frh777 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 (edited) Okay, so I went last night to HHN 24 and I had extremely high expectations soaring from AVP to Roanoke, My expectations weren't met in any way shape or form. I will be back later to evaluate if the energy of the scareactors has changed so this is the first review: This is the ranking of the houses Dollhouse of the Damned 10/10: This is by far the best tent house I have ever gone through in the history of HHN. From the facade to the finale, you become immersed in a very disturbing environment. The crib room is cool because of the smells but is very over hyped, what I will say is try to taste the room... The scenery throughout the house is nothing short of spectacular and huge props to the guy dressed as a mummy who scared the living daylights out of me. My expectations were beyond met in this house and it is simply amazing. Halloween 9/10: A&D congratulations on this one. The house is nothing short of spectacular and the scenes are replicated exactly like the movie. The guy from the dark room with fake statues made me go down with his knife so props to you bud. It is a very well put together house and I believe that they really did justice to John Carpenter's classic. Unfortunately the facade projections were broken so meh TWD: 8/10: Wasn't expecting to like this one at all but Aiello you beast. The environments are great and I really like the animatronic horde (from Hollywood last year) despite many people hating it. Strobe lights are used very effectively and the finale is really well put together. Zombies aren't scary, that is why this house doesn't get a great rating. Beside me liking the maze, it is crucial that TV show properties are changed for the 25th anniversary... meaning no more walking dead Giggles and Gore 6/10: I don't really like mazes that take place in the disaster queue because space is very limited inside. Clowns don't scare me at all and there is not a lot of gore inside the house. Unlike the other three, if I hadn't read the house plot I would have absolutely no idea what was going on. Th discarded clown part of the factory is cool but other than that... not very much going on FDTD 4/10 : The sets were extremely elaborate but the maze didn't make sense at all. The maze should have started with the bar scene and Santanico dancing, instead of curtains with a bunch of Culebras. The scare actors in this house weren't great and the Culebras are obnoxiously loud. I hated the TV show and until this day I can't figure out why it became a house at halloween horror nights AVP 3/10: Some person with a cardiac condition decided to go in a house that clearly states "NO PEOPLE WITH HEART CONDITIONS SHOULD ATTEND" and they ended up having a heart attack. A lot of the xenomorphs were shut down because of this and the great finale scene. I saw about 2 xenomorph puppets and 3 predators. Many of the effects weren't working so I will have to update this review when I visit again. The only good thing were the sets which they absolutely nailed from the facade to the egg room. The puppets were amazing but there were only 2 of them. I was looking forward to this house the most, and it turned out to be one of the worst houses during my experience. Roanoke 1/10: Why? Just why did they have to scrap a house based on the boogeyman and make this horrible thing with sets thrown together. Literally looks like it was put together in a week.... similar to a home haunt. The cannibals aren't scary at all and if you are hoping to see a wendigo, you are up for disappointment. The stilt wendigos look horrible. There is a little bit of gore but the rest is plain pathetic. Sorry to rant but this is one of the worst houses if not the worst that HHN has ever put together. I really expected more from them. Scarezones: Masquerade 2/10: The only reason this doesn't get a one is because the human candles looked cool. Other than that, the scare actors had no energy whatsoever and were basically wondering throughout the zone without making an effort to scare people. HORRENDOUS Purge 5/10: Sets were kinda cool but I literally only saw about 4 purgers. Come on its purge night, everybody should be purging, The actors also had very little energy and the only group that was somewhat effective were the chainsaw people Bayou of Blood 3/10: NOT SCARY AT ALL. BUNCH OF PEOPLE WITH MINIMAL MAKEUPS !!!!! NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS EXCEPT THAT IT WAS WELL LIT Face Off 0/10: A joke, a literal joke. More like a photo op for people instead of a scarezone. Some of the characters weren't even from the TV SHOW and the minions did a horrible job at scaring people. Don't waste time on this one Overall Event Rating: 6/10 I MUST SAY I WAS TRULY DISAPPOINTED THAT IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THIS EVENT HASN'T BEEN RATED 8/10 OR ABOVE FROM ME Also, first time I wasn't able to go through all the houses with an express pass, because the lines were too F***** long. Wasn't able to do Dracula but I will on my next visit. Edited September 22, 2014 by frh777 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duh1011 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 While I agree that the cannibals and wendingo-s weren't scary, I thought the oooooother scares (no spoilers!) were pretty creative and one of them got me. What did you think about those? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frh777 Posted September 22, 2014 Author Share Posted September 22, 2014 I liked them but I just think that the decision to scrap the boogeyman house wasn't great. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duh1011 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 I'm.... Not too sure how a boogeyman house would've played out..? Lol it just sounds kinda funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cody Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 AVP 3/10: Some person with a cardiac condition decided to go in a house that clearly states "NO PEOPLE WITH HEART CONDITIONS SHOULD ATTEND" and they ended up having a heart attack. A lot of the xenomorphs were shut down because of this and the great finale scene. I saw about 2 xenomorph puppets and 3 predators. Many of the effects weren't working so I will have to update this review when I visit again. The only good thing were the sets which they absolutely nailed from the facade to the egg room. The puppets were amazing but there were only 2 of them. I was looking forward to this house the most, and it turned out to be one of the worst houses during my experience. The rest of this could potentially be justified as opinions (even if I think most of them are wrong), but this just seems plain unfair. Giving a 3/10 because you went through the house when a medical emergency partially shut it down? That's like saying the Honda Civic is a terrible car because someone took three of the wheels off and emptied the tank before giving you a test drive. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frh777 Posted September 22, 2014 Author Share Posted September 22, 2014 I'm judging the house as it was on the day I went. I'm sure my opinion about it will change when I visit again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clash Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 I'm not sure about making a review because half of the houses felt disappointing to me but I like your honesty. I totally agree with you on Roanoke, it does have the feel of a cheap haunt. (I'm sure those sets are not cheap, but the house feels cheap) and I agree that there is nothing scary about the cannibals, It is a pretty weird house. Just wanted to let you know you were not the only one that felt that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelz Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 At what point in time was a boogeyman house scrapped in favor of Roanoke? The only scrapped house was replaced with fdtd? Or so I thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legacy Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 At what point in time was a boogeyman house scrapped in favor of Roanoke? The only scrapped house was replaced with fdtd? Or so I thought. It was a toss-up for a while. FDTD was expected to replace Roamoke while the original boogeyman house was in a soundstage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clash Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 I kind of forgot what replaced what, but now that I saw the houses. it hurts to hear lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Matador Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Roanoke 1/10: Why? Just why did they have to scrap a house based on the boogeyman and make this horrible thing with sets thrown together. Literally looks like it was put together in a week.... similar to a home haunt. The cannibals aren't scary at all and if you are hoping to see a wendigo, you are up for disappointment. The stilt wendigos look horrible. There is a little bit of gore but the rest is plain pathetic. Sorry to rant but this is one of the worst houses if not the worst that HHN has ever put together. I really expected more from them. I don't think Roanoke was the replacement for a scrapped Boogeyman house. Roanoke was hinted at last year by all of the hidden Crows inside the houses. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDW Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Wow you opinion on Roanoke seems realy harsh. But to each his own. The amount of raw lumber alone in this house is staggering. It's all real wood and they have to treat it weekly because of fire codes. I Personally loved the house. They have sometreally great scenes, smells, and gags. A little gore? Practically evey room has half eaten corpses, cooking bodies, piles of bones, a fountain of blood... heck the finale room is insanely gorey. Body parts hanging everywhere, a mound of skulls 4 foot tall, a huge windigo effigy on the walll. The room is literally two stories tall and wall to wall body parts. Other than splashing the walls in red paint, I can't imagie how it could be more gore. But how do the Windigo's look bad? I'm curious what it is you want them to be? As for Bayou. I thought the makups were really good for the four I saw only one was not great. They are voodoo people... the whole makeup relies on the outfit and the accoutrements. The faces are almost always skull makups or something of that nature. Again, I'm curious what you expect? As I said to each his own but dang you seem bitter or something. I stood in the rain for 7.5 hours, waited up to 75 min for houses, pretty much missed all the scarezones, and yet still had a good time. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neko Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 We also went through the AVP house right after that happened. My son had waited all night to go in to that house and to have so much of it "missing" when we went through was really disappointing as my husband and I had gone through the night before and really enjoyed it. But, that's why we always go more than once, and it sounds like you do too. I think you'll score it higher when you get a chance to go through with everything working/in its place. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cody Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 (edited) Also, the wendigo look like that in Roanoke specifically because of the storyline to the house; the interviews that revealed the original houses and scarezones covered it. They're not REALLY wendigo. The Roanoke colonists have begun to think that they've transformed into the wendigo because they've committed the ultimate crime of cannibalism, but they're otherwise regular humans. The "wendigo" are literally just crazy colonists dressing themselves up as the monsters. Edited September 22, 2014 by Cody 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomemadeHaunt Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Not sure if you are serious about your Roanoke critique. I suppose everyone is entitled to their opinions, but I enjoyed roanoke and found it to be pretty cool. It didn't seem like it was thrown together in a short amount of time and there were some cool scares throughout the house. Also, Roanoke was really gory. Next time you go through it, look at all the body parts, skulls, an even a few costumes. The gore factor is definitely there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForeverEvil1 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 I do agree with others that it does feel you are being harsh with Roanoke. I will agree scares were lacking, but I don't see how the sets were "home-haunt". Also, nothing's worse than Afterlife to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDW Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 I do agree with others that it does feel you are being harsh with Roanoke. I will agree scares were lacking, but I don't see how the sets were "home-haunt". Also, nothing's worse than Afterlife to me. Fear Factor or Jungle of Doom for me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForeverEvil1 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Fear Factor or Jungle of Doom for me. If I had gone those years, I may agree. I've heard that Fear Factor was pretty bad. Haven't heard too much about Jungle of Doom, besides some room with pots I think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duh1011 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 I liked the afterlife last year, 3-d houses are always special. I'm sad that there wasn't one this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForeverEvil1 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 I liked the afterlife last year, 3-d houses are always special. I'm sad that there wasn't one this year 3-D just doesn't work for me, with my glasses. Also, that house was hella dark. Too dark. Also wasn't a fan of the "sets". But to each his own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legacy Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Fear Factor or Jungle of Doom for me. So much hate for Jungle of Doom... Everybody forgets Disorientorium and Cold Blind Terror. Though Fear Factor was pretty bad... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4thdegree Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Fear Factor or Jungle of Doom for me. A friend and I were trying to remember what year Fear Factor was just the other day. Could you please remind of the year it was done? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tich0las Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Gotta disagree on Roanoke. Thought it was one of the many highlights this year. You also gave Halloween a 9/10 because of the projection screen being broken? Oh, and about the Boogeyman house...isn't Halloween technically a house based on the boogeyman? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legacy Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 A friend and I were trying to remember what year Fear Factor was just the other day. Could you please remind of the year it was done? 2002. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDW Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Oh I remember hot bright inferno. But Disoritorium.. ya got me. The one year I missed :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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