Director: Jake Jarvi
Every autumn a suburban haunted-house attraction hires actors to scream on cue, and Haunt Season takes that seasonal ritual and asks what happens when the fake blood stops washing off.
What is Haunt Season about?
The staff of a small-town Halloween haunt attraction spend their nights jumping out of hidden corners and wearing rubber wounds for paying customers who scream and move on. A masked figure starts stalking the crew after hours, and the line between rehearsed frights and real danger collapses fast, with staged injuries turning into something the cast can no longer walk away from between shifts. Director Jake Jarvi leans into the meta setup of horror-inside-horror, using the attraction's fog machines, strobe lighting, and maze of corridors as a ready-made killing ground that the characters already know intimately, which only makes it worse when that knowledge stops helping them. The comedy in the premise, employees who think they've seen every trick the season can throw at them, curdles into genuine panic once nobody can tell a scripted scare from a real one, and the haunt's own gimmicks get turned back on the people who built them.
Cast & crew
The ensemble is led by Brent Bentley, with Rob Scallon and Craig Benzine, Sarah Elizabeth, Stephen Kristof, Jeremy Warner, Katelin Stack, and Adam Hinkle rounding out the haunt's crew of performers-turned-targets. The cast plays largely as an ensemble of seasonal coworkers, which keeps the film's tone grounded in workplace banter even as the threat around them escalates.
Context & significance
Haunt Season is a 2024 American production that sits at the intersection of horror and comedy, part of a long-running subgenre built around haunted attractions and the seasonal gig workers who staff them every October. Filmmaker Jake Jarvi uses that familiar setting less as a backdrop and more as a character in its own right, letting the geography of a haunt house, its dead ends, hidden panels, and looping corridors, dictate how the danger actually plays out.
Where & how to watch
Haunt Season streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the crew's after-hours ordeal without needing subtitles. The film's page is open to browse for anyone, and watching it simply requires signing into a K-Time account, with the rest of the platform's interface also available in Farsi for Persian-speaking audiences abroad.