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'''The Director, '''also known by his real name '''Paulo Ravinski''', was the main event icon at [[Halloween Horror Nights 13]].
 
'''The Director, '''also known by his real name '''Paulo Ravinski''', was the main event icon at [[Halloween Horror Nights 13]].
   
He would later appear as a co-icon with other returning characters[[ The Caretaker]], [[Jack the Clown]] and [[The Storyteller]] for [[Halloween Horror Nights: Sweet 16]], and (an AU version) was the first icon for [[Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood]] at [[Halloween Horror Nights 2006 (Hollywood)|Halloween Horror Nights 2006]]. and Halloween Horror Nights in Universal Studios Singapore when it started in October 2011.
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He would later appear as a co-icon with other returning characters[[ The Caretaker]], [[Jack the Clown]], and [[The Storyteller]] for [[Halloween Horror Nights: Sweet 16]], and (a different version) was the first icon for [[Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood]] at [[Halloween Horror Nights 2006 (Hollywood)|Halloween Horror Nights 2006]]. Yet another version was used at Halloween Horror Nights in Universal Studios Singapore when it started in October 2011.
   
 
The Director also has 3 other names: Paolo Ravinski (his original name for 2003, before 2006 changed it to Paulo), Pavel Pranevsky (for Hollywood's revival event), and Billy Skorrski (for Singapore's first event). This made the Director and [[Jack the Clown|Jack]] the only icons to have appeared in some form at all three Universal Studios parks that have featured icons.
 
The Director also has 3 other names: Paolo Ravinski (his original name for 2003, before 2006 changed it to Paulo), Pavel Pranevsky (for Hollywood's revival event), and Billy Skorrski (for Singapore's first event). This made the Director and [[Jack the Clown|Jack]] the only icons to have appeared in some form at all three Universal Studios parks that have featured icons.
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== Appearances ==
 
== Appearances ==
   
== '''Marketing''' ==
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=== Marketing ===
[[Dean Karr]] directed the [[List of Halloween Horror Nights Orlando Commercials|commercials]] for 2003, which had him electrocute a man in a bathtub, and force fish hooks into a jesters cheek to make him smile against his own will. There were also some spots which interspersed the two with clips of the Director talking about his vision. He appeared pretty much in the print campaign posters and all, and like the previous icon, he also appeared in a [[Interview with the Director|newspaper interview]] where he had the idea to break Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez up.
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[[Dean Karr]] directed the [[List of Halloween Horror Nights Orlando Commercials|commercials]] for 2003, which had him electrocute a man in a bathtub and force fish hooks into a Jester's cheek to make him smile against his own will. There were also some recordings which interspersed the two with clips of the Director talking about his vision. He appeared pretty much in all of the print campaign posters, and like the previous icon, he also appeared in a [[Interview with the Director|newspaper interview]] where he had the idea to break Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez up.
   
2006 featured him pretty much in the marketing alongside his fellow icons, and that was also the year where he was the icon for 2006’s event in the Hollywood park. He was the first of the 6 icons in Hollywood’s history (the successors being Jack, both Freddy’s, Billy and Ghostface). The marketing used promotional marketing from 2003 alomgside some shots of the 2002 campaign. As a nod to 2003 and a reference to their own event opening on Friday the 13th, a little 13 logo was situated in the event Logo as an Easter egg.
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2006 featured him in pretty much all of the marketing alongside his fellow icons. That was also the year where he was the icon for 2006’s event in the Hollywood park. He was the first of the 6 icons in Hollywood’s history (the successors being Jack, both Freddys, Billy, and Ghostface). The marketing used promotional marketing from 2003 alongside some shots of the 2002 campaign. As a nod to 2003 and a reference to their own event opening on Friday the 13th, a little 13 logo was situated in the event Logo as an Easter egg.
   
Singapore has him in the print campaign for 2011 and a new commercial.
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Singapore had him in the print campaign for 2011 and a new commercial.
   
'''In the Event'''
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=== At the Event ===
 
2003 first showed him on a television screen in the [[Port of Evil (2003)|Port of Evil]] scarezone which had unused shots from the Dean Karr commercials. He technically had his own house that year, but it mostly featured Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, and Michael Myers, although he did appear on the projectors screen in the facade. He also hosted Infestation which was a Fear Factor type show. In 2004 he has a segment in the [[Horror Nights Nightmares]] house.
   
 
During [[Halloween Horror Nights: Sweet 16]], he introduced the [[Opening Scaremonies]] with the other icons on the Arrival stage. In that show he repeated his bathtub kill from the 2003 commercial. He also appeared in segments for the [[Sweet 16: The Director's Cut]] show and once again held an icon house that year, this time mostly featuring villains from Scream, The Ring, Hellraiser, and Silence of the Lambs.
2003 first showed him in a television screen in the [[Port of Evil (2003)]] Scarezone which had unused shots from the Dean Karr commercials. He technically had his own house that year, but it was really for Freddy, Jason, Leatherace and Michael Myers, although he did appear in the first scene in the projectors screen. He was the barker for Infestation which was a Fear Factor type show.
 
   
 
2006 in Hollywood only had him appear in the park at the end of [[Terror Tram: The Director’s Cut]], where he killed a person just before the Tram entered the Mummy’s Tomb.
2004 he has his segment in the [[Horror Nights Nightmares]] house. According to HalloweenHorrorNightsNerd (https://halloweenhorrornightsnerd.tumblr.com/tagged/hhn-rat-run), The Director and other Icons May have appeared in the Rat Run maze beyond Maldaken In 2005.
 
   
 
2010 had him appear in the Main Gate’s video (which was a slightly edited version of the [[Warehouse eXXperience]] video). He also appeared in the Fear Revealed scarezone, where his set displayed the bathtub reels interspersed with shots of the new Director actor (the one in the commercials- not this- was Gianni Garofalo).
2006 in [[Halloween Horror Nights: Sweet 16]] had him introduce the [[Opening Scaremonies]] with the other Icons in the Arrival stage, and that show he repeated his bathtub segment. He also appeared in segments for the [[Sweet 16: The Director's Cut]] show and once again technically had his own house that year; but once again it was mainly for Pinhead, Samara and Hannibal Lecter.
 
   
 
He only appeared in a photo op at Singapore’s 2011 event.
2006 in Hollywood only had him appear in the flesh at the end of [[Terror Tram: The Director’s Cut]] where he killed a person just before the Tram entered the Mummy’s tomb.
 
 
2010 had him appear in the Main Gate’s video (which was a slightly edited version of the [[Warehouse eXXperience]] video), and he appeared in the Fear Revealed, where his set displayed the bathtub reels interspersed with shots of the new Director actor (the one in the commercials- not this- was Gianni Garofalo).
 
 
He once again repeated his bathtub Kill in ICONS:HHN for. 2015
 
 
He only appeared in a photo op for Singapore’s event.
 
   
 
He once again repeated his bathtub kill in ICONS: HHN for 2015
 
== The Director's Poem ==
 
== The Director's Poem ==
 
Paulo Ravinski
 
Paulo Ravinski

Revision as of 22:58, 24 January 2021

The Director will see you now

Welcome to the world of The Director. Get a behind-the-scenes look at The Director's latest work and take a look inside his dark mind through his "on the set" interview. Is it time for an Oscar nomination or just a room in an asylum?"

-Website description

The Director, also known by his real name Paulo Ravinski, was the main event icon at Halloween Horror Nights 13.

He would later appear as a co-icon with other returning charactersThe Caretaker, Jack the Clown, and The Storyteller for Halloween Horror Nights: Sweet 16, and (a different version) was the first icon for Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood at Halloween Horror Nights 2006. Yet another version was used at Halloween Horror Nights in Universal Studios Singapore when it started in October 2011.

The Director also has 3 other names: Paolo Ravinski (his original name for 2003, before 2006 changed it to Paulo), Pavel Pranevsky (for Hollywood's revival event), and Billy Skorrski (for Singapore's first event). This made the Director and Jack the only icons to have appeared in some form at all three Universal Studios parks that have featured icons.

Backstory

All versions prior to actual story

Paulo/Pavel/Billy was born in Eastern Europe. Aspiring to be a filmmaker, he initially started out as a snuff film director, capturing actual human suffering, torture, and death on his movie camera. His first project was a controversial feature known as The Widow's Eye. The film shocked so many of his country population that Paulo/Pavel/Billy was forced out, which is when he came to America. Law enforcement agencies and film critics call his work snuff cinema. The Director prefers his work to be referred to as "art". Some people found tamer examples of his work, such as The Blood Letting and Death Procession.

Halloween Horror Nights Orlando Storyline

Paolo was hired by Universal Orlando to film his newest horror film at their Islands of Adventure park. Here, he turned each area of the park into a living horror movie as part of his dream project. The Director himself would appear in All Nite Die-In at the event. He also hosted his own torture show, where he would subject victims from the audience to horrors on stage, and film their reactions.

The Director would return years later (renamed to Paulo instead of Paolo), with the other icons, for Halloween Horror Nights: Sweet 16 with his own house All Nite Die-In: Take 2. He also took part in the ensemble show featuring each of the four icons performing a kill in their signature styles, where he electrocuted someone in a bathtub.

For a time in 2010, The Director was bound by magic to the Sumerian Demon known as "Fear", and dubbed the representation of "Sacrifice" due to his willingness to sacrifice anything and everything in the name of film.

In 2012, The Director was revealed to be a member of the Legions of Horror; a Strengoit along with Lady Luck.

In 2015, Bloody Mary and Jack broke him and his fellow icons for Halloween Horror Nights 25th anniversary.

Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood Storyline

Pavel Pranevsky was hired by Universal Studios Hollywood to create the ultimate horror movie. Before they allowed production to begin, Universal requested that Pavel submit a short film detailing his project to preview it for executives. However, when Universal viewed the graphic short film which contained real torture and death, they claimed Pavel sick vision was too graphic for movie audiences. They then had the project cancelled for good, and banned Paulo from ever stepping foot into Universal Studios again. But Pavel did, in fact, take up residence in an abandoned backlot set at the park, vowing to get revenge on Universal. Aware that Pavel was hiding on the backlot, Universal still allowed their annual Halloween event to run in 2006, but warned visitors that Pavel was incredibly dangerous.


The Director appeared at the event in Terror Tram: The Director's Cut, where he would take over the backlot tram tour and subject the riders to horrifying, deadly situations within the various movie sets they toured.

Screen shot 2012-05-25 at 6.38

The Director for Halloween Horror Nights Singapore

The Director Web Series

In 2004, a series of fan-produced short films began appearing on youtube featuring The Director character. The videos portrayed him as a combination of the Halloween Horror Nights Orlando and Hollywood versions.

The Director's videos had him hiding out on the backlot of Universal Studios, having been hired by Producer Bob Ferguson to make horror films for Universal Studios, but then subsequently fired by his would-be-mentor amidst rumors of snuff film activities. Paulo was barred from the studio, and his persona was stolen for use in their Halloween Horror Nights event. The Director sought revenge by killing actors, security personnel, and eventually Bob Ferguson himself on the backlot, filming all the killings. He escaped capture and vanished soon after killing Ferguson.

Paulo would return several years later, making new videos, ranting about the sub-par state of Hollywood, and the horror genre, especially his disdain for remakes of classic horror films, even re-cutting a few of his old kills together as a protest to the remake trend. His final two videos featured Paulo hunting down a blogger who wrote about her suicidal tendencies, and after knocking her unconscious and tying her up, he convinced her to allow him to take her life on camera.

Since then, rumors of this version of Paulo showing up at Universal's Halloween Horror Nights events have circulated, along with rumors of vanishing park guests during the event. Images of him attending the event and filming the horror have been found online, but no new videos have surfaced yet.

The series found a small cult following among the die-hard fans of Halloween Horror Nights Orlando, among the numbers of the HHNVault and Horror Nights Nightmares fan boards.

Appearances

Marketing

Dean Karr directed the commercials for 2003, which had him electrocute a man in a bathtub and force fish hooks into a Jester's cheek to make him smile against his own will. There were also some recordings which interspersed the two with clips of the Director talking about his vision. He appeared pretty much in all of the print campaign posters, and like the previous icon, he also appeared in a newspaper interview where he had the idea to break Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez up.

2006 featured him in pretty much all of the marketing alongside his fellow icons. That was also the year where he was the icon for 2006’s event in the Hollywood park. He was the first of the 6 icons in Hollywood’s history (the successors being Jack, both Freddys, Billy, and Ghostface). The marketing used promotional marketing from 2003 alongside some shots of the 2002 campaign. As a nod to 2003 and a reference to their own event opening on Friday the 13th, a little 13 logo was situated in the event Logo as an Easter egg.

Singapore had him in the print campaign for 2011 and a new commercial.

At the Event

2003 first showed him on a television screen in the Port of Evil scarezone which had unused shots from the Dean Karr commercials. He technically had his own house that year, but it mostly featured Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, and Michael Myers, although he did appear on the projectors screen in the facade. He also hosted Infestation which was a Fear Factor type show. In 2004 he has a segment in the Horror Nights Nightmares house.

During Halloween Horror Nights: Sweet 16, he introduced the Opening Scaremonies with the other icons on the Arrival stage. In that show he repeated his bathtub kill from the 2003 commercial. He also appeared in segments for the Sweet 16: The Director's Cut show and once again held an icon house that year, this time mostly featuring villains from Scream, The Ring, Hellraiser, and Silence of the Lambs.

2006 in Hollywood only had him appear in the park at the end of Terror Tram: The Director’s Cut, where he killed a person just before the Tram entered the Mummy’s Tomb.

2010 had him appear in the Main Gate’s video (which was a slightly edited version of the Warehouse eXXperience video). He also appeared in the Fear Revealed scarezone, where his set displayed the bathtub reels interspersed with shots of the new Director actor (the one in the commercials- not this- was Gianni Garofalo).

He only appeared in a photo op at Singapore’s 2011 event.

He once again repeated his bathtub kill in ICONS: HHN for 2015

The Director's Poem

Paulo Ravinski

Is a man foreign born

But his work as a filmmaker

Left most viewers torn


Some were disgusted,

Others just sickened

He soon was cast out,

And here the plot thickened

He came to America

Where all dreams come true

But his dreams

Were all nightmares

Starring people like you


Camera in hand, he crafts

The worst of all scenes

And records the action

To a soundtrack of screams

All of it real because the

Actors know not,

That the Director's "Art"

Is pure evil rot

Design

He wears a suit similar to that of The Caretaker, but without the top hat. He has pale-blue to pure-white eyes.


Appearances at Halloween Horror Nights Orlando

Appearance at Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood

Notable Quotes

  • Pain is temporary, but film is forever.
  • They say that film is art. FILM IS NOT JUST ART! Film is power. Film is magic. But most of all, film is a weapon. - In the queue video for All Nite Die-In: Take 2.
  • You'll never sleep again. - Taunting a park guest during Infestation.
  • Welcome to Halloween Horror Nights... THIRTEEN! - During the opening night "scaremony" of Halloween Horror Nights 13.
  • Nothing compares to real blood on film. It's the only way to really capture the emotion and fear of reality, in what the victim is feeling. It tells the story truthfully. This motivation is the key. My actors only get one take. It's a short take. - On an interview-like commercial for Halloween Horror Nights 13.
  • I don't need any money. All I need is you. You and your cooperation.
  • You oughtta be in pictures... Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.
  • Well you might say that FEAR has given me budget for my latest film, aptly entitled "FEAR", and we are beginning a casting call beginning tonight throughout the month of October. Why don't you come on down? It's the ultimate dare to face YOUR fear! - news interview for Halloween Horror Nights: Twenty Years of Fear
  • Who came up with reality TV? There's nothing real about it. It's all staged. It's all fake. Designed to appeal to a person's darker side. People say they want to watch real horror, real suffering, and they want to be terrified. But when you give it to them, they don't have the stomach for it. While I'll show them my reality. This October, Universal Studios Hollywood will get a taste of reality they won't soon forget. - advertisement for Halloween Horror Nights 2006 (Hollywood)

Pictures

Theme for The Director

Videos

Trivia

  • In 2012, it's revealed that The Director is a member of the Legions of Horror; a member of the The Strengoit Legion, most likely because of his hunger for “real blood”
  • As noted by TvTropes; His character appears to be strongly inspired by Mark Lewis from Peeping Tom, who just like The Director is a serial killer obsessed with the art of film. This could make the Director the unofficial counterpart (coincidence or direct inspiration) to Mark Lewis.
  • Was played by Gianni Garofalo in the print media and Dean Karr/2006 Hollywood Ads.
  • Speaking of Gianni, his interview with Scarezone podcast revealed that Hollywood had a difficult time with the marketing with the Director and eventually Gianni had to do some viral marketing himself.
Halloween Horror Nights 13
Characters: The Director (Event Icon)  • Incubus  • Succubus  • The Sentinel  • The Fire King  • The Ice Queen  • The Caretaker  • The Inmates of Shadybrook Asylum
Haunted Houses: All Nite Die-In  • Funhouse of Fear  • Jungle of Doom  • Psycho Scareapy  • Screamhouse: Revisited  • Ship of Screams
Scarezones: Boo-Ville  • Hide & Shrieeek!  • Immortal Island  • Night Prey  • Port of Evil  • Toxic City
Shows: Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure  • Infestation
Halloween Horror Nights XIV
Characters: The Asylum Patient (Event Icon)  • Eddie Schmidt  • Jack the Clown  • The Caretaker  • The Director  • Gunter Karl Dietze  • Jeffrey Dietze  • Robert L. Strickland
Haunted Houses: Castle Vampyr  • Deadtropolis  • Disorientorium  • Ghost Town  • Horror Nights Nightmares  • Hellgate Prison  • Horror in Wax
Scarezones: Field of Screams  • Fright Yard  • Midway of the Bizarre  • Point of Evil
Shows: Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure  • Festival of the Dead Parade
Halloween Horror Nights: Sweet 16
Characters: Jack the Clown  • The Caretaker  • The Director  • The Storyteller (Event Icons)  • The Projectionist  • The Inmates of Shadybrook Asylum  • Eddie Schmidt  • Cindy Caine  • Norman Bates
Haunted Houses: All Nite Die-In: Take 2  • Dungeon of Terror: Retold  • People Under the Stairs: Under Construction  • PsychoScareapy: Maximum Madness  • Psycho Path: The Return of Norman Bates  • Run: Hostile Territory  • Screamhouse: The Resurrection
Scarezones: Blood Masquerade  • Deadtropolis: Zombie Siege  • Harvest of the Souls
Unofficial Scarezone: Horror Comes Home
Shows: The Arrival  • Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure  • Robosaurus  • Sweet 16: The Director's Cut
Halloween Horror Nights: Twenty Years of Fear
Characters: Fear (Event Icon)  • Jack the Clown  • The Caretaker  • The Director  • The Storyteller  • The Usher  • Cindy Caine  • Eddie Schmidt  • Chance  • The Inmates of Shadybrook Asylum
Haunted Houses: Legendary Truth: The Wyandot Estate  • PsychoScareapy: Echoes of Shadybrook  • Hades: The Gates of Ruin  • ZombieGeddon  • The Orfanage: Ashes to Ashes  • Havoc: Dogs of War  • Catacombs: Black Death Rising  • Horror Nights: The Hallow'd Past
Scarezones: Esqueleto Muerte  • The Coven  • Saws N' Steam  • Zombie Gras  • Fear Revealed  • HHN: 20 Years of Fear
Shows: Brian Brushwood: Menace and Malice  • Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure
Halloween Horror Nights 2006
Characters: The Director (Event Icon)
Haunted Mazes: The Asylum  • Universal's House of Horrors
Terror Tram: Terror Tram: The Director’s Cut
Scarezones: The Black Death  • Dawn of the Dead  • Deadwood • Old London • Studio Center
Shows: Carnival of Carnage • Chucky's Insult Emporium • Fear Factor Live: Dead Celebrity Edition • The Mutaytor • SlaughterWorld
Halloween Horror Nights I
Character: The Director (Event Icon)
Haunted Houses: Vengeance of the Matriarch  • Pestilence
Scarezones: Carn-EVIL  • Post-Apocalyptic Rage  • The Void  • The Edge of Darkness
Show: 44 Sins