The Director of Horror

I went last year with my mom. But this year my cousin is coming with us, and my mom doesn't want to go on the tour. (I am a child, 13 years old. But I won't get impatient, since I'm the one wanting to do it.)

Would I be able to go with my 18 year old cousin?

Could someone please post a link to the behind the scenes survey. When I took the the other surveys.

Anyone have any thoughts above the hhn-themed dinner at CityWalk? When I took the poll that question got me interested in what they could do.

I was serious. I need house ideas.

Ahhhh! Anyone want to pitch in some ideas for mazes, please. haha

I can't either! EDIT: Still a little slow, but it's now working.

Doctors?

Not neccisarly, just American Gothic atmosphere.

Hey Agent, me and Diego (Andrew Ryan) have been discussing about this project for the past few days on chat. I talked to him about if saw the event with a skoolhouse or american gothic atmosphere. He said American Gothic, Shotguy thought American Gothic, and I did too. So I think the overall atmosphere should be more like that, but there can a couple houses or scarezone with the skoolhouse atmosphere. Also I think we should stick with Shotguy's concept for Sam. "My concept for the icon was to give him and american gothic look, mixed with scars on his face to resemble a scarecrow (but not actually make him a scarecrow)" Also, ever since I knew the theme was traditional halloween, a whole house for witches, a whole house for devils/demons, skeletons, and ghosts has been a though. Except the more I think about it, the less ideas I have. I have great rooms ideas for devils, skeletons, witches, ect., just don't know how to do a whole house based on them. I guess I could stretch the scene of that one room throughout the whole how, but then the overall house quality and enjoyemnt would suffer.

They were zombies. It was called War of the Living Dead, or are you talking about something else? BTW: What did y'all think of my concept art for The Halloween Tree over Kidzone circle?

Here's the tree concept art I made a quick sketch of:

I know I actually agreed with the icon as Sam Hartley, but why not just make Samhain the icon. He will be featured in houses and scarezone (since "god of halloween"). But Sam Hartley is good. Which ever one would work.

The only things I could think of would be screamhouse, frankenstein, or RUN. Screamhouse would probally go in a soundstage. Frankenstein would probally go in a soundstage, but probally won't come back. And RUN would make sense since the trailer park burnt down, but that would most likely go into Diaster! queue. It's way too early to guess on houses this year though.

Drunks. Especially the type of drunks that can't even walk thru a house and stop up the flow of the line. (It was in The Spawning, get it, flow of the line, flow of water.) I don't tell very good jokes.

These are my drawings and concept art that I have drawn. Tell me what you think! This Little Piggy: Steampunk Electrical Prop: The Count: The Creation: Horrorwood Concession Stand: Friends Til' the End: The Hallow: Interstellar Terror: ** My drawings aren't very light, it's just the scanner doesn't "pick up all the color".

Should I do one house themed towards witches, one towards ghost, one toards devils, ect.? Then I could do one house, like The Hallow, that features the witches, ghost, devils, ect. all condensed into one. If not, then should I connect all the house in some way, like I did with the Gris-Gris for the voodoo theme?

Sam Hartley Sam would be short for Samhain.

Thanks!

Not really an update but, what song is the one playing when you see the page where it asks whether you want Hollywood or Orlando?

Here's my idea for a Trick 'r Treat based house. You enter in Emma's yard with all of the ghost scarecrows. You can see the facade of the house, it is an unpractical set. You come upon Emma's severed body with the pumpkin lolipop. Then Sam jumps out at you with a sheet. You enter through a gate in the fence and are now in the yard of Mr. Kreeg. His yard is full of jack o' lanterns. You enter under the porch and into the den. You see Sam run across the hallway upstairs. Once you exit the den and enter into a hallyway leading to the bedroom you see Mr. Kreeg strugling for his life after being attacked by Sam. Still going down the long hallway you hear a shotgun blast coming from a room to the left of you. Then you enter the bedroom with the flaming jack o' lantern and red writting all over the walls. You exit the house and now are in the backyard of Principal Wilkins digging the grave for the kid he posioned, Charlie. You walk through a tall wooden fence surrounding the yard and are now in what seems like a rock quarry filled with thick fog. There is very little light and you here the voices of children taunt you. Shortly after, the flickering of the bus headlights reveal the children in their costumes, inches away from your face. After you escape from the children you are on the path lit by jack o' lanterns in the forest. After you are distracted by Laurie in her Red Riding Hood costume, a vampire tries to attack you, which later turns out to be Principal Wilkins. Afterwards, you come upon the suprise party. All of the girls are ripping out of their storybook costumes and transforming into werewolves. You see their dates, dead. Once you are about to leave the party, mauled and scratched body of Principal Wilkins falls from a tree with his his vampire costume. You leave the forest and are in an area filled with thick, dense fog. The only thing in sight is a jack o' lantern. You see the flame go out, everything is dark. Then an extremley loud scretch is heard, a blinding light is flashed several times revealing Sam's face in jack o' lantern form. Like it?

Would Andrew and I have permission to do a Trick 'r Treat house. I think it fits this this theme perfectly, is a movie (which means it is recognizable to some degree), and could work perfectly as a house.

I totally agree with Shotguy, we are not looking far into it. So I went on wikipedia and read mostly everything and got an idea. It might, in fact it won't make complete sense, because we've only been working on this theme for a short while. The voodoo queen (which ever one we choose) requires sacrifices for the voodoo practices. Which in this case will be similar to a Body Collectors or Blood Ruins, but set in New Orleans around the 1840's. So similar concept, whole new atmosphere. What do they do with all these sacrifices, like I said above, use them for voodoo practices. This is the maze that will show them "bottling up" the sacrifices and making them into their "potions". Food plays a huge culture in New Orleans todays and many years ago. There happens to be this local restaurant where everyone loves to go. From the outside this looks like it has nothing to do with voodoo, but it's in the kitchen where all the fun begins. The God limba was a cannibal like Shotguy said. So various voodoo followers go out to where the sacrifices were made and gather all the "left-overs" they can find. They bring them back over to the restaurant and separate all of the bones from the meat. They've been running low on bodies so some select voodoo followers go out into some of the infamous above ground crypts and... grave rob. But while some are robbing bodies, the others are robbing the dirt around the crypts Back then it was common to have voodoo ceremonies underground, and not in houses. So some select voodoo followers are assigned to dig out these underground areas. While they are underground, digging out tunnels and rooms debris collects. Such debris like stones is not overlooked. Not much of this makes sense now, but the Gris-Gris is the main thing that ties it all together. A Gris-Gris is an amulet that protects the wearer from evil and brings luck. These are very popular in voodoo. The Gris-Gris is a small cloth bag containing herbs, oils, stones, bones, hair, nails, grave dirt, and other personal belongings. Tales of Terror in 05 centered all on the cycle of things such as the blood wine, sacrifices, and her dagger. This theme centers all on the cycle of things. Bones from the cannibal restaurant, the stones from the underground areas for their ceremonies, grave dirt from when they would grave rob if they are running low on scarifies, and the hair and nails from the sacrificial harvestings (Body Collectors) all would go into this small pouch. You also saw me mention “select voodoo followers” a few times. Along with the main icon, there could be all of his/her followers or “workers” helping with the chain-cycle. *Sorry if you don’t like my ideas, we all have different ones* *I could only think of 5 houses*

I'm up to the challange, but I don't know how Andrew and I could base 8 houses off voodoo.

Original I 100% agree with shotguy about NOES & Horrorwood