Tonight is dead as expected. At 9:30, nothing is over 60 minutes with 4 houses being 35-40 mins. The storms letting up earlier than expected didn't bring any late crowds.
-New Halloween house based off Blumhouse 2018 remake + later scenes in the house based off Halloween Kills.
-Zombieland gets Trick R' Treatment into full comedy house.
-We finally see the return of either Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th. Not both.
-Anniversary house features Scarecrows, Yetis, and some inventive Icon scenes. Will include some kind of reference to Slaughter Sinema (besides the yeti's obviously.)
-Might also feature Grinners from Graveyard Games and Franks from Monsters but I'm not nearly as confident about those.
-Jordan Peele's Candyman
-Only 10 houses again.
-Better management with reserves than last year due to a close eye being kept on making sure incidents like the lost Bedtime Stories cast don't happen again.
-Central Park will not have a scarezone, but the Pumpkins will be back.
-Watershow returns but has mixed to positive reception compared to last year's true positive reception. This is because the choice in IPs in 29 lend themselves much better to a watershow than what they chose for 30.
-Jack will return without much changing about him from 25. Superfans will get upset but the event will go on. I am going to predict a Jack show will be coming back but I don't know where exactly. For the sake of discussion, I'm just going to say it will go in either the T2 theatre or just a custom built stage for HHN. It will not be in FFL.
-AoV is absolutely coming back and absolutely taking the FFL stage with them. Due to the overwhelming praise compared to previous years, they will lean on the classic Horror feel again rather than experimenting with distopic sci-fi or other horror-adjacent genres.
-Stranger Things will not return.
Hill House will not come.
-Hellraiser will finally make it's official debut at the event.
-An 80s theme will not be outright stated to be returning, but some remnants of that marketing angle from previous years should be noticeable, if that makes sense.
-Rob Zombie will return in some way.
My predictive house roster should look something like this.
1. Hellraiser
2. Friday the 13th/Nightmare on Elm Street
3. Halloween (Blumhouse)
4. Candyman (Jordan Peele)
5. Zombieland
6. Original House (Jungle theme)
7. Original House (Classic Halloween theme)
8. Original House (Grimy and realistic human theme)
9. Original House (Folklore theme)
10. Anniversary House
I don't know if this is the right thing to ask... but can someone point me into the right direction as to how I can see these "costumed guests" online because I have not seen this interesting thing yet...
Something is definitely amiss here in terms of enforcement. If I can't tell in passing if someone is a scare actor or guest, that's a problem. The person in question absolutely resembles a scare actor at first glance. This is not going to end well, especially when many of these folks become outwardly hostile when the rule is brought up.
It's the end of the run, so I suppose it is what it is for this year - but here's hoping they're more aggressive about enforcement next season.
I don't mind the costumes as long as they don't cosplay as any of the IPs/characters for that specific year, no masks, and don't carry any props with them.
Perfectly fine with someone showing up as a Ghostbuster or whatever, but they better not be carrying a proton pack.
I saw them around 6:30 so kudos to them for making it all night.I'll see if I find any and send u a message.
I wish I had pics but not possible.
and today, just now. I saw 4 guys dressed as the founding fathers complete with wigs and full founding father outfits and hats. they all looked like George Washington or something.
at 1:50 am, they were coming out of icons or tooth fairy. it just happened... lol.
The back of my ticket clearly says, in all capitals with a box around it and probably the second-largest font, no costumes or costume masks allowed. That seems pretty clear to me. You hate to ruin someone’s night, but it needs to be enforced because it can cause problems.I think the allowing of covid protection masks is creating a loophole where people are sneaking costume things, and they might even claim is for protection. even if the mask doesn't even cover the mouth,
And I think that actually puts them at a creative disadvantage. But I understand that's part of how they sell tickets.
That’s the nature of a creative product developed for a corporate entity. Probably twice as many ideas of been shot down for the event then have actually appeared.now that I think about it, it always bothers me to know that they have had cancelled houses or ideas that are never brought back lol.
they could probably fill out a few years worth of houses from cancelled ideas alone.
Tonight felt like an early September night, waits were rarely above 60 minutes for every house
Also, the amount of Squid Game costumes is insane
Tonight felt like an early September night, waits were rarely above 60 minutes for every house
Looking at how the best received houses this year and last (event) are the traditional Halloween fare is why I believe they may be better off bringing back houses like HoS and KSF.
people expect hhn to always be new stuff
Nightmare Fuel was amazing. Question is (SIAP), is there anywhere they can have it next year? Might be a one and done. But what a one it was.