OK...let’s see if I can take you through “The Curse of Pandora’s Box” by only using the text from the poem I wrote for Pandora to narrate in the maze. This is either going to be cool or a complete disaster! So let’s do this...
“Come inside...come inside
Anything can be acquired...
Anything your heart desires...”
“Come inside...come inside...
Anything can be acquired...
Anything your heart desires...”
“Monsters...demons...Hades fire!”
“Evil spirits...rise! Awake!
Here’s another soul to take!”
“Woe to those who reach the gate...
Woe to those who tempt thy fate!”
“Look upon thy brother’s doom
The fires of Hades hath consumed!”
“Heavy is the wage of sin!
Woe to thee who labor in!”
“Harpies come to pick them clean!
A feast so foul, a feast obscene!”
“Vanity...a monstrous sin!
Beauty hides the beast within.”
“Ego’s ashes, bravery’s bones
Mighty warriors turned to stone!”
“Cobweb covered castle keep
Where kings of man forever sleep...”
“Thou dare not scream now, hold thy breath!
Lest ye awake The Lords of Death!”
“Tangled in the spider’s web
Can you feel your life force ebb?”
“Now embrace the spider’s kiss
And stare into the dark abyss!”
“Once released all hope is lost
You’ll never close Pandora’s Box!”
“Come inside...come inside...
Anything can be acquired...
Anything your heart desires!”
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So…you know how I always direct our scareactors not to pose for pics? Well, we’ve created some areas in the park that are dedicated character photo ops this year. I’ll give you the run down on where these are since it’s not something that gets an announcement…
Laemmle Courtyard (by Waterworld) will have a revolving photo op that alternates between our Bride of Frankenstein from the 2021 house and David S. Pumpkins…yes, that David S. Pumpkins!
Universal Plaza will feature both La Catrina and La Llorona (from our 2022 house). The Hollywood sign photo op at Terror Tram is being taken over by Santa from our film Violent Night.
Ghostbusters on the surface might not be the first thing that pops to mind when you think of a perfect maze property for HHN but when you consider all the ghosts & creatures from the franchise, it had more than enough content to work with...and it would be a Hell of a lot of fun!
“Who ya gonna call?” Back in 2006 when I was trying to bring HHN back to Hollywood, I was almost exclusively focused on slasher films but as the years went on and the number of mazes piled up, I started to become interested in translating films that weren’t strictly Horror.
Ghostbusters was one of those seminal films from my high school experience, the perfect blend of comedy and horror so the trick was to try and blend those two things. We’d lean heavily on the original film and where to begin it was obvious...the fire house/Ghostbusters HQ
Today we’ll finish up with 2019’s “Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man,” when we left off we were down in the catacombs, working our way back to the ruins of Frankenstein’s castle...
One of my favorite scenes in the maze was Dr. Frankenstein’s ruined library with its scores of books that hold the secret to life. Once again, we drew inspiration for this scene from the 1943 film and Bernie Wrightson’s amazing illustrations for the 1983 graphic novel
In our version, Dr Frankenstein’s library has been ravaged by fire after his monster threw the switch that caused that massive explosion at the end of Bride of Frankenstein. Here’s a pic I took when our props and dressing team had started work in that scene...
We’re going to close out the week with a look back at “Universal Monsters: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man” from 2019. I always envisioned The Universal Monsters maze from 2018 as being like “The Avengers” movie that we would spin-off if it worked. This was the first spin off...
This maze was loosely based on the 1943 Universal film “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.” We also combined elements from 1939’s Son of Frankenstein and 1944’s House of Frankenstein. I’ll show examples of that inspiration as we go along
The facade statement for the maze was the gypsy camp which was something we designed but didn’t use for the 2018 maze. Slash created an original score for the maze including a gypsy theme for this section.
Today we’re gonna take a look at Stranger Things from HHN 2019, this was the second maze we created for the Netflix series and like the previous one it was housed inside Stage 29. The original idea was to do a maze based solely on season 2 but it ended up with a tease of Season 3
The maze began where season 1 ended, with Will in his bathroom vomiting up that strange parasite that would eventually become the Demo Dogs. This scene utilised our “disappearing room” effect, changing from a normal bathroom to a Upside Down version...
From there we took you back through the Byers house that we visited in 2018, only now you’re doing it in reverse and the walls are covered with Will’s tunnel maps that he drew after encountering The Mind Flayer. All of these drawings (and there were a ton) were created by hand...
Greetings Boils and Ghouls. Today we’re going to take look back at HHN 2019’s “Creepshow.” I’ve always been a big fan of this film since I first saw it back in 1982. When our good friend Greg Nicotero told us he was producing a new series...we jumped at the chance to be involved!
From the beginning, we new this maze was going to be a mash up of segments from the original film and episodes of the new series. We eventually settled on 5 stories. “Father’s Day,” “The Crate,” “They’re Creeping Up on You,” “Grey Matter” & “Bad Wolf Down.”
We also know we wanted to pay homage to the EC comic book style of the film/series, both with the set design and the exaggerated blue and red lighting. We also knew we wanted The Creep to be the “connective tissue” of the maze, just as he was in the movie/series...