Halloween Horror Nights 2025 (USH) - Speculation & Rumors

[rageofthegods]

I remember when we were all sick of the same old Titans of Terror mazes.

 

[Lucky Planet]

I'm gonna be honest, as much as it hurts me to say I think it's time us old-timers accept HHN of old will be just that - a fixture of the past.

yeah the same exact thing goes for horror. horror in general. modern movies just aren't as good. they just aren't. and if the movies aren't as good, the houses won't be. besides of the good movies that get denied for hhn. them there's no much left. how many properties were denied,
I'm not just being cynical but it's just not the same. the horror of today is lacking some of the epic feeling of before.

I literally just want good scary movies as mazes, man, give me Freddy for the 15th time at this point. Man I miss old HHN.

I just want Jason Voorhees back. lol.

 

[Rideguy70]

I don't necessarily mind HHN experimenting with non-horror properties. It can bring in new crowds, and expand with something unusual. Stranger Things and TLOU come to mind. Of course, the risks are that it may not pan out, or you may be using properties others won't care about (I, for one, don't care one iota about gaming IPs, and even less for WWE).

But it also seems like a lot of current horror is being ignored. Some, because they wouldn't make a great maze (Hereditary, or must slow burn A24 style "elevated" horror films, as an example). Some, because they probably can't get the rights.

But others still are a mystery. I really can't say why the incredible history of Asian cinema continues to get ignored year after year. And who wouldn't want The Substance as a maze?

I also wonder if Six Flags really throwing it's hat into the IP horror ring (remember, they had Saw, Conjuring, Trick 'r' Treat, and some parks had TCM) is creating some scrambling and re-thinking things at HHN.

 

[saint.piss]

I don't necessarily mind HHN experimenting with non-horror properties. It can bring in new crowds, and expand with something unusual. Stranger Things and TLOU come to mind.

TLOU is horror tho lol. It's a horror survival video game/tv series

 

[Crypt Keeper]

and if the movies aren't as good, the houses won't be.

That isn’t necessarily true.

The Exorcist: Believer
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Halloween 4
Alien vs Predator
Insidious Chapter 3/4/The Red Door

The general consensus for these movies is that they were mediocre to bad. Yet, they made for some great haunted houses.

 

[DTH]

I know what they mean by TLOU. It's like...soft horror. I don't know how to explain it, but it doesn't go hard as a pure horror movie/TV show/game would. It's too interested in the drama.

 

[Lucky Planet]

That isn’t necessarily true.

The Exorcist: Believer
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Halloween 4
Alien vs Predator
Insidious Chapter 3/4/The Red Door

The general consensus for these movies is that they were mediocre to bad. Yet, they made for some great haunted houses.

I get what you mean and those houses can be great, but the hype itself is just isn't there. and universal is already running out of movies to do.
really running out.

and honestly I was thinking more about the blumhouse stuff that has not been great. mostly I was thinking on blumhouse lol.

 

[rageofthegods]

I know what they mean by TLOU. It's like...soft horror. I don't know how to explain it, but it doesn't go hard as a pure horror movie/TV show/game would. It's too interested in the drama.

I get it. It's basically Walking Dead with cooler zombies.

But others still are a mystery. I really can't say why the incredible history of Asian cinema continues to get ignored year after year. And who wouldn't want The Substance as a maze?

I don't work for Uni but I would imagine that a big part of the lack of A-Horror rep is that they've done some kind of market research that shows they lack name recognition. So as much as I'd like an Audition house, it'll probably have to wait until there's a hit movie adaptation.

That having been said, they really should just bite the bullet and do The Ring.

 

[Lucky Planet]

I get it. It's basically Walking Dead with cooler zombies.


I don't work for Uni but I would imagine that a big part of the lack of A-Horror rep is that they've done some kind of market research that shows they lack name recognition. So as much as I'd like an Audition house, it'll probably have to wait until there's a hit movie adaptation.

That having been said, they really should just bite the bullet and do The Ring.

a lot of times the studios might just say no. look at Scream.
or the drama with five nights at Freddy's. maybe an audition house wouldn't work just because of what the studio was asking for.