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I'm not entirely sure if we've discussed this before (I only recently got back to using this site), but I feel like a major property that is being overlooked at the moment is Us. I know Get Out will never be in the event due to its potentially divisive racial commentary, but from what I've heard this movie doesn't have that kind of commentary. Not only that, but from the SXSW reviews I've read, it's even more fucked up and terrifying than Get Out. Since it's *technically* still a Blumhouse movie, what do you guys think the chances of it coming to HHN are?

I’ve been begging for a sequel to *any* of the 21 originals.

LOTUS SYNDROME You know how sucky it must be when your neighbor's house gets hit by a meteorite, causing the whole block to be quarantined? At least the poor guy didn't suffer - from what you hear, the rock knocked the guy's head clean off. The rest of the town isn't as lucky, though. The meteorite contained a species of alien parasites that will eat through anything, including the quarantine tent. And they love the warmth of living beings. Everyone hates images that will trigger Trypophobia, but not everyone has it. Also horrible are long, threadlike, squirming things coming out of holes. LOTUS SYNDROME is the unholy bastard child of these two things. Every surface has clusters of small holes in them, and many have Lotus Worms squirming out of them. And the people aren't immune - when infected, they become what I call "holeys" - not only do the worms cover the flesh with holes, their eyes and mouth are covered with eaten flesh, and a few holes on them contain teeth, beady eyes, or pulsing blood. (I'm designing a grossout house. Never thought I'd do so and be aware of it.) And the worms can still crawl out of them, though we'll probably just see them already halfway out. ....I'm not sure how to describe ALL the rooms, so I'll probably just do this in the old style, where I bring up highlights. Because the concept alone is nauseating, and that's all I'm running with. The facade is a house affected by the Lotus Syndrome, with the title spelled in little holes in the second story, illuminated through a pulsing, pale green light. As guests go throughout the three houses, the buildings get in worse shape, with more holes, and the third also has meteorite damage. Also throughout the houses are the holeys. As described above, faceless, body horror, holes. At least a few have worms coming out of their fingertips. In the second house, the owner tries to fight back with the worms in the wall, drilling into it. Of course, you're on the other side of the wall, kinda close to where the bit is protruding. When you enter the room on his side of the wall, he's dropped the drill, and a cluster of worms is digging through his face, including on the eye. After this would be a tactile room, pitch-black, with Lotus Worms hanging above the walkway, with their bases having mechanisms to cause them to squirm. Imagine being brushed by an army of greasy spaghetti noodles that you know are capable of killing you. I'd also like to have a scene where the floor is covered with small holes, like an organic grate, but I get the feeling someone's going to wear heels to a walking-heavy haunt event, and could possibly injure themselves and others. House Three... covered with a quarantine tent that can't even slow down the Lotus worms. And the HAZMAT team can't handle them, either. You could probably get creative with the designs of these freaks. Worms tearing out of the suit, coming out of the visor, the visor being FILLED with worms... gross. Also in the yard is an infected dog, that looks like the Dog Thing with horrible skin. In the house, lots of holes and lots of worms. Lots of squirming, and an abundance of holeys. The neighbor's decapitated head looks like a sea anemone, and his body has been taken over and moves on the worm's commands. Further in the house is the meteorite and the Queen Lotus Worm. And it's horrible, as glistening as her kin, covered in holes that can also contain teeth, worms, or eyes like the holeys, with a tooth-surrounded mouth made of slightly bigger holes, absolutely massive. It squirms, occasionally lunging at guests.

SS22 and MiB house permits are up. Yes, the MiB Permit is worded differently. Interior build out vs alteration like the other permits. My best guess is that the difference is due to the nonpermanent nature of the tent. An interior build-out is the interior alterations done to an existing shell. One more edit: There will be 4 or 5 more permits. The current descriptions being used creates the possibility of needing only one permit for houses sharing a soundstage.

It probably means absolutely nothing but Charles Gray posted on twitter he is playing bioshock for the first time and Micheal Aiello commented "Dude.". It probably means nothing but what if bioshock actually came to the event in the future since WB and Disney took so many IP's away!

Idk I never want TWD in HHN again but it is great to have a year round haunt just to get that little bit of HHN style satisfaction and fix. So I guess a permanent TWD house/attraction wouldn't be that bad. But I think they should go for Stranger Things in Orlando, it isn't "as scary" and idk I feel that is more current.

Exactly.

UPDATE: I flew back to HHN for three more nights at the tail end of the season for the first time in 14 years. It was just that good this year. September Grades End Oct Grades Poltergeist: GOAT DEFINITELY GOAT Carnival Graveyard: A++ A+ Slaughter Sinema: A+ A+ Dead Exposure: A A Scary Tales: A A+ Seeds of Extinction: A- A Stranger Things: B+ B Halloween 4: B B+ Trick R Treat: C C- Blumhouse: D D- Favorite Zone: Vamp Chucky AOV: D D From early in the run to late in the run, everything was the same with these exceptions: I didn't see the rail witch at the end of Scary Tales even once end of Oct. Just a dark hall Metal barrels in Carnival were replaced with plastic barrels and a crashing sound Rain in Poltergeist pool was tamed just a smidge, like Ghost Town. Was really pelting first couple of weeks. In Twisted Tradition, the pumpkin character with the giant human toothy grin was nowhere to be seen late October. Bars ran out of souvenir cups. They sold drinks at the refill price. UOAP HHN pins sold out (but the Stranger Things two-pin set remains), as does the Stranger Things lite up pin. Express Pass merge points got really bad for most houses. Seeds was the worst. Stranger Things (strangely) had a shorter post-merge line late October. The chocolate smell in the vomit scene of TrT seemed much stronger at end of October. Dead Exposure lab monkey puppets were not moving any of my Oct nights. To me, the talent in every house got much better by the end of the run. There was no cast that seemed to "give up" like The Fallen did last year. 10/27 was super packed, but gave me the best runs for all houses. The actors were relentless. I did not do Blumhouse that night. The reason house ranking swapped a bit was that I asked myself which of the houses I would miss most next year. Scary Tales just got better and better, and Carnival Graveyard while still gorgeous lost a bit of it's shine. Blumhouse was lower in the rankings because it just seemed so out of place compared to all of the strong houses. It was a waste of space. But Trick R Treat was probably the biggest disappointment for me personally. I can't explain what it is. It just never grabbed me. Yeah, cool school bus scene. Maybe any other year it would have seemed so much better, but with stronger houses at the event, this becomes a low performer. I won't miss it at all. There was so much to see in Vamp, but that DJ guy was the pits. I've always loved what they did in this area in terms of scarezones. I think where Vamp faltered most was that for the first time that performance loop was too apparent. Repeating the same show constantly. In past years, it didn't feel as if I was walking in during some scene I'd seen several times before. Klownz grew on me even more. It must have been really tough to be a clown scareactor there, with such a limited range of movement - and so slow at that. They made the most of it. I mentioned elsewhere how they all came together for a mini show whenever the balloon animal popped. I love stuff like that. I've never seen such a detailed IP zone given this much love. If this doesn't become a house I will be shocked. Chucky won my heart as favorite zone - because of the toy actors. They were so much fun. Chucky himself was meh. These guys also went all out, doing a little impromptu show when commonplace things happened - like someone dropping their cup. On 10/30 I finally did something I've never done at Universal Orlando, believe it or not. I finally went to the Horror & Makeup Show. What a great little place! Why this is not open during HHN is completely lost on me. It makes no sense to be closed. Granted, it can't eat very many people, but it seems like such an inexpensive yet HHN-related thing to offer. HHN would have easily benefited from a second show of any kind. I also visited Williams of Hollywood for the first time. Almost bought the Jack wall bust... Ended up spending the $$$ on the complete set of Slaughter Sinema shirts from the tribute store. Expen$ive, but I will have a shirt for every night I go next year. LOVED the idea of customized shirts. Hope they do it again next year. By the way, I decided at 12:30 on 10/30 to pull the trigger and buy the Slaughter Sinema shirts. I found out they take 25 minutes each to make. The guy who runs Horror Ink Shirts (Kyle) is SHIPPING them to me (free shipping). Still took me 30 minutes to print six separate receipts and pay at front of store, then make shipping arrangements. But it's cool that he's doing this for me! They will be here tomorrow... Best things of HHN Orlando season 2018: YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTONES!!! WHY?? WHY??? Who is this Zombieman guy, giving an IP house GOAT? When IP is done like an original and this well, it's GOAT. Previous GOAT for me was Gothic. Incredibly strong house lineup, with 8 houses getting B or better. The Slaughter Sinema previews, and that popcorn smell as you approach the Slaughter entrance... The Luv Shak Frequent Fear (with Express) options Tons of HHN merchandise, and the custom shirts! Freestyle cup! Good God, this thing was amazing. Worked every day even on non HHN days. Free Icee refills? Yes, please. I must have put $300 in drink in that thing. HHN entrance for on-site hotel guests. Words can't express how important this can be if you don't do early entry. Universal Customer Service, for letting me upgrade my Rush of Fear AFTER September. They worked with me to give full $300 credit against a more expensive Freq Fear pass. I stood in line for an hour on 10/27 to process this upgrade, and they gave me a bunch of Express passes for the daytime for free because I flew all way out a second time for HHN. I'll talk about what I learned from this in a different post. Worst things of HHN Orlando season 2018: That I have to fly 2200 miles for a decent HHN event. Aventura - the shiniest, most polished turd of a hotel ever. Beautiful on the outside, but not ready for business. In a three day span, I experienced at some point a hosed hotel router, no hot water, insane room controls, inability to fully illuminate a hotel room at night, Shower doors incorrectly installed so as to flood the bathroom floor, a granite bed mattress, bar that calls 2 oz of sangria a "drink" for $12. And no offer of compensation for the lack of Internet or hot water. This Loews felt like a DoubleTree. Never again. First HHN with no repeatable shows. Easily the worst year for entertainment. AoV missed the mark. Don't be HHN Hollywood, Orlando... The lines. We can blame Stranger Things for adding so many people to the event, but I think some blame has to be put on all the Frequent Fear passes. In my opinion, they need to restrict the number of these sold. Looks like there is no limit at all. Don't get rid of them - just cap them. And open Simpsons, Horror & Makeup, and Fallon on peak HHN nights. We are now seeing HHN Orlando actually sell out some nights. They need to eat more of these crowds. Amulet of Fear. Ugh. Missing the gore a bit in the houses. In some podcast interviews, I've heard A&D saying that they find today's kids are less into gore. I think you gotta have at least 25% of your Halloween event have s decent level of gore. Despite Aventura, it was a great couple of trips. I walked over 70 miles during my 7 nights at HHN. Aside from some serious leg cramps this was one of the best HHN years ever. HHN Orlando keeps getting better and better and HHN Hollywood is unfortunately going the opposite direction...