I'd be so down for a Big Trouble in Little China house. That movie is such a blast to watch, and features plenty of horror-like visuals that could be great to see in-person.Since Ghostbusters house was announced, I've lobbied for Big Trouble in Little China. But this might be an even better idea. If A&D are into the movie and put in that AWiL level of detail, could be an easy contender for house of the year.
Any reason we have yet to See Resident Evil in USH? Is it the teams here don't play/like Video games? Resident Evil is one if not the Biggest Horror and have great settings and monster design and nothing...even if the Metro sets would be perfect for it
Shame. There is some definite potential in horror-related video games for HHN, but those houses weren't the best executions of those games.Silent Hill underperformed for both coasts in 2012 and Resident Evil in Orlando circa 23 had mixed to middling reviews at best.
The one based off the Movie? I mean kinda "duh" even Mortal Kombat which is a fun film isn't amazingSilent Hill underperformed for both coasts in 2012 and Resident Evil in Orlando circa 23 had mixed to middling reviews at best.
The one based off the Movie? I mean kinda "duh" even Mortal Kombat which is a fun film isn't amazing
They should consider basing a Maze off RE 1, RE2, RE4 or the two new games Resident Evil 7/8 great settings and monsters. Thanks for the info, sadly think I skipped that year and gladly would have gone into a Silent Hill maze though its base is wayyyy less than RE the movies and games make bank
Honestly, I would love to see Uni do a RE maze again sometime, but this time with more puppets. I mean, look at Stranger Things, imagine those kind of puppets for say William Birkin, or have some crazy costume design with Lisa Trevor.
A Kaiju-inspired house could be really cool. Cloverfield would be the most likely IP to work with, given you get the giant monster along with the smaller parasite creatures, but even just the generic idea of trying to survive a city as a giant monster attacks would make for a unique house.Now that they've been doing really well with puppets and scale, I'd kind of like to see them do something with Kaiju and have some sort of conceit for ground scares, too.
In terms of IP, I'm interested in seeing some things that wouldn't necessarily work as houses get some love as shows. If we can't have RHPS back, how about Evil Dead or Re-Animator the musical or something?
Some of the advances in special effects would also work well for some updated versions of older houses. A Shining or Exorcist-style Hitchcock house would be interesting.
As for other horror-adjacent IPs that could fit the event, I think The Twilight Zone could make for a good anthology house, using scenes based on the more horror-related episodes like Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, It's a Good Life, and The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.
Realistically, that's probably the case. Still a fun idea to think about.It's a fun "what if?" but I imagine Tower of Terror means a no-go.
Yeah, that was definitely part of the problem. It tried to get too self-referential about it being based on a video game, like having a "Pause" room where the action is paused. It should have just played to the strength of its IP, and save some of that slightly goofier stuff for something like if Anarch-Cade got made into a house.The RE maze in Orlando was pretty much based on 2/3, and it was... not great. I don't know if I got a bad run or what, but it was very sparse and what was there was disappointing (I remember the Nemesis costume being especially egregious to me) and the house as a whole hung its hat a little too much on "video games".
I can only imagine what a Shin Godzilla house would be like. At the very least, one scene for the house would have to be devoted to that purple atomic breath, with bright purple lights and heat to simulate the blasts.While Cloverfield would make the most sense as an maze...imagine a Shin Godzilla mazeView attachment 14529
Nice assortment of choices there. The Babadook certainly has a memorable monster to use for a house, and War of the Worlds could play with that size element when it comes to the Tripods.Twilight Zone and Godzilla are really good picks, even if they are technically impossible for multiple reasons. Definitely agree with adding those to the list.
Another few picks we missed, maybe not Halloween-tier but I could see some of them being considered for the event:
-The Babadook
-Scream Queens
-Pan's Labyrinth
-The Munsters
-Simpson's Treehouse of Horror
-Dead Space
-Get Out
-Split
-Annabelle
-A Quiet Place
-Scary Movie
-War of the Worlds
-Silence of the Lambs (how hasn't this been brought up here yet? lol)
Honestly, more representation of Guillermo del Toro's stuff would be cool. All that they've done so far was just that one Crimson Peak house over at USH, and Pan's Labyrinth is probably the one that'd be among the easiest of his Spanish-language work to translate to a house.I imagine Uni would want to either use the Classic Monsters to fill the Black-and-White style again or use those movies as inspiration for originals a la Nosferatu and Hive. But they are definitely good ideas and it would be real cool to see some representation of non-UCM OG classic horror.
I worry that the Disney/20th Century merger officially kills any chance of ever seeing a Treehouse of Horror overlay or zone for HHN. It's a real shame they never went through with it while they still had the chance, they could've had a lot of fun with that style.
The minute someone talked to me about the idea of Pan's Labyrinth becoming a house, I was on board. It's definitely not full horror, but the Del Toro elements and designs would work insanely well in a house. The Pale Man is the obvious win, but Pan, the Mandrake Root, and even some of the more grounded human elements would work pretty well too. I could definitely see it fitting into the house lineup similar to Trick R Treat. Cult movie with some very interesting setpieces and designs. Probably a little more on the atmospheric side like Us. B79 would work real well for it.