Halloween Horror Nights 2024 (USH) - Speculation & Rumors

[Wesker69]

I'm offended. How dare they try to entice me like this with Universal Monsters imagery! ....I'll take 3

 

[saint.piss]

 

[Jerroddragon]

Sorry if this has been answered before why is USH fine with POV and people videoing the houses but Florida is not?

 

[Jake S]

Sorry if this has been answered before why is USH fine with POC and people videoing the houses but Florida is not?

I'm not sure that they are.

 

[Jerroddragon]

I'm not sure that they are.

Does USH have new rules? Normally they let anyone film

I mean they are letting Five Fires post a POV days before the event

 

[Clive]

Sorry if this has been answered before why is USH fine with POV and people videoing the houses but Florida is not?

I've too wondered this and genuinely don't know.

 

[Brian G.]

Sorry if this has been answered before why is USH fine with POV and people videoing the houses but Florida is not?

I'm not sure that they are.

Per the website, they technically are not allowed - but it is never enforced.

 

[Freak]

Per the website, they technically are not allowed - but it is never enforced.

Which is an absolute shame. I really wish they would enforce it. I can recall a couple of times a house has been ruined for me because some idiot is recording in front of me intentionally HOLDING UP THE LINE so he can get all the scares on his footage. They should enforce it.

 

[Jake S]

Which is an absolute shame. I really wish they would enforce it. I can recall a couple of times a house has been ruined for me because some idiot is recording in front of me intentionally HOLDING UP THE LINE so he can get all the scares on his footage. They should enforce it.

Yeah, if it were up to me they'd eliminate all filming -- even on media nights. Have a media rep from the park take authorized POVs of all the houses, distribute them to your media list and be done with it. It not only makes for a crummy walkthrough for non-recording guests, I'd argue it actually kinda sucks for people who feel obligated to capture the footage.

 

[Brian G.]

Yeah, if it were up to me they'd eliminate all filming -- even on media nights. Have a media rep from the park take authorized POVs of all the houses, distribute them to your media list and be done with it. It not only makes for a crummy walkthrough for non-recording guests, I'd argue it actually kinda sucks for people who feel obligated to capture the footage.

 

[Jake S]

Haha, speaking only for myself then as someone who's spent many a press night recording mazes instead of actually enjoying or processing them, I wish it was banned outright.

 

[Spookies n' Stuff]

Just watched Five Fires live from tonight and he talked about the early access houses being 2 on the lower lot (Weeknd & TCM) and 2 on the upper lot (Insidious & Ghostbusters). Anyone have any more info on this?

Honestly very good to know, since I didn't get EA in time for opening night, and my original plan was to do what I did last year and go for curious george first at 6, but this makes me think maybe that isn't a good idea. With 4 mazes on the lower lot, even if only 2 are open for EA, it might make more sense to try and do that first compared to 2 of 2 curious george mazes being open for EA, much less room for people to spread around up there. Will probably have to wait on other peoples' judgement though.

Well dam, I guess I'll be doing Ghostbuters wayyyy less then I thought if its an early entry house.

Not a bad move to spread crowds out but man does the general pass feel like a video game where they take DLC out to sell it to you later.

And the dlc risks selling out a week beforehand. lol

 

[Rideguy70]

I concur with others that I don't believe it is allowed, but it generally isn't enforced. Maybe if the filming is holding up the line.

But I kind of liken filming a maze to people filming a 3D movie attraction... like, it's going to come out really bad, so why even bother? Mazes are just something inherently difficulty to film due to poor lighting and close proximity.... you're never going to get the full effect. The vast majority of maze videos are crap. Seems pretty pointless to me, I wouldn't be upset to see it banned outright.

 

[Spookies n' Stuff]

I concur with others that I don't believe it is allowed, but it generally isn't enforced. Maybe if the filming is holding up the line.

But I kind of liken filming a maze to people filming a 3D movie attraction... like, it's going to come out really bad, so why even bother? Mazes are just something inherently difficulty to film due to poor lighting and close proximity.... you're never going to get the full effect. The vast majority of maze videos are crap. Seems pretty pointless to me, I wouldn't be upset to see it banned outright.

As far as I'm aware it's kinda a grey area. Camera lights/flash are what's explicitly prohibited, so as long as they dont have lights on, the line isnt being held up or they aren't getting in performers faces, they tend to not really care.
The way I see it, it's probably a thing where the amount of effort it would take to constantly tell everyone to put their phones away would become more disruptive than the people filming themselves, and on some level it's probably considered good social media publicity for the event in LA in a way that doesn't really apply to Florida.

I can agree that a lot of amateur maze videos aren't worth it, but I'm kinda opposed to the concept of banning filming outright so long as the guests in question aren't being disruptive, but I'm also kinda obsessive about documentation of seasonal events like this so to me losing that footage feels like a fairly significant loss. Even if it was just restricted to Media Night, I feel like that in itself is a loss as not everything is working right away, and there will inevitably be gaps and later additions that would never be archived.
It's a personal preference but I'll take having to sift through a bunch of indecipherable black screen videos over having crumbs like we do for basically anything pre-2013 or so.