Tour Phil Anselmo’s 2025 Halloween Haunted House: Watch

If there’s ever a holiday tailor made for the type of music we listen to, it’s freakin’ Halloween. The aesthetics are almost one and the same. It makes sense then that a key figure like Pantera and Down’s Phil Anselmo would have his own way of joining in on all the festivities. Along with your typical Halloween celebratory fodder like candy and the creepies, Anselmo has been hosting his own little haunted house situation since the beginning of COVID, and now he’s giving us a little peek at what this year’s looked like.

On the YouTube channel for Housecore Records, a label that was started in 2001 by Anselmo himself, he uploaded a video of him along with his tortoise named Harry walking viewers excitedly (or, as exciting as the pairing of an old ass tortoise and Anselmo could be) through the attraction. Check out the video below.

As a horror fan, Anselmo hopped at the chance to team up with best-selling true crime author Corey Mitchell (Hollywood Death Scenes, Dead and Buried) in creating the Housecore Horror Film & Music Festival, which is a three-day festival/convention of sorts praising metal, hard rock, and horror at their finest. When asked back in the day what horror movie first scared him, Anselmo had an interesting answer, which surely contributed to how he ended up in the haunted house game now. He said:

“I won’t say it scared me, because it actually made me cry my eyes out, but King Kong was the first movie that really touched me as a kid. As far as scaring me and giving me the fear when I was a youngster, there was a movie called How Awful About Allan starring Anthony Perkins of Psycho fame. That movie scared me. And of course, there’s no denying the power of The Exorcist. In grade school I saw Don’t Go In The House at the theater. I saw The Changeling at the theater — which scared the living, flying [crap] out of me! I saw Silent Scream with Barbara Steele and that was insane.”