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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 [...]

Offline by Lights OUT Productions – Good Idea, Good Cast, but Needs Refinement

April 30, 2020 By Matthew Kennedy In Immersive Horror, Lights OUT, Review No Comments

“Who is Red Rambo?” I ask the enigmatic 011245 via text message. They’re one of two individuals I’ve been corresponding with during the Lights Out: Offline experience, and so far 011245 has given off the impression that they know what’s going on. “That’s a dangerous question you are asking there, Mr. Kennedy,” they reply. And […]

Lights Out Productions | Midnight Experiment

Midnight Experiment by Lights OUT Productions – Scary Side Effects

December 16, 2019 By Erik Blair In Extreme Haunts, Immersive Horror, Lights OUT, Review No Comments

Thanks to the blindfold covering my eyes, I cannot see the doctor who has forced me to lie on the floor below her. That’s probably a good thing; it’s more than worrisome when she whispers to her fellow doctor that she doesn’t remember how to perform surgery on me. As my shirt is pulled up […]

Midsummer Scream’s Hall of Shadows 2019 Excites us for the Haunt Season – Recap

August 12, 2019 By Lacey Pawlowicz In AV Content, Conventions & Festivals, Dreich Society, Gothic Hills Cemetery, Midsummer Scream, Phobia Productions, Realm of Shadow, Reichland Asylum Haunt, Sinister Valley, The Bloodshed Brothers, Twisted Minds Productions 1 Comment

Below are short, bite-sized reviews of the eleven haunts from Midsummer Scream’s Hall of Shadows 2019. Read and watch our walk-through videos – and then add these haunts to your Halloween Season calendar! Thank you to Melissa Howland and Taylor Winters for helping with this article, Kevin Hsu for filming the walk-throughs, and Jon Kobryn […]

Midsummer Scream 2019 – Staff Picks & Recommendations

July 25, 2019 By Lacey Pawlowicz In Conventions & Festivals, Midsummer Scream, News No Comments

Midsummer Scream - 2019 Continuing its streak of bringing spooky Halloween fun to the hot summer months, Midsummer Scream, now in its fourth year, is planning on their biggest event yet! This year, Midsummer Scream is doubling the show's size from 2018, taking over the entire Long Beach Convention Center and filling it to the [...]