Nationwide — Howl-O-Scream, United Parks & Resorts’ hard-ticket Halloween brand, returned to all five of its US locations for the 2026 season on September 11.
SeaWorld San Diego has revealed the full Howl-O-Scream lineup for 2026, and it is the largest in the event’s history: six haunted houses, eight scare
Southern California — The Haunted Car Wash returns for its sixth season this October, expanding to four Southern California regions. The drive-through Halloween experience turns
Mountville, PA — Field of Screams, the Lancaster County haunted attraction that has terrified more than a million and a half guests over three decades,
Orlando, FL — Universal Orlando has announced Stranger Things: Return to Hawkins, a nighttime lagoon show at Halloween Horror Nights 35, staged on the Universal
Knott’s Scary Farm is open for 2026, with 26 select nights through Halloween at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park. Gates open at 7 p.m.,
La Cañada Flintridge, CA — Carved, the nighttime jack-o’-lantern and light installation at Descanso Gardens in the Los Angeles area, is open for its 2026
Carlsbad, CA — LEGOLAND California’s Brick-or-Treat returns for the 2026 Halloween season on 12 select dates from September 19 through November 1. The event is
Cannibal Creek, Black Casket Productions’ new backwoods haunt about a welcoming family with a dark secret, opened Friday, Oct. 2, in Yucaipa. It runs 19
Long Beach, CA — The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor, the Halloween event aboard the retired ocean liner in Long Beach, is open on select nights
Oogie Boogie Bash, A Disney Halloween Party, is sold out for general admission in 2026, according to Disneyland. The after-hours party runs from 6 to
The scheming co-ruler of Kuzco’s kingdom will be the newest villain guests can meet at the Disney California Adventure Halloween event this fall. Anaheim, CA
Halloween Time runs at Disneyland Resort from August 21 through October 31, 2026, across Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure, and all of it is
Rancho Cordova, CA — Heartstoppers Haunts, the Sacramento-area haunted attraction in Rancho Cordova, opened its 18th season on October 2 and runs 13 nights through
Most of the Disney Halloween lineup at Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea is unchanged for 2026. Here is what is new, what is returning, and
Halloween Horror Nights 14 at Universal Studios Singapore has four haunted houses, three shows, and two scare zones on select nights through November 1. I
Hersheypark’s haunt event returned for its fifth year on Saturday, September 12, with five haunted houses, five scare zones, and one net-new addition. Here is
The second scare zone puts Cindy and Dr. Oddfellow in the same story for the first time and pulls characters from the event’s history back
Universal Studios Hollywood is running its 2026 Halloween Horror Nights over 42 select nights from September 3 through November 1, with the event beginning at
Ocean Park Halloween Fest 2026 runs September 5 through November 1, and the park has revealed the full lineup. This year’s edition, themed The Grave
Halloween Horror Nights (and its Universal Beijing counterpart, Scares at Universal) runs at five Universal parks worldwide in 2026: Orlando, Hollywood, Singapore, Osaka (Japan), and
Orlando, FL — SeaWorld Orlando has confirmed Howl-O-Scream will return for its sixth year on 26 select nights from September 11 through October 31, 2026,
Orlando, FL — Universal Orlando Resort has revealed the first scare zone for Halloween Horror Nights 35, and it carries the same name as the
Blood Noir is the sixth edition of Universal Orlando’s stunt show and the first show announced for the 35th anniversary event. Orlando, FL — Universal
Update (September 28, 2026): The Resident Evil takeover at Universal Horror Unleashed has ended. It ran July 9 through September 27, 2026, after Universal extended
Europe’s most-awarded Halloween attraction says it was offered “an opportunity abroad” after a four-year search for a permanent Dublin home hit a dead end. Dublin,
The East Tennessee haunted attraction, operating since 1999, is running a no-actor walkthrough Friday, July 10 and a final full show Saturday, July 11, with
New trick-or-treat trail and glowing Halloween light experience join the resort’s largest Halloween calendar yet LEGOLAND Florida Resort (Winter Haven, FL) is expanding Brick-or-Treat to
Six Flags has confirmed that The Conjuring: Beyond Fear, the interactive SCREAMium walkthrough, returns this fall to four parks: Cedar Point, SCarowinds at Carowinds, Canada’s
Universal Studios announced that all-new Hellraiser haunted houses, based on the original Clive Barker trilogy, will run at Halloween Horror Nights 2026 at both Universal
Buffalo, NY — The Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park is turning historic naval vessels and the city’s waterfront into three themed scarescapes
Orlando, FL — Universal is taking you to a remote Southwestern homestead overrun by aliens with a new original haunted house, “Invasion: Alien Abduction,” for
Orlando, FL — Cybergoria is an original haunted house at Halloween Horror Nights 35 that wakes you from cryo-sleep in a future where the machines
Orlando, FL — Universal Orlando Resort announced a new original haunted house, “Madlands: Caged Cannibals,” for Halloween Horror Nights 2026. This original haunted house is
Orlando, FL — H.R. Bloodengutz is a fictional late-night TV horror host created for Halloween Horror Nights in 2011, and his first house in 15
Universal Studios announced that an all-new Stranger Things haunted house will run at Halloween Horror Nights 2026 at both Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios
Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood will both feature a haunted house based on the 2025 Ryan Coogler vampire horror film Sinners at Halloween
Branson, MO — Field of Screams Branson, the indoor haunted attraction inside Ballparks of America, runs 18 nights in October, from October 2 through Halloween,
New from the Nocturne: see Frankenstein: Resurrection, the theatre’s original Frankenstein musical. Glendale, CA — The Nocturne Theatre is premiering The Eaves, an original paranormal
Update, October 16, 2026: Six Flags now lists the show as Dr. Fright’s Party on Great Adventure’s Fright Fest page. Update, August 1, 2026: Six
Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party will return to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World for 38 select nights from August 7 through October 31, 2026, marking the earliest start date ever for the annual spooky fun celebration.
Universal Studios Hollywood’s Universal Fan Fest Nights 2026 food lineup serves up two Scooby-Doo items and a Universal Monsters-themed hot dog. The event is adding a Dining Pass for the first time, borrowing from the Halloween Horror Nights playbook.
Nightmare Wharf opened Friday, October 2, at the Buffalo Naval Park, and part of it is inside a real Navy warship. Its haunted house, Project Blackwater, runs through the compartments of the USS Little Rock, where a Cold War experiment has gone wrong. The event runs 17 select nights through November 1, with timed entry from 7 p.m. and general admission from $34.99 on October 9, 10, and 11 to $64.99 on Halloween night.
Triotech, Merlin Entertainments, and Sony Pictures Entertainment have announced a new interactive Jumanji experience built on Triotech’s XD Dark Ride platform, debuting at four Madame Tussauds locations in July 2026.
The installations are planned for Madame Tussauds locations in New York, Hollywood, Las Vegas, and Sydney, all operated by Merlin Entertainments. The Jumanji content marks the first globally recognized entertainment IP introduced to the XD Dark Ride platform.
Universal Horror Unleashed is launching “Feaster Grievings,” an original, limited-time experience running April 1 through May 2, 2026, at the year-round horror venue inside the AREA15 District in Las Vegas.
Carowinds (Charlotte, NC) is bringing its hit haunted attraction, The Conjuring: Beyond Fear, back months early. The interactive SCREAMium experience that debuted during SCarowinds last fall will return during a new Scream Break event running April 3 – 12, 2026, as part of the park’s spring break programming.
It marks the first time Carowinds has hosted Scream Break, a spring haunt event that has run at other Six Flags parks since 2023. At Carowinds, the event’s centerpiece will be The Conjuring: Beyond Fear, the 20-minute walkthrough experience built by Plague Productions in partnership with New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Discovery Global Experiences.
Halloween Horror Nights turns 35 in 2026, and Universal Orlando is running its longest event ever: 49 select nights from August 28 through November 1
Las Vegas, NV — Universal Horror Unleashed, the year-round horror experience at the AREA15 District in Las Vegas, is offering limited-time savings of up to
Long Beach, CA — Passes are now on sale for Midsummer Scream 2026, which returns to the Long Beach Convention Center August 7-9. Single-Day Passes
Los Angeles, CA — Tickets are now available for Spooky Swap Meet VI, returning to Heritage Square Museum in Los Angeles from April 24-26 with
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