![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So were the Twirly Talky Show wit Barry and special guests Bob Gurr on Saturday and Mr. We didn’t make it to every panel-the 13 Ghosts panel was unfortunately cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances, and the Resident Evil: Village panel was a partial conflict. It also provided a platform for local home haunts, nearly a dozen of which were featured over two preview sessions across both days, as well as a special retrospective for one of the big Southern California home haunt icons, Rotten Apple 907. Held across two stages, the Awaken the Spirits panels were a close approximation of regular Midsummer Scream operation, featuring familiar major haunt players like Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights, Six Flags Magic Mountain’s Fright Fest, 13th Floor Entertainment Group, and Winchester Mystery House. Our focus today is more news-oriented, covering some of the panels that took place across Saturday and Sunday. But in its place was a more casual and almost relaxed homecoming and reunion of sorts-a place where the haunt community could come together in a larger format gathering for the first time in over a year and a half to take in at least a little bit of that Halloween spirit. This two-day event was a reduced version of the annual summertime celebration of things spooky, lacking the mini-haunts and entertainment of the full event, which was cancelled both last year and this year. The spooks return this week with a series of updates centered on the macabre and the twisted, and today, we kick it off with Part 1 of our coverage of this past weekend’s Awaken the Spirits “pop-up” Halloween and horror convention, put on by the folks from Midsummer Scream. ![]()
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