Episodes and Blog Entries
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 190 - Gift Shop Blues
Episode | July 22nd, 2019 | 1 hr 1 min
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
If your haunt doesn't have at least a merch table, you're missing out. But if all you have is a merch table you may be missing out even more. Here's how to elevate your merch game and get yourself a full-blown gift shop.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 189 - Starting a Haunt Convention
Episode | July 15th, 2019 | 50 mins
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
Are you thinking about launching your own haunted attraction conference? Why not? This week on Haunt Weekly Maximus Bryant tells us how he and the others at the Ohio Haunters Association created theirs.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 188 - June/July News
Episode | July 8th, 2019 | 45 mins 58 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
We are in the doldrums of summer but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of news to cover and that's exactly what we're going to do, breaking down the latest happenings in the haunt industry over the past month!
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 187 - 7 Simple Things Haunts Forget
Episode | July 1st, 2019 | 53 mins 28 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
Last week we talked about things that we wished we knew when we started haunting, this week we're flipping it around and talking about things we've noticed as customers.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 186 - 7 Things We Wish We Knew When We Started
Episode | June 24th, 2019 | 55 mins 27 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
Haunting is a learning process. No one gets it right at first and we made some really bad mistakes early on. So here's your chance to learn from our mistakes and maybe get a head start yourself.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 185 - 10 Horror Video Games for Haunters
Episode | June 17th, 2019 | 55 mins 1 sec
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
Haunting and horror video games go hand to hand like lox and bagels. But are there games that can make us better haunters? Here are 10 that definitely can.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 184 - May/June News
Episode | June 10th, 2019 | 46 mins 38 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
This week on Haunt Weekly we're doing the news! We have stories from all over the country including tales of haunts surviving natural disasters, arsonists and being turned into Minecraft levels.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 183 - The Best Room
Episode | June 3rd, 2019 | 49 mins 20 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
Two weeks ago we talked about the first room, last week we talked about the last room, this week we're talking about your best room including what makes for a memorable room and how you can control what your visitors remember.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 182 - The Last Room
Episode | May 27th, 2019 | 51 mins 52 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
Last week we talked about the importance of the first room, this week we talk about the last room. We take a deep dive into the approaches to the final room and what purposes the room can serve.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 181 - The First Room
Episode | May 20th, 2019 | 49 mins 51 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
They say the first room in the haunt is the most important. They also say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Neither is true but the first room really does have a key role and a lot of approaches that can fill that role...
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 180 - April/May News
Episode | May 13th, 2019 | 45 mins 15 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
It's that time again, we're doing the news! This week we have two announcements from Universal Studios and dual announcements from Disney.
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Haunt Weekly - Episode 179 - Actor Intake
Episode | May 6th, 2019 | 58 mins 28 secs
fear, halloween, haunted attraction, haunted house, horror
It's becoming actor recruitment season again and here's our resident actor expert, Japes Palles, to talk about what to expect as a newbie actor and how to make the experience suck less.