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that Walking Dead wait for the past 3 years begs to differ. People like IP stuff just as much as they like original stuff, if not more so. To say that the GP doesn't like IP stuff, or that it's "not as well received", is just silly. And sorry, but I disagree with most of your suggestions for improvement. Also, NIN>Midnight Syndicate. All night, every night.

I just run through all of the houses and yell at every actor I see... ...I mean, that's not provoking. I'm JUST HAVING FUN GUISE.

HHN24. "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED"...wait...that's Illidan...."YOU'VE BEEN WARNED." Oh, okay? Have I? I should have noted that....somewhere. I did not receive a warning. I received a text message about my data limit, but nothing from 1-800-HHN...WARNING. Warning. Either way, false advertising of the warning or not...here we are. 24 years. 1 year more than 23 years. How was this year? Well, it was great. It was a SOLID year. Marketing was meh, web-site was meh, but when you got into the park. What a year. You know what the best part of the event was? That wimpy red firework after the Opening Scares. Did you see that thing? That's what a Disney firework dud looks like. Poof. What...what was that? You could have shot that thing at gasoline and cardboard and the tinder would have turned to ICE. Clearly that firework has self esteem issues. Or maybe it’s just being humble. It’s just “hey, it’s not about me. I don’t want to show off. It’s about you, have fun, guys.” Alright. Alright. Let's kick this thing off. Also, prepare for something BRAND NEW with my review at the end. It will blow your socks off. Maybe. Probably not. "HEY ROBUTTS...--" HEY HEY HEY. NO THIS YEAR. NO ROBUTTS. I don’t have TIME for your stupid name calling! THIS REVIEW WILL BE LONG. Get some snacky-snacks, cuddle up with your favorite wife/husband and/or picture of somebody you’re stalking. WE’RE DOING THIS LIVE. Spoilers, fun, and nonsense awaits you, my little ladybugs. New paragraph. From Dusk till Dawn WHOA. DID YOU SEE THAT? THAT VAMPIRE TOTALLY RIPPE--wait. boobs. Let me start off by this. The movie..a gem. A gem from my childhood and just an overall gem in cinematic history. The TV show? Not bad. It's okay. But there's a....certain thing about the film that just kisses me with the passion of 1,000 waterfalls. Plus, Salma Hayek. Sallllllmmmaaaa....ahem. So, I expected the TV show to have the dark humor to it, and unfortunately, it does not. It takes itself very seriously, and since this house is based on the TV show, the house does as well. If this were based on the film, I feel like we'd have a...more fun house? But we don't. Either way, the house turned out to be pretty good. The facade: it was great seeing the ***** Twister. Uh...what...what are those? Are those stars? Is it seriously not letting me say *****? Oh come on! That's not even a bad word. I can't say *****. OH COME ON. I’m 30 years old! *****! FINE. FINE. THE TWISTER. Is that better?! We enter into THE TWISTER and it looks great. The barker did a fine job, and entering it (THE TWISTER, not the barker) had decent, although predictable, scares. However, I could see going into this and not understanding what's going on, though. So those who did not see the TV show, or even the film, I understand your questions/puzzlement. The middle of the house is pretty boring. The actors were too far apart, and there were too few of them. Plus, those loin cloths, woof. You dudes deserve a raise for feeling drafty all night. Again, the set pieces were pretty good. But the scares were just so random and so far apart. Sometimes it beneficial knowing where a scare will be because you’re feeling that dread coming; the oncoming storm. These rooms were just weird, and when you expected a scare, you didn’t get one, not because the actors were resetting, but because there wasn’t a scare. I did like how the rooms were very open, it was something new-ish because you really don't see rooms like that with actors in the middle in a wide room, but it’s almost like that setup sacrificed the scares. However... That finale. That's when this house turned from forgettable to something worth remembering. The Gecko brothers were great, VERY high energy. The **--sorry, sorry, THE TWISTER really came alive in the finale, finally. I liked seeing Salma at the end, so much so that my glasses cracked from looking so intently. It was crazy. Oh, was there somebody with a chainsaw in there? Sorry, didn't notice. Salma. I'm sure you understand. I will say that the house ended too quickly and didn’t let me spend enough time in there looking at Salma…I mean, taking in the scares. Totally. The scares. …..Salma. House Count: 3 House rating: 7 ******* out of 9 Twisters The Walking Dead: End of the Line Halloween Horror Nights AMC’s The Walking Dead presents Halloween Horror Nights [dash] The Walking Dead [colon] End of the Line (Two-Thousand and Fourteen) starring AMC’s The Walking Dead THREE YEARS. Three years of Walking Dead merch, marketing, walkers, people complaining about The Walking Dead(EVENTHOUGHITHADTHELONGESTWAITHAHAHAHSUCKITHATERS), commas, A ZOOMBIE CORAL, and other stuff. I’m gonna start this off with this: the house last year was better. I liked the prison because it felt like a prison, and the story was contained to that area. This year was another “best of” house, similar to the first house in 2012. Starting off with the prison, and then going through Wal*Mart, woods, a store with a helicopter in the roof, fences, tiny rock formations, somebody’s house, a BBQ, another person’s house, a fenced community, and then a giant line of people waiting to get into a haunted attraction. I wish last year was the biggest house ever, because I would have loved to been in that prison for 7-10 minutes with all of those walkers. That would have been legit. Not that prisons are legit…I mean, they can be. I’m not a fan of The Walking Dead, but I still enjoyed the house, even with how disjointed it was. And despite the HUGE cast, the house still felt empty to me. But, what can you do? At this point, it seems we’ve experimented enough with the Walking Dead, she’s ready for a commitment, and we’re like “aw, baby. I just don’t know how to please you. We’ll make you bigger” and she gets grumpy. Women, ammirite? I really enjoyed that scene in the woods; that was a DAMN good scene. Played out perfectly and the walkers in there really did a good job working with the strobes and dummies. The department store was okay. Somebody said that the Walker hallway gag was from Hollywood? If so, that was neat. Glad to see if over here, even if the reset was a little awkward. The rest of the house was pretty okay. The ending confused me, just because I don’t watch the show. Are they cannibals? That’s the only thing I came up with. And then the fenced off area was great at night, during the day it was pretty bland, but at night was pretty good. That’s it, man. Longest house in history will be a vague memory that nobody really mentions. The only thing that we can do with The Walking Dead is the guests are actually the Walkers and you, as a walker, attack the actors. First house in history where you are the star! Sign up today. House Count: 3 House Rating: 3 BBQs out of 21 Grills Alien vs. Predator Dawn of Chestbursters PUMPED. So pumped when I heard ALIEN. I don’t give an EFF about Predators, but Aliens?! Sign me up, have sex with my face, impregnate my stomach, burst out of my chest, and kiss me on the way out with your tiny mouthception mouth. I think we can all pretty much admit that we’ve been waiting for a house revolving around the Alien franchise for a long time, now. And the house did not disappoint, even if it may be a bit MISLEADING. When I think of an AvP house, I thought we’d see Aliens vs. Predators, and we did not get that. We got Xenomorphs, we got Predators, but we did not get the VS., and I think I’m okay with that? I think I am. It was marketed towards us being caught in the middle, but I did not feel that way. But, we got our heroes. The house rarely lets up. You go into it already tense and excited for what’s in store. The sets were great and you’re soaking it all in and BAM! XENOMORPH. YUS. It looks great, sounds great. Totally awesome. And basically more of the same, with Predators in the mix. The egg room looked great, and I loved all of the facehugger puppet works. The Predator cloaking scene was pretty cool, as was seeing the android on the table. Honestly, I was just thrilled to see all of this, because Alien is one of my favorite horror films. Complaints? I have a few. I wanted to see a FULL SIZED Xenomorph walking around. That would have SPACE JAMZ 2014. It could have been a drone, didn’t have to be a queen or anything, but just something not coming through a vent or wall. Just this 6.5 foot tall Xenomorph who will eat out your eyes with his tiny mouth. Also, I wanted to hear THAT ALARM. And if you’ve watched Alien or Aliens, you know EXACTLY what alarm I’m talking about. If it is there, I didn’t hear it, but I LOVE THAT ALARM. And let’s have some more victims! Somebody with a Facehugger on their face rolling around. Scientists getting destroyed by either alien. Impaled by Predator Wolverine claws, or by a Xenomorph tail. And naturally, I wanted to see a predator taking on Xenomorphs. I was hoping to see that fight. The LAUGH of a Predator while he’s poking at his wrist bomb thing. BWAHAHAHAHA. Aaaaaannnnddddd…… IT’S A TRAVESTY THAT THE FINAL MARINE DIDN’T YELL “GET TO THE CHOPPA!” SERIOUSLY!? GET IN THE GAME. House Count: 2 House Rating: 1 “Get away from her” out of 1 “you BITCH” Dracula: Reign of Blood Oh, it’s REIGN. Not RAIN. Like, it won’t rain blood. Okay. How does blood reign? As soon as I saw the trailer, I said “I’ll see you at Horror Nights”, and then I hung up the phone with my friend who lives out of town, and said ‘Hey, this will probably be at Horror Nights.” Well, guess who was right? Me. I was also wrong because my friend bailed this year... what a jerk. The movie looks pretty terrible. Like…pretty terrible. So I didn’t expect too much from the house. The first couple of runs, it WAS pretty terrible. Bad scares, decent sets, awful guests around me. It just was not fun. But, the more and more I do it, it’s starting to grow on me. The sets are still decent, but I’ve noticed a few more spots with actors and they’re becoming more aggressive. Which is good considering Dracula is a blood thirsty vampire who apparently runs an army against other kingdoms in Eastern Europe. I know I love politics in my monster movies. FUN. You know what the house reminded me of? The Wolfman from 2009. Almost exactly like The Wolfman. With the town, the winding corridors, Draculas, the gypsy ladies, people…all very Wolfman. The castle part is pretty forgettable. Wait. What castle? The village section is okay, with that old guy yelling 'help me'. We called him Mr. Pappy. Mr. Pappy wasn’t looking too well, with the baldness and rubber skin, but he managed to get a few scares. I think the thing that is really holding this house together (other than Mr. Pappy) is the Dracula bite scene. Kind of like Nightingales rip in half scene, minus those awful, bald nurses. So bald. So tiny. So fierce. So Scary. We really need a Nightingales sequel. NOW. Starring Mr. Pappy. I liked the dense fog (is it supposed to be smoke from the fire?), and the finale is decent. You know what the issue is? Dracula doesn’t look like Dracula. I mean, he doesn’t need to look like Dracula from the Beetlejuice show (please, not ever. Not ever ever.), but some kind of defining quality of Dracula other than me staring into the dudes mouth to see if he has pointy teeth. SOMETHING. I also would have liked more heads on sticks. Head sticks. Sticks…with heads on them. Do you see what I’m saying? HEAD-STICKS. Maybe a big “D” on Dracula’s chest. NO. Not that kind of D. You sicko! GOD. House Count: 5 House Rating: 1 Mr. Pappy out of 10 DRAH-COO-LAHs Giggles 'n Gore, INC The original conecpt was a standup routine by Al Gore. HOLY MOLY. What a TERRIBLE queue video. I'm a big supporter of queue videos, but I'll set myself on fire if all we get are those kind of videos. That was terrible. Some dude googled pictures of clowns, threw some goofy animation from their Windows Live Maker, turned that baby into an AVI, and said I'M DONE. OY. Other than that horrific queue video, I liked this house. I liked it more on my first run, but it got a little worse each time. I really liked the facade and the first room. Really cool setup, and I loved the A Clockwork Orange montage of clowns burning into the dudes eyes. The other really memorable scene was the finale. Really great stuff going on there. Kind of reminded me of the Universal Monsters house with the film hanging down. Except it was pool noodles and clowns. And then the kiss of death from the chainsaw really sold it. I always like it when they're able to end with a saw in the D-queue. The middle, though, was hit or miss. It was definitely gorey. I liked seeing the Well Walker from last year going into the grinder. I think right after that (or before, who knows) was that mirror gag which was really successful. The tophat clown was definitely creepy looking and had a decent scare. The other memorable thing was the hallway with the air shots. It being completely dark in there with the air was super effective. My pikachu passed out. I guess at the end of it all, I was hoping this house would be more of a comedy house, but it wasn't. I would have liked to see some more giggles, and not from the clowns, but from me. I feel if this had been the comedy house, I would have enjoyed it WAY more. I remember going to the Six Flags Magic Mountain Spooky Scary event about 10 years ago and they had a clown house which was the tits. There was a room where everybody entered, but a clown told us to STOP. We all did and the lights turned off. And then the clown told us to find a way out. This was just a REGULAR house, no upcharge, nothing. So, we tried to find our way, but eventually the lights came out and there were clowns EVERYWHERE, they came out of nowhere. It was terrifying, but the thing I remember most was there was a clown with a kazoo going BANANAS. He was dancing around, pulling his hair, and playing the hell out of that kazoo. It was great....and it made me laugh A LOT. I guess what I'm getting at is HHN needs a clown with a kazoo. House Count: 3 House Rating: 0 kazoos out of 0 giggles. Halloween When I told my dad there was a Michael Myers house, he asked how are they going to turn Austin Powers into a haunt. This is not a joke. Ya smell that? It's the House of the Year. WHAT A GREAT HOUSE. Another IP house knocks in out of the park. Everything about this was great. The FACADE?! GREAT. That projection was awesome. I'd love to see more of that kind of stuff. I also wish that they used the projection stuff for the Silent Hill house when we go into the otherworld, BUT THAT'S LIKE 2 YEARS TOO LATE. But seriously, it was great. Favorite scenes? The garage scene. I flipped out when I saw that. The lady in there did a fantastic job and really sold that kill. The kitchen scene was also fantastic, really amazing stuff going on in there. The dark strobe room with the Myers everywhere. Again, super effective. My snorlax was out. And then the little nod to Halloween 3 with the trick 'r treaters in the backyard. Awesome stuff. That little sport behind the fence gave me a scare. I, however, did not call him a little sport. I called him another S word. No, not a sword. An S WORD. My biggest complaint? THIS HOUSE SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN A SOUNDSTAGE. Can you imagine the amount of amazing things if this were in the parade building or a soundstage? It would have been AMAZING. As it is though, the house is great. I just wish that From Dusk till Dawn and Halloween had switched places. I'm not gonna cry about it. What can you do, cry ab---*sniff*, excuse me. Everybody here is on point. I hate to see this house go. House Count - 4 House Rating: 1 John Carpenter out of 0 Rob Zombies (seriously, your Halloween SUCKS, Robert Cummings) Dollhouse of the Damned Barbie and Ken's vacation crack house. Buy now for only $59.99. Comes with a rusted Volkswagon Beetle and used syringe! It was a tough call. This is right up there for House of the Year. It honestly just depends how I'm feeling on the night. Everybody in this house fires on all...engine parts. (I honestly can't remember the saying right now) The facade is great! Simple, yet very well executed. You go into the house with a pretty good setup. The Raggedy Anne lady was pretty---RAWRRRR. What was that?! OH. MY. GOD. Aren't you the most precious little monster ever? You're so tiny, and made of burlap. You are the cutest thing on the planet. I'm sorry, you can say you're going to skin me alive and I'll just be giggling because you are so effing cute. I want to keep you in my pocket and feed you skittles. I want to hug you until your stuffing comes out. OOOH. So precious. Ahem. I mean...I'm a man. I need to step back into From Dusk til Dawn and see Salma. Okay. Manhood back. Let's go. The baby room was..smelly. A pretty good gag (pun intended) with the crib, too. Moving on, pretty neat stuff going on here, although slightly generic doll-y thing. That is until you hit that ballerina room. Let me say this, the ballerina as soon as you enter, with the slit-throat? Scareactor of the year for that house. Both casts, absolutely killing it! Amazing stuff going on there. The mirror gag was great, too. This room will forever be one of my favorite rooms in HHN history. Great design and sound, great actors, and great setup. I'm kissing my screen right here ---> <----- for everybody involved. You're welcome. Other things I liked? The bear room and the mummy room. All really good stuff going on here. The finale was decently set up, too. Really, no complaints about this house. One of the best houses in HHN history, and like I said earlier, HotY quality, just depends on the mood I'm in. I could go through Dollhouse and Halloween everynight and would say this years HHN was great. That says a lot. CYLINDER. THAT'S THE SAYING. Firing on all cylinders. House Count - 4 House Rating - 1 ADORBZ BURLAP MONSTER out of JUST GIVE ME THAT BURLAP MONSTER. Roanoke: Cannibal Colony uh...meat? You guys have this house all wrong. They're not saying "MEAT"...like "oh you're meat, I want to eat you"...they're saying "MEET." As in "Hello. Nice to MEET you, can I show you to my house which is currently on fire?" This house was bottom-o-the-list for the first couple of runs. Errybody was going bananas over this house and I didn't really get it. The sets were nice, although very dark. The scares were basically non-existent, and everybody said MEAT. It just got very old, very fast to me. People eating people...the whole house...nothing really changed. And then something changed after the 3rd of 4th run where everybody was super aggresive. Swiping out and clawing out towards me, still screaming meat, but I finally felt like they were attacking me. Instead of going through a site seeing tour of Roanoke, I was finally being attacked. The finale was pretty neat, with the spirit beasts so high in the sky. BUT. Unfortunately, the house just fell short for me. It's a nice filler house if everything else is packed and you have some time to kill, but ultimately I won't be running to this house. The irony is, I did this house more than any because I really wanted this house to change my mind. House Count - 6 House Rating - 3 cannibals out of 5 pieces of meat wanting to meet you. And there you have it HHN 24. House RANKZ: 1. Halloweeny: Going through this house will be very...hard. 2. Dollhouse of the Danged: Church Edition 3. Pralien vs. Xenator 4. Giggles and Gore, INC: Files for Bankruptcy 5. Drahcoola: I Vant to File your Taxes. 6. From Dusk till Loincloth 7. The Walking Dead: End of the Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine GOES ON FOR MILES. 8. MEATOHMYGODMEAT STREET RANKZ: 1. The Purge: Lindsay Lohan's Highschool Nickname 2. Bayou of Blood: Blood in the Bayou 3. Kool-Aid presents: Maskerade 4. Face/Off: No Nic Cage? NO THANKS. SUPER EXTRA FUNTIME EXTRA AWESOMENESS: BONUS ROUND. You ready? You sure? okay. ARMYOFROBUTT's (I MEAN BOTS!) PRESENTS: Halloween Horror Nights 2014: HOLLYWOOD AW. THAT'S RIGHT, BABY. You're getting a BONUS. I'm going to review HHN: HOLLYWOOD. You're sweating with anticpation. Your lip is quivering with excitement. My first time in Hollywood, and my first review for da west coast. LET'S DO THIS. I had no idea what to expect and I was VERY suprised with what I was given. Everybody I talked to told me to "have fun" and that Hollywood's version is "cute". YEAH, WELL, I had fun, you jerks! The opening scare-amony (I have no idea how to spell scare-amony) was BANGIN' on a trashcan. It was GREAT. The Purger's come out and sing America the Beautiful, which was very haunting. AND THEN THAT SIREN. THAT SIREN CUT IN AND THE ACTORS WENT BLOODY BANANAS. I've never...ever seen anything like this. As soon as the siren hit, and I cannot understate this, they just went CRAZY. Jumping off benches with chainsaws...crawling underneath cars, kicking over trashcans...OH MY GAWD. I was blown away. Fire going off, chainsaws, people running and screaming. I was just so impressed. I wish I could see it again in person. The first house we hit was....DRAHCOOLA. Dracula: Reign of Blood Man, this guys has his hands everywhere. Okay, okay. Copy house. Let's get it out of the way. Queue was 5 minutes on the upperlot and Face/Off wasn't open yet. Let's go. You enter through the cave, which was neat because it was something differ---OH MY GOD. THAT WHITE ALBINO thing from the trailer just attacked my face. Okay, I was not expecting that. Still moving through..what...what in the world? WHAAAAAAT. Somebody being attacked by bats. Seriously, there was a scene where a guy was in a wind-tunnel thing and it looked like he was being attacked by bats. That...is AWESOME. Go into super dark room and OHGEEZUS, BATS ARE ATTACKING ME. THINGS ARE FLYING BY MY LEGS AND TOUCHING ME. I passed out. .......I woke up in some room with Dracula staring at my face. Let's keep going. Scares coming from every turn. Every time you look one way, you turn around and there's another beast in your face. Just truly amazing things going on here. The sets were all great. It reminded me of Vampyre dance club we had in 17. I don't remember the bloody name of it, but where it was in Sting Alley. It was just like that. It was an open area just like Sting Alley and they built a house around it. Totally awesome. Great gags going on here, actors attacking from both sides. In your face, aggresive. OUTSTANDING. It was really cool how it was a completely different house than the one in Orlando. I wish everybody on the east coast could see what the west coast did because it will completely change your mind about this franchise. I wanted to see the film when I left the maze. With all of that being said, I've been going to HHN for 14 years and I have NEVER screamed in a house like I have in Dracula at HHN Hollywood. Truly amazing things going on here. From the sets to the actors, to the costumes...just...amazing. I'm going to say it....HOUSE OF THE YEAR. If there are any actors from HHN that are in this house, give your cast a big hug from me. House Count: 3 House Rating: 1000 bats out of OH MY GOD THEY'RE ON ME. Face/Off: In the Flesh It's time for a...DANCE PARTY. I really didn't know what to expect. I've been through the House of Horrors (RIP) back in February and I wasn't really sure how they would transform it into a Face/Off house. Long story short: they didn't. HAHA. JOKE'S ON YOU....well, me. It was just Face/Off monsters in the pre-existing building. Which isn't a bad thing...I guess I just expected more from that. The costumes were pretty on par with Orlando. Starts off with a bug-room and then it just winds and leads from there with BANGIN' MUSIC IN YOUR FACE. I HOPE YOU LIKE ELECTRONIC MUSIC. BECAUSE WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB. All up in your face. WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB. I'm still cross-eyed from all of the wubbing my body had to go through. MY BONES. MY BONES ARE WUBBING. I wish I had more to say about the house. Pretty forgetable. The finale is full frontal wubbing as it's set up as an Alice room and the Hatter is the DJ. He's the one to blame for the wubbing. WUBWUBWUB. I don't know. I guess this house just wubb'd me the wrong way. House Count: 2 House Rating: WUBWUBWUBWUBout of BUWBUWBUWBUWBUWBUW Clowns 3D Featuring music by a long haired aging dude who wears a top-hat. NO, NOT JOHNNY DEPP. Clowns vs. Clowns. Again, not a funny house. But! The 3D was pretty damn effective. There were some things that really popped here and benefitted the house. Setup a little differently than the Orlando house, this one appears to be an Ice Cream type of warehouse. It smelled great, too. The house was pretty decently long, too. The costumes were great. Some really super big guys in here. Almost like Treaks and Foons. Pretty basic scares, although there was this really awesome setup where they were shocking a clown and when the "power went out" it appeared that his skeleton was popping (I originally wrote pooping, hehehe) through his skin, like a classic cartoon. It was really cool to see it, and the 3D made it even better. There were also some great hallways with mirrors that they would pop out of. Again, the 3D made it even better. There weren't any real...scream monents here, but it was definitely worth the wait just because it was the best 3D house I've been in. You know what I didn't notice? Slash. Slash had 0 impact on this house because it honestly just felt like a generic clown score. I guess they could have slashed him out of the budget. OHBOY. House Count: 1 House Rating: 2 skeletons out of 0 Slash's An American Werewolf in London Yep. Those wolves are still bloody scary. Heeeeeey. I remember this house. I think this was half of my House of the Year last year in Orlando. Glad to see you buddy. I'll just go through The Slaughtered Lamb, say hello to the barkeep (I didn't see him last year) and move along through this forest..OH MY GOD THERE HE IS. HE'S BACK AND HE'S STILL TERRIFYING. Those eyes! Those eyes stare into my soul! Those wolves, man. They really are fantastic. Still just as good. The thing I liked about Hollywood is they played out the story a little more. You seee David attacked by the werewolf , but then a pub-goer comes out and starts shooting at the beast. Pretty effective scares on both sides with the wolf, and then the gun shot. The house scene with the Nazi-Wolves was taken even further. The came out all guns blazing, and you actually see the cross-fire from the guns. It was pretty cool! And then A Nazi comes out and slits David's throat, which, MUAH, I could just kiss you, Nazi-Wolf. All really well done, and the reset time was great as I was able to see it both times, and as soon as we were leaving the room, the scene was going off again. The cool thing, is the entire scene happens at the same time, so you have 4-5 actors playing out a scene from all over the room to a cue. It was really just neat to see, and they probably reset for only 5 seconds. So, kudos there. The transformation scene is still there, still good, and the subway scene was slightly modified, WITH AN ACTUAL TRAIN COMING AFTER YOU. That was awesome. And then the finale played out very similar to our house last year. Hollywood did a great job and could tell they wanted to do their own thing, but not changing it too much, probably because Orlando's was so great. It was nice visting an old friend. But was also kind of new and refreshing. Another house I hate to see go. I would love to see this house return to Orlando. House Count - 2 House Rating - 0 TARDIS' out of 0 Policemen with whimpy whistles. Alien vs. Predator It looks like an...alien invasion (YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH) A completely different experience than the one in Orlando. And let me tell you. HOLY MOLEY. I WAS JUMPING UP AND DOWN by the end up it. No joke. Ask my friends. It looks like to me they were taking a page out of Requiem, which is just a truly awful movie, and went with the neigborhood invasion of Facehuggers. You go into the crashed ship of a Predator which had facehuggers in tubes and OH NO! They escaped. You then go into a neighborhood and see facehuggers all over the townsfolk, which is something I wanted to see in the Orlando house, so +1 on that! You then go into a neighborhood house and see people glued to the walls with the Xenomorph cocoon thing with chestbursters popping out of their chests and tracking your move, which was awesome. By the end of it, you go into a barn a SEE A 20 FOOT TALL QUEEN. THE QUEEN WAS THERE AND IT WAS TERRIFYING. And then it was Christmas, because my full sized Xenomorph ran out of the barn and chased after us... ...let me say that a again. IN ZOOPER ZLOW MOTION. A.... 6 foot tall..... Xenomorph drone....... ran out of a stable door....... and CHASED US towards the Queen. It was...just simply amazing. I was cheering the whole time.I almost cried because I was so happy. It was a dream. A scary dream come true. The house honestly felt more of an Alien spotlight than a Predator. There were Predators...I think...2? But they were both used effectively and provided some awesome scares where the Predator felt like it was attacking the Xenomorph and you literally were caught in the middle. Again, another gripe from Orlando, but these two were atually fighting. The Predators stoof on their own, but like I said..the Xenomorph was the lead singer of this band. Xenomorph puppets were everywhere, although they were a little...stiff. Attacking people, attacking Predators, and attacking other actors. There was a spectacular bedroom scene with a Xeno coming through this window tearing into an actor...it was really gory and gruesome and perfect (even if the Xeno's don't really eat humans, but IDGAF.) Full sized puppets jumping through windows, full sized costumes...and that beautiful Queen. Oh, AvP. You were so good. So gooooooooooooooooooood. So good to me. House Count: 2 House Rating: 1 Queen out of 1 barn. From Dusk till Dawn The Gecko Brothers retired on this one. WOW. So....BORING. I'm honesty trying to remember what happened in this house, but NOTHING is coming to mind. I don't remember my Salma moment. The Gecko's were greeting guests outside of the house. It felt empty.The sets were just...so generic. I wish I could say more, but I honestly can't. They used the Evil Dead gag with the chainsaw. Whoooo. Oh, the barker was pretty funny. House Count: 1 House Rating: 9 Vampires out of 0 scares. The Walking Dead: End of the Line The Line Ends...and then starts up again. Another Walking Dead experience. I'll preface this by saying the setup to get here was pretty awesome. I'm not sure if any of you dudes have been to Hollywood, but the park is set up in a unique way. You have the upper lot, the lower lot, and with the lower lot you have the sets where they actually film things. The lower lot is fantastically huge. So, in order to get to the lower lot houses, aside from Werewolf and Clowns, you had to hike like a mile into the actual sets of Hollywood. The hike is pretty cool because they have Walkers in the line, and then you go into this HUGE tunnel which says go to Terminus, and then once you get out of the tunnel, you're basically staged at, what I assume is Terminus. Walkers are everywhere, and then you proceed into this HUGE city scape with walkers, awesome projections of Walkers in the windows eating folks, and just this level of....cohesiveness I haven't felt in a zone before...because it wasn't really a scarezone...you were just walking to other houses. Anyway, the immersion was there. And once you got to the house, you were pretty amped for what was in store. Unfortunately, the house was pretty average. Started off in the prison, which was great. Super aggresive walkers and scares happening. And I don't remember much after that. Wompasaurus Rex. The sets did look good, but the house just felt short, which makes sense because of the house in Orlando. The house ultimately felt like the first time we had the house in 22, except for that awesome hospital scene (WINK). You went through a department store, and then those cones of earth just like we have. What's with those cones of dirt things? I don't get it. I DON'T GET IT. At the end (of the line), the experience to get here was just great, but then the house let you down. BUT THEN YOU HAD TO GO BACK THROUGH ALL OF THAT TO GET BACK TO THE PARK. And I was hyped again. The Walking Dead felt fun....FUN. Something that I haven't experienced with the Walking Dead yet. So kudos on that. And that's it, dudes. Hollywood really is a great event. There were definitely some short comings, and I'm looking at you From Dusk till Dawn. Really, that was the only lamer of the whole bunch. Some were better than others, but all had some solid moments. I'll make a small note on the streets: KRAMPUS KRAMPUS KRAMPUS KRAMPUS. HOUSE RANKZ: 1. DRAH-COOLA: CAVES OF BATS EATING ME ALIVE. 2. Alien vs. Predator: OHMYGAWDTHERE'STHEQUEEN. 3. An American Werewolf in the Jurassic Park queue 4. Clowns 3D: Slash not Needed 5. Face/Off: [insert John Travolta Joke Here] 6. The Walking Dead: Can I just Walk the Mile to get Here Again? 7. From Dusk till Yawn Street RANKZ: 1. Dark Christmas: Still better than Chanukah 2. The Purge: Time to get Purging 3. The Walking Dead: And I would walk 500 miles... 4. Mask-A-RAID: Disco priest LFR, 40m MC There it is dudes. Sister parks reviewed. If you stuck it out, kudos to you. You deserve a high five. Maybe not from me....? But from somebody. kbye. Note: This review had 2 WoW references.

thanks, man! By all means, Mexican Lady La Llorona was a good house. I just felt a few things prevented it from being great, and the distance of the actors was a factor in that. I also would have loved to of seen a few puppets from Hollywood. It being so far on my list isn't because it was bad, it's because those other houses were SO good. I appreciate it though, I really only post my review here anymore, so I try to make it as in-depth as possible.

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if you guys are as good tomorrow as you were tonight, you're my House of the Year. seriously, best run of the night.

The 23rd year of our beloved event. "This is what fear tastes like"....zombies and roots, that aren't connected at all. Except for that dead root-alligator in La Llorona. That was our icon. Did you miss him? I almost did, but when I saw him, IT ALL MADE SENSE. Zombi--er, Walkers as far as the eye can see. And then once you look past them, MORE WALKERS. But, I digress. Maybe next year we can have something other than zombies...or just other zombified animals other than root-alligators. Zombie-Dingos. Zombie-Camels. You see? You see what I'm saying? Okay, I played this up far enough. "Hey, ROBUTTS", you ask, "What did you think of this year?" I reply, not with words, but with a nod and a thumbs up, BUT I DON'T APPRECIATE THE ROBUTTS, as witty as that might be. Are you ready kids? AYE AYE, ROBOTS. I can't hear you! JESUS CHRIST, JUST START ALREADY. Okay, fine. Spoilers, fun, and nonsense awaits you, my little caterpillars. New paragraph. Havoc: Dogs of Derailment Derailed These dogs (of war) are sleepy. Like my pug, only with less snot. Wow. What happened? A sequel apparently somebody asked for and we got a pretty elaborate set, albeit short, and the infamous STARE AND GLARE. What is this, Saws 'n Steam? AH, I'M JOKING. There was far less S&G here than Saws 'n Steam...AHHH. JOKES AGAIN. The original Havoc house brought the intensity ten-fold to what I saw here. We got a DECENT queue video, granted, I'm just happy to see a queue video at this point in HHN. Lordy loo, I miss them. I couldn't really understand what was being said due to the Rocky Horror Stage Show timewarpin' it up, but I was just happy to see it. Entered into a pretty good facade: a wooden train (they just don't make 'em like they used to) and a pretty good setup of a first room. The "frankenstein monster" scare was pretty solid. And then....nothing. I got called "boy" a few times, I was able to look at some bright lights, and then we were outside with train cars, and then... oh wow, zombies. Wait, what just happened? Did I make a wrong turn at Albuquerque? Is this a Bugs Bunny skit? I went through again to make sure...nope. That's it. I will say, I did like the "broken jaw" dog (of war), as he looked badass. And the female at the end was pretty intense. I'm pretty sure she growled at me, which was pretty terrifying. Unfortunately, I need a little more than a bald-woman growling at me to change my mind. Unless, of course, I'm being attacked and/or mugged. In which case, please bald woman, take my money. I don't know, man. I'm just not feeling it this time around. I get it, some people get creeped out by very ominous looking people looking VERY angry, and sometimes, just annoyed at the situation they're in "ahh, damn cage. If there was a way I couldI'LL JUST SLAM IT HARDER", unfortunately, I don't. At all; I just keep going. And I kept going until I couldn't go no-further. I was derailed, pops. I was derailed. I was literally depressed when I left. I felt like somebody kicked my dog (of war) and I didn't know who to turn to, So, I cued up "Everybody Hurts" on the iphone and just sat and cried a little bit. I hurt, Michael Stipe, I hurt. House Count - 4 House Rating - 0 Dogs out of 100 Wars Afterlife: Deaths Vengeance Death requires 3D glasses and some fluorescent paint. Our 3D house! An original house! Carey, Ohio!? Sign me up! No queue video. All about frown-town. Pretty solid facade, though. I was happy to see a few old props show up outside, specifically the shack from Horrorwood Die-In . I was kind of hoping for Harry to pop out. But no, it was closed and Harry is just a memory of HHN-past. Put on my 3D glasses, threw up, and then decided to take them off. Then I said "nope, I have to do this" put those puppies (of war) back on and ENTERED. The first scene, that was pretty awesome. Glad to see our old friend, the chair, back in action. I LOVED that audio cue that the scareactor listened to before he flipped the switch with such...anger. He really wanted to fry that dude. Then from there, it was honestly pretty "meh". Some okay things and some not-so-okay things. LOTS of empty rooms, even a full hallway that was just black...with nothing in it. You couldn't even paint "hey, you're an idiot" on the walls in a very subtle way? It was just black (WHAT DO YOU MEAN "JUST BLACK"). I loved the room with the stabbed victims. The newspaper room was pretty trippy, as well, and I also loved the room with the---WAIT. Was that an IN-BETWEEN costume? ARE WE TRAVELING THROUGH TIME? Did we just play Warcraft 2**?! I'M BLINDED....oh, I hit a wall. I really did. Threw up. And we are! (moving on...)That guy that got stabbed through the chest and was laughing? Looked awesome! You know what didn't look awesome? Moving your body and COMPLETELY destroying that illusion. ILLUSION VENGEANCE. That's basically it. Pretty okay, I guess. That stabbed victim room pretty much saved this house. House Count - 3 House Rating - 3 blades out of 9 chests. (**Read my review from 2011 titled "Do Robots Have Luck" to catch that reference) Telemundo presents: Urban Legends: La Llorona Urban Legends: Ah, yes....her...um.....yes..... As a white male, I have no idea who this lady is. While watching videos last year and the year before, I thought to myself, "hey, that looks like a Mexican Bloody Mary." I was wrong, but I really enjoyed watching the video from Hollywood, and I was pretty pumped it was coming here because I'm too poor to go to California. And then Hollywood gets a house narrated by Danny Trejo...you win again, Hollywood. You win again. The facade and tone of this house was AMAZING. It was definitely the most ominous house when first entering. That awesome explanation of her and the backstory was just...perfect. The actual house itself wasn't half bad. It felt very much like...the first 2/3rds of The Forsaken with a dash of Catacombs. Pretty good scares, pretty impressive set. That river scene? SO GOOD. Going underwater was pretty awesome, too. The ladies (AND some men) were a little too distant for my liking. The scares felt very far away and they really didn't impose too much of a threat. I often thought to myself "how do magnets work" and then remembered where I was and thought "if she was 97 feet closer, I would have gotten a scare there." Costumes weren't really anything to write home about, even though I'm writing about it now. Pretty generic ghost-demon things happening in here, maybe a few different variations: This La Llorona has karate-chop action! This La Llorona with pull string activated voice box with REAL crying! Act now and you can receive the exclusive La Llorona play-set, a river with dead children floating in it! A $19.95 value FREE!..oh...uh....Yeah, all costumes were pretty much the same. Except...that dead-viney-alligator thing in the finale. Please, what was that? I'm convinced that was our icon: the zombie-viney-alligator. PROVE ME WRONG. Kudos to those involved. It was nice to see this house in Orlando and not a clone from the mind of Murdy. House Count - 3 House Rating - 1 Viney-Alligator out of 40 Sad Mexican Ladies. Halloween Horror Nights: The Walking DeadThe Walking Dead: No Safe Haven Can't drop the soap, walkers don't clean themselves. Or even take showers. Honestly, you're pretty safe from being raped here. That's the TRUE safe haven. Year number 2 of the Walking Dead, and this time it's not a "best of" house. It has a story, and that story is...zombies. I mean, honestly, they were everywhere. You guys wanted more walkers, you got them. Now, you guys want more survivors?! HOLY GUACAMOLE, pick a side! Fun fact: I don't like The Walking Dead. I think the show is not very exciting and I think the comic book is not very good. I just don't care for it. I don't hate it, it's just not for me. If there's one thing the comic/show IS about, and Robert Kirkman (the creator of the Walking Dead) also made note of, is that The Walking Dead isn't about the zombies; it's about the relationships/drama of the LIVING. This is why The Walking Dead is SO dialogue heavy, and why it just doesn't work as a haunt. ALL OF THAT BEING SAID, I REALLY enjoyed this house. The facade/entrance was executed very well. I loved seeing some scares happening outside of the actual house. Set a pretty awesome tone of what we're about to see here. Walking (LOLOLOL) in, man, what an impressive set. The heads in tanks with lil' Governor saying hello, Woodbury, the prison, all super impressive. The scares were definitely there. Super aggressive, in your face, LOUD. I really enjoyed walking through the wind-y (not windy as in weather or the physical act of blowing) fence area while walkers were clawing at my face. The finale was just fantastic. The strobes really threw me for a loop and a walker managed to get a little jump out of me. Really, I'm just super-impressed with what I saw here. That being said, why Walking Dead? This really could have been Deadtropolis: Hellgate Prison. I mean, I KNOW why, but I feel there could have been a few more liberties taken and things changed up. I don't know, this could have been something super original and maybe a little more....scary given it was something that could have been deviated from its source material. With "that being said" being said, I say yes. This house was a VAST improvement over last year (except for that hospital scene last year *WINK WINK*) and I really have no complaints. YES. House Count - 2 (I wanted another run, but couldn't happen) House Rating - 5 walker heads out of 7 tanks. The Cabin in the Woods 1 cabin, 1 woods, 1 plot-twist, and a whole lot of blood. I never thought I'd see this film come to life in form of a haunt. It was pretty pumped when I heard about it and was excited to see how they'd pull it off. I'm VERY happy with what I encountered in here, although, it did feel a little short. Or maybe it just left me with wanting more. MOAR. A queue video! And a DAMN good one. Plenty of chuckles and it set up the house pretty well. Entered into the woods, the cabin (in the woods) was really well crafted and the scares were there. The Buckner's all did a really good job, but honestly, I was just WAY too pumped to go into the facility. And man, did it deliver. Sugarplum fairy?! AMAZING. The cenobite-looking-dude? HECK YES. THE PURGE AREA, SO GORY; I was smiling ear-to-ear when I hit those elevators. Going into the control room...OH, COME ON! MERMAN. YESYESYES. I loved everything about this. I loved seeing "KEVIN" on the wall, although I wish we were able to see Kevin; It'd be funny just to see a dude standing there with a cup of coffee say "hello" to us as we were creeped out. The finale of the house was VERY abrupt. Like I said earlier, I just wanted MORE. I would have loved to have gone further into the facility and saw the sacrifice chamber, and then end up back into the woods to see the GIANT hand of the ancient, and then close the house with Nine Inch Nails. Just a little wish of mine. No scares from here, but just pure amazement. You all did a fantastic job. House Count - 3 House Rating - 57 Sugarplums out of 1 ancient god. Resident Evil: Escape from BadgerRaccoon City Better than all of the movies...better than Resident Evil 6. At least we didn't have any Quick Time Events. (YOU WON'T GET THAT REFERENCE UNLESS YOU PLAY VIDEOGAMES) Our second videogame house! And it's on a classic series. I love that we're getting some love from Capcom on this one; totally based on the videogame series, specifically on 2 & 3? Yeah. Sign me up. Sign me up yesterday. As soon as we entered, hearing that very low, very angry "RESIDENT EVIL", man, pigeonbumps (pigeons, right?) They literally pulled that first scene from the videogame. Then, into the butcher shop and we get--WAIT. THAT'S A PICTURE OF SAMUEL MEETZ. HOLY CANOLI. That seriously made my day. From there, the first couple of rooms are pretty forgettable, that is, until we hit those pups (of war). When you go through the house for a second time and you hit those dogs (of war), you KNOW it's about to get great. Everything was kicked up 10-fold here. Seeing those lickers, AWESOME. Although, the one actually being controlled by a scareactor, he was looking a little rough. Like, "hey, that's a head on a stick" rough. I look past that, though, because the energy from the cast, and these sets are great. Like, really great. Look above! It's NEMESIS. He didn't say "STARS". Way to let me down, you giant mutant with a gatling gun. Way to let me down. Seeing the Hunter was awesome, and he got a spook out of me, but man, he looked ridiculous. It was so funny, but I loved every ounce of it. So cheesy, but amazing. The house ends with RCPD, another Nemisis, and I'm dead. Seriously, I didn't make it. Sorry dudes. Review ends here. This whole thing was ghost written by my cat and there's no more notes. Hi, I'm cat, and what he says is true, there's no more notes. Time to lick my crotch for 6 hours. House Count - 3 House Rating - 4 STARS out of 1 STARS. An American Werewolf in London The TARDIS. I mean, that's all we need to know. AND THIS IS MY HOUSE OF THE YEAR. Actually, this is TIED for house of the year. A HHN first for me. I'll get into why it was TIED and not the THE house of the year. Wow. I can't say one bad thing about this house, except that I didn't get scared or spooked in this house. I was just blown away by literally everything in here. Those wolf puppets? Absolutely stunning and terrifying. They were HUGE (that's what sheI said)! If this were a FunSpot commercial, those puppets would be in it; IT'S HUGE! I guess you'll only get that joke if you live in Central Florida. This house is PERFECT. Absolutely perfect. You get the story from the title, no explanation needed. You understand what's happening even if you didn't see the film. You know you're about to see some god damn werewolves. And man, we did. That transformation scene? Holy heck! That was so badass. Those Nazi Demons! Scary! Going into the subway system! I was on edge! A porno theater!? brb, give me 5 minutes. Seriously. Start to finish, perfect execution. There is nothing wrong with this house. Everybody involved knocked it out of the Piccadilly Circus. Kudos and love all around. But what was up with that police officer and his whistle? That was...the whimpiest whistle I have ever heard. Although, he made it up when I said "WHERE'S THE DOCTOR" and without skipping a beat, he said "DOCTOR WHO?!" Cheeky bastard. House Count - 7 House Rating - 12 Doctors out of 1 TARDIS. Evil Dead Tree rape? More like a perfect first date. AND THIS IS MY HOUSE OF THE YEAR. Again, I'll explain after this! I know, you're just dying to hear. My horror franchise. This is mine. This had to be perfect. I even loved the remake (or IS IT?!) I've been waiting for Evil Dead for years (granted, I wanted Ash) and holy necronomicon, it did not disappoint. Hearing the tape recording and seeing the pages from the necronomicon, I was peeing myself like an evil spirit just invaded my body. Unfortunately, I just REALLY had to go to the bathroom. The house lead swung by, mopped it up, and I continued on my journey. EVIL DEAD that....that's just awesome. I really wish the sign kind of "turned on" so it was brighter and that awesome/terrifying music played like it did in the film, but that's just a dream. I like that we immediately got into the business, we started off with that bearded guy who seriously would NOT die reading the passages and then seeing the evil projected onto the cabin walls...that's just ingenious. AND THEN MY FAVORITE LINE FROM THE FILM HAPPENED AND IT WAS SO GOOD. youareallgoingtodietonight oh SNAP. It just got REAL up in HERE. What next?! Tree rape! And then it just followed the film perfectly: vomiting evil, cutting faces, cutting arms, nails in the face, cutting tongue, dead cats, GOREGOREGORE. It was just...so beautiful. Seeing it all just made me so...happy. Kudos to TWO ladies in the house: you were my only scares in this entire event (except for the Hunter in Resident Evil). Face cutting Mia who comes out of the curtain and the demon in the woods before the chainsaw scene. You both got me, and got me good. Thank you both so much for that. You guys were aggressive and deserve the recognition! Also, kudos to the "youareallgoingtodietonight" Mia. If I could marry you, I would. You set up this house perfectly. I would clap and say "thank you" every time because you sold it SO well and it just made me incredibly happy. thank you thank you thank you. I am so happy with this house. I loved every second of it...even the worst looking fire effects on the planet. House Count - 4 House Ratings - 11 Boomsticks out of 1 Cabin (Groovy) Now, why do I have to House of the Years? It's simple...we kill the Batman. No wait, sorry. It's simple...BECAUSE I SAID SO. American Werewolf is HotY for it's quality for set pieces. Seriously, it's probably one of the best houses in the many, many years (way more than Agalloch) I have ever seen. It was clearly a labor of love, and the actors filled in their roles very well. It's just perfect. Evil Dead is HotY because it was SCARY and beautiful. The house was well-crafted, crazy loud, energetic, and the cast was going gorillas all night long. Both those scares I got were near the 2am mark; that proves how dedicated this cast is and keeping the scares all night long. The house, while not perfect (damn near close, I'll tell you), made-up for it in those scares. HOUSE RANKZ 1. Evil Dead: YOUAREALLGOINGTODIETONIGHT 1. An American Werewolf in London: Time to get Werewolf'd 3. The Cabin in the Woods, starring YOU! 4. Resident Evil: Evil Just got Resident...ed....RESIDENTED. 5. AMC Presents The Walking Dead Presents Halloween Horror Nights [colon] The Walking Dead: No Safe Haven 6. Telemundo Presents: Urban Legends: Mexican LadyLa Llorona 7. Vengeance of Afterlife: Death 8. Havoc: Please NoDerailed The Official Walking Dead Halloween Horror Nights Scarezone Street Experience Presented by AMC's The Walking Dead This would have worked very well if it were, say, one scene from the Walking Dead, but on a MASSIVE scale. Maybe all of New York, or...all of Hollywood with just...Walkers everywhere. Get a couple of overturned cars, some very minor sets, and load it up with scareactors. Like...60-80 a cast. The streets worked, they did. It just got..boring after you went through every zone. It was all the same. In years past when the lines would hit that 45+ mark, I used to sit with some friends, and enjoy the streets do their thing. Seeing different areas doing different things. Now, once you saw one zone, you kind of saw them all, right? I guess that's the issue, more of the same. I like that they tried to do something new, something that's honestly a pretty neat idea. But the streets were too few, and too far apart. Shrek alley, Despicable Me/Shrek street (is it still call plaza of the stars?), Twister corner, and down between New York and Transformers; these all needed walkers. Even if it were only 10 people, fill in those gaps, make the whole park feel like it was overrun. It should have been one VERY large zone with a ton of walkers OR cover the entire park with smaller groups. I appreciate new things! Walker Truck thing?! Awesome idea, and honestly, worked out pretty awesome. Chainsawz, glad to see you're back. Opening park show? Yes, every year, please. Just fantastic execution on that opening show. Really set the tone, and I loved lining up with the folks outside, and seeing them all clap when our hero ate it. Really, just awesome. Survivors were a nice touch and added to the atmosphere. Again, this just needed to be EVERYWHERE, or do ONE GIANT ZONE, depicting the first 2 seasons as we lead into the house, which is Season 3. I liked it, but I miss my old fashioned scarezones. Give me more of Troupe Macabre or Fractured Tales if you need to do simple scarezones. These zones had little sets, but were AMAZING. STREET RANKZ The Walking Dead *wink* Things I wish to see next year ( or just in general)? -Bioshock House -Arkham Asylum House -Slenderman house (JUST WOODS) -Leave it to Cleaver 2 (house or streets, don't care) -An icon (bring back Jack if you need, say he escaped from The Facility, or BLOODY MARY) -Sure, bring back Walking Dead, but limit it, and don't make it the focus. -Simple merch. Please, no "Zombie Nation", this isn't a German electro band. -You want to create something AWESOME? Halloween Horror Nights: Carey, Ohio. Imagine our event--the whole event--set in Carey, Ohio? Man, that would be SO awesome. See some awesome sequels, and you can dive into the lore they've been creating for YEARS. Was the Universal Palace Theater set in Carey? If so, boom, we can bring in our IP's, too. And that's it ladies and germz. A pretty solid year. Had we had a variety of scarezones, man, this year could have been probably one of the best since 17 or 18. Still a solid year, though. kbye.

How can you say the event has gone down since the "mid-teen" years when you didn't start attending until 14. The "increasing" use of IP's? If you attended in 2007, you'd realize that there we just as many IPs that year compared to this year. And many people consider 2007 one of the best years since the event started. 2002, mostly IPs, again, considered one of the best years of the event. You're using your opinion as FACT, and it's not. I personally love IPs and original houses. I love being able to go through something I already love and experience it in real life. 2009 is probably one of my favorite years because of this; basically all IPs, and the best house (next to Cleaver) was a use of many IPs. Hell, this year American Werewolf is one of the best houses I've seen in the 15 years of me attending this event, and that's saying A LOT. HHN is still HHN. If you attended pre-2004, you'd see that the event feels like what it did in the 90's and early 2000's, and that's not a bad thing. Yeah, I'm still waiting for that HHN-18 again, where everything was PERFECT, but I'm very satisfied with what everybody is doing.

or the pull-cord ripping apart...or forgetting to turn the choke on... /sigh. Guilty of both.

...wat?

uh...

...in the show, The Walking Dead, which the scarezones were based around, they had somebody drive walkers in a truck....to the prison...and... ....you know, forget it.

I think many of you guys forget that the streets used to be set up daily before the event started, especially over in IoA. just chill, dudes. also, DON'T TALK BAD ABOUT THE PARADE.

my most anticipated house! I've been wanting an Evil Dead house for....YEARS. I wish I had the pleasure of scaring in this house, but I'm just happy I'll be able to experience it. So pumped.

" In other words: IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BRING A RESUME! Doing so makes you look stupid, and you still have to write everything down. " I disagree and say bringing a resume makes you look like you care and does not make you look stupid. It lets the casting directors know any experience you may have on stage or in theater, and if you've done any haunts in the past prior to HHN, I'm sure having that experience on paper doesn't hurt. just my two cents.

a Slendy street or house could totally work. Just the idea of a complete forest-of-a-house sounds... so awesome. Imagine just walking into house that's basically pitch black with just trees everywhere. That'd be terrifying. a street would be legit if they did something like Field of Screams; multiple paths and stuff. yum.

Dead Space came out after Horror Nights 18 started and nobody really knew what the plot of Dead Space was other than the fact that you killed aliens. Interstellar Terror was very much like Event Horizon.

This. one-hundres-and-fifty-thousand times this. If the day park gets better, everything else will be better. Potter did nothing but amazing things for Universal. I wish more people realized this.

Yes, that is stupid. The thought of putting the parade on hiatus is silly. And yes, Wesker is right: People DO come to Universal for the parade. If you don't believe him, believe me.

thanks, dudes.

I would like to thank all of YOU who have given me an awesome 6 years of scaring. I said last year was going to be my last year, but I came back one more time to scare. This year is my LAST year and I'm sticking to my guns on that one. Thank you to everybody who walked through your dreams in Nightmare on Elm Street, faced the evil queen in Scary Tales III, went up to Carey, Ohio and ate some delicious meets in Leave it to Cleaver, met the Wolfman in 20 Years of Fear, tried your luck with the Spade Minions in Your Luck Has Run Out, and finally faced the walkers in The Walking Dead. I appreciate all of the spooks and scares I was able to give everybody. Thank you all.

review is posted. Ka-blammy.