Keosilver

Anyone know if they'll be doing another youtube centered event this year?

That doesn't make any sense to me. Slender Man is an internet meme that was created through a photoshop competition on Something Terrible by multiple different people on an internet board. Slender Man as a concept can't be copyrighted, the games can. As far as I know the idea of a tall, faceless man, who kidnaps children, who may have a supernatural background/origin is not copyrighted to anyone. If the idea was to be copyrighted the games would not have been made and a movie loosely based off the lore wouldn't have been produced either.

Just saying that sounds more like Slender Lore. Slender doesn't just stand and stalk people, he murders children. In the Slender games you are a little kid he is after. There was an earlier comment about urban legend and culture, internet is a culture and it too has urban legends like smile.jpeg and Jeff The Killer. I think it would be kind of nice if Universal casts their eyes toward these internet creations. Not only are they somewhat popular and known by the younger generations but they are also free game. No royalties to pay, no contracts to sign, nothing. They are creations of the internet and don't have a copyright haha.

Just wanted to thrown in a possible idea. La Llorona isn't a well known name or story and is possibly just misdirection. La Llorona's story is very similar to the urban legend of "The Lady In White", perhaps La Llorona is a hint that we'll get a Woman In Black, the movie style of spook house. That movie was full of jump scares and was filled with super creepy atmosphere.

I think the costumes allow a lot of freedom of movements. However, those costumes look like what they use in Cirque Du Soleil Ka. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wTX16zqyDE#t=09m29s Here they are when they assassinate a king and queen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEvK9SAMiLw Some examples and a bit of behind the scenes of how much work sliding in haunted houses takes. If Uni really wants stunt work and sliders in Haunted houses it'll take much more time than a few weeks before opening to teach.

Seeing these pictures reminded me of Grown Evil scarezone. But that isn't my point, did anyone else realize that the music used in the zone sounded Silent Hill like, or was a Silent Hill song? Perhaps Universal gives hints through music as to what we will expect next year.

It would be awesome if this concept is taken further later on down the path. Possibly instead of hordes that are risen by one entity have them be more tribal like. Perhaps plunge the entire park into an apocalypse where tribes fight over resources such as fresh/untainted plasma, meats, etc. The guests to the parks being their prey and their enemies being other tribes. Maybe even stage flash mob sort of shows where stunt actors do combat with each other, while the guest/prey scurry away to find a safe haven within the apocalypse. Totally Thunderdome haha. I could think of four "tribes" right now: Medical Mutations (in the case of an atomic apocalypse), Smilez (A barbaric, sadistic, group of killers who have almost un-evolved into more bestial trains of thoughts. Anarchy themed apocalypse.), The Pure (A perfect species that takes eugenics to a new level, Alien apocalypse.), The Suits (Corporate thugs with many different allied forces with other tribes whose goal is to completely monopolize resources by any means necessary.) That was my biggest problem with the scarezone previous. They were just little pockets of scenes that sure, scared people and gave something pretty to look at, but transitioning from Pilgrim burning to Mardi Gras sort of takes me out of the experience. It is sort of jarring like listening to a cd only to have it start skipping because of scratches. With one unified theme on the streets. The house could be tied in by possibly passing through to another dimension that has been touched by the hordes. Sort of like a fantasy RPG, you got one main quest (The streets) and several different unrelated quests that have ties to the main quest. Just my philosophy on this move. I'm very story forward when I go to Halloween events. If it is just a hodge podge of scenes, I'm generally uninterested.

They have been performing since they were in High School and Teller was still a professor. They got plenty of experience under their belt, I'm pretty certain a few drunken hecklers won't bother them much. Plus Penn is a beast, nuff said.

I unfortunately will not be able to go. However, I just want to wish all of you actors a great season. Make them scream in Terror! Time to lurk till the season ends.

I think this house has potential. Even though there may not be any gas powered saws, there are still potentials to have other sorts of saws. You gotta realize that in a "True" Steampunk setting, diesel or gasoline most likely didn't exist or was very scarce. Something along the lines of this beast: Which is air powered, "Steam powered" and makes quite a racquet! Also do to all the carnage and metal promised in the house, I'd wouldn't be surprised if spark effects aren't used. Like this:

Forgive me if this sounds trollish, but does Lady Luck look like a guy?

Ooo Graveyards are good fun. Add an alchemist at a tale about raising the dead, or something like that, and you will have a winner. I could see, depending on the location and setting, above ground graves, walking into mausoleums that lead to secret "experiment rooms'', catacombs, lots of ghostly effects. Personally, I love that HHN has been adding more traditional esqe haunts to their event. Gore, blood and edgyness is all well and good, but nothing beats a good ol haunted house. Not only that, with the increase in popularity of ghost movies (well at least the increase of the movies that are ghost themed), this is a good move. Can't wait to see some pics of this house and maybe some glimpses of it in video format.

I'm still pulling for a witch or magic oriented house in one of the Sprung tents. I loved the imagery in that one scarezone involving the pilgrams burning while the witches ran free. Forgive me for the name escapes my brain. I've noticed in general, other haunted houses in the industry, seem to be stepping back in terms of content. Instead of focusing their haunt on an original story, they are beginning to integrate old hat cliche monsters like werewolves, victorian vampires, etc. Classic monsters and the such. Nothing wrong with that, but my mind is always moving forward. You do a haunted house like legendary truths, I'm already thinking about how can I one up that? What am I trying to say? Well, perhaps Uni is taking a step back and explore the older ideas of shaminism, voodoo, psychics, fortune tellers, etc. It's been awhile since I last browsed over the thread so I apologize in advanced if there has been more code names introduced, but so far I feel that one of the tents will be magic related.

Why do people feel to defend the old? Is it a form of selfishness or is their some sort of fear of change involved? It's quite annoying. There's been a shift of management of the event so expect changes. The old is gone...but like zombies they might reanimate. But the corpses of the past are too fresh to be exhumed as zombies. Also I apologize, I'm a bit snippy after my long day of work. I have a great appreciation for the carpenters and carvers hired by uni to give you all the framework of the event. Building a haunted house is a dirty and miserable job. *picks the foam out of his hair* But quit the bickering and circular arguments about past icons and characters coming back this year. I'd have to yell COP OUT, if they do bring back characters this year. I'm ready for a new empire a new decade of HHN.