Halloween Horror Nights Offseason

Previously I have posted about Halloween Horror Nights. However, I mainly focused on the current situation during the fall haunt season. As Thanksgiving passes, and Christmas is in the close future, the Halloween Horror Nights season is just starting to begin again. One of my favorite website to venture onto is Horror Night Nightmares. Every year, once I am ready to begin speculation I go to this site, and discuss the possibilities for the following year.

Even though everyone has moved on from the Halloween/ Fall season, the true Halloween Horror Nights fans are still going strong. John Murdy, the creative director, is still doing planning for next years event and is currently trying to narrow down the possible properties that will be featured. This includes reading scripts for movies that have yet to be released, checking out video games, and released movies, reading books, and collecting photos as references.

All along with this process comes the financial planning, and meetings to try to convince the company that his choice of property should be featured. He after all, knows what is the best options for the ultimate success of the next year. His planning not only generates great profit for Universal Studios, but it also makes the hardcore fans, and the general public very pleased.

As Thanksgiving ends, the speculation site picks up its speed. We will continue to focus our attention on figuring out the properties until they are released. Every year, it starts out rough, weeding out the impossible ideas all through out. We do finally come to a decent conclusion, and typically uncover all of the properties before our time is up. How do we go about doing this?

John Murdy gives us deviously tricky carny hints. These are called code names. They are composed of layers and layers of hints that all boil down to what the property is. It is nearly impossible, and every code name could even lead to many different properties. We take this information that the code names have given us, and combine that knowledge with how likely the property is. We do this by asking three basic questions. Is it well known? Are there many solid characters? Are there many environments, or scenes that could be represented in a maze? If the answer is yes to all of these questions, then the property has a good chance of being at the event. With this information we can figure out if we are on the correct path.

This continues on until Murdy releases the properties for each code name that he released. This is about the time when the rest of the population is catching up with the Halloween season, and we can finally blend in and give our reviews about that years event.

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