Launching early next month is one of the scariest Halloween experiences in the country at Scream Hollow, a spooky amusement park located just down the road from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
If you are adventurous and love to explore haunted places, Scream Hollow is the place for you, featuring three main attractions sure to spook visitors with their names as well as their contents — Mansion of Terror, Zombie City and Slaughter Circus.
This year, Scream Hollow Wicked Halloween Park added a new addition for an extra dose of terror — the inaugural Scream Queen. After auditions searching for the loudest, scariest, creepiest and most horrific screamer in the Austin, Bastrop, San Marcos, Round Rock, San Antonio and surrounding areas, Scream Hollow added Cassandra Hierholzer as its face and shriek.
“My father introduced me at a young age to films like The Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby and Burnt Offerings. Every weekend we watched a new horror film and I looked forward to it all week. It was there when my love for orror began,” said Hierholzer.
“My scream itself was used in a couple of those films, and dubbed over for another actress who couldn’t get the pitch I could. But the reality of my vocal talents really hit when I worked for the haunted house for my day job where everyone kept commenting on how intense it was,” said Hierholzer. “Considering my experience modeling, acting, screaming and horror, I thought I had a pretty good shot at being someone’s Scream Queen!”
Scream Hollow’s legacy began as the Mansion of Terror Haunted House, an attraction that reigned in Austin for seven years as the Scariest Haunted House in Central Texas, was featured on the Travel Channel as one of the top 8 in the United States and was rated the No. 1 Haunted House in the country by Lions Gate Films. The Mansion of Terror is back as one of three haunted houses at Scream Hollow as a two-story abandoned Victorian mansion built into the forest.
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