Chucky: Ultimate Kill Count (HHN 32)

[UniversalRBLX]

The best thing about this house is that the popularity of the IP will draw people away from other houses.

It's pretty incredible to see the vast difference in quality between this and every other house. It's obviously not the location since the tents have proven you can build something solid in tight spaces.

 

[SixBillium]

I was excited to see Chucky overtake an actual "Chucky haunt."

But instead, it's like watching Chucky overtake a cheesy museum about him. I live in (non-florida) tourist town with plenty if museums with exhibits that look just like these rooms- a few props, printed backgrounds and TVs all in small spaces- so from that lens, I can see what they were going for and I hate it less for that reason.

But still, that doesn't excuse the low quality. Don't advertise Chucky overtaking an HHN haunt about himself when the "haunt" he's overtaking isn't designed like an HHN haunt- if that makes sense. Seems like a little bait-and-switch to me.

 

[ShapeOfMysers]

This seems like a pretty weak execution of what could have been a really fun and neat idea for an HHN house. Honestly, it could have even been a better fit for something like Gremlins.

 

[MikePat]

I have a feeling Hollywood may have the better house here.

 

[Crypt Keeper]

I have a feeling Hollywood may have the better here.

Idk.... after seeing the BTS photos, it doesn't look much better. The finale does sound 100x better tho.

 

[Lucky Planet]

It was understaffed. However, I'm being very generous complaining about that. Frankly, I think even if the house was fully staffed the house is simply designed incredibly poorly. The actors could be Scarecrow level intense and it wouldn't change the fact that most of it is Beetlejuice-style mannequins and TV Screens of Chucky talking to you that you walk past before they can even finish a sentence.

Be careful what you wish for I guess... I wanted this house for so long.

So a gremlins house would just suck?

 

[Crypt Keeper]

Be careful what you wish for I guess... I wanted this house for so long.

So a gremlins house would just suck?

If a Gremlins house followed the movie and didn't go down this bizarre, original/funhouse with a bunch of screens route, I think it would succeed. Gremlins needs to be in a Sprung Tent so the antique shop can be the facade. F&F is just not the greatest location, unfortunately.

Honestly think the Villain-Con location would be far better than F&F going forward.

 

[GA-MBIT]

I've not been on it since that first run, but I think a Gremlins house could definitely fall into similar pitfalls as this. And also, while I think the VC house location will probably be better for most cases, I will disagree with the idea that FnF is a bad location. It just needs clever designers and a reason for the house to split. If it went harder with the meta HHN house idea, they should have made it seem like the first tent was the end of the house and decorated the second facade with a bunch of signs like "You Thought!!" "Ultimate Kill Count: Even Deadlier Edition!!" or something like that. As it is, it was just another Chucky logo above a building with Good Guys colors. Boring.

 

[kingcooger]

With VC being brought up a few times in this thread, I am curious if they plan on keeping the F&F location AND adding the VC location whenever they figure out their staffing issues? My guess is it would make a good advertising pitch for the 35th that they have “More Houses Than Ever Before!”

 

[Crypt Keeper]

I've not been on it since that first run, but I think a Gremlins house could definitely fall into similar pitfalls as this. And also, while I think the VC house location will probably be better for most cases, I will disagree with the idea that FnF is a bad location. It just needs clever designers and a reason for the house to split. If it went harder with the meta HHN house idea, they should have made it seem like the first tent was the end of the house and decorated the second facade with a bunch of signs like "You Thought!!" "Ultimate Kill Count: Even Deadlier Edition!!" or something like that. As it is, it was just another Chucky logo above a building with Good Guys colors. Boring.

I don't think F&F is a bad location, but it's not great. The MIB tent and Shrek Theater were far superior. And yes, I agree that F&F needs clever designers. I also think this location only works depending on the IP or Original. Something like Blumhouse, where the split is required, works perfectly. The same could work for a TV Series, where the split leads into the next season. That's what I thought was happening here with Chucky. Season 1 indoors and Season 2 in the tents. Chucky just looks like a mishmash of iconic and brand-new kills in very random locations. 100% believe if they had just focused on the TV Series or maybe just the films, it would've panned out better.

With VC being brought up a few times in this thread, I am curious if they plan on keeping the F&F location AND adding the VC location whenever they figure out their staffing issues? My guess is it would make a good advertising pitch for the 35th that they have “More Houses Than Ever Before!”

Are we reviving the 11 houses spec? lol

 

[Kichkinet85]

I left this house saying no comment. Just bad.

 

[UniversalRBLX]

Universal has proven that the location of a house doesn't matter. This is just poor execution.

 

[kingcooger]

Question: is the entire concept of the house that Chucky took over from scene one?

Because I imagined tent one was Universal’s take on Chucky (campy, kind of fake looking) and tent 2 was when HE took over (bloody massacre).

 

[Lucky Planet]

Question: is the entire concept of the house that Chucky took over from scene one?

Because I imagined tent one was Universal’s take on Chucky (campy, kind of fake looking) and tent 2 was when HE took over (bloody massacre).

I gotta check this

 

[TheCodeMan95]

I'm disappointed to hear that literally everyone is hating this house.

I remember saying that if we got adult actors dressed as Chucky it would be my least favorite - but it sounds like it may end up being at the bottom anyway lol

 

[Lucky Planet]

Ok yes this is badly set up. Might be one of the worst houses in hhn history. ( not the fault of the actors) the problems:
Take the worst elements of Freaky and the worst aspects of Beetlejuice and combine them.
The house is set in a very narrow corridor way so it has no big rooms or scenes, it's very narrow the entire way. Each scene has a mannequin.Very static mannequin scenes
Chucky is barely in it. I think this Chucky is smaller than the real one. Looks very very tiny. The puppets look tiny. They can't be the real size.
the hair of the little puppets is already messed up and getting fuzzy, covering chuckys face. You can't even see him well.

The Chucky animatronic at the beginning looks absolutely beautiful. I might redo the house ONLY to see him at the beginning. He's incredible. The rest are tiny puppets

 

[Legacy]

Chucky, in canon, is only 2’4” tall. He IS tiny. It’s hard to really get a sense of that in when you’re watching him because most media is predominantly close-up on him. Scale is lost. What you’re seeing in the house is accurate, it’s just disappointing because most people imagine Chucky as being closer to a 3-4 feet tall.

I just think it’s amusing that so many fans were adamant that a house of tiny toy puppets would work as effectively as massive wolf puppets as a scare effect, and nope.

 

[Wigglepebbles]

Ok yes this is badly set up. Might be one of the worst houses in hhn history. ( not the fault of the actors) the problems:
Take the worst elements of Freaky and the worst aspects of Beetlejuice and combine them.
The house is set in a very narrow corridor way so it has no big rooms or scenes, it's very narrow the entire way. Each scene has a mannequin.Very static mannequin scenes
Chucky is barely in it. I think this Chucky is smaller than the real one. Looks very very tiny. The puppets look tiny. They can't be the real size.
the hair of the little puppets is already messed up and getting fuzzy, covering chuckys face. You can't even see him well.

The Chucky animatronic at the beginning looks absolutely beautiful. I might redo the house ONLY to see him at the beginning. He's incredible. The rest are tiny puppets

They use EXACT replicas from Trick or Treat studios, Ironic considering their Universal license is about to expire.

 

[Spookies n' Stuff]

Finally figured out what this house reminds me of. This Is The End from 2015 in Hollywood. Pretty much just brightly colored mildly amusing vignettes broken up with tv screens of someone talking that you cant hear.

 

[Lucky Planet]

Chucky, in canon, is only 2’4” tall. He IS tiny. It’s hard to really get a sense of that in when you’re watching him because most media is predominantly close-up on him. Scale is lost. What you’re seeing in the house is accurate, it’s just disappointing because most people imagine Chucky as being closer to a 3-4 feet tall.

I just think it’s amusing that so many fans were adamant that a house of tiny toy puppets would work as effectively as massive wolf puppets as a scare effect, and nope.

They use EXACT replicas from Trick or Treat studios, Ironic considering their Universal license is about to expire.

I am thinking about it and you guys are probably right most likely correct. the only thing of reference I have is the 600 dollar Chucky replica they sell in Spencer's and spirit. ( there's one here in the universal store) not the little 80 dollar one but the big one.
Here it Doesn't feel like those ones, and feels so little.
I'm sure it's a forced perspective issue with the puppets being away from me and the darkness and everything.
But for example the lifestyle replica of gremlins in the comic book stores I go to and I see are bigger too.

Also, to answer Legacy: " I just think it’s amusing that so many fans were adamant that a house of tiny toy puppets would work as effectively as massive wolf puppets as a scare effect, and nope."

You made me realize another thing.
I expected Chucky to be in every room, for some reason I just had this idea that Chucky would be on each kill or something
But most scares are victims reacting to mannequins or people dressed with Chucky clothing
If I had designed this house I would have had made sure that Chucky was in each room
But he's lacking in so much. It's just mostly victims the entire time. The tiny size combined with short appearances really hurt the house