A 1920s Hollywood hotel, once the hunting ground of its infamous serial killer owner, has been turned into a modern-day haunted hotel. Now he’s back from the dead. Your first stay will be your last.
From the little bits and pieces we've heard, this is going pretty easily close to the top of my hype list for the year. Probably one of the first times in a while that an Original on this coast has felt really felt like it fit the term Original. However, I've gotta say, not digging the title. I mean, Hotel Deville was right there, it's not exactly a subtle name unto itself but it flows a bit better. Or even Universal's Hotel of Horrors, pay a little homage do House of Horrors since it's practically in the same spot.
Either way, still really looking forward to this, and we know so little right now that it could really go in any direction, but I'm looking forward to it.
So is there where the walking dead maze was?
Tower of Terror basically
It's worth noting though, for what it was, Walking Dead did have pretty high ceilings and a lot of pretty tall and open scenes compared to your typical maze. Even if it turns out short, I'm just hoping they have some big elaborate scenes to make it really feel like a hotel. It's something Shining really struggled with not having, so I'm kinda hoping this maze iterates where that failed.I bet they just lightly rethemed the initial hallway to look like a hotel, the "Don't Open, Dead Inside" doors will be the exact same effect of "something" trying to get out at us (minus the WD-specific graffiti), and then the switchback part of the queue is in the hotel "lobby," again with the same lighting and sound effects. All the medical supplies and stuff will be swapped out, but I'd bet every thing that's not TWD hospital-specific will still be there, like the vending machines. I'm keeping my expectations in check on this one--TWD was painfully short, and so if they didn't utilize any excess space that might've been available, then this might be a victim of brevity.
I think you’re onto something. I have a theory that Murdy was originally wanting to do Evil Dead Rise so he can reuse TWDA queue while just demo’ing the actual maze portion. This would cut the cost in half of having to gut the building. If you’re going to use that money allocated for HHN to gut TWDA, why not just use that money to carve out space for what you really need? On top of that, why not cheaply reskin the queue line when the theme is already there to use to your advantage?I bet they just lightly rethemed the initial hallway to look like a hotel, the "Don't Open, Dead Inside" doors will be the exact same effect of "something" trying to get out at us (minus the WD-specific graffiti), and then the switchback part of the queue is in the hotel "lobby," again with the same lighting and sound effects. All the medical supplies and stuff will be swapped out, but I'd bet every thing that's not TWD hospital-specific will still be there, like the vending machines. I'm keeping my expectations in check on this one--TWD was painfully short, and so if they didn't utilize any excess space that might've been available, then this might be a victim of brevity.