Thursday, April 30, 2015

Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood "The Director's Cut


Icon: The Director 
Backstory: Paulo Ravinksi came from a family of imagrinets form Eastern Europe who came to America. Paulo was a troubled child and devloped a fasination with horror movies. Between the 1980's and early 90's Paulo was hired by Universal Studios to direct and produce a series of horror films. However, when Universal viewed the graphic short films which contained real torture and death, they criticized Paulo's sick vision was too graphic for movie audiences. They then had the project cancelled , and banned Paulo from ever stepping foot into Universal Studios again. But Paulo did in fact, take up residence in an abandoned backlot set at the park, and will stop at nothing to bring his masterpice of fear to life. 




Enter the empty streets of Ambrose and step right up to the abandon Horror in Wax, which displays some of Horror's most infamous monsters and mad men of fact and fiction. But question this, why is the wax like fresh, who exactly is making these statues, and why are they so life like? Looks like you're about to find out!

From the cursed Camp Crystal Lake to the nightmarish dreamscape of1428 Elm Street, awake or asleep, you'll find yourself caught in the middle of this epic battle of two iconic slashers -- where the winner's reward is YOU.

In the research facility of Jurassic Park, a group of scientists have created a breed of human/dinosaur hybrids. When a lighting storm hits the Facility, the power is out and the monsters are running loose. 

It's Showtime at the Carrey Drive In with a B movie marathon of cult horror films. From werewolf bikers and killer daycares, to zombie civil war soldiers and Amazon cannibals. When the credits rolls, heads will roll.

 In the swampland of Louisiana, there is something strange going on at nighttime. Practitioners of voodoo seek an unwilling victim for their nightly sacrifice, as zombies walk the grounds intent to keep out any trespassers who wish to witness these heinous rituals. Will you make it out alive, or will your blood be spilled on the sacrificial alter?


You are courtly invited to a masquerade at Castle Vampyr to die for. Within these hallowed halls of this gothic castle, unearthly screams and shrieks fill the night air as you wander through the darkened corridors as seductive creatures of the night offer you a choice, to join the children of the night or suffer for all eternity in this sensual feast of blood.   

It is said that when a person dies of extreme rage or sorrow, their emotions gather in the place where it happened and a curse is born. Relive the tramtic events as you venture into the Saeki house, where the souls who have dided in this house lurk with within the confines of this cursed household and wait to claim their next victims.  

Scare Zones
Armagedon: The Day of Jugment has arrived, as demons and fallen angles raise Hell on Earth.  

All Night Die In: Late at night, the screen reveles images death and carnage int the old Hollywood Drive In. As monsters and madmen emerge from the screen and into the real world, looking for new victims to star in their persoanl horror movie. 

Day of the Dead: It is The Day of the Dead, when the souls of our departed ancestors walk amoung the living. Lose yourself in the pandemonium of this macabre celebration of life and death.    

Murders in the Rue Mourge: They is something happening in the Parisian streets of The Rue Morurge. Reports of people missing and murdered in the middle of the night, and it's not even human at all. Will you find out who has been doing these murders and catch the perpetrator, or become another victim. 

Ghosts of London: A fog rolls through the streets of old London, as spectral figures from London's dark past emerge. Come face to face with the infoumus Jack the Ripper, the Black Pleauge, Anne Boylen and many more. 

Terror Tram:Take a behind the scenes on the Universal Backlot where some of your favorite horror movies were created. The Director invites you to become a part of his newest intalment of his lattest horror film, and you are the star. Make your way through the sets of Pschyo and War of the Worlds. Will you make your way to the finale cut? 

Shows
Brian De Palmer's gothic rock opera of the classic tale of passion, deception, and revenge comes vivdliy to life with music and live perfomers. 

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Howl o Scream: The Legend of Stingy Jack


Icon: Jack, AKA; Jack o Lantern or Stingy Jack 

Backstory: Jack or Stingy Jack, a notorious drunkard and prankster, suffered in hard times in 17th century Ireland, because of the crops that failed in his farm. However, he made a pack with the god Anku, god of the harvest and death, promised Jack a prosperous crop, in exchange for eight souls that he must collect on the Night of Samhain. After his death, Jack searched all over the world on All Hallows Eve, collecting many souls as he can with his lantern.  


Houses
Returning Houses
Dead Line
Root of All Evil

On the night of the harvest moon, an aicent ritual is stiring. Followers are looking for victims to replenish the crops. It’s planting season and they need the seed of blood for a bountiful harvest. From the oppressive Fields, where the Scarecrow walks, to the woods, where nightmares of everything that goes bump in the night have come to rest.

In 1587, a group of setlers were struck with an epidemic whiping out all of the inhabitants. Now the spirits who once inhabited this stetlment return, and will do anything to drive out those who have infultrated their village.

Venture into the bayous of  Louisiana, where practitoners of a voodoo clut are looking for an unwilling victim to scarifice to their gods. Trudge through the swamp waters as you avoid the undead and monsters inhabiting the bogs.

Abaondoned for years this castle has fallen into disrepair. After nearly a century of tragedies, murders, and suicides the enormous manor has become host to an array of malicious specters, entities, and spirits. Tread cautiously through the crumbling halls, as the ansectrol spirits stalk your every move.

Pricne Prospero invites you to a masked ball to die for. Emerce yourself in this macabe celbration of death, but underneath the mask lies the evil that lurks within man. 


Scare Zones
Ireland 
Legend says that The Banshee is heard or seen to fortell death. Be sure not to lisen to the cries and wailes of the Banshee herself, for it might be your coming fate.  

Scotland 
The moors of Scotland have been overrun by werewolves, prowling the night in search of blood. 




Germany
Deep within the Black Forest of Germany, creatures of fabled legends lurk within the foliage of trees and wait to snare unsuspecting victims into a unhappy ending.   


Italy
 By day, you admire the beauty of the gardens. By night, the satues and plantlife begin to take a life of it's own. 

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Howl o Scream Tampa: The Doctor will see you now!

Icon: Doctor Edgar von Angst 
Backstory: Noted scientist and psycologist Dr Edgar Von Angst was devoted into studing the nature of human psyic and nature of fear. He belived that facing one's fears was the key to curing their phobias. Over the course of a few months, Dr Von Angst  began sees several patients and discovered new ways to “cure” them of their fears and phobias. His first few expirments with his patients were successful. As time progressed his research became profoundly unethical, illegal and inhumane. The good doctor used varitiy of twisted methods of expirments: chemical injections, brutal amputations, live dissections, electroshocks and lobotomy. In 1965, Dr Von Angst was banded from the institute of medical studies and disapeared from the public. It is said to this day, the deranged doctor is still expirmening on healpless victims. At Busch Garden's Howl o Scream, your worst fears and nightmares become a reality.
Houses
Returing Houses:
Zombie Containment Unit
Dark Water Bayou
Blood Aslyum
Dead Fall

New Houses
Dr Angst has an appointment with you in this interactive in your face expericence with your worst fears.  



Xibalba's Sacrifice
Set in an aincent Aztec temple in the jungles of South America. Guests are mebers of an exploration team. While exploring within the crumbling ruins, aincent cabal of cultisits seacrch for a new victim to appease their gods.      


The Beyond
Doctor Edgar Von Angst has opened an ominous portal that reveals an alternet dimension where all is not what it seems. A realm where our world and another collide. Surrounded by fiendish creatures, your eyes will deceive you with every step through this phantasm of terror. 

Death Row: Ladies Night Out 
The Adrestia Maxium Security prison housed the most dangerous female criminals and now it's pay back time. The convicted have begun a riot and starts killing everyone in their path. 

Agony Express: End of the Line 
Climb abord in this turn of the century pasenger train, where the souls who have been tragicly killed in that fateful night in 1904 beckon guests to the other side.  

Boogeyman 
The maze will be the focus on our childhood fears, here guests will confront the demons of their past and walk through the darken halls within the dilapidating Victorian manor house. 



Scare Zones 

Garden of Evil: By day, you admire the beauty of the gardens. By night, the satues and plantlife begin to take a life of it's own. 

Dead Man's Harbor: The fishing comuinty of San Marrina has become infested with half human/half fish monsters. 

Haunting Grounds: The angered spirits of tribal warriors are not pleased when their sacred resting place had been desicrated by intruders, and will do anything to procect their haunting grounds.

Escaped patients from Dr Angst's expirments will roam freely throughout the park everywhere. 

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Adventureland's Haunted Mansion: The Tour Continues


We then ascend to staircase that leads to the second floor. Massive spiderwebs crisscrossing the walls and ceiling above, the corpse of a poor victim is stung up and tangled in the webs. 

Upon arriving at the second floor, we witness a candelabra,seemingly floating in mid-air ,traveling down a hallway that seems to recede into infinity itself. 

In a windowed music room, a dusty antique piano sits in the center of the room. Invisible fingers plays the ivory keys. We can see the shadow of the phantom pianist on the floor from the moonlight.


The buggies glide through a long coridor alined with tribal masks, closed doors and mounted animal heads. Hot and cold air blasts out from their mouths as we pass by them. The hands of a humanoid beast grab hold of the wooden door, as grows and howls emenate from with the doors. As if these creatures are trying to get out.

The loudly chiming grandfather clock at the hallway's end,the number 13 atop its otherwise empty face. The wallpaper eyes begin to glow and blink. 

The chiming of the musty old grandfather clock is just starting to fade from our ears,when our doom-buggy glides into a room whose dimensions are hidden in darkness. At the center of the room sits a small round table with a crystal ball and unlit candle. It seems that a seance is taking place. The medium or voodoo priestess in under a trace as the chair, which she is sitting, hovers in mid air. She is summoning the spirits and gods of her tribe in an ancient archaic tongue.

Floating even higher above us are wooden drums and assorted instruments, which seem to acknowledge the old woman's incantations with short bursts of disturbing music.

Colonel: "The spirits have felt our sympathetic vibrations and are starting to materialize. They are preparing for a swinging wake, and they'll be expecting me, so I'll see you a little later."

We are taken through a balcony overlooking a long-forgotten grand ballroom,which is now occupied by a roomful of spirits both human and animals. The spirit of an elderly woman sits and reads in a rocking chair with a tiger curled like a kitten by the fireplace. Spectral birds fly in circles around the grand windows. A troupe of monkeys swing from the chandelier above. A massive elephant sits at the head of a long banquet table,a blast of air from his trunk extinguishing the candles on the cake set before him,as well as causing the club members seated before him to vanish. A lion tamer fights off a spectral lion with a chair, as the lion roars and swipes at him with his paws.
We find ourselves in a murky storeroom,stuffed to its dusty walls with wooden crates,rusting firearms and exotic artifacts. Here we can spot some various unique details. An aquarium with skeletal fish swimming in it, a wooden crate containing a live specimen attempts to free himself. Out of nowhere, a shrunken head leads out from a pile of junk with a shriek or cackle.


Moving on, we see a portrait of an explorer standing near a grand manor house, could this have been the Colonel when he was once alive? Vary few objects are scattered around, such as African tribal masks, a tiger skin rug, and model globe of the world. More ghouls will pops upward as we continue on.  

 Finally reaching the far end of the storeroom, stands an Egyptian sarcophagus containing that of a female mummy, with three Egyptian canopic jars scattered on the floor. Her eyes glow yellow and her heat beats within her chest.

Our doom buggies take us,not only out of this haunted room, and out of the very building. A thick nighttime jungle surrounds us now,as our vehicles suddenly turn and reverse direction,taking us backwards down through a hillside graveyard. Wraiths and spirits arise from their tombs and fly to nigh sky.

We reach level ground,though it may not be entirely safe, judging by the macabre sight of a boney arm reaching up from a quicksand pool directly to our right. Only a moment do we have to contemplate this,as we turn into the deepest part of the jungle,as we see---though we may scarcely believe our eyes---the club's undead occupants,both human and animal,have gathered in the now jungle-reclaimed garden for a "swinging wake"!


Many strange tableaus meet our gaze; Among them,we see near a troupe of skeletons and corpses dancing to the beat of drums froms the natives.


Atop of a small hill, a skeletal hound howls at the night air. 


Next to these macabre merrymakers is a wooden podium with craved images with four faces. They serenade the scene with the strains of "Grim Grinning Ghosts" in a barber shop quartet style.


In base camp, a ghostly missionary sits on top of a large rock ,sharing tea with his wife. Inside the tent, a family of ghostly gorillas have stumbled into the camp. They curiously examine and experiment with many objects.   



A group of native sit in circle, partaking in a human sacrificial ritual. They chant and dance in front of their hapless victim, as he cry out for help in vain as we continue on.

Colonel: "Ah thank goodness I've found you and still alive. Just more thing before you part, do take some offering from one the natives as a souvenir. They very cheep you known."  
We leave this scene of otherworldly gaiety,as we enter a wooden shack. A witch doctor offers us some shrunken heads as souvenirs. This strange sight is but a precursor to what follows,as our doom-buggy turns a corner,passing before an assemblage of dusty mirrors. The reflection within them reveal that we now carry an extra passenger. A shrunken head floats midway in our budgie.



Our journey is nearly coming to an end but before we emerge again into the world of the living, a short passage of darkness emerges into an ancient temple. The figure of a female spirit sits atop on a stone archway. "Please do come back and visit us again, we've dying to have you. Be sure to bring your death certificate,if you decide to join us!"


Colonel: "We hope you enjoyed our tour of The Happy Haunting Grounds. Here, allow me to raise the safety bar and kindly watch your step."

We then disembark from our buggies in underground vault composed of human skeletons, as we navigate our way through a short corridor and back to world of the living.  

Near the attraction is a gift shop and a themed restaurant, similar to the Adventurer's club and the Jekyll and Hyde club. Where guests will be entertained by cast members as the ghosts of former explores, voodoo priests, undead servants, and some animatronics.