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HHN Hollywood General Discussion - 2017

I wasn't a big fan of last year's Exorcist blackouts. Sure, they were scary, but they felt cheap like "I can't believe I screamed, it's just a mannequin girl in the dark." But at least they made sense with Murdy paying tribute to the teaser, yada yada yada...

If there are blackouts with Jack standing there "scaring us" instead of real people chasing us I will cry actual real life tears.
 
since there's not alot of new news i made a game, try and make a maze layout for this years houses, if this is too hard post what rooms you want to see in this years houses
 
I wasn't a big fan of last year's Exorcist blackouts. Sure, they were scary, but they felt cheap like "I can't believe I screamed, it's just a mannequin girl in the dark." But at least they made sense with Murdy paying tribute to the teaser, yada yada yada...

If there are blackouts with Jack standing there "scaring us" instead of real people chasing us I will cry actual real life tears.
I almost rage quit in real life because I didn't know where to go because of the blackouts...
 
IMO I think the only maze this year that may use the black walls a bit too much, but not the obvious extent as The Exorcist, will be Blumhouse.
 
I wasn't a big fan of last year's Exorcist blackouts. Sure, they were scary, but they felt cheap like "I can't believe I screamed, it's just a mannequin girl in the dark."
Um... there was really only one Regan mannequin in the dark. The other two were actually part of a scare tactic. As for the rest of the "blackout" scenes, they at least had scareactors- Pazuzu, Regan, & even Father Karras. And even the changing Regan/Pazuzu face walls were great. Exorcist was the least offensive use of Murdy's beloved black walls.

Could they have done a few things to improve those scenes? sure... but meh.
 
Didn't Murdy say that he was going to try to make it feel like you were in Jack Torrence's mind, or is my mind playing telephone on me? If so, that means get ready for black wallapalooza!
 
i made some fake taglines for the mazes
shining - black walls everywhere
saw - water spray the maze
blumhouse - the tooth fairy's and j.k Simmons revenge
titans of terror - the conjur oh wait we don't have the rights, hey at least we didn't replace it with fear the walking dead
insidious chapter 4 - we're 4 months behind
ash vs evil dead - hey at least you got the classic evil dead
 
i made some fake taglines for the mazes
shining - black walls everywhere
saw - water spray the maze
blumhouse - the tooth fairy's and j.k Simmons revenge
titans of terror - the conjur oh wait we don't have the rights, hey at least we didn't replace it with fear the walking dead
insidious chapter 4 - we're 4 months behind
ash vs evil dead - hey at least you got the classic evil dead
How I see it, it's more like:

MAZES/ATTRACTIONS
  • FX's American Horror Story: Your Roanoke Nightmare
    • "I bet you I can make a bad season look enjoyable!"
  • Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
    • See those carpets? Now imagine if the maze was 3D.
  • STARZ's Ash vs. Evil Dead
    • Johnny Bravo against the world of Courage the Cowardly Dog: The Maze.
  • Titans of Terror
    • It takes 3 to avoid a lawsuit.
  • SAW: The Games of Jigsaw
    • 7 movies that got progressively worst and 1 movie to redeem it all.
  • Blumhouse of Horrors
    • 3 properties you like and 1 property you probably won't!
  • Insidious
    • Furthering the francnhise even further, furthermore.
  • Titans of Terror Tram: Hosted by CHUCKY
    • Thought you survived the maze? Now Chucky is gonna drive you RIGHT BACK TO THEM!
  • The Walking Dead Attraction
    • Uuuuhhh Ok?
SCAREZONES
  • HELL-O-WEEN
    • Not Trick r Treat, but close enough I guess.
  • TOXIC TUNNEL
    • Hollywood's less exciting version of 2009 Orlando's CONTAINMENT scarezone.
  • URBAN INFERNO
    • Welcome to Hell: The Prequel gauntlet with goatz and stuffz.
SHOWS
  • JABBAWOCKEEZ
    • The last 10 minutes of Bill & Ted, except 3 times longer and everyone looks the same.
 
It's interesting about the blackout walls. I can totally understand how many feel it's a "cop out", but there is another side to that coin. I recently posted on another thread here about a year round haunt I experienced in the Niagara Falls area (Canada side) called Nightmares. There's actually a lot of year round haunts in this particular tourist area, but I had heard from multiple sources that this was the best one.

And you know what? It's essentially ALL blackout walls. No theming whatsoever, just near total darkness. (You find your way around by following a series of small red lights--which occasionally go out.) And that fear of the total unknown creates it's own fear. To a certain degree, that's part of the unease I felt in The Exorsist last year... those blackout wall sections were very disorienting, and you would really have no idea where the scareactors would come from.

So if used effectively, I have no problem with them. Fear of the dark is a real thing for many people.
 
Um... there was really only one Regan mannequin in the dark. The other two were actually part of a scare tactic. As for the rest of the "blackout" scenes, they at least had scareactors- Pazuzu, Regan, & even Father Karras. And even the changing Regan/Pazuzu face walls were great. Exorcist was the least offensive use of Murdy's beloved black walls.

Could they have done a few things to improve those scenes? sure... but meh.

I don't think it was a good sign if I thought all of the Regans were mannequins...

In any case, I didn't find them scary myself. That's why I don't want them in my most anticipated / most-potential-to-be-my-favorite maze.
 
It's interesting about the blackout walls. I can totally understand how many feel it's a "cop out", but there is another side to that coin. I recently posted on another thread here about a year round haunt I experienced in the Niagara Falls area (Canada side) called Nightmares. There's actually a lot of year round haunts in this particular tourist area, but I had heard from multiple sources that this was the best one.

And you know what? It's essentially ALL blackout walls. No theming whatsoever, just near total darkness. (You find your way around by following a series of small red lights--which occasionally go out.) And that fear of the total unknown creates it's own fear. To a certain degree, that's part of the unease I felt in The Exorsist last year... those blackout wall sections were very disorienting, and you would really have no idea where the scareactors would come from.

So if used effectively, I have no problem with them. Fear of the dark is a real thing for many people.

I felt the same way.
 
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