Halloween Horror Nights 35 (UOR) - Speculation & Rumors

[Brian G.]

It's more likely we get an original "inspired by" house, if I'm understanding the synopsis correctly without spoiling it. They usually go that route when they like the concept of a property but feel it needs more fleshing out, building an original house around the feeling rather than adapting the source material directly.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

The Backrooms (from what I gather), don’t have that sort of ever-present danger except the rooms themselves (and the idea of what could be there, not exactly what is). And those are scary because they’re liminal spaces. That is THE primary driver of the fear (which I mentioned, cannot truly be replicated at HHN); the idea of what can exist in the emptiness. That means that any attempt at a Backrooms house is going to immediately have to work around the thing that makes The Backrooms works. If there are no visible (or extremely few) antagonistic creatures, the actual scares would be… victims looking around lost?

It's an odd beast because the property is half original and half a copy-pasta. There's monsters in both concepts and the large spaces are haunted by vibes. The scares still feel dependent on isolation and space to work, not sure it'll work as a conga line haunted house. But we'll see!

 

[RedRightDan]

$50M isn’t that much in the grand scheme of things.

A big win for a gen-z director with a small budget and A24 for sure. But not necessarily something that HHN is going to bend over backwards to “figure out”

Ok. Tracking to push $90M for the weekend. That’s damn impressive.

 

[grlhowl]

I feel like eventually, they're gonna have to touch the A24 bubble. The question is when, not necessarily if (especially with films like Curry Barker's Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the horizon).

I agree with this, but it's more likely to happen with something like that than with something atmospheric and psychological like Hereditary or Midsommar (both of which people have thrown around for years) or Backrooms. Maybe down the road it could get more complex, but I think something more straightforward, like Barker's TCM, could begin that collaboration.

Also, I agree with Jake. I think many of the suggestions about how they would do Backrooms would either be impractical and unsatisfying as a haunt or would require a drastic change from what's in the film and what makes it such a popular concept. I think an original based around liminal spaces would give them much more freedom. This also seems like a property that a lot of people are attached to, but all have a different view of. This thread alone has had some people say it should be atmospheric and isolating, and some say it can have jumpscares and more overt horror.

 

[Bigskinny0310]

it’s entirely possible that they could work with Kane to establish the House as an episode of his series. The film is merely na episode of his larger story. They could also just do their own original iteration.He doesn’t own the concept. Have them enter a space reminiscent of the original photo and then transition it into a fusion of workable physical scares and the eerie liminal atmosphere. The concept is inherently open ended, anything goes evident by the hundreds of levels people have written about (a good bit of which are not liminal). I don’t think the fans would care if it wasn’t a recreation/adaption of the film. It’s a really rich creative space that I really hope they tackle. It’s a hard challenge. I would rather they swing and miss than see Quiet Place Part III.