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The Official ‘SAW’ Escape Revamps for Halloween!

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1 year ago

October 29, 2024

Escape rooms have become immensely popular over the years due to a unique blend of excitement, challenge, and teamwork. Participants step into immersive environments where they can engage in problem-solving and critical thinking, all while racing against the clock. This thrilling experience fosters collaboration and the ability to communicate effectively to crack codes and solve puzzles. The sense of accomplishment that comes from escaping within the time limit is incredibly rewarding, creating memorable moments that participants cherish. We have exciting news on a new upgrade that The Official SAW Escape Room is receiving in Las Vegas, just in time for Halloween! Check it out and let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

*The Official SAW Escape* – Actress Shawnee Smith (Amanda Young).

Egan Escape Productions is excited to announce thrilling new upgrades to The Official SAW Escape just in time for Halloween 2024, including fresh games and immersive new content. Jason Egan recently invited a group of devoted SAW fans to experience the latest enhancements, but he had a shocking twist in store for them. While exploring the infamous SAW bathroom, the fans were stunned when Shawnee Smith, the actress who plays “Amanda Young” in the SAW films, dramatically unmasked herself from behind the iconic Pig Mask, giving superfans the surprise of a lifetime.

This exciting new content within the escape, which features Shawnee Smith as “Amanda,” is part of a broader revamp that includes heightened gameplay, new puzzles, additional interactors to increase the immersion, and atmospheric outdoor effects that create a thrilling ambiance from the moment guests arrive at The Official SAW Escape.

Ranked as one of the top escape rooms in the nation, The Official SAW Escape brings the terrifying world of SAW to life with 13 intricately themed rooms. Seven of these rooms challenge guests to match wits with Jigsaw, the Master of Games in SAW, solving puzzles to escape before time runs out. Now, with the addition of Shawnee Smith’s character “Amanda”, the experience is taken to a whole new level, giving fans the chance to come face-to-face with one of the franchise’s most memorable characters.

“We provide one of the largest, most immersive escape experiences in the world,” said Jason Egan, producer of The Official SAW Escape. “From the moment you step onto the property, you’re not just visiting an escape room—you’re stepping into an entire facility that makes you feel like you’ve entered the world of SAW. And with Shawnee Smith as “Amanda”, the experience becomes even more exciting and authentic for our guests.”

Jason Egan, known for creating immersive attractions worldwide, continues to offer engaging experiences in Southern Nevada with The Official SAW Escape and other popular attractions such as ESCAPE BLAIR WITCH (based on Lionsgate’s The Blair Witch Project) and ESCAPE IT, which immerses guests in the world of Stephen King’s IT.

The Official SAW Escape Revamps for Halloween 2024!

About The Official SAW Escape

The Official SAW Escape, ranked the No. 1 escape room in the nation by USA Today, features numerous themed rooms where guests go toe-to-toe with the notorious Jigsaw. After entering what appears to be an old, abandoned meat-packing plant, guests will plunge into a world of traps and puzzles where they will need to work together to escape not just a single room, but the twists and turns of an entire building. The iconic SAW bathroom scene will be just one of the many highlights along the way as visitors are put to the test in what has been designed to be an entirely immersive experience and one of the largest escape attractions in the world. Located at 2121 Industrial Road, the venue is located just a few minutes from the famed Las Vegas Strip. The Official SAW Escape is open for extended hours this Fall – For more information or to secure your reservations, call 702-333-0770 or visit SawEscapeRoom.com. Follow along on Facebook & Instagram.

About Egan Escape Productions

Spanning multiple decades, Jason Egan and the immensely talented team at Egan Productions have developed, designed, launched and managed top-ranked attractions throughout a variety of industries, partnering with industry powerhouses such as Lionsgate, Warner Bros, MGM Resorts International, and more. From critically acclaimed mega-attractions in the company’s home state of Nevada (The Official SAW Escape, Escape Blair Witch, Fright Dome Las Vegas, and more) to successful venues around the world in tourism magnets like Hong Kong and beyond, the multi-faceted team at Egan Productions approaches every project with a creative yet diverse plan for growth and longevity. In addition to being known for launching one-of-a-kind ventures, the team has excelled at turning attractions into truly immersive “experiences” that transport guests to a different world or seemingly onto the set of their favorite movie or show. For more information on Egan Productions, visit eganproductions.com.

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Shudder’s May Is the Best Month They’ve Had in a While.

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16 hours ago

April 27, 2026

Luna Gray

Shudder dropped their May 2026 programming slate and it is heavier than most months. The lead is The Terror: Devil in Silver, the long-awaited third installment of AMC’s horror anthology, premiering May 7 with new episodes weekly through June 11. Next up, Tales from the Crypt, all seven seasons, begins streaming May 1 after years off the market. Four new exclusive films fill out the rest of the month.

The Terror: Devil in Silver

The first two seasons of The Terror stand as some of the best horror television of the past decade. Season one sent the crew of HMS Terror on a doomed Arctic voyage in 1845. Season two, Infamy, placed its story inside a Japanese American internment camp during World War II. Neither shared a cast nor a plot with the other. Both were exceptional. Season three takes Victor LaValle’s novel and builds it into a six-episode limited series. Dan Stevens plays Pepper, a working-class moving man who lands in a psychiatric hospital through bad luck and a worse temper. What he finds inside is not treatment.

Karyn Kusama, who directed the Yellowjackets pilot and earned an Emmy nomination for it, directs the opening two episodes and serves as co-executive producer. LaValle and Chris Cantwell co-wrote the scripts. Ridley Scott executive produces. The ensemble behind Stevens includes Judith Light, CCH Pounder, Aasif Mandvi, Stephen Root, and Marin Ireland. This is the kind of combination that earns attention before a single frame has aired.

New episodes premiere weekly after May 7.

Tales from the Crypt

Tales from the Crypt ran on HBO from 1989 to 1996. Seven seasons. Ninety-three episodes. Each one a self-contained story hosted by the Crypt Keeper, a wisecracking animated corpse voiced by John Kassir, who closes every episode with a pun only he finds funny.

The show pulled from EC Comics and assembled talent at a level that looks almost unreasonable in retrospect: Brad Pitt, Demi Moore, Christopher Reeve, Catherine O’Hara, and Steve Buscemi in front of the camera. Robert Zemeckis, Tobe Hooper, and William Friedkin behind it. Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Michael J. Fox also directed episodes.

The series has been effectively unavailable to stream for years, tied up in rights complications. It is now on Shudder. Season one drops May 1. Subsequent seasons premiere weekly on Fridays, with the final season 7 arriving June 12. Watch parties run every Friday at 9pm ET. There is no good reason to wait on this one.

The Exclusives

Whistle arrives May 8 and is the exclusive to prioritize. Directed by Corin Hardy, who made The Nun, and starring Dafne Keen, Sophie Nélisse, Percy Hynes White, and Nick Frost, it follows high school students who find an ancient Aztec Death Whistle and discover that blowing it summons their future deaths to hunt them down. Totally normal thing to happen.

Heresy lands May 1 and is worth knowing about before it arrives. Director Didier Konings is making his feature debut after years as a concept artist on Stranger Things, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Smothered arrives May 29 as a Shudder Original. It is Indonesian, and it is produced by Joko Anwar, the director behind Satan’s Slaves and Impetigore. That name means something to anyone who has been paying attention to international horror over the past decade. The film follows a micro-painting artist who loses part of his memory in an accident and returns home to find a woman claiming to be his mother.

This Is Not a Test streams May 22. Directed by Adam MacDonald and adapted from Courtney Summers’ 2012 novel, it stars Olivia Holt as a student sheltering in a high school during a zombie outbreak.

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[Exclusive Clip] ‘From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle’

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2 days ago

April 26, 2026

Ryan T. Cusick

Audiences are invited to explore one of Vermont’s most mysterious regions in From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle, arriving later this month on streaming platforms and DVD.

The documentary will debut on April 28, 2026, on platforms including Apple TV, Prime Video, and Google Play. DVD editions will be available exclusively through the Small Town Monsters online shop.

Directed by Seth Breedlove, the film continues the company’s exploration of folklore, cryptids, and unexplained phenomena. Breedlove’s previous work includes The Mothman of Point Pleasant, On the Trail of Bigfoot, American Werewolves, and more than two dozen feature-length productions. In total, Small Town Monsters has released more than thirty films, along with investigative programs, web series, books, podcasts, and exclusive membership content.

From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle was made possible through the support of backers from the company’s 2025 Kickstarter campaign.

Set in rural Vermont, the documentary examines the legend of the Bennington Triangle, an area associated with reports of UFOs, ghosts, phantom lights, mysterious creatures, and a series of unexplained disappearances. At the center of the mystery is Glastenbury Mountain, where decades of unanswered questions continue to inspire speculation.

Going beyond folklore and campfire tales, the film asks a chilling question: Why is Glastenbury Mountain so inexplicable, and what happened to those who went missing?

Check out our exclusive clip below.

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This Week in Horror: DC Goes Full Body Horror, A24 Has Its Chainsaw Man, and The Bone Temple Is Finally Yours

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4 days ago

April 24, 2026

Luna Gray

Good week. The Clayface trailer dropped and made DC relevant to this website for the first time in a while, A24 put a director on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre reimagining, and we got some interviews worth reading. Here is all of it.

Clayface Has a Trailer, and It Is Exactly What You Want

The Clayface trailer landed Wednesday, and it is DC’s first real horror film. Not horror adjacent. Not dark. Horror. Tom Rhys Harries plays Matt Hagen, an actor whose face gets disfigured by a gangster. He turns to a scientist, played by Naomi Ackie, who transforms his body into clay. Then the body horror starts.

James Watkins directed, which is the right choice. He made Speak No Evil and before that The Woman in Black, and he understands how to make dread feel physical. The screenplay is by Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini. That combination should tell you everything about the tone they are going for.

A24 Has a Director for Texas Chainsaw Massacre and His Last Film Cost Under a Million Dollars

Deadline confirmed that Curry Barker is writing and directing A24’s reimagining of the 1974 original. Barker made Obsession for under a million dollars. Focus Features paid north of fifteen million to distribute it. It sits at 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. A24 hired him before it even opens, which opens May 15.

Kim Henkel, who co-created the original with Tobe Hooper, is executive producing his own creation’s reimagining. That is either a blessing or a haunting. Probably both.

Astrolatry Is Going to Cannes and We Talked to the Actor Who Faced the Creature

Astrolatry is heading to the Frontières Buyers Showcase on May 16-17. The film has a sentient severed penis that grows into a ten-foot practical creature with spiky teeth. We interviewed star Ethan Daniel Corbett about what it was actually like to act against it. Short answer: genuinely terrifying. Long answer is on the site.

The Bone Temple Is Home

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple hit 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on Tuesday. If you held out from the digital release in February, now is the time. The 4K presentation is supposed to be great. Extras include audio commentary and a deleted scene. If your gonna watch The Bone Temple, why not watch it where the snacks are better.