I also attended last nights fright night with 7 of my friends and had an awesome night! I'm gonna skip the whole opening show thing cause its all been said. But personally I preferred last years dance!
*WARNING MINOR SPOILER ALERT*
So after walking through Main Street for a bit checking out all the characters and people getting scared (not gonna lie I was one of those people), we walked up to the Hillbilly Slasher. The line was entertaining with the projection as mentioned above, and a view of the exit of the maze where pig people were bounding out at the people exiting. Finally we were let into the maze with approximately 12 - 15 of us as a time. Very much the same as last year with a few added/altered scenes. First off you walk into a sewer and past a few fences etc. I was expecting a lot more from the scene but was disappointed! No scare actors at all and we found ourselves nearly falling over due to the shape of the wall. Continuing on all was very similar, being invited into the hillbillies home, the car in the bushes. A few more scares were added in near the end where last year you walk past a guy working on a body but this year the body now had a pig face sown on, the same pig face as in the saw movies. Now anyone who has seen Saw will know that the pig is bloody scary! So as we are walking down this hall way, a bunch of guys with pig mask (probably recycled from the previous saw maze in whatever year it was) pop out and get extremely in your face! I found this pretty scary cause personally I don't like the pigs but its your own view.
Overall I still loved the maze as I did last year but didn't see much of a difference.
Next we made the journey over to the Evil Dead / Walking Dead line and decided to go the Evil Dead maze. I wish I had saved this for last cause it was definitely the best maze of the night in terms of scares. (Details of the maze are a bit hazy) Entering the maze you start walking through the forest like in the movie. A man in a bush suit jumps out at you, but then blends in extremely well. I think they captured the idea of "possession" of the people and the paranormal activity well in the maze. Walking up to the cabin we were stared down by the main girl from the movie (can't remember her name) as she sat on the porch swing. She played the part very well and looked very much like the girl from the movie. Most of the maze was based inside the house so we went past the girl cutting her tongue, but found she just had a small knife not like in the movie with the electric knife. Others have said that they saw her with an electric knife so I don't know what happened. Finally we entered the room where the girl in the floor looks up in the movie, played by a robot. To be honest it was disappointing! You could literally see the pole that the head raised up with and the same with the arms. But it did act as a good distraction to let someone else jump out at us and make your heart skip a beat. The second last scene was the most scariest of the maze in my opinion. You walk past one of the girls but I didn't realise she was holding something in her hand until she reached up and starting shooting at us! Im pretty sure it was a nail gun. At this point everyone in the room jumped over to the wall and everyone was pushed up to each other trying to escape. The sound was phenomenal and definitely made everyone scared. Lastly we were chased out by a girl with a chainsaw which you could hear from the outside so it was expected but still rather scary. Exiting the maze everyone breathed a sigh of relief and shared a laugh.
Overall the maze was amazing (no pun intended)! Plenty of scares and great set design. Had me jumping constantly!
After ED we went and watched the Carnevil show @ 9 which was alright. Just a few bikes doing some stunts and some average jokes. But the fire effects were cool. After that we decided to go to The Walking Dead for the final maze of the night.
This maze was awesome! Although it didn't have as many scares as Evil Dead, when they did get you, they got you good! The layout was good and scenes were faithfully recreated from the show! First off you go through a hospital with barely any to no scares at all through this bit. I don't know if this was because it was 10 o'clock or if it was meant to be this way. Anyway we found our self in what was meant to be a waiting room and were stuck as we didn't know where to go. There was a door over to the right so we eventually walked over there. The next scene was a few fences with a zombie just walking slowly and growling at us. Walking past a fence a zombie did jump up at the top and reach out for us and provided a good scare followed by the very loud beep of a car horn next to us. We then went on to walk through the caravan and the barn then to the jail with a few scares in between and then we were suddenly at the end. Only problem was the fact that we caught up to the group in front so we stopped for a few seconds but that didn't help.
Overall all mazes were awesome. In terms of scares, Evil Dead definitely topped the list. But The Walking Dead had great set design and extremely similar scenes to the show. And hillbilly was just fun!
I also recommend hillbilly first cause the line was huge half way through the night while the ED/WD lines moved fairly quick for their size.
Also I give credit to the street actors as they do there jobs awesomely and cop a lot from people but still do awesome!
Cannot wait for next year!
