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Nashville Nightmare Returns For 2024 Halloween Season
In a city with endless things to do, bump Nashville Nightmare to the top of your list this Halloween season. Nashville Nightmare is so much more than your average haunted house, this massive compound features four haunted attractions, a crazy clown carnival, live action zombie shooting, escape games, and more to ensure that there is something for everyone that dares to step through the gates .
This year’s attractions cover a wide variety of themes including:
Clown Alley: Boomer, the malevolent clown, ruled the Red Pumpkin Pale Carnival, a twisted nightmare of unspeakable horrors. Chased out of every town, the carnival set up in a small, unsuspecting village as Halloween approached. Behind the garish big top lay a dark secret—a portal to a nightmarish realm needing souls to sustain the carnival and grant eternal life. That Halloween, the carnival cast a shadow of fear, turning festive dreams into nightmares as Boomer and his crew hunted for fresh souls to feed their otherworldly hunger.
Castle Infernus: There exists a place where a portal to an underworld lies hidden. This foreboding realm is known as Castle Infernus, a domain where monstrous forms take shape and shadows dance with malevolence. These lands are not meant for mere mortals, yet the formidable ruler of this dark domain, Malum Lector, extends an eerie invitation. Despite the peril that awaits, the allure of the unknown beckons you to cross the threshold. Will you dare to venture into the heart of Castle Infernus?
Horror High: School For Ghouls: Hey, boils and ghouls! At Horror High, school doesn’t end just because you’re dead. We offer courses in Demonology, Voodoo, Possession, and more, including basics like Bumps in the Night and Corpse Hygiene. Master the art of haunting with our expert faculty of notorious specters. Don’t waste your afterlife—become a frightful legend! Tour our school tonight and start your ghoulish education! (Must be dead to apply.)
Vector Research: Alien Autopsy: Furious aliens, tired of being treated like labs by Dr. Hades, launch an attack on Vector Research staff. Chaos ensues as their reinforcements arrive, spreading advanced biotech across the city. Tentacled pseudopods and egg pods release multi-limbed arthropods, enslaving victims. The elite Omega Unit is deployed to contain the carnage, ready to use a self-destruct nuke to destroy the facility. Enter Decimator, the ultimate super soldier designed to combat such threats. Just pray Decimator doesn’t mistake you for the enemy amidst the chaos.
There are plenty of food and beverage options, plus two secret bars, and the new addition of s’mores stations to turn your trip to the haunted house into a night filled with thrills and fun. Nashville Nightmare is more than worth the trip and has earned its name as one of Music City’s best haunted houses.
Tickets are available now at www.nashvillenightmare.com . Dates and times do sell out in advance so secure yours early! You can follow along on Instagram and Facebook. Nashville Nightmare is located at 1016 Madison Sq., Madison, TN 37115.
A luxury team-building trip descends into a bloody fight for survival against a vengeful retreat leader in Corporate Retreat, out today in theaters. It’s the latest entry in a cathartic subgenre of workplace horror that examines every harrowing aspect of job employment.
No job is safe from horror, either, from babysitting to even the most white-collar gigs. But if you work an overnight shift? All bets are off. Vengeful co-workers and bosses aside, the night shift is likely to come armed with witches, creatures, demons, and all manner of things that go bump in the night. Even deadly outbreaks.
Corporate Retreat, along with these five horror movies centered around some of the worst night shifts, will make you glad the weekend has finally arrived.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Passenger director André Øvredal goes full throttle for the scares in this quiet little chiller that sees a father and son coroner team stumped over the bizarre mysteries contained within the body of an unidentified young woman during an unexpected night shift. Well-executed scares, clever twists, and earnest performances by Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch give this supernatural haunter serious heft. While the narrative bides its time unveiling the truth behind Jane Doe’s battered body, it’s heavily steeped in witchcraft. In other words, The Autopsy of Jane Doe presents a new take on the subgenre. More importantly, it’s seriously scary.
Cold Storage
COLD STORAGE, StudioCanal 2023
A lethal, mutated fungus breaks free from confinement deep within the bowels of a storage facility. At the frontlines of the madness are Teacake (Stranger Things’ Joe Keery) and Naomi (Barbarian‘s Georgina Campbell), two employees thrust into the middle of the chaos when they investigate an alarm beeping somewhere deep within the building. Director Jonny Campbell (Netflix’s Dracula), working from a script by David Koepp based on his novel, helms the goopy madness with workman efficiency. This lighthearted, goopy horror comedy romp makes the deadly night shift a bit more bearable.
Graveyard Shift
Graveyard Shift follows new hire Hall (David Andrews) tasked by his mean boss Warwick (Stephen Macht) to assist with the insane rat infestation beneath their mill. They find something much most monstrous as the cause. Though the film was panned, it’s a fun creature feature with an always welcome appearance by Brad Dourif as the intensely eccentric exterminator. The film also opts for a happier ending, whereas (spoiler), the story sees both Hall and Warwick getting devoured by the mutated rats, the crew in the upstairs mill none the wiser.
Last Shift
‘Last Shift’
Rookie Officer Jessica Loren (Juliana Harkavy) has been assigned to watch over a closing precinct on its final night of operation…alone. With nearly everything already moved over to the new station, including rerouted 911 calls, it should be a pretty quiet night as she waits for a Hazmat team to arrive to remove biohazardous waste. Instead, it becomes a waking nightmare as she’s forced to deal with unsettling visitors. Last Shift, co-written by Scott Poiley and director Anthony DiBlasi, brings the scares.
Intruder
The overnight stock crew of a local grocery store finds themselves falling victim to an unseen killer in this highly infectious late ‘80s slasher. The deaths are delightfully gruesome and inventive; look for this killer to make excellent use of grocery store items as weapons. Frequent Raimi collaborator Scott Spiegel directed this bloody slasher, which means a lot of overlap with the Evil Dead II. That means putting Sam Raimi in front of the camera for a change, along with Ted Raimi and Evil Dead II’s Dan Hicks. Look for a cameo by Bruce Campbell as well!
Corporate Retreat releases in theaters today; get tickets now.
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