Thrillvania Haunted House Grand Opening 2012

DALLAS and FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Labor Day has come and gone, the kids are back in school and the days are growing shorter.  With the frost on the pumpkin and the long dark nights comes another Texas tradition, the annual grand opening of Thrillvania Haunted House in Terrell, Texas!

Opening its doors on Friday, September 28th from 8pm till 11:00pm, Thrillvania has added even more thrills, chills and mind-boggling spooktacular dioramas this year, making it Hauntworld Magazine's number one pick for Scariest Haunted House in America.

A veritable smorgasbord of creatively themed indoor and outdoor haunts, Thrillvania combines elaborate, movie quality sets, pyrotechnics, giant spiders, complex animatronics and live monsters that come at you from all sides in six amazing attractions on nearly 50 haunted acres. From their flagship World Famous Verdun Manor to Cassandra's three-dimensional psychedelic Labyrinth of Terror, the haunt literally has something for everyone from 2 to 92.

The labor of love of haunted industry icon Lance Pope, Thrillvania started out in 1996 with just Verdun Manor, 8000 square feet of decaying mansion whose living room is a "dying room," where skeletons play a ragtime waltz on the piano and ominous, macabre decor is the order of the day. Lance's mother Sue continues to run Thrillvania since his untimely death in 2002, and this year she's really done Lance proud!

Carpenters, set designers, creative artists and evil geniuses have all been working the graveyard shift, adding more footage, more carnage, more dark humor and things that go bump in the night to get Thrillvania ready for the 2012 season.  From the thick foggy swamps of the Voodoo Bayou to Sam Hain's chilling Trail of Torment, the eerie darkness of Thorn Hall and the rabid clowns of Cassandra's Labyrinth of Terror (something you might want to avoid if you have a fear of clowns), the illusions, special effects and animatronics are hairier, scarier and more electrifying than ever before.

For younger guests and fraidy cats, Granny Lupus' Seance Theatre supplies a tamer set of thrills, and a midway with games and refreshments is always a safe place to hide out.  But for the bravest of the foolhardy, Verdun Manor is still the haunt to die for, and people literally run out the back door screaming - that is, if they manage to make it out at all.  Enter at your peril!

Open every weekend through the 3rd of November plus Halloween. Go to www.Thrillvania.com for times.

Thrillvania awaits, just east of Dallas on a dark country road.  Are you ready?

Thrillvania Haunted House selected as one of the best haunted houses in America by Haunted House Ratings.com, AOL, Fangoria, Haunted Attraction Magazine, MSN and America's Best Haunts.

About Thrillvania Haunted House

Thrillvania Haunted House is located approximately 33 miles east of Dallas, Texas at the intersections of I-20 and Wilson Road in Terrell Texas. With 6 haunted attractions, including the world famous Verdun Manor, Thrillvania Haunted House is an experience not to be missed! Visit www.thrillvania.com or call 214-697-9223 for more information. Media Contact: Alicia Warden – 214-697-9223 or [email protected].

SOURCE Thrillvania Haunted House