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Aw, I wish I could've gone with that scarezone there D: I hope it's not a rehash year like Sweet 16 either. I believe 20 should be an all-out experience. Classic HHN icons used in new houses, a new disturbing icon, AMAZING houses, AMAZING scarezones, the works. That'd be fantastic. Also, the opening gate needs to be decked out with creepy images and music. I love it when I get that creepy atmosphere even before I walk into the park. I hope they don't do a lame carnival theme like at HHN 17. I felt more like "Wow, this is supposed to set the mood with Jason and all them?" as I walked through the gate at that event with the cheesy carnival crap.

Is Howl-O-Scream worth it? I highly enjoy Halloween Horror Nights and I was wondering if Busch Garden's event was as good.

I went a few weeks ago, ready to experience every house, and then I ended up getting sick =/ I still went, but the first house, Saw, made me feel very lightheaded, made me walk very slowly, and feel delusional at some parts. Normally the smoke and strobe lights don't get to me, but since I was sick, they only heightened my illness. But, this year was still great. After four years ago, I still say HNN 18 is my favorite, but this year was definitely second best. Houses: -Saw-2/5. I couldn't see much of what was going on in this house, I got scared a few times thanks to the pig-masked people, but excluding the part where the house made me sick, I'd say this house was definitely just ok. -Spawning-N/A. I sat this one out because I feel like I was going to puke (luckily I didn't), but my friends still went on it. According to them I didn't miss much, so I'd say the average opinion for this house was a 2 or 3 out of 5. -Silver Screams-5/5. Luckily I started feeling better for this AMAZING house. Unfortunately I missed the facade and the changing of the theater effect, but this house was great. I couldn't see much of the Phantom of the Opera excluding the Phantom, Harry Warden scared my friend well in My Bloody Valentine, The Strangers looked very close to the actual movie, The Thing section was dark but creepy, one movie I can't remember the name of we rushed through, which was very funny because that area looked creepy, and I didn't really get the Shaun of the Dead part. Plus, a creepy looking Julian scared the crap out of me. One of my favorite houses EVER. -Leave it to Cleaver-3/5. The tongue-in-cheek house of the year. I always expect scares, so this house wasn't that scary. A few loud noises and an unexpected guy scared me, but what I enjoyed about this house was the black humor and the interactiveness of the scareactors. While not very scary, it was enjoyable and fun. -Wolfman-5/5. If I could give this a 6/5 I would. It was spectacular; however, I believe the front or maybe the middle near the end sections of the line are best for this house. Luckily, I was second to the front behind my friend who was going in alone, so that feeling of isolation really helped. Wolfman himself pretty much got us every time, it was great. The sound effects were great, the scenery was awesome, and the scares were rampant. Along with Silver Screams as one of the best houses I've been in. That's it for houses, I wanted to go on all of them but eh, hopefully next year. Unfortunately, one aspect of this year I didn't like was the scare zones. Compared to last year's amazing zones, they were pretty mediocre. -Containment-1/5. Did not get scared at all, very dumb looking scare zone, crap crap crap. -Light, Camera, Hackton!-2/5. The chainsaw guys are always cool, didn't get scared in particular but I enjoyed walking through it I suppose. -Cirque Du Freak-2/5. This was an ok scare zone. The fact that it was rather minute didn't help much, and I wasn't scared walking through it but I liked the presentation. -War of the Living Dead-2/5. Another scare zone with great presentation but not very delivering in terms of scares. Another scare zone in which I did not get scared at all, a recurring statement isn't it? -Apocalypse: City of Cannibals-1/5. Between this and Containment, I'm not sure which is worse. Yes, the bus and the fire hydrant were cool props, but this just wasn't any fun nor frightening. The cannibals looked retarded and the victims didn't do much of anything. Quite awful. -Horrorwood Die In-4/5. I got scared once via not paying attention and it was a good scare zone. It was fun identifying the characters and enjoyable to walk through; however, if this were placed last year, it would've gotten a lower rating. So overall, HNN 19 was great. I probably could've had more fun if I didn't get sick in the first two hours, but the event was highly enjoyable. I don't understand why the scare zones were so awful this year, maybe they had less of a budget to work with. And a question, were Frankenstein and Dracula as awesome as everyone said? My one regret of the night is not being able to go on those.