![]() ![]() The main feature occupying the bulk of the talk was an exploration of the Universal Monsters: Bride of Frankenstein Lives maze that will be located on the Upper Lot by Mels’ Diner. If the art provides any indication, Reaper’s Remorse will indeed provide a thrilling and intense psychological battle with horror! But Braver also shared some concept art for some of the absolutely terrifying and creepy characters and creatures that we might meet, or which inspired some of the visuals that will be present in the scariest Delusion yet. ![]() Much of the event details include information we’ve already covered in the event announcement and our interview with Jon Braver last month. 13FEG CEO Chris Stafford, new Director of Immersive Entertainment Jon Braver, Creative Director Jon Cooke, and moderator Ted Daugherty of Ultimate Haunt and Plague Productions fame headed this hour-long look into two of the more anticipated events this fall!ĭelusion, of course, is presenting a brand new production come next month entitled Reaper’s Remorse, telling the tale of Esther Phillips and her collection of artifacts that carry ghostly and soul-clinging natures. Mid-afternoon on Saturday featured a 13th Floor Entertainment Group double header, with this year’s SoCal heavy hitters, Delusion and the L.A. Though Creative Director, John Murdy and Art Director, Chris Williams are the famous names, there is an army of talented and passionate people who work with them, and without ladies like Creason and Bartkowicz, HHN would certainly not be to the immersive caliber that it is! This panel was a great opportunity to learn about the lesser known names whose responsibilities are vital to bringing Halloween Horror Nights to reality. Creason’s construction background helps in delineating her vision in a buildable manner, and Bartkowicz’s coordination and management across disciplines helps provide the organization to keep things moving forward. In addition, Creason and Bartkowicz also walked the audience from sketch to construction documents to actual physical sets to illustrate the heavy teamwork and collaboration needed to pull a maze like this together. The duo used the first Universal Monsters maze as a case study into their work, delving into the work done with set design, painting, lighting, and costuming to bring the maze together. Moved to the Main Stage thanks to the absence of the 13 Ghosts participants, this panel needed the extra room, thanks to the legion of HHN fans who showed up early to listen to Brandi Creason and Jamie Bartkowicz speak to their roles and interactions in bringing beloved IP’s and original ideas from ideation to pen to construction. The first actual panel on Saturday kicked off with a helping of girl power, as Halloween Horror Nights presented a look at the complex design flow and deeply inter-connected processes of the various components of Universal Studios’ art department as it approaches its revered annual Halloween event. But we took in a pretty solid amount, and we’ve got summaries of the ones we did attend below! HHN Design & Collaboration: The Art Department Process So were the Twirly Talky Show wit Barry and special guests Bob Gurr on Saturday and Mr. We didn’t make it to every panel-the 13 Ghosts panel was unfortunately cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances, and the Resident Evil: Village panel was a partial conflict. It also provided a platform for local home haunts, nearly a dozen of which were featured over two preview sessions across both days, as well as a special retrospective for one of the big Southern California home haunt icons, Rotten Apple 907. Held across two stages, the Awaken the Spirits panels were a close approximation of regular Midsummer Scream operation, featuring familiar major haunt players like Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights, Six Flags Magic Mountain’s Fright Fest, 13th Floor Entertainment Group, and Winchester Mystery House. Our focus today is more news-oriented, covering some of the panels that took place across Saturday and Sunday. But in its place was a more casual and almost relaxed homecoming and reunion of sorts-a place where the haunt community could come together in a larger format gathering for the first time in over a year and a half to take in at least a little bit of that Halloween spirit. This two-day event was a reduced version of the annual summertime celebration of things spooky, lacking the mini-haunts and entertainment of the full event, which was cancelled both last year and this year. The spooks return this week with a series of updates centered on the macabre and the twisted, and today, we kick it off with Part 1 of our coverage of this past weekend’s Awaken the Spirits “pop-up” Halloween and horror convention, put on by the folks from Midsummer Scream.
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