Some haunted houses offer off-season events, like Christmas or Valentine’s Day haunted houses. The Scare Factor lists those as well as the smattering of year-round haunts that operate around the country. But all of those are just single event venues, not an entire Halloween horror town like the one filmmaker Nate Thompson is looking to open in Michigan.
Let’s check out where it will be, what it will offer, and when it might welcome its first victims —er, visitors.
Halloween Horror Town Location
Thompson recently signed a three-year lease at the Old West Stagecoach Stop at Irish Hills in Onsted, Michigan.
According to Michigan Live, the Old West attraction opened in the 1960s and was popular through the 1970s but fizzled out after that. However, events are still held at the 14-room Western-themed Copper Creek Lodge, which is located on the same property.
Halloween Horror Town Concept
A haunted house opens at the Old West Stagecoach Stop during Halloween season, but Thompson envisions operating one year-round now. As he told FOX2 News, “They’ll [visitors] get that little Halloween itch in May or June, and they’ll be able to come down and go through the year-round haunted house.”
But the haunted house is only one of the multiple horror-themed attractions he’ll convert the Old West town square into. One storefront will become the Michigan Museum of Horror and display horror artifacts. Exhibits are still in the works, but FOX2 reported it will include the world’s tallest casket as well as a history of dolls. Because what self-respecting horror museum doesn’t have a good collection of porcelain, Raggedy Ann, and voodoo dolls?
Connoisseurs of creepy can shop for horror movie memorabilia and other Halloween merchandise, including a wide variety of masks, in the store.
As FOX2 quoted him as saying, “One of my goals and visions with this is that people will be able to walk past the store and there’s kind of a, you know, multiple rows of Halloween masks right there in the window, and it really gives that feel of, this is a genuine horror town.”
I’d say that ought to do it!
But wait, what’s a horror town without a movie theater? Thompson says there will also be one of those playing “black and white horror movies 24/7.”
It would also make the perfect place to hold year-round events too so he also plans on doing that as well.
Horror Town Opening Date
Just in time for the start of Spooky Season, he’s eyeing an August 1 opening.
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Nah, it’s not haunted. If it were, Thompson would advertise that right up front and loudly.:-)
I was thinking that would’ve probably been part of his sales pitch too.