The Adventureland Haunted Mansion

Deep within the dark,forbidding jungles of Adventureland, you come upon a turn of the century style manor house, a crumbling structure that looks as if no one has dwelled here in more than a century. At least,nothing alive---or human. It was,at one time,a splendid hunting club catering only to the cream of high society---now fallen into spectacular ruin, this ancient edifice looks as if it could collapse at any minute. The windows have been boarded up,while the remnants of long-dead plants occupy the flower boxes in front. The only vegetation that seems to b thriving are vines clinging on the wall and pillars. It seems that nature had reclaimed this place. 

Several wooden signs,in English as well as other languages,warn any and all would-be explorers not to enter this building. Passing through the gate and into the courtyard littered with statues of deities from various parts of the globe. 

A maid or butler, dressed in turn of the century attire opens the door and greets us to come inside. Upon crossing through the doorway,we find ourselves in a small vestibule,dimly illuminated by the cobwebbed chandelier above our heads. A formal portrait,that of a young man in khakis and a pith helmet,hangs on one wall. From nowhere, a disembodied voice of an elderly woman echos within the room. While she speaks her monologue, the portrait begins to change, the creases of advancing age begin to line his face,his hairline recedes,fading from dark to grey to white,his clothes wither and tatter,until his very flesh melts away,leaving him little more than a skeleton. 

"When darkness descends upon the land, and the beasts become restless. Where voice are heard within the wind, that is the night when spirits are at their power, to bring fear on the living."     

A sliding panel in the wall provides us with our passage into our next stop, a circular portrait gallery with four portraits hanging on each side of the wall. A young man in safari hat with his arms crossed, a young woman with a parasol in hand, a hunter with a hunting riffle in hand, and a stocky,middle-aged man with a mustache,decked out in outdated military garb.

 Suddenly,an unseen voice,seemingly coming from the very walls,addresses us:"Greetings and salutations,my former fellow mortals,to the,er,uh,Doomed Adventurer's Club.I am your host,you may address me as the Colonel. Please do make room for everybody and let me tell the tragic tale of how this hunting lodge became a house of dead souls."

The door then slides shut, and wall begin to move revealing the portraits true nature and their fate. The young woman seems to be on a boat and is head straight towards the crocodile infested waters. The hunter stands triumphantly over his victim. The young explorer is on top of another man, who is also on top of the shoulders of man, whose waist is halfway eaten up by quicksand. The bearded man is in hot water,literally. The Colonel begins telling the tale.

"It all began many centuries ago, when I and my colleagues chose to build this house for social meetings and exhibits. However, the native tribal elders warned me that this place was cursed for we would suffer the wrath of the spirits.  Oh,stuff and nonsense---silly superstition indeed!!I mean,really---what could POSSIBLY happen?!?"  

The room is immediately plunged into darkness as the room abruptly ceases to  stretch. A moment of silent gloom,and then---the crash of thunder,a flash of lightning which illuminates the room momentarily but brightly enough to reveal the Colonel's body hanging from innate jungle vines.The lights resume,as the room is restored to its former state.

"Oh, I'm so sorry about that. Come along let's stay together and continue our tour."remarks the Colonel as another wall slides open,allowing us passage out of this haunted chamber.

Emerging from the moldering sanctum of the portrait chamber,we find ourselves waiting to board one of the long line of doom-buggies,moving ponderously through the dark,forbidden hallways that lay ahead.The mounted heads of several trophy animals are set just above us upon the dank walls.Is it our imagination,or are they looking at us,their intimidating gaze following us as we pass?An unseen force lowers our safety bar,we begin our journey,the Colonel's voice seemingly following along. 

"Please allow me to lower the safety bar, and once onboard you must remain still in your budgie by keeping your hands, arms, feet and legs and no flash pictures please." 

Slowly gliding through a narrow hallway adorned with portraits on the right side of the hall. To the left side are a series of windows, outside it is raining and thundering. When the lighting flashed, the painting are turned into grotesque images of their former selves.  

We come upon the club's library,whose facilities seem to be in use by unseen inhabitants---books are pulled out,then pushed back into the shelves, a resting ladder rocks precariously back and forth, an easy chair shudders with the weight of a phantom occupant. Most dismaying of all are the decorative tike sharing space with the books, their scowling and grinning faces turning to observe our passage.

Moving on, we come upon a solarium, the plant life seems to be thriving in a wild and unmanicured state. Several ornate windows look out on the jungle perpetually swathed in nighttime ,the sounds of nocturnal animals can still be heard. From the edges of the windows,as well as the wooden molding running along the ceiling, massive tree roots have penetrated the building,and crawl ominously over the walls. 

Our tour will continue in a moment.....

Halloween Horror Nights: Horror Comes Home

Get ready for a home coming you don't want to miss. As the icons of Horror Nights past and preasent bring your worst nightmares and infmous legends to life. 

Houses

Within the gothic halls of Allerdale Hall, an evil present lurks with its walls. Discover the dark and trgic history of this English manor house, where the vengful souls of victims warn you of the dangers hidden within as you try to stay alive in this house of the dead.

The Usher and The Director invite you to a horror movie marathon you won't forget. The dim flickering light reveles images of death and crange, as you are pulled into silver screen and get a close up with the worlds most iconic figures of cimeatic horror history.    

On All Hallows Eve, when the veil between the living and the dead are lifted. Samhain, God of the Underworld and his followers beckon you to the unhollowed grounds of the ancient traditons that is Halloween.   

Step into the mirror and come face to face with one of the most feared spectors of uban legends, Bloody Mary. As you wind your way through this twisted landscape where nothing is as it seems. 

With every war and disaster through out history, the body collectors have always been there. Travel back in time and relive the terrors of The Black Pleauge, The Great Chicago Fire, Jack the Ripper, The San Fransico Earthquake, World War I and II. 

Take a behind the screams tour, as you relive the horrors of the past Horror Nights up close and personal. 

Jack the Clown has plumbed the depths of his depravity at The Midway of the Bizare.  Witness Jack's collection of bizarre oddities and freaks of nature that make their home along the midway. Who knows? Maybe they might even add you to the show.

Scare Zones

In 1869, the townspeople of Ravenshollow suffered hard times of famine, violence, and injustice. The unhappy souls now walk amoungst the living, and they don't take kindly to strangers.

A siren sounds. A thick fog rolls in. Buildings crumble around you. In front of you lie the streets of Silent Hill, a small town home to unspeakable horrors. Now, the darkness that has taken hold over the town draws you in.

Remeber those fairy tales from your childhood, they were stories they were warning. Enter your favorite fairy tales and find out what happens when everything goes Grimm. Witness these stories and find the terrible truth the lies behind their sweet apperance of these classic tales where the truth is frigthening than fiction. 

Brave New Worlds Holiday Events

Here are some of my ideas for holiday events at Brave New Worlds.

Begining with Halloween, the park will be comprised of day time events for young kids and families. The night time will have haunted houses for teenagers and young adults. 

During the day, families will enjoy entertaiment provided by a troupe of gypsies. They will provide magic tricks, storytelling, and pantomimes. For school programs, students will learn about the frighting side of medival history of the pleauges, torture punishment and superstition.

At night, guests who are brave enough will take a frightful tour of an abandon castle infested with wraiths, gargoyles, banshees, and restless souls of the dead that lurk with in it's crumbing ruins. 

The Ancient Mediterranean area of the park will be themed to the myths of Greece and Egypt.  

Guests will navatate their way through the labyrinth and come face to face with the Minotaur. 

Japan's folklore of weird spirit entities and ventictive ghosts that haunt the forests and mountians Japan would be an excellent haunt for the Asisa area. 

 Walking through the cobled streets of Victorian London. Here guests will encounter characters of gothic fiction, such as Frakenstien's Monster, Count Dracula, Sweeney Todd, Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde. 

The main attraction will be a traditional walkthrough haunted house. Once inside, guests will brave through the darken hallways and decaying rooms while resless dead souls beckon you to uncover it's dark secerts. Boasting with special effects old and new. 

  The Utopian city of the future has now been reduced into a cyberpunk waste land of decay and carrage. Automatons, surviors and alien entities raom the streets. 

The attraction will be an interactive lazer tag based attraction. 

For entertainment, guests will enjoy a drink and dance at Club 51.

For the Chirstmas season, ecah are will have a theme base on difrent cultures around the world 

King Arthur's Court will have a medival banquet hall, with entrainment. 

Victorian London will be themed to a Dickensian era with costumed characters to interact with park guests. Other park area will show many diffrent customs of the winter solstice from Europe and Aisa. 

The Ancient World have a progressive play of The Nativity Story.

HHN: Islands of Fear Reboot

I remeber seeing a benind the scenes special on the Travel Channel on Halloween Horror Nights Islands of Adventure. Each island's area has been converted into a twisted versions of themselves. It's been 13 years since Horror Nights is now hosting their halloween events at the Studios. Here are some idea's I've came up with for Islands of Fear.

Beging with the Port of Entery, now called The Port of Lost Souls. Here the souls who have drowned at sea warn guests of the dangers that lie ahead. While half human/half fish sea creatures prowl the streets, as the sirnes beckon the uspected park patrons to the behyond. 

Marvel Superhero Island has been converted into a cyberpunk distopian wasteland. Cyborgs, survivors,  and alien entities scavenge through the street of what was once a metropolis of jusice.   

Jurassic Park has become infested with half human/half beast enitites prowl the jungles at night, in seach form human blood.   

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter's Hogsmead is set in an old timey horror movie. Villagers fight for their lives as they battle aginst the creatures of the night and intruders. 

The Lost Continent's theme will be a perfect place for mythical monsters, demons and ancient gods of old to roam the ruins of a fallen empire as the wrek havon the modern world.

Susse Landing will become one of the surrealist scare zones ever made. Here guests can relive their childhood nightmares. 

Howl o Scream 2015 Dream Event

Here are my ideas and thoughts for Howl o Scream 2015 for Williamsburg. 

Houses 

Replacing Bitten in Germany, this traditional haunted manor house will have old fashioned illusions and state of the art computer special effects for ghostly effects for the scareactors.     

Set in Italy in Williamsburg. The storyline of the haunt is when a group of archeologists unwitingly unleash ancient gods, demons, and spirits of Egyptian mythology.   

Replacing Catacombs, guests will walkthough the displays of madmen and mosters of old which will come to life, and discover the terrifying secert behind in this Parisian wax museum.  

Set in New France, here guests will take part in this twisted man hunt as their prey. 

Scare Zones

The main centerpiece for the park, in which guests will experince when they come to the park. 

Set in Scotland, guests will come face to fangs with a marauding pack of werewolves haunting the  moors of Scottland.  

This scare zone will be taking place in Ierland, where the Banshees bring death and dispare to those who here their cries of doom.  

Taking place in an alternet version of Germany where it is overuned by clockwork cyborgs and automatons. 

My Ideas for Halloween Horror Nights 25

When news and rumors for next years Halloween Horror Nights was going bring an old icon back. 

I've got my thoughts and ideas for Horror Nights 25.

Hope you enjoy these. 

The houses will be based on not only film, TV shows, or video games, but also on books. First off would be the works of Howard Phillps Lovecraft. Creator of tales of ancient, monsterous entities of cosmic terrors primordial fears that await to wreak havoc on our world. Another house based on both film and book would be Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. Where invsible spirits have taken over the furnishings, as a malignat force hides within the halls and room of  this gothic Victorian manor house.

Another house I've came up would be an atcual maze, which the park patrons must use their wits to find their way out. 

Universal is where movies come to life, so why not pay homage to the one that stated it's legacy of horror The Phantom of the Opera. Which guests will journey into the Paris Opera House and into the catacombs where the masked feind dwells. They will also pay tributie to the campy sci-fi/horror B movies from the 50's and 60's. From radio active mutations, to gigantic alien beings, this house has a unique blend of horror and comdey. The new film Crimson Peak will be coming this October, I think this might be a perfect house for 2015 with it's gothic atmosphere and intriguing story. 

The Walking Dead may return this year, but I think it needs to be replaced by another  TV Horror show like Grimm or Penny Dreadful.

Moving aside from the fictional horrors, guests will also face horrors from the real world. Finding them selves in the wrong side of town, they will encounter thugs, vagabonds and a prostitute or two.    

The Street Expericnes would have a themed areas based on diffrent cultures. The first scare zone would be based on the cultureal veiws of the Afterlife. From the Greek Underworld, the leves of Hell from Dante's Inferno, to Japanese Land of the Dead. Where demons. damned souls, and its rulers beckon guests to the abyss.

The next scare zone would take place in the new London area. Here guests will encounter the spirits of London's dark history, from the black death, Henry the 8th's wives, to Jack the Ripper.

The Aswangs and Kapre of Filipino folklore would be a great addition to the wooded area of the park.  The San Fransico area will be infested with half human/half fish sea creatures.