HDK's Top 10 Best Designed Haunted Attractions

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Haunted Design Kit Announces Top 10 Haunts.

Haunt Design Kit.com Announces its choices for the Best Designed Haunted Attractions

Lexington, Kentucky (October 31st 2013) - Haunted house design website, Haunt Design Kit.com officially announces its picks for the best designed haunted attractions in the USA.

“Everybody and every media outlet has their lists for the scariest or ‘best’ haunts in the country, but we wanted to something different” says website creator Tyler Barnett.  “Our focus is the design aspect of the business...so we’re awarding what we consider to be the best designed shows in the industry.”

Haunt Design Kit.com took into consideration many different aspects of the haunts they visited. Areas of consideration included: Overall design, attraction layout, flow, scenic treatments and how well the design stuck with the themes of the attractions.

“We visited every haunt that made our list; sometimes in secret,” Barnett says. “We wanted to catch the haunts off guard and not announce to them we were coming. We paid full ticket price and waited in the lines just like an average customer. We wanted the full experience…we feel that allowed us to make the best decision on our top 10 list!”

So, the Top 10 Best Designed Haunted Attractions in the US as chosen by HauntDesignKit.com are as follows:

10.  Bennets Curse – Jessup, Maryland                      http://bennettscurse.com/

9.  House of Horrors – Buffalo, New York                  http://www.houseofhorrorsbuffalo.com/

8.  Haunted Overload – Lee, New Hampshire         http://www.hauntedoverload.com/

7.   The Dent Schoolhouse – Cincinnati, Ohio        http://www.frightsite.com/

6.  The Scarehouse – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania     http://www.scarehouse.com/

5.  Netherworld – Atlanta, Geogria                           http://www.fearworld.com/

4.  House of Torment – Austin, Texas                        http://thehouseoftorment.com/

3.  House of Shock -  New Orleans, Louisiana       http://www.houseofshock.com/

2.  The 13^th Gate – Baton Rouge, Louisiana           http://midnightproduction.com/

1.  Halloween Horror Nights – Orlando, Florida    http://www.halloweenhorrornights.com/

These attractions are what we consider to be the very best at what they do.  From a design aspect, each attraction offers the very best in creative design, scenic treatments and all stick to their respective themes very well. A lot of these haunts actually employ scenic designers and artist to help create their haunted worlds.  Congratulations to all the haunts that made the list.

Contact:

Tyler Barnett / Haunt Design Kit.com

nigtgoretb@gmail.com

Sorry for the low activity...updates are coming!

Ok...first, sorry. Sorry for the little activity on the site and Facebook lately. However, it's not because we've gotten lazy! ;)

We have some major, and I mean MAJOR updates coming soon. Now, I can't go into much detail on some of the new stuff, but I can on some.

First, we've contracted Brainstorm Studios to create a new and exciting logo for the HDK! One of the issues we've had with this website and Facebook page is it's branding and it's "place" within the haunted attraction and amusement industry. We thought the name itself would give it away...HAUNT design kit...but we thought wrong. So, in a few months we will unveil the new logo and branding for Haunt Design Kit.com and I'm sure you guy will LOVE it.

Second, we have some website improvements coming. This would include some back-end SEO work along with some site upgrades and new features. Yes. NEW FEATURES!!!

I'm not just talking about new kits to download or stuff like that...which we have more on the way...but all new areas of the website and brand-new features. I won't go into great detail about them, however, we may or may not be adding picture galleries, or haunt/design related articles and interviews, or more how-to videos, or more project files...or more content on the resources page...maybe, maybe not.

Also, something we did without really telling anybody about it is updated the original haunt kits with "real world" measurements. So now the 2"x4"s reflect their real world dimensions (1.5"x3.5"). That's just a little detail we took care of when we came back from Transworld.


I know all this is exciting and a lot of news at once. We just didn't want you guys to wonder what happened to us. We're busy taking care of the website and making sure things are good to go for you guys. No worries. We didn't forget about ya'.

As always, Happy Haunting.
-HDK

Just a tease...

Take a look at this haunted house teaser we made for a new project we're working on:

Any guesses what it could be? More later on this, just enjoy the video!

Free Resources!

Did you know that Haunt Design Kit has a FREE resource page where you can download and use all kinds of tools to help you design your haunted house? ...and it's FREE!

If you want free graph paper to download and print to design your haunted attraction on, both 90 degree (square grid) or Isometric (triangular grid paper). Go over to our RESOURCES PAGE and look around.

We're always looking to add more free stuff to this page and check-in every once in awhile to see if we've added anything new. We'll also do our best to inform you of any updates.

Happy Haunting.

-HDK

Article featured in Hauntworld Magazine

If you haven't received the latest edition of Hauntworld Magazine, then you might want to pick it up...HDK wrote an article on the benefits of using Google SketchUp with your haunt designs and layouts. Be sure to pick up your copy HERE!