1) Universal House of Horrors (done right this could be a top house ever)
2) Gothic (early reports suggest they nailed it)
3) Penn & Teller Newkd Las Vegas (I'm a sucker for the dark humor houses, and P&T are masters at dark humor)
4) Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare (if you grew up in the 70s and saw him on The Muppet Show, you'd understand)
5) Dead End (could go either way--no sure about use of the vortex, may live or die based on the cast)
6) Silent Hill (not familiar with the game, but the rave reviews and, let's be honest, the previews of the nurses have me intrigued--hoping there's a storyline novices can follow as well, tho)
7) The Walking Dead (the strength of the show is its characters, not its cliched zombies; also given the promotion and isolated location, I expect this will have the longest lines)