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Halloween Horror Nights- Night Three

Peter and I did complete a third night at HHN. That is a full weekend of spooks and we still have two houses to finish!!! Nonsense! 

We went through Scary Tales, The Horrors of Blumhouse, Dead Exposure-Patient Zero, and Stranger Things. Scary Tales was the best of the night for sure!! Immersive and beautiful, the set pieces, costumes, scents, and tricks were really awesome. Being the fairy tale fan that I am, I also appreciate the reverse.  Blumhouse was the second house of the night and I wasn't expecting a whole bunch. The houses in this location are not the best in my opinion (Inisidious' section of the house last year was intense but I stand by the statement) and this was no exception. Happy Death Day was a blast although not all that scary. The same character repetitively jumps out of the same spot so... Yeah... The First Purge Section was played out for me. It's a tired franchise and we need to take a break from it. It works best as a scare zone and even that needs to go away for a bit. 

Dead Exposure was the next house we went through. If you have any sensitivity to strobe lights, don't do it. It has closed twice already because of the strobes causing people to have issues so just know that. The premise of this house is zombies. I have no idea about anything else other than that because I couldn't see anything the entire time. There was a man wearing a white shirt in front of me in a house composed of 87% strobe and black lights. I was blind the entire time and staring at the floor. It sounded horrifying though. 

And then there was Stranger Things... This is THE house for this year's event. It has been at wait times in the 100s and everyone is talking about it. As we were walking out of the event (we needed to leave early so we were exiting around 915) we looked up and noticed that the wait time was at 60 minutes. Peter convinced me to go, we waited about 45 minutes, got into the house, and then I was just disappointed. Stranger Things is a phenomenon, an instant classic, amazing, nostalgic. The set pieces evoke that for sure but it was gimmicky. The demogorgon was everywhere, I saw Eleven 1 time, as well as one appearance from Lucas and Dustin, Mike was missing completely as were Jonathan and Steve. Nancy, Hopper, Ms. Byers had pretty good dialogue, and will was a mannequin. And then it was over. 

Poltergeist, Carnival of Carnage, and Academy of Villians are next!! 
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