Because when I think “torture porn,” I immediately think “good-time family fun. Read the full post.
Jul 28
2011
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Hide yo' kids, hide yo' wife: 'Hostel' hits the theme park
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I had the pleasure of going last year… went to the Friday the 13th maze, the Saw maze, Nightmare on Elm Street maze, House of 1000 Corpses maze, and the Chucky Tram Ride of Terror. Had a BLAST… the most fun I have ever had on Halloween, and I am a huge horror fan. I am going back this year, flying from Texas to Los Angeles just so that I can go again. Can’t recommend this enough if you like your haunted houses ‘adult’… the gore, the set design, the costumes, were all amazing. No weak little teenage high school kids in masks popping out at you here… they actually CAST the haunts, so in Friday the 13th all of the Jasons were well over six feet tall and were freaking terrifying, they never broke character! Universal has made a fan for life in me!
What a terrible and ill-informed article. Universal Studios Hollywood and Orlando have both been doing these events for years with similar results. People who visit these events realize that they are going for a good time, to remove themselves from their comfort zones, and to have their pants scared off of them… which happens to be a task the performers at these parks (and Knott’s Berry Farm as well) are extremely capable of. Kudos to Universal for not putting on a G-rated halloween event. Disneyland is right down the road, and you can go Trick or Treat with Mickey Mouse if you so desire. But please don’t get preachy about a theme park that has the testicular fortitude to put on an adult event that pushes the boundaries and delivers quality entertainment to those who know what they are getting into when they walk through the gates. If the sounds of 30 chainsaws at the gates doesn’t warn you, maybe now the signs for Hostel will. Kudos to Uni. Boo to EW.
ha ha , trick or treating with Mickey Mouse
Oh grow up. You’re really bitching about a Halloween event that contains profanity, gore, scantily clad dancers, and violence because they’re doing Hostel? You really expected an event that has done The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Saw, Nightmare on Elm Street and all kinds of violent horror films in the past to be FAMILY FRIENDLY? There’s a reason why young children are strongly recommended not to attend. A part of me wonders if you’ve ever even attended this event.
…Who hired you?
Exactly!!!
This isnt a full time attraction, its for select nights on a Halloween event created for adults and teens. Parents should be responsible enough to determine if their children should be exposed to this kind of material so don’t go blaming Universal, blame the parents that let their kids watch Hostel.
Low grade. I got PTS from the movie trailer.
I don’t know… this actually sounds kind of interesting but I don’t know if I could really handle it. I live in L.A…. we’ll see.
I’m pretty sure Universal Orlando had a haunted house based on Hostel called Hostel Territory about 3 to 4 years back. It really didn’t impress me all that much, but to be honest the houses at Universal Orlando were at their best when they first started out back in the early 90′s.
I definitely think this maze would scare the crap out of me… which is exactly why I go to Halloween Horror Nights! The last couple years have been good, but not necessarily “scare the crap out of you” good, so I think this is a fantastic idea!
Do you think going every year (or at least several times over the years) would kind of inure you against it? Make you kind of “been there done that” so that maybe it’s not that the attractions have changed so much as your mindset has? I’m sure the first time at one of these Horror Nights would have to be the scariest for everyone… because you have no idea what to expect and it’s all new.
I think the writer’s issue is with the unimaginative nature of the horror (torture porn isn’t exactly classic or truly terrifying, now, is it, it’s mostly shock and gore) being presented in the maze, and a kind of shock that Universal is going to rely on the same lazy effects that have perverted the horror industry recently. Not offense over the material.
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