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Y'all know the season isn't over yet either, right?

Wouldn't the awareness not existing make it a bigger if? I thought that the bigger the "if" is the more unlikely the if is. Hence the "that's a big if" thing. But linguistics aside, V/H/S doesn't stand a chance.

V/H/S 2 would make for a great ip if the awareness existed. But that's a big if.

It also has really really low awareness. Along with the whole "director sexually abused a child actor on the set of a movie he was filming" thing.

And do what? What scenes would you want to see?

I'm disappointed and relieved at the same time. "You just rip the lighting from the source! It's so easy!"

How is La Llorona being received overall?

Yeah, it was late at night and I meant to say *wasn't bipedal.* My mistake,

So...werewolf was an underdog? Awful jokes aside, I think what seemed odd is using a property where you see very little werewolf action and that David would have to be a puppet or animatronic since he is bipedal. But clearly they found a way to fit plenty of werewolves in (even if it was just implied in the movie) and having amazing puppet/puppeteers.

Havoc: Fairest of them All

Nice review but...Havoc?

Unlike original mazes, where they aren't told what color blood is.

You said that A&E had it easy since they knew raining blood would be green. Or wait, is it red? Purple? Not sure. I need to refer to my copy of Evil Dead 2013 to tell me what color blood is.

I think "raining blood scene was easy to make since they knew blood was red" is my new favorite from agalloch.

That would be so embarrassing. Imagine doing a chainsaw scare and having it sputter out in the middle.

Please, use the haunt nation sub forum.

Rip the lighting? Do you have any idea how movies or mazes are lit?

I always liked the idea of it being your first day at Miskatonic University, but as you walk into the doors you realize that cultists have raided the school in hopes to summon the old ones and that Herbert West is experimenting on the fresh bodies they leave in their wake.

I think that, in this case, it's an example of somebody focusing so much on one specific kind of work that all other types of work and the craft that goes into them are ignored. For example, if you really enjoy A&E's original mazes, you are probably going to focus on that kind of creativity. Making characters, backstories, scenes, settings, all of that. Where this can go wrong is the deductive reasoning that if a certain type of creativity is absent, then no creativity must exist. HHN originals are creative and require effort to make. IP houses lack HHN originals. Therefore, IP houses lack creativity and do not require effort. It makes sense if you don't think about it.

"Hey, boss, I was thinking that you know how TWD is the most popular show on tv right now...I think the the popularity of the show could bring a lot of people into the park and sell merch. There's a lot of scenes that could translate well into a live attraction and..." "HA HA HA! Of course not! We don't care about how many people it will bring and merch it will sell, our main focus is to please a handful of whiny self important troo fanz on the horror night nightmares forum! YOU ARE FIRED. GET OUT!" "Wait...but...it's the most popular thing in horror and..." "Don't you get it? A haunted event at one of the world's most famous theme parks is no place for mainstream appeal. Didn't you read that thread where they whined about how the event was too popular? The last thing we want at our event is popularity, we need to rectify this. Yes, we won't make as much money. Yes, this will mean a lower budget for the houses this year. But what's really important is that a handful of terminally negative forum posters get what they want. Being voted the best haunt of the year in 2012 by our fans means nothing if Goo doesn't give it his seal of approval!"

I think (and I could be wrong) it's because anything that is adapted from something else is judged twice. First as a product and second as an adaptation. Like how A Clockwork Orange and The Shining are pretty bad adaptations of the source material, but great movies.

Well I wouldn't let Disney borrow any of my movies either. That would be weird. They can get their own movies. Weird analogy aside, other haunts do on occasion get the rights to IPs. Even smaller ones like Sinister Point got the rights to Silent Hill before Universal did, so it clearly can and has been done. For the most part, it isn't. So if getting the rights can be done, and has been done, why don't most parks do it? Come on. You know somewhere in your heart that it's ridiculous to say that A&D just has to "copy paste" a movie into a live attraction with a constant flow of people. Is it just a matter of being insecure about putting down somebody's hard work so you lie to yourself and say it's easy? If somebody likes or hates the event for the reasons they have, that's a matter of taste. A movie and a live attraction are two very different things, and translating the language of cinema (especially a movie like AWIL) into a live attraction and doing it right under the guidelines of the rights owners takes a lot of freaking work and talent. If it was as easy as getting the rights and "copy pasting" it, you would see more haunts doing it.