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‘Ghostober’ Contains 55 Hours of Horror Including Zak Bagans, Eli Roth and Jack Osbourne
This Halloween join the Travel Channel, Discovery+ and the Food Network as they give us 55 hours of Halloween-based horror fun. Joining in on the fun is Zak Bagans, Eli Roth and Jack Osbourne.
The full lineup begins on September 12 and runs through the season of spookiness. The lineup below includes Eli Roth’s My Possessed Pet and Zac Bagans Haunted Museum 3: Ring Inferno.
The full-lineup goes like this:
“Ghostober V” and Halloween-Themed Programming Lineup (by Date):
GHOSTS OF DEVIL’S PERCH
New Episodes Throughout “Ghostober”
Sundays beginning August 21 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
A mystery is buried beneath the streets of Butte, Montana, also known as “The Devil’s Perch,” and the spirits tethered to the historic mining town’s seedy past are rising to the surface. To help restore order, the mayor and sheriff enlist the help of paranormal investigator Dave Schrader, psychic medium Cindy Kaza and tech expert K.D. Stafford to stop the wave of unnatural occurrences plaguing the town. (Eight one-hour episodes) #GhostsofDevilsPerch
PARANORMAL CAUGHT ON CAMERA
New Season
Premieres Sunday, September 11 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
Some of the most amazing, eye-opening and downright scary paranormal videos from around the world are featured as a panel of experts break down the footage and analyze what exactly the eyewitnesses captured. (13 one-hour episodes) #ParanormalCaughtOnCamera
GHOSTOBER PREVIEW PARTY
New Special
Premieres Monday, September 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
It’s that time of fear again, Ghostober is here! To celebrate, the Ghost Brothers, along with special guests Jason Hawes and Cindy Kaza, are throwing an office Halloween party featuring sneak peeks of the scary-good lineup of shows and specials for Ghostober this year! (One-hour special) #GhostoberPreview
HALLOWEEN BAKING CHAMPIONSHIP
New Season
Premieres Monday, September 12 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Food Network and Streaming on discovery+
On this season of HALLOWEEN BAKING CHAMPIONSHIP, host John Henson is the caretaker of a haunted hotel and will be welcoming the competitors to an eight-week stay, unless their baked goods fail to impress the judges, in which case they will have to “check out” and take the elevator to the mysterious 13th floor from which guests never return. Judges Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Young determine whose devilishly delicious desserts earn the title of Halloween Baking Champion and an all-expense trip to the 10 most haunted hotels in America. (Eight episodes including six one-hour episodes and two super-sized, two-hour episodes) #HalloweenBakingChampionship
GHOST ADVENTURES
New Season
Premieres Thursday, September 15 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
Paranormal investigators Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Billy Tolley and Jay Wasleycontinue their terrifying travels to haunted destinations in a brand-new season of GHOST ADVENTURES, where they meet with locals, eyewitnesses and experts in an attempt to piece together the haunted history of each site. They then begin their “lockdown” investigation, using the latest scientific gadgets and technology in an effort to obtain physical evidence of the paranormal and uncover the truth behind each haunted mystery. (Nine one-hour episodes) #GhostAdventures
HALLOWEEN WARS (featuring Zak Bagans)
New Season
Premieres Sunday, September 18 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Food Network and Streaming on discovery+
Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans (Ghost Adventures) is back to inspire another terrifyingly epic season of HALLOWEEN WARS! Nine teams of cake, sugar and pumpkin artists unite to prove their skills are scary good … and the results will be frightening. This time, Bagans is introducing the teams to some of the most haunted places in the world to inspire frighteningly fun and edible Halloween creations that scare even host Eddie Jackson and judges Shinmin Li and Aarti Sequeira. At stake is the title of Halloween Wars Champion and a trip to one of the most beautiful and haunted cities in the world – Paris, France. (Eight one-hour episodes) #HalloweenWars
HAUNTED SCOTLAND
New Series (U.S. Premiere)
Begins Streaming Friday, September 23 With Three-Episode Binge on discovery+
In HAUNTED SCOTLAND, renowned American medium Chris Fleming and Scotland’s Gail Porter lead an expert paranormal team to investigate the chilling crimes, supernatural sightings and terrifying stories across one of the most haunted countries on earth: Scotland. With exclusive access to places where a film crew has never been allowed before, they will try to make contact with the spirits to explain the paranormal mysteries that have haunted Scotland’s most iconic landmarks for centuries. (10 one-hour episodes) #HauntedScotland
OUTRAGEOUS PUMPKINS
New Season
Premieres Sunday, September 25 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Food Network and Streaming on discovery+
Seven fierce pumpkin carvers descend onto the pumpkin patch, determined to make Halloween history as they compete for the title of Outrageous Pumpkins Champion. Over the course of four grueling weeks, OUTRAGEOUS PUMPKINS host Sunny Anderson puts the carvers’ skills to the ultimate test as they face hair-raising challenges and build eye-popping pumpkin creations. In the end, judges Terri Hardin and Paul Dever will determine which carver will be the Outrageous Pumpkins Champion and take home the Outrageous Pumpkin Prize Belt. (Four one-hour episodes) #OutrageousPumpkins
HALLOWEEN COOKIE CHALLENGE
New Series
Premieres Monday, September 26 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Food Network and Streaming on discovery+
Rosanna Pansino and Jet Tila host the all-new HALLOWEEN COOKIE CHALLENGE, where in each episode, five crafty bakers compete to deliver on the ultimate treat and prove their cookie-making skills by decorating decadent and show-stopping Halloween cookie creations for the ultimate prize: the title of Halloween Cookie Champion! (Six one-hour episodes) #HalloweenCookieChallenge
GHOST ADVENTURES: DEVIL’S DEN
New Special
Premieres Thursday, September 29 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Jay Wasley and Billy Tolley are in Downey, California, to investigate the shuttered Los Padrinos Juvenile Detention Center, given the ominous designation of the “Devil’s Den” by both guards and inmates. In the terrifying, two-hour special, GHOST ADVENTURES: DEVIL’S DEN, the crew go behind the barbed wire to find out if the evil inside is not the real-life horrors of detention, but the devil itself. (Two-hour special) #GhostAdventures
SHOCK DOC – THE CURSE OF ROBERT THE DOLL
New Special
Premieres Friday, September 30 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
Considered the most haunted doll in the world, Robert the Doll lives behind glass in a museum in Key West, Florida, where every year thousands of visitors who fail to follow his rules find themselves cursed. Victims have experienced illness, injury, accidents and even death. But what makes Robert curse his victims? What evil entity lives inside this doll? This latest Shock Docs installment explores the true origin of Robert the Doll, uncovers the story of Robert’s first owners in 1905, and seeks to find out why this doll is so nefarious. (Two-hour special) #CurseofRoberttheDoll
ELI ROTH PRESENTS: MY POSSESSED PET
New Series
Premieres Friday, September 30 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
Few things are more profound than the quiet bond between a person and their pet. But what if an evil presence takes hold of the animal and uses the trusted companion to get to us? ELI ROTH PRESENTS: MY POSSESSED PET explores the true, terrifying tales of what happens when evil spirits, curses and demons take over family pets and turn them against their terrified owners. Each episode will follow the chilling and deeply personal story of someone who has had their profound and loving relationship ripped apart by supernatural forces beyond their control. (Four one-hour episodes) #MyPossessedPet
GHOST HUNTERS
New Season
Premieres Saturday, October 1 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
The renowned TAPS team is back with a new season of the paranormal show that started it all. Original GHOST HUNTERS members Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango, along with Shari DeBenedetti, revisit their most chilling cases and investigate disturbing new hauntings inside mansions, businesses, historic sites and more. Armed with state-of-the-art technology, their proven methodology and a few special guest investigators, TAPS tackle disturbing paranormal activity head-on, leaving no stone unturned to reach the dead among the living. (Eight one-hour episodes) #GhostHunters
JACK OSBOURNE’S HAUNTED HOMECOMING
New Series (U.S. Premiere)
Begins Streaming Sunday, October 2 on discovery+
Jack Osbourne returns to the United Kingdom to revisit his childhood home and past haunts in the county of Buckinghamshire – a notorious paranormal hotspot – seeking the dark truth behind terrifying, unexplained mysteries and experiences he had there as a young boy. On his journey, Osbourne makes stops at the family home where he spent his formative years, a local theater and ancient pub, and Missenden Abbey, a notoriously haunted locale that was the scene of regular childhood school trips. (Three one-hour episodes) #HauntedHomecoming
GHOST BROTHERS: LIGHTS OUT
New Season
Begins Streaming Friday, October 7 With Three-Episode Binge on discovery+
The Ghost Brothers – Dalen Spratt, Juwan Mass and Marcus Harvey – flip the switch on paranormal lore by shining their own light on its darkest secrets in the second season of GHOST BROTHERS: LIGHTS OUT. The dopest brothers on camera hunting ghosts, these candid and unorthodox paranormal investigators explore iconic haunted hotspots to find out if the legends are really true and if these places are still plagued by the horror of the events that occurred there. They are ready to expose the haunted holdouts hanging around these locations with unconventional experiments. (Eight one-hour episodes) #GhostBrothers
KIDS BAKING CHAMPIONSHIP: TRICK OR EAT
New Special
Premieres Monday, October 17 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Food Network and Streaming on discovery+
In KIDS BAKING CHAMPIONSHIP: TRICK OR EAT,four fan-favorite bakers from last season dare to return to a kitchen that has been transformed into a spooky Halloween haunt. Duff Goldman and Maneet Chauhan challenge them to create a “Halloween Mask Pie” using ingredients the bakers collect by trick-or-treating. But beware, there is a sudden, shocking twist. What isn’t scary is the impressive $10,000 prize package of baking tools and equipment that goes to the best pie-maker. (One-hour special) #KidsBakingChampionship
SHOCK DOC – GHOSTS OF FLIGHT 401
New Special
Premieres Friday, October 28 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
It is one of the greatest supernatural mysteries in U.S. history. On December 29, 1972, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing over 100 souls. Soon after, ghosts from Flight 401 began to haunt the land and other airplanes. In the all-new Shock Doc special GHOSTS OF FLIGHT 401, for the first time ever and on the 50th anniversary of the crash, paranormal investigator Steve Shippy and psychic medium Cindy Kaza will attempt to make contact with the ghosts of Flight 401 and find out the horrifying truth about what really happened that fateful night. (Two-hour special) #GhostsofFlight401
URBAN LEGEND
New Series
Premieres Friday, October 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
This nightmarish anthology series, under the creative guidance of master of horror Eli Roth, showcases classic urban legends as you’ve never seen them before. Based on widely shared “true” stories that happened to a friend of a friend … of a friend, each episode of URBAN LEGEND is a mini-horror film cinematically crafted to deliver a hyper-suspenseful and tension-fueled experience. Featuring lurking psychopaths, murderous mysteries, creepy creatures and twisting tales, these disturbing legends prey on our most deeply embedded fears to shock and terrify. (Eight one-hour episodes) #UrbanLegendTRVL
THE HAUNTED MUSEUM: 3 RING INFERNO
New Special
Premieres Monday, October 31 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Travel Channel and Streaming on discovery+
THE HAUNTED MUSEUM, produced by Zak Bagans in collaboration with filmmaker Eli Roth, is a horror film anthology series that presents frightening and hellish tales inspired by the spooky relics on display in Zak Bagans’ Las Vegas museum. THE HAUNTED MUSEUM: 3 RING INFERNO, a “Ghostober” special, features the terrifying story of a boy and his father who steal an old suitcase from an antique market and soon discover a weathered tent inside that opens a portal to a cursed circus world from the past. In this mysterious and haunted place, they encounter a terrifying entity that will stop at nothing to capture their souls. (Two-hour special) #TheHauntedMuseum
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The Best Possible Person Is Directing A24’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre
A24 went into a competitive auction, beat out Blumhouse, acquired one of the most difficult pieces of IP in the genre, and then gave the job to a director with one feature film to his name. That is a wild risk to take on such a young talent. But also, it’s Curry Barker, so we get it.
Curry Barker is writing and directing a reimagining of the 1974 original created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel. As we have talked about before, A24 announced the acquisition back in February with no director attached. At least we have that figured out.
Who Curry Barker Is
Barker got here through Obsession, a film he made for under a million dollars that played TIFF Midnight Madness and sold to Focus Features for north of $14 million. He built the career that got him into that room starting on YouTube, which is the kind of origin story that should not end with A24 handing you a legacy franchise before your first wide release even opens. And yet, here we are.
The Franchise and the People Behind It
The 1974 original has since produced eight sequels and remakes. Some are far better than others. The franchise has been a problem for a long time and everyone who has touched it since the original has found a different way to confirm that.
A24 formally announced the acquisition earlier this year after winning the rights in a competitive bid. The producers are Roy Lee, Steven Schneider of Spooky Pictures, and Kim Henkel through Exurbia Films. Henkel co-created the original with Tobe Hooper.
One More Thing
There is also a separate Texas Chainsaw Massacre TV series in development at A24 from JT Mollner. Different project. The film and the series are happening at the same studio simultaneously, which means A24 now has more Leatherface in development than anyone has since the franchise was actually relevant. Barker’s film has no release date yet. Obsession opens May 15.
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ITCH Is the Outbreak Film That Actually Gets Under Your Skin
No one would blame you for looking at ITCH and filing it under zombie film. Because it is. The outbreak spreads person to person. People stop being people. The world ends a little bit. You know how it goes.
What Bari Kang actually made is something with a different mechanism at its center. The contagion does not spread through biting. It spreads through scratching. You scratch yourself. This makes you sick while it is happening. You scratch because someone near you scratched and something in your brain said that looks right.
I talked to Kang about it. Turns out it was not a deliberate subversion. “It was never meant to be a zombie film,” he told me. “That happened along the way.” The idea came during COVID. He watched someone scratching in a store and could not stop thinking about it. “What if that’s how something spreads?” He started writing from there and somewhere in the process the zombies arrived. “All of a sudden I had these zombies running around.” He went that route without going that route.
Why the Scratch Works
We all get how zombies work. They bite, someone hides their bite, sometime later everyone is dead. Kang’s instinct was that the scratch would do something different. “It’s really visceral and contagious,” he said. “I figured if I could lean into that, that might work well.” He was right.
There is something about watching someone scratch that is harder to look away from than watching someone get bitten. You feel it on your own skin. The sympathy itch is real and ITCH knows it and uses it without being cute about it. That is craft. For a film Kang wrote, directed, produced, and starred in himself, that is not a small thing.
Who Is Bari Kang
The short version: he decided he wanted to be an actor, spent a year auditioning and booking nothing, and then casting director Judy Henderson, who was in the middle of casting Homeland at the time, told him to go write his own stuff. “I was like, oh, you can do that,” he told me.
He said: “Nobody’s coming to give you a hand. There’s no handouts. It seems like we need permission or something to do it, but you just gotta get out there.” Yeah. That.
The Rule About Lore
There were versions of ITCH that explained what the itch was, where it came from, who started it. Kang cut all of it. The less he showed, the more the film asked audiences to do the work themselves. And audiences who do the work are more scared than audiences who are shown everything.
ITCH does not explain itself and it does not need to. A film about a contagion that spreads through something you cannot stop yourself from doing, made in the aftermath of a pandemic everyone lived through, does not require a mythology breakdown. It requires you to sit with what it is suggesting. Which is worse.
ITCH is available now.
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ShoStak Opens the Door for Filmmakers to Build and Own Their Stories
A new platform is stepping into the streaming space, but instead of trying to become the next Netflix or TikTok, ShoStak is built around a much bigger idea.
“Cinema does not need another platform. It needs a new model.”
ShoStak operates across two sides of its ecosystem. ShoStak.tv is the viewer-facing platform where audiences can watch content and discover new series. ShoStak.world serves as the creator hub, where filmmakers can develop projects, submit ideas, and take part in programs designed to help bring those stories to life.
Together, they form what ShoStak describes as a cinematic ecosystem. A space where stories are not treated as disposable content, but as worlds that can grow, evolve, and sustain themselves over time.
Instead of chasing algorithms or studio approval, the platform is built around a simple but ambitious goal. Give creators ownership of their work, their audience, and the revenue they generate from it.
The Competition Offering a First Look
As part of its early rollout, ShoStak is hosting a creator competition where audiences can vote on which projects move forward, giving fans a rare shot at directly influencing what actually gets made.
Projects are introduced as series concepts or pilots, with creators competing across multiple rounds. Audience participation helps determine which entries gain traction and continue developing.
Ownership at the Center
One of the platform’s defining ideas is simple but powerful. Creators should own what they create.
ShoStak emphasizes a model where filmmakers:
- Retain ownership of their intellectual property
- Build and grow their own audience directly
- Earn revenue tied to engagement and support from that audience
This removes a layer that has traditionally stood between creators and success. Instead of relying on studio approval or algorithmic luck, filmmakers have a clearer path to building something of their own.
It’s a shift that could be especially meaningful for independent creators who are used to giving up control just to get their work seen.
Building a New Kind of Pipeline
ShoStak is not just focused on hosting content. It’s working toward building a system where ideas can grow from concept to fully realized projects.
Through its creator hub and development programs, filmmakers can:
- Introduce new story worlds directly to audiences
- Build a following around those stories
- Expand their projects over time without losing ownership
It creates a pipeline that feels more open than traditional systems. Instead of waiting for approval behind closed doors, creators can develop their work in front of an audience and grow it organically.
Why This Matters for Horror
Horror has always lived a little outside the system.
Some of the most memorable films in the genre came from creators taking risks, working with limited resources, and finding ways to connect with audiences on their own terms.
ShoStak’s approach could give horror filmmakers a new kind of playground:
- Test ideas as short-form series
- Build loyal fanbases around original concepts
- Expand those concepts into larger projects over time
For a genre that thrives on originality and experimentation, having more control over both the creative process and the outcome could make a real difference.
ShoStak is not just trying to launch another streaming service. It’s trying to rethink how stories are created, shared, and sustained.
By focusing on ownership, long-term world-building, and direct connection between creators and audiences, it’s offering a different path forward.
Whether that model succeeds remains to be seen.
But if it does, it could give filmmakers something that has been increasingly difficult to hold onto.
Control.
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