Cinema of Horrors opens its 10th season tonight, Friday, September 25, in Kelso, Washington, with two new haunted houses built inside a former movie theater: Bloodstone Gulch, a vampire-infested mining town, and Bunker 13, a crumbling military base. One ticket covers all four haunts, from $29.99 plus fees.
The Two New Haunts
Bloodstone Gulch is a western-vampire haunt set in a once-booming mining town, where the residents have found something more dangerous than the outlaws who used to run its streets. Guests walk through the town’s Main Street, saloon, hotel, courthouse, and holding cells as the story plays out around them.
Bunker 13 sends guests into a deteriorating military installation full of warning systems, industrial rooms, and disturbing discoveries. Cinema of Horrors says whatever happened inside “was never meant to escape.”
Both were built for the anniversary season with new sets, characters, and storylines. “Being named a Top Haunt during our 10th season is especially meaningful for our team,” said Brandon Treadway, owner and producer of Treadway Events & Entertainment, which runs the haunt. He added, “This year we wanted to celebrate that milestone by creating entirely new environments and continuing to raise the bar for the experience.”
The haunt’s site lists its other attractions as Cursed Cove: Creatures of the Deep, a fog-drenched fishing village of shipwrecked souls and deep-sea monsters, and Funhouse Mania 3-D, a blacklight circus of maniacal clowns and spinning tunnels. It also still lists Pumpkin Manor and Ripper Asylum, each marked “FINAL SEASON. NEW HAUNT COMING OCT ’26.” There is an outdoor scare zone too.
A Haunted House Inside a Movie Theater
Cinema of Horrors is housed in a former multiplex at Three Rivers Mall, and each auditorium is built out as a walk-through haunt, with constructed rooms, theatrical lighting, sound, effects, and live actors. The site says more than 50 actors work the haunt.
Treadway said in February, ahead of the haunt’s Hearts of Horror Valentine’s event, that the building “is an old Regal movie theater” and that it opened as a haunt in 2016. “We’ve got all the sloped floors, which really add to the experience as you walk through the attractions, especially once you combine it with fog and all the lights and all that kind of stuff,” he said.
The Haunted Attraction Association certified Cinema of Horrors as a 2026 Top Haunt at the Gold level, one of 10 Gold haunts among the 74 Top Haunts this year. It is Washington’s entry on my list of the best haunted houses in America.
Dates, Hours, and Tickets
Cinema of Horrors runs 15 nights:
- September: Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26
- October: 2 and 3, 9 and 10, 16 to 18, 23 to 25, and 30 and 31
- November: Sunday, November 1
Hours are 7 to 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and 7 to 10 p.m. on Sundays and Halloween.
Ticket prices on the haunt’s ticket site:
- General admission: $29.99 plus a $5.42 service fee, one walkthrough of all four haunts. It’s the same price every night.
- VIP: $47.99 plus a $7.60 service fee on opening night, good for up to two walkthroughs in the same night.
- Groups of 25 or more: $24.99 plus a $4.82 service fee each, bought in one transaction.
The site says tickets cost less online than at the box office. All sales are final, but tickets can be transferred to someone else.
The haunt is at 1301 Grade St. in Kelso, which it puts about 45 minutes from Portland. The lines run both indoors and outdoors, and all of them are covered.
More Haunts in Washington
In the Seattle area, Wild Waves Theme & Water Park is running the final season of its Fright Fest before the park closes. For opening dates across the country, see when haunted houses open in 2026.
