Hatchet
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Glad to see Toy Factory getting the boot as its about time, that maze hasn't been good since like 2010. Also I gotta agree Backwoods was a big let down I never got a single good scare once in there and the bungee scene was unused. Same with Zombie High that maze hasn't been good the last couple years each time I went through it in 2017 literally there was no one manning the bungee scene which is the highlight of the maze what a disappointment. I just hope CGA finds a way to hire more scareactors because thats their biggest issue not enough people to fill out mazes and youll walk through entire scenes often with no one in them especially in like Cornstalkers where half the maze or more is empty. I know Madame Marie's is getting some love with the Blackout effect added to it which should breathe some new life into that maze but did the people in charge mention some of the other old mazes getting any improvements at all? Also did they mention how come they scrapped skeleton key rooms this year? @Kurseddragon
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Looks like Tooth Fairy is all but confirmed to be leaving this year because California's Great America announced Tooth Fairy as their new maze for Halloween Haunt replacing Toy Factory which was LONG overdue, I remember back when Doll Factory retired at Knott's and that was rumored to take its place way back in 2012. Also Madame Marie's Massacre Manor is now getting revamped with the flashlight technology that was used in Trick R' Treat last year so that might mean Trick R' Treat is done for as well at Knott's if they just ended up sending their used equipment to CGA. But I honestly can't see sticking VOODOO sticking around for another year so if that goes as well Knott's could be getting 3 new mazes.
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Heres my semi realistic maze wish list:
1) Freddy vs Jason
2) Krampus
3) The Conjuring 1 & 2
4) The Walking Dead: No Way Out
5) The Babadook
6) The Witch
7) Army of Darkness
I am still waiting for Hellraiser to be officially announced for a movie reboot so I can get an HHN maze for that property. I just want to see fuckin Pinhead and his cenobites jumping out at me with sound/light triggers god damn it. Is that too much to ask for?
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Insidious Return to the Further was so amazing and I got the best scare in that maze of any house at HHN yet. in the second scene where the demon graphic climbs on the wall I did not see the boo hole at the end of the wall and I was exiting the scene assuming the graphic was it and out of nowhere the red faced demon pops out right in my face from the left and scares the hell out of me and I almost fall over. it was so amazing and the maze just kept that level of excitement the whole way through all the way to the very end. I loved Insidious Return to the Further so much and it is by far my favorite house ever at HHN since ive been attending in 2012.
So of course for house of the year Insidious Return to the Further gets my vote. Second place would be Halloween for me followed by Crimson Peak in 3rd.
And Exterminatorz had some awesome masks so I would toss my vote for best scare zone to them. The Purge Urban Nightmare would be second.
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how does the event usually go on a rainy day? do any attractions close?
On Halloween last year we did every maze twice except for Dracula Untold because it was closed around 1 due to severe flooding. American Werewolf some of the puppets were covered and not working because of the rain. And FDTD and Clowns were pretty soaked so some of the actors looks confused on what to do. This didn't ruin my night really as I already hit up every maze once before the flooding began. Alien vs Predator seemed fine from what I remember probably because it was in a building and not a tent. And alot of the scare zones were bare due to the actors probably taking shelter from the rain.
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I read the comments but just to clarify because I am kinda confused on this part, can I go on the Fast and the Furious Supercharged during early entry before Horror Nights technically opens?
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This is our first time going. We have the FOL passes. But does anyone know what rides will be open for early entry? I don't know if we have a desire to do the mazes twice. Do we need to do early entry even with the FOL passes? We want to do all the mazes and all the rides. Everything if we can haha. Thanks for any help!
With FOL you basically are guaranteed to do everything once so you should have no problem there. I personally like to use FOL on all the rides right away because I only care to go once, but for the mazes I try to run to every maze while the lines are short and then when I come back around later in the night when the lines are long I use my FOL on my second pass so I get to do all the mazes twice. I recommend this because you never know you might love a maze so much you wanna go again but get screwed because the line is like an hour plus and you already used up your FOL earlier in the night when the line was only like 15 minutes and you could of saved it and stuck out the short wait time.
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So without spoilers would you guys say this years Insidious maze is better than the one from 2013 and if so by how much? Insidious is one of my all time favorite horror movies so it really excites me to hear that all of you loved it so much and I cant wait to experience it myself.
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Any chance we can get an updated list on the first post king of all the scareactors and their locations? Thanks in advance.
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Heading down from Nor Cal for Halloween Weekend with my girlfriend so I will be hitting up HHN Hollywood on the 30th with FOL of course. Cant freakin wait!
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Most Anticipated Mazes and Scarezones:
1. Crimson Peak
2. Insidious
3. Halloween
4. This is the End
5. The Walking Dead
6. AvP
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1. Exterminatorz
2. Corpz
3. Dark Christmas
4. The Purge: Urban Nightmare
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Excellent choice for a first maze announcement and just like Insidious in 2013 I am super stoked we get another awesome IP exclusive to Hollywood. Thank you John Murdy you did not disappoint! This maze has a really good chance at being my most anticipated of the whole lineup.
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http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3346126/james-wans-dead-silence-finally-coming-blu-ray/
Any chance we see Dead Silence this year with the release of the Blu Ray in august? It is a Universal Property, Murdy has worked with James Wan in the past, and if im not mistaken the maze was featured in Orlando previously.
I know Insidious Chapter 3 seems way more likely but maybe we get both or just Dead Silence.
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Off topic, but I think this is a good 2015 lineup and realistic:
AHS-SS 747 (all 4 seasons at once)
TWD-Tram Maze (where it was last year, season 5 stuff)
Dark Christmas-FDTD Tent
Trick'r'Treat-JP Queue (1st and 2nd movie)
The Woman in Black-Mel's Diner maze
Freddy vs. Jason-Mummy Queue
Evil Within/2015 horror movie-new maze venue
Purge-Terror tram
AHS-SS 747 (all 4 seasons at once)
TWD - Tram Maze (where it was last year, season 5 stuff)
Dark Christmas - FDTD Tent
Trick 'r' Treat - JP Queue (1st and 2nd movie)
Sinister 1 & 2 - Mel's Diner maze
Freddy vs. Jason - Mummy Queue
Insidious Chapter 3 - New Maze Venue
The Purge 1-3 (Terror Tram)
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I know hes dismissed Hellraiser in the past when I asked him about it and he said a remake or a proper sequel not straight to VOD needs to be made before he would make it a maze so if this is Murdy's last year I doubt well ever see a Hellraiser maze under his reign as Creative Director.
Hopefully Mike Aeilo gets smart and does a Hellraiser maze for Orlando and if that happens I might actually make the trip out to Florida for that maze alone.
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My predictions
1. The Walking Dead (of course its coming back just look at the tv ratings for season 5 so far)
3. Trick R' Treat (sequel in 2015 and fans have been asking for this maze for years)
3. Insidious CH3 (the first maze was considered one of best mazes of all time and the gen pop loved it)
4. Dark Christmas (This is gonna be like a La Llarona case first it was a scare zone then a maze)
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I would be so disappointed if FDTD came back that was easily my least favorite maze and one of my least favorite properties at the event. Yeah richie gecko outside the maze was awesome, and the facade was pretty cool to look at sans the Titty in the name. But the maze itself was so lackluster for me I got scared maybe once out of both the times I went through and a sequel maze seems even worse. Enough with the hispanic theme mazes it takes up a spot every year where we could have so many cooler properties (TrT,Hellraiser). Just make a hispanic theme scare zone like La Llarona to fill that demographic.
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I really loved Clowns facade with the roadside attraction feel and the moving eyes and inflatable hair.
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Went into the event looking forward to AWIL the most but came out in love with AVP so it gets my vote hands down. AWIL is a very close second tho.
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Had an awesome time at HHN this year. AVP blew me away and AWIL was awesome too, only maze that was really a letdown was FDTD but the guy who played Richie gecko was awesome out front he gave me a look inside his book. Dracula honestly wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be I actually enjoyed it and I really liked Clowns even the second time around when the maze was flooded. Walking Dead was cool but it could of been better.
My favorite mazes probably go like this
AVP
AWIL
CLOWNS
DRACULA
WALKING DEAD
FDTD
FACE OFF
So I went on Halloween night with my new girlfriend and she had an awesome time it was her first time to HHN. The rain was mostly misty and lite sprinkles until around 1:00 and then it just poured. I don't think HHN prepared the mazes really for this kind of rain because alot of them were either flooded, puppets covered, actors looking confused, or the maze itself was just shut down. Regardless we still had a great time because only when we were about to go through all the mazes for the second time is when it started raining so it didnt ruin our first go through experience. And honestly I still had fun in Clowns when it flooded, and AWIL even tho some of the puppets were turned off. It was cool tho because we were like the only guests in the maze at the time so it felt like a special experience. Only maze we didn't get to do a second time was Dracula was because it was completely shut down by the time we got back to the upper lot.
I really loved AvP its right up there with Insdious for me as my favorite maze. When I walk through these mazes I rarely get scared but man that first time through AvP they got me good a ton of times more than any other maze in HHN besides Insidious.
My biggest thing I loved about this year over past years and other events is that I felt all the scare actors in every zone and maze were so AGGRESSIVE like in your face and not just going for the girl im with which is what im used to, they were actually going for me as well which is a nice change and I loved it. I got some good scares/startles in almost every maze except for again FDTD I just wasnt feeling it and neither was my girlfriend.
HHN > Knott's
That statement still stands and I doubt its gonna change ever
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Went on Halloween night and all the merch was on sale I picked up the event shirt and an AWIL shirt, sadly no Terminus Mug they were sold out. And when I bought a Syringe and Blood Bag Sipper they gave me an extra of each for just a penny more I guess they just want to get rid of them because the season is ending. And I got a Souvenir Cup for 8.99 and a second for my girlfriend half off for 4.99.
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Same my first trip to HHN 2014 this Friday as well I am so pumped. I've refrained this long from watching videos and looking at pictures besides the ones posted on Facebook which spoiled probably AvP the most of all the mazes. Mental note for next year unfollow HHN on Facebook when the event starts until I attend.
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Selling some sipper cups from previous hhn years in case anyone is interested
2006
2010-2014
Inbox me
PM'ed regarding the 2013 cup
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Yeah I can't see them age restricting the event but if they do its gotta be like 16+ because honestly who under that age has an id card to begin with besides school cards and those don't show your date of birth.
California's Great America Halloween Haunt 2018
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I worked Haunt at CGA for like 4 weeks in 2013. I started the second week so i could go to Horror Nights and Knott's that first week. I only worked in a scare zone one night and they wouldn't let me get a facial prosthetic because i started late and running around all night in a sweaty full rubber mask was brutal so I moved over to a blackout for a $1 less an hour in Cornstalkers and I enjoyed myself much more. At this point I was basically being paid to stand there and watch people get scared lol. I remember like you said the breaking scheduling being shitty in the scare zones and I had to push my supervisor to let me take my last break because he forgot to break me. If I lived in LA though I would totally love to work for Horror Nights but I'm in the Bay Area so I don't see that ever happening.