top 10 HHN scenes of 2012

The haunted houses of Halloween Horror nights are all a collection of individual scenes which mesh together to create the most immersive and impressive haunted houses in the world. Its not a coincidence that Halloween Horror Nights has won the award for best halloween event in the country for the last 15 years or so. They win it because they have an amazing ability to completelt immerse you in the environment they are trying to create. Unlike traditional haunted houses, which use effects such as darkness and strobe lights as you walk through, HHN uses movie quality sets in its houses to make you feel like you are really there. This post is dedicated to honor the individual scenes that I think best exemplify that immersive feeling this year. There are seven houses and each one has about ten scenes, so this is the top ten of about seventy.

HOH finale
Light room Newk Vegas
Conservatory scene
Chapel scene

10. Attic Scene (Dead End)
9. Pigeon scene (Penn and Teller)
8. Nurses scene (Silent Hill
7. No more Mr nice guy (Alice Cooper)
6. Creature From The Black Lagoon (House of Horrors)
5. Barn scene (Walking Dead)
4. Light room (Newkd Vegas)
3. Chapel Scene (Gothic)  - This scene uses an amazing effect that makes you feel like you are hundreds of feet up in the air on the roof of the cathedral staring down into the chapel. Its an incredibly convincing effect and executed perfectly.
2. house of Horror finale scene:This scene was billed before the event as having the most scareactors in a single room in HHN history, and I believe it. You walk into the room and are attacked from all sides as the Wolfman, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, CFTBL, Boris Karloff, and others all get right in your face. To add to this immersive feeling like youve just walked into every Universal horror movie ever is long strips of film depicting these characters on them.
1. Conservatory scene (Dead End) - a very cool scene, this reminds me a little bit of the outdoor scene from legendary truth two years ago. The three scareacors in this room are all on point and agressive, and the set and props are the best in any HHN scene this year.

At the end of the day, the scenes this year are very dissapointing compared to last year. The top 4 on this list are amazing, after that it was hard to come up with a top ten. Last year, it was hard to come up with a top ten because I felt there were about 15 amazing scenes. This is my top 10 last year,

10. extraction facility (saws n steam)
9. hospital scene (nightingales)
8. The raven scene (Nevermore)
7. Light up hallway (inbetween)
6. finale of winters night
5. Spaceship (the thing)
4.Masque of red death (Nevermore)
3. String room (inbetween)
2.Leg rip scene (saws n steam)
1. Courtyard scene (forsaken)

All 10 of these scenes are better than 5-10 this year, highlighting my dissapointment with this year.