Terrifier (HHN 34)

[RedRightDan]

I laughed. But still ... they brought back the guy who's designed houses for well over a decade. No one broke through the cloud of groupthink to say, "y'know, this could potentially not work with the conga line"?

I just never understood the appeal of walking through a room designed to blast you with water outside of a waterpark. Like...who's going to voluntarily take that path?

Even if it's my last house of the night, just the walk back to the garage and the drive home in wet underwear sounds miserable.

 

[Chumpieboy]

Are there no floor drains in the soundstages? Seems like a no brainer to put the wet parts near a drain or have sandbags or something to manage/funnel the water.

 

[Tingus Pingus]

I just never understood the appeal of walking through a room designed to blast you with water outside of a waterpark. Like...who's going to voluntarily take that path?

Even if it's my last house of the night, just the walk back to the garage and the drive home in wet underwear sounds miserable.

Its not THAT wet. Its similar to a light splash from River Adventure (according to friends who went last night), not soak your underwear wet. The point is not to get you soaked by water, but to enhance a scene by covering you in raining "blood."

 

[Chumpieboy]

Its not THAT wet. Its similar to a light splash from River Adventure (according to friends who went last night), not soak your underwear wet. The point is not to get you soaked by water, but to enhance a scene by covering you in raining "blood."

Right but expectations based on Uni’s pre-event hype (WETTEST HOUSE EVAR!) was that you were going to get so wet you’ll grow gills and have to buy an overpriced portable aquarium to get home safely.

 

[Tingus Pingus]

Right but expectations based on Uni’s pre-event hype (WETTEST HOUSE EVAR!) was that you were going to get so wet you’ll grow gills and have to buy an overpriced portable aquarium to get home safely.

I am replying to the guy asking why people would want to get wet in the house, who thinks you will leave the event absolutely soaked (which you won't). Whether you think it should be wetter or dryer is not my point, its that its supposed to feel like you are getting covered in blood, which is why you are getting sprayed with more water (in a red lit room to make it look like blood) than pretty much any other house. Also, it's hype for an marquee IP-house and not exactly wrong, this is by default the wettest house ever.

 

[RedRightDan]

Its not THAT wet. Its similar to a light splash from River Adventure (according to friends who went last night), not soak your underwear wet. The point is not to get you soaked by water, but to enhance a scene by covering you in raining "blood."

So when I wondered if they'd lost their minds, or if this was going to be a carney situation where the gimmick is oversold, it's the second. Still not sure I want to take my chances on wet shoes...but good to know.

 

[Tingus Pingus]

So when I wondered if they'd lost their minds, or if this was going to be a carney situation where the gimmick is oversold, it's the second. Still not sure I want to take my chances on wet shoes...but good to know.

Yeah its definitely a gimmick, but to be fair, what other house at HHN has done it to this extent? Personally I think it it sets the house apart in trying to really nail the over-the-top gore fest the films are. My thought process is that its a gimmick similar to Dueling Dragons where its fun, but its not THE point of house.

 

[HHN Yeti Lover]

Whelp, that effect is going away.

 

[Lucky Planet]

it only takes a very small amount of water for you to slip badly . the amount is not the issue. it's the safety. I'm shocked that it was approved.


what would happen in a regular house if you spilled a can of Pepsi inside a house? would they close it to clean it?
hhn houses don't even let you bring in drinks to begin with. now that I think about it.

 

[Rhian]

Heck, people online are already also worried Art might not be here all season because guests are going to swarm him for pictures and videos, same with Hollywood which has less walking space and a a lot of people

From the videos I've seen, there's plenty of attendants around Art when he comes out - it just seems like a "mini-show" type thing like M3GAN.

That’s likely why he’s also roaming around and has sporadic appearances around the park, to help prevent an overcrowding scenario.

I laughed. But still ... they brought back the guy who's designed houses for well over a decade. No one broke through the cloud of groupthink to say, "y'know, this could potentially not work with the conga line"?

Could’ve also turned into dominoes.

It’s unfortunate for the TMs involved but this is why Universal does dry runs before official openings. This situation reminds me of when they tried to have snow falling in Hogsmeade and scrapped that as well.

I wonder if the wet path returns, and if it does, if it will be after opening weekend. I’d be surprised if it opened this week.

Right but expectations based on Uni’s pre-event hype (WETTEST HOUSE EVAR!) was that you were going to get so wet you’ll grow gills and have to buy an overpriced portable aquarium to get home safely.

In terms of getting guests wet in a house they’re probably not wrong of it being the wettest house. I also think Saw n' Steam was a wetter house in terms of atmosphere.

 

[GA-MBIT]

Almost every other year they try again to make real water work inside of a house and it never goes well. Depths of Fear caused a ton of problems, Dead Man's Wake lost an entire room, even as far back as that last TWD house I remember they were having issues maintaining the effect.

Water pools. It can build up. It gets dirty and has to be replaced with lots of new fresh water. It has to be drained, and if it's combined with things that should not be drained, that can cause catastrophic problems. Water stains and leaves heavy marks. It can ruin paints and warp setpieces. It can evaporate and seep through things you don't want it to. It can ruin foundations, and cause incredibly expensive damage to permanent buildings. It causes slip hazards; not just inside the house, but also well outside of it, because water likes to stick too. It clings onto shoes and clothes, and continues to drip and spread far outside the space you had planned to use the water. Meaning you need to plan for proper drainage systems not just in that room of this one house, but all around that immediate area. Water will rebel against whatever plan you have set out for it.

These houses have incredible scope and budgets, but not nearly enough to keep temporary water systems maintained and consistent for 60+ taxing nights in a row during hurricane season. IMO, it's simply poor planning and design to include water as anything but an added flourish inside of a house, if that. To make it the entire identity of a house, or to waste the finale scene of a huge IP like Terrifier on an effect that guaranteed will not last, is a complete failure on the parts of management and design.

 

[TheCodeMan95]

Almost every other year they try again to make real water work inside of a house and it never goes well. Depths of Fear caused a ton of problems, Dead Man's Wake lost an entire room, even as far back as that last TWD house I remember they were having issues maintaining the effect.

Water pools. It can build up. It gets dirty and has to be replaced with lots of new fresh water. It has to be drained, and if it's combined with things that should not be drained, that can cause catastrophic problems. Water stains and leaves heavy marks. It can ruin paints and warp setpieces. It can evaporate and seep through things you don't want it to. It can ruin foundations, and cause incredibly expensive damage to permanent buildings. It causes slip hazards; not just inside the house, but also well outside of it, because water likes to stick too. It clings onto shoes and clothes, and continues to drip and spread far outside the space you had planned to use the water. Meaning you need to plan for proper drainage systems not just in that room of this one house, but all around that immediate area. Water will rebel against whatever plan you have set out for it.

These houses have incredible scope and budgets, but not nearly enough to keep temporary water systems maintained and consistent for 60+ taxing nights in a row during hurricane season. IMO, it's simply poor planning and design to include water as anything but an added flourish inside of a house, if that. To make it the entire identity of a house, or to waste the finale scene of a huge IP like Terrifier on an effect that guaranteed will not last, is a complete failure on the parts of management and design.

I must have missed it - what happened with DMP?

 

[GA-MBIT]

I must have missed it - what happened with DMP?

It never made it past rehearsals, but this room was incredibly expensive and high-concept. That's a boat on top of (what was supposed to be) a real pool of water. A scare-actor was going to be in the boat, almost playing a similar atmospheric role as the Piano player in Spirits that same year. The pool kept leaking a ton of water into the soundstage, they figured out it would be unsafe to put a scareactor in that position, and so an entire room, fully built and incredibly expensive, was totally empty for the whole run.

I appreciate that the team is willing to push the limits of the format, but when issues are this consistent, you have to learn what is feasible in the medium at this budget.

A Quiet Place last year had a scene that took place on a dock alongside the open ocean. It used fog and a painted floor, and it looked just as good if not better than Dead Man's "real" water.