With summer nearing its end, it's almost time to Awaken the Spirits! The talented team behind Midsummer Scream has regrouped amid the pandemic chaos and produced an all-new pop-up event that is COVID friendly and gives Halloween, horror, and haunt fans a preview of what is coming for the 2021 season. A schedule of panels [...]

Awards night hosts Mr. He (left) and Remy Cashman (right) are pictured with HorrorBuzz founder Norm Gidney (center) - Photo by Heather Anderson For 2021, the Midsummer Scream Screaming Room presented by Horrorbuzz, usually held at the annual Midsummer Scream convention, took place, for the first time, as a stand alone event. The [...]

The producers of Midsummer Scream are thrilled to announce a surprise event kicking off the Halloween season to take place the weekend of August 14-15, 2021 at the Pasadena Convention Center. Awaken the Spirits! will feature over 200 spooky vendors, live entertainment, and a presentation stage where fans will learn what’s in store for Halloween [...]

Spiral, the newest entry in the “Saw” franchise, opens wide this Friday, over a year after it was initially scheduled for release, due to, you know, pandemic. But, the Midsummer Scream team is impatient, and will be hosting an advance screening of Spiral with Midsummer Scream two days early, this Wednesday, May 12, at the [...]

It’s that time of year again where the Halloween season comes to a close and we begin the long wait for our spooky summertime oasis, Midsummer Scream. While we’re tempted to hibernate until next October, we here at HorrorBuzz have work to do and we need your help. Returning for its fourth year presenting the [...]

The Vicious, written and directed by Trevor Dillon and Ian Hock, presents us with a familiar set up—a family of naive city slickers on a road trip who happens upon a rural mansion looking for a place to spend the night. The young couple and their daughter (Brea Grant, Cameron Diskin, Olivia Knox) are apprehensive [...]

Cal Haunts is a group of Halloween/Haunt enthusiasts who get together once a month for project make and takes and practically every weekend of the spring and summer to build the Hall of Shadows entrance for the Midsummer Scream convention in Long Beach, California August 3rd and 4th.  CalHaunts has been around for about fifteen [...]