Just got back about 15 minutes ago from Orlando. We went to Universal Studio’s Halloween Horror Nights. To say the least, I was utterly let down by the “scariness” of these haunted houses. I’ve got horror movies scarier than anything I saw tonight (besides some of the atrocious fashion!) and it was more funny than anything else. We actually got to Universal shortly after the park opened for HHN but it took us another 90 minutes (!!!) just to get parked and in line for our first haunted house, I couldn’t believe it took so long just to park and walk what amounts to about a mile and a half. Hell, paying for parking took 30 minutes alone. Unless something incredibly awesome comes along next year, I doubt we’ll be going back. Not only is it expensive, it’s nearly 7 hours in the car!
Jess didn’t find anything really scary either and she was pretty primed to scream like a baby. It was surprising since she doesn’t like to be scared by things that jump out at you but she hardly flinched at this kid stuff. Massive places like this should learn that shuffling thousands of people through a haunted house, per hour, won’t make much of anyone scared. You get pushed through these places like cattle so they can get more people in and out instead of going through it in small groups of <5 in order to heighten the fear factor. That's how places like Sloss Furnace in Birmingham, AL do it and they do it right. Plus having a haunted house in an actual abandoned factory-cum-asylum helps a lot.
Oh well, time for bed and nightmares of how cheesy this trip was.
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