30 Days of Halloween Horror Nights: What’s Your Favorite “Original” HHN House/Scarezone Franchise?
When it comes to recurring houses at Halloween Horror Nights, nothing tops the “Body Collectors” series. In my opinion, the deathly-silent, grim, grinning ghouls strike just the right chord between creepiness and absurdity. Yes, I know that they’re essentially “The Gentlemen,” (a creature design ‘borrowed’ from “Hush,” a Season 4 episode of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” ), but I love them nonetheless.
Surprisingly (at least, to me), there have been only two houses in this ‘franchise’: 2005’s “Body Collectors” and 2008’s “Body Collectors: Collections of the Past.” Though there are only two houses to their name, these fan-favorite characters have made quite a few scarezone appearances: 2006’s “Horror Comes Home,” 2008’s “Streets of Blood,” 2009’s “Shadows of the Past,” and 2010’s “Twenty Years of Fear.”
Of all their appearances, my own personal favorite happens to be “Body Collectors: Collections of the Past.” This incredible house took The Collectors to the gaslit back alleys of London in the late-1800’s. In a brilliant alternate-history twist, the house revealed that the grisly Whitechapel murders, in reality attributed to Jack the Ripper, were actually harvests perpetrated by The Collectors themselves.
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Photos by HHN Yearbook.