Alice
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Just now, PeoriaBJJ said:
Cmon... dont make us ask...
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.
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38 minutes ago, hunnylvr said:
Anyone else trolling the HHN Twitter feed? Twice now, there have been tweets from Howl O Scream, and I retweet it to them stating that Howl O Scream is now posting cooler shit than them. Of course, they never respond to me.. but it makes me feel better.
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.
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17 minutes ago, hunnylvr said:
Over so much time, we've had some spectacular interactions with scareactors. It's hard to narrow down to just one. I toss a few:
1. TCM house last year, the actor was the long haired skinny guy that is the hitchhiker in the movie.. this actor had come to play our escape room, and we met him. I was wearing our Dare 2 Escape t-shirt, so I know he really recognized me. He jumped out from behind furniture or something and literally put me in a headlock and put his knife up against my throat. I am sure it freaked out the people behind us, but I LOVED it. He pretend slashed me, too - well enough, I actually had a small red line on my neck until two days later.
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
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3 hours ago, QueenoftheBunnies said:
Here's a conversation topic: what's been your favorite interaction you've had with a scareactor?
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
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21 minutes ago, StupidStupidDan said:
The "soul counter" has reached 20,000! It didn't actually do anything.
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.
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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
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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.
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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.)
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14 hours ago, UsherBscary said:
I dont mean this to be combative at all, cross my heart! I think the asylum trope is so common because the idea of being surrounded by criminally insane people (which do actually exist) is super scary and unnerving. Innocent and harmless people were horribly abused in asylums, sure. But innocent and harmless people have also been mass murdered, put in torture chambers, been eaten, etc, etc: all sorts of common tropes that we see at HHN. I would give the creators the benefit of the doubt and assume they're not purposefully trying to portray the dark realities of historical asylums.
You mention being more "respectful" about it, thats certainly fair. Would the theme be more palatable if the backstories behind future attractions explicitly stated that the inmates were violently insane or something? Just trying to find a happy middle ground i guess
'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.
1 hour ago, mystiquephreeq said:I think I'd have to disagree, and it is one of the reasons I feel the asylum trope is important.
Historical asylums had really dark realities. There are really dark realities still occurring. These dark realities aren't and weren't being perpetuated by patients, but by the doctors. Asylum tropes usually depict the historical horrors that were done to patients. Laypeople need to be confronted with these horrors. We are doomed to repeat the past if we ignore it.
Horror has always been a medium used to broach uncomfortable and taboo topics. If we don't talk about it, we can't learn from it. Instead of banning or boycotting asylum tropes, they need to be used as a platform to hold us accountable for our collective history.
We cannot remove the stigma related to mental health issues, if we ignore how poorly we have treated them in the past.
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
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Just now, QueenoftheBunnies said:
It's the first thing listed.
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.
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22 minutes ago, StupidStupidDan said:
Interesting. My button actually has four bone fragments on the top and bottom
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?!?
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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.
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4 hours ago, Lar6767 said:
I haven't been on this site very long but this is bizarre. Is this really what it's like on here every year? This is supposedly a thread speculating about what will appear at the event and we are so late in the process that there are posters who actually know because they are either insiders or who have auditioned and no one will say definitively what the line up is and other posters are admonishing them not to? We've been looking at that 'official' map that gets changed every two weeks and reading meaningless teaser tweets for months and we aren't allowed to hear what the last house will be for some reason? Why? Universal clearly doesn't care who knows since they're apparently showing the names to every unemployed 19 year old in Florida and California who applies for a temp job and, from what I've gathered, half of the mazes every year are just disappointing retreads anyway so what is the big deal? I thought we knew most of them already so why can't we hear the last few? Ridiculous.
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.
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9 minutes ago, Pandry said:
Blasphemy!! Sad but true, though. My fave year. In all seriousness, my main issue the past few years have been the scarezones. They just don't have that Halloween feel to them anymore. You have rock music blasting now in one end of the park. But I'm local and the event is really the only time during the year that I go out after work multiple nights a week for over a month. Always nice to have something to look forward to during the week. I started doing photography there the past two years and it's a lot of fun to capture all the cool looking costumes.
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.
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10 hours ago, ScottEdmondson41 said:
Saw a post on Facebook from a Florida news station reporting about the whole soul collectors thing, and a bunch of christians were complaining about that somehow.
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.
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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
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9 minutes ago, b-wolf95 said:
Asking for names might be a bit rude, so what can we blame this person for?
I feel like I know but I couldn't say for sure since I rarely pay attention to the regular marketing stuff...
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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
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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.
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28 minutes ago, N i c k said:
Has anyone seen or heard anything about what the hours will be on opening weekend? To my knowledge, it has always closed at midnight on the first weekend, but I didn't see it listed on the site so I thought it may be different this year.
I don't think it's listed anywhere on the site. Guessing they'll put that info out with the full reveal?
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Never been, never really wanted to go. I like haunts. Just have to know my limits. Nothing wrong with that.