[HHN 21 ♠ Official Meetup List.]

I will be going tonight!! I will be wearing my HHN Sweet 16 shirt and will be with a guy friend. If anyone sees this and happens to see me come say hi! Scareactors reading this, scare us good Looking forward to an amazing time.

[Freakazoid's Review of HHN XX]

Man, you think the drunks are annoying? The first year I went to the event, in 2006, I went on MIB with my friends and there were beer bottles everywhere on the floor while waiting in line. My friend sat in her seat and discovered that someone had poured beer on it. Talk about nasty. Since then, they have cleaned the parks up a lot. I went on MIB this year and it was spotless and quiet inside since I went on a non-peak night. The drunks can be annoying for the most part except for some funny moments which make waiting in line a little less boring. What can I say, drunk people generally are entertaining to me.

[Tis Mae.]

So the baby skeletons are new. I like it. Sad that I could only go once this year. At least I was able to do each house once and without dealing with crowds. Catacombs was a great house though, in my survey I told them that I would love to see these doctors again. I don't know how, but man I would love to see them and The Body Collectors together somehow.

[My Review]

Hades rocked and was really intense. I could only go for one night but I wish I could have hit that house again!

[xdarling_dearx's Review (September 30th)]

It is a pretty great house, like I said, this year was just different from others since it was tough for me to pick my favorite houses from others. Catacombs is just as good as the stage houses. The scareactors in here are really working hard to get everyone if you ask me. This one is up there too at number 3 I would say as far as which house is the "scariest" one. My friend, who has never gone before, really liked this one since it is the only house based on something that actually happened. The sets are excellent and do make you feel a little claustrophobic like someone else said.

[xdarling_dearx's Review (September 30th)]

So let me start off by saying that I had a great time last night. I was pleasantly surprised to finish all of the houses by 9:15 and the weather was wonderful outside. My friend and I arrived 20 minutes early and we went straight to Legendary Truth: The Wyandot Estate first. This was a great starting house!! Loved the neat effects in this one and the scareactor who is an object you would not have suspected. Not spoiling it! I sure hope to have another Legendary Truth house down the road.

Next, we hit Psychoscarepy: Echoes of Shadybrook. I really enjoyed myself in this house and kudos goes out to whoever was the "hand" on the left side of the hallway of hands on jail cells room. Thanks for high-fiving my friend You pretty much made his night and he continued to try to get high-fives throughout the rest of the night and no one else would break character lol!

Then, we hit Hades: The Gates of Ruin and found this house to be intense, if I had been leading us through this house I would have totally walked into scareactors left and right (I kept walking into stuff throughout the entire house and agree that there are too many items hanging up). I was pretty lost in this house and it was dark. I feel this is the "scariest" house of the whole event. I got sprayed too lol.

Ok, so our route through the event was stage houses, parade building, tents, went on MIB, Orfanage, and Zombiegeddon last. It worked out well. We had 15 minute waits for stage houses and pretty much just walked right into the parade house as well as both tent houses. Our only waits were about 30 minutes for each Orfanage and Zombiegeddon.

Horror Nights: The Hallow'd Past was fantastic. I loved getting to go through the warehouse and ogle all of the props. Lots of fond memories from the previous 4 years I have gone. Great collection of rooms from Horror Nights past. Loved getting to see the gentlemen and zombies again.

Catacombs: My friend really appreciated the attention to the doctors' historically accurate appearance as far as having gas masks to try to protect themselves from their patients. I thought that this was a pretty decent house.

Havoc: I honestly just wasn't that interested in the storyline. The scareactors in here are definitely an aggressive group, though I didn't hear the "insults" others have heard or quite as much yelling as I was expecting.

Orfanage: An interesting house with some nice touches for the entrance to Good Harvest. I felt that this house had quite a few "dead" areas though. This is the first house I've ever been in where it made me feel sad (historical treatment at some orphanages and all). I did get to see Cindy at the end of the house though! I also liked seeing a kid in there who was wearing a mask that reminded me of The Skoolhouse.

Zombiegeddon: Enjoyed the video out front and music. This was a pretty fun house to go through. I got to see the zombie baby when I went through! Nice storyline here, and it was great walking through the garage with the van we were speculating on for so long, this room was full of zombies and I definitely love the tie in to the scarezone at the end.

After we finished with the houses, we got something to eat and then hit scarezones for 45 minutes before leaving at 10:30. Again, I was shocked that we got everything done that we wanted to do so easily. That, and my friend had a very early morning ahead of him. I'm curious to see if the recession will keep people away from the event or not.

As for scarezones I really really loved 20 Years of Fear scarezone and getting to see favorites return. Mary Shaw on skates or whatever it was, if she had gone after me she would have got me good. I wish I had got a picture of when I saw one of the gentlemen sitting on a park bench off to the side next to an older couple. It was just a kodak moment and the woman was creeped out.

Fear Revealed was just like everyone says it was so I didn't stay there long except for hanging around Chance (excellent girl playing her, and got a great pic) and Jack. The Coven was ok. It was nice and dark in there but no one went after me Saws and Steam was great, loved the mini show and the chainsaw guys were excellent. Two of them tried to get me at once but I didn't flinch. Pretty proud of myself. I'm still a coward in the houses though. I went through the alley and tried to tape it. I haven't reviewed it yet to see if it came out good. Lots of guys in there. I really enjoyed getting to watch the scareactors in the ZombieGras scarezone. We were waiting on a friend that we saw in line behind us so we spent a good 10-15 minutes just watching them work and they've got a lot of spirit in this cast. We were hanging around 9:15-9:30 I think. When I first walked in this zone after Orfanage they tried to work together to get me here as well though once again I didn't flinch. I love getting the attention though. Escueleto Muerte is beautiful and despite what others said they do go after people. I don't find it scary but a few of them hissed at me as I walked past them. I found the creepy music interesting for the zone since you expect a party atmosphere but it isn't. Go to ZombieGras for that They do give out some beads from what I saw before ambushing everyone.

One last thing for this year, I find it very hard to rate my number 1-8 as far as houses go. Quite a few of them are kind of tied for me. #2-6 are all just kind of a jumble for me so even if it seems like its "low" on my list I still thoroughly enjoyed it. This is the first year I can say that. These houses were all pretty decent if you ask me. Here are my lists:

Houses:

1) Horror Nights: The Hallow'd Past

2) Legendary Truth: The Wyandot Estate

3) Psychoscarepy: Echoes of Shadybrook

4) Hades: The Gates of Ruin

5) Zombiegeddon

6) Catacombs: Black Death Rising

7) Orfanage: Ashes To Ashes

8) Havoc: Dogs of War

Scarezones:

1) HHN 20 Years of fear

2) Fear Revealed

3) Zombiegras

4) Saws N' Steam

5) Escueleto Muerte

6) The Coven

[HHN XX Website Updates]

I am loving this update and this year looks like it will be awesome! Love that Cindy's finally getting a house to herself, and that Legendary Truth is as well. I've never been in a Psychoscareapy house either so now I get a chance to I'm not feeling psyched over Havoc yet, not enough description as someone else mentioned. Curious to see how Legendary Truth's house will be executed and how the general public will feel about it. I definitely like the mix of past meets future and hooray for zombies! Can't wait to see Fear revealed and these other great scarezones. GREAT JOB A&D!!

[HHN XX Speculation II]

mmmm, lol I don't know

the problem is that there are no movie related houses, because there are horror movies with this type of environment, Maybe the professors turn against the students lol

Maybe it could go the route of Sorority Row? Probably not, but just a thought.

[HHN XX Website Updates]

Loving the update and the way the roman numerals change when the site is loading!!! Very awesomeee. Once I saw the lantern I immediately thought of Medusa for some reason with the snakes and the way they are made of stone just like how she was turned to stone, but its probably no connection.

That is what crossed my mind as well. This event seems more and more to go with the whole mythology idea. Even the use of roman numerals and all. Someone mentioned willow huts before too. I can't wait to learn more!

[HHN XX Speculation]

As much as I dont LOVE Jack or reunion years.....I think your wrong on this.

I think it looks like a younger version of Jack. Dont get me wrong its not a great quality vid but.....The Hair is similar,just shorter or less untamed. The make-up also looks very similar, the same colors in the same areas, just not as large/out of control.

Its not the version we're used to seeing but.....it could be him. I don't think there is any evidence that it's NOT him.

Maybe this is a larger clue than we all think? Maybe we are really going to see the beginings of these characters....and Horror Nights itself. Maybe we are looking very far back into the Horror Nighhts scrap book?

This gives me hope that they might have really done something special......something better than 16...better than rehashing houses,or throwing together random crap from a whole year and calling it a house/maze.

I would love this! I'm kind of hoping now that this would be it...I just wonder though how they would do this with Mary since we saw her beginnings in '08?

[House return/sequel wish list]

Ok, so I would love to see a Scary Tales 4 house for certain. Someone on the speculation thread mentioned labyrinths in regards to the greek mythology house/room. It made me think of the movie Labyrinth and how I would LOVE to have that as a scene in a Scary Tales house. Anyone else second this? I'm not even sure about specifics myself about creeping this story out but I think it could be done with A/D's creativity. This movie was based on Alice in Wonderland and Wizard of Oz after all which were part of 2008.

[HHN XX Speculation]

If the Skool was in a house, that would be AMAZING!! Hell, it would do great as a house by itself. Well in my opinion it would.

I agree 100% with this. At the sz in '08 that teacher always kept beating down his cane and even though I knew it was coming it scared me every time! I just really love the creepiness and detail that area had. They could make a Carey, OH house where we go through that area and have the Skoolhouse, a scene with the sewers from last year, etc. but I would still want mostly the Skoolhouse though