The Director of Horror

Is there such thing as Scareactor of the Year? I love this house so much. Everything is done perfectly. My "perfect things" list: -Queue Video. Oh, the Valentine's Day kill... -Façade. Simple, but I love it. -Casting. I always tried to go through Cast A and loved everyone there. -The Gore. Perfection. -H.R. Bloodengutz Actor (Cast A & . He's awesome. -VD II Dance Lighting. Possibly one of my favorite lighting effects this year... -Uncle Sam Wants You Firework Warehouse. The dummy with the Roman candle shoved down his throat… A&D, y'all are genius. -Leprechaun Cave Set and Lighting. I love it. -Arbor Day Girls (I usually always saw Cat A). Oh my God. -President’s Day Bomb. I memorized the beeps to which I would always gesture when it went off. We loved this effect. -President's Day Sofa Body. It's quite gory... -Thankskilling Scent. My cousin and I would always start huffing it in once in the transition room. -The Thankskilling Pilgrim and His Lovely Musket. I saw you laughing at me. You must've remembered me from all the times I visited. -Ho Ho Homicide Elves. I don't get scared by them, but they're just so cute!

Into the Woods / the Witch from the Sleepy Hollow soundtrack was play from what I recall.

Here are my shots from my Unmasking the Horror Tour with Chip (W. Wilson) and Wesley (HHNPicMan) on the 1st. Thanks for the tips, guys!

Here are my shots from October 1st...

I memorized this house like the back of my hand, but what is the "two-way sign"?

My Rankings: 1. 7 2. Minions -- 3. Your Luck Has Run Out 4. Canyon of Dark Souls 5. Nightmaze -- 6. Grown Evil 7. Acid Assault

My Rankings: 1. H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror 2. Saws N' Steam: Into the Machine -- 3. The Forsaken 4. Winter's Night: The Haunting of Hawthorne Cemetery 5. The Thing -- 6. Nightingales: Blood Prey -- 7. The In-Between 8. Nevermore: The Madness of Poe

In order to see the Red Death, you must look up...

Am I the only one that thinks a roof is absolutely necessary in the Masque of the Red Death room?

My guide told me that they were discontinued.

Saturday, October 1st *I apologize, for I didn't always note what casts I went through. The Forsaken Forsakens (what's their official name, anyways?): I got a fantastic scare from the one on the right of the tilted room right after the floorboard actor. Saws N' Steam Cast A: I love you guys. Even though I had memorized this house like the back of my hand from the amount of times I had gone thorough, I still get great scares due to the intensity of the cast. Got a Nightmares shout-out in the flesh aquariams by Cast A and an "off with your head gesture" (Cast targeted at me while I caught a cast change in the queue line. Luke, I remember your said that might have been you. I got a pretty good scare by the air piston actor behind the oil drums. I got a fantastic mega-ping pong scare by Cast A I think. Every actor from the pre-waterfall room to the outside chainsaw attempted (and succeed) scaring me. BloodenGutz Cast A: I adore y'all. I especially love opening scene H.R. BloodenGutz, the leprechauns (Y'all are constantly moving around.), ***Arbor Day girl (Oh. My. God. You are amazing.), ***Thankskilling Pilgrim (You know who you are. I saw you laughing at me. You're awesome.), and the elves (Y'all didn't ever get to scare me, but I still love you guys.). Nightingales Overhead Finale Banshee: I'd absolutley love to have your job. Winter's Night Little Girl: You've always tried to scare me, so thank you for that. 7: Every single one of you are incredible. I epecially love Vanity's minions for always remembering me through out the night. I have a little story to tell, so here you go... I started taking photos down by Vanity and the next thing I know her minions are started to creep me out, so I move down to Lust. Of course, Lusts minions get a jump scare out of me. Sloths minions take note, and get me running into Envys minions, they run me into Wraiths chainsaw minions, which makes me run over to Greeds minions, and to top it all off, Gluttonys minions for a good, last startle scare from me. It was a ping pong scare, but 7 times scarier. Mel's Minions: Y'all are by far my favorite characters at the event this year. I truly do aore you guys... the way you walk, the way your coats flow in the wing, but most importantly,I love y'all's dare I say swagger. Grown Evil Owl: The ground owl on the right closets to the exit into Kidzone got a great scare out of me. Canyon of Dark Souls Stilt Walker: Y'all are very talented. Great tag teaming between the ground actors. Acid Assault Wheelchair: You are by far the scariest and the most talented scarezone actor of this whole year. Nightmaze: Y'all have improved greatly (from the reviews I've read) from opening weekend. From when I went through, I noticed you all were constantly moving the walls. I even got abruptly got cut off a couple times.

My UTH tour guide told me that the hats were discontinued. Also, does anyone else notice that the house shirt says "The Thing: Assimilation".

I don't know who, but an actor (Cast B I think) pointed at me while in the queue during a cast change at did the "off with your head" gesture. Also someone commented about my Nightmares shirt in the water tank scenes I thinks. All of Cast A was absolutley fantasic on my run-through during the 6:15-7:00 period on Friday the 30th. This house and H.R. BloodenGutz are pretty much tied for my very, very favorite house of this year. If allowed, would any of y'all (the actors) mind sharing your role names and the scene names? I'm currently making a quick draft of a floor plan for my home haunt based on Saws N' Steam.

Being my favorite characters of HHN 21, I'm quite dissapointed to hear that the sticks are gone. The sticks allowed the actor to discretely maneuver the crowd, then pop their sticks. With the chainsaws, I just can't see the minions moving as well as they did. Besides, the chainsaws just don't fit well at all with the minions, anyways.

It's a Spanish inquisitor holding Poe's severed head. It's basically in the same room as The Pit and The Pendulum. (The room right after the Tell-Tale heart is The Raven hallway.

Friday, September 30th *I apologize, for I didn't always note what casts I went through. The Forsaken Finale Actors: I love the zip line effect in the finale. I was caught completely off guard while watching the gliding actor and the two ground actors got me wonderfully. It was one of my best scares of Thursday night! (Cast The In-Between Winged Demons: Y'all are great and always seem to get scares from me. (Cast Nevermore Spanish Inquisitor: Your e-prompt is quite loud. I've known where you are forever, but you always happen to get me. (Cast ?) Saws N' Steam Cast A: Every single one of you were beyond incredible Friday near park opening. (Cast A) Queue Video H.R. BloodenGutz: I love the actor in that video... a lot. Arbor Day Girls: Favorite scareactors of Horror Nights. Y'all are amazing. (Both Casts, but especially Thankskilling Pilgrim: You're definitely one of my other favorite actors of the event as well. You've gotten me every single time, and you know it. Holidays of Horror Cast A: I love you guys... The Thing Cast A: Y'all are so intense! Keep up the great work! Winter's Night Miniture Actor: I've learned you should never look directly into a miniture model. You must get about a thousand scares a night. (Cast A) Sloth: Wow, you're really impressive. I love the way you move Mel's Minions: I always got excited whenever I was about to enter this "area" last night. Y'all have my vote of "Creepiest Character". I love my minions... Canyon of Dark Souls Stilts: All of y'all are very talented. Nightmaze Actors: You all have improved greatly (from what I've heard) since opening weekend.

Nights: 2.5 The Forsaken - 4 The In-Between - 4 Nevermore - 6 Saws N' Steam - 7 Holidays of Horror - 7 The Thing - 3 Nightingales - 5 Winter's Night - 6 Bill & Ted - 0 Death Drums - .5 Jaws - 1 Mummy - 1 MIB - 1

Over the last few days a few houses have closed for a while before being opened later in the night. Would anyone happen to know why they were closed (or perhaps what usually causes a house to close)? In other news, last night I finished up my HHN 21 trip. I must say, I found this year exceptional well done! I can't wait to read more reviews and see how everything evolves.

I got some absolutley amazing scares in this zone on Thursday night! The first demon Luck near Mummy was able to get a good scare out of me and every single ground actor tag teamed me. I do agree that the mask are quite cheap looking, so hopefully Universal will fix that by the end of the event. The minions, I believe, are wonderful characters. They look incredibly disturbing, get great scare out of people, and their staffs get some great startles as well. I love the dummy victims in this zone (the axed head and the cards in mouth) Last night (Friday) was as good as Thurdsay, but I still enjoyed going through it.

Yes, the portrait gallery holds a painting of Poe's wife Virgina. He says her name and then the painting reveals Virginia's corpse.

Last night, I noticed that the ops acted exceptionally well! I never really had that bad of an encounter with one.

Thursday, September 29th *I apologize, for I never noted what casts I went through. The In-Between Demons: Y'all were great last night, especially the one in the dorm room finale! Great scares! Nevermore Raven: The first raven in the hallway got a great scare from me! BloodenGutz Pilgrim: I'm a bit confused whether it was a pilgrim in the Thankskilling room or an actor with a musket in the President's Day room... but man! The blast was incredibly loud, the light was blinding, the scare was very sudden, and it had my ear ringing for the rest of the night! Nightingales Banshee: The very first banshee above the guests feasting on a soldier was extremely eerie. You made me feel quite uneasy for the rest of the house. 7 Minions: All of y'all were really pretty good! I got a few good startles from y'all. Your Luck Has Run Out Cast: Every. Single. One. Of. You. Were. Absolutely. Fantastic. (The minion under the bridge closest to the lagoon gave me one of my best scares of the night.) Bravo! Lucy Minions: I got some of the best scares of night for y'all! You all really work well together with just yourselves.