The Hoggetowne Horrorfest RETURNS in 2026 with new dates, new venues, and all around excitement for Year 2! We're looking at diversifying our venues for a different approach as well as all new headliners AND a potential brunch/costume swap on the Sunday of the festival! We still desire to keep our ticket prices low for our fans and fiends, so each donation towards the festival helps us do that! For 2026, we are also looking at new merch and also some preview events to get you horror fans exited and ready for the main event!

This festival will take place over three nights in November: 12, 13. 14 (tentative depending on venue bookings)

The showcases highlight some of the most fun and outrageous horror performance talent from Florida and across the country, performing their acts on these themed nights:

Thursday, November 12th IT'S A SCREAM: a night of funny, silly, and absolutely campy burlesque and drag acts that will make you laugh and cheer as horror can certainly do for us.

Friday, November 13th GLAMOUR GHOULS: this night showcases the beauty and bawdiness of horror. It's not always blood and guts; sometimes, it's glowing ghostly beauty complete with rhinestones and eerie sensuality.

Saturday, November 14th ODDI-TEASE: no horror performance festival would be complete with some sideshow madness. This final night is both scary and sensational with acts that range from human pincushion to staples to pole tricks to human blockhead.

The rewards for donating to this festival all matter towards overhead costs to keep our ticket prices LOW for our fans and patrons. Festival tickets of any kind can be expensive, and adding travel costs at times makes it impossible for people to attend.

SO, with these donations, we are paying down our venue fees, taking care of our headliners, and making sure those ticket prices for each night AND for the weekend passes will be LOW and REASONABLE for our audience.

Hoggetowne Horrorfest is Haunting Gainesville in 2026

By Purple Nightshade Productions

Hoggetowne Horrorfest is Haunting Gainesville in 2026

Horror is Art and Art is Bloody GOOD