I did House of Monsters today...now for a review!
Review
(I went in at 5pm btw)
I'm not sure if I just got a bad run through or what but HoM was really bad this year...
To start off, I was really enjoying it, the changes they made to each scene were quite good and improved it (including Venom's room)
But it all went down hill once I got to Venom's room. I honestly can't tell you how good Venom's room was (except that it was better that last years torture room) because it was so fundamentally broken that I simply have no idea what was going on. For starters, due to the way the scene was laid out, I spent most of it, trying to see past the big stone pillar in the center of the room, if that wasn't bad enough, there was moderately loud rock music playing constantly AND there was major sound pollution from the mazes final of all things, needless to say, this made hearing what venom was saying very difficult.
Gorgle's room was mostly the same except they moved Venus to the far corner so everyone on the left bench was struggleing to see her and she didn't lunge at people this time.
Wolfboy's room was exactly the same as last year, except they removed the whole transformation aspect and it wasn't explained why we had to dress the manaquins.
Gill and Ted's room was just ok...if a bit dull.
Frankie and Volta's room was the exact same as last year.
Then, I got to the ending maze segment, now, this has always been my favourite scene and I am always shocked at how scary it was for a kids maze...this was the worst part of the entire maze (this year)
There was the normal loud bang and a monster appeared...then we walked through the entire maze segment without anything at all happening, until we got to the frankly, awful door room from last year where the monster from the start of the segment, appeared, followed us into the door room, and stood there doing nothing...Then we left...it was at this point that I realised that this entire segment, was staffed by just ONE actor!
Again I don't know if it was genuinely this bad or if I just got a REALLY bad run but that was awful!