Halloween Horror Nights (HHN) is one of the biggest Halloween events of the year occurring at Universal Studios theme parks in Florida, California, Singapore, and Japan. HHN has been going on since 1991 and it was nothing like the HHN we know today. The event actually started out as "Fright Nights", it was only held for 3 nights of October and it had just 1 haunted house. It was officially renamed to Halloween Horror Nights in 1992, this time it ran for 5 nights and had 2 haunted houses.
Throughout the years, HHN has only gotten bigger and bigger. In recent years, it has had as many as 10 haunted houses, live entertainment, scare zones, and it runs for most of September and October. But does bigger actually mean better? Writer's Note: this is purely my opinion from my past and present experiences. Furthermore, I did not get to go to 5 of the houses so I will only be speaking about the following haunted houses: Stranger Things, Us, Universal Monsters, Ghostbusters, and Killer Klowns from Outer Space. In my opinion, Halloween Horror Nights 2019 was not the best. For someone who has gone multiple times (I went to HHN 2016, 2018, and 2019), it has gotten a little bit old. Every year, the haunted houses may be themed differently but the jump scares are always in the same place so people who have gone multiple times know exactly what to expect and when to expect it. And although they may scare you once or twice throughout the house, when I was walking through it I kept thinking "there will be a jump scare there" and, lo and behold, there was. The scariest part of the whole event is actually the scare zones. The only reason they are scary, however, is because we do not know what to expect when it comes to the actors. The actors have more freedom of where they go, who to scare, and how to do it. So every time you walk through one of these parts, you will get a different experience. On the other hand, the scare zones are fairly similar every year. Just like the houses, they are themed differently but basically have the same scares all the time. People with scary makeup, chainsaws, fake knifes, etc etc. Basically, it is the same as every other year but it is still a little scary because of the freedom that the actors get. From best to worst, I would rank the houses I went to as the following: Us, Killer Klowns, Stranger Things, Universal Monsters, and Ghostbusters. Us was definitely the best house by far, although it wasn't scary, it was very creepy. People who looked like the characters would follow you around with scissors and since they don't talk in the movie, all they could do is creep around everyone. I put Killer Klowns as second mainly because I am very afraid of clowns (don't judge, clowns are scary), but also because it was the house with the most surprising/unpredictable jump scares. Stranger Things was not scary (because it was predictable) but it was very accurate to the tv show and, as a fan, I can appreciate that. Universal Monsters was still scarier than Ghostbusters but both were very predictable and I felt like Ghostbusters didn't even have jump scares. Now, don't get me wrong, I still had a lot of fun. I got to drink my butterbeer and laugh at my friends (and me) getting scared, and I definitely plan on going next year again. But knowing how much work goes into Halloween Horror Nights and how many people put in their time and effort into all of it, I wish they would get more creative on how to scare people. I think they need to keep in mind that a lot of people go every year to HHN and after a while, it gets very predictable on how they do things. I still very much recommend for people to go and check it out for themselves, I always find Halloween Horror Nights to be a fun and (sometimes) scary experience! Check out some pictures below!
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