Hard to do what with there being fantastic ones as far back as the early years. Harder to get footage of them but shit were they scary. I remember hearing about a house with a mirrored ceiling and see-through floor involving a chainsaw guy. Real trippy
Would love a series on cancelled items from HHN. Such as the Chucky show going away mid season, all guns removed from Purge after Pulse or any of those last minute house changes you mentioned in this video.
I love that you have been “all in” lately regarding consistently posting videos on seasonly relevant topics. It’s really helped my vacation planning this year. In fact, your ranking of the Sea World coasters this summer influenced me to add that park to my first Florida trip. Now, I can’t believe I’m considering going back for Horror Nights. Keep it up!
I was in Roanoke! I was the in the gillie suite at the beginning of the house. My counterpart hardly ever went out. I personally went out to often. It was my first and last event I ever worked.
Okay but we have to mention... speaking of sounds: the sound when walking into the Insidious house this year is HAUNTING! If you're a fan of the movies you just get that pit in the stomach feeling!
I don't know what others think of the Goblin's Feast one but my sister and I could not stop making fun of it afterward. It was super scary, just like the rest, but just such a funny concept and the goblin voice lines were just super funny in retrospective.
We didn't find anything about it scary, but it was enjoyable. The house was meant to be one of the funnier ones (there is usually at least one each year). It had some cool little easter eggs though that are easy to miss, like the entrance sign. If you look behind the "Goblin Feast" banner you'll see the wooden sign that says "human slaughterhouse" or something like that.
My sister didnt like the fact it wasnt scary enough. Ngl the set and costumes were amaz9ng but the decision to play jolly irish dancing music made it more fun then scary 😅
im new to scary theme park events and it makes me very happy that in discussions of what makes or breaks scare events, no matter what everyone is so respectful to the scare actors 😊 (as they should be!!)
Most of you will never know the snoozefest disappointment that was "Disorientorium" back in 2004. I was really excited for it thanks to the backstory provided by the website, but when you went through it, it felt like your basic funhouse with some minor (and I do mean MINOR) scares.
Nice stuff. I actually worked American Werewolf in 2013 as the cop at the end shooting the wolf. My other years being a scaractor was in 2010 with Hades and 2011 with Forsaken. Will say the walking dead got burned out from me QUICK and what pushed out my group to not go as much anymore even with my discounts back then working for the parks.
Myself and my family enjoyed the Chucky Ultimate Kill Count House last year (especially the preview video in the queue), but I'm bummed that Hollywood's House was so much better because that looks cool! Major Sweets Candy Factory this year is also pretty kickass!
Not necessarily accurate. Most years there's at least one campy house, but it's not always an intentional decision to make the house like that. Sometimes they just try doing something new, and it winds up giving of a silly or campy vibe once all is said and done.
Yep. There's nearly always one comedy house or campy IP house per year and they often get a bad rap, but not always. Beetlejuice had a house like that, so did Ash Vs Evil Dead. The Chucky house on this list was the comedy house that year.
I feel like they could make a good "Making of" documentary about HHN, how the haunted houses are designed & made, how the scareactors prepare for their roles, and an overall history of the event.
2022 was the first time I took a friend to HHN. We had a great time and hellblock was actually her favorite house! Though she admits part of that may be because I was downplaying it so much before hand.
as someone who did watch the chucky show bc of 2023's ultimate kill count, I had a great time in the house!! chucky is now my favorite tv show and while im not gonna claim the house was spectacular it is a little unfair to judge a house on a concept that one didn't choose to experience. It'd be like saying the insidious house is weird for having a bunch of random demons in it or that the quiet place house uses ASL for no recognizable reason if you haven't watched either of the movies i do agree that the f&f house placements always feel super underwhelming. wish they'd retire it as a location but i guess there isnt another good place in the back center of the park for a house
I really liked "Creatures!" and we did it 2 or 3 times that nice because the cast was having fun with everyone. The next year I'd be one of the Plush Monsters in the original Chucky house and I think we were pretty good.
Chucky was genuinely just very poorly executed. It was the first house we did on opening night and was sadly a let down. But we gave it many second chances. I probably went through it 10 or so times throughout the event and it just never got me. Every single house on the other hand, had at least 1 (usually more) run through that had me genuinely terrified.
Honestly? I like the Tampa event, but it’s much easier to make videos for them if I were invited as media, which has yet to happen 🤷🏻♂️ same goes for the SeaWorld one too. Until that happens, I don’t think I’ll be able to put out the best quality video
I LOOOOOVED Scarey, but Hellblock was....eh. Yeah, the monsters were all throwbacks, but the theming was just brick walls with blood and alien symbols. The room with the yeti(?) in the cage and NOTHING else really made me go 'huh'.
To be fair the first time going into the FATF area house was chucky not knowing it ended for space thinking it was over then being back in the house was terrifying but this kinda killed the illusion lol great video Edit chucky 2023 it was better way better
Hi Vincent been a fan since 2022 I don’t know if you will see this but you made me love theme parks and I really enjoy your content and I hope you keep it up
Here is my top 5 Worst in no particular order: 1. Horrors of Blumhouse (2018) 2. Revenge of the Tooth Fairy (2021) 3. Brides of Frankenstein (2021) 4. Spirits of the Coven (2022) 5. Bugs Eaten Alive (2022)
2022 and 2023 were the first times I did HHN as an adult. I very much remember the jail one and thinking that was the worst house of the night as it was the last one we did. Don’t even remember Coven.
Bruh… no mention of literally the worst house ever? The Spawning?? How is Welcome to Scarey on this list? Also Afterlife was a loosely based on the movie Shocker. People Under The Stairs was an awesome house. Also you didn’t have to wear that hard hat. They gave out like 1 per group. Creatures was an awesome house. This is a wild list
I really hope they don’t get rid of the Carrey stuff. I have never been able to go due to medical issues but my fav houses have always been the Carrey, OH ones, especially Mr.Meatz and H.R. Bloodngutz (hence my love of Late Night with the Devil lol). I wished they would have put the Sweets and Triplets houses/scarezones in Carrey as well bc it fits the story so well!
Cindy in HHN 30 was used in a weird way, her maze, the Orfanage was mash together with the Skoolhouse. Where you could say this cross over could be a sequel to the Orfanage. Furthermore SCarey was her only appearance aside for some reuse key art at 30 years 30 fears. I find it strange because we had murderous children in the event recent years like for Major Sweets and the beginning of Triplets of Terror. So what is Universal's plans with her and will she get her own year?
i never understood the hate for spirits of the coven until now!!! we went towards the end of october when the house had a lot more sound (when you talk about sound cues that always make you think about a certain house, for me it’s always “oh, you’re on edge!”) so we had a great time! honestly hellblock would have taken my spot as the worse house of hhn31 but we had a REALLY great cast of scare actors who had literally switched in right before we went in, so even though the house was kind of dumb and confusing, the energy and scares from the scareactors was amazing, so i’m biased. the WORST of hhn31 in my opinion was “descendants of destruction”. we couldn’t follow the story at all and just found it confusing and lame. as two people who live and work in new york city, we were psyched to see a subway inspired house (something already terrifying irl lol) and what we felt we got was an interpretation of a new york subway from someone who’s never actually been in one lol
hellblock horror was my first ever hhn experience 😬 we had just gotten in early, park was BARELY open, and my family rushed into the closest house. i’m kind of a scaredy cat when it comes to houses, and it was so insanely loud. it was kind of funny though, in like for the house i watched all of the actors enter the house in single file
Nooooo Dracula Untold :Reign of Blood wasn't on this list! As bad as Roanoke was, Dracula was horrible. It smelled bad, the sets were just dark medieval hallways, no storyline, and it felt like there were 5 scareactors in the whole maze. I've been the last 12 consecutive years and Dracula Untold was last place on every review that year and still remains as my worst ever. Only Roanoke and Spirits of the Coven are in the same range. And in all that time, they actually did my best ever house in 2022 with Dead Man's Pier, proving they can still crank the quality.
That Chucky house from last year (Orlando) was so bad. I remember the one from years back and it was amazing so I was looking forward to this but I was so let down with it.
Bad scare actors should absolutely be called out as they do affect the house. Good example is how the werewolf puppeteers were always on their phone. You can see right through the skrim every time.
They can't be dropping the Carey tie-in cause Museum: Deadly Exhibits has a crate outside originating from Carey and Slaughter Sinema 2 takes place at the Carey Drive-In theater.
9:10 lol this was my first hhn idek what it was yet my dad bought tickets to some after hours universal event was all i knew. I saw there a twd house and was like well i obviously have to do this. Its the only one i did bc rest of the night i rode rides w no waits. It was my only hhn experience til last September in hollywood
0:00 *Dwight Schrute voice* False. I’m watching the video because you uploaded it and your content is always top notch. If you are not like me, and you love HHN, then give Vincent a like and subscribe to the channel! WACHOW!
If one of the clowns or shark head operators from Slaughter Cinema 2 read this you guys traumatised me both Sunday there and Sunday before that(early September).
I think worst one i can recall, was a house based on saw. At least on my experience from the walkthrough I got, there were scenes missing scare actors, it was mostly just scenes recreating ones from the movies, from my memory the only real jump scare was an actor dressed up with the pig mask jumping out at you at the end Maybe I just got a bad go through and normally it’s more intense i dunno, but it was a night where I exited the house feeling like the wait was nowhere near worth it
They’ve had two I think? A long time ago they had one in the JAWS (rip) queue building and another one in Shrek. I only go to do that one once cause it always so popular!
I think one of the worst ones was "Depths of Fear" in 2019, mostly due to unforeseen issues. The concept was pretty interesting, but not long after the event started they had to remove most of the Mouthbrooder monsters because the the masks were too heavy and cumbersome for the scare actors. The opening night footage looks cool though.
I remember they had to take out the dead dog prop too because people were complaining. I still honestly don't understand how people are okay with intestines dangling from the ceiling and people being torn in half, but draw the line at a fake dog...
I'm surprised to hear People Under the Stairs. That movie was creepy as hell. But I could see it not be horror enough for adults, since we watched it as young teens.
From my understanding People Under the Stairs: Under Construction was not well liked due to the location and reusing the miner helmets from a previous location not being very dark and more so just dim. The miner helmets made it even easier to see what was going on and left little to the imagination. I think the movie would make for a wonderful haunted house but they just needed to give it a much better location to pull it off properly.
This years houses at hhn Hollywood were ok 4 out of the 8 were really good and I’m glad they brought back insidious that was honestly the best house of this year.
So my thoughts respectively: I loved Chucky. I'm always a sucker for the comedy houses even though most people want scary and not funny. I also love meta humor so I dunno, I think that year's Exorcist house was last on my list. 100% agree on Hellblock horror, though I heard it was supposed to be a Stranger Things 4 house. You must have had some bad run throughs on Spirits of the Coven! Or maybe I just got lucky, because I had a blast with all the 20s witches and the story of smuggling their "witches brew" during prohibition. Plus the deeper you went, the more grotesque the witches got as they summoned their mother witch or whatever. Oh Scarey... I wanted to like that one so much, and it was soooo full of easter eggs, but you're right. It was too disjointed. It needed some better context to make it make sense as a house sadly. Admittedly, by the time I started going to HHN, it was 2016 and I only got to see one Walking Dead House, which combined all 6 seasons and I thought was incredible. I basically missed the entire WD odyssey. Missed Roanoke, but I can imagine a less interesting version of Bloodmoon. And I missed the others also. It's hard for me to say any house that I thought was genuinely bad, but I think a lot of the Blumhouse houses have been pretty hit or miss, though I loved the Happy Death Day and Black Phone segments. And also, I was never a fan of the Yeti houses simply for lack of story. A lot of original houses have at least a bit of story, but basically it was just, snow, cabins and yeti. That's kinda it.
No mention of this year's "A Quiet Place"? Comes across as another one of those mandatory IP houses that feels rushed. I'm very easily jump scared, and even I could make it through. You can see the monsters coming from a mile away. It's also very sparse with scare actors and monsters. Hell, there's one room which is just an empty hallway with some claw marks. Upon rewatching after seeing what Beijing did, rushed didn't even feel correct. It's like they gave up entirely.
TLoU house from last year in Orlando at least felt like that, the whole thing was so dark I just couldn't see anything, and it missed some great moments from the game that would of been better to use. The one in Hollywood looked so much better from the vlogs I saw
2022 was the last good hhn imo. Hellblock horror is just the closest we'll get to a mob of the dead or cod zombies house. Also yes the monsters are reused costumes and it's in the lore, you enter a prison storing monsters from hhn past, they break loose, and at the end the security guard sacrifices his life to rearm the defenses. Now it's all fumbled ips, to the degree of using a drawing of patrick wilson, and having another blumhouse scare zone because they fumbled fnaf. Hey and I'm glad they fumbled billie eilish as an ip house because case files was far better. But nowadays the replacement is worse
They didn't fumble Eilish... her agent pulled her from the event after it came out that the guy heading Academy of Villains was basically a huge s3x p3st and into underage girls. This is also why AoV abruptly went away to be replaced by Nightmare Fuel, though it was too late to salvage the Eilish contract.
I don’t intend to argue because this is pure opinion based, but I personally believe overall 2022 was a weak year compared to this one. Most of the houses were just narrow hallways with people popping out and not much big sets (personally I enjoy detailed and big sets with many different types of scares). This year we got big sets like ghostbusters and insidious. Maybe I didn’t like 2022 because it was extra busy when I went and I only got to see universal monsters legends collide, fiesta de chupacabra, and descendents of destruction. I respect your opinion but I personally thought that universal monsters and descendents of destruction were just narrow hallways with not too much put into the set, maybe I just didn’t go to many cool houses though🤷. Anyways didn’t mean to rant or disrespect your opinion but I hope 2025 has some great Hhn Houses and I hope we can enjoy hhn in the future.
@@AnimeSenseiiiiii Oh, you missed the Weeknd, Bugs Eaten Alive and especially Dead Man's Pier! Those were the best that year! Monsters was really good that year too though.
I'm awfully late but for the Carey Ohio bit, it was just a random decision as one of the head creatives for HHN was from there and they needed to find somewhere for a lot of the lore for HHN to take place.
I agree that Hellblock was the worst house in 2022 but for 2023 my pick would be Exorcist. My reasoning is this: preview houses can’t show anything not shown in the trailers at all for some reason and I didn’t find it scary no matter how many times I went in. I went to all houses multiple times and enjoyed every single one, yes even Chucky, and yet Exorcist never scared me once. It also suffers the problem you used for Chucky, mandate IP.
It also smelled disgusting, which suits, but it's a point FOR and two AGAINST the House overall. ;) It was bottom of list for me too, partially because I don't care for that franchise, but I also didn't find it scary.
2016, the house based on the original Exorcist was the BEST ever! Loved it, went through it 5 times! 2023, based on the new Exorcist movie, was soooo disappointing! Had no idea what was going on and it just flopped for me.
Well to be fair The Exorcist house is a mandate house and was the scariest house. Fans always complain about IP houses, yet you need them to bring in the causal fans and are always the most packed. I luv originals yet many are overrated. Chuck plot of a house was really good yet wasn't bad yet really didn't do anything.
@@VincentVision hmm… interesting… If that’s actually accurate, most of these actors are triggering the effects WAY too consistently then… I go most years and I can’t ever recall a time where a dialogue effect was surprising? They almost always hit over and over again in the most predictable rhythm…
I think a dishonorable mention would have to go to Undertaker: No Mercy (HHN 2000 Hollywood). I've never been to it but from what I saw, it didn't look great between costumes and sets. They tried to implicate moments of Undertaker's history in the WWF(WWE), including the infamous Hell in a Cell match between him and Mankind, but it didn't look so good from the outcome. Another thing was the poor timing of it. Undertaker was out of his Phenom/Ministry gimmick and became the American Badass around May of 2000. Hell, when you see him and his (then) girlfriend Sara going inside, you could tell he wasn't 100% thrilled about it.
I'll defend Afterlife: DV slightly... The main issue was that it just paled in comparison to the much beloved The In-between from two years prior and even reused some of the characters and certain concepts created for that house. 2013 was only my second year visiting, so I didn't have that reference point and I found it fairly good and quite scary on my first visit, with a few interesting scares. It stands as my favorite of the 3D houses that I have seen, which admittedly isn't saying that much, given the competition...
Well that’s funny cause I’ve never been into Halloween Horror Nights or even go to Universal Studios Hollywood lmao! Is this assign for me to go to Universal Studios Hollywood and Halloween Horror Nights?
And really, how CAN you blame the scare actors? They all work with the best of what they got, they aren't in charge of any creative decisions in regards to the houses design or layout, and if they aren't good at scaring, well then then that's really more of an indictment on the people who are supposed to train people how to do it properly. I'm willing to bet that these aren't professional scare actors but rather seasonal employees. Blaming a bad haunted house on the scare actors would be like blaming a business going bankrupt on It's lowest level staff rather than management.
The entire event (only speaking for the Hollywood CA location) has been going downhill for years. Im so tired of Blumhouse houses and Walking dead houses, year after year. Another chucky, another halloween house. Another mexican themed ghost story. Another weekend house. They are all so lazy now.
Does this imply a BEST hhn house video is coming? 👀
Hmmm…maybe! There’s quite a few to pick from…🤔
Hard to do what with there being fantastic ones as far back as the early years. Harder to get footage of them but shit were they scary. I remember hearing about a house with a mirrored ceiling and see-through floor involving a chainsaw guy. Real trippy
Scarecrow, bodysnatchers, Wicked Growth, Graveyard Games, SLAUGHTER SINEMA
man I cant wait for that best-of video
That video would just be chanting “Dead Man’s Pier” for 30 minutes straight
@@VincentVision The Beetlejuice one was pretty good I think in 2022?
I was honestly surprised by the kind messages to us scare actors :)) thank you! Also even more surprised by how much I agree with your picks loll
Would love a series on cancelled items from HHN. Such as the Chucky show going away mid season, all guns removed from Purge after Pulse or any of those last minute house changes you mentioned in this video.
Hollywood chucky was phenomenal I wish you guys got it the same way. It’s one of the best mazes I’ve been on from Hollywoods event
I love that you have been “all in” lately regarding consistently posting videos on seasonly relevant topics. It’s really helped my vacation planning this year. In fact, your ranking of the Sea World coasters this summer influenced me to add that park to my first Florida trip. Now, I can’t believe I’m considering going back for Horror Nights. Keep it up!
I was in Roanoke! I was the in the gillie suite at the beginning of the house. My counterpart hardly ever went out. I personally went out to often. It was my first and last event I ever worked.
Okay but we have to mention... speaking of sounds: the sound when walking into the Insidious house this year is HAUNTING! If you're a fan of the movies you just get that pit in the stomach feeling!
I don't know what others think of the Goblin's Feast one but my sister and I could not stop making fun of it afterward. It was super scary, just like the rest, but just such a funny concept and the goblin voice lines were just super funny in retrospective.
We didn't find anything about it scary, but it was enjoyable. The house was meant to be one of the funnier ones (there is usually at least one each year). It had some cool little easter eggs though that are easy to miss, like the entrance sign. If you look behind the "Goblin Feast" banner you'll see the wooden sign that says "human slaughterhouse" or something like that.
My sister didnt like the fact it wasnt scary enough. Ngl the set and costumes were amaz9ng but the decision to play jolly irish dancing music made it more fun then scary 😅
Love hearing your take on things like this, your humour always makes me laugh. A great round up!
Also MEAT 😭😂
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The TV version of Scream was actually pretty good in my opinion. A house based on it would've been interesting to me.
im new to scary theme park events and it makes me very happy that in discussions of what makes or breaks scare events, no matter what everyone is so respectful to the scare actors 😊 (as they should be!!)
Scarey was one of the best houses, you are absolutely crazy. This house is like all time top 10 for me
Awesome video!! I didn’t know there was so much lore to HHN lol. Subscribed!!
Most of you will never know the snoozefest disappointment that was "Disorientorium" back in 2004. I was really excited for it thanks to the backstory provided by the website, but when you went through it, it felt like your basic funhouse with some minor (and I do mean MINOR) scares.
Nice stuff. I actually worked American Werewolf in 2013 as the cop at the end shooting the wolf. My other years being a scaractor was in 2010 with Hades and 2011 with Forsaken.
Will say the walking dead got burned out from me QUICK and what pushed out my group to not go as much anymore even with my discounts back then working for the parks.
Myself and my family enjoyed the Chucky Ultimate Kill Count House last year (especially the preview video in the queue), but I'm bummed that Hollywood's House was so much better because that looks cool! Major Sweets Candy Factory this year is also pretty kickass!
Vincent: The house is small like the previous one that was there before, House of 1000 Corpses. Me: BE RESPECTFUL TO ROB ZOMBIE
Noooo, unlike* ! I loved House of 1000 Corpses
2014 was the first year I’d been back since I was a kid, so I have a soft spot for the Roanoke and TWD houses
Great video, I enjoyed it and love hearing others opinions on hhn. Good job
I dunno man, Hellblock Horror got me so damn good. I was spooked constantly around every corner.
Spirits of the coven is iconic for "You look riiiipe!"
I was told by a universal employee on a VIP holiday tour that UO always has 1 "joke" house
Not necessarily accurate. Most years there's at least one campy house, but it's not always an intentional decision to make the house like that. Sometimes they just try doing something new, and it winds up giving of a silly or campy vibe once all is said and done.
Yep. There's nearly always one comedy house or campy IP house per year and they often get a bad rap, but not always. Beetlejuice had a house like that, so did Ash Vs Evil Dead. The Chucky house on this list was the comedy house that year.
I played the same role in the first American Werewolf! Still have backpain from that role lol
I feel like they could make a good "Making of" documentary about HHN, how the haunted houses are designed & made, how the scareactors prepare for their roles, and an overall history of the event.
There's bits and pieces of one floating around, it's not super recent but
I remember watching some of it when preparing to audition
2022 was the first time I took a friend to HHN. We had a great time and hellblock was actually her favorite house! Though she admits part of that may be because I was downplaying it so much before hand.
as someone who did watch the chucky show bc of 2023's ultimate kill count, I had a great time in the house!! chucky is now my favorite tv show and while im not gonna claim the house was spectacular it is a little unfair to judge a house on a concept that one didn't choose to experience. It'd be like saying the insidious house is weird for having a bunch of random demons in it or that the quiet place house uses ASL for no recognizable reason if you haven't watched either of the movies
i do agree that the f&f house placements always feel super underwhelming. wish they'd retire it as a location but i guess there isnt another good place in the back center of the park for a house
When I saw Chucky's Ultimate Kill Count, I thought he was talking about the Hollywood version and it just broke my heart
Without any mention of Lunatics Playground (2016)? Often the first named on anyone's worst hhn house list?!? I demand a recount!
This list is definitely wild. Makes me think it’s rage bait
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I really liked this video! Great job!
I really liked "Creatures!" and we did it 2 or 3 times that nice because the cast was having fun with everyone. The next year I'd be one of the Plush Monsters in the original Chucky house and I think we were pretty good.
Chucky was genuinely just very poorly executed. It was the first house we did on opening night and was sadly a let down. But we gave it many second chances. I probably went through it 10 or so times throughout the event and it just never got me. Every single house on the other hand, had at least 1 (usually more) run through that had me genuinely terrified.
Would you ever vlog howl o scream?
Honestly? I like the Tampa event, but it’s much easier to make videos for them if I were invited as media, which has yet to happen 🤷🏻♂️ same goes for the SeaWorld one too. Until that happens, I don’t think I’ll be able to put out the best quality video
I loved "Welcome to Scary" and "Hellblock Horror" because of the throwback nods. But if you didn't know them...
I LOOOOOVED Scarey, but Hellblock was....eh. Yeah, the monsters were all throwbacks, but the theming was just brick walls with blood and alien symbols. The room with the yeti(?) in the cage and NOTHING else really made me go 'huh'.
To be fair the first time going into the FATF area house was chucky not knowing it ended for space thinking it was over then being back in the house was terrifying but this kinda killed the illusion lol great video
Edit chucky 2023 it was better way better
Hell block gave me the most scares that year 😂
Hi Vincent been a fan since 2022 I don’t know if you will see this but you made me love theme parks and I really enjoy your content and I hope you keep it up
Do a video on how bad the Fright Fest 2024 is at Magic Mountain. I've never been so happy to not spend money on such type of attractions.
Slaughter Sinema 2 was at the Carey Drive-In again, so though they have other towns they use, they’re not dropping it
Here is my top 5 Worst in no particular order:
1. Horrors of Blumhouse (2018)
2. Revenge of the Tooth Fairy (2021)
3. Brides of Frankenstein (2021)
4. Spirits of the Coven (2022)
5. Bugs Eaten Alive (2022)
We ❤ scare actors!
2022 and 2023 were the first times I did HHN as an adult. I very much remember the jail one and thinking that was the worst house of the night as it was the last one we did. Don’t even remember Coven.
The Chucky house was terrible last year. Worst house out of the 7 years I’ve gone lol
Fear Factor will never be topped as the worst house I have ever experienced.
Bruh… no mention of literally the worst house ever? The Spawning??
How is Welcome to Scarey on this list?
Also Afterlife was a loosely based on the movie Shocker.
People Under The Stairs was an awesome house. Also you didn’t have to wear that hard hat. They gave out like 1 per group.
Creatures was an awesome house.
This is a wild list
12:24 I don’t know, I kind of love it
I really hope they don’t get rid of the Carrey stuff. I have never been able to go due to medical issues but my fav houses have always been the Carrey, OH ones, especially Mr.Meatz and H.R. Bloodngutz (hence my love of Late Night with the Devil lol). I wished they would have put the Sweets and Triplets houses/scarezones in Carrey as well bc it fits the story so well!
Cindy in HHN 30 was used in a weird way, her maze, the Orfanage was mash together with the Skoolhouse. Where you could say this cross over could be a sequel to the Orfanage. Furthermore SCarey was her only appearance aside for some reuse key art at 30 years 30 fears.
I find it strange because we had murderous children in the event recent years like for Major Sweets and the beginning of Triplets of Terror. So what is Universal's plans with her and will she get her own year?
i never understood the hate for spirits of the coven until now!!! we went towards the end of october when the house had a lot more sound (when you talk about sound cues that always make you think about a certain house, for me it’s always “oh, you’re on edge!”) so we had a great time! honestly hellblock would have taken my spot as the worse house of hhn31 but we had a REALLY great cast of scare actors who had literally switched in right before we went in, so even though the house was kind of dumb and confusing, the energy and scares from the scareactors was amazing, so i’m biased. the WORST of hhn31 in my opinion was “descendants of destruction”. we couldn’t follow the story at all and just found it confusing and lame. as two people who live and work in new york city, we were psyched to see a subway inspired house (something already terrifying irl lol) and what we felt we got was an interpretation of a new york subway from someone who’s never actually been in one lol
Spirits of the Coven was the most disappointing thing I ever walked through. The concept was sooo good. It’s a shame that it ended up the way it did
hellblock horror was my first ever hhn experience 😬 we had just gotten in early, park was BARELY open, and my family rushed into the closest house. i’m kind of a scaredy cat when it comes to houses, and it was so insanely loud. it was kind of funny though, in like for the house i watched all of the actors enter the house in single file
Cannibal Colony was my first ever house lol
The chucky show is great and really fun actually, but yeah the house is not much more than an ad
As someone from Toledo, I will not tolerate this SLANDER 🫠
Roanoke island NC, not Roanoke VA
Creatures was amazing! Spawning, Doomsday ... so many were worse than Creatures.
Totally forgot about Doomsday…
Nooooo Dracula Untold :Reign of Blood wasn't on this list! As bad as Roanoke was, Dracula was horrible. It smelled bad, the sets were just dark medieval hallways, no storyline, and it felt like there were 5 scareactors in the whole maze.
I've been the last 12 consecutive years and Dracula Untold was last place on every review that year and still remains as my worst ever. Only Roanoke and Spirits of the Coven are in the same range.
And in all that time, they actually did my best ever house in 2022 with Dead Man's Pier, proving they can still crank the quality.
Spirits of the Coven was fantastic! Maybe you got it on a bad night or something
That Chucky house from last year (Orlando) was so bad. I remember the one from years back and it was amazing so I was looking forward to this but I was so let down with it.
You’re wrong about creatures. It was one of my favorites houses that year. It was a very solid comedy horror house. Lots of great effects in it too.
@@celestinodecicco perhaps I was too harsh on it
Bad scare actors should absolutely be called out as they do affect the house. Good example is how the werewolf puppeteers were always on their phone. You can see right through the skrim every time.
They can't be dropping the Carey tie-in cause Museum: Deadly Exhibits has a crate outside originating from Carey and Slaughter Sinema 2 takes place at the Carey Drive-In theater.
Maybe dropping down to smaller references instead? Remember in years past they’ve had full on Carey scarezones
9:10 lol this was my first hhn idek what it was yet my dad bought tickets to some after hours universal event was all i knew. I saw there a twd house and was like well i obviously have to do this. Its the only one i did bc rest of the night i rode rides w no waits. It was my only hhn experience til last September in hollywood
0:00 *Dwight Schrute voice* False.
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If one of the clowns or shark head operators from Slaughter Cinema 2 read this you guys traumatised me both Sunday there and Sunday before that(early September).
I think worst one i can recall, was a house based on saw.
At least on my experience from the walkthrough I got, there were scenes missing scare actors, it was mostly just scenes recreating ones from the movies, from my memory the only real jump scare was an actor dressed up with the pig mask jumping out at you at the end
Maybe I just got a bad go through and normally it’s more intense i dunno, but it was a night where I exited the house feeling like the wait was nowhere near worth it
They’ve had two I think? A long time ago they had one in the JAWS (rip) queue building and another one in Shrek. I only go to do that one once cause it always so popular!
@@VincentVision this one was the saw house that took place in the jaws queue
Tbf the only thing I rememberr from that house was the final room with a circle of pig masked actors that close in on you and even that wasn't great
I think one of the worst ones was "Depths of Fear" in 2019, mostly due to unforeseen issues.
The concept was pretty interesting, but not long after the event started they had to remove most of the Mouthbrooder monsters because the the masks were too heavy and cumbersome for the scare actors. The opening night footage looks cool though.
I remember they had to take out the dead dog prop too because people were complaining.
I still honestly don't understand how people are okay with intestines dangling from the ceiling and people being torn in half, but draw the line at a fake dog...
@@vectorwolf my thoughts exactly. They're using that same dog prop in this year's "Triplets of Terror" and people are already complaining about it.
I'm surprised to hear People Under the Stairs. That movie was creepy as hell. But I could see it not be horror enough for adults, since we watched it as young teens.
Ive not heard people say it was a weak house before this vid, honestly. Even the website for it was super creepy!
From my understanding People Under the Stairs: Under Construction was not well liked due to the location and reusing the miner helmets from a previous location not being very dark and more so just dim. The miner helmets made it even easier to see what was going on and left little to the imagination. I think the movie would make for a wonderful haunted house but they just needed to give it a much better location to pull it off properly.
This years houses at hhn Hollywood were ok 4 out of the 8 were really good and I’m glad they brought back insidious that was honestly the best house of this year.
The best house i saw in 2022 was Dead Man's Pier Winters wake... the ending of having the siren was just amazing
So my thoughts respectively:
I loved Chucky. I'm always a sucker for the comedy houses even though most people want scary and not funny. I also love meta humor so I dunno, I think that year's Exorcist house was last on my list.
100% agree on Hellblock horror, though I heard it was supposed to be a Stranger Things 4 house.
You must have had some bad run throughs on Spirits of the Coven! Or maybe I just got lucky, because I had a blast with all the 20s witches and the story of smuggling their "witches brew" during prohibition. Plus the deeper you went, the more grotesque the witches got as they summoned their mother witch or whatever.
Oh Scarey... I wanted to like that one so much, and it was soooo full of easter eggs, but you're right. It was too disjointed. It needed some better context to make it make sense as a house sadly.
Admittedly, by the time I started going to HHN, it was 2016 and I only got to see one Walking Dead House, which combined all 6 seasons and I thought was incredible. I basically missed the entire WD odyssey.
Missed Roanoke, but I can imagine a less interesting version of Bloodmoon. And I missed the others also.
It's hard for me to say any house that I thought was genuinely bad, but I think a lot of the Blumhouse houses have been pretty hit or miss, though I loved the Happy Death Day and Black Phone segments. And also, I was never a fan of the Yeti houses simply for lack of story. A lot of original houses have at least a bit of story, but basically it was just, snow, cabins and yeti. That's kinda it.
The Weeknd house was a horrible piece of universal synergy marketing pretending to be a haunted house.
The Chucky show is actually super good and got 3 seasons. House could have been better tho.
I think it’s gong to get a 4th one
jokes on you i actually am too scared to go to the houses
Saw walk-throughs of the this year's, and the Frozen Empire haunted attraction looked really bad. Just underwhelming.
No mention of this year's "A Quiet Place"? Comes across as another one of those mandatory IP houses that feels rushed. I'm very easily jump scared, and even I could make it through. You can see the monsters coming from a mile away. It's also very sparse with scare actors and monsters. Hell, there's one room which is just an empty hallway with some claw marks. Upon rewatching after seeing what Beijing did, rushed didn't even feel correct. It's like they gave up entirely.
TLoU house from last year in Orlando at least felt like that, the whole thing was so dark I just couldn't see anything, and it missed some great moments from the game that would of been better to use. The one in Hollywood looked so much better from the vlogs I saw
2022 was the last good hhn imo. Hellblock horror is just the closest we'll get to a mob of the dead or cod zombies house. Also yes the monsters are reused costumes and it's in the lore, you enter a prison storing monsters from hhn past, they break loose, and at the end the security guard sacrifices his life to rearm the defenses. Now it's all fumbled ips, to the degree of using a drawing of patrick wilson, and having another blumhouse scare zone because they fumbled fnaf. Hey and I'm glad they fumbled billie eilish as an ip house because case files was far better. But nowadays the replacement is worse
They didn't fumble Eilish... her agent pulled her from the event after it came out that the guy heading Academy of Villains was basically a huge s3x p3st and into underage girls. This is also why AoV abruptly went away to be replaced by Nightmare Fuel, though it was too late to salvage the Eilish contract.
I don’t intend to argue because this is pure opinion based, but I personally believe overall 2022 was a weak year compared to this one. Most of the houses were just narrow hallways with people popping out and not much big sets (personally I enjoy detailed and big sets with many different types of scares). This year we got big sets like ghostbusters and insidious. Maybe I didn’t like 2022 because it was extra busy when I went and I only got to see universal monsters legends collide, fiesta de chupacabra, and descendents of destruction. I respect your opinion but I personally thought that universal monsters and descendents of destruction were just narrow hallways with not too much put into the set, maybe I just didn’t go to many cool houses though🤷. Anyways didn’t mean to rant or disrespect your opinion but I hope 2025 has some great Hhn Houses and I hope we can enjoy hhn in the future.
Also if they did a fnaf house I would be so happy😊. Do we know if they will do it or not? Maybe they will do it for the release of the 2nd movie.
@@AnimeSenseiiiiii It was either scrapped or in the vegas event
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Oh, you missed the Weeknd, Bugs Eaten Alive and especially Dead Man's Pier! Those were the best that year! Monsters was really good that year too though.
I can’t be the only one that loved all the walking dead stuff at HHN lol 😢
The worst is dueling dragons 2023
May I introduce you to the Blumhouse houses...?
1.) Alice Cooper: Welcome to my Nightmare
2.) Blumhouse 2018
3.) Lunatics Playground
4.) Havoc: Derailed
5.) Afterlife: Deaths Vengeance
I'm awfully late but for the Carey Ohio bit, it was just a random decision as one of the head creatives for HHN was from there and they needed to find somewhere for a lot of the lore for HHN to take place.
I agree that Hellblock was the worst house in 2022 but for 2023 my pick would be Exorcist. My reasoning is this: preview houses can’t show anything not shown in the trailers at all for some reason and I didn’t find it scary no matter how many times I went in. I went to all houses multiple times and enjoyed every single one, yes even Chucky, and yet Exorcist never scared me once. It also suffers the problem you used for Chucky, mandate IP.
It also smelled disgusting, which suits, but it's a point FOR and two AGAINST the House overall. ;) It was bottom of list for me too, partially because I don't care for that franchise, but I also didn't find it scary.
2016, the house based on the original Exorcist was the BEST ever! Loved it, went through it 5 times!
2023, based on the new Exorcist movie, was soooo disappointing! Had no idea what was going on and it just flopped for me.
Roanoke was my first ever HHN house🤣
Fear Factor? Wow
They're not actually dropping carey ohio because slaughter sinema takes place in carey. maybe they didn't want two houses in the same place?
Well to be fair The Exorcist house is a mandate house and was the scariest house. Fans always complain about IP houses, yet you need them to bring in the causal fans and are always the most packed. I luv originals yet many are overrated. Chuck plot of a house was really good yet wasn't bad yet really didn't do anything.
The chucky show im pretty sure is actually good
They aren’t triggering the audio… they are just on repeating loops.
@@joen8529 some are, but most aren’t
@@VincentVision hmm… interesting… If that’s actually accurate, most of these actors are triggering the effects WAY too consistently then… I go most years and I can’t ever recall a time where a dialogue effect was surprising? They almost always hit over and over again in the most predictable rhythm…
I think a dishonorable mention would have to go to Undertaker: No Mercy (HHN 2000 Hollywood).
I've never been to it but from what I saw, it didn't look great between costumes and sets. They tried to implicate moments of Undertaker's history in the WWF(WWE), including the infamous Hell in a Cell match between him and Mankind, but it didn't look so good from the outcome.
Another thing was the poor timing of it. Undertaker was out of his Phenom/Ministry gimmick and became the American Badass around May of 2000. Hell, when you see him and his (then) girlfriend Sara going inside, you could tell he wasn't 100% thrilled about it.
Do you have a 'bests' video??
Chucky was like one of the best idk what y’all are on about you just gotta learn to have fun
I'll defend Afterlife: DV slightly... The main issue was that it just paled in comparison to the much beloved The In-between from two years prior and even reused some of the characters and certain concepts created for that house. 2013 was only my second year visiting, so I didn't have that reference point and I found it fairly good and quite scary on my first visit, with a few interesting scares. It stands as my favorite of the 3D houses that I have seen, which admittedly isn't saying that much, given the competition...
Honestly, I'm far too scared the entire time that I wouldn't notice the difference XD
Chucky Ultimate Kill Count was so bad compared to the norm for HHN. Had to start with that one
Well that’s funny cause I’ve never been into Halloween Horror Nights or even go to Universal Studios Hollywood lmao! Is this assign for me to go to Universal Studios Hollywood and Halloween Horror Nights?
We didnt go through it, but we did hear that chuckys kill count was a lot more funhouse based rather than a scary experience
The Walking Dead show “ended” but they’re making about a million different spinoffs with the same characters. The franchise will shamble on… forever!
And really, how CAN you blame the scare actors? They all work with the best of what they got, they aren't in charge of any creative decisions in regards to the houses design or layout, and if they aren't good at scaring, well then then that's really more of an indictment on the people who are supposed to train people how to do it properly. I'm willing to bet that these aren't professional scare actors but rather seasonal employees. Blaming a bad haunted house on the scare actors would be like blaming a business going bankrupt on It's lowest level staff rather than management.
in my opinion, you can add the majors sweets candy factory to this list. up there with last years chucky for one of my least favorite houses
I agree with you. Definitely the weakest this year.
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The entire event (only speaking for the Hollywood CA location) has been going downhill for years. Im so tired of Blumhouse houses and Walking dead houses, year after year. Another chucky, another halloween house. Another mexican themed ghost story. Another weekend house. They are all so lazy now.