Irvine, CA — Slide Night, a holiday show of haunt sliding teams that anyone can come watch, returns Saturday, Dec. 12, at Irvine Inline Rinks from 4 to 8 p.m. A $25 ticket covers the team performances, open sliding, free holiday treats and gifts, and a chance to meet the sliders, and you don’t have to slide to go.
Slide Night at a Glance
- When: Saturday, Dec. 12, 2026, 4 to 8 p.m.
- Where: Irvine Inline Rinks, 3150 Barranca Parkway, Irvine
- Tickets: $25 general admission, the same ticket for sliders and spectators, from the host, Insane Haunt Productions. Buyers complete a registration after they buy.
- Included: the team shows, open sliding, free holiday treats and gifts, giveaways and a holiday photo op
- Extra: food and drinks from the vendors, and the charity raffle for Fxck Cancer
- Ages: the ticket form asks whether each guest is over 18 and, for a minor, whether the buyer is a parent, grandparent, sibling or legal guardian
What Happens at Slide Night
Slide Night starts with open sliding, when the sliders in the crowd take the runway to practice and slide together while everyone else watches up close. Later in the evening, featured haunt sliding teams perform routines set to music and lighting, and Insane Haunt Productions says the teams will be announced soon.
Vendors sell merchandise, apparel and accessories from businesses in the haunt and sliding scenes, along with holiday treats, snacks and drinks. Every guest and participant gets free holiday treats, there are giveaways through the night, and a custom holiday photo op is set up for pictures with friends, teams and performers. Raffle donations go to Fxck Cancer, and the prizes are still to be announced.
What Is Haunt Sliding?
Haunt sliding is the scare where an actor drops to the ground and slides at guests in protective gear and equipment built for it, and some gear has metal pieces that throw sparks on the right surface. Scare actors use it in haunted houses, theme parks and Halloween events, and sliders also train and perform together as teams.
Sliders at Fright Fest at Six Flags Magic Mountain in 2023, my most-watched slider short on YouTube.
The Decayed Brigade, a Southern California slider team and one of Slide Night’s sponsors, ran slider exhibitions in Midsummer Scream’s Hall of Shadows in Long Beach this August, performing Friday night and then three shows a day Saturday and Sunday, in my Hall of Shadows story. Insane Haunt Productions designs and sells the gear, from slider gloves to removable-strap slider sandals, and it showed its sliding gear for scare actors at TransWorld in 2025, in my TransWorld vendors story.
The First Slide Night at Chapman Sports Park
The first Slide Night was at Chapman Sports Park, and Insane Haunt Productions’ recap video shows sliders taking turns under a limbo bar, a line of sliders dropping to their knees together, vendor tents and a group photo of the crowd.
Slide Night’s Sponsors
Plague Productions, Midsummer Scream, Eulogy Collective and The Decayed Brigade are Slide Night’s sponsors. Midsummer Scream is the Halloween and horror convention held at the Long Beach Convention Center Aug. 7 to 9, and Eulogy Collective, a year-round haunted attraction in Southern California, built the entry to Midsummer Scream’s Hall of Shadows this year.
More Holiday Haunts in Southern California
My Christmas haunted houses guide lists the haunted houses open in December by state, California included, with each one’s dates and prices.
Slide Night tickets are $25 on Insane Haunt Productions’ site, insanehauntproductions.com.
