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3 hours ago, Dripping Venom said:
I don't like when people use the terms "real horror" or "actual horror" because it's just so subjective. Horror isn't always slashers and gore. Case in point, the house that actually scared me the most last year was Seeds of Extinction because that existential, Lovecraftian, Weird Horror just frightens me. That wouldn't be considered "real horror" but it worked really well for what it was.
The backstory told on the facade alone made Seeds the scariest house for me last year, being pretty damn similar to concerns we currently face: "CO2 levels increase exponentially; rapid change in temperature causes mammal and marine organisms to quickly die out...abundant algae blooms in ocean waters suffocating bottom dwellers and killing all coral."
A very misunderstood house IMO. I get the feeling that Depths will be similarly misunderstood if what Legacy said about it is correct.
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Is the Shrek theatre really that small? I would think it would be about the size of a sprung tent.
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26 minutes ago, Ringwraith said:
I'm going to take a stab at this one. Since they're going with the "80's" again, my guess is that this will have a retro feel and will be a throwback to mall arcades, with ground projections that look like the photo below and neon all around. It would be neat if they had booths set up like they normally do, but they're just giant versions of these coin-op games. They'll probably have to make up the names due to copyright issues or if Nintendo doesn't want to see bloody versions of Mario.
Wish this was going in Hollywood.
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On 7/16/2019 at 6:02 PM, HHN Pro 2 said:
Since we pretty much know the line-up, hype list time!
#1 - Yeti: Terror of the Yukon
#2 - Nightingales: Blood Pit
#3 - Depths of Fear
#4 - Us
#5 - Ghostbusters
#6 - Killer Klownz from Outer Space
#7 - Monsters
#8 - Stranger Things
#9 - Graveyard: Hide & Shriek
#10 - House of 1000 Corpses
#10--Stranger Things (I'm a fan of the show but...yeah.)
#9--"Graveyard: Hide and Seek" (until I know more about it, sounds kind of...generic)
#8--Us (will probably move down but the very fact that it's a surprise, plus it being an original horror movie helps)
#7--House of 1000 Corpses
#6--Universal Monsters
#5--Killer Klownz From Outer Space
#4--Yeti: Terror of the Yukon
#3--Ghostbusters
#2--Depths of Fear
#1--Nightingales: Blood Pit
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4 hours ago, Ringwraith said:
The film is fun. The rumor down the grapevine is that the house will not do it justice.
Given that it's a quick replacement, that wouldn't surprise me.
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7 hours ago, Dripping Venom said:
It was pretty popular, more than the recent Purge movies or HDD. And since it's Blumhouse you know that UOR can easily get it into HHN. I thought it was good, and it has a distinct 80's theme and references stuff like Hands Across America.
The originals are always great, but "Tooth Fairy" was easily the house I was least interested in.
For whatever reason, it's currently a little difficult for me to get excited about "Graveyard: Hide and Seek." Is it just a generic graveyard ghost house? Kinda sounds like it could be this year's "Hive."
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9 hours ago, PeoriaBJJ said:
Am I the only one that wouldn't be too excited about the Terra Queen? Seems they used her as a throw away icon or something. Half the time I forget about her all together.
Like I said, 2005 wasn't that well reviewed at the time--as hard as it is to believe.
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4 hours ago, HHN Pro 2 said:
But she needs to return and rule over- *gasp*
What if the event is Jack vs Terra Queen? Both of them fight over who rules HHN that year?! Imagine!
You can have both parks open, and the story is that you choose a side. Studios is Jack's Carnival of Carnage, and IOA would be Terra Cruentes!
Yeah...marketing won't allow it.
I do hope they give us a bigger dose of the non-Jack icons at the event itself, though. Basically, some contrast from 25.
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2 hours ago, HHN Pro 2 said:
With the Terra Queen ruling over.
Probably for just one house and maybe an accompanying zone. But I’ll take it.
What's funny is that 15 didn't receive very good reviews at the time. Time has been quite kind to that year:
https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/halloween-horror-nights-15-tales-of-terror.63502/
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Might be fake. That is the video game art.
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1 hour ago, Drummanmatt said:
Think it’s been hinted at that may be the case. One of the tent houses apparently has a “moat”, which could be simply drainage.
And completely agree with shutting the IU thread. Was only a couple weeks after the GoT incident and it’s all happening again. People have very short memories it seems. Speculation is fun, but do we REALLY need to know everything before it’s announced? We all know that, typically, A&D do an awesome job, and we are all going if we can regardless of what’s announced. So chill out, enjoy the ride, and count down to the fog and screams
The announcement said "you enter the fray just as the drought begins to break."
Having the final room be the drought starting to break would be best--would fit with the story and would signify the end of a house, since one complaint the last few years has been the lack of proper finishing statement. Scarecrow had a very strong finale. one that clearly felt like the ending spot.
Trying not to imagine the houses too much--I've learned that when you try to create an image in your head about what the houses will be like, it leaves you somewhat disappointed just because what they come up with will very likely be different. Same thing kinda happened with the Star Wars prequels.
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43 minutes ago, themazethinker said:
so um, the IU thread got locked because people kept trying to guess the I.P haunt that was coming, and they were just throwing darts of guessing and weren't even trying.
So to shift the subject, I’m hoping that we see more “definitive” finales this year. As hyped as I am for Nightingales, I kinda wish they were saving the rain effects for the finale, since rain means the end of the games and therefore the departure of the Nightingales.
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5 hours ago, MGregorio594 said:
It's funny cause lately I've been thinking about IP's and Originals. It's been speculated since this thread has started that this year it was going to be 5 IP's and 5 Original's just like last year. But why? That was probably Universal's plan all along but let's not forget everyone's favorite IP house the past two years, Blumhouse. My guess is they scrapped the Tooth Fairy house so they can still use ST2+3, KK, Monsters, 1000 Corpses, and Ghostbusters. But I bet they were pushed by execs. to use Blumhouse again since they own it. Gotta remember, the Original's bring in the die-hards, but it's the IP's that draw in the masses.
While it’s being *counted* as an IP, I can easily pretend Monsters is an original.
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22 hours ago, Legacy said:
They stated last year they were interested in exploring the 80s further, so this year isn't a surprise.
Older properties are also cheaper. It gives them a bit more leverage to go after bigger names (like their pursuit of Game of Thrones).
That said, Orlando is less 80s this year than last. They have Stranger Things, Ghostbusters, Killer Klowns, and... That's kinda it.
House of Thousand Corpses/Rob Zombie are 90s. Universal Monsters are timeless. Zombieland is 2010s. Sure, Depths of Fear is 80s-inspired, but not directly connected so far. Maybe the Graveyard house will be connected to the 80s, but I doubt it.
Wish they would just not bother with mentioning the ‘80s. Like Hawkeye said, “Don’t give me hope.”
Anyway, there’s lots of opportunities to sell IP-based food this year. Don’t think they would do all of them, but still fun to think about: Stranger Things speaks for itself. For Ghostbusters they could sell Stay Puft s’mores. For KK (less likely) they could sell cotton candy blood drinks that the Klowns drank from. Even for HoTC (FAR less likely) they could sell fried chicken...”it just tastes so damn good!”
And with Zombieland, there’s Twinkies I suppose. BTW, is there a possibility that they’re looking to continue the “scarezone to house” promotion trend? ZL would make a prime candidate.
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4 hours ago, HorrorUnearthed said:
Yeah, but so much has been going on with Universal with the competition with Disney and the new Hagrid ride and other stuff, it seems like this year's announcements were sorta like what happen with 27's announcements abit, I would not doubt though we will get something before next month, they might be giving us some hints into the Stranger Things house hopefully since the last trailer has dropped and Mike Aiello was tweeting about it, I could see them giving us a teaser video like they did last year of what we could be seeing in the house as well as some teaser pictures.
If you look at the last five years, odd years tend to be much slower announcement wise. Coincidence, but still—we seem to be following that coincidence here.
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8 hours ago, littlegreenghouls said:
The FFP passes will always be a thing.
They bank on people buying those tickets to be honest, the repeat guests are what they want.
Repeat guess are 30% of over all merch sales.
I think it will still be a thing, might be up in prices by maybe 15%.
Anyone hoping for Ghost Buster reveal during the Ghost Buster Con in LA?Yeah, they talk about FFPs being abolished every year.
I know some (@Legacy) have advocated for abolishing them because it might thin the crowds a bit.
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On 5/22/2019 at 4:21 PM, littlegreenghouls said:
The thing about the mermaid scene was those mask weren't actor friendly and didn't look like Mermaids, but more like poisionish lion fish.
Same with the amazonian women from planet hell kind of looked like frogs.
I think this might be most puppets in single house.
I think this could be really cool.
Since this is Charles Gray's original house. I loved his past work, Doll house of the damned, Carnival graveyard.24 was his first year, right? Does anyone know what his houses from 25-27 were?
From this article it sounds like his maze for 27 was DW.
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3 hours ago, Midnight Detective said:
Making a house on event itself kind of drifts into the territory of making a house akin to Nightengales - 9/11
Imo this is why Horror and Comedy have many similar roots. The saying "Comedy is tragedy plus time" relates as well as the intention of either horror or comedy.
It's the difference between Pirates of the Caribbean and Pirates of the Pancreas - you kind of have to strip the event of its actual human suffering or your final product is in poor taste. That being said I truly don't know where that line stands and it comes down to a judgement call by A&D.
I think a cool alternate idea for DE2 would have been something like this:
"In 1987, Emily Duncan* is visiting Munich while honeymooning across eat Europe. Unfortunately, in retaliation for the demands of the teardown of the Berlin Wall, a Soviet spy unleashes a biohazard in the West German city that turns most of the population into bloodthirsty zombies. Emily captures the horrific last moments of her honeymoon and life on camera, and you are with her every step of the way*."*née McPherson
*and yes, I phrased that the same way as the description for the original.
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Don't know whether this would have been offensive subject matter, since this wasn't an actual event that happened. But it might've legit given the event an '80s theme that they really had the opportunity to embrace but didn't as much as they should've.
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While we're at it, a good story for CGY could've been:
"A few years after an international standoff* led to a nuclear apocalypse, bands of survivors have cropped up. The most vicious and feared, the Ragtags, have taken up residence in an amusement salvage yard, and will kill all those who trespass."*implying but not directly mentioning the standoff of '83
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1 hour ago, ultimateforce said:
I was a GOT mega fan but season 8 was all the GOT I'll need for a life time.
Now a CHERNOBYL house? Well...
That would've gone great last year ('80s theme) but I don't think they're going to touch that.
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14 hours ago, Midnight Detective said:
On the other hand I'm really for Graveyard: Hide and Seek
Maybe it'll be a "wide open" house?
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19 hours ago, Ringwraith said:
Say goodbye to the pumpkins
I truly love the pumpkins, but yes, it's time for something new.
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1 hour ago, krazyhorrorkid said:
Welp Scarezones look mediocre as hell.
Can we conclude that Headlining Houses for Marketing are gonna be ST 2, HOTC, and Ghostbusters?
Not sure about HOTC. Maybe UM?
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2 hours ago, Sinfear said:
I’m not really excited for house of 1000 corpses and ghostbusters honestly. The scarezones look interesting except for the Rob Zombie one.
I'm happy to be getting a hard-R property like HoTC, but yeah, I get the feeling it won't be the best maze.
I don't feel GB fits with HHN, but I see it getting HoTY, mark it down.
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14 minutes ago, Legacy said:
They don't announce the IPs because of the rights. They do it to extend media coverage. Giving each house its own announcement allows ten weeks of media instead of one.
The rights can be negotiated for all the houses to get announced at once, if they wanted to.
They plan everything to the day. It's basic project management. With everything that gets coordinated few an announcement (graphics, blog post, website update, social media plan, and press releases), they have to have a hard date. It also helps them try to avoid announcing at times where bigger media things are occurring so HHN won't get swallowed.
And typically, the IP agreement includes an "announce by" date.
If something changes (or isn't ready), they just change the date.
Here's a bit of sausage making...
Insiders getting a release schedule is a recent development, so we can't really tell how common delays are. This year, nearly every announcement is delayed but not by so much to make the schedule appear like bad info.
That said, this is the first time the "early HHN roll-out" is competing with Potter. And Potter wins every battle.
Walking Dead and FDTD were announced by the time Diagon opened.
Halloween Horror Nights 29 Speculation
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I do think this year will be scarier than last year—the originals look like they will be played VERY straight.