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The most experienced fright attraction company in the industry, Hauntrepreneurs® is different than any other Haunted House supplier in the industry, and here’s how:

  • Rather than picking an off the shelf predesigned layout and theme, the Hauntrepreneurs® client chooses not only the theme, setting and monsters that will be in the experience, but also the scares. Selecting from a long list of potential room designs that fit the theme, time period and backstory of the attraction. Hauntrepreneurs® then uses this input to create a one-of-a-kind experience, customized and designed to the client’s own style.
  • Hauntrepreneurs® practices the architectural idiom “form follows function,” we design the attraction from the inside out. Merging the scares into the room design to maximize the fright factor while focusing on functional aspects of running the attraction. This approach creates a haunted house that uses fewer actors and is easier to operate.
  • Also, Hauntrepreneurs® doesn’t have the overhead of a warehouse where others build attractions over weeks and then ship them to the client’s location. Instead, Hauntrepreneurs® works as an architectural firm, providing detailed construction drawings that the client can use to build from, or that can put out for local contractors to bid on to get the best price. This approach saves on shipping and warehouse overhead, and because the client builds the attraction, they can choose what level of detail is needed for their budget and market.

  • Then, rather than extra cost of bringing in a large out of state build crew, Hauntrepreneurs® sends a one or two-person supervisory team to show your local crew how to assemble and install the attraction. We make sure the scares and illusions are working properly, and help you train your staff, furthering the cost savings, and teach your crew how to make repairs or adjustments to the effects.
  • Unlike other companies, Hauntrepreneurs® doesn’t have a product line of props or animatronics we are trying to sell you. Instead, we specify products from a wide variety of suppliers including custom designed animations or props that “tell the story” and best fit the backstory of the attraction. The client buys directly from the supplier with any discounts passed on to the client. This way you know you are getting the best products at the best price rather than last year’s leftover props, that didn’t sell.
  • Lastly, developed and perfected over 40 years, Hauntrepreneurs® uses the best most innovative panel system in the industry. Longer pathway per square foot, more twists and turns than a square grid, more structurally solid, cheaper to build, and quicker to set up and strike so that it’s easier and faster to alter or rearrange rooms for future redesigns, and if you have to take the show down, store it or move it, the Triangular Grid System packs in half the space of typical wall systems.

So, if you’re looking for a cookie cutter haunted house with last year’s animatronics and floor plan, then any company will do, but if you’re looking for a cutting edge, one-of-a-kind haunted attraction, designed around your preferences, with the best most effective scares in the industry, and the best wall system ever invented, then Hauntrepreneurs® is really your only choice.

Call us now for a FREE introductory phone consultation. You will be glad you did!

While you are here, be sure to read Haunting Profitability and First Things to do When Starting an Event and get a FREE attraction Cost Estimate

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Haunting Education

Creating a frightening attraction that provides high entertainment quality while maintaining a profitable capacity that adheres to local building codes while sticking to a tight budget is not as easy as it sounds. What you don’t know about owning/operating a Haunted Attraction could put you out of business before you even open. Read More

Haunting Profitability
So you drove past a local Haunted Attraction at 9pm on the Saturday before Halloween, counted the number of people in line, multiplied that by the ticket price and the number of days in October and got the idea that “Haunted Houses are a gold mine!” But is Haunting really a Get Rich Quick Scheme? Read More

Timed Ticketing: The Future of HauntingMirror Maze Design
When I first starting haunting, the schedule for Haunts in Dallas, TX was to open on the 15th of October and then run every night through Halloween. That was what everyone did, even though Mondays and Tuesdays were dead, that was the model. Then D’Ann Dagen came into my market and opened Hangman’s Haunted House. Her advertising announced Read More

Designing From the Inside Out
Hauntrepreneurs takes a completely different approach to attraction design, using an inside out approached based on architectural design principles and storytelling to create a cost effective, user friendly, over the top  experience that your patrons will be talking about for years to come. A haunted attraction is a play in which the patron walks from scene to scene. Read More

Used Haunted Attractions For Sale
Hauntrepreneurs® acts like a broker for the best used attractions in the country. If you have a great attraction but need to something new, sell it and use the money to build a new one. If you are thinking about getting into the haunted attraction business, or planning to get out of haunting, let Hauntrepreneurs® use it’s contacts and data base to broker the deal for you. Read Me

How To Make Money With a Haunted House First published in Haunt Nation Magazine 06-2013
Contrary to popular belief, the single goal of any company is to make money! The more money it makes the better its chance of survival. A haunted house IS a business, and like any other business it has to be profitable to survive. Sixty percent of all business start ups fail in the first 3 years of operation, and that number is higher for haunted attractions. The first question you need to ask yourself is… Read More

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“It’s just a haunted house… How hard could it be?”

asylim-facadeCreating a frightening attraction that provides safe, high entertainment quality while maintaining a profitable capacity that adheres to local building codes, that is economically built to provide the best opportunity to be profitable is more difficult than you might think. What you don’t know about owning, building and operating a Haunted Attraction could put you out of business before you scare a single person.

Check out the HAUNTING PROFITABILITY article to see the Hauntrepreneurs® vision of a profitable event!

A fright attraction designed by Hauntrepreneurs® Themed Attraction Design and Consulting has over 40 years of expertise behind it. Not only in fright design aspects of the patron experience, but decades of operational experience as well. Functionality, high capacity, ease of operation, quick actor substitution, quick set up, ease of alteration, code requirement issues are all solved in creative and time proven ways to make owning a Hauntrepreneurs® designed attraction as profitable and trouble free as possible. READ MORE