Hi guys, I posted a while ago to ask if I needed to watch S3 and 4 of this to get this house and was told yes and fully intended to...however work has been / still is crazy and we fly over in like 10 days and know I won't cram it in between. I've watched a few reviews and one said that it's mostly scenes from the last episode S4 - would I get away with just that episode?? Or is that wishful thinking I have an 8 hour flight from Ireland, so could download even S4 for the flight, but would rather sleep if possible thanks again in advance and sorry for not taking the good advice I got in the first place in a timely manner
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The house is solely based on Season 4. It is totally up to you, but I'd recommend watching the entirety of Season 4.
I don't think you necessarily need to watch Season 3 to understand the house or Season 4.
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If you really want to watch the essential episodes it would be EP 1, 4, 7, 9,
But I would watch the whole season
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Brilliant, thanks so much guys! I'll try to squeeze in the first few eps of S4 before we leave and download the rest for the plane...thanks so much and hopefully bump into some of you in little over a week
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Or, if time is tight, just go through blind and have fun seeing if you can figure out what the crap is going on.
Technically we are all going to be doing this with The Exorcist: Believer anyways.
You know what, you're absolutely right! I've been worried about it as I always watch the IP's beforehand...but tbh I read all of ye here speak about the story of the originals and whether it's cohesive or not etc. and I'm thinking I'm too scared going through any house, I've no idea what the story is anyway
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First impression: does a lot right.
Not a bad house by any means. But to use a sports analogy, chokes in the clutch,
Choosing to focus on the Vecna storyline is smart. Keeps the story tight.
Some convincing look-alikes. Some nice jump scares.
But this house was destined to be judged on two scenes. The "Running Up that Hill" scene underwhelms, relying on a screen. And the MoP scene is a whiff. Needed to find a way to give the audience what it wants/expects.
Some convincing look-alikes. Some nice jump scares.
But this house was destined to be judged on two scenes. The "Running Up that Hill" scene underwhelms, relying on a screen. And the MoP scene is a whiff. Needed to find a way to give the audience what it wants/expects.
Not a bad house by any means. But to use a sports analogy, chokes in the clutch,
I really enjoyed the house, came out of it tearing up a bit. But I think the running up the hill scene should have a max pop out and scare, or make the screen move so it's not still. And the MoP scene should have given Eddie the guitar. The scene still works I just would have loved to see that. But that's just minor nitpicks for me. Otherwise still a fantastic house. Henry and Eleven double scare is amazing (if timed right.) This and Darkest Deal are fighting for my favorite this year.
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I feel like this HOUSE has the exact same problems as Chucky. Really terrible mannequins (Terrible). Some static scenes that needed to be added by the studio. They just don't translate well. Some scenes looked awful.
This to me, is the worst house of all the stranger things houses we have had. The others were much better.
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I took out my phone and used Shazam. It doesn't recognize it. I walked real slow at 1:30 am. It doesn't catch it.
But I realize one thing. It's a very short loop of master of puppets without any vocals. It really is master of puppets but a very tiny loop. It actually felt like it repeated while I was in this room. Can't be longer than 1 minute. It was very clear today.
And Eddie has never ever picked up that guitar. I don't think that it's part of the role.
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What’s the limit for how long a song can play before you have to pay royalties?
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Oh yeah, that's it. Google says 30 seconds. Good point! That might be how long the loop is. It's definitely short like that.
So I had a really good run through this house. Hit almost all of the scares and they were all super effective with great cast energy. Was actually my favorite house yesterday. Was very tempted to go through a second time later in the night to see how it held up but I was wiped.
Had my first run thru the house last night. I thought it was a really good house, I got got which is always a plus, and it came across as foreboding. Probably tied with one of my top two houses with TLoU
Negatives
I didn't really see much of the video stuff (maybe due to Stay n Scream being so bright out?) but thought they had some really huge environments that were kind of empty and could just use something else going on in them
I was super disappointed with the two biggest scenes to me, Eddie metal death and Max breaking death completely missing the mark. They should have absolutely nailed both of them knowing how big of scenes they were and how they were received by the public.
I like this house, but it is lower on my list for the year. In my opinion s4 is the “scariest” stranger things season and could have had a lot of potential, set design was beautiful in some spots
Of course others may have different experiences, but I’ve had at least 10 runs of the house so far, some better than others of course
A few specific things
-The actors playing 1 in the house are EXTREMELY aggressive and get right in your face, love it
-Looking into the roof of the trailer and seeing Dustin standing upside down is such a cool effect, wished they would have done something similar for the running up that hill scene
-If either 1 or 11 are missing in the transformation scene, it looks kinda silly, 11 more so since 1 is just reacting to nothing essentially
-Most of the vecna actors move reallyyy slowly and it affects their scare for me
-No offense to the actresses, but the “flambé” trigger is like right at the climax of the house and was just not an effective scare at all.
-Glad we got a few demogorgons at the end even though they only show up in Russia
-The actors playing 1 in the house are EXTREMELY aggressive and get right in your face, love it
-Looking into the roof of the trailer and seeing Dustin standing upside down is such a cool effect, wished they would have done something similar for the running up that hill scene
-If either 1 or 11 are missing in the transformation scene, it looks kinda silly, 11 more so since 1 is just reacting to nothing essentially
-Most of the vecna actors move reallyyy slowly and it affects their scare for me
-No offense to the actresses, but the “flambé” trigger is like right at the climax of the house and was just not an effective scare at all.
-Glad we got a few demogorgons at the end even though they only show up in Russia
Of course others may have different experiences, but I’ve had at least 10 runs of the house so far, some better than others of course
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Chucky actually was in the top 5 for my two friends after a few really good runs. Stranger things was dead last, even for me.
I must ask, how? This is #9 on my list so far, but for me there is a massive gap between my #9 and #10. At least imo ST4's sets are better constructed, it has some decent scares here and there, it's got a clear and consistent theme, some fun crowd-pleasing setpieces. Even with my many issues regarding ST4, I don't know if I've ever been in a house as bad as Ultimate Kill Count in the years I've been going. I'm legitimately curious as to what you experienced.
