Triplets of Terror (HHN 33)

[Kichkinet85]

Also to add, I love the returning

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depths of fear dog!
Can’t wait till I hear the complains!

 

[Brian G.]

Also to add, I love the returning

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depths of fear dog!
Can’t wait till I hear the complains!

I don't think you'll hear it as much - because it makes sense with the story they are telling.

 

[Kichkinet85]

I don't think you'll hear it as much - because it makes sense with the story they are telling.

I hope so lol already heard some on the FB group but hey that’s the FB group

 

[Lucky Planet]

my question about this house as it is, if you replaced the triplets with Freddy Kruger, would it be any better? ( I know that a Freddy house would be with different sets and completely different victims, but it just made me wonder how this house does if it had a famous slasher like Michael or something)

 

[Brian G.]

my question about this house as it is, if you replaced the triplets with Freddy Kruger, would it be any better? ( I know that a Freddy house would be with different sets and completely different victims, but it just made me wonder how this house does if it had a famous slasher like Michael or something)

"If you replaced everything about the house, would it change your opinion of it?"

C'mon...

 

[Midnight Detective]

"If you replaced everything about the house, would it change your opinion of it?"

C'mon...

I believe he's asking, while a Nightmare on Elm Street House WOULD be entirely different, if you simply replaced the killers in THIS house with a Horror Icon, would it be better recieved

my question about this house as it is, if you replaced the triplets with Freddy Kruger, would it be any better? ( I know that a Freddy house would be with different sets and completely different victims, but it just made me wonder how this house does if it had a famous slasher like Michael or something)

I'd argue no. The only difference would be wait times. More people would go for it but satisfaction would be the same.

 

[SeventyOne]

my question about this house as it is, if you replaced the triplets with Freddy Kruger, would it be any better? ( I know that a Freddy house would be with different sets and completely different victims, but it just made me wonder how this house does if it had a famous slasher like Michael or something)

FWIW I preferred these same sets when it was Michael Meyers. Had I not experienced the previous three (four?) Halloween houses, who can say.

 

[Casper Gutman]

FWIW I preferred these same sets when it was Michael Meyers. Had I not experienced the previous three (four?) Halloween houses, who can say.

If you’re building your own slashers, why stick ‘em in the same setting? Why not an urban setting? Or England or France or the American southwest?

 

[Lucky Planet]

I believe he's asking, while a Nightmare on Elm Street House WOULD be entirely different, if you simply replaced the killers in THIS house with a Horror Icon, would it be better recieved



I'd argue no. The only difference would be wait times. More people would go for it but satisfaction would be the same.

FWIW I preferred these same sets when it was Michael Meyers. Had I not experienced the previous three (four?) Halloween houses, who can say.

yeah you guys understood my question thank you.
some of the reviews im seeing around are disappointed in the killers themselves, and I saw some people saying that it needed better characters, implying that the house could be better with known characters. which made me wonder.
kinda like if they had shoehorn some movie property like wren purge replaced Scream.

 

[Jake S]

implying that the house could be better with known characters.

this says more about the audience than the creatives imo.

 

[Clive]

this says more about the audience than the creatives imo.

In fairness, and while it's not what Lucky exactly said, it could also just mean that audiences aren't necessarily taken with these particular characters. Perhaps a different approach or execution to the "original slashers" (without changing the setting) could be received better by some. Who really knows.

In any a case, it's too early in the run to write this one off, IMO. Give the cast a chance to define their characters and build their aggressiveness.

 

[SeventyOne]

this says more about the audience than the creatives imo.

In our hypothetical Scooby Doo house, I'd have more response to the Mystery Machine than a white panel van.

 

[rageofthegods]

In fairness, and while it's not what Lucky exactly said, it could also just mean that audiences aren't necessarily taken with these particular characters. Perhaps a different approach or execution to the "original slashers" (without changing the setting) could be received better by some. Who really knows.

In any a case, it's too early in the run to write this one off, IMO. Give the cast a chance to define their characters and build their aggressiveness.

I think the issue is that they're not having enough fun with the premise. If this was a script, the note would be "this is a birthday party, use that setting more."

Circular saws, knives, decapitations... we've seen that before. And I was hoping they'd be a lot more vocal, which would've given them more personality. There's not enough differentiating them, so they just feel like off-brand Jason.

 

[Disneyson1]

The other thing I’ll say as not having visited the house yet is that it seems to tick away to boxes that references other slashers, but in a less fun or memorable way.

For example, the stabbing at the fridge is not only odd because the victim doesn’t wince a bit, but also because it recalls the scene in Halloween when the boyfriend is pinned to the wall with knives. Rather than giving me a unique feeling of terror, the scene simply makes me think “Oh, they reused the Halloween set but couldn’t get the rights to the kill”. I’m sure there are more moments like this in the house, but I agree that they ought to have endeavored to made the scenic less of a 1:1 “homage” to old slashers. It might have even been more subversive to have a truly 2020s design with Amazon echoes and the like, as in “Us”.

 

[HHN Maddux]

In fairness, and while it's not what Lucky exactly said, it could also just mean that audiences aren't necessarily taken with these particular characters. Perhaps a different approach or execution to the "original slashers" (without changing the setting) could be received better by some. Who really knows.

In any a case, it's too early in the run to write this one off, IMO. Give the cast a chance to define their characters and build their aggressiveness.

FWIW, I've already seen Cast A define them quite well- (I haven't done a Cast B run yet, but I plan to tomorrow):

-Junior: Much more sluggish and introverted, very much into decapitations.
-Melody (the tall girl): By far the most aggressive and bloodthirsty of the three, completely ruthless and calculating with her stabs.
-Harmony (the bunny girl): Extremely playful and extroverted, likes to tease and play games with her victims.

In case you can't tell, I already love this house a lot, and I genuinely really hope more people come around to it.

 

[Lucky Planet]

and it makes me wonder on what could have happened if they had made this house for icon Eddie Schmidt because if there ever was a house that could have fit Eddie, it could have beeen this one.
(specially with this house being a homage to slashers and coming right after Oddfellow from last year, having another connection to Jack) it makes me wonder why they didnt,

i mention eddie because hes a slasher, he loves slasher movies, he would have hunted people in a neighborhood, he would have been known to the hhn fanbase universal didnt need to get the rights from a studio, he would have wanted to recreate movie kills,
it could have fit

 

[HHN Maddux]

Another thing I love about this house is that it's properly mean and genuinely scary story-wise. The Triplets are entering homes randomly and killing everyone inside in cold blood, while avoiding capture.

I wish we had more houses where the horror comes from just how real it is.

 

[Wesker69]

From the POV video I watched, it looked like a lame WISH (Temu?) order of The Strangers. It seems to be more generic than "creative", especially compared to the other houses. As has been said- a lot of "been there, seen that".

 

[Jake S]

I also think this house would benefit from giving the triplets some kind of motivation. Why are they doing this? Are they evil incarnate? Did their parents revoke their ice cream privileges? Did they get hopped up on Mr. Sweets Murder-Tarts?

 

[Wesker69]

Did they get hopped up on Mr. Sweets Murder-Tarts?

Is it too late to completely retcon & overhaul this house entirely & change the event icon