Alice

Well, as I've said, I'm a wuss who loves haunts but needs pretty thorough prep to enjoy it...I hadn't prepped for HOS, ended up being invited to go on a whim (the weekend we all had to evacuate for the hurricane, no less) and didn't realise how different the vibe was from HHN. I was in bad shape after a couple of houses and I was in tears by the time we made it to Motel Hell. It was pretty empty that night so my group was going through alone. Not sure where, but an SA noticed and I vividly remember them shouting 'crybaby'. Very uncool. I get messing with people who look scared but I was in a full-blown panic attack. I know there are people who could brush that off easily but it stuck with me.

Almost makes me want to go buy HOS tickets, if not for the lack of free parking and the crappy day we had last year. Unfortunately one of their SAs made a bad ad-lib choice as we went through their house and I was none too happy.

THAT'S MY BOYFRIEND YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! He did that to all of our friends, lol. ...*shifty eyes* I may or may not have been pulled into the boo-hole and got to press the e-prompt on the last night, too. Can't confirm or deny that

I think my second time ever at HHN, I was on my own while my partner was working in a SZ. Told him not to scare me because I was (and still kind of am) a total wuss...well, the zone was dark and full of fog so when I was walking through to get somewhere else, he got right behind me and scared the CRAP out of me without knowing who I was. Probably one of the best SZ scares I've gotten. And I got to kick him for it later on after his set. XD

So they're claiming something happens at 25k? It's got to be the 'rewards' on the site, and I REALLY hope it has no bearing on what gets announced because holy shitballs, does that veer into seriously ridiculous pyramid scheme type territory.

Ahh, Trick R Treat is the movie with that adorable character they were selling plushies of at the carnival games at 25, isn't it? I hope we get those again

I couldn't begin to understand why anyone would want 7 houses and 5 zones announced all at once, if that's the route they're choosing. I realise they may have done that in the past but it seems so anticlimactic. Rather keep the suspense going by releasing steadily over time.

Well, if anyone wants to talk critical disability studies during HHN at 1am, I'll probably be at the Starbucks. (Edit: is there a HNN meetup at all? I would love to meet you guys.)

'Violently insane' is just a way of saying 'neurodivergent in a way that is not palatable to the rest of us' so I'd say no. It's a blow-your-mind kind of statement but a LOT of 'violent' folks are violent as a result of the same mistreatment we are talking about in institutions. I have never been institutionalised but I absolutely was that 'violent' kid once, so I don't think that distinction is helpful or respectful. I think there are ways of presenting that story without having to have it be a part of a horror event. I absolutely agree that the history of mental healthcare needs to be preserved and displayed as a deterrent to anyone who would resurrect it; putting it in a haunted attraction doesn't serve that purpose. Anyway, sorry to have caused a debate, I hope we get information this week to take us off the subject lol

Agreed on the no bugs. That's just too real for some people. Especially in FL. Some places here should be bulldozed! Any more asylum trope houses would annoy me. There's probably a way to do them more respectfully but it's honestly really jarring to walk into a house or SZ and see abled people acting the way they THINK a 'crazy mental patient' would act. It's either a horribly over exaggerated caricature or it's actually the way some people are, either way it's off-putting when you (or people you know) are who they're supposed to be acting like. And don't get me STARTED on the random self-harm that got removed from last year's 3D house...

I was keeping fingers crossed for some tidbit of information to drop today, but it looks like all the Star Wars shenanigans from the D23 media preview would overshadow anything from over here...

There's a new Ifrit tweet out that makes it sound like this Evil Dead nonsense is in jeopardy... My only 2 cents is that it would be a lot easier to avoid IPs being pulled if we had more originals. Just saying.

22 days till full reveal and we're all investigating effing poutine because that's the most interesting thing about HHN we've heard of so far, lmao.

Looks like they're listing the top 10 they WANT to have at HHN, which is weird because I thought twisted taters were already there.

Oh, maybe they're bone fragments and not flowers. I thought they were those skinny tube flowers, lol. Also, I was at more nights of HHN than I wasn't last year and I NEVER saw Poutine. Is this the Mandela effect at work?!?

It's not much, but the 'ENTER' button on the Soul Collectors' intro page is now different on my computer. Before it was just text in a box, now it is a graphic with the newer event font. And some flowers. No new things on the actual Soul Collector page with the locked rewards though.

The audition forms don't have the names of the houses and zones. They have the Entertainment code names, which are also different from the A&D code names. So only the casting directors know what the houses actually are. Also, not to be rude, but scareactors aren't 'unemployed 19-year-olds', they're people from all walks of life who sometimes even work 'normal' day jobs.

I really wish the earlier events were better documented. Sure, we have written stuff, but not much video. I would have been 10 years old and across the country during HHN 16, so I would never have been able to go myself.

Funny how something as mundane as recruiting your social media friends to get annoying emails can be painted to look offensive to someone. That reach! I'm hoping next week brings more news...much too quiet lately.

I liked AoV too but I completely understand where you guys are coming from in that it feels out of place at HHN compared to Carnage Returns and such. Idk, as your resident milennial, I found that most people who watched it really liked it too. And I usually HATE both that kind of music and that kind of dancing. I guess my enjoyment came from it being one thing that wasn't truly SCARY. The more things like that, the happier I am

I feel like I know but I couldn't say for sure since I rarely pay attention to the regular marketing stuff...

Okay, so looking at a few of today's tweets, it seems like the 'rewards' for Soul Collectors may be based through the social media sharing buttons on the site...they are talking all about recruiting friends...@sounds like a pyramid scheme but okay, lol

We live in a world where we can digitally create literally *anything*, limited only by human imagination, and yet somehow we keep going back to zombies and asylum tropes. I mean, thinking of it that way, the Soul Collectors thing finally starts to seem like something new and interesting.

I don't think it's listed anywhere on the site. Guessing they'll put that info out with the full reveal?

My point is that anyone in the park who says anything isn't a credible source. The only people who know anything are those who work directly with the event--and they aren't in the park. When information gets released to the public, THAT is when all of the everyday employees find out too. Anything else is 100% speculation/rumour that they probably picked up from boards like this one. The 'bus driver' thing is a Disney thing, because Disney bus drivers LOOOOVE to talk about stuff that's 'definitely happening' to guests for some strange reason.