The House of the Year Award is a yearly award given out by the Halloween Horror Nights executives to one (or sometimes two) haunted house(s) at each event. It has been given out annually at Halloween Horror Nights Orlando since Halloween Horror Nights XI. Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood has also been doing House of the Years since at least 2007.
Winners of the House of the Year Award in Orlando[]
- Scary Tales (2001)
- Screamhouse (2002)
- Psycho Scareapy (2003)
- Castle Vampyr (2004)
- Body Collectors (2005)
- Screamhouse: The Resurrection (2006)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dreamwalkers (2007)
- Dead Exposure (2008)
- Dracula: Legacy in Blood (2009)
- Havoc: Dogs of War (2010)
- The In-Between & The Forsaken (2011)
- Gothic (2012)
- An American Werewolf in London (2013)
- Dollhouse of the Damned & Halloween (2014)
- Jack Presents: 25 Years of Monsters & Mayhem (2015)
- American Horror Story (2016)
- Scarecrow: The Reaping (2017)
- Stranger Things (2018)
- House of 1000 Corpses (2019)
- The Wicked Growth: Realm of the Pumpkin (2021)
- Universal Monsters: Legends Collide (Orlando) (2022)
- YETI: Campground Kills (2023)
Winners of the House of the Year Award in Hollywood[]
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Back in Business (2007)
- SAW: Game Over (2009)
- Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses: In 3-D Zombievision (2010)
- Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare (2011)
- The Walking Dead: Dead Inside (2012)
- Insidious: Into the Further (2013)
- An American Werewolf in London (2014)
- Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home & Insidious: Return to the Further (2015)
- Freddy vs. Jason (2016)
- Insidious: Beyond the Further (2017)
- Universal Monsters: Music by Slash (2018)
- Us (2019)
- The Exorcist (2021)
- La Llorona: The Weeping Woman (2022)
- Monstruos: The Monsters of Latin America (2023)