Hauntworld has reset all of its polls for voting on the best and scariest haunted house in your STATE!  Who has the best haunted house?  Who has the scariest haunted house?  Now you can vote on each state page to let America know who has the best and scariest haunted houses in your state.  Hauntworld helps people all over the WORLD find and locate haunted houses near you by city, state, or zip code.  Over 2000 haunted houses are listed on our website and now you can vote for your favorite.  So tell us with our votes who has the scariest haunted houses in your state!  Find a haunted house in your state and look for the poll near the top of the page.  Hauntworld will rank and list the best haunted houses in 2013.  

Most haunted houses will open this year in September Friday the 13th, 2013.  Keep following Hauntworld.com to learn about the latest haunted house news, events, and happenings.  

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Evil Dead the remake is out and in theaters and your friends who know Horror better than anyone in the WORLD is here to rate and review the movie.  Evil Dead is one of the greatest ICONIC 80's horror movies of all time. The first movie was a low budget horror movie directed by Sam Rami now famous for everything but Horror Movies!  But back then he was doing with he loved HORROR MOVIES... Evil Dead II was essentially the same movie as Evil Dead with a bigger budget.  The Third movie was Army of Darkness which was mostly a comedy three stooges type of film with Horror elements.  And now decades later we see an all new Evil Dead a re-launch of the original with a new cast and a new direction.  Does it stand up to the original?  This film has been marketed as the scariest movie you will ever see.  Does it stack up to the original or does it live up to its claim as the best scariest horror movie of all time.  Well a hard core haunted house owner will be the judge!!!  So Read on my friends! 

Question: Is it as good as the original (EVIL DEAD II)

Answer: NO!

Q: Is it any good at all?

A: Yes its okay. Its a ten times better attempt than the last Texas Chainsaw. But it loses its charm because it has no real comedy to it, they clearly try to be a hardcore horror movie. The movie is almost like hey I've already seen this before even though you tried to make changes with very OBVIOUS change ups. Meaning we saw that coming a 100 miles away... by not having the comedy element I think it wasn't Evil Dead.

Q: Was it the scariest movie of all time?

A: NO NO WAY! I didn't jump once. I didn't really hear many people in the crowd jumping either. So NO WAY not even close... yes they tried to be more realistic than the originals, and they had some slick make up, cooler special fx, that kind of goes without saying. I'm sure some people will get scared watching it but I think its more of a nightmare movie. What I mean by that is all the people who turn into demons look like real demons and they could haunt the right people later.

Q: Was it a good movie for haunters to see?

A: Yes it was many creepy little sets, cool gross stuff happening, awesome make up, blah, blah!

Q: Is there a scene after the movie is over?

A: Yes and no. No there isn't... but yes there is. So if you want stick around and watch until after the credits are over. You might be disappointed you did but on the other hand you won't miss anything if you don't. Now you are probably really scratching your head. huh?

Q: Should this movie get a sequel?

A: Yes and No! If the new ash is the person they play it out to be the answer is EVIL DEAD NO WAY! If someone how they write this up where Ash comes along HELL YA! All I can say is this in closing BRING ASH BACK PERIOD!

They talked many years ago about Ash vs. Freddy vs. Jason and when it didn't happen, they did a Comic Book. Ash is a cult icon and Evil Dead without Ash to me anyway just isn't Evil Dead. Bring back Ash or then this movie was just that another attempt to re-launch a long lost horror franchise from the 80's. Lastly I would say that yes this is probably the best attempt yet to re-invent an old 80's horror franchise but without the main character that made the movies ICONIC at least for me it just doesn't work! Call the movie anything else other than EVIL DEAD and I would have liked it much more!

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Haunted Houses Across the Nation get ready for the Halloween Extreme in Orlando Florida may 24-26, 2013.  Are you ready for an event that combines haunted houses, horror movies, zombies, seminars and everything between?  Then get ready for a new show called Halloween Extreme!  The show is being produced by Transworld the same company who produces Halloween and Haunted Attraction tradeshow in St. Louis.  The show will be much different than what you've seen with the traditoinal haunted house tradeshows.  This show will mix haunted houses with zombies with horror movies to everything Halloween.

Some of the special events include Haunt Prop Display Contest, Weird Exhibits, Local Haunted House Tours, Pumpkin Carving Contest, Haunt Exhibiters, Show Floor Demo's, Seminars, Panel Discussions, Kids Trick or Treating on the show floor and even a massive Zombie Prom!  Additionally there will be celebrities signing autographs, appearances by special guests and so much more. 


This is the event for all haunted house and Halloween fans alike!  Haunted Houses, Halloween, Horror Movies and so much more in Orlando Florida! 

Learn more at    www.HALLOWEENEXTREME.com

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Haunted Houses across America are now set to begin the construction of their attractions now that the haunted house tradeshow has come and gone.  After attending the show and seeing everything we have some observations about where the haunted house industry might be heading.

I have a few interesting observations and notices to vendors specifically... I've made here and there my opinions throughout these posts and thread. So here is another one...

The silicone mask is NOW officially a WAR and its on! Masks in general it's ON like Donkey Kong. And this is a WORLD WAR... the envelope is getting pushed to the edge and its taking the creative with it. Now we can talk all day long about how maybe price will be king in this category, rather than the overall quality, or we can argue that quality will stump price. My personal feelings is this war will be won with both... meaning whomever has a great product that goes along with the cheapest price will totally WIN or impact the industry by making prices drop. I think prices do need to drop honestly and now that we have 10 million of these guys prices should and probably will drop.

Now with all that said let me just say this... the animation end of the industry you are going to be slaughtered! Why?

Because these mask guys are setting the sculpting and creative mark SO HIGH that you'll need to keep up because the level of realistic look is now gone sky high. Back 10 years ago the sculpting on animations was acceptable and now its NOT! Most if not almost all the animations I saw looked like they always looked, or simply wasn't near not even close to the level of quality put into these masks.

Now you might be asking how does that change the game... well a few years ago everyone was thinking animations look cooler than actors, they do things actors can't do, blah, blah. Then we started getting sick of fixing animations, but our actors still didn't look at cool... but now EVERYTHING is shifting back to actors and making them look cool.

Even companies who didn't sell masks sold something an actor could use to scare someone from weapons, to drills that made sound, to fake shoes you could put on your knees, to costumes and more costumes and more costumes, to masks and more masks, to things actors could push around and activate to hold cow it was basically endless.

Seems now the movement is ON to actors and making them LOOK REAL like a real monster OUT of a movie!

Animation makers need to be prepared to step up the creative or shift their business to other elements of the industry such as Scarefactory making an inflatable facade, or something to mix it up. I'm thinking animations might be on the decline over the next couple years, while making things actors can use to scare, wear to scare, or just overall makes them scarier is on like Donkey Kong?

Can this many mask / costume companies survive?? YES AND NO... Yes if haunts don't buy big ticket items like animations and NO if they do keep buying big ticket items. Lets see if they all survive and thrive because if they do you'll start to see animation companies go out of business...

So my advice to the mask companies would be what??? FIND WAYS TO MAKE YOUR MASKS CHEAPER while keeping up the quality its the haunt industry way and it always prove that way in the end. Trust me! You will go out of business if your prices aren't affordable no matter the quality.

What would my advice be to the animation companies??? START TO SEE THE FUTURE ... these mask costume companies which I've been crying for all these years are here to stay. Haunts like Netherworld made actors popular again and haunts crave to have actors in the same quality masks and costumes as say Netherworld. So overall I think animations will be on the serious decline in the future. So what should you do? You should start to make a handful of animations you think are REALLY COOL while at the same time making them look more realistic. Additionally you should start to consider making more static props, smaller items like gory pots, arms, legs bodies or whatever or simply just props of dogs to monsters.

Actors are the new future as they where originally the only future when this industry started we've basically come full circle. When it comes to marketing gorilla marketing is also back and more important than ever when we just never know how to reach our customers anymore in the digital age.

Let this service as a wake up call to all vendors... big ticket items will be fewer and fewer and small items or just cool props just might save your company. Haunted Houses love cool stuff cheap! It's just the way haunters operate!

Just one more point to hammer home... when I was ordering tons of equipment from vendors for the Darkness haunt tour I never even KNEW all these new small companies would show up! Never knew! I never in a million years thought hey there will be ten zillion mask companies, I simply placed an order and never thought about how many props I ordered to animation. But now that I wrote this basically an article... I now realize I didn't hardly order any animations. In fact of the very few I ordered the two main ones I didn't even use they are still in my shop just sitting there... I bought mostly PROPS that helped enhance actor scares. I didn't know I was doing that until NOW but I did... I think we'll be seeing a change of direction and everyone should be prepared for the change from regular radio to digital radio and from animations to actor driven companies.

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