[HHN 27 Discussion]

4 hours ago, GODFATHRxx said:

Anyone?

I ate at finnegans during the stay and scream a few weeks back. If you are getting a drink they were making people get their drink and leave but if you eat you can stay. There are the usual pop up bars. I'm not a drinker so I wasn't paying attention to other places to get drinks. You can also go to Springfield for s&as there's a duff something bar that wasn't crowded at all when I was there and plenty of seating outdoors and they were letting people inside the food court for some air conditioned seating as well. If you do Springfield you get early access to Blumhouse and Hive and should be ready for scarecrow when everything else opens. Finnegans early house I think was shining or dead waters can't remember for sure. But I want to say there was only one house for early access with finnegans.

[Unmasking the Horror Tours]

10 hours ago, PleaseAndThankYou said:

 

 

Wait, isn't it supposed to be two sets of three houses? My brother is considering the tour but he'd only be able to do the afternoon tour and ... Frankly this whole line of discussion makes it sounds like that'd be a waste of money. 

 

Also it's sounding like the people who have taken the tour didn't have a good time. What say ye, do youse guys recommend it or was it a frustrating waste of money?

 

Also also, it sounds like everybody's describing a different set of houses and a different set of photography rules . . . What's the deal? Each tour guide gets to choose their own arbitrary set of policies? And possibly their own list of houses? I'm not sure I trust tour guides with that much power to ruin my day!!

 

Finally . . . What are the times of the tour?  Sorry if that information is elsewhere; I couldn't find it. 

This year was the first year I had done the tour and I would absolutely recommend doing the tour. I did the 6 house tour, my only complaint is you couldn't pick the houses you tour. Other than that if you hang back in the group you can get quick pictures of anything you want. My group was about 12 people so not too big, but one tour guide can't watch everyone the whole time  the tour guides answered any question you asked. Things he couldn't answer he'd give a winking answer. My tour guide would say no photos of this or that and then walk to another room of the house so you've got a chance to snap some pics if you're sneaky. My guide also said he was doing the houses in the order he prefers so we do more walking up front and then come back for a break and do the last three that are closer. So we started with Blumhouse, then Hive, then dead waters. Then a break then fallen, shining, and ahs. The 6 house tour starts at 11 am and we were done around 4-415. The guide said there's no point doing saw or scarecrow because there isn't enough to discuss or show on a tour. Didn't give a reason why we didn't do AvED. I would think AvED would've been better than Hive to tour but that's just me. I'm pretty sure my guide was named David and he was great if I ever get to do a tour again I would ask for him specifically he definitely didn't ruin my day. David said he's been every year since the beginning starting as a guest and now as a guide and he had an encyclopedic knowledge of the event, horror movies, and a great sense of humor. 

[Unmasking the Horror Tours]

I did the 6 house tour and the guide told us that scarecrow was too dark to tour even with the lights on and didn't want to ruin the crow room, didn't give a reason for not touring AvED and said Saw was not included because there is notthing to discuss during a tour to make it worth putting on the list. The guide said they usually pick houses that will be popular or have lots of interesting features, and my guide said Saw had neither of those going for it. But he did tells us where the gats were. 

[Hive]

On 9/15/2017 at 9:00 AM, AbeLinkedIn said:

I think the one distinguishing thing between Conjuring and this house is the period theme, so I guess maybe the aesthetics of the sets to make it look like a 70s/80s house? 

Did the unmasking tour this weekend (just got back home today, hope to do a full event review) the guide said the house is set in the 80s but the vampires took over the house in the 70s and have never made it to Home Depot to remodel or repair

[The Fallen]

1 hour ago, Cody said:

Well, a fallen angel is simply an angel who sinned. There are some interpretations where demons (or at least the original ones) are fallen angels. Others state that fallen angels are chained up in Hell until Judgement Day.

 

It's perfectly possible for this interpretation to be that demons are fallen angels, and they're currently in a battle with the regular angels. There's no requirement that they have their wings clipped.

I think I got a lot of that stuff from Supernatural, I stopped watching a couple years ago after the 3rd or 4th time one of the Winchesters died and the other one brought him back. Definitely remember seeing the interpretation of fallen angels as demons but can't remember exactly where

[HHN 27 Construction]

5 hours ago, WESKER69 said:

It amuses me that you guys would honestly expect a "new" set up for The Purge. Its basically cheap & easy. If anything, i'd be more annoyed if they don't bring back the flame bar.

 

No it doesn't. We had the bus in 2008 & it was a short bus. "IF" they want to use the bus again, it can be at the Kidzone hub at the end of Central Park.

Also, in 2008, there was no stage. This year there is a stage in Mel's plaza, sooooo yea, a bus is a "no go". That area becomes a clusterf**k during showtimes, the last thing you want is a big scenic prop making the path more narrow.

I agree with wesker it's cheap and easy, has brand recognition, and universal doesn't have to worry about rights problems. It has a history of being their go to replacement. With scream, and ouija, and might have been a replacement for something else that was supposed to go in that area this year. Like someone else said if they have the light up masks and light up car most people will think it's new enough and it fits in that area in the city landscape

[Nightmare Member Photos]

 

This is me at HHN25, have a beard now though

[HHN 27: Nightmares Attendance/Meetup Thread]

I am going 9/29, 9/30, and 10/1 I'll be bringing my niece who is 15 this is going to be her Sweet 16 present. We will both have ffp with express. We fly in on the 9/29 arrive at 8:45 might not make it to the park until 1030 or 11. I'm not a drinker and my niece can't yet. And I am thinking of doing a tour on 10/1 but I'm afraid my niece will burned out by then this will be the third haunted attraction she's ever attended.  Plan on doing stay and scream on 9/30 and 10/1. 

[Houses & SZs Anticipation Levels]

SCARESZONES

 

1. Invasion! I'm excited for something different I know that this isn't the ideal location for a zone but I'm looking forward to something different

2. Purge. I've never done a Purge scarezone and think this is the best way to represent this property. I enjoy the movies also

3. Trick R  Treat. I watched the movie a long time ago and don't remember being super impressed by it but still excited to see how it looks

4. Festival of the Deadliest. dont know what this zone will be like and that is exciting for me haven't seen any pictures yet 

5. Altars of Horror. Remember this from HHN 25 and wasn't impressed and always seemed to have bad timing or no patience to just sit and wait

 

HOUSES

 

1. Dead Waters. Think there could be a variety of environments and characters

2. Scarecrow the Reaping. Classic Halloween trope should be good makes me think of one of my favorite episodes of Tales from the Crypt

3. The Fallen. Not really sure what to expect, but could be wind up depending on where creative goes with the concept. I'm afraid the subject matter might have made Uni tone down some of the story elements in fear of religious backlash

4. The Shining. Simply excited to see how it will visually represented

5. AHS. Roanoke was a great season for scares and gore , coven not so much, and asylum should be good as well. I watch the show and it seems like it hits it peak around episode 4 or 5 and then limps to the finish hoepfully this house won't

6. Hive. Happy it's feral vampires 

7. Ash vs Evil Dead. Don't watch the show, and not a huge of the movies 

8. Horrors of Blumhouse. The name bothers me way more than it should, why not Blumhouse of Horrors??!! Like the Purge movies, the first Sinister, and the conjouring movies not sure how this house will flow or work. Wish they had made a house with only supernatural elements and left Purge to the streets

9. Saw. Think this will be like walking through a torture museum not scary to me just watching other people scream and beg for help

 

[The Fallen]

1 hour ago, dkrfla said:

If you were to chose a movie to watch based on the description of this house what would it be?

There was a movie a while back think it was called Legion about angels descending on a diner to kill a waitress because they believed her baby was the antichrist or something like that and one angel played by Paul Bettany protected her. There were other demons and creatures that also tried to get to the baby. But I can't think of too many other movies that feature avenging angels and that's what I think this house will be. Otherwise if they are truly "fallen" angels shouldn't their wings be removed and just have nubs? Or did I just make that rule up?

[HHN 27 Merchandise]

Do they ever make shirts that aren't black? They all look the same after a while. Whenever I wear one of the shirts I've got at HHN people either know what it is (very few people here NOLA) or think it's a Slipknot tshirt especially the one from 25.

[HHN 27 Speculation]

4 hours ago, WannabeIcon said:

I know we are still waiting on the original house announcements....but I just don't undertand some of Uni's choices here. WE have a festival, which is supposedly a quasi-over-arching theme, but no leader to said activity?  Are we in for another surprise here, but why would you announce the Icon last if so? But if we are really just getting this zone of mascots instead an Icon, I'm not sure how much sense it makes. I thought Uni had seen the errors of their ways when we finally returned to having them 2 years ago. It has to be easier to drive advertising, marketing, in-park merchandising sales, etc. (I'm sure we could think of more). Hopefully we get hit with a surprise outta left field...unless someone else can shed light on any of this?

 

 

Couldn't agree more I think not having an icon is a missed opportunity. There's a focal point instead of just a billboard with movie names on it. The icon can peak people's interest and drive people to the website, instead when UNI relies on IPs they have to constantly find 3 or 4 big name marquee IPs every year to market and drive sales instead of putting energy into an icon. Of course some people will go no matter what IPs or icon the event has.

[HHN 27 Speculation]

I think the scarezones sound good. Not sure I like the Altars of Horror because like someone else said seems like a waste to have characters from the houses on the street also seems like an unimaginative way to fill up a scarezone but I'm willing to hold judgment. Invasion! has a lot of potential, so does Festival of the Deadliest which if it turns out to be a scarezone full of different cultures ideas of the undead should be interesting, hoping it's not a cheap ripoff of Dia de las muertes. TrickRTreat could be good and I might be one of the few or only people looking forward to the Purge scarezone if nothing else if it's scarezone it won't be a house and works best as a scarezone. Still waiting for houses though

[HHN 27 Speculation]

14 hours ago, criticalanalysis said:

 

13th Gate, bar none, is the best haunted attraction I've been to. Simply OUTSTANDING. Makes HHN look like a child's haunt.

Agree 100% that it's the best single haunt I've been to as well. For one building they cram a ton of stuff in that building and the variety is what always impresses me. 

[HHN 27 Speculation]

8 hours ago, QueenoftheBunnies said:

Same, friend. Every year I've gone I've had a scareactor threaten to kill me. My first year there, I went into the Roanoke house towards the end of the night and there wasn't anyone behind me and one of the scareactors followed me through a room and a half whispering in my ear all the ways he was going to kill me. Good times. 

 

 

Here's a conversation topic: what's been your favorite interaction you've had with a scareactor? 

My favorite wasn't at HHN but at a local haunt the 13th Gate. Me and my wife were walking through one part that was like a TCM meets Cajun hillbilly section. One of the scareactors an older woman with a blood stained moo moo and curlers in her hair approached me and said "ooohhh hello there big boy, you know I like my men like I like my coffee...." To which my wife said "black and strong?" And the scareactor replied  "NO, ground up and in the freezer!!!" She then pulled out a meat tenderizer mallet and chased us. My wife took off and the only reason I caught up to her was she got stuck behind the group that was in front of us otherwise she  would've probably ran all the way to the car 

[HHN 27 Speculation]

2 hours ago, QueenoftheBunnies said:

Lol it is. I know HHN is so much fun because it's horror, buts bugs and spiders take it from "fun horror" to "hell no I'm not going near that with a 20 foot pole". 

I would actually LOVE an IT House, but when I said I'm over the clowns, I meant like the fluorescent clowns we see so often at HHN. 

 

Made me think of the clowns with chainsaws from 2015. I'm tired of chainsaws because there is NO subtlety it's just scareactors (pick a theme clowns, prisoners, geishas, etc) making noise and chasing people. If people stopped and thought they'd realize there is no chain and the more scared you act the more the chainsaws focus on you. I prefer a slow build to my horror movies, a chainsaw seems like a poor choice to sneak up on someone also

[HHN 27 Speculation]

1 hour ago, QueenoftheBunnies said:

Any M. Night Shymawhatever movie, It Follows, anything with bugs/insects or anything Walking Dead related. I'm also super over the whole clown thing. And I think last year Hollywood had a scarezone that was basically oversized vermin and insects. It looked so stupid. 

I get the shymalan and walking dead, but is the bugs due to your own fear? I agree about the clowns but the It movie looks like it's going to be huge I remember hearing the trailer broke records for views so the general public is still interested in clowns.

 

im lucky my biggest phobia is being buried alive so there's not many houses that can realistically pull that off

[HHN 27 Speculation]

3 hours ago, Itsjosie said:

since there's not much else to talk about, I'm posing a question. Name any house original or IP that would piss you off the most if Orlando were to announce it today. 

Mine would probably be either a Slenderman house or Lunatics Playground 2: Now with extra 3D

I'd say this is the end, I liked the movie but doesn't need to be a house. The rest I wouldn't care but it was done in Hollywood and can stay there. Also the mummy, never found the mummy scary loved monster squad as a kid and always remembered all the ways to kill the monsters the mummy was just unraveled like an old sweater thought that was the worst. 

[HHN 27 Speculation]

42 minutes ago, ForeverEvil1 said:

 

I mean, technically we do have everything. I'm pretty confident that leaked list is correct at this point though we'll probably see this week.

Maybe, maybe not. About a week or two ago we were supposed to have Gothicombs (makes me think of honey combs cereal every time I see the name) and a vampire house with '70s aesthetic now we've got angels vs demons and urban legends black eyed children houses

[HHN 27 Speculation]

4 hours ago, DocNiktMarr said:

I've seen a video for Alice Cooper Goes To Hell, didn't they have Eve and the Serpent?

 

Of course, that was years ago in Hollywood.

That was years ago and everything offends someone nowadays. Between twitter and Facebook everyone has a platform to tell everyone else what upsets them and then things seem to snowball from there

[HHN 27 Speculation]

10 minutes ago, PeoriaBJJ said:

Some very interesting properties mentioned in that survey. But, alas, I'm sworn to secrecy. 

 

I will I'll say that if THEY did go with some of those IPs I could LIVE a happy life!

 

1 minute ago, ForeverEvil1 said:

 

Some also made me a bit hollow inside.

 

Seriously, what?

 

Ok, that's the last I'll say of this.

Guys y'all are killing me!!!! the survey just popped up but I did not see anything about prospective properties. Can't y'all just tell us? Or better yet hit us with some Ifrit-style sh#%$ty riddles about the IPs 

[HHN 27 Speculation]

47 minutes ago, ForeverEvil1 said:

Just thought about this.

 

Any possibility of Angels Vs Demons being a horror adaptation of Paradise Lost?

I'd love that, but like others have posted some christians are already crowing about the soul collectors stuff. There would be full blown protests if there was a house depicting Adam and Eve and Satan. On a side note I always thought Dantes Inferno could make for a great house but I assume religious groups would be all over that one too

[HHN 27 Speculation]

3 hours ago, wow said:

Yeah, maybe theoretically there were games and movies and IP's we never knew were even thought of? Theoretically of course

Of course this is the first time in a month I've went to the universal site and haven't been asked to take a survey now that I want to see what the properties are 

[HHN 27 Speculation]

2 hours ago, ChildOfHorror said:

The "Names of station" could be referring to the Purge. All the president masks from the last movie. Lots of train stations and such named after presidents 

I think you nailed it. Purge movies do deal with classes and the haves and have nots as well. Seems to fit and that was already a rumor for a scarezone

[HHN 27 Speculation]

14 minutes ago, TheLadyGator said:

I believe it means important people...but what kinds? The word "Station" reminds me of royalty, but he says that the Avenue of Stars is the perfect location...so scary Dead famous people? That would be fun! 

One of the first things that popped in my head was Downton Abbey but I don't think that would be a hit with the Horror Nights crowd. Famous dead people could be fun, but I think once relatives of the deceased found out about their loved ones image being used to scare people Universal will be issuing an apology and need a replacement the next day.