Hhn 23

[NJGIRL]

agreed....and none of the clues seem to have anything to do with Stephen King except Christine.

[DizneyFreak2002]

agreed....and none of the clues seem to have anything to do with Stephen King except Christine.

I took balloons equaling a circus... Clowns are part of a circus... Pennywise was a clown... Kind of a stretch, I know...

[NJGIRL]

Does each clue supposed to give you the next clue or do all the clues have to do with the answer.

[DizneyFreak2002]

Does each clue supposed to give you the next clue or do all the clues have to do with the answer.

I wish I knew how he was doing these clues... I don't know if each clue is per house, the over all theme, if they combine... I'll have to go back and listen to his first video and see if he explains how he was going to do this...

[minnie04]

I know this is about Universal, but based on the clues given....

BALLOONS
KEVIN

The first thing I thought of was UP!

That's exactly what I was thinking..
When do they announce the dates for Horror Nights??

[DizneyFreak2002]

Interesting development... Cryptic comment number 4: ERASER has been, well, erased and has been replaced by a new cryptic comment number 4:

ACROSTIC

So, this is what we have so far:

Week one cryptic clue: BALLOONS
Week two cryptic clue: KEVIN
Week three cryptic clue: SURNAME
Week four cryptic clue: ACROSTIC
Week five cryptic clue: CHRISTINE
week six cryptic clue: SILENCIO

An acrostic is a poem or other writing in with the first letter, syllable, or word of each line, paragraph or recurring feature in the text spells out a word or message... Acrostics are used as a device used to retrieve memory

An example:


My
Very
Excellent
Mother
Just
Served
Us
Nachos

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune

Edgar Allan Poe wrote an Acrostic:

Elizabeth it is in vain you say
"Love not" — thou sayest it in so sweet a way:
In vain those words from thee or L.E.L.
Zantippe's talents had enforced so well:
Ah! if that language from thy heart arise,
Breath it less gently forth — and veil thine eyes.
Endymion, recollect, when Luna tried
To cure his love — was cured of all beside —
His follie — pride — and passion — for he died.

And another appears in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, which spells out Alice's full real name:


A boat, beneath a sunny sky
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July -

Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear -

Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream -
Lingering in the golden gleam -
Life, what is it but a dream?

[NJGIRL]

Interesting....because Kevin Bacon is on The Following.......which is about Poe......or at least a cult obsessed with Poe.

My son just did a paper on Poe and his influence in the entertainment industry today.

[DizneyFreak2002]

Interesting....because Kevin Bacon is on The Following.......which is about Poe......or at least a cult obsessed with Poe.

My son just did a paper on Poe and his influence in the entertainment industry today.

The only thing that leads me away from Poe is, they did a Poe house 2 years ago... I guess they could revisit it, wouldn't be unheard of... But, as much as I love Poe, it wasn't the best house of 2011's HHN... The 3D one was the best...

Oh, and I cannot seem to verify if the clues tie in to one overall theme, or themed to several different houses...

[NJGIRL]

Maybe all of the houses will have a Kevin Bacon theme. lol


The only weak house they had last year was the Penn & Teller IMO.

Didn't see the Poe house a couple of years ago.

[DizneyFreak2002]

New cryptic comment:

WEEK SEVEN: SIMON

Previous clues
Week one cryptic clue: BALLOONS
Week two cryptic clue: KEVIN
Week three cryptic clue: SURNAME
Week four cryptic clue: ACROSTIC
Week five cryptic clue: CHRISTINE
week six cryptic clue: SILENCIO

[NJGIRL]

Balto.......a Universal film starring Kevin Bacon.....directed by Simon Wells.



Last Nov Kevin Bacon was asked on Twitter if he ever stole anything...he did....animal erasers at age five.

See a square peg can fir into a round hole. lol


Since I went to the party last year I am going to look up last years clues to see if the clues lead to the next clue or if there was a clue to each house.

[DizneyFreak2002]

Since I went to the party last year I am going to look up last years clues to see if the clues lead to the next clue or if there was a clue to each house.

Good idea... I did not think of that!

[DizneyFreak2002]

New clue: FLASHBACK

Previous clues
Week one cryptic clue: BALLOONS
Week two cryptic clue: KEVIN
Week three cryptic clue: SURNAME
Week four cryptic clue: ACROSTIC
Week five cryptic clue: CHRISTINE
Week six cryptic clue: SILENCIO
Week seven cryptic clue: SIMON

[DizneyFreak2002]

Ok, so the cryptic comments are done... A new video was posted, and in the video, Doctor Jimmy states that several people have guessed 7 of the 8 comments correct... Obviously he won't state which comments were right, who guessed them right, etc... So, the only thing to do is go over the videos for the cryptic clues responses and make a list of the guesses... The right answer to 7 of the clues are in there...

To recap, the 8 cryptic clues are:

Week one cryptic clue: BALLOONS
Week two cryptic clue: KEVIN
Week three cryptic clue: SURNAME
Week four cryptic clue: ACROSTIC
Week five cryptic clue: CHRISTINE
Week six cryptic clue: SILENCIO
Week seven cryptic clue: SIMON
Week eight cryptic comment: FLASHBACK

If you go back to last year and listen to his cryptic comments, his cryptic sentences referred to one house each... When the reveal came from Universal, Doctor Jimmy's reveal video showed how his cryptic sentences fit into the theme of each house... You'd have to listen in order to totally understand...

With that said, I just might take a listen to all his cryptic comment guesses videos, make a list, and post it here for our discussion... Frustrating yes, but awfully fun trying to figure this out and see hwo close we are once Universal does their ultimate reveal...

[DizneyFreak2002]

Somehow, somewhere I see EVIL DEAD playing into the over all theme... Not sure how yet though... The HHN website is live, and their appears to be roots, roots that resemble roots from a tree scene in EVIL DEAD... Hmmm...

Midnight of June 27th, the first house theme will be revealed!!!!!

My guess at the theme of the first house reveal: CABIN IN THE WOODS...

[NJGIRL]

My guess at the theme of the first house reveal: CABIN IN THE WOODS...

How does the Balloon clue fit into that?

So much has been going on with me I totally forgot about the clues......Well I guess we will find out tonight....I was going off in a totally wrong direction anyway.

[DizneyFreak2002]

BOOM: Cabin in the Woods, first house reveal...

Possible over all theme: haunted forests/woods?

Slogan: What evil has taken root? With roots of trees coming out of the word ROOT..

Rita: the clues given does not mean they are in order of house reveals... One of those clues has to fit Cabin in the Woods somehow... I'll be darned if I can figure out which one though LOL...

[NJGIRL]

Wow, they made it really hard.

[DizneyFreak2002]

The cryptic comment that referred to Cabin in the Woods is KEVIN... Here's how:

KEVIN was one of the monsters of Cabin in the Woods... In the movie, there is a white board where the monsters are chosen... KEVIN is one of those monsters... KEVIN however is never seen as a real monster in the movie... Talk about very cryptic... Thank you Doctor Jimmy.. You truly made this one very rough...

Look for something with Sin City as well he mentions...

[DizneyFreak2002]

So, for a few weeks, I was posting cryptic comments from a you tube video created by a person who calls himself Doctor Jimmy.. A few of us were playing along here trying to decode his clues... Well, last night, Universal announced the first house: CABIN IN THE WOODS.. Doctor Jimmy explained cryptic comment KEVIN was Cabin's clue.. I describe how above.. Well, HateToFly (I must give the man credit since it is due to him) has posted every house theme for this year's HHN... Ready?

CABIN IN THE WOODS
HAVOC 2
RESIDENT EVIL
LEGENDARY TRUTH
AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
THE EVIL DEAD (I think we touched on this as a possible house)
WALKING DEAD 2
GRIMM: LA LLORONA (I believe this was the name of an episode of GRIMM, the hit show on NBC and one that I am a HUGE fan of, so i am looking forward to this house)

I, for one, am excited for HHN 23... Sounds like a good line up of houses... I cannot wait to be there especially since I missed out on Walking Dead house last year...

Now, to figure out how these all tie into the cryptic comments.. LOL..