There's a weird tension this year, I think, between a harder/older school HHN sensibility (sexy dancing and booze and metal and grime and scares) and what HHN has slowly been turning into for years now (more neon, clean, IP-focused, PG-13 Halloween time spooky party which is also fun but fundamentally different). And this scarezone for all its half-naked go-go dancing, faux-nazi iconography, and general sleaze is probably the strongest embodiment of the former at the entire event this year.
I still find it odd that a giant light sign of "666" is a-ok, but the pentagrams on the entryway have to be rightside up vs. the album cover where they're upside down. It really feels like there had to have been discussions back and forth between some creatives somewhere about what was and was not going to be allowed here, and that edginess is felt explicitly in a way that's missing in a lot of the rest of the event (for both good and for ill).
Still, as someone who grew up with this album it's hard not to see the scarezone's charms. Watching the skit for Living Dead Girl play out while a whole crowd sings along is pretty amazing. My only real complaint is that we don't have a Phantom Creep walking around (perhaps, much like Columbia Pictures, Universal wasn't wholly comfortable associating its brands with this level of debauchery - or maybe there just isn't that kind of room in this zone for more than one big robot costume).