Into the Scare Zone: A HHN Podcast

🚨 Ranking season continues now! 🎙️ The third ranking episode for Season 2 of the #ITSZPodcast is LIVE! Make sure to check out Episode 10 now! JB & Browney discuss rumors, news, and breakdown Fallout from HHN 34! Find out how we scored it using our exclusive ranking system. Also… possible hot takes in this one 👀 We talk the important dynamics of house flow, “red herring” boo holes, and shadow tricks employed by the creative team, and whether they hit or miss. #Fallout #HHN 🎧 Listen here: sites.libsyn.com/535607

Most people hate 3D houses at HHN, and we get it. We do too… to an extent. A house like Lunatics Playground probably would’ve been stronger without it. But something like Asylum in Wonderland and The In Between? They shined with bright colors and worked well in 3D. Where 3D houses always delivered was the disorientation they created, and we loved that. That’s the one thing they did better than anything else. And those comic book facades? 🔥 They still have a place at HHN, in our opinion. Think we see one return this year at HHN 35? And more importantly… do you even want one? 👀

@HhnJenn Love this 🫶

Last time we had Oddfellow I was into painting these tiny portraits! #hhn

@cecetron Wasn’t even on our radar but it is now!

Is anyone else watching ‘Something Very Bad is Going to Happen’? I started it today & I haven’t been able to stop! It’s so good. The Duffers have done it again.

@gwen_pod5 No tech level skills required lol. Try Audacity. Very easy to learn. It’s as easy as highlight, right click, and cut. The rest can be explained through quick “how to” searches.

@ITSZPodcast Thank you. Yeah I’m not very good at technical stuff so I just kept restarting and went with the best draft I got out of it but I’m planning on watching YouTube videos to learn and produce higher quality stuff. Thank you for the feedback 🥹🩷

I have so much respect to YouTubers and Podcasters who speak so clearly because I’ve had to restart so many drafts 😭😭

@Lunarose1601 Daytime HHN is a wild move. Reminds us of HHN Lite… this early though I bet they run with skeleton crews. Maybe they pulse the lines if they anticipate lower attendance? But let’s be real… if houses are open, people are lining up.

Are they really going to open three houses at 2pm? Seems a bit strange #HHN35

Oh… 👀 Did you already see this, @HorrorNightsORL? Don’t mind us… we’re just adding a little gasoline to this 🔥😈

@ZombieCT We can hear David’s dad joke from here…

Early Unmasking Tour booked! 🎃 #hhn

@HorrorNightsORL @JFW_Music Better get it before he rides the Mummy.

@JFW_Music ur soul is mine

Wanted to go to @HorrorNightsORL for pretty much as long as I can remember, and since I’ll be back in Orlando for the first time in almost a decade in October to celebrate turning 30 this year, I’m finally making it happen! 😱 #HHN35

Alrighty then, a little peek behind the curtains! From initial rough sketch, to color rough, then onto the real work, all the terrifying bells and whistles. FYI: All art coming from our tiny but powerful team is created by human minds and hands! #HHN35 Pass it around! ✏️🖊️

@mirandaiiisms That’s late! We started in December 😳

You mean I have to start planning my September vacation in MARCH???? 😪

🚨 THROWBACK THURSDAY 🕰️ Revisiting Jack Presents: 25 Years of Monsters & Mayhem from HHN 25 🗂️ ITSZ Ranking System Archive ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👁 Blind Run — 10 🏚 Facade — 9 🎭 Costume Design — 9 😱 Scares — 9 🎃 Aesthetics & Props — 10 🧟 Interaction & Performance — 9 ⚡ Effects — 10 🚶 Flow — 10 🎯 Accuracy — 10 📖 Story/Concept — 10 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏆 Final Score: 96 / 100 Our favorite experience from this house: Seeing the Gothic cathedral and walking right into that stilt walker at the end of the hall. We were not expecting stilts! #ThrowbackThursday #HHN 🎥 credit to @Attractions youtu.be/gLFZaMyLZhY?si…

Big changes to HHN start times this year! Scream Early Tickets allow access at HHN to 3 HOUSES from 2PM! @HHN2026 @HorrorNightsORL

Halloween Horror Nights 35 Single Night Tickets, Premium Scream Night tickets (now offered two separate dates), and tours are now on sale! #HHN35 #HHN

@ghunt_13 That looks awesome. Can’t believe this wasn’t on my radar… though my tenure only goes back to 2010. Pretty sure @jbmichaels11 should remember this 👀

@ITSZPodcast Immortal island idea was a call back to a scarezone in 2003 at Islands of Adventure. (The Directors year) Super fun characters that I think would fit so well in Central Park! One day hopefully 🤞🏼

I made an HHN 35 “wishlist” back in November. But, essentially it was my hopes and fun ideas I came up with for the event this year. Would die if any of it came true or came true in the future. Here are some ideas I had for scarezones, street experiences, and shows! :)

@ghunt_13 Yep totally get it. Ideas for a future event are always fun to throw around.

@ITSZPodcast Again this was made wayyyyy prior to speculation season. Has nothing to do with this years event. Just wishes to be apart of an anniversary year. Echoes to ashes was an idea of the icons kinda looking run down and burnt fresh from their escape of the lantern

Whatever @HorrorNightsORL wants to charge for what’s left of our souls… we’re paying it. We all know we’re going no matter what the cost. 🎃

Crunching the numbers on ticket prices over the past few years and estimating multi-night ticket prices when they drop. Planning ahead and saving 💰! 📈🎟️ #HHN35 *only estimates on average increase

@DuelingParkNews That has got to be one of the coolest magnets they have done.

Mardis Gras merch at the UOAP store within Toon Lagoon. Also don’t forget your magnets! We voted for this, so be sure to grab one!

We support ALL of this 👀🔥