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Haunting’s 2023 Halloween Reviews

November 24, 2023 By Alyssa Concha In American Contemporary Ballet, BCR: A Place to Scare, Coffinwood Cemetery, Dark Harvest, Dinner & Drinks, Downtown Repertory Theater, Fairbrook Manor, Ferris Haunt, Fright Fest, Guides, Halloween Yard Displays, Haunted House, Haunted House of Horror, Hauntington Beach Manor, Home Haunts, Immersive Horror, Immersive Theater, La Casa de Satanas, MacDevitt Manor, Meyer2Meyer Entertainment, Mystic Terror, Out of State Haunts, Prism, Rotten Apple 907, Santa Ana Haunt, ScareScape Haunted Attraction, Straite to Hale, The Fear Experiment, The Haunted Rose, The Hotel Who, Town of Deadwood, Twisted Dreams No Comments

As the spirits return to their graves and the glowing smile on the Jack O Lantern dims, our Halloween Haunt Guide comes to a close with fewer and fewer events. But we don't want to keep up an empty guide throughout the year--rather, we want to showcase the wonderful haunted houses, conventions, immersive horror experiences, [...]

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The Fear Experiment 2023 – A Bedtime Stories Review

November 16, 2023 By Sam Giacinto In Extreme Haunts, Immersive Horror, Out of State Haunts, Review, The Fear Experiment No Comments

I was going to do an in-depth review of the The Fear Experiment 2023 show Bedtime Stories, but there is not much more that I can add that hasn’t already been said in the last review. As with all of these types of experiences, it is personal. You end up walking away with a new [...]

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STAG Eternal 2023 – A Recollection from Sam Giacinto

March 22, 2023 By Sam Giacinto In Extreme Haunts, Out of State Haunts, Recollection, STAG: An Immersive Horror Experiment No Comments

Weeks of anticipation led up to the defining moment that cannot be described, it needs to be experienced. I am about to attend STAG Eternal. February 10, 2023: The day that changes everything. I make the seven-hour drive from Green Bay Wisconsin to Bay City Michigan to experience STAG Eternal. I have my instructions that [...]

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Spook Show 17 is the The 17th Door’s Antithesis to the Reality Show

September 8, 2022 By Taylor Winters In Extreme Haunts, Review, The 17th Door No Comments

Spook Show 17 is the antithesis to the reality show. It is boastful, it is smart, and it pushes boundaries—perfectly mirroring the larger-than-life personality of co-owner Robbie Luther and the immersive haunted house the reality show focuses on: The 17th Door. While this likely won’t appeal to reality show fans wanting drama, beach bods, and [...]

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MurderCo: Pure Evil Infuses Extreme Horror into an Escape Room Setting

June 22, 2021 By Taylor Winters In Escape Rooms, Extreme Haunts, Review 1 Comment

The best escape rooms immerse audiences in their worlds. Thus, the intersection of immersive horror and escape games was a logical extension of the genres, and a very successful one at that. From The Basement to Crossroads Escape Games’ The Hex Room, these rooms are always rated as top-tier games, even when put against non-horror [...]

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Mouth of Madness – An Interview with David Wampole of Full on Fear

November 17, 2020 By Molly Fadelici In Extreme Haunts, Interviews No Comments

David Wampole, a military vet who served for 21 years, is bringing the world of extreme haunts to a plain suburb outside of Raleigh, NC. While scouring the web for “haunts near me” to complete this Halloween season, I came across the website, and subsequent facebook page for Full on Fear. The moment that I [...]

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 [...]

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April 16, 2020 By Lizabeth Stockton In BL4KM4SS, Extreme Haunts, Recollection No Comments

It’s a familiar scenario to me at this point. I’m parking my car in a semi industrial-looking area, next to a public storage facility of some kind. The sky is darkening, and as I get out and brace myself against the chilly March night, my eyes dart left and right, trying to suss out any […]

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 […]