For part one, click here… And so it continues… Though a “new age of darkness” brought with it a downpour of rain, we were not swayed in our attempts to trek through all eight of this year’s Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights haunted houses! While I may have been a little disappointed with some of the scarezones (probably due to the rain limiting the amount of scareactors, and amping up the fog quotient to the point it was impossible to see), I’ve got to say, this year they sure had some AWESOME houses. Our feet killing us, we began our journey with… Pyschoscareapy: Echoes of Shadybrook is, supposedly, the final Psychoscareapy house that Universal plans to do. Previously, this house has been a mixture of blood and humor. There’s been a Christmas-themed haunt, with psychos killing everyone in a suburb during the holidays. There’s also been a “poop room” in one of the houses, which featured a bathroom that actually smelled like poo. This year, they dropped the humor, and featured a Shadybrook sanitarium where everyone had died, and now their ghosts haunt the house. This house really had some great scares, and some great visuals (like a nurse with a pair of scissors sticking out of her eye), but I’ve seen the asylum thing done to death at this point. Sure, this was done better than usual, but I think I’m glad they’re retiring the whole Psychoscareapy thing. Hades: The Gates of Ruin is probably the most ambitious house....
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