The legal horrors of Halloween

BY: Andy Marso
POSTED: October 30, 2011
Tags: bel air, creepy woods, ghouls, halloween, lawsuits, legal horrors, maryland association of justice, matthew p. woods, plaintiffs, scary, trick or treating, vampires

Matthew P. Woods was sitting in his Towson law office in March 2007 when a scary story came across his desk. There were no ghouls, vampires or undead serial killers involved, but enough questions of liability to send chills down the spine of any homeowner who fears a negligence lawsuit. Woods’ client, Wanda E. Boyd, [...]

Theme parks cash in on guests’ Halloween screams

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: September 28, 2011
Tags: halloween, halloween horror nights, haunting, jaws, orlando, scary, universal orlando, universal studios

ORLANDO — Universal Orlando’s first foray into Halloween Horror Nights 21 years ago involved one weekend, a single haunted house tucked away in the back of the park by the “Jaws” ride and some people in store-bought masks jumping out of dark corners. What was largely an experiment that first year has evolved into a [...]

Frights from Cooper, Roth fill Universal Studios backlot

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: September 22, 2011
Tags: alice cooper, halloween, haunted house, hollwood, horror, scary, Tourism, travel, universal studios

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — With his legs propped up on a teacher’s desk, shock rocker Alice Cooper looks right at home inside a demented science classroom filled with phony spiders and snakes. The eerie enclave is just one of the stops in a haunted maze attraction inspired by the “School’s Out” headmaster at Universal Studios [...]

Jessup attraction helps Md. get its scare on

BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: October 26, 2010
Tags: bennett's curse, halloween, haunt world, haunting, jessup, maryland, pennsylvania, scary
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Pennsylvania’s dominance of regional haunted attractions has created a scaring-industry graveyard in Maryland, but after 10 years of growing his medieval-themed haunted house in Jessup, Allan Bennett isn’t spooked. Bennett’s Curse, ranked No. 17 on trade website Haunt World’s list of America’s Best and Scariest Haunted Houses and one of the top 10 of America’s [...]