HVRTING Archives - Haunting

A New Definition: Extreme Immersive Horror Is a Term You Need to Know

July 31, 2020 By Taylor Winters In BL4KM4SS, Blackout, Extreme Haunts, Faceless Ventures UK, Freakling Bros, Guides, Heretic, High Desert Haunted House, HVRTING, Immersive Horror, Interviews, Lights OUT, Miasma, nocent, Out of State Haunts, Quietus Horror, Santu Deliria, Shock Theater, STAG: An Immersive Horror Experiment No Comments

Haunting was designed to help set expectations. Part of setting those expectations is ascribing qualities and labels to immersive and haunt experiences. If it’s full-contact, audiences should expect to be touched; if it’s interactive, audiences should expect to interact. Seems simple enough, right? Well, I’d say so, except more recently, anything with even a hint [...]

Twelve Extreme Haunt Lessons Essential for All Creators

April 7, 2020 By Taylor Winters In BL4KM4SS, Blackout, Creator Assistance, Extreme Haunts, Faceless Ventures UK, Guides, Heretic, HVRTING, Miasma, nocent, Quietus Horror, Shock Theater, Victim Experience No Comments

BLACKOUT pioneered the full-contact immersive horror genre in 2009 and further refined it over the next decade. Heretic remixed the theatrical haunted house idea in 2012 and added aggressive brutality that would become synonymous with the extreme haunt name. These two horror experiences served as forefathers for the genre and inspired a very small, but […]

Byford Pledge – The Exciting Pain of Brotherhood – A Recollection

February 13, 2020 By Carl Webb In Extreme Haunts, HVRTING, Recollection No Comments

This is part of Haunting’s Recollection series – it is a complete account of HVRTING’s show, The Byford Pledge. It contains full spoilers and is intended for readers who have attended or could not attend the show, or are curious about this creator’s work. While there are staff members at Haunting that both direct and […]

Mrs. Claus’ Cookies – HVRTING Wraps an Extreme Haunt in a Christmas Bow – A Recollection

February 2, 2020 By Daniel Hasenstaub In Extreme Haunts, HVRTING, Recollection No Comments

This is part of Haunting’s Recollection series – it is a complete account of HVRTING’s show, Mrs. Claus’ Cookies. It contains full spoilers and is intended for readers who have attended or could not attend the show, or are curious about this creator’s work. While there are staff members at Haunting that both direct and […]

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HVRTING’s Fright Night of Horrors Delivers with Humor and Connection

January 26, 2020 By Daniel Hasenstaub In Extreme Haunts, HVRTING, Review No Comments

Disclaimer: while there are staff members at Haunting that both direct and act in HVRTING experiences, this review was written by someone who was not influenced by HVRTING staff upon writing and was a paying customer. I am pushed into the darkness, into a small room filled with the sounds of a woman being tortured. [...]

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Extra TV Brings Exclusive HVRTING Footage and Teases the Best of Immersive Horror

October 31, 2019 By Cristen Brinkerhoff In AV Content, Blackout, Extreme Haunts, Haunted Hayride, HVRTING, JFI Productions, To The Community No Comments

Happy Halloween, Haunters! extra tv We’ve got some really wonderful video for you today. Our Editor-In-Chief, Taylor Winters, was featured in this year’s extreme haunt piece for Extra TV. We at Haunting and sister scare company HVRTING are honored to be showcased in this piece along with such creators as Josh Randall and Kristjan […]

Serialized Death by HVRTING – A Great Haunt for Murder Enthusiasts

October 6, 2019 By Matthew Kennedy In Extreme Haunts, HVRTING, Review No Comments

Author’s note: While there are staff members at Haunting that both direct and act in HVRTING experiences, this review of Serialized Death was written by someone who is not employed by Haunting and was not influenced by any Haunting or HVRTING staff. Giggles the Clown is just as dingy and sketchy as the […]

Señor Pirate’s Final Plunder – A Merry Adventure on the High Seas

September 4, 2019 By Matthew Kennedy In HVRTING, Immersive Theater, Review No Comments

Disclaimer: while there are staff members at Haunting that both direct and act in HVRTING experiences, this review of Senor Pirate’s Final Plunder was written by someone who is not employed by Haunting and was not influenced by any Haunting or HVRTING staff. “Don’t worry… I got the ship on sail.” Carly Flair […]

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Los Angeles Halloween Season 2019 Haunt Guide

September 2, 2019 By Alyssa Concha In 13th Floor, All Saints Lunatic Asylum, American Contemporary Ballet, Beware the Dark Realm, BL4KM4SS, Bloodshed Brothers, Boot Hill, Caitlin Manor Haunted House, Casa Creepy, Club Fear, Coffin Creek, Count's Den, Dark Harbor, Desert Decay Manor, Disco Dining Club, Dreich Society, Drunken Devil, Fallen Saints, Fears Gate, Field of Screams, Forbidden Woods Cemetery, Force of Nature, Freakling Bros, Fright Fest, Gothic Hills Cemetery, Guides, Halloween Horror Nights, Haunt at Heritage Hill, Haunted Hayride, Haunted Men Productions, High Desert Haunted House, Horror Escapes LA (HELA) Productions, HVRTING, Intruder Escape, JFI Productions, Knott's Scary Farm, LA Opera, Laguna Nigel Haunted Trails, Las Vegas Haunts, Majestic Repertory Theatre, Marina Spooktacular, Maze of Mayhem, Mistress Yvonne's Annual Haunted House, Monsterpalooza, Murder House Productions, News, Opechee Haunt, Pirate's Cave, Pumkin Jack's Haunted House, Rated R: A Horror Speakeasy, Reign of Terror, Rosehill Haunt, Rotten Apple 907, Santu Deliria, Scream in the Dark, Shinbone Theatre Company, Shine On Collective, Shiver, Sinister Pointe, Sinister Valley, Spectacular Disaster Factory, Spook Show, Stoney Pointe, The 17th Door, The Best Medicine Productions, The Bloodshed Brothers, The Fleshyard, The Haunt at Hellizondo, The Haunt With No Name, To The Community, Twisted Minds Productions, Two Bit Circus, Zombie Joe's Underground No Comments

With all of the Halloween events in L.A. it's easy to miss out on something you really would have loved. We've got your back! To help you make the most out of your haunt season, we have put together a Halloween Haunt Guide for 2019. Below you will find a list of everything we could [...]

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HVRTING’S BL4CKTAPE Brings Beautifully Terrifying Art Over Pain at Midsummer Scream 2019

August 6, 2019 By Cristen Brinkerhoff In AV Content, Extreme Haunts, HVRTING, Midsummer Scream, Review No Comments

Please note in the interest of full disclosure: HVRTING is an extreme haunt offshoot of this website (Haunting.net), and the two entities share multiple staff members, including the writer of this review. The writer attended this particular event as a participant. Thank you to Jon Kobryn for his video edits and Taylor Winters for filming […]