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    Halloween Horror Nights 29 Speculation

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    On 1/21/2019 at 11:59 PM, HorrorUnearthed said:

    I mean I could see Split since Glass is in theaters and Universal is not representing it but would want it but it wouldn't be a standalone house, it'd definitely have a short part in The Horrors Of Blumhouse if they chose to use it but I mean my hands are in the air on what we honestly would get for Blumhouse, I mean I could see Happy Death 2 U, The Gallows since the sequel is coming soon and the film was done back to back with Happy Death Day 2 U and there's also Truth Or Dare and Unfriended since the sequel Dark Web had come out just near the end of last year on Blu-ray, I honestly don't wanna see Unfriended or Truth or Dare to come to the event but if Blumhouse want those films to be shown, you know Universal can't deny the request and have to do it. 

     

    Oh lord no, I didn't mean the film Split as a house. I just meant it could refer to the split-entrance/dual house rumored. Half-naked James McAvoy impersonators running at me would not really by my cup of tea haha.

     

    Argento has so much in his body of work that would make for just incredible house moments. I have to add, Dead Exposure: Patient Zero's use of color is what really got me hyped about that maze, way moreso than any of the strobes or totally dark sections. I'd imagine anything inspired by Argento's collection would evoke the same response. :)

     

    Now, the only other movie that "Pink & Blue" called to mind was Mandy. But even though it was critically successful and it could honestly make for a kickass house (shades of Ash vs. Evil Dead with a neon twist), it still feels like a very small and relatively unknown property to get as an IP.

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    Halloween Horror Nights 29 Speculation

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    51 minutes ago, PeoriaBJJ said:

    Kinda off topic but did anyone else watch Hell Fest and miss HHN? I thought that was a cool movie and kept thinking this is like HHN if they let in 10% of what they usually let in!!!

     

    I saw Hell Fest during my trip to HHN, haha. Made for a fun little pre-game excursion to Cinemark.

     

    Chaney Phantom of the Opera turns 90(!!!) next year. I can't imagine we wouldn't get Browning and that property in some aspect. A revitalized modernization of the Phantom's story similar to 2009's Drac & Frankenstein houses would greatly interest me, for sure.

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    Halloween Horror Nights 29 Speculation

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    I agree that Bandersnatch would not make for all that great of a house, but I certainly considered some routes of the film to fit in my umbrella of "horror", in an existential sense (maybe not the train route, but definitely the "chop 'im up!" route and subsequent ending). That being said, the horror there would be difficult to capture in a maze, as the whole tale has a very Poe-esque mental degradation narrative, while also akin to a "lost tape" creepypasta at it's wildest. 

     

    I'm down for Stranger Things being the only Netflix allowance for a while. I haven't really made up my mind on whether Haunting of Hill House would make for an eclectic and entertaining enough maze.

     

    Channel Zero is my only other real TV wish. Any season of the show moves through plenty of setpieces that would translate well in a maze setting. Plus the antagonists' costumes/makeup are always genuinely slick and inventive.

     

    Aiello tweeted that he was watching Bride of Re-Animator today. Oh, to dreammm... <3 Man, a Stuart Gordon Lovecraft-adaptation montage house would be DIVINE

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    Halloween Horror Nights 29 Speculation

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    ^Dollhouse of the Damned or Tomb of the Ancients, for me. Those seemed incredible. Didn't have a chance to experience the event until this past year so really anything from 2017 (Hive, Scarecrow: TR, or Dead Waters) would catch my interest as well. I think this year's Twisted Tradition zone could be fleshed out into a solid original maze.

     

    I doubt creative wants more Blumhouse, but that's really up to contracts between higher powers, unfortunately. I feel like Uni Classics will be saved until year 30, just a hunch.

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    Halloween Horror Nights 29 Speculation

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    2 hours ago, killswitch22 said:

    1) 1970’s carpet and wallpaper designs. 2). The music of Al Bowlly. Hmmm...what could it mean?"

     

    The Shining would 100% have been the obvious guess, but as you said, already been done so recently.

     

    Rob Zombie's 31 used a Bowlly song in it's soundtrack and was set in the 70s, iirc. I didn't love the movie and a house would basically be RUN! set in the 70s, but it would fit.

     

    Also thought of NoES as well, good call!

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    Halloween Horror Nights 29 Speculation

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    ^I think it would depend on the IPs, for me at least. If they're good and unexplored or new takes on IPs, I'm all for more of them.

     

    Hellraiser is one that I'd be curious about, but I ponder how the team would find enough variety in the original movie's scenery to create diverse rooms. There's a lot going on in 1 room of 1 house with chains everywhere. And most of what makes the film so memorable is the subject matter: psychological/psychosexual with pain/pleasure stuff that would be challenging to capture in a multi-room house. But again, after Poltergeist, I'm open-minded at the team's creativity.

     

    Thinking about something last night: I feel like Channel Zero's material could be worked in best starting off as a Scare Zone. That's been a solid way for A&D to test the waters with other "less famous" IPs before giving them a full-blown house. Granted, Candle Cove & Butcher's Block would definitely be more adaptable to a zone than Dream Door (which would be challenging as anything but a house, I suppose). I could just picture the amazing costumes and scenery that the team could develop for Jawbone, Horace, Toothy Boi, and the whole Candle Cove cast of crazies. <3

     

     

    Slaughter Sinema

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    Just a follow-up: Halloween night was my last time visiting Slaughter and I will forever be thankful to the cast that made it the perfect walkthrough of my favorite maze. It seemed like almost everyone was in the house that night and I had lucky timing to be the mark for almost every actor.

     

    I'm actually feeling euphoric thinking about what a great way that was to close my first year at HHN. Just in case anyone who worked that night visits these forums, your work is wicked important and really means a lot to me. <3

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    Halloween Horror Nights 29 Speculation

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    8 hours ago, Jediwhit82 said:

    Overlord was great, could make an ok house, but I don’t think anyone will touch any nazis in haunts for at least another 40 years or so. I wouldn’t mind an original taking inspiration from the lab, especially the awesome imagery of what he found, basically do an original where the faction doing the experiments is different. 

     

    Not going to debate that, one could certainly argue that the sociopolitical climate is different now. However, I do find it a really cool coincidence that War of the Living Dead was a Scarezone in 2009, and shares almost the same exact premise as Overlord.

     

    Speaking of things celebrating anniversaries, the following movies were released in 1989 and would fit the narrative of A&D wanting to mine more 80s ground:

     

    OG Pet Sematary - So yeah, making a house for the remake seems like something they'd want to cash in on. I just feel like it may have to be overly reliant on puppetry, which kind of worries me.

     

    Halloween 5 - If they can't secure permission for 2018's movie, this feels like a given, but I'd also be nervous given the lack of unique setpieces in the movie.

     

    Nightmare 5: The Dream Child - Far from my favorite in the franchise, but Mark & Greta's dream world scenes could be fantastic rooms to walk through. SuperFreddy oof lmao. Hopefully the rumors that Uni is trying to get Freddy back are true and prove fruitful.

     

    Jason Takes Manhatten - My guilty pleasure in the Friday franchise, idgaf what anyone says. A ship-turned-streets house could be incredibly cool too. If Universal could get Jason back on top of Freddy, we'd be in business here.

     

    Puppet Master - You'd have to go the route of that one Chucky house and follow a narrative that you've been Honey I Shrunk the Kids-ed down to their size, but I lowkey really want actors dressed as Blade and Tunneler popping out at me.

     

    Shocker - It's a Universal-distributed Wes Craven affair, but I don't know how well it'd translate to a house. 

     

    1999 Releases:

     

    Sleepy Hollow - Is everything Tim Burton did under Disney's foot now? Hopefully not, period pieces like Sleepy Hollow always make for great houses. Especially with that trippy dream sequence involving the iron maiden. Plus, CHRISTOPHER WALKEN HORSEMAN YES PLZ.

     

    The Sixth Sense - Honestly, probably the most popular feature on this list. Feels a lot like Poltergeist where it had a few scenes that were creepy when my generation were kids, but A&D could flesh those scenes out into a more impressive house.

     

    House on Haunted Hill remake - And The Haunting, but there wasn't much there to give scareactors to do. HoHH at least had visible ghouls (including the always dapper af Jeffrey Combs one). Still don't see this as likely.

     

    The Mummy - I mean, they have the ride and have shown the film a lot of love in the past. I could totally see a 20th anniversary house for it.

     

    Virus - This is kind of a longshot, but I mentioned in on Reddit as well. It's distributed by Universal. It turns 20 next year. It's set on a ship, and ship houses are always well-received. And the practical effects in the film were astounding (even if that was all that was good about the movie). I'd be cool with a house for this, fleshy android monsters tick a box for me when it comes to horror stuff I love. Also, DONALD SUTHERLAND ROBOMONSTER PLZ. 

     

    2009 Releases:

     

    Drag Me To Hell - Fun times, this movie. Doubtful though.

     

    My Bloody Valentine 3D - Was already done in Silver Screams. Kinda doubtful as well.

     

    Zombieland - Everyone is speculating it, and I don't doubt it as a possibility. Wouldn't be my favorite property for a house, but it could be fun I guess.

     

    The Collector - Ayyyy, kinda always had a softspot for this movie and I think it could make for a badass house, or just be Saw revisited and disappoint. Still, probably not well-known enough.

     

    Dead Snow - If we can't get Overlord for Nazi reasons, this definitely won't happen. But hey, I think it could make for a fun sequence or 2 if Silver Screams got a new house for Mr. Usher.

     

    Friday the 13th remake - Again, no shame, I enjoyed it. Would be totally fine with trap-setting Jason getting his own house. Waaaay better than the trash Nightmare remake, at least.

     

    The Human Centipede - Please no. -_-

     

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    13 hours ago, HorrorUnearthed said:

    I don't think that'll stop Universal though from doing it, at the end its all about money, plus Blumhouse and Universal have such a great friendship, I can't see them stopping Halloween from coming to the event

     

    I don't know, the Mouse is a fickle beast. And Miramax, whether during the Weinsteins-era or not, have always been pretty difficult to do business with.

     

    Blum did an interview with Forbes recently that makes the Miramax block seem even more likely. Like in the following quote:

     

    JB: "We worked on it. We tried it, John tried really hard, and I tried really hard too, but the winds were not behind us on that one. However, hopefully, that'll happen for next year, potentially we could make it happen. We'd like to try."

     

    The only other guess I might find reasonable is that Orlando wants to save H2018 for their 30th because of how popular it was. That leaves next year to either finish off the original Myers "era" with an H5 house (how this would be all that different from H4, I have no clue), or do Curse, or skip over 2 of the worst 3 movies in the pre-Zombie franchise's history and go right for H20. Because H20 is awesome. :)

     

    Then again, in my perfect dreamworld, "The Horrors of Blumhouse" would be replaced altogether with "The Horrors of Argento". Or Bava. Or Fulci. Or Cronenberg. So what do I know? :p

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    23 hours ago, Tman875 said:

    In case everyone forgot....Chucky has already had a house with demented toys. It wasn't super popular or well liked. I don't know why they would try another one.

     

    People probably said the same about a couple of movies in the franchise too lol

     

    3 hours ago, krazyhorrorkid said:

    Silence of the lambs- This would be a good PG-13 house to use. We have seen this type of format the past few years, like with The Shining and Poltergeist. And for people stating this wouldn't translate well, dig through last years topic someone made a house map thing. (Idk what you guys call them) 

     

    I think the best route to turn SotL into a full house would be using an approach similar to "Through the Mind of Norman Bates", a meta house that delves into Mr. Lecter's thoughts. Would also let them go all-out with gore for 1 house, or still keep it reserved if need be. The potential is sort of limitless there. 

    11 minutes ago, Legacy said:

    It’s owned by Disney.

     

    That’s the deal.

     

    It's been speculated before, but does Disney's nabbing of 20th Century Fox take their horror movies off the table as well? Eg: the Alien and Predator franchises, Wrong Turn, and The Fly?

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    1 hour ago, Jediwhit82 said:

    Five nights at Freddie’s would make an excellent house though, ignoring the demographics it would bring in, if you just take the concept by itself, a house in an abandoned Chuck E. Cheese with disturbing imagery, dead children, and lots of use of puppets would be great

     

    Totally respect that. Though I think about people commenting that the Klown outfits would be too cumbersome for a house, and I can't help but feel the characters from FNaF would present the same obstacles. Maybe I just don't know enough about the mythos to understand what other things actors could be dressed as or how different all the rooms could really be.

     

    1 hour ago, Ueeediot said:

    There is absolutely nothing scary about it.  The movie was never intended to be scary and there would be no scares at all in a tent.

     

    This pretty much describes Slaughter Sinema, yet it was my favorite house of the year. I haven't really found any movie or haunt attraction "scary" since I was a wee child though; I'm more into horror as much as I am for the creativity, intrigue, and entertainment of it all. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose. 

     

    I certainly agree with you that the Scare Zone was weak af though. Great, accurate costumes and a couple of playful actors, nothing more.

     

    1 hour ago, Ueeediot said:

    In a KK tent, You'll just be watching the movie in the maze. 

     

    This was my reaction to what footage I've seen of the Saw mazes from years past, tbh. I personally think that Klowns has room for some outside-the-box thinking much the same way that Poltergeist wound up surprising me with the creative liberties taken. I don't find anything in Poltergeist particularly frightening, even the clown. But the immersive experience that the creative team provided really showed their passion for the film, and I feel like certain members of that team have seemed just as passionate about Killer Klowns as well.

     

    Again, I'm not a big fan of turning it into a house either. But knowing how beloved it was by Aiello & friends, I'm being somewhat grounded talking about what their vision could be for next year. 

     

    Now for ST2, beats me how they could possibly turn that into a house and that worries me. The Mind Flayer is just so monumentally big that no trick I could think of would truly simulate it's presence. 

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    16 minutes ago, sikbyrd350 said:

    What else is coming out? 3 From Hell, Escape Room (that premise has the potential to make a good house, whether it's an IP or original), Zombieland 2...

     

    Rabid is getting remade, iirc. Would probably never happen, but a Cronenberg house would make me wicked nostalgic. 

     

    The James Wan-produced La Llorona was getting ridiculous trailer time in theaters before I watched both Hell Fest and Suspiria last week. Didn't look like a great film, and it's been done as an original at HHN before, but it's Wan so I'm sure people will go see it. Same with that awful-looking Exorcism movie that looks like Autopsy of Jane Doe without all the interesting parts. 

     

    Death House sounds like it was a flop, so unfortunately that's not going to pick up enough steam/popularity.

     

    And I guess it's never too early to pre-empt all the kids clamoring for a Five Nights At Freddy's house, especially with a movie supposedly in the works for this year. Ugh. :/

     

    I remember hearing about a Maniac Cop remake, but I think that's stuck in production limbo, sadly...

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    ^That was my first thought as well. I think it's do-able, but most of the "scares" would have to come from things that aren't the Klown actors themselves. Surprise popcorn gun attacks, popout balloon animals, actors playing dissolving cotton candy victims could be particularly effective. And the last 2 nights I visited the Scare Zone, an actress was added who had a puppet eating her arm. That could work. Mooney after he gets killed and turned into a dummy would be amazing too. Jojo, the "final boss" Klown from the movie, would absolutely have to be an animatronic or harness puppet. 

     

    It would require a lot of thinking outside of the box. But Poltergeist this year definitely proves that the creative team is capable of doing that. 

     

    And yes, I would absolutely prefer another Chucky house. Curse and Cult were triumphant returns to form for the franchise. I would be too awestruck by a Fiona Douriff lookalike to pay attention to anything else in the maze though <3

    Halloween Horror Nights 29 Speculation

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    11 hours ago, RevFreako said:

    Can we please stop with the Stephen King spec? King isn't going to sign off on any haunts. We got the Shining and It because Uni and WB used the movie property and not anything that was King's to sign away. Also I seem to recall Uni's PR got in some trouble for using King's name early on in some advertising.

     

    Oh, I'm well aware. Hence my very pointed, "IF HE WERE TO ALLOW IT". ;) 

     

    I mean we could all just take this thread super seriously & follow the same road of realistic visions for next year, and admit it will be Stranger Things 2, plus 5 Blumhouse mazes, with every scarezone being a photo-op for your family with a Demodog, a Happy Death Day babyman, and a box of Eggo waffles. Would that appease the trivia gods?

     

    Halloween Horror Nights 29 Speculation

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    Stranger Things 2 and Killer Klowns feel like givens to me. Man I'm hoping ST2 can pull off the Mind Flayer, but I have no idea how. Big projection screen? Mirrors? Halloween 2018 or 5 seem logical too (5 if 2018 is saved for year 30). My discussions with a ticket-taker seemd to indicate that Aiello wanted to dive into more 80s properties in 2019. Also that Universal was working to get Freddy back.

     

    Pet Sematary would definitely make sense. But I would also be down for a King montage house, if he were to allow it. Pet Sem, Cujo, Salem's Lot, the prom from Carrie, and the beach from Duma Key (special for Orlando, given the book's setting).

     

    For the last potential IP: A NoES house if they get Freddy back (I'd be elated), Re-Animator (or even Evil Dead again), Return of the Living Dead, Aliens (OG Alien will be turning 40, iirc), Demons (longshot, but it was 80s and it would make for a pretty easy house), The Fly, or Hellraiser. I just watched it, and it would never happen, but Motel Hell as a house would be ridiculously fun, lol.

     

    I would absolutely love a Channel Zero house in the spirit of AHS (or for individual seasons). It's a Syfy production, so the chance is always there. I just don't think it's ever going to be popular enough to be selected. :(

     

    Non-IPs I'd like to see return:

     

    Silver Screams. It's been 10 years since The Usher's year, would be happy to see him back and he could take some of the above concepts that couldn't be fleshed into full houses and make them work. 

     

    More HR Bloodengutz

     

    Something expanding upon the church in Twisted Tradition

     

    More Nightingales

     

    More S.S. Frightanic

     

    More Scarecrows

     

    More Body Collectors (although I expect them to be reserved for year 30 as well)

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