I stopped at mels the other day (I'm a sucker for their go-karts!) and it looked as thought they have already started their Halloween project. I spoke to an employee who told me that they have hired some of the top names in Haunted houses to build out and run their Halloween event.

He said the Spookyworld haunted houses will be very very scary this year! The employees have been told that this is NOT the spookyworld of the past and will be as intense as Nightmare was.......got me excited!

I visited Nightmare New england last year and it was definitely one of the best haunted houses i have ever been to! Very scary and great outside DARK atmosphere.

This is from the nightmare website


"Nightmare New England & the legendary SpookyWorld unite to deliver one of the largest, most terrifying Halloween Scream Parks in the country!

Over 100,000 Sq. ft of terror awaits you at New England's number one destination for Halloween thrills this October.
The massive 20-acre Scream Park features SEVEN heart-racing haunted attractions at ONE monstrous location. Dozens of freakish characters stalk the grounds and roam freely in the woods lining the property. The Monster Midway hosts live music, go-karts (voted #1 in NH!), batting cages, two themed mini-golf courses, concessions, restaurant, bar, photo opportunities, gifts and more!
The variety and scale of Nightmare New England and SpookyWorld offers something for even the boldest of Halloween fanatics. Leave it to us to make your Halloween an unforgettable experience.

Check out our Attractions page for more information about Buried Alive, NightFeeders, Raven's Claw Cemetery, House of Eternal Darkness, The 3-D Freak Show, Demented and Sleep Stalkers!

Nightmare New England & SpookyWorld

The time has come…To face your fears…"



I'll probably check out both but Nightmare is #1 on my list!

:Ahh:

Thanks for the info

I'm sure both events will be worth visiting.

intreging

What part did you find intriguing? I didn't see anything in the original post that was new or noteworthy to me.

Back from yet another go-kart fix at Mels and things are in FULL SWING for Halloween.
They are starting to separate the driving range with huge black sheets, saw a ton of huge tents, lots of semis, and truckloads of gory things being moved around.

They are really driving the point home with constant ads on their sound systems.

Seems like this will end up being one hell of a halloween event!

Now I am really looking forward to October!

FYI, here's the Nightmare New England/Spooky World 30-second promo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu9btIoTuyA

Not too bad.

really great promo. ill have to show my dad this he loved spookyworld.

i went by the rockingham mall with my niecce yesterday. the doors had foot square ads on them... one door canobie, one door nightmare/spooky... i found it funny

Some more promo videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98V6ij7i_LY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n87aTj4Uv-o

this morning on rock 101s morning show - Greg and the Morning Buzz- the owners of Nightmare New England made the "surprise announcement" that they were combining with Spooky World. They said they had "bought spooky world last year" and talked about some of the new haunts they are building for this year and how they are trying to get it back to what spooky world was in Berlin. They also had a clown (named Pissa the Clown) come in and scare the bejeezus out of Greg. (supposedly theirs a video, but i cant find it on their website yet)

There was a classic car show in downtown Manchester here this weekend. I was really excited to see the Spooky World/Nightmare New England hearse!

Guess what was next to it? They brought The Last Ride with them! I made a couple videos, and couldn't wait to share with you guys since a few people were curious what the ride does & what it's about. Well, here you go!

This is the first one - missed the first 30 seconds, but you can see the video monitor really good in this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNjBFAEELG4

This is the second one - the ride in its entirety:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBKMsVke1WY

I think this will be a nice addition to Canobie's Screeemfest! :D

Thanks, Jenny. The ride looks like it's a lot of fun.

Any news on guests at the New Spooy world location??? Any news on Girrord magic show being there? The girrord magic show was at Canopie Lake halloween last year.
Hoot

The way the new spooky world site loads really freaked me out. Anyone else the new addition.

Interestingly, it appears that NNE/SW is still trying to hire scare actors. I thought that they would have already been fully-staffed by now.

http://nh.craigslist.org/etc/1418550447.html

My experience at Victorian Park was that people start to 'disappear' after even the first weekend.

Cars break down, people work for one weekend and decide its not for them, etc. We once even had an incident where a room was left empty with a costume and mask thrown on the floor-the actor just threw the costume off and left.

A lot of people think that getting a job at a haunted house means basically screwing around for money, and then bail when they realize there actually IS some work involved. (Its mostly the younger high school kids that do that.)

I know nothing about Nightmare New England or what they're like to work for, so I don't dare hypothesize about that. But I will say it can be tough for any employer to get the commitment from people for a 4 weekend job, especially when weekends are 'party time' for a lot of people.

And that, I'd say, is probably why Nightmare is still looking for help.

Thanks for the info. Though I find it a bit saddening there is such a lack of dedication.

The thing is, you'd think that in a bad economy, people would grab any job they could. I don't get it.

http://www.bostonherald.com/business/gener...e&position=also

350 not too bad.

Thanks for the article.