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If Mike Allielo takes over Hollywood, I would not mind at all if they copied and pasted the houses over here. Of course they'd have to make them fit.

1. AWiL 2. Cabin in the Woods 3. La Llorona 4. Evil Dead 5. Afterlife 6. Resident Evil 7. Havoc 8. Walking Dead

I would love to see what Orlando does with Trick r Treat if it's happening.

Totally bogus tease for the West Coast!

Oops. You're right. Added that to my review.

I really procrastinated on this review so I decided to finally take the time out to do a review on my experience. I'm just going to review the houses.shows and cut right to the chase. The Walking Dead: No Safe Haven! - First house that we hit as soon as the gates opened. This was a walk-on since everyone hit all of the sound stage houses first so this was great for us. There was some very good detail in the house, but the Woodbury scene felt a little cheap in this scene with the brick walls. I got some really good scares in here but I prefer Hollywood's version with how they faithfully recreated all of the scenes. Cell Black C looked much smaller than I imagined. Scares: A- Sets: B- Overall: B Urban Legends: La Llorona - Wow. For a sprung tent house, this was absolutely beautiful. I thought both of Hollywood's incarnations were some of the most beautiful sets that they have ever done, but I think Orlando has stepped it up a notch here with the scares and the sets. The underwater scene was really cool and the river scene that they did was BEAUTIFUL. If felt like I was right in the middle of a village. Very well done house and definitely better than the Hollywood version. I just prefer the West coast's facade a bit more though. Scares: A Sets: A Overall: A Afterlife: Death's Vengeance 3D - To me, this was the weaker of the houses as 3D mazes just aren't my cup o' tea. The sets were very bland, BUT the scares VERY much made up for that. This was more of a visual/cool house to disorient your vision to make things much scarier. That's exactly what this house did and I liked it. I thought that room with the killer in the electric chair over your head was a really cool room. Scares: A Sets: C- Overall: B- Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure: After not being so impressed with our Bill and Ted show over on the West (It has improved though), I think this is the much better show. I thought the jokes regarding Avatarland and JJ Abrams were hilarious! I also loved how the whole plot of the show actually RELATED TO HALLOWEEN! HOLY SMOKES WHAT A CONCEPT! This was actually the first time I saw Bill and Ted over on the East since I skipped it when I went in 2010. Pretty solid show. Overall: B+ American Werewolf in London - Being a fan of the film, I was really excited to be able to go through this. I have to say, everything about this house seemed perfect. When I walked through the transformation scene, I just couldn't help myself pointing at the scareactor yelling, "You need to kill yourself David!", and going through the Slaughtered Lamb asking what that star was on the wall for. The puppets for the werewolves were AMAZING! Picadilly Circus looked incredible with all of that immersion and that girl on the double-decker gave me the best scare of the night! I loved it so much, I want this to come to Hollywood next year. Even if it's not quite as good, that's fine with me. I just want to experience this again next year. I'm in the popular consensus that this was the best house of the event. Scares: A+ Sets: A+ Overall: A+ Evil Dead - Everything about this house was SO much better than what Hollywood did. All of the scenes from the movie that Hollywood did with static dummies were all done with live actors in this one. Again, this is another one that Orlando did far better than the West coast. The finale was so much more epic with the large room and the cabin exterior as well as the basement scene. The whole house felt like I was actually in a cabin...in the woods. I was also surprised that this didn't feel at all too similar to the other house which I hinted at earlier. Really good house. Scoreboard - Orlando: 2 Murdy: 1 Scares: B+ Sets: A Overall: A- Havoc: Derailed - This was actually my most-anticipated house since I thought the whole concept of a derailed train sounded awesome, but it actually didn't come off as strong as I had hoped. I did get some good scares in this house, but the sets seemed a little repetitive. The crashed train was neat but it didn't really feel that convincing. I enjoyed it nonetheless. Oh, wasn't there supposed to be a slanted platform from the Forsaken in there? Maybe that got cut? Scares: B Sets: B- Overall: B- Cabin in the Woods - I loved this movie, but not quite as much as AWiL, so I may be a little bias towards this. But I thought it was cool that they took a different approach to this house from the regular "We're just going to walk through the most memorable scenes from the movie" approach. They actually had you be apart of the action by using the facility staff to communicate with you. With that aside, I also loved how they built an actual cabin for the house. It looked really neat but I didn't like how it was just a straight-shot right through the wide room. I'm sure the scareactors got tired of hearing the "Help us!" audio queue thousands of times during the night. Despite the really cool scare where the guy would get you from above you, I didn't think this house was as scary as everything else. I thought the final scene was cool and I did spot the Thing and Jack! This is another property I'd like to see come to Hollywood, but I would prefer AWiL over this though. Scares: B- Sets: A (Cabin was awesome) Overall: B+ Resident Evil: Escape from Raccoon City: I'm not a big fan of the games, so this probably didn't impress me as much. This is another of the less-scarier houses but the sets were REALLY cool. Aside from the lack of scares, one thing I hated about this house was that it was LOUD. Oh my word, I had to cover my ears in the part with Nemesis shooting down at you it was so ear-piercingly loud. It was a cool scene though. This house felt more like a tribute/love note for the fans of the game as it didn't focus too much on the scares. Scares: C+ Sets: A+ Overall: B Rocky Horror Picture Show: I hate Rocky Horror. The movie nor this show is my cup of tea. I only saw this because my friend loves it. Not going to bother reviewing this. Afterwards, I had time to get a second round of the Mummy during the event (My favorite ride there) and a second trip through everything but Walking Dead. Overall, I had a BLAST at HHN. I think 2010 is a little better, but I loved having the privilege of getting to go. The scare tactics that were used all felt varied even though some of them felt very similar to Hollywood and got mixed in with some Haunt-style scares sing audio triggers. For example, if someone stood there like a statue, there would be a really loud audio trigger which felt super-effective. Murdy should look at Orlando's and see how they do it. Not every scare should be a guy jumping out of a curtain or a door that everyone can see, and certainly not every single scare has to use an obnoxious strobe light. The water gags were used very conservatively in La Llorona and Evil Dead and actually put you into the environment.

You were there the same night I was! I wanted to say hi to you, but I never saw you. I never got to see anyone I recognized for that matter. Also, great review. I have to agree with you on AWiL being the best of the event. I'll post my review when I can.

I'm ath the front gates right now! In case you guys are in the park, look out for a short haired mustache guy wearing an HHN 23 lanyard and a "New era if darkness" shirt.

Hatetofly reported on Twitter that this is going to be the shortest house of the event with a mere eight scenes. So far one of those eight scenes look awesome.

Holy crap. They're doing everything from the movie. I just saw a concept rendering of a London bus in one of the pics. This is going to be one amazing house!

Sounds like Afterlife is going to be the "meh" house to me. Wasn't really that impressed with the pics to be honest.

It's possible, but I doubt it. Probably just an exaggerated description to create hype.

I just re-watched the movie last night. This is going to be a really cool house. I would like to hope that they would use a puppeteer for the snake or squid creatures, but alas, I think they'll all be used for AWiL. And I noticed how eerily similar it is to Evil Dead. The cabin looks exactly the same but without all of the nines and the wear.

OOOOOOOOOHHHHhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! NO HE DIDN'T!!!!!!!!!! But seriously, I love the detail in this house.

I'm really impressed with the river scene. It looks far better, IMO, than Hollywood's "black walls surrounding the pool" room.

I'm looking at the site right now. I don't see any photos for AWiL.

Holy smokes! The prison sets look amazing! I'm not really impressed by the Woodbury town set though. It looks a bit cheap and something pre-40th Knott's would do.

1. Havoc: Derailed - I think the concept of a derailed train for a haunted house sounds very unique and really cool. Looking forward to this. 2. American Werewolf in London: Loved the movie and I am looking forward to seeing this played out 3. Resident Evil: Not a fan of the games, but the characters and environments sound cool. 4. Cabin in the Woods: Same thoughts as AWiL 5. Afterlife: Death's Vengeance: I love the idea of guests following in the footsteps of a serial killer. Sounds like a really great concept. 6. Walking Dead: I'm interested in seeing Orlando's version as I will be seeing Hollywood's. 7. La Llorona: Already saw both version of Hollywood, which is why I'm anticipating this less, but I look forward to the East Coast's rendition. 8. Evil Dead: I can't imagine it would seem too radically different from Hollywood so this is at the bottom.

Screamscape leaks all of the IP houses: Strike One Evil Dead gets leaked from DVD ad: Strike Two Resident Evil gets spoiled through Publix: Strike Three I thought UO learned by now that IP houses just aren't their specialty.

I'm really curious how they will do the theater since...well, this is (For the most part) a PG-13 event. Maybe they'll loop a clip of the guy talking or something. But I'm going to guess the scares are going to be mostly from the British folks or from the Nazi werewolves.

You know why I'm excited for this house? 'nuff said.

This should be a cool house. I'm not generally a fan of the 3D houses, but I'll give this a chance. I'm looking forward to compare this to Black Sabbath when I go to both events this year.

Coming from Hollywood, I've had the privilege of getting to experience both of Hollywood's well-done renditions on this legend. I'm looking forward to seeing the third incarnation.