Enter The Blumhouse (HHN 33)

[Lucky Planet]

This is just Cypt-TV remastered. That one at least had interesting sets and new intricate costumes.

crypt TV was much nicer. that zone looked pretty amazing with their little stage sets and props.
this one is like the less good remake that went on a more minimalistic route lol.

 

[Brian G.]

I'm going to give M3GAN a pass for all the good and bad attention she's likely to receive. Otherwise, I agree, less awkwardly standing on stages and more actual scaring, please. (This goes for Dream Queens, too, but that's one of many bizarre things going on over there.)

It seems this zone intends to be the "photo op" zone per our RIP Guide tonight.

 

[Wigglepebbles]

crypt TV was much nicer. that zone looked pretty amazing with their little stage sets and props.
this one is like the less good remake that went on a more minimalistic route lol.

Indeed, plus COVID was a thing, so it was passable. It had Stilt Walkers and everything, if you’re going to do a Photo-Op be like CyptTv, Not Altars of Horror.

 

[Casper Gutman]

Indeed, plus COVID was a thing, so it was passable. It had Stilt Walkers and everything, if you’re going to do a Photo-Op be like CyptTv, Not Altars of Horror.

If you’re going to do a photo-op, have characters that are interesting enough to take photos of.

Oh, and don’t stick an equally uninteresting photo-op of the exact same thing in the Coconut Club.

 

[SeventyOne]

No doubt this was intended as a photo op zone, but fails even at that. Just wall-to-wall crowds, with their realistic costumes, the actors just sort of blend in (I legit thought "Uncle Sam" from the Purge was an old man about to be trampled for a second). At least Crypt TV had stages for the photo ops.

Time to retire the SF zone.

 

[Lucky Planet]

No doubt this was intended as a photo op zone, but fails even at that. Just wall-to-wall crowds, with their realistic costumes, the actors just sort of blend in (I legit thought "Uncle Sam" from the Purge was an old man about to be trampled for a second). At least Crypt TV had stages for the photo ops.

Time to retire the SF zone.

" time to retire the sf zone"

but my favorite zone of all time, rob zombie, was perfect in here, and the past two years had been ok. the pirate zone and the UFO alien zone were good, crypt TV was really nice. its not just the area, they really cut things down for this, barely any props, they picked characters that blend with regular guests,

this area creates a bottleneck, but we have had some good zones in here, ( my second favorite zone in here was the drive in movie zone when they had Jason and Freddy walking around, I truly love that)

this year is having some awful problems. look at demon queens and the icon """"zone""""
I still have hope that this area can be really good,
if uni could not put a lot of props here, they could have chosen more interesting purge characters.

I was even rooting for this and I was hoping it was going to have awesome props, I thought that they would recreate the blumhouse video logos, but they let me down.

 

[GA-MBIT]

It's not CryptTV bad. There are some performers in the crowd scaring, and their performances are fine. That already elevates it. It also makes sense why certain characters, specifically M3gan, are on a stage for photo-ops. There are some weird choices, like the construction Purger being the choice for photo's over the more iconic America / Mask-themed costumes. I haven't seen anyone pose with them.

It mostly just feels like a way to reuse a bunch of costumes from previous years, which is unfortunate. You could make a similar argument against last year's zone, but at least that had a clever twist within the lore to justify the reuse, as well as some fun setpieces and animatronic effects to go along with it.

It's not bad, but I think it's purely mediocre. I believe the ultimate and unfortunate fate of this zone is just to be forgotten.