Halloween Horror Nights 27 Review part 1

Yesterday my Dad, Aunt Laurie, Uncle Doug, Cousins Delaney and Jack went to Universal's Annual Halloween Horror Nights for the second time together. We went through seven houses, all the scare zones and even went to see Bill and Ted's finale show.


Houses

The first house went through was the Horrors of Blum House which featured three of the Blum House production films; they were Sinister, The Purge, and Insidious. The house seemed to emphasized more on the Insidious film franchises while the rooms that featured The Purge and Sinister were a bit short and would have been more effective if it was around night time.

Scarecrows; The Reaping reminded of Tomb of the Ancients, only its set in an old farm house takeover by scarecrows ranging from zombies to pig heads. 

Hive, even though the name of the house is misleading, has a unique backstory to this house; a house overrun by a hoard of vampires that ranged from Nosferatu like to bat like; just the way vampires should be depicted in movies and TV shows. The make up was fantastic, the rooms of the house were filled with debris ,and the entire house was only lit in black light.

Dead Waters was kind of short, but I did enjoyed it with it's swampy environments from a submerged river boat to the den of the Voodoo Queen. It liked the effects that were walking through the river boat made us feel off balance. There were some voodoo trinkets that were decorated throughout the house. The zombies were more corpse-like rather than what the media depicts nowadays as bloody and raving for brains.

The Fallen reminded me of Hades; The Gates of Ruin and Gothic, with it's arabesque style architecture and the flying demon effects were phenomenal. It was truly something out of Dante's Inferno.

The Shining was a unique experience, the rooms were like recreations from the sets and scenes from the movie, but it was a bit more psychological that the hotel seems to have taken a mind of it's own. The audio dialogue was different in the maze from the movie, as if they didn't had afford the rights.

American Horror Story was final house of the evening, like it's predecessor from last year it featured Asylum, Coven and Roanoke. Showcasing scenes from certain episodes from each series and characters such as Bloody Face, The Angel of Death, Pepper, Papa Legba, Delphine Lalaurie, and the Butcher.