Haunted Hotel has found a good use for Will Forte’s ability to make an awkward situation worse. As Nathan, the ghost helping his sister run the Undervale, he remains involved in the family business well beyond any reasonable retirement age. Netflix’s animated horror comedy gives him plenty of company, including a demon whose appearance as a little boy does very little to make him suitable for children.
Created by Matt Roller, the series follows Katherine (Eliza Coupe) as she raises her kids while trying to operate a hotel full of supernatural problems. Its second season arrived earlier this month, bringing viewers back to a family whose personal troubles frequently become everybody else’s emergency. With Halloween tomorrow, Netflix has given fans a reason to plan another stay.
Netflix has officially renewed Haunted Hotel for Season 3, which is scheduled to premiere in 2027. The announcement follows another successful streaming run: Season 2 debuted on Netflix’s global English-language TV Top 10, while the first season has accumulated more than 15 million views since its September 2025 release. Roller celebrated the news by promising that the next installment will push the show further. “Season three is full of the biggest, funniest, scariest, saddest, and Abaddoniest stories we’ve ever told,” he said. For viewers familiar with the Undervale’s resident demon, that last description should be enough to raise some concerns about everyone’s safety.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes What Is Your Biggest Horror Nightmare? Elm Street · Chucky · Scream · The Conjuring
Four horror franchises. Four completely different ways of scaring you. One waits until you fall asleep. One makes sure nobody believes you. One is already in your group of friends. And one is in the house with your family. Answer eight quick questions about how you actually watch horror, and find out which nightmare was built for you.
😴Elm Street(Freddy Krueger)
🧸Chucky(Child’s Play)
📞Scream(Ghostface)
🕯️The Conjuring(The Warren Files)
01
Which horror scene makes you cover your eyes? Four classic images. One of them is worse than the others for you.
02
You are home alone and you hear a noise. First thought? Everybody has one. It arrives before you have decided anything.
03
Which horror movie rule would you break first? Everybody thinks they would survive. Almost nobody actually does.
04
Something genuinely frightening happens. What do you do? Not in a film. In your actual living room, tonight.
05
How do you actually watch a horror film? Be honest about this one. Nobody is checking.
06
Somebody offers you serious money. Which do you still refuse? The amount does not matter. There is one on this list you are not doing.
07
Which feeling stays with you a week after the film? Good horror does not stop when the credits do.
08
Something wakes you at 3am. What is the worst possibility? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your nightmare.
The Lights Just Went Out Your Nightmare Is…
Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath
your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what
it would leave behind.
A Nightmare on Elm Street · Since 1984
Elm Street
Your nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you
to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever
won that particular argument.
Freddy is horror’s cruellest idea: a threat that lives in the one place you cannot
guard, cannot lock, and cannot avoid forever.
You are the one who is fine during the film and wide awake at two in the morning. Your
own head is where this does its damage.
These films understood exhaustion as a horror engine. The kids on Elm Street do not lose
because they are weak. They lose because they are tired.
You can lock every door in the house. You still have to sleep.
Child’s Play · Chucky · Since 1988
Chucky
Your nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the
person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it.
Chucky works precisely because he is absurd. That is the trap: the more accurately you
describe him, the less anybody is going to believe you.
You are the one shouting at the screen because the characters are not listening. You
know that feeling from real life too.
The franchise is at its best when the adults in the room are the real obstacle, and you
have met those adults.
By the time somebody finally believes you, you will have handled most of it on your own.
Scream · Ghostface · Since 1996
Scream
Your nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost
certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.
Scream is the only one of these where the killer takes the mask off and turns out to be
somebody who was at the party.
You are the person who calls the twist out loud before it lands. You watch people the
same way you watch films.
The franchise made the rules of horror part of the plot, which means the survivors are
the ones paying attention. You would be paying attention.
Everybody is a suspect, including the person who just offered to walk you home.
The Conjuring · The Warren Files · Since 2013
The Conjuring
Your nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people
asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving.
The Conjuring films are domestic horror. The house, the family, the perfectly ordinary
room that quietly stops feeling ordinary.
Your instinct is to get everybody into one room. Your fear is protective rather than
personal, which is rarer than it sounds.
This is the one franchise where belief is the weapon. The people who come through it are
the ones who are not alone and refuse to be.
Whatever is here did not come for you. It came for the household, and you are the one
standing in the hallway.
What Is Next for ‘Haunted Hotel’?
Dante Crowe’s return is already on the table, and hopefully that means more Troy Baker in Season 3. His arrival turns the Undervale into the setting for an action movie, complete with explosives and an encounter with Death that ends at the bottom of a well. Katherine’s solution is to throw the explosives in after them, but the episode’s end-credits tease makes it clear that she has not seen the last of him. For all the characters Season 2 brings into the hotel, Crowe is one worth keeping around.
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Release Date
September 19, 2025
Network
Netflix
Directors
Bob Suarez, Meg Waldow, Christopher Nance, Erica Hayes
Writers
Matt Roller, Avital Ash, Joshua Corey, Siena East, Dan Guterman
