Mae

Con-artists? It's the Hedge Fund scarezone! I honestly can't come up with anything else. They've got me stumped. Mae

Well, we are in Florida... Mae

Right before your birthday, wow. I can say that I admire you, but I do not envy you. We will all think good thoughts for you, though! Mae

I still like that Scooby Doo idea. (and I adore the Zombieland meets Velma & Scooby pic!) Mae

For me, those cars represented the last years of the drive-in, late 80's and early 90's. All of ours have been gone for years. It was very sentimental. Vans and paneling...I'm going to have to go look again. It gives me bad vibes already, as my life also has paneling and a van... Mae

I know there have been 2 story houses before, but I don't remember it being there. I do remember the upscare in F13 from 2007; he had a barrel that he would threaten to let go on you (I think) and another Jason would get you from your level. It doesn't look very tall, though, which could mean a scare like the clown puppet from Dead Silence of that year or the zombie in Dead Exposure from 2008. They actually reached down at you and it was very effective. Mae

I saw video from the Midwest Haunters convention of someone in costume wearing those and they are very cool. Scary, but cool. Any scarezone would benefit from the addition, even one featuring the CDT. Can you imagine being chased by an 8-foot tall maniac who can bounce and wields a chainsaw? Mae ps...I'm having a terrible day; does anyone know anything new? I could use a mood-lifter right about now.

Someone scared you?? :blink: That must've been one helluva scare!!! Mae

WARNING: THIS IS LOOOONG... I could go on for days telling stories of my favorite scares! I'm a pretty easy scare, even tho I don't hide my face or hang on to anyone (anymore!). I like the interactions and love the screaming (scaractors, remember my face!!!) and know that the actors need that to let them know they're doing it right. I can remember a scare from almost every year I went.... 1994 - Psychopath Maze. Norman Bates is just plain scary, plus it had the best line queue ever for creating the mood. It was below the old Psycho house 'set' that used to be where the Animal Actors stage is now and had the motel facade and everything. We walked in and I was immediatly confronted by a random 'Mother'; he made me scream and my friends jump. Flawless. 1995 - I made the mistake of experimenting with HHN on something totally illegal we shall not discuss and that whole night is a blur of terror. After a while, my friend and I just sat on a bench and watched people. Even the guests got scary. 1998 - Frightanic had a beautiful topiary garden, complete with moving topiaries! The best part of that scare was they got my friend Ed first, and he's a hard scare. I got the second one, right after lauging at his, which made it that much funnier. 1999 - This year did not hold much scary for me. It was fun, but I was heavily with child and no one wanted to take that chance that I'd go into labor! 2000 - The FearHouse! I will never, ever forget this one! Right next to a door with the car wash strips there was an actor on stilts in a corner. He was wearing all black, in strips all over his body and legs (see where this going?) He did not move. An inch. Until we were moving the door strips out of the way and SUDDENLYTHEREWASATHINGINFRONTOFME! I know the caps are dramatic, but that scared me so bad I ran through the rest of the house. I don't even remember anything else about that house. I do, however, remember the floating mummy heads in the Monster Mania house. They chased us out, too. 2001 - Superstitions had dead black cats hanging from the ceiling. Wet, dead black cats, hanging from the ceiling. I was completely traumatized. 2003 - Screamhouse Revisited - I was walking through the 'lobby' of the old mortuary and a scareactor stood in plain sight in an area I had to pass. I watched him cautiously until I was almost out of the room, but before I got to the exit I heard and felt a whispered 'Scream' in my ear. Oh, yeah, did I ever. 2004 - I got tons of great ones this year but my favorite was in Midway of the Bizarre and is on video! (If I can figure out how to transfer old-school video to digital, I'll get it online) David and I were making one of our many passes through the scarezone, David is afraid of clowns, and was neatly startled by one with a very large, toothy grin. You hear him a little and then you hear me say "Are you okay?", and THEN you see a shadow come out of the tree next to me and scare the snarkiness right out of me. 2005 - Terror Mines had very skilled actors who used the darkness to the best possible effect. One got me from the left, then one from the right, and the first one slipped ahead and got me again. All in about 2-5 seconds. 2006 - We wound up in Psychoscarepy's shower scene just in time for the lights to go out. I wound up in a corner with 3-4 patients surrounding me. My friends wound up coming back in to get me. 2007 - Another year of tremendous scares for me. The Dreamwalkers house was a consistant source, but it was Dead Silence that I'll remember forever. The third scene, the one with Marion and her raven, had never had a Mary Shaw the other 5-6 times I went. It did that night. Wow. I lost my voice. 2008 - Dead Exposure was so disorienting and alarming it was actually scary! The 'crowded' room was really terrifying to me. Scary Tales, Collections of the Past, and The Hallow all had top notch scares. It was the best year in terms of house scares for me. Half of them produced blood-curdling, horror movie type screams. Oh, and the scarezones were absolutely astonishing. Best year for scares in those, too. Until... 2009 - While it didn't rate as my favorite, overall, it had some of the best and most memorable scares I have ever and will ever get. In Frankenstein I actually ran into a wall. I lost my voice again in Wolfman. The War of the Living Dead zone scared me during daylight hours. I love vampires but really hadn't been too impressed with them in houses lately, but Dracula scared me at every turn. Silver Screams was still my favorite, with the Phantom at the beginning and all the way to the hall of Julians, it never failed to scare me. 2010 - I cannot WAIT. Mae

There don't seem to be issues at HoS and their security is much lighter than at HHN (no metal detectors, no security guards telling you to empty your pockets) and there are hoards of thugs, wanna-bes, and gangstas at HoS. I don't mind the metal detectors, but the heavy scrutiny followed by the complete lack of order inside the park upsets me, severly. I've seen multiple fights, actors being assaulted or molested, other guests pushed down or climbed over in their wheelchairs, and, of course, the underage drinking and en masse line breaking. All of that, I have seen 1 guest removed in all the years I've been going. Not that I think they will ever attempt to correct anything as most people assume that they are safe after going through metal detectors. Mae

That's been my main thoughts on the situation thus far. It seems ill-timed to create a huge draw. I suppose that they could be depending on HP for the numbers, but not everyone who wants to go to HHN likes HP, and vice-versa. I think that the last time the reveal came so late was before the interactive websites started. The first real internet-driven HHN was 2004, with the case files and our straight-jacketed victim. The sites prior to that were nice looking, but only had cursory information and definately no challenges. Sigh. I'm a little sad about it all, actually. I looked forward to some teases and some fun to take my mind off of really bad stuff. Mae

The first thing I thought of when I saw this is that in the 70's this would have been a perfect make-out van. Ever see Corvette Summer? Annie Potts' character was a prostitute that worked out of her own van! I'm trying to remember vans in horror movies, just in case. Mae

Oh. That was either really, really bad or really really good...depending on your point of view. You should be fined a pun-tax! Mae

Hear! Hear! I agree and look forward to taking the UTH tour once again. I am (hopefully) going to get to 'do it right'; visiting opening night to see the houses first and then taking the tour the next day. I can't wait!! Mae

There was a lot of Lovecraft in 2008, I thought. Tentacled monsters, interdimensional travel, experimentation, secret societies and twisted realities that were one harmless...of course, that could be relevant in almost any HHN, but for RoF they really let loose. Then there was a fair amount of steampunk last year, what with Frankenstein and even a little in The Wolfman. This is not to say that I wouldn't relish more Lovecraft and steampunk in my HHN. If they can get us some more of that, I'm totally down. Mae

Tell the voices to stop talking or you'll poke them with a q-tip. Mae

Speculate - to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often fol. by on, upon, or a clause). 2. to indulge in conjectural thought. 3. to engage in any business transaction involving considerable risk or the chance of large gains, esp. to buy and sell commodities, stocks, etc., in the expectation of a quick or very large profit. In legalese, speculating is defined as theorizing on the basis of insufficient evidence. While Universal may be doing the financial verbage of speculation, we are, by the very action of dwelling on the event in question, speculating. Mae

And that is a damn shame. That hotel-cave setting and hot vampires would be perfect! Sigh. Mae

Also, if truth be told, Universal could (and should, IMO) call the event 100 Years of Fear. They began making horror movies sometime in the 1910-1920 era with Lon Sr and Tod Browning, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame was released in 1922. Tho I think "A Century of Terror" sounds better.... Mae

That would be awesome! i don't live in Orlando; the park would be MINE!!! (insert evil laugh)

Holy Mother of Pearl! They've GOT to give us something to chew on if we are arguing about the correct age of the event!!! Lessee...I went to 4,5,8,9,10,11,13,14,15,16,17,18,19 - that's 13 HHN's. I did not attend 1,2,3,6,7,12 - 6 times I missed. 13+6=19 Add this year and viola! We have 20! Next year, HHN will be old enough to drink. Bonus. Mae

If I could have been 19 twice you bet I would! Nineteen was a very, very good year...Tis a shame there was no HHN at that time. I find that this simple 'teaser' page has done nothing to ease my obsession. There are no answers outside of days and prices (of which both are OMGWTF? this year). I sure hope they put something else up soon!!! Mae

A lovely bit of work there, JW. I could stare at that angle of the Screamhouse for hours. Mae