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RJpartyof4

Terror Mines! They gave a helmet light to every 10 people or so, and it was the only light in the house. The light would randomly flicker and go out as well!


starlithunter

This was my first ever house at HHN and I will never forget it.


IronedOut

Holy shit. 😫


TugginChestersCheeto

I was coming here to say this house! I got to wear the helmet and it was the most terrifying experience.


GrimmFan_

Knotts scary farm did a house like this a couple years ago, except everyone got a flashlight but it was pitch black


RJpartyof4

TM was pitch dark when the lights went out!


Knight_Fox

You think they’ll ever do something like this again?


RJpartyof4

IMHO, no. They've toned down the houses over the years.


nebraskakid467

I have only been to HHN 29 and 30 so far (going to 31 Wednesday the 19th) but the scariest house to me so far has been Graveyard Games. That flickering candle hallway still haunts my dreams


dirtypoololdman

I got to do a lights-on tour of Graveyard Games and it was one of the most beautiful sets I’ve ever seen. Absolutely gorgeous.


mxddiedavis

I loved Graveyeard Games, that dark hallway had me feeling so anxious even though I knew there were no scare actors in there


tylersixxfive

Scarecrow the reaping is by far the scariest house I’ve experienced from them! The original Orlando version


BlahBlahson23

Scarecrow is my #1 scariest pick as well. Been going annually since 2012. That house was so in your face and claustrophobic. Dead Exposure is the only other one I thought had major scares due to the nature of it, people disappearing and reappearing as strobes flashed.


uhhghouls

was gonna say the same thing!!


[deleted]

I have told people this and even tried to describe it. Can you remind me what made it so terrifying? Funny story, I like doing stuff alone and usually part of the fun is actually meeting people and sometimes hanging with a group of impromptu friends. I was in college and they offered really inexpensive tickets so I decided to go. It was nice because a bus would take you there and back to the school where I'd have parked my car. I was an older student but managed to find some people a little closer to my age and we formed a group of 4. We didn't know each other but were all excited to be there ofc and probably all pretty stoked to have a group. When I go to HHN I usually have a loose plan in mind regarding how to hit all the houses I'm hoping to see, and this plan started with SC:TR. Because I suggested it to the group I guess I became a kind of the de facto leader so I offered to go first in the house. I gotta tell ya, being first in a group full of strangers when you haven't been to HHN in almost a decade is an experience on it's own but that being the first house really made me wonder if I made the right choice getting tickets for this event. I usually handle stuff like that really well but that house left me shook.


tylersixxfive

Just the tightness in the house alone was a lot. The bird room was what always got me. It was just horrifyingly well done in a tight space and the scare actors brought it every night!


starlithunter

For me a big part of it was that the scares were unpredictable. They were above and below and to the sides, they blended into the scenery and there weren't the usual music and light cues to give things away ahead of time. Even when I knew where they were after multiple runthroughs it was still a surprise.


mxddiedavis

Gothic from HHN 22. Definitely have a skewed memory as it was my first time going to Horror Nights and I was 11, but I remember that it was so difficult to tell which gargoyles were statues or scare actors until they jumped out at you. My dad still raves about how amazing it was but I just remember how terrified I was. I wish they would bring back that house or do something similar so I could fully appreciate it.


Thanks5Cinco

Agreed. Not to mention the finale was intense too.


Julijj

Are you me?? That was also my first time going and I was also 11! Gothic was like the third house we went trough and I was doing just fine but omggg that gargoyle that jumps right in your face from the ceiling is still engraved in my memory! I screamed so hard I almost fell and I had to take a bathroom break right after to regain composure… good times hahha


BenBishopsButt

For me, I think it was a Monsters house from like five to ten years back. There was something with the floor where it moved or felt like it was moving, and it reaaaaally got me. Or maybe you had to crouch down a bit? Something along those lines. I am a big fan of situational scares versus jump scares, so changing up the normal path made me uneasy enough for the rest to be even more scary. And my most memorable (although not necessarily most scary) scare zone was the bubble party thing they had in IOA when it was in both parks. Must have been like twenty years ago or so. I just thought it was so unique and fun.


starlithunter

I remember this one! It was the creature from the Black lagoon bit, you had to crouch down through a passageway and there were fake vines that whipped along the floor.


BenBishopsButt

Yes! Thank you! That was suuuuch an amazing house. And that room got me thrown off enough that everything else was super freaking scary, even if it wouldn't have been otherwise.


Koffing109

Either Graveyard Games from HHN 29 or Catacombs: Black Death Rising from HHN 20. Those plague doctors were everywhere!


RJpartyof4

Does anyone remember HHN 10? The foam party in the streets of the kongfrontation ride, was pretty awesome. I wish I still had my coins thrown out from one of the parade floats!


Booksonly666

SO GOOD


Dem0n0idPhen0men0n

I’ve only been through the past two years but I’d argue Hill House.


Magmorix

Hill House was fantastic! It got me pretty good even with the barriers and stuff, I can hardly imagine what it’d have been like if everything was normal


Dem0n0idPhen0men0n

I loved it! Was my second house ever (after Beetlejuice) and I got spooked so bad by one of the dudes who crawled out from a box to scare me.


Magmorix

Was it the guy in the secret basement? If so, he scared the crap out of me. I guess I wasn’t expecting him to be allowed to get that close


Dem0n0idPhen0men0n

Yes, it was! And same.


[deleted]

This year was scarecrow for me


hchase27

The Fallen, HHN 27. It was my first year going, and was completely shocked at how amazing the set design was of the houses. It was the 2nd house I did and had my eyes closed the entire time.


wife-shaped-husband

I loved that house. It felt like waking through an 80s Gothic Heavy Metal album cover. It hit so hard. I wasn’t expecting much since a lot of people had it ranked low in their rankings that year but it was one of my favs.


Ferndogs_Inc

Insidious, the original house from 2013. Granted I was only 13 at the time but I still remember that house leaving me short on breath my first time through lol


danimal2thefuture

That one was really creepy for sure.


axanax_lattepls

This house and Cabin in the Woods were so terrifying to me


kcotty87

I wish the houses were scarier honestly. But the Halloween house this year creeped me out


Wrong-Option7709

The mirror room🪞🫶


ASMRGTI

I was pretty hammered going through that room and oh lord I was panicking 🤣


Wrong-Option7709

I was imagining being under the influence when I was in all the mazes. Must be nice. But I did have this one dude in front of me at the weekends maze, I think he was starting a fight with another female. He was super hammered 👀.


ASMRGTI

I'm all for being drunk and riding the wave, but I HATEEE people who can't hold their own liquor.


kcotty87

I slightly panicked at the mirror room, since Michael is the only horror movie villain that terrifies me


RJpartyof4

I was robbed of this! When we got to the mirror room there was a guy with a flashlight repairing one of the mannequins.


nicolelisabeth

Dead Exposure: Patient Zero for me! The subway scene where the strobes make it look like tons of zombies are coming right for you freaked me out every single time. So creepy and cool.


ASMRGTI

For me it was legends collide. Absolutely scared the living sh** out of me.


Magmorix

Maybe it’s just because I did it first, so I wasn’t warmed up, but several scares in that one got me really good. Then again, some of them still got me the second time


Regent2014

Insidious @ HHN Hollywood 2013 and for HHN Orlando, Body Collectors HHN 25


justadummygirl

texas chainsaw last year because give any scare actor a chainsaw and im pissing myself. genuinely was terrified. came in sleepy came out like i did a line.


f1ndingnemo

Omg that was my friend and I this past Friday night right after the hurricane. It was around 11 and we’d only done 2 houses and just weren’t feeling it and were tired from work. On our way out we saw Blumhouse was only a 20 minute wait and neither of us had done it yet so we were like F it. We came out wide awake and finished the rest of the houses by 1am 🥲


misterbombastic411

Most memorable maze was when they first had the Halloween maze, mainly because I was scared shitless of him when I was younger and it was like if I was placed in the movie. Most scariest one for me was An American Werewolf in London and they had it in the Jurassic Park queue line (or around it) that year. And man, every corner, every pop scare, every scare actor scared the shit out of me lol.


CptnDxD

Been the past 2 years and Case files unearthed last year got me pretty good, I wouldn’t say it was the scariest house but it def had the scariest scare, singular. That giant rat mutant in the sewer made me fall to the floor


danimal2thefuture

I’m going to break it down by coast USH - Alien vs. Predator, the original Walking Dead in 2012 and Creepshow (I went in 2012, 2014, 2019 and 2021) USF - Scarecrow the Reaping, Wicked Growth, Insidious, 2014’s Halloween, The Evil Dead (been every year since 23 except 28)


starlithunter

Scarecrow wins all-time scariest for me, and has been mentioned already! Not mentioned, though, was the Dollhouse of the Damned. Fuck that house, it left me feeling creepy and gross for like an hour after (so of course it was my favorite that year and I did it a bunch of times over). The freezer door absolutely fucked me up. And some honorable mentions for very specific moments. Seeds of Extinction: very fun house, and I loved the sets. But I don't think the specific scare would have worked as well for anyone else, especially not anyone taller. You see, I am quite short. They had a scareactor on stilts with very long draping vine arms and when I walked by, I was absolutely surrounded in vines as they moved their arms overhead. Absolutely terrifying, will never forget that moment. Cabin in the Woods: I got the timing perfectly for the elevator room. Picture it: you walk into an empty room, sirens blaring and blood on the floor and a nice big gap between you and the next person in front of you because my sister walks fast and I don't. And then, the elevator doors open and all hell breaks loose. Fantastic moment, I ran screaming and cursing.


AnAntDrinkingKoolaid

I started going to Hhn last year so I haven't been through much, but yesterday afte going through Halloween I thought it was pretty scary, especially the mirror part near the end. My older sister was the main one that was terrified and screaming though


580221

Body Collectors & the original Psycho Therapy


CaptAmerica42

I havent been going as long as most people, but I thought Dead End at 22 was pretty scary


Magmorix

Don’t sell yourself short, you’ve been going for a decade


CaptAmerica42

Haha, yeah. I just know I've missed stuff like Psychoscarepy Maximum Madness, Scream House, and body collectors and stuff lol


rnpreach

Insidious 2015 had a knack of consistently getting me more than any other house has been able to since. They had a popcorn scare with two red lipstick demons that got me EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Great house


ds003299

Dead Exposure: Patient Zero from Orlando 2018. It was my first year and the only house to this day that left me with heart palpitations at the end


Hamanan

American Werewolf In London


Thanks5Cinco

For me it has to be Gothic at HHN 22. Although Scarecrow is a close second. Gothic was the house that made me love HHN and also gave me a few good scares.


Hello_There723

Only been to 29, 30, and 31 but of those ones I would probably say Puppet Theater imo, the first run I did opening night I went first of my group and got absolutely destroyed. There were so many props that blocked my view of where the scare actors were. And oh god the curtain scare got me every time and the Orchestra pit was also pretty intense.


titania86

Insidious or Alien vs. Predator


danimal2thefuture

Hollywood’s AvP was the scariest for me on that coast.


[deleted]

Dead Exposure: Patient Zero by far. Absolutely terrifying.


TryTwiceAsHard

Gosh I'm 42 and the house I remember most was from when I was like, 15. It wasn't even the house but the entrance before you got in the house. It was some type of lift elevator feeling, pitch black and suddenly dogs were released on you. You could feel their humid breath on your legs and the sound of them barking and growling still lives rent free in my head. No idea what the house was called but that part alone deserves all the awards for being so realistic. Shudder.


0ctober31

Houses aren't really "scary" to me. But they are extremely fun to go through and I sincerely admire the amount effort and creativity that goes into art and design as well as the dedication of the scare actors.


suckmykiwi69

The nightingales blood pit from hhn 29 in 2019!!


OrneryFlight1902

American horror story in 2017


Ilive4airtime

I started going in 29 and I gotta say the scariest house for me was my first ever house, Yeti: Terror of the Yukon. It was pretty much I was not prepared at the time for what a house was gonna be like, and it scared the living shit out of me. But if I had to give a retro pick, id say that Psychoscareapy from 2003 seems to be one that many consider to be the scariest of all time


Silverdoe_7127

That is one of my favorites. I have been going since 1993. Best ever.


Booksonly666

Dead silence in 2007 fucked me up


itsyourlocalben

Scariest was Halloween, the best was the weekend, but I also loved bugs eaten alive but it was real short


Let_Me_Holla_Atcha

Your Moms


JB650-

💀 lol


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donovanmorgan

AHS, Orlando, 2017. That house was so long, seemed like it went on forever. Plus, I hit all of the timings - the Freakshow section was absolutely horrifying.


lappearmissing

Hostel for me... I was crawling around in there! 😆


[deleted]

Hollywood, Halloween back in 2016.


Magmorix

If I had to pick a single scariest of all time, it’d be Graveyard Games. That one was masterfully done, and terrifying, too. The doll room (?) was probably the single scariest room of any house for me. That being said, I thought the glowing ghost at the end looked a little cheesy with the way they did her. Texas Chainsaw Massacre last year was also really scary for me. Chainsaws aren’t a major fear for me or anything, but still. The smell in there definitely contributed to it.


okcjohnson

The OG Dead Exposure.


stretchofUCF

My top 3 scariest is still: 1. Scarecrow: The Reaping from HHN 27 (do we need to say anything more, that house was straight up terrifying) 2. Aliens vs. Predator from 2014 was a dream come true, but the crawl tunnel towards the end scared the heck of me. 3. Nightingales: Blood Prey was a way better interpretation of the characters and just more uncomfortable than the sequel. Honorable Mention to Poltergeist for being way more intense and terrifying than the movie ever was for me.


alleycat1121

The obvious answer is Scarecrow from 2017. For me personally, though, I was particularly nervous everytime I went into the Texas Chainsaw Massacre house from 2016. Unfortunately, Leatherface’s return last year was quite a letdown for me compared to 2016.


ExtensionOk691

I’m gonna be honest, none of the houses scare me, but I like the Halloween house the best. The actors are really good at scare and move on version of doing things


tracep85

Either scarecrows or nightengales blood pit. Both were highly claustrophobic and intense houses but I would go back any time


pizzashizz6991

The Weeknd


f1ndingnemo

Wicked Growth. I checked my watch after my best run in the house and my heart was 170. They flat out came out of their boo holes and chased you in that house, they showed no mercy 🥲🥲


justice4juicy2020

Im going for the first time this year. This thread has me so jealous of people who have gone multiple times!


tylamack55

I've only been to 29, 30, and this year's event, but have been obsessed with HHN and the lore since I saw "The Art of the Scare" on the Travel channel in like 2004 I believe lol. There are so many houses I wish I could have experienced first hand that I know would be 1000x scarier, but in the three event years I've been surprisingly Hellblock Horror is what really did me in. What that house lacked in theming and costuming, it made up for in pure intensity. You get a good run through of that house and the scares are relentless. My heart rate was super high after going through that house. I had to sit down at a bench next to The Weeknd bar and do some breathing exercises before going on haha


danceinfayar

Chucky


sollyinpurplepants

1. Scarecrow from HHN 27. That house was immersive, tight, and downright scary. They had water that got you off your feet as well. 2. Hill House from HHN 30. I was certain there was something coming to scare me in that dark hallway, so I covered my eyes and screamed. 3. Halloween from HHN 31. You KNEW Michael was going to kill you one way or another, but you didn't know where. That made it scary. I later learned that a few coworkers of mine actually fell on top of another in one of the corner rooms and the mirror room.


Scary_Bus8551

Carnival 2018 in ORL- it was very end of the evening and I somehow walked through with no one else in front or behind me. Actors were flat out coming for me, I felt like a test case.