Hard to do what with there being fantastic ones as far back as the early years. Harder to get footage of them but shit were they scary. I remember hearing about a house with a mirrored ceiling and see-through floor involving a chainsaw guy. Real trippy
I love that you have been “all in” lately regarding consistently posting videos on seasonly relevant topics. It’s really helped my vacation planning this year. In fact, your ranking of the Sea World coasters this summer influenced me to add that park to my first Florida trip. Now, I can’t believe I’m considering going back for Horror Nights. Keep it up!
Would love a series on cancelled items from HHN. Such as the Chucky show going away mid season, all guns removed from Purge after Pulse or any of those last minute house changes you mentioned in this video.
Myself and my family enjoyed the Chucky Ultimate Kill Count House last year (especially the preview video in the queue), but I'm bummed that Hollywood's House was so much better because that looks cool! Major Sweets Candy Factory this year is also pretty kickass!
I was in Roanoke! I was the in the gillie suite at the beginning of the house. My counterpart hardly ever went out. I personally went out to often. It was my first and last event I ever worked.
2022 was the first time I took a friend to HHN. We had a great time and hellblock was actually her favorite house! Though she admits part of that may be because I was downplaying it so much before hand.
Honestly? I like the Tampa event, but it’s much easier to make videos for them if I were invited as media, which has yet to happen 🤷🏻♂️ same goes for the SeaWorld one too. Until that happens, I don’t think I’ll be able to put out the best quality video
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Most of you will never know the snoozefest disappointment that was "Disorientorium" back in 2004. I was really excited for it thanks to the backstory provided by the website, but when you went through it, it felt like your basic funhouse with some minor (and I do mean MINOR) scares.
Chucky was genuinely just very poorly executed. It was the first house we did on opening night and was sadly a let down. But we gave it many second chances. I probably went through it 10 or so times throughout the event and it just never got me. Every single house on the other hand, had at least 1 (usually more) run through that had me genuinely terrified.
Best HHN house (from 2000-2024 not counting 1999 and sorry maybe in the future I might ;-;) 1. Both of the weekend houses 2. The undertaker: no mercy ( 2000) 3.slash 4. Black Sabbath 5. Terror tram: enter the blumhouse
I'm surprised to hear People Under the Stairs. That movie was creepy as hell. But I could see it not be horror enough for adults, since we watched it as young teens.
I agree that Hellblock was the worst house in 2022 but for 2023 my pick would be Exorcist. My reasoning is this: preview houses can’t show anything not shown in the trailers at all for some reason and I didn’t find it scary no matter how many times I went in. I went to all houses multiple times and enjoyed every single one, yes even Chucky, and yet Exorcist never scared me once. It also suffers the problem you used for Chucky, mandate IP.
It also smelled disgusting, which suits, but it's a point FOR and two AGAINST the House overall. ;) It was bottom of list for me too, partially because I don't care for that franchise, but I also didn't find it scary.
Hi Vincent been a fan since 2022 I don’t know if you will see this but you made me love theme parks and I really enjoy your content and I hope you keep it up
To be fair the first time going into the FATF area house was chucky not knowing it ended for space thinking it was over then being back in the house was terrifying but this kinda killed the illusion lol great video Edit chucky 2023 it was better way better
i never understood the hate for spirits of the coven until now!!! we went towards the end of october when the house had a lot more sound (when you talk about sound cues that always make you think about a certain house, for me it’s always “oh, you’re on edge!”) so we had a great time! honestly hellblock would have taken my spot as the worse house of hhn31 but we had a REALLY great cast of scare actors who had literally switched in right before we went in, so even though the house was kind of dumb and confusing, the energy and scares from the scareactors was amazing, so i’m biased. the WORST of hhn31 in my opinion was “descendants of destruction”. we couldn’t follow the story at all and just found it confusing and lame. as two people who live and work in new york city, we were psyched to see a subway inspired house (something already terrifying irl lol) and what we felt we got was an interpretation of a new york subway from someone who’s never actually been in one lol
Here is my top 5 Worst in no particular order: 1. Horrors of Blumhouse (2018) 2. Revenge of the Tooth Fairy (2021) 3. Brides of Frankenstein (2021) 4. Spirits of the Coven (2022) 5. Bugs Eaten Alive (2022)
I think worst one i can recall, was a house based on saw. At least on my experience from the walkthrough I got, there were scenes missing scare actors, it was mostly just scenes recreating ones from the movies, from my memory the only real jump scare was an actor dressed up with the pig mask jumping out at you at the end Maybe I just got a bad go through and normally it’s more intense i dunno, but it was a night where I exited the house feeling like the wait was nowhere near worth it
They’ve had two I think? A long time ago they had one in the JAWS (rip) queue building and another one in Shrek. I only go to do that one once cause it always so popular!
This is the first year I'm not going as a local. The last 5 years have been terrible. So many rock walls and black hallways, reused assets galore (how many times are we gonna reuse parts from graveyard games) and just a general lack of effort in all the houses. It's too crowded, overpacked, lines are not worth the wait for mediocre haunted houses. scare actors are exhausted, fatigued and overworked. HHNs last great year was 2019 and it's been downhill since. Just not worth the money anymore : (
I really liked "Creatures!" and we did it 2 or 3 times that nice because the cast was having fun with everyone. The next year I'd be one of the Plush Monsters in the original Chucky house and I think we were pretty good.
I'll defend Afterlife: DV slightly... The main issue was that it just paled in comparison to the much beloved The In-between from two years prior and even reused some of the characters and certain concepts created for that house. 2013 was only my second year visiting, so I didn't have that reference point and I found it fairly good and quite scary on my first visit, with a few interesting scares. It stands as my favorite of the 3D houses that I have seen, which admittedly isn't saying that much, given the competition...
2022 was the last good hhn imo. Hellblock horror is just the closest we'll get to a mob of the dead or cod zombies house. Also yes the monsters are reused costumes and it's in the lore, you enter a prison storing monsters from hhn past, they break loose, and at the end the security guard sacrifices his life to rearm the defenses. Now it's all fumbled ips, to the degree of using a drawing of patrick wilson, and having another blumhouse scare zone because they fumbled fnaf. Hey and I'm glad they fumbled billie eilish as an ip house because case files was far better. But nowadays the replacement is worse
They didn't fumble Eilish... her agent pulled her from the event after it came out that the guy heading Academy of Villains was basically a huge s3x p3st and into underage girls. This is also why AoV abruptly went away to be replaced by Nightmare Fuel, though it was too late to salvage the Eilish contract.
If one of the clowns or shark head operators from Slaughter Cinema 2 read this you guys traumatised me both Sunday there and Sunday before that(early September).
The rumors of the Scream House for HHN 25 were very true; there’s a version of the main commercial used that year that has Ghostface in it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Hf10HFUuKQc.html
So Japan has had a chucky haunt for the last 8 years? This year is the same as last they are ok but they market it as THE SCARIEST HAUNTED HOUSE ONLY 15 years old and above. It's your standard haunt. But its pretty good!
Well to be fair The Exorcist house is a mandate house and was the scariest house. Fans always complain about IP houses, yet you need them to bring in the causal fans and are always the most packed. I luv originals yet many are overrated. Chuck plot of a house was really good yet wasn't bad yet really didn't do anything.
Halloween Horror Nights in general always seem to have way too much going on in the houses when I watch RU-vid videos. I don't know how anyone can be scared when you're dragged through the houses like cattle and see scares before you get up to the scene. Sensory overload, and honestly I appreciate the non IP independent houses.
9:10 lol this was my first hhn idek what it was yet my dad bought tickets to some after hours universal event was all i knew. I saw there a twd house and was like well i obviously have to do this. Its the only one i did bc rest of the night i rode rides w no waits. It was my only hhn experience til last September in hollywood
I think one of the worst ones was "Depths of Fear" in 2019, mostly due to unforeseen issues. The concept was pretty interesting, but not long after the event started they had to remove most of the Mouthbrooder monsters because the the masks were too heavy and cumbersome for the scare actors. The opening night footage looks cool though.
I remember they had to take out the dead dog prop too because people were complaining. I still honestly don't understand how people are okay with intestines dangling from the ceiling and people being torn in half, but draw the line at a fake dog...
Bad scare actors should absolutely be called out as they do affect the house. Good example is how the werewolf puppeteers were always on their phone. You can see right through the skrim every time.
Cindy in HHN 30 was used in a weird way, her maze, the Orfanage was mash together with the Skoolhouse. Where you could say this cross over could be a sequel to the Orfanage. Furthermore SCarey was her only appearance aside for some reuse key art at 30 years 30 fears. I find it strange because we had murderous children in the event recent years like for Major Sweets and the beginning of Triplets of Terror. So what is Universal's plans with her and will she get her own year?
Nooooo Dracula Untold :Reign of Blood wasn't on this list! As bad as Roanoke was, Dracula was horrible. It smelled bad, the sets were just dark medieval hallways, no storyline, and it felt like there were 5 scareactors in the whole maze. I've been the last 12 consecutive years and Dracula Untold was last place on every review that year and still remains as my worst ever. Only Roanoke and Spirits of the Coven are in the same range. And in all that time, they actually did my best ever house in 2022 with Dead Man's Pier, proving they can still crank the quality.
they were all bad...I had the fast pass and got in quick...felt bad for the people who had to wait in the hour lines just to get through maybe 4 of the haunted houses within 7 hours...the houses were extremely tame and very cheesy...the local haunted houses that are 15 minute walk throughs are way scarier...these 4 minute walk through mazes were sad😂
spirits of the coven had a bad cast honestly.. I would go through and one girl legit like just shrugged and wasn't making larger movements loved the design and concept though
Incorrect, Season 5 of TWD had some of the highest viewership numbers of the series, and well into 6. A lot of people consider that the critical and commercial high point of the series.
Omg yes! Ieve been stating this on other videos. I go every year but ever since covid, horror nights hasnt been the same. They dont even open up the facades or the tunnel thst allowed for more mazes and jump scare tunnel. The weekend was just ok and texas was just lame. Half the mazes had a rancid poop smell and thats to get guests out quicker… the rest of the mazes were barely ok. It was the worst I've ever seen in quality. The tran was the shortest ride and the actors just stood their but actors are replaced daiky so thats a given. Btw im talking about the hollywood the only universal and this was the worst, ever! We felt universal were cheaping put on the mazes the quality and the latin maze was by far the worst
I went two nights in 2023. Both times we did Chucky. First time was terrible, but the Second time it was in my top three for that night. I got every scare, and there was a giant Chucky at the end
So first of all, you say that the actors of the soul of the haunt. At one point that statement was very true however, Universal Studios has reduced the actors to nothing but pushing a button to pre-recorded dialogue and popping out. I remember a time when Halloween horror nights was quite literally the premier Halloween attraction. They sell so much alcohol that you can’t stop it admire the scenery because there’s a crap ton of security moving you along ruining Each scene. I guess the 4.5 million viewers on the Chucky show would actually disagree with you but clearly you’re some know it all millennial in which that show was not aimed in your direction, but anyways, I digress. Universal Studios has not been worth going to because of the plug-in place style Haunt for at least 10 years. When we went, we went to the killer clown hunt and it was fun, but it was all pre-recorded dialogue so it wasn’t like it had any sort of soul
