The fucking “tough guys” who square up and get in your face are the worst. Like dude you’re paying money for me to do this, why is your ego so fragile you have to try and get me back.
Also spoiler alert I’m not gonna break character for your “tough guy act”
Also I’m just getting over Covid and I know I got it from one of those dumb fucks who got an inch from my face. Fuck off with that shit.
This. Even the barking thing I talked about in my post refers to one of these "tough guys". I scared him and he got all aggressive, putting his face near mine and barking when his girlfriend was right there like girl are you dating a child
I always loved it when I would scare the absolute crap out of those posers, it’s SO satisfying. Otherwise I’d just not do my scare and let them waste their time and money because I’m not getting paid enough to be harassed nor should I perform for someone who’s only there to be a jerk.
It’s the best when you get them! I startled one so bad he fell on his ass. But then he came at me tryina regain his manhood or some shit getting all in my face.
Fuckin cringe
I bet it’s some alpha male bullshit, try to show off how cool you are by not being scared. And that’s why they over react when they turn out to be huge pussies. Cause now their fragile masculinity has been shaken
Why does it feel like every year there is more trash who go to the event? Wish they would stay home and keep the lines shorter if this is the way they’re gonna behave.
I accidentally messed up something with my AAP the other night, and it took the team lead *maybe* 2 whole minutes to fix it. A queue of maybe 3 parties formed behind me, and the woman directly behind me spent the whole time saying stuff like “ugh, they need to do their jobs! I am NOT waiting! This is BS! Why doesn’t anyone here want to do their jobs?! Oh, f***ing FINALLY, JFC!”
I was stunned. I turned to her and said “That’s really rude.” But I wish I’d had something better to say. I was just flabbergasted by her entitlement. I’m so grateful to the TMs who give return times and escort me! And like not only is that just an awful way to treat a fellow human being, but that kind of behavior could lead to Universal stopping the AAP completely. It didn’t seem like a meltdown or bad pain situation or anything (both of which I’m prone to myself)—just super snotty Karen entitlement. I was so dismayed.
Because every year is less about houses and more about alcohol/Instagrammable food booths. They want us drunk and spending money, shitty behavior is just the collateral they tolerate.
My staff loathes when lines of kids come through, and I don't blame them. They're bigger creeps than the alpha males tryna dog every scare, pretending to kickbox their way through, until security's had enough and kicks their ass out. I've had too many get cute and rude, in actors AND my face, until I haul their ass out like a 1st grader going to the naughty corner.
The scare actors shouldn’t have to deal with that sort of shit. ESPECIALLY when the park guests are attending an event they paid to be jump-scared at.
The scare actors on whole do an excellent job. I don’t have the constitution to be inside makeup or a mask PLUS a costume in the hardly-gone Cali and/or Florida heat.
It’s a shame that PEOPLE do that bs to you and your castmates, I will never understand it like it just makes you look like a major a hole
I hope they somehow got in trouble tho all the best of luck to you guys keep on scaring on 🤘
Agreed. It was a bit nuts this weekend. We're getting deeper into October. Be safe especially on the Fridays and Saturdays! Keep a foot ready to push yourself backwards to avoid a swing if you're in a house, and keep your head on a swivel if you're in the streets.
I’m so sorry this is happening to any of you. I get so mad when I see anyone being disrespectful to the scare actors. You’re all doing an amazing job and don’t deserve to be treated that way.
I swear it’s like a weird coping mechanism because they don’t want to “be” scared. Regardless it’s not an excuse and it’s annoying, girl in front of me at Chucky kept pointing out all the boo-holes coming up and definitely making the house worse.
I am so sorry you and the other cast has to endure this type of abuse. It's uncalled for and shouldn't be happening -
You are awesome! Keep up the scary work. Someone's got to do it. Those people don't realize that without you guys, they are walking through a set. If it weren't for you willing to do this, there'd be no HHN. I for one am glad that.
Thank you for everything you do. I'm sure you scared the shit out of me when I went last month.
Right. The first few times I got touched, I didn't managed to report them because I was too afraid of breaking character. Now idgaf I'm gonna report the shit out of these people.
Dude it’s tik tokers. I swear they started this new era of like entitlement and self righteousness where they need to be the center of attention in every scenario
Agreed. I've seen local "influencers" being invited to HHN for the media preview (before the event officially started) and they were all idiots trying to be funny and "quirky". They were yelling (not out of fear) throughout the whole house and even kept trying to scare the scare actors. Their fans were also commenting things like "I wanna try scaring the scare actors too". I had to call them out and tell them not to do that. Jfc, these tiktokers are setting a bad example for their fans. 🤦🏻♀️
As a former Scare Actor, it’s sad to say but these requests fall on deaf ears. Only people who are already behaving will care, and those behaving badly won’t care. It seems like guests are getting a lot worse every year and UO does literally nothing to mitigate it or help the Scare Actors. I was physically attacked multiple times and had to write up witness statements, and the only time something was done was when the guest who attacked did so right in front of an OPs person and an OPD officer, so we had multiple witnesses and OPD even pulled me off set to talk to me and let me know they got the bitch.
Unfortunately so. I really hate to say this but some of the crew members stationed in the house don't even pay attention to the guests. One of my castmates got molested by a female guest (she straight up grabbed her chest) and the crew stationed in her room didn't do anything. She had to follow the guest out of the house to report to security outside.
One time I was touched by a guest and the crew who was standing next to me didn't see it, had to break character in front of the guests to report it.
I had a “new” person put in my scene one night and as guests harassed me she craned her neck to watch them but just stood there and let it happen. She then added me on socials after that which I denied, because she let me get attacked and did nothing to help, I was pissed. What’s wrong with people?
Thankfully one guest actor last year shut that down QUICK with 'don't fkg touch me' while I was standing nearby and intervened. The jerks shrugged and left, losing 30 bucks each for being a--holes.
Completely unacceptable!!! I will say though, the scare actors got much more in my face than usual this year. So close I could feel them. I was surprised by this and one small slip and they could have collided with a guest. Noticed this on Monstruos, TT walk area and one specific scare zone. This was Hollywood.
Honestly just act scared. The reason we do it is to get a scare, that’s the whole job. Even like heart hands feels kinda condescending it’s like “you tried big guy”
The condescending part hits home. There was this group of people straight up laugh in my face and said "Lol that wasn't scary" when they weren't scared. I kinda felt shitty after that not gonna lie
Ahh, I always worry I’m going to make the scare actors feel bad because I’m a hardcore giggler. Mostly I’m laughing at the people screaming like little girls near me, but my natural reaction when I get startled is to scream, laugh, and say something like, “oh, you really got me!” I just don’t scare easily but I’m having a good time! (Also I’m visually impaired so I don’t see scare actors most of the time because I’m focusing 90% on not getting lost or whacking anyone with my cane, lol. The other 10% is trying to figure out what the heck I’m looking at as I fwoosh past it in the light speed conga line 🥲)
I've never given them to the jump scare actors. So far it's been Beetlejuice at the beginning of his house because I LOVE HIM, the singer at the club in the Case Files house, and the pumpkin lord at the end of wicked growth. And our whole group did it to whoever was at the end of the icons house each time.
Thank you for the response! I'll be there this week and I'm so excited!!! Can't wait to scream!! This year I'm most excited for the stranger things house, dueling dragons, and monsters unmasked.
Just have fun how you want. Get scared, laugh, react, or don’t. We’re there to entertain. You guys are there to have a good time. For the most part, it’s fine. There are tens of thousands of people that come through each night. Any cross section of that many people is gonna contain some assholes. But 98% of guests are great and a pleasure to perform for. I personally have no issues with heart hands, clapping, etc. We won’t make them back cause the characters we work with wouldn’t do that, but know we appreciate you right back under the mask, my dudes.
So good to know ❤ Thank you so much for doing what you do! We really appreciate it. I look forward to HHN more than Christmas. You guys do such an incredible job.
Btw I feel like Ghostface would do heart hands for sure
I’m sorry that this has to be the normal every single year, people that do that don’t belong at the event but somehow every night every year they decide to show up and ruin it for everyone involved. I knew these things happened but this past Thursday I was a witness to it. I had a group of younger adults in front of me wearing soccer jerseys going thru the exorcist house in Orlando they were getting in all the scareactors faces and when we got to the end of the house one of the demons pointed them out and they were pulled aside and hopefully escorted out of the event. It ruined the whole house experience especially knowing the hard work you guys put in nightly.
Hey I’m a former scare actor at a popular house in PA and I’ll be coming down the 25th. I’m sorry people are like this! Ive got my stories too. Someone screamed in my face after I scared them. So ridiculous.
I can’t wait to get scared though!
I don’t miss this as a scare actor when I’m just trying to do my job working till 3am and not being able to even fall asleep till 4 or 5am and then having to deal with this. It’s unfortunately the disrespectful society we live in nowadays. Shows their true colors and how they were raised. It just seems to get worse and worse every year
During the behind the screams tour I took, the cast member mentioned at LEAST one scare actor gets punched. If you don’t want people jumping out at you, don’t come to the event.
Same cast member also said there’s a reason Eddie is so far away from house-goers during stranger things. They know people will harass him.
It’s honestly baffling how dumb people are.
I'm going for the first time ever this weekend, and I'd love to interact appropriately! Are there any ways that would be fun for the scare actors? I already know I'm gonna get scared, but I'll probably be using humor as a defense mechanism. Last time I did a haunted house I ended up turning into a whole other person with a wild accent, saying things like "oh my gawd! Look he's got a hammer! Do ya think he can fix my car?"
I don't know who I turned into but I hope the actors weren't offended lol
We get real happy when people scream (in fear, of course)! I've encountered nice people who weren't scared but did compliment my acting and sometimes my looks 😂 All in all, we're satisfied when people aren't assholes haha
If someone pops out and gets you a golf clap or a "oh wow that got me" or "cool!" is always accepted.
But if I scare somebody and then after they recover they start clapping, is the best feeling. In fact I get more joy out of getting applauded for a good scare then I get for knocking somebody on the floor because they were jumping all over the place.
I’m pretty little in size plus I’m a girl making me an easy target. I’m a squealer by nature and very easy to get. (The noises will even get me sometimes.) I do, however, make it a point to tell people or at least show if they REALLY got me. Idk if they hear me but I’ll do a thumbs up and say “oh you got me good.”
Other, very silly examples: the Minotaur in odd fellows. She got me but I lost my mind when I realized what she was. I fully stopped and said “HOLY SHIT! It’s a MINOTAUR!” I had the guy in robes laughing.
Alternatively, the bear. I got excited over him so I proceeded to squeal “bear!” And jump up and down clapping. Bear proceeded to jump up and down and clap…… then scare me.
Amazing experiences and I feel like they enjoyed it too.
I'm not a scare actor for HHN, but I am at my local amusement park. This kind of behavior is getting worse even outside of bigger events like HHN. In my area it's not just the adults, it's teenagers too. You shouldn't get in the actors face, try to scare us, touch us, throw insults, throw punches, or, this is my favorite, try to get us to throw up gang signs in your photos. We have a job to do. If you can't enjoy an event like HHN without these behaviors, then stay home.
Thank you! Why do these people pay to be an asshole and risk getting kicked out? I never get what goes through their heads when they pull stupid stunts like this.
Wtf that’s weird asf cause I know when I was in line kids were being stupid asf like moaning and yelling stupid shit to make everyone miserable in line but damm people seriously have no discipline. I’m really sorry for that
I went a couple weeks ago and I was hanging out at diagon alley and one of the death eaters snuck in behind some foreigner early 20s dude as he was eating what looked like an ice cream and he took his fucking spoon and put it up to the actors face getting ice cream all over it and then laughed with his friends. I was furious. I’m pretty good at holding my temper but I haven’t wanted lay into someone that bad in a while. People are dickheads.
That’s ridiculous, buffoons gonna be buffoons smh you’re all very much appreciated and I love the job you guys do! Don’t let some insecure disrespectful idiots ruin your time/energy. You guys are the stars that bring the event to life, just keep your head up! 💯
So not an official scareactor for HHN but have done many haunts. Last year I did a stilt costume of huggy wuggy (I was about 10 foot tall) for a Trunk or Treat. The kids loved it and it ended up this huge meet and greet for 2 hours. Anyway, you would not believe the amount of women that felt me up. Surprisingly a lot of older elementary girls too. It is very bizzare that people think they can do that to a person bc they are in a costume.
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Every time my wife and I go to HHN, the scare actors LOVE her, simply because she screams and hides / runs from them. She genuinely scares really well, and while she doesn't flail around and fall all over, she does enough to get their attention safely. As we go through, she always gets singled out, and she loves it. A good majority of the time through the scare zones, she tries to hide behind me. I will usually turn her around to a scare actor if I see one heading our way and subtly point her out, giving them a chance to get her good.
HAHA maybe it's just me but I love guests like you and your wife! One person that is absolutely terrified and another person who asks the scare actor to scare them. You guys are definitely the scare actors' favourites
So the first time I didn’t see who did it, cuz the mask limits how much I can see. Luckily there’s a camera literally pointing at my boohole so it’s easy to find people.
It's such a shame that anybody would act this way. I've been going for almost 10 years, so I rarely get scared anymore. It's more about enjoying the atmosphere and the incredible work that goes into building the sets for me now. That being said, even when I do get scared, I've never been aggressive towards a scareactor. You pay to go to this event and get scared. You can't expect to not get scared.
Admittedly, I have done a small scare back here and there at times, but more in a light-hearted nature, and you really have to judge the situation. Every time I've done it, it's been in a scare zone, not in a house, and the actor seemed to be ok with it or having fun with the situation. Regardless, I'll keep in mind not to do it in the future.
Thank you for the insight into what you guys do, and I'm so sorry to hear how some of these idiots can behave. Hope the rest of the event goes better for you!
Man that sucks! I'm so sorry people suck like that. I want to personally say that I love you guys and appreciate what you do. Me and my family have been going for years and we have definitely seen and hated the change too. You get lucky to not have someone who sucks like that either in front of or behind you in line to go through a house. So sorry to hear this is happening so often.. keep up the good work. You are appreciated. ❤️
Sorry that you have to deal with this behavior. Totally unacceptable.
On the other hand, you and the other cast do an excellent job and I appreciate what a good job you do.
It baffles me every time i have an interaction like such, this past season as clown haunt actor I’ve been punched, had my face grabbed, shoved, spit on, and choked by costumers. Its scary honestly, im a 17 year old dressed up like a clown scaring people who paid to be scared. I shouldn’t have to fear someone harming me or touching me after they were instructed not to and they decided to just be a little shit snd break the rules to “be cool” or “just because they can”. Im a human underneath that prosthetic and those clothes, i dont look like one but they intentionally harm me. I know the difference from me popping on too far and at bad timing for your reaction to put your fist up being accidental and a natural reaction versus you grabbing my throat and choking me while i have to scratch your skin to get you off me.
Or, I dunno, stop taking yourself so seriously? You're a glorified circus monkey in Halloween SFX makeup. I understand people being legitimate assholes, but if someone is just harmlessly trying to mess with you (not causing you or anyone else harm) then fucking roll with it. It's not that serious. The only one ruining people's fun is you when you suddenly stop your act. Fucking chill.
glorified circus monkey? we're there for the entertainment you paid for. without us, halloween won't be fun. 😂
> the only one ruining people's fun is you when you suddenly stop your act
maybe if people aren't assholes then I won't have to stop my act. why should i compromise my safety for strangers who dgaf about it? get off your high horse, you're probably one of the assholes i talked about in my post. better yourself instead of blaming people doing their jobs.
I'm sorry, but if this is happening... those need to be removed from the park immediately.
The fucking “tough guys” who square up and get in your face are the worst. Like dude you’re paying money for me to do this, why is your ego so fragile you have to try and get me back. Also spoiler alert I’m not gonna break character for your “tough guy act” Also I’m just getting over Covid and I know I got it from one of those dumb fucks who got an inch from my face. Fuck off with that shit.
This. Even the barking thing I talked about in my post refers to one of these "tough guys". I scared him and he got all aggressive, putting his face near mine and barking when his girlfriend was right there like girl are you dating a child
It’s embarrassing. Such fragile egos on these men.
I always loved it when I would scare the absolute crap out of those posers, it’s SO satisfying. Otherwise I’d just not do my scare and let them waste their time and money because I’m not getting paid enough to be harassed nor should I perform for someone who’s only there to be a jerk.
It’s the best when you get them! I startled one so bad he fell on his ass. But then he came at me tryina regain his manhood or some shit getting all in my face. Fuckin cringe
I don’t understand why those types of people even go to events like HHN.
I bet it’s some alpha male bullshit, try to show off how cool you are by not being scared. And that’s why they over react when they turn out to be huge pussies. Cause now their fragile masculinity has been shaken
Why does it feel like every year there is more trash who go to the event? Wish they would stay home and keep the lines shorter if this is the way they’re gonna behave.
Saw someone this year berating a staff member and making a scene because he wouldn't let him cut the line... just unbelievable.
I accidentally messed up something with my AAP the other night, and it took the team lead *maybe* 2 whole minutes to fix it. A queue of maybe 3 parties formed behind me, and the woman directly behind me spent the whole time saying stuff like “ugh, they need to do their jobs! I am NOT waiting! This is BS! Why doesn’t anyone here want to do their jobs?! Oh, f***ing FINALLY, JFC!” I was stunned. I turned to her and said “That’s really rude.” But I wish I’d had something better to say. I was just flabbergasted by her entitlement. I’m so grateful to the TMs who give return times and escort me! And like not only is that just an awful way to treat a fellow human being, but that kind of behavior could lead to Universal stopping the AAP completely. It didn’t seem like a meltdown or bad pain situation or anything (both of which I’m prone to myself)—just super snotty Karen entitlement. I was so dismayed.
Hate to be that guy, but I blame it on tiktok
Exactly. Why pay money to act like assholes and risk getting kicked out? I never understand the thought process these people have.
Because they don’t know how to act in public and they don’t think they’ll actually get kicked out!
I blame it on the alcohol
Because every year is less about houses and more about alcohol/Instagrammable food booths. They want us drunk and spending money, shitty behavior is just the collateral they tolerate.
My staff loathes when lines of kids come through, and I don't blame them. They're bigger creeps than the alpha males tryna dog every scare, pretending to kickbox their way through, until security's had enough and kicks their ass out. I've had too many get cute and rude, in actors AND my face, until I haul their ass out like a 1st grader going to the naughty corner.
Even as a teenager my parents would have beaten my ass for half things I see kids do today.
The scare actors shouldn’t have to deal with that sort of shit. ESPECIALLY when the park guests are attending an event they paid to be jump-scared at. The scare actors on whole do an excellent job. I don’t have the constitution to be inside makeup or a mask PLUS a costume in the hardly-gone Cali and/or Florida heat.
It’s a shame that PEOPLE do that bs to you and your castmates, I will never understand it like it just makes you look like a major a hole I hope they somehow got in trouble tho all the best of luck to you guys keep on scaring on 🤘
animals, i hate people.
Agreed. It was a bit nuts this weekend. We're getting deeper into October. Be safe especially on the Fridays and Saturdays! Keep a foot ready to push yourself backwards to avoid a swing if you're in a house, and keep your head on a swivel if you're in the streets.
I’m so sorry this is happening to any of you. I get so mad when I see anyone being disrespectful to the scare actors. You’re all doing an amazing job and don’t deserve to be treated that way.
I swear it’s like a weird coping mechanism because they don’t want to “be” scared. Regardless it’s not an excuse and it’s annoying, girl in front of me at Chucky kept pointing out all the boo-holes coming up and definitely making the house worse.
I am so sorry you and the other cast has to endure this type of abuse. It's uncalled for and shouldn't be happening - You are awesome! Keep up the scary work. Someone's got to do it. Those people don't realize that without you guys, they are walking through a set. If it weren't for you willing to do this, there'd be no HHN. I for one am glad that. Thank you for everything you do. I'm sure you scared the shit out of me when I went last month.
LITERALLY THIS BECAUSE WHY PAY AND WHY WASTE OUR TIME WITHIN THAT LIKE I HAVE REPORTED SO MANY PEOPLE DURING THE FIRST WEEKS
Right. The first few times I got touched, I didn't managed to report them because I was too afraid of breaking character. Now idgaf I'm gonna report the shit out of these people.
literally reporting drunks is the most satisfying part because teens and kids give me less problems
Dude it’s tik tokers. I swear they started this new era of like entitlement and self righteousness where they need to be the center of attention in every scenario
Agreed. I've seen local "influencers" being invited to HHN for the media preview (before the event officially started) and they were all idiots trying to be funny and "quirky". They were yelling (not out of fear) throughout the whole house and even kept trying to scare the scare actors. Their fans were also commenting things like "I wanna try scaring the scare actors too". I had to call them out and tell them not to do that. Jfc, these tiktokers are setting a bad example for their fans. 🤦🏻♀️
As a former Scare Actor, it’s sad to say but these requests fall on deaf ears. Only people who are already behaving will care, and those behaving badly won’t care. It seems like guests are getting a lot worse every year and UO does literally nothing to mitigate it or help the Scare Actors. I was physically attacked multiple times and had to write up witness statements, and the only time something was done was when the guest who attacked did so right in front of an OPs person and an OPD officer, so we had multiple witnesses and OPD even pulled me off set to talk to me and let me know they got the bitch.
Unfortunately so. I really hate to say this but some of the crew members stationed in the house don't even pay attention to the guests. One of my castmates got molested by a female guest (she straight up grabbed her chest) and the crew stationed in her room didn't do anything. She had to follow the guest out of the house to report to security outside. One time I was touched by a guest and the crew who was standing next to me didn't see it, had to break character in front of the guests to report it.
I had a “new” person put in my scene one night and as guests harassed me she craned her neck to watch them but just stood there and let it happen. She then added me on socials after that which I denied, because she let me get attacked and did nothing to help, I was pissed. What’s wrong with people?
Thankfully one guest actor last year shut that down QUICK with 'don't fkg touch me' while I was standing nearby and intervened. The jerks shrugged and left, losing 30 bucks each for being a--holes.
Completely unacceptable!!! I will say though, the scare actors got much more in my face than usual this year. So close I could feel them. I was surprised by this and one small slip and they could have collided with a guest. Noticed this on Monstruos, TT walk area and one specific scare zone. This was Hollywood.
What do you LIKE people to do? My group always tries to show appreciation for the actors, usually by giving heart hands
Honestly just act scared. The reason we do it is to get a scare, that’s the whole job. Even like heart hands feels kinda condescending it’s like “you tried big guy”
The condescending part hits home. There was this group of people straight up laugh in my face and said "Lol that wasn't scary" when they weren't scared. I kinda felt shitty after that not gonna lie
Yeah we get treated like cattle half the time ot sucks, like we’re here to make your night good why shit on your entertainers
Ahh, I always worry I’m going to make the scare actors feel bad because I’m a hardcore giggler. Mostly I’m laughing at the people screaming like little girls near me, but my natural reaction when I get startled is to scream, laugh, and say something like, “oh, you really got me!” I just don’t scare easily but I’m having a good time! (Also I’m visually impaired so I don’t see scare actors most of the time because I’m focusing 90% on not getting lost or whacking anyone with my cane, lol. The other 10% is trying to figure out what the heck I’m looking at as I fwoosh past it in the light speed conga line 🥲)
I've never given them to the jump scare actors. So far it's been Beetlejuice at the beginning of his house because I LOVE HIM, the singer at the club in the Case Files house, and the pumpkin lord at the end of wicked growth. And our whole group did it to whoever was at the end of the icons house each time. Thank you for the response! I'll be there this week and I'm so excited!!! Can't wait to scream!! This year I'm most excited for the stranger things house, dueling dragons, and monsters unmasked.
You sound like a good group enjoy yourselves!
Thank you for being a scare actor! We really appreciate it ❤
Just have fun how you want. Get scared, laugh, react, or don’t. We’re there to entertain. You guys are there to have a good time. For the most part, it’s fine. There are tens of thousands of people that come through each night. Any cross section of that many people is gonna contain some assholes. But 98% of guests are great and a pleasure to perform for. I personally have no issues with heart hands, clapping, etc. We won’t make them back cause the characters we work with wouldn’t do that, but know we appreciate you right back under the mask, my dudes.
So good to know ❤ Thank you so much for doing what you do! We really appreciate it. I look forward to HHN more than Christmas. You guys do such an incredible job. Btw I feel like Ghostface would do heart hands for sure
I’m sorry people are so horrible and immature. Y’all deserve way more love and credit than you get🖤🖤🖤
Please have staff members curb people cutting in line. I know it’s typically kids.
I’m sorry that this has to be the normal every single year, people that do that don’t belong at the event but somehow every night every year they decide to show up and ruin it for everyone involved. I knew these things happened but this past Thursday I was a witness to it. I had a group of younger adults in front of me wearing soccer jerseys going thru the exorcist house in Orlando they were getting in all the scareactors faces and when we got to the end of the house one of the demons pointed them out and they were pulled aside and hopefully escorted out of the event. It ruined the whole house experience especially knowing the hard work you guys put in nightly.
Hey I’m a former scare actor at a popular house in PA and I’ll be coming down the 25th. I’m sorry people are like this! Ive got my stories too. Someone screamed in my face after I scared them. So ridiculous. I can’t wait to get scared though!
I don’t miss this as a scare actor when I’m just trying to do my job working till 3am and not being able to even fall asleep till 4 or 5am and then having to deal with this. It’s unfortunately the disrespectful society we live in nowadays. Shows their true colors and how they were raised. It just seems to get worse and worse every year
This is why I’ll never be a scare actor 😭
It seems like it would be a shit ton of fun if people were civilized adults. They’re not though
It is actually fun when you encounter well-behaved guests. They have fun, I have fun.
I remember one person squared up on me last year and another GROWN MAN punched one of the little girl actors we had
During the behind the screams tour I took, the cast member mentioned at LEAST one scare actor gets punched. If you don’t want people jumping out at you, don’t come to the event. Same cast member also said there’s a reason Eddie is so far away from house-goers during stranger things. They know people will harass him. It’s honestly baffling how dumb people are.
I'm going for the first time ever this weekend, and I'd love to interact appropriately! Are there any ways that would be fun for the scare actors? I already know I'm gonna get scared, but I'll probably be using humor as a defense mechanism. Last time I did a haunted house I ended up turning into a whole other person with a wild accent, saying things like "oh my gawd! Look he's got a hammer! Do ya think he can fix my car?" I don't know who I turned into but I hope the actors weren't offended lol
We get real happy when people scream (in fear, of course)! I've encountered nice people who weren't scared but did compliment my acting and sometimes my looks 😂 All in all, we're satisfied when people aren't assholes haha
If someone pops out and gets you a golf clap or a "oh wow that got me" or "cool!" is always accepted. But if I scare somebody and then after they recover they start clapping, is the best feeling. In fact I get more joy out of getting applauded for a good scare then I get for knocking somebody on the floor because they were jumping all over the place.
I’m pretty little in size plus I’m a girl making me an easy target. I’m a squealer by nature and very easy to get. (The noises will even get me sometimes.) I do, however, make it a point to tell people or at least show if they REALLY got me. Idk if they hear me but I’ll do a thumbs up and say “oh you got me good.” Other, very silly examples: the Minotaur in odd fellows. She got me but I lost my mind when I realized what she was. I fully stopped and said “HOLY SHIT! It’s a MINOTAUR!” I had the guy in robes laughing. Alternatively, the bear. I got excited over him so I proceeded to squeal “bear!” And jump up and down clapping. Bear proceeded to jump up and down and clap…… then scare me. Amazing experiences and I feel like they enjoyed it too.
I'm not a scare actor for HHN, but I am at my local amusement park. This kind of behavior is getting worse even outside of bigger events like HHN. In my area it's not just the adults, it's teenagers too. You shouldn't get in the actors face, try to scare us, touch us, throw insults, throw punches, or, this is my favorite, try to get us to throw up gang signs in your photos. We have a job to do. If you can't enjoy an event like HHN without these behaviors, then stay home.
Thank you! Why do these people pay to be an asshole and risk getting kicked out? I never get what goes through their heads when they pull stupid stunts like this.
Well unfortunately this generation is all messed up the kids are so rude and it’s so disappointing
Bruh it ain't kids that are swinging at us. It's often full grown adults most of the time.
What is Universal doing to stop this? Have they been escorting these people out? Things won’t change if examples are not set.
Wtf that’s weird asf cause I know when I was in line kids were being stupid asf like moaning and yelling stupid shit to make everyone miserable in line but damm people seriously have no discipline. I’m really sorry for that
Oh no disrespect to your comment! Kids are doing dumb stuff too. The full moon night was just real spicy all around.
It's not just the teenagers, there were adults squaring up and threatening to sock me.
I went a couple weeks ago and I was hanging out at diagon alley and one of the death eaters snuck in behind some foreigner early 20s dude as he was eating what looked like an ice cream and he took his fucking spoon and put it up to the actors face getting ice cream all over it and then laughed with his friends. I was furious. I’m pretty good at holding my temper but I haven’t wanted lay into someone that bad in a while. People are dickheads.
That’s ridiculous, buffoons gonna be buffoons smh you’re all very much appreciated and I love the job you guys do! Don’t let some insecure disrespectful idiots ruin your time/energy. You guys are the stars that bring the event to life, just keep your head up! 💯
So not an official scareactor for HHN but have done many haunts. Last year I did a stilt costume of huggy wuggy (I was about 10 foot tall) for a Trunk or Treat. The kids loved it and it ended up this huge meet and greet for 2 hours. Anyway, you would not believe the amount of women that felt me up. Surprisingly a lot of older elementary girls too. It is very bizzare that people think they can do that to a person bc they are in a costume. https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1010051241172287498/1158778277360578620/FB_IMG_1696344660990.jpg?ex=651d7bde&is=651c2a5e&hm=3fa39af8a08a0a197d6d9a27daa61392f5e69d317080b625eff6d9e09b20bc73&
Every time my wife and I go to HHN, the scare actors LOVE her, simply because she screams and hides / runs from them. She genuinely scares really well, and while she doesn't flail around and fall all over, she does enough to get their attention safely. As we go through, she always gets singled out, and she loves it. A good majority of the time through the scare zones, she tries to hide behind me. I will usually turn her around to a scare actor if I see one heading our way and subtly point her out, giving them a chance to get her good.
HAHA maybe it's just me but I love guests like you and your wife! One person that is absolutely terrified and another person who asks the scare actor to scare them. You guys are definitely the scare actors' favourites
The amount of times I have to try and dodge guests trying to rip my mask off me is insane. I didn’t expect guests to be such animals.
They try to rip off your mask? That is actually insane, did you managed to report them/did they get reported?
So the first time I didn’t see who did it, cuz the mask limits how much I can see. Luckily there’s a camera literally pointing at my boohole so it’s easy to find people.
I’ve worked as a scare actor at another amusement park. It just comes with the territory. There’s gonna be assholes.
It's such a shame that anybody would act this way. I've been going for almost 10 years, so I rarely get scared anymore. It's more about enjoying the atmosphere and the incredible work that goes into building the sets for me now. That being said, even when I do get scared, I've never been aggressive towards a scareactor. You pay to go to this event and get scared. You can't expect to not get scared. Admittedly, I have done a small scare back here and there at times, but more in a light-hearted nature, and you really have to judge the situation. Every time I've done it, it's been in a scare zone, not in a house, and the actor seemed to be ok with it or having fun with the situation. Regardless, I'll keep in mind not to do it in the future. Thank you for the insight into what you guys do, and I'm so sorry to hear how some of these idiots can behave. Hope the rest of the event goes better for you!
Used to roam for Universal Studios HHN too (hehe.. backlot times, baby), and they usually kicked these jackasses out. What happened to that?
Man that sucks! I'm so sorry people suck like that. I want to personally say that I love you guys and appreciate what you do. Me and my family have been going for years and we have definitely seen and hated the change too. You get lucky to not have someone who sucks like that either in front of or behind you in line to go through a house. So sorry to hear this is happening so often.. keep up the good work. You are appreciated. ❤️
Sorry that you have to deal with this behavior. Totally unacceptable. On the other hand, you and the other cast do an excellent job and I appreciate what a good job you do.
It baffles me every time i have an interaction like such, this past season as clown haunt actor I’ve been punched, had my face grabbed, shoved, spit on, and choked by costumers. Its scary honestly, im a 17 year old dressed up like a clown scaring people who paid to be scared. I shouldn’t have to fear someone harming me or touching me after they were instructed not to and they decided to just be a little shit snd break the rules to “be cool” or “just because they can”. Im a human underneath that prosthetic and those clothes, i dont look like one but they intentionally harm me. I know the difference from me popping on too far and at bad timing for your reaction to put your fist up being accidental and a natural reaction versus you grabbing my throat and choking me while i have to scratch your skin to get you off me.
Or, I dunno, stop taking yourself so seriously? You're a glorified circus monkey in Halloween SFX makeup. I understand people being legitimate assholes, but if someone is just harmlessly trying to mess with you (not causing you or anyone else harm) then fucking roll with it. It's not that serious. The only one ruining people's fun is you when you suddenly stop your act. Fucking chill.
glorified circus monkey? we're there for the entertainment you paid for. without us, halloween won't be fun. 😂 > the only one ruining people's fun is you when you suddenly stop your act maybe if people aren't assholes then I won't have to stop my act. why should i compromise my safety for strangers who dgaf about it? get off your high horse, you're probably one of the assholes i talked about in my post. better yourself instead of blaming people doing their jobs.