Jack's Funhouse in Clown-O-Vision

Halloween Horror Nights Orlando attraction
Jack's Funhouse in Clown-O-Vision
Attraction type	Haunted House
Event	Halloween Horror Nights: Carnival of Carnage
Park	Universal Studios Florida
Area	World Expo
Year	2007
Housed in	Sprung Tent 2
Based on	Original

Jack's Funhouse in Clown-O-Vision was one of the eight haunted houses that was featured during Halloween Horror Nights: Carnival of Carnage. It was located in Sprung Tent 2.

History and Location

In 2007, Universal decided to give a haunted house to the icon of their Halloween Horror Nights: Carnival of Carnage event, Jack the Clown. They decided to make his house a 3-D house, an idea that had been used last in 2003's Funhouse of Fear. The house would feature a funhouse filled with colorful clowns that Jack created.

In 2006, Universal built two hurricane-proof tents behind the World Expo area of the park specifically for holding Halloween Horror Nights haunted houses. This house would be located in the northernmost one (called Sprung Tent 2).

The 3D haunted house would not return for another four years until 2011's The In-Between. Jack would also not receive another icon house until 2015's Jack Presents: 25 Years of Monsters & Mayhem.

Description

This Jack'd up funhouse comes at you with more crazed, colorful clowns that you can shake a kid at.

This Jack'd up funhouse plunges you laughing and screaming into an oversaturated world of color that leaps at you with more crazed clowns than you can shake a kid at. Before its over- you will know Jack!

Website

On the Halloween Horror Nights: Carnival of Carnage website, guests could click on the attraction page for this haunted house. There, Jack would occasionally pop up where the description of the house should be. After clicking on an entry ticket, guests would be taken to the backstory page for the house.

On the backstory page, guests could click on and view six cards with 3D images on them. A seventh card would tell visitors to bring back their 3D glasses from the event and view the cards to see them in 3D.

On the carnival page, guests could click on a funhouse tent to see a series of pumps, each labeled with a color. Guests would have to mix the right colors together for Jack's makeup to see a preview video for the house. They could use a color wheel in Jack's bus as a hint. The answer is shown in the images below. There was also a map with Coney Island circled in Jack's bus.

Website Pictures

Image from the now defunct Horrornights.be.

Image from the now defunct horrornights.be.

Website Videos

HHN 17- "Jack's Funhouse in Clown-O-Vision" House Preview

Video that played when the carnival puzzle was solved. The video also appeared on the Halloween Horror Nights: Twenty Years of Fear website.

Website Audio

Music that played on the description page:

Audio that played occasionally on the description page when Jack popped up (Jack can also silently wave):

Music that played on the Backstory Page: The Belgian Circus Episode by John Morris

Audio that played on the Backstory Page when the cards appeared on the screen:

Audio that played on the Backstory Page when the Clown-O-Mete card was clicked on:

Audio that played on the Backstory Page when the Cockroach card was clicked on:

Audio that played on the Backstory Page when the Space card was clicked on:

Audio that played on the Backstory Page when the Joker card was clicked on:

Audio that played on the Backstory Page when the Snot card was clicked on:

Audio that played on the Backstory Page when the Snake card was clicked on:

Audio that played on the Carnival page:

Audio that played on the Carnival Page when a color was clicked on:

Audio that played on the Carnival Page when the incorrect mixture was entered:

Experience

Queue and Facade

The queue entrance was located to the right of the Men in Black restrooms. It went down a road that led to the front of Sprung Tent 2 where it would then continuously loop around the side of the Men in Black building. Somewhere in the queue, guests were given 3D glasses with seemingly two different varieties: Plain Black, or Painted Like Jack with "Halloween Horror Nights" written in white text.

The queue contained various over-sized Jack-in-the-Boxes, Jack's Fortune Telling tent, and banners advertising various carnival freaks. At the end of the queue laid a huge replica of Jack's head, and guests entered the house through his mouth.

Haunted House

The haunted house consisted of various disorientating rooms that could normally be seen in a funhouse. The scareactors mostly consisted of clowns in bright costumes. There was also a room with black walls and scareactors who would blend into them.

Scareactors

• Blackout Performers x
• Congested Clown Doctor
• The Joker
• Marionettes x3
• Astronaut Clown
• Alien Clown
• Clown Queen
• Demon Clowns x 2
• Clowns x 4

Pictures

Part of the queue for Jack's Funhouse in Clown-O-Vision.

The house featured a scare very similar to this picture, only with the curtains being green.

The facade for the house. Image from CriminyCrafft's Photobucket.

Part of the queue. Image from CriminyCrafft's Photobucket.

One of the scareactors. Image from CriminyCrafft's Photobucket.

A few of the scareactors. Image from CriminyCrafft's Photobucket.

The Layout for Jack's Funhouse in Clown-O-Vision

Jack's 3D Glasses from the house [From HorrorUnearthed]

Jack's 3D Glasses from the house 2 [From HorrorUnearthed]

From Erik Johnson on the TPR Forum

From HHNYearbook

From Universal Orlando

Credit to: Mattisphat24

From MattisPhatt24

From Mattisphat24

From MattisPhatt24

From MattisPhatt24

From MattisPhatt24

From MattisPhatt24

From MattisPhatt24

From MattisPhatt24

Image from Universal Orlando Resort

Image from Universal Orlando Resort

Image from Universal Orlando Resort

Image from Universal Orlando Resort

Image from Universal Orlando Resort

Image from Universal Orlando Resort

Image from Universal Orlando Resort

A scene from the house featured in the 30 Years, 30 Fears montage during Halloween Horror Nights 30 Image from HorrorUnearthed

Image from HHNYearbook

image from CoasterDave on Flickr

image from RexandtheBeast on Flickr

image from Daniel (IronHide on Flickr)

image from Daniel (IronHide on Flickr)

Image from Zachariah R Couch

Videos

HHN 17 Carnival of Carnage Jack's Funhouse in Clown-O-Vision

Soundtrack

Phillip Glass - Music Box

Carnival Of Souls

WALTZ OF THE GHOULS VERNE LANGDON VAMPIRE AT THE HARPSICHORD

Trivia

• At the Horrorwood Die-In from Halloween Horror Nights: Ripped from the Silver Screen, there was a poster advertising a funhouse that looked similar to the exterior of Jack's Funhouse.
• The astronaut clowns suit would later be reused in the haunted house Penn & Teller: New(kd) Vegas in 2012.
• According to this, on the wall of the Alien and Astronaut room, were Kang and Kodos from The Simpsons.
• The Revolving Tunnel (a spinning and disorientating tunnel that guests would walk through) appeared in this house. The effect would later be used in a several more haunted houses, with the next one being Interstellar Terror during Halloween Horror Nights: Reflections of Fear.
• Singapore would use the same tarot designs here for their Jack house.
• Originally was to have flame effects featured in the facade of the house.
• Originally first scare of the house was to feature the first room with Moe, a dwarf troll looking clown.
• Originally scrapped scene involved a clown car scene with guests inside of a clown car with dozen of clowns stacked on top of one another.