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Top 20 Halloween Activities in Vancouver for 2012

by Remy Scalza in Events on October 22, 2012

Photo courtesy of Potters House of Horrors

Our usual top 10 list just wasn’t big enough to hold all the thrills and chills on tap in Vancouver this Halloween. Here are the top 15 ways to get up close and personal with ghosts, ghouls and zombies and put a little extra scare in your Halloween night.

Judge Dee and the Chinese Garden Murders: Chinatown’s Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden is transformed into a terrifying haunted house for this unique piece of interactive theatre featuring 30 actors, dancers and musicians. You’re hot on the heels of a cold-blooded killer in a distant Chinese village. Can you solve the crime before it’s too late? Oct. 24-Oct. 31

Vancouver Haunted Trolley: The quaint Vancouver Trolley shows its dark side on this 2.5 tour of the city’s grisliest and most haunted sites, including the Mountain View Cemetery. Oct. 19-Oct. 31.

Stanley Park Ghost Train: After dark, the miniature rail line in spooky, 1,000-acre Stanley Park takes riders deep into a forest inhabited by characters from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, including Rapunzel, the fairy godmother and the Pied Piper. Kid-friendly. Oct. 5-Oct. 31.

Potters House of Horrors: Potters’ 10,000-square-foot greenhouse in Surrey is converted from a nursery into an enormous house of horrors every Halloween. Up to 20,000 people pass through each year for a heavy dose of zombies, nightmarish creatures and blood-curdling scenes. Oct. 12-Oct. 31. Continue reading:
Top 20 Halloween Activities in Vancouver for 2012

Featured Attraction of the Week: Fort Langley National Historic Site (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

by Inside Vancouver in Deals on October 22, 2012

photo: Fort Langley National Historic Site

Experience the excitement of the early West Coast fur trade at Fort Langley National Historic Site. Explore the wooden fort, first built by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1827, where traders once exchanged furs, salmon and cranberries with First Nations people.

Bring your visiting guests to stand in the spot where British Columbia was proclaimed a British colony in 1858. Fort Langley National Historic Site is packed with interactive displays and activities for the whole family. Watch blacksmithing, barrel-making or historic weapons demonstrations, pan for gold, and laugh along with an interpretive program.
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Featured Attraction of the Week: Fort Langley National Historic Site (Free Ticket Giveaway!)

Top Halloween Activities in Vancouver for 2012

by Remy Scalza in Events on October 3, 2012

Photo credit: John Biehler | Flickr

The days are getting shorter. There’s a chill in the air. A suspicious amount of zombies can be found walking Granville Street. It must be time for Halloween in Vancouver.

As usual, there’s no shortage of Halloween spooks and thrills on tap in Vancouver this year. Here’s a top 10 list of activities and events to put a little scare in your October.

Anything missing? Please let us know by leaving a comment below.

Stanley Park Ghost Train: After dark, the miniature rail line in spooky, 1,000-acre Stanley Park takes riders deep into a forest inhabited by characters from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, including Rapunzel, the fairy godmother and the Pied Piper. Kid-friendly. Oct. 5-Oct. 31.

Zombie Combat Paintball: Gear up and hunt down marauding bands of zombies in the forests of Surrey. It’s your team’s mission to rescue a trapped scientist and save the planet from flesh-eating monsters. Sept. 14-Nov. 15.

Vancouver Haunted Trolley: The quaint Vancouver Trolley shows its dark side on this 2.5 tour of the city’s grisliest and most haunted sites, including the Mountain View Cemetery and the Police Museum (formerly the coroner’s office), where an autopsy recreation takes place. Oct. 19-Oct. 31. Continue reading:
Top Halloween Activities in Vancouver for 2012

Zombie Fighting on the Streets of Downtown Vancouver, Oct 13-31

by Remy Scalza in Events on September 18, 2012

Photo credit: The Zombie Syndrome from the Virtual Stage

Are you ready to save Vancouver from a deadly zombie invasion?

Just in time for Halloween, a new attraction turns the audience into zombie fighters on the streets of Vancouver. Described as an “interactive, site-specific theatre adventure,” the Zombie Syndrome puts you in the starring role in a quest to conquer the undead.

Here’s how it works. The exact starting point of the show remains a secret until the day before, when ticket holders receive a phone call from a character in the story with instructions on when and where to meet.

Once assembled at the secret rendezvous point, you and your zombie fighting colleagues are briefed on the outbreak of a deadly virus that reanimates the dead. Continue reading:
Zombie Fighting on the Streets of Downtown Vancouver, Oct 13-31

New Vancouver Attraction Lets you go zombie hunting

by Remy Scalza in Entertainment on September 12, 2012

Photo credit: Zombies by IcedCoffee

Halloween may be more than a month away, but it’s never too early to go zombie hunting.

A new, 57-acre attraction in South Surrey is billing itself as an immersive, zombie-fighting experience. Dressed up in tactical gear and armed with paint guns, you and your platoon must fend off wave after wave of the undead under the cover of thick forest.

And, judging from the photos, these aren’t your garden-variety, dress-up zombies. The production is the work of local special effects master Ron McCall, who has worked in big-time horror and thriller flicks, according to a recent article in the Vancouver Sun. Continue reading:
New Vancouver Attraction Lets you go zombie hunting