I am Weighting

Has anybody else noticed that the image is both a spider and a vampire's face? I think it's pretty cool. EDIT: Or maybe that's just me, seeing things that aren't there...

^ I hope so! The chairactor is one of my all time favorite effects from HHN. It looks so realistic!

1. Gothic 2. Universal's House of Horrors 3. Dead End 4. Silent Hill 5. Penn and Teller 6. The Walking Dead 7. Alice Cooper They're all pretty close together but there's a huge gap in my excitement between Penn and Teller and The Walking Dead. Great show, can't see it as a house. And I'm not really that excited for Alice Cooper, but it should be pretty good. Maybe I'll end up loving it.

I am very excited for this house, too. It actually looks really creepy. I hope this is the "silent" house. Like the house with very low music and minimal sound effects, but very natural noises, like Winter's Night and The Orfanage. Those houses creeped me out, and I think this house may be scarier than we are expecting.

This house. This #hotdog house. I think this is my most anticipated, especially after seeing Winter's Night last year. That picture above actually makes this house look amazing and I cannot wait to walk through it at least nine times within two days.

I am beyond excited for this house. I love classic Universal and I am really interested to see how the DE style works out for it.

The Victorian house looks very similar to the facade for the Wyandot Estate. Just more... dilapidated.

I sincerely hope this is only wishful thinking.

*phew* I almost felt bad for a moment. Almost.

Was anyone else really cruel on the survey? I was really looking forward to an awesome site this year.

I'll definitely look into the book; I love Stephen King, though his work gets a little repetitive. If you've read The Stand and IT, you've read just about all of his horror books. What I meant is that a sequel in the Overlook would be ridiculous, considering the hotel is destroyed in the book. I thought the mini-series was pretty good, as far as a faithful adaptation goes, but I also thought Kubrick's The Shining was better than King's. King's is almost boring in comparison. I still don't see how The Shining (either version) could translate well into a house at HHN. The mood of isolation is hard to create in a congo line.

Universal is not remaking The Shining or making a sequel. The Shining's already been remade and nothing, no matter what, could or will ever live up to Kubrick's masterpiece. A sequel is just... ridiculous. And I'm pretty sure Warner Bros still has the rights. However, a poll for HHN did mention The Shining, which does add some credit. I still highly doubt it, considering it's a Warner Bros movie and it's Stephen King, who has explicitly said he doesn't want his books made into houses. Maybe we'll see The Shining, but not The Shining, but it looks like The Shining? I highly doubt it, though.

When did The Shining suddenly become such a sure thing? Not only is that a Warner Bros movie, but it's also a Stephen King book, which makes it twice as unlikely despite it featuring a very short scene involving twins. This year is really becoming unpredictable.

Chupacabra? That would be... different. Though I guess it would explain a "creature pit." EDIT: I have no idea which hint that could replace, if there's even a hint in that at all.

Well, since no one has posted it yet and it will add fuel to the speculation, here's a very cryptic and exciting video Dr. Jimmy posted recently: [media=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pg2pg0f_Hg&list=UUAl-91Ixhp_m_JCTBaT9PTQ&index=1&feature=plcp Certainly interesting to say the least. Edit: I really haven't more than a few fleeting ideas on most of these, but I must say that the potentiality of the Nineteenth Century and TWINS clues really have me excited.

We don't have anything other than a source less, hearsay rumor and a van (a logically unrelated van, mind you) to suggest a possible WD house. Nothing has been officially announced, they can take away anything and add anything they want at this point in the year. I'm not saying you shouldn't be excited, but there's nothing worse than getting your hopes up for something that might not even exist.

I really liked The Orfanage. It was the first house I ever walked through (alone, by the way) at HHN and I don't really remember any of it except that the detail was beyond anything I had expected, which terrified me... for some reason. Oh, and the fire completely took me by surprise, because I didn't know it was going to happen and I had no idea how to react to a size-able fireball exploding right next to my face. And the scares were pretty decent, too. Such an underrated house...

I wouldn't mind an apocalypse themed house, especially if Quetzalcoatl is involved. I just don't think it would work as an overall theme. I could see Fate as the icon, but I'm still pulling for a double icon this year. That awkward moment when you realize the god you're talking about is actually Aztec and not Mayan. Their cultures are so similar...

Am I really the only one who doesn't want an end-of-the-world theme? It's so, with lack of a better word, tacky. Especially since the Mayan end involves a flying lizard man destroying the world with wind. Interesting fact! Quetzalcoatl (the main Mayan god and the one who will bring the end) was described as a white man who shines. The conquistadors (who caused the destruction of Mayan civilization) were white and wore shiny armor, which the Mayans mistook for Quetzalcoatl and his men. In a way, the Mayans were kind of right... Anyway, I am very interested in the whole dueling icons concept. That could make a very interesting show and house.