of the NETHERWORLD, the dread NIGHTMARE KINGS! These powerful THINGS seemed at first glance to be little more than gaunt, ancient, fanged and taloned ghouls wrapped in burial shrouds. But they possessed dark powers to warp reality, to change their very forms and summon the living nightmares of any who would dare confront them.

Netherworld Haunted House's THE NIGHTMARES

Commanding armies of massive war beasts, these specters glided like noxious gray shadows over the landscape, hunting human survivors and feasting on their deepest fears before consuming their souls.

The Prophet had foreseen all of this and had told the great master of the Illuminati, the EYE. Together they had prepared a plan to save what remained of the Earth. First using ancient voodoo rituals, they summoned from the grave an army of ZOMBIES to protect the Illuminati and do battle with the NIGHTMARE KINGS. But this was only a delay tactic to give the EYE time to end the Blood Night (The accursed event that gave NETHERWORLDs hordes the free run of Earth). At long last the EYE had come to an accord with Goulich, the Vampire Lord who had called the Blood Night down upon Mankind. Sealed in the Mansion of the Prophet, guarded by the undead, Illuminati warriors and the very forces of nature, the Prophet, the EYE and Goulich worked together to undo the Vampire Lords spell. Soon the NIGHTMARE KINGS and their minions would penetrate the defenses and destroy them all.

The end was near. The NIGHTMARE KINGS and their armies had begun to breach the mystical and spiritual barriers around the Prophets Sanctum. Goblins with digging beasts burrowed into the sub basements of the mansion, as Gargoyles swarmed the skies above. Would the combined powers of THE EYE, the Prophet and Lord Goulich be enough to end the Blood Night before the world was completely over run?

Netherworld Haunted House

We dare you to experience THE NIGHTMARES, the final chapter of the Blood Night Saga this Halloween season at the legendary NETHERWORLD Haunted House!”

So Deadites, as you venture out to find those haunts that will leave you running scared, Netherworld has upped the stakes once again this season.

For more information about the Netherworld Haunted House and the All-New “THE NIGHTMARES”, visit: www.FearWorld.com

Home Haunt News and Reviews is Returning

Rotting Flesh Radio — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:16:05 +0000

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: The All-New Interactive Haunt Directory

Rotting Flesh Radio — Sun, 29 May 2011 21:33:02 +0000

Southern Haunts Haunt Directory

With the haunt season right around the corner, you have to start thinking about listing your event. in the end, what good is a haunted attraction if you aren’t able to scare anyone?

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

Southern Haunts is a feature rich haunted house directory for the Southern U.S. region. Our focus is to spotlight haunts in the Southern states and deliver Haunt Industry News. The website is designed for web 2.0 & the next generation of devices such as smart phones and tablets. And as the haunt industry and the internet are evolving, shouldn’t your marketing do the same?

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

Enter the CFX Silicone Mask Pride Contest By June 10

Rotting Flesh Radio — Thu, 19 May 2011 09:25:37 +0000

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

Dan Krein: Creator of Souls Of The Forsaken

ScaryVisions — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:18:38 +0000

by: RFR Casket Crew Brian Foreman

When I first saw Dan Krein’s video of Souls of the Forsaken I had to replay it several times just to catch all the detail he had put into his Home Haunt! His haunt ranked among the few who made it to the top of the Home Haunter’s Association for Top Home Haunts of 2010. You can feel his passion for Halloween just by reading this interview. And passion is what really keep us going into the next year anyway, right? I know that is what keeps me typing, podcasting, blogging, and haunting. Passion is contagious and I’m starting to feel a bit like attending a trade show or something. I can relate to Dan and plan on grabbing a beer with him at TransWorld this year. If this interview with Dan doesn’t spark a bit of passion in you then pull the dagger out of your heart, close down your Haunt, and go watch a Justin Bieber video.

Congrats on making the Top 15 at the Home Haunter’s Association!

It was an honor to be listed in the Top 15 Home Haunts for the HHA contest. There are many great home haunts out there and to be considered as a finalist was such an honor. I hope that this will bring more attention to my haunt and get my haunt noticed by the professionals. My plan is to open my own professional haunt in the very near future. I feel that I am ready and can’t wait to go pro. It’s my dream.

How did you get started in Home Haunting?

I started small with a few Halloween props in the front yard. My wife had purchased some gory items on Ebay and we displayed them in the front yard and garage. She found out about Transworld while looking up Halloween related stuff on the internet. She asked the supplier of our first props, Jeremy from Creepy Collections (who was just starting out his business), to help us get into the show . He did and so in 2007 we attended our first Transworld in Chicago. This was “the moment” when all things changed. I entered the show and all hell broke loose. I was reborn as a Home Haunter!!!!!

How many years have you been converting your home into a Halloween playground?

2011 will be my 6th year as a home haunter. Over the past 2 years I consider myself to be an extreme home haunter. The difference I believe is in the addition of my backyard walk through haunted house. So not only do I display and have an attraction in my front yard and garage. But I also have a fully constructed 7 room haunted house with actors consuming my entire backyard.

What are the good/evil sides of Home Haunting?

The Pros: seeing all the visitors that come out each year and enjoying themselves. Having a great community function that all can attend. I love to hear screams and laughs from everyone. I know when that is happening that all the blood sweat and tears I put into the haunt is well worth it. I love the positive feed back that the visitors tell me. I can hear them talking about the haunt as they are getting back into their cars and you know they enjoyed themselves. Each year there are hundreds of repeaters- this is awesome. Last year I joined “Haunts Against Hunger” and raised over $5,000 worth of food for my local food pantery. The other pro is that I am doing what I really, and I mean really love! This is my passion and I believe that I finally have found my calling.

The cons that arise start with not being able to spend a lot of time with my family while getting the haunt ready each year. Everyone is involved with the haunt when October rolls around but otherwise I don’t see enough of them with the haunt and a full-time job. I hate having to take it all down. I have no real place to store it. And have not been able to park in my garage in years, eat in my dining room, or finish my basement due to all the props. A lot of things around the house get put on the back burner due to time and funds that are not available. It takes 2 months to put up the haunt and a month to take it down. I really spend 365 days a year planning, designing, constructing then building the haunt.

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Do you build or buy most of your props?

Most of the props are purchased while attending the Transwold show. I do make my own props now and am learning all the time and expanding my collection. I design the layout , decorate and highly detail the haunt each year. My favorite vendors are Ghost Ride Prod, Unit 70, Creepy Collections, and Distortions. There are so many others but too many to list. I love them all.

What is one Halloween memory that motivated you and led you here?

My vivid memory comes from Brookfield JC’s haunted house. I look back upon it as a terrifying experience for a young boy. But I enjoyed every minute of it. Chainsaws have a particular place in my heart…

Word of encouragement for those aspiring Haunters out there?

Always enjoy doing it. Always try to surpass your own expectations. Challenge yourself to make it better each year. And always try to help out a fellow Home Haunter..

Contact Dan Krein:

Website: http://www.soulsoftheforsaken.com

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/SoulsOfTheForsaken

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/18383019@N04

Email: hauntedsouls@sbcglobal.net

Sit Back, Relax and Rot Away Deadites and wait for more topics from me on RFRPodcast.com

Rotting Flesh Radio Show #229: Canadian Haunters Convention, Spookywoods and more

Rotting Flesh Radio — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:59:25 +0000

SHOW NOTES FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 5, 2011 SHOW #229

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All right Deadites. The Superbowl is here, Transworld is near and the Canadians are invading the Haunt Industry. This week we prepare for the upcoming Haunt Industry Convention Season by welcoming the Owner and Creator of the CANADIAN HAUNTERS CONVENTION, Matt to the show. Matt is going to discuss the tradeshow, vendors, seminars, special guests and more to the sophmore year of the Canadian Haunters Convention.

In addition you can get your fright fix by reliving the Haunt Season with RFR Casket Crew Badger on location at the Spookywoods Haunted Attraction with the owner Tony W. We have a Body Bag full of Haunt Industry News and we have RFR Casket Crew Brian Foreman with the top Haunt Actor Gimmicks list.

Storm is here with another installment of In A Haunt Minute and there is another Listener Awarded the Screamline Studios Graverobbing Giveaway and some Twisted Tunes Spinning from your Grave!

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

THIS WEEK’S SHOW: LISTEN NOW BELOW OR
Right Click, Save Link/Target As To This Link: http://rfrpodcast.com/RFR_2_5_2011.mp3
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PAST SHOWS:
RFR 1-24-2010 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
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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
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RFR 8-7-2009 with DEREK MEARS (Jason Vorhees 2009)

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