Behind The Fears | Halloween Horror Nights 2023
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2023
- A roundtable discussion with the minds that bring your favorite Halloween event to life. #HHN #HHN32
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I love these round table shoots no matter the production...
You all did such an amazing job this year. I can't even begin to tell you how many years I have walked underneath that sign on opening night with the biggest smile on my "ugly" face... That smile has always been because of your countless hours that you've given your Labor of Love.
From the design team, to the audio team, to the performers, and anyone else that has been involved with this event for the past 32 years, we say nothing but congratulations... and "Thank you".
I hope you realize that 30, 100, or even 200 years from now, this event will still be going strong. Please enjoy your benevolence amongst carnage and fear enough to honor your creations as we do. They are deserving of the utmost respect from the Central Florida community of the broken, the beaten, & the damned. ;)
-The Director
Thank you to all the amazing creatives that make this happen. You are my people. I literally wait all year for the event...speculation and all! It's the absolute highlight of my year! (Also, please bring back my beloved Caretaker and maybe the rat lady, too. K? Love ya, bye)
This year was EVERYTHING we could have asked for! Incredible, incredible!
As a big fan of TLOU game and series adaptation who lives near Pittsburgh, this house is giving me goosebumps! This will be my family's first time experiencing HHN, and I cannot wait!
We need to get one going over the Hollywood event 😊
I'm glad I watched this I was totally confused about the scarezones. My favorite is vamp 69. Awesome job 👏
I’ve been going for 14 years, it’s my favorite event of the year!
I loved the ST house but ya'll kinda phoned it in for the most iconic scene -- Max in the air during Running Up That Hill.
Best year this year
we need some kind of face-off type show that follows the 10 houses getting put together leading up to the event, then stream the show around the event
This!!!
Was at HHN this weekend. Great job! All the houses were excellent. I have been going since about 2014 - My personal favorite was Unmasked .. just really enjoy the classics.
This is fantastic. My favorite event
Loved every bit of this!
Best Version of one of these videos ever! KUDOS
Big horror fan ship.
I always like these types of things with Michael Lora, Matt Charles etc. I remember the one they did before HHN28 (Which was also when Scary Tales was announced as the last house).
Which they unfortunately took down or hid/unlisted. That one had way more of the creative team at the roundtable like Blake Braswell and was a Q&A livestream. This was a great video - I had a feeling they were going to pull off a special surprise near the end to tie-in with the "glitching"... however there were a few aspects that disappointed me.
They spent a lot of time talking/gushing about the IPs they landed for houses this year, but kinda seemed to rush through the original houses, dedicating a little more time to The Twisted Origins of Dr. Oddfellow because of his association with Jack the Clown going back to 2000, and of course Dueling Dragons: Choose Thy Fate because it's a maze homage to the old IoA ride that people loved. Blood Moon Sacrifice was reiterated to be "bloody" and "aggressive" but also "pretty" even though it follows a fairly traditional plot for an original HHN house where the story takes place centuries ago in American history and involves a town/village of people "going mad" and killing each other in violent gruesome ways for "mysterious reasons" (Roanoke: Cannibal Colony, The Curse of Lightning Gulch, etc.) while The Darkest Deal gets a brief mention of "Story of an innocent person who trades their soul for fame"!
Like, really? That's all you have to say about that house? Why not bring up that the house is loosely based on the legend of real life blues musician Robert Johnson who is considered "The Godfather of Blues and Rock N' Roll" as his music went on to inspire and be imitated by many renown musicians such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Lead Belly, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and so many more, while also during his brief 27 years, was constantly tailed by the rumor that he had "made a deal with The Devil" and "sold his soul to achieve fame and fortune" (even though both didn't really occur until well after he was dead and gone) and was one of the earliest members of "The 27 Club" (a infamous group of musicians who all died at the age of 27 including Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix and many others)? According to the HHN Fandom wikia, Darkest Deal is supposedly Charles Gray's favorite house because the story revolves around and incorprates blues music into the house, so why not have him talk about what they means to him and why it's such an exciting aspect for him? (This is definitely a nitpick, but I find it kinda weird that Lora states that the moment The Collector comes for Pinestraw's soul is right at the "height" of his career and before he can even strum one note on his guitar... but in POV walkthroughs of the house, Pinestraw is up on stage singing, not playing a guitar-- in fact I don't think there's even a guitar in the scene!)
My other thing is why they would make Dr. Oddfellow a black man? And I'm not coming at this in the whiny, easily offended reactionary stance of "Oh he was always a white man and you just made him black for woke points!" but rather from the opposite side. I get that it's a nice, inclusive thing to do, but considering that the story of the house is taking place during The Dust Bowl (1939 is the year given on the HHN Fandom wikia), yes there would have been black business owners at that time, but owning a business of any kind that white folks would patron, let alone willingly work for? Not so much. Jim Crow laws would be in full effect at that time, especially in the South, and segregated "Whites Only" towns would not allow "an uppity black man" (to paraphrase what kind of language would have been used in that day) to bring his business to *their* town unless he was fully aware that he would most likely end up swinging from a tree. Even the idea that Oddfellow would have managed to leave the country, let alone be let back in during the 1920s seems outlandish as again Jim Crow laws made it so easy for white society to discriminate and punish the black community with impunity. Jim Crow laws went into effect during the late 19th/early 20th century, the earliest use of the phrase dating to a newspaper article from 1884, and weren't overturned until 1965 - that's 81 years, just 19 shy of a century! And of course the easy, and lazy response is always "You're overthinking it! It's just for fun, stop taking it so seriously!", but the point I'm trying to make is that while, yes, it is great to see companies and events be more inclusive of marginalized people... the downside of "Colorblind Casting" rears it's ugly head when you realize that in their quest for inclusivity, the white people in charge really did not give much thought to what it would mean to cast a person of color - especially a black person to be this character that exists in this certain period of time that historically would not have been kind to them. Colorblind Casting is... fine, not great - but Color Conscious Casting would be preferable.
what an incredible team and a dream job! thank you so much for sharing this information and letting those of us who aspire to work at Universal Creative a glimpse into the life!
This is awesome!! 👻👻👻
I went this past Sunday. Was able to do all the houses in one night without express pass, but it was tight. The houses were better than last year, but not as good as 2021, with The Last of Us and Bloodmoon: Offerings being the standouts.
I disagree, I don't think anything came close to last year, 2021 I feel like was hamstrung with the Plexiglass because of the looser but not complete gone covid restrictions. Some of the boohole scares that would be effective couldn't be because of the Plexiglass.
@@NY32986I agree with you. I was disappointed by this years hhn honestly. Last year was awesome. Me & my husband are going to buy tickets to give it another chance and hopefully it goes better then last weeks visit.
You guys did a great job this year! Wow!!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!! loved the FOG .. Houses were equal Scary this year but i guess VECNA and CHucky would have something to say about that ha . Let FRANKENSTEIN AND HIS BRIDE HOST NEXT YEAR HHN
LOVE the tribute store this year!! Y'all kill it, year after year.
My dream is to be at this table I’ve wanted to work for hhn since I was little , y’all are so creative and talented.
This video was great. I am going to HHN soon. It'll be my first one and my first time to Orlando! I can't wait 😁 especially for ST!
Same
@MalunaTravel teams loves these round tables! Can't wait for next year! Our clients love HHN Vacation Packages!
So great to see and hear from masterminds that brought this together ❤️
loved the bit about Last of Us. Love that house so much
This was awesome ! Would love more of this!
Yes 🎉
I’ve not been yet and watching this just really amped me up!!!
I’m taking my brother this year. Can’t wait to take my niece Katy in a couple years.
How do I get a job as a designer for HHN
Put a scream maze
A Scream house, but we already got a Screamhouse.
Chucky was a total flop this year, but I appreciate where they were trying to go with it. The Exorcist and The Last of Us were well thought out, beautifully done
Can I have the Universal Monsters: Unmasked mini sign from the maze once the event is done? 🥺❤
wow such diversity at the table 🙃
Was there a guest activated Trigger at this year’s Halloween horror nights
Just one, in the Chucky house
@@mleg6686👀
How can I get involved with creative development with universal?
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Hy guy's!🙋😍
We had a terrible time at Halloween Horror Nights this year. I wish we could have experienced what the devs are talking about here. Instead my dad was harassed by staff the entire time we were in the houses because he has mobility issues (he can walk but can’t run) and the event was so oversold they just wanted us nose to butt with the person in front of us to push through people like cattle. They took his wheelchair at the entrance to one house (which we bought to manage the over three hour wait in every line) and lost it and refused to help us get it back. It was terrible. It was his first scare attraction experience and he felt so ashamed he doesn’t want to go to any others ever again. I myself am a big scare attraction fan, had been waiting forever to finally go to HHN, and was completely let down.
WTH!! You guys took down the 28 roundtable interview/livestream?? WHY??? You should make it accessible for everyone again and actually turn this into a series!!
This is my third year. I don't know what happened this year, but almost everything was a let down. Which is what led me to this video to maybe understand what went into it. The houses were not as good, the scare zones were not as good, and everything was insanely busy. Walking through it, everything just felt empty and watered down. It wasn't as scary or as fully decorated as years past. We used to be able to go in September as soon as the gate opened to beat the crowds, but it didn't matter this year. There was hardly a time we saw the wait for a house under 60 minutes. There were even lines and waits paying for parking, at security, and at the gate every time we went. You felt like you didn't get to really experience or interact with the event because you were being pushed through houses and zones by the mass amount of people that were there. Overall, we didn't feel the value of what we purchased this year. It just felt like a theme park with Halloween as a side show.
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Greg is so cute 😍😍😍
Who does nightmare fuel makeup?
I never understood why Universal never did their own original mazes? Knott's berry farm who have been doing it forever it seems comes up with their own original ideas for mazes while Universal relies on their properties or established themes. Plus, it seems their mazes are very formulaic...there isn't any surprises......it follows a pattern where if you know, you can know exactly where the scares will come from. Other parks are creative and leave you guessing....The benefit of Universal is the production value...the set pieces, design and mazes are beautiful but they often lack originality and randomness.
Lol, what are you talking about? Usually, around half or more of Universal's houses are original every year. Have you seen any video walk-throughs?
@@lucasd6880 Only two mazes are original ideas this year. Where as pretty much all of Knotts mazes are original. 22, 21, 20 had no original maze ideas other than their own properties.
@81artmonk This year we've got Dueling Dragons, Dr Oddfellow, Yeti, Darkest Deal, and Bloodmoon. That's 5 original houses. Last year we had Dead Man's Pier, Descendants of Destruction, Bugs, Chupacabra, Hellblock, and Spirits of the Coven. That's 6 original houses. Again, what on earth are you talking about? 😂
@@lucasd6880 You must be talking about Orlandos Universal.
@81artmonk Ahhh, yes I am. That makes much more sense
Nightmare
Y'all need to be fired. Lora, my dear, stop lying. You don't care about guest feedback at all! If a guest at HHN tells guest relations that they do not find the event scary, mgmt instructs them to respond with "Are you drunk? It's better if you're drunk. We sell shots in line." Then your actors have to deal with drunks. All of you should be forced to pay $84 to $129 for your own crap houses without an express pass as punishment.
wtf 😂😂😂
get a load of this guy 😭
Orlando was shit this year ngl
HHN is more and more disappointing each year.
If you should go again (I don't recommend it) go to guest relations and tell them it's garbage. They'll respond with "Are you drunk? It's better if you're drunk. We sell shots in line." Did it at both LA and HW and got the same scripted response.