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| Welcome to SCarey: Horror in the Heartland | |
| Attraction type | Haunted House |
| Event | Halloween Horror Nights 30 |
| Park | Universal Studios Florida |
| Area | World Expo |
| Year | 2021 |
| Housed in | MIB Tent |
| Based on | Original |
Welcome to SCarey: Horror in the Heartland was one of the ten haunted houses that were featured during Halloween Horror Nights 30. It was located at the MIB Tent and featured scenes depicting houses and scarezones from the past set in Carey, Ohio.
History and Location[]
For their 2020 Halloween Horror Nights event, Universal was planning to hold a haunted house centered around Carey, Ohio (a small town used as a setting for many Halloween Horror Nights attractions in the past) to celebrate the 30th Halloween Horror Nights year. The house would include many different scenes each taking place in a haunted house or scarezone from the past that took place in Carey. After Halloween Horror Nights was cancelled that year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Universal postponed the opening of this haunted house until the following year.
On August 12th, 2021, Universal announced that Welcome to SCarey: Horror in the Heartland would be coming to Halloween Horror Nights that year. The house would be relatively unchanged from it's original plan in 2020. The Codename for this House was "Sink".
The house would be located in a temporary tent located behind the Men in Black extended queue. The tent would be put up before the event (to hold the haunted house) and taken down after the event.
Description[]
In Carey, bad things just happen. No one escapes from this small town beset by an endless parade of bloodthirsty creatures and maniacs.
The town placed a sign at the entrance to Carey, Ohio, saying it’s a nice place to live. Unfortunately nobody lives here very long. No one escapes from Carey, where bad things just happen, and new terrors rain down year after year.
- If it claws, bites, feasts on blood, or just likes to rip people to shreds, it somehow finds its way to Carey.
- Experience an endless parade of unimaginable terrors, from horrifying creatures to bloodthirsty maniacs.
- You can scream all you want in Carey. But everybody’s too busy doing their own screaming to pay much notice.
Production Die-Ries[]
Horror Comes Home
Years ago when HHN designers needed a town in which to set their most horrifying tales of the paranormal and supernatural, they turned to one of their own who grew up in a small Midwest town named Carey. And ever since it has become a Halloween Horror Nights tradition.
In Carey the dead do not remain so. The "unbalanced" never regained stability. And the truly deranged practice to hone their acts of unspeakable horror. Over the years this has been the home to a psychotic psychiatrist, a morbid groundskeeper, a twisted TV station, a horrid hospital and an orphanage of strange children who will never be adopted...to name just a few among many others.
Experience[]
Queue and Facade[]
The queue entered to the right of the Fear Factor Stage. The queue would go through the exterior Men in Black extended queue before reaching the front of the tent, which held the facade.
The facade was a giant town sign reading "Welcome to (S)Carey: A Nice Place to Live (Die)! with parts (in paranthesis) being graffitied in red. The sign also depicted a smiling family. Guests would enter the house to the left of the facade, where they would see a welcome post with various symbols of the groups involved in Carey, Ohio.
Guests would then go down a mossy brick hallway with a sign reading "Pump House No. 30". Behind them, Meaty Meetz would originally startle them with his chainsaw before guests entered the house.
Haunted House[]
Guests would enter the Pump House and proceed to the sewers from The Spawning, where various lights flashed from overhead and green slimy eggs were scattered about. Guests went down a hallway where they could see a newly redesigned static-figure of a Sculder coming out of a sewer tunnel. A panel would drop to the left of guests and a Sculder could be seen behind it. Another Sculder would jump out at guests from the left in this hallway, and as they turned the corner, the same Sculder would scare from another angle on the left while another Sculder attacked guests on the right as they exited the sewers.
Guests would then enter the cave from Hive, where a Vampire Bat Creature would pop out of a boo-hole on the right, while another one would pop out on the left. A couple of vampires could be seen hanging upside down in this scene. One of the Vampire Bat Creatures from before would attack guests on the right as they made their way into the next room. Still in Hive, guests would find themselves in a small room of 19 Hemingway Lane, with small cracks on the walls and a skeleton behind a hole in the wall. As guests left the section, Nicodemus would jump out at guests on the left.
Guests would then enter the Wyandot Estate from Legendary Truth: The Wyandot Estate and go down a hallway with wires going along the wall. On the left, a ghost would walk down the hall looking at guests. Guests would then enter the living room, where the two windows on the left would systematically show a white UV face lighting up until another ghost popped out at guests next to the second one. Additionally, the embers in the fireplace would turn from red to blue. Guests would then be scared by another ghost on their left before entering the next scene.
Guests would enter the dark and decrepit attic of the Old Hartford Mansion from Dead End. On the right, a ghost would pop out at guests. At the end of the small room, guests could see a ghost floating in front of a window as lighting flashed outside. This served as a distraction, as another ghost would jump out in front of it scaring guests out of the room.
Guests would then find themselves outside Carey Elementary School from The Skoolhouse while a slowed down version of Pink Floyd's Another Brick on the Wall Pt. 2 played. Guests would see a swing set and the static figure of a child with a chicken mask behind one of the windows. The school was badly burnt, with hot glowing embers scattered around it, and guests would enter the building through the left. Inside the burning and collapsing Skoolhouse, guests would encounter a Tiger-Masked Child, who would attack guests on the left. Guests continued further to see Mr. Renshaw on the right wielding a cane. Before exiting the Skoolhouse, guests would be attacked by Cindy Caine, who would scream at guests in an homage to The Orfanage: Ashes to Ashes haunted house.
Guests would then enter the Channel 21 WKNB Station from H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror where a poster hung advertizing H.R. Bloodengutz's Midnight Mayhem show. Going down the hallway, guests could see a television set depicting H.R. Bloodengutz torturing John Reynolds, an "applause sign", and various posters depicting holiday-themed horror movies: Ho Ho Homicide and the Feaster Bunny. Continuing into the room, guests would see various props and costumes from the holiday-themed horror movies. H.R. Bloodengutz would pop out from behind a curtain and scare guests on the left. Additionally, a holiday scareactor (either one of Santa's Elves or a Leprechaun) would jump out from behind a costume rack.
Passing by the door to John Reyolds office, guests would enter a short hallway with Slaughter Sinema posters: those of Midnight Snack 2: The House Swarming and Sorority Sacrifice. A poster featuring Leave it to Cleaver also appeared, featuring Meaty Meetz. After that, guests would enter the Meetz Meats deli from Leave it to Cleaver. The smell of barbecue (similar, if not identical to the one featured in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) became prominent. Immediately on the left, Meaty Meetz would pop out from in front of the entrance doors to the shop while on the right, a commercial for Meetz Meats played on a television sitting on top of a meat display. Before guests exited the room, Sam Meetz would run out from behind a set of double doors wielding a meat cleaver. Guests would then venture inside the meat locker, where various bloody hanging corpses and body parts could be seen scattered around and hung upside down. Two Meetz Meats Employees would pop out at guests, one wearing plaid with an electric carving knife and one in a suit and tie, before they exited the scene.
Guests would enter the finale, which took place in Hellgate Prison during a prison break. Guests would pass by a security room window and see a guard with his face smashed through the glass. Various lights flashed as guests ventured down a final chainlink fence and brick lined corridor. A Hellgate Prisoner (or a Dog of War from Havoc: Dogs of War depending on the cast) would pop out at the very end on the right wielding a chainsaw, as guests exited the house.
Haunted Houses/Scare zones Represented[]
- The Spawning (2009)
- Hive (2017)
- Legendary Truth: The Wyandot Estate (2010)
- Dead End (2012)
- The Skoolhouse (2008)
- The Orfanage: Ashes to Ashes (2010)
- H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror (2011)
- Slaughter Sinema (2018)
- Leave it to Cleaver (2009)
- Hellgate Prison (2004)
- Havoc: Dogs of War (2010)
Quotes[]
- "Sit down." - Mr. Renshaw
- "I am H.R. Bloodengutz!" - H.R. Bloodengutz
- ”Hello Children” -Meaty Meetz
- ”The Z Stands For Fresh” - Sam Meetz
Scareactors[]
- Sculders x2
- Vampire Bat Creatures x2
- Nicodemus
- Ghosts x5
- Tiger Mask Child
- Mr. Renshaw
- Cindy Caine
- H.R. Bloodengutz
- Santa's Elf (Cast Dependent)
- Leprechaun (Cast Dependent)
- Meaty Meetz
- Sam Meetz
- Ward Cleaver (Cast Dependent)
- June Cleaver (Cast Dependent)
- Sandy Cleaver (Cast Dependent)
- Chip Cleaver (Cast Dependent)
- Bloody Victim
- Hellgate Prisoner (Cast Dependent)
- Dog of War (Cast Dependent)
Pictures[]
Soundtrack[]
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- The HHN design team felt the 30th anniversary of the event was the perfect opportunity to revisit the fan favorite themes, backstories, and characters of the past.
- The dead trees in the scenes are actual trees that the decor team collected throughout the year from Universal Orlando's Landscaping Team.
- All of the queue songs are songs that Lora Saul's Father likes. Lora Saul is responsible for the idea of Carey, Ohio being at the event as a location.
- The facade, graffiti element, and small sign to the left all seem heavily inspired by the Hill Valley sign from Back to the Future.
- The family figures on the facade seem heavily inspired by the Springwood sign from Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare [1].
- The facade to this house was referenced in 2020 with "He had seen a lit sign with smiling folks on it welcoming people as the train moved past. Carey? Corey? Yeah, Corey, Ohio. Must be it. Delmar thought to himself." in the story released by Patrick Braillard called Bad Following Good.
- The Peck's Bar & Grill on the sign next to the facade is referenced in the 2020 story released by Patrick Braillard called Bad Following Good.
- The left sign next to the facade says Carey, Ohio was founded in 1858 which the real Carey Ohio was actually incorporated and recognized as a Ohio Village on June 2nd, 1858.
- The population count on the left facade sign says 3,594 which is not far off as the population count for the real Carey, Ohio was 3,554 in 2019.
- On the left side of the facade, Shadowcreek Labs from Havoc: Dogs of War is referenced with "Shadowcreek Enterprise".
- They wanted to have this house be different, where most houses start with you above ground to then going below. With this house they wanted you to start below to then coming upward.
- The fact that the Spawning section took place in "Pump House No. 30" is a reference to the 30th anniversary of the event.
- The Sculders for The Spawning Section have been redesigned and look closer to the original promo Art for the 2009 House.
- The signs inside The Spawning Section say Boiler 30 which is a reference to it being the 30th Anniversary of the Event.
- Multiple props from previous houses were included in this house as Easter Eggs.
- Green eggs in the Spawning section from Depths of Fear.
- Playhouse in the Dead End section is from Poltergeist and Dollhouse of the Damned.
- Static figure in the Dead End Section is Nevermore: The Madness of Poe.
- The tricycle in The Skoolhouse Section is from SAW: The Games of Jigsaw.
- The TV in the H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror Section is from the Poltergeist Part of The Harvest.
- The Gingerbread Men & Snowglobe in the H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror section from Krampus.
- Cotton candy in the H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror section from Killer Klowns From Outer Space.
- Bunny head in the H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror Section is from Welcome to Silent Hill.
- The red phone in the Leave it to Cleaver Section is from Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers.
- The Hive Section has Abyss (JG Thrilwell Remix) by John Carpenter playing which was used for the Hive 2 preview in the Slaughter Sinema queue.
- Nicodemus Felling is one of Charles Grey's favorite monsters so they wanted to bring him back for this house.
- It is possible that the 2 Vampire Bat Creatures in the Hive Section are Eddie and Kenneth Ignacio Alvarez in the 2020 Story released by Patrick Braillard, The Hive.
- The Legendary Truth: The Wyandot Estate scene has a face behind the window. In the 2010 house they used Pazuzu's face from The Exorcist behind the glass. In this house they used a different face behind the windows.
- The trigger for the 2nd Ghost in the Dead End Section is the same trigger used for one of the Plant People in the Indoor Garden Scene for the 2012 house.
- The Conversatory scare in the Dead End scene is from Screamhouse.
- The Skoolhouse section has Another Brick in the Wall playing which the cast for the 2008 scare zone regularly sang while walking out each set [2].
- The Skoolhouse scene depicts the death of Mary Worthington who is Mary Agana's grandmother.
- The Skoolhouse scene has a chalkboard with a list of people for demerits and on that list is a bunch of people from the A&D Team.
- Some of the children's drawings in The Skoolhouse Section look similar to masks worn by characters from Trick 'r Treat such as the Devil Head Kid, Paper Bag Kid, Skeleton Kid, Clown Girl, and Bunny Kid.
- The Skoolhouse scene's chalkboard also has a part that says "Cindy see me after Class".
- Cindy Caine gets the idea to burn down the Schoolhouse from reading a book on the Triangle Factory Fire [3].
- The Cindy Caine sound trigger is reused from her scare in Jack Presents: 25 Years of Monsters & Mayhem.
- Members of the Creative Team are referenced as credits on H.R. Bloodengutz's show posters. Ho, Ho, Homicide credits Patrick Braillard.
- There is a Bride of Frankenstein VHS tape Easter Egg in the H.R. Bloodengutz section of the house.
- There is a sign in the H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror section of the house that says "It's Showtime" which is a possible reference to Beetlejuice.
- In the H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror section all of the tapes from that house are in that scene.
- In the H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror section there is a door that says L. Sauls which stands for Lora Sauls. The Universal Creative Team Member born in the real Carey Ohio and responsible for the idea of Carey, Ohio for the event as a location [4].
- Jack the Clown's original 2000 costume is in the H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror section [5].
- All of the nutcrackers and the Santa in the Holidays of Horror scene were originally purchased for Krampus (Orlando) during Halloween Horror Nights 26. Like so many other props from the Art & Design team warehouse were repurposed for this year's 30th anniversary.
- In the H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror section there is a film reel with a Tom and Dan Sticker on it. Tom and Dan is a famous Orlando podcast that did a BTS walkthrough in 2019 for Universal Monsters.
- Originally H.R. Bloodengutz was planned to be a face character. He was also planned to be at the facade as a face character with a live mic. This was all cut due to COVID.
- There is a "now serving 30" Sign in the Leave it to Cleaver section of the house and also a sign inside of the glass case of food that says "Serving You For Over 30 Years!" which is a reference to it being the 30th anniversary of the event.
- During opening weekend the now serving sign in the Leave It to Cleaver section of the house said "now serving 69" instead which is a reference to Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure [6].
- In the Leave it to Cleaver section behind the glass is a cow with all of his different parts labeled.
- Cattle Call was referenced in 2020 in the story released by Patrick Braillard, Bad Following Good. It was then used in the Freezer scene of the Leave it to Cleaver section.
- In the Hellgate Prison section, the mannequin of the Police Officer on the window has a Shadybrook Officer patch on his arm.
- This house has subtle transitions inside the house from scene to scene.
- From a sewer (The Spawning) to a cave (Hive)
- You go from the cave into a house (Legendary Truth: The Wyandot State)
- You go from the house living room into the attic (Dead End).
- When you leave the house you go to school. (The Skoolhouse).
- Coming home from school, kids usually watch television (H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror).
- From H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror into a hallway with a promotion of a brand new picture called Meetz Meats (Leave it to Cleaver) which you then enter that film.
- After H.R. Bloodengutz committed all of those crimes he went to prison (Hellgate Prison).
- Each house in 2021 had a hidden butterfly, the one in this house was hidden behind the clothing rack in the H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror section. There also one in The Skoolhouse section on a rope outside the facade.
- The names of the parents in the slaughterhouse section of house, Ward and June Cleaver, are lifted directly from the sitcom Leave it to Beaver, from which Leave it to Cleaver got its name.
References[]
- ↑ https://twitter.com/BigBrera/status/1464417997586640898?t=vWqQfoBB4pLQ3BLlMaCkAw&s=19
- ↑ https://twitter.com/BlaktimusPrime/status/1434279784952078342?t=HpLScYiw2M489ndUq2TaiQ&s=19
- ↑ https://twitter.com/GiovannaPardis/status/1449490271947956232?t=oMP0HX6W0r-z-i39fYXkdA&s=19
- ↑ https://twitter.com/ParkTwister/status/1454490922792722443?t=LTg7sXywNf1AzT6dyedcJA&s=19
- ↑ https://twitter.com/geeknotice/status/1449438802523607041?t=Wk_gp6OSWQmeAqZ9PNICFQ&s=19
- ↑ https://twitter.com/HHNDawg/status/1444693565146284034?s=19
| Halloween Horror Nights 30 |
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| Characters: Jack the Clown (Event Icon) • Beetlejuice • Bent-Neck Lady • The Bride of Frankenstein • Leatherface • The Caretaker • The Director • The Storyteller • The Usher • Lady Luck • Chance • Fear • Tooth Fairies • Pumpkin Lord • Boris Shuster • Eddie Schmidt • Terra Queen • The Controller |
| Haunted Houses: Beetlejuice • The Haunting of Hill House • Universal Monsters: The Bride of Frankenstein Lives • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre • HHN Icons: Captured • Welcome to SCarey: Horror in the Heartland • Case Files Unearthed: Legendary Truth • Puppet Theatre: Captive Audience • The Wicked Growth: Realm of the Pumpkin • Revenge of the Tooth Fairy |
| Scarezones: 30 Years 30 Fears • Seek and Destroy • Crypt TV • Gorewood Forest • Lights Camera Hacktion: Eddie's Revenge |
| Shows: Halloween Nightmare Fuel • Marathon of Mayhem: Carnage Factory |
| Other Experiences: Jack'd Up Experience • Halloween Horror Nights Tribute Store • Chucky's Good Guys Toy Box Photo Op |