I seriously do not understand your concept of "Comedy" or "Comedy house" there is nothing in Stranger things that was that comedic. specially season 1, true the show might not be full horror and might have lighthearted elements, but seriously seriously doubt anything in the house would be done with comedy in mind.... Specially if they do a lot of rooms in the upside down world or the military lab where the experiments were being done...... I doubt the house will show the kid characters too much so i would rule out that as a comedy. Trick r treat.... same thing.... Dead exposure? nope. Halloween, no way. Poltergeist nope. not a Comedy. Happy death day, again. not a comedy. Even if these movies had lighthearted moments i really doubt the houses wont be terrifying in true HHN style. Even if the Movie mash up house WAS indeed a comedy house it would probably be the only true comedy house.
I have seen you make comments about how this year has a lot of comedy or light hearted houses but i seriously cannot see what you mean by this.
I cant see stranger things being lighthearted or poltergeist or Halloween, or the rest of houses.
Besides regardless of what the scenes in the houses are, the actors will STILL be as scary as they have always been. even if a house is light the actors will probably make it as scary as every other year.
I understand your point, and owe you an explanation. There are (positive) caveats, of course, which make this a fairly minor complaint:
-Stranger Things is definitely a family oriented property, albeit one that I'm really into. Of course, I'll take it over an "adult" property like AHS any day.
-Poltergeist is generally considered a "family friendly" horror film, though can definitely be made into a bad@$$ house.
-TrT is a black comedy film. No bones about it. It's one I really like, of course.
-HDD is DEFINITELY a horror comedy.
-Killer Klowns is rumored for a zone. Again, I LOVE that movie, but it's a cheesy B-movie comedy. A hilarious one.
-Vamp '55 was a comedy zone, so I suspect '85 will be too.
So it's really a minor complaint, it just irks me for some reason. I just like the idea of HHN continuing to be truly scary.
That being said, the reasons to be excited about this year greatly outweigh the reasons to be concerned, as I state in an earlier post (five originals, two announced IPs I really like, great idea for a zone in NY that ISN'T Purge/apocalyptic, much better marketing/overlying theme of sorts, probably getting back a house and probably zone from 18).