House Count After Week 6 of HHN

It was so nice to be at HHN this week in a sweatshirt and jeans, it has a much more Halloween like feel to it when the weather is cool

Walking Dead: 10
La Llorona: 23
Afterlife: 13
Havoc: 22
Evil Dead: 16
American Werewolf: 18
Resident Evil: 10
Cabin in the Woods: 15

Total: 127

Bill and Ted: 9

Well, here we are. Another year of Halloween Horror Nights about to hit its end. Only three nights left, Thursday through Saturday. Of course the highlight of Halloween Horror nights occurs at the very end of it, in the final Bill and Ted show of the year. This will be my third year in a row attending the final Bill and Ted and I am so excited for it to be here again. The last Bill and Ted of the year is a time where all the die hard fans of Halloween Horror Nights can get together and enjoy one last hurrah until next September. Before that however, I need to get a few more run throughs of my favorite houses. I ended up falling in love with 4 houses this year, Cabin in the Woods, American Werewolf, Evil Dead, and La Llorona, they will be missed.

House Count After Week 5 of HHN

19 Nights of HHN in the books, only 8 remain. Unlike the previous two years, there is a lot more seperation between my house counts. Theres already a gap of 12 this year between the house Ive been through the most and least, compared to nine last year and 10 the year before. This past week was crazy busy, triple digit waits at many of the houses, and these next five nights will likely be very busy as well before things really slow down for the final 3 nights.

Walking Dead: 9
La LLorona: 21
Afterlife: 11
Havoc: 18
Evil Dead: 13
American Werewolf: 15
Resident Evil: 9
Cabin in the Woods: 12

Total: 108

Bill and Ted: 8

The thing that has been hurt most by the Red Sox run is my Bill and Ted count. The past two years I saw it 23 times each, this year it's only been 8 because of the reduced time spent at HHN due to watching the Red Sox games. 

Mid Season HHN Review

Well, Halloween Horror Nights 2013 is already halfway over. My opinions on a few things have changed. For one, I am now positive this is not the strongest house lineup of the 4 years I have attended HHN. That honor still belongs to 2011. This year is more top heavy than 2011, but 2011 had more depth. I have two minor changes in my rankings

Evil Dead and La Llorona switch places. Evil Dead is now number 4, La LLorona number 3
Afterlife and Havoc switch places. Afterlife is now number 6, Havoc now number 5

Now to my one major gripe with Halloween Horror Nights this year: the walking. This is not a new problem. Since all the HHN houses take place in the backstage warehouses rather than inside the actual park the walks to and from the houses are long, this is the way its been every year and the way it will always be. However this year its a bigger problem than prior years, and needlessly so. Cabin in the Woods, Resident Evil, Evil Dead, and American Werewolf all let out in the exact same spot, about a ten minute walk from the park. Four houses letting out in the same spot is stupid, and creates a huge cluster. But the thing that bothers me is CITW and RE could easily have been let out just a few short steps from the park, but they make you walk allllll the way around the rest of the backstage buildings creating a needlessly long walk.

Besides that though I'm enjoying this HHN season, much more so than last year. 19 more days until the final Bill and Ted of the year!

House Count After Week Four of HHN

14 nights of HHN in the books, 13 to go. My midseason review will come tomorrow, as my opinion on quite a few things have changed. Not any radical changes in my rankings unlike last year, but there are a couple minor shifts since my first review. Next week is the week dubbed as "hell week" by many die hard HHN fans. Many people think that HHN gets busier as the event goes along peaking at the end, when in reality, the attendance is more like a bell curve, peaking in the middle then dropping in the last 6 or 7 days. Hell week is the busiest week of HHN, with Thursday and Friday of hell week being the busiest nights of the year. On these nights, every house will have triple digit waits, with a few of them hitting 3 hours. The reason for this is because all Central Florida schools have off the 3rd friday in October, so the night before that and the night of that HHN is infested with local high school students. Not really a week I look forward to. Here is the house count after week 4

Walking Dead: 7
La LLorona: 16
Afterlife: 9
Havoc: 15
Evil Dead: 11
American Werewolf: 12
Resident Evil: 8
Cabin in the Woods: 10

Total: 88

Bill and Ted: 8

Looks like I should surpass last years total of 131, but come way short of 2011's total of 226, a number I will likely never beat.

House count after week 3 of HHN

Well we have reached a point in HHN this year that seems to happen every year to me, the Mid HHN lull. The first two weeks of every year I see as many houses as possible every night because I'm so excited to have HHN back. The last two weeks of every year I see as many as possible every night because I know it's almost over so I better see them while I have the chance. But then there is that period in the middle where it's not super exciting and I'm getting sick of all the drunk people and the crowds and the annoying teenagers. These are the nights where I only spend a couple hours in the park, see a few houses, then head home early. Tonight I left at 9:30, but I know pretty soon the Mid-HHN lull will pass and I will be back to hitting as many houses as possible

Walking Dead: 5
La Llorona: 12
Afterlife: 7
Havoc: 12
Evil Dead: 7
American Werewolf: 9
Resident Evil: 6
Cabin in the Woods: 6
Total: 64

Bill and Ted: 7

House of the Week: American Werewolf in London