Age for HHN?

[tinkerdorabelle]

Around what age do you think appropriate for HHN? I guess I'm wondering just HOW SCARY IS IT?

 

[lindalinda]

I took my son when he was 10. It is REALLY scary. He loved it, as did his friend we took. Really depends on the kid. No way I would take a little one, or any child that might scare even kind of easily. Age 10 or so for some, others maybe 12. Chickens like me? around 40.

 

[stitchon]

I went there at age 13, and I loved it! It really depends how mature your kids are, from first hand, there is some seriously suggestive stuff and lots of gore. Watch out for the drunk guys running around too. How old are your kids? If they are over 10 and under 15, then it really is a wild card. I would suggest that you wait until they are 16 to see the Bill and Ted show though, that has a major amount of sex jokes and a rather exotic dance routine in the beginning.

 

[tinkerdorabelle]

Thanks. We were going to bring my niece who is in her later teens but her and I are big wimpos with stuff like this, (although she'll go on the biggest roller coaster imaginable). My husband is really psyched but I hated those Jason, Friday the 13th, etc. and after I went to the web site it really looks SUPER scary. I guess between her and I will be a big handful for my husband. Good thing he's a big guy. I think we're going to be really freaking! Put us both together and it's going to be a real mess. I'm going to blame it all on him.

 

[momof3disneyholics]

I wouldn't take my children until they are at least 13 or 14. It is too intense for anyone younger, IMO. I think it is actually rated PG13 or at least it used to be.

 

[yaytezIOA]

This is one thing that SERIOUSLY PISSED ME OFF. Parents were dragging little little kids around last night Kids were of course screaming and crying, and generally not wanting to go through the houses, and not wanting to have anything to do with the park, and parents were getting mad.
The event is "rated" PG-13!! When you have three mascots on the front of every advertisement from some of the hardest R-rated movies in history, that should be a clue to the intensity. This is not a rant at the people in this thread, sorry if it seems that way, just a general rant at the mental midgets I saw bringing kids to the event last night.
The gauge we used on my son this year to see if he was ready was a the tamest movie, and we were going to work him into scarier ones. We started out with Dead Silence.....after 10 minutes he was done........no HHN this year, and he's 19...we'll try again next year.

 

[PoohnPglet]

Also, for those of you that are squeamish about exposing your children to anything sexually suggestive/risque be aware that some of the shows have some pretty adult content. Especially the Rocky Horror tribute.

 

[Metro West]

I wouldn't take my children until they are at least 13 or 14. It is too intense for anyone younger, IMO. I think it is actually rated PG13 or at least it used to be.

Yeah...that makes me mad when I see small children at HHN...they should stick to MNSSHP...HHN is just too intense. Get a sitter for the kids...don't bring them.

 

[Luv2Roam]

Last year we noticed a lot more little kids than the previous years we attended. I'm talking stroller city. HHN is not for little kids.

 

[tinkerdorabelle]

This is one thing that SERIOUSLY PISSED ME OFF. Parents were dragging little little kids around last night Kids were of course screaming and crying, and generally not wanting to go through the houses, and not wanting to have anything to do with the park, and parents were getting mad.
The event is "rated" PG-13!! When you have three mascots on the front of every advertisement from some of the hardest R-rated movies in history, that should be a clue to the intensity. This is not a rant at the people in this thread, sorry if it seems that way, just a general rant at the mental midgets I saw bringing kids to the event last night.
The gauge we used on my son this year to see if he was ready was a the tamest movie, and we were going to work him into scarier ones. We started out with Dead Silence.....after 10 minutes he was done........no HHN this year, and he's 19...we'll try again next year.

Are you saying that you wouldn't bring your 19-year-old son? Wow that is intense then. My niece is also 19, and certainly not a child, would never bring a child. She's a little wimpy like me with horror movies, but now I don't know. I was half joking above, I knew we'd be scared, but now I realllly am wondering. I guess we can always try the least scary houses first. I'll have to think about this one.

 

[yaytezIOA]

Tink....it was a typo...he's 9, but will 10 in 20 days.....I meant to type 10...Not trying to speed things up at all

 

[tinkerdorabelle]

Tink....it was a typo...he's 9, but will 10 in 20 days.....I meant to type 10...Not trying to speed things up at all

Geeeeez you scared me there. I was going to say I think it should be rated a lot worse than PG 13 . I am embarrassed to admit I really was asking about myself and my 19-year-old niece.

 

[Notatourist]

13 is what I recommend. Anything younger I start to wonder if mom and dad understand that what they are doing to their children will cost them years in therapy.

 

[Luv2Roam]

Even at the Rocky Horror Tribute last night the cast warned people pre show to get their kids out of the theatre. I don't know that anyone left.
I did not see near as many little kids last night as I had last year. However it kept pouring on and off last night and that may have kept some away with little ones.

 

[SpyderPig]

We encountered what we called the "Parents from Hell" when they followed us through the Thing. At the exit the 10 or 11 years old daughter was in hysterical tears pleading with her parents not to make her go through another house. I turned and semi-jokingly told the mother that she would be scarred for years. Her facial expression was one of total disgust.
They followed us to Jack's Funhouse just about the time where crowd control stacking required implementation of an employee parking lot queue maize that if straightened out would rival the circumference of the Earth. The line ran beside the back of the huge MIB building next to hot "real" exhaust ports expelling warm, stale, air on a very hot evening interupted occasionally by light rain. All-in-all it was an unpleasant environment.
Every "rule" on the guide map was being broken. Employees were frustrated that the ropes which were stretched to their physical limits were being lifted en masse to avoid the incredible trek. So line jumping was a serious infraction. Smoking was never challenged and was rampant. Language was at best suggest, off-color, racy and at worst excessively showy F-bomb shout outs. One pair of self proclaimed cougars were loudly bragging in explicit detail what sexual exploits they were going to do with their teenage companions.
Alcohol was not yet a factor because it was only 7:45.
The little girl was sobbing the entire wait and pleading with her parents to see the guide so she could prepare herself for the upcoming house. Some of the memorable parental responses were: "this is just like last year... " as if this was an annual torture event. My son heard the girl ask her mother if the spotlights went all the way to the end of the sky? Her reply was "Shut up!!!" The father which appeared to be more like a step-father or date as he pawed the mother was telling the girl, "There's more children than adults here!" which was an obvious lie.
By the time we made it to the express line merge the incredible wait was obvious. The girl was allowing the express line to empty before allowing the regular line to go. I'm sure it was first night jitters because when I was close enough to politely ask her if she was counting or if she emptied the express queue she stopped the express line and let us go.
When we were able to shake this dysfunctional family at the end of the house my 19 year old son turned to me out of the blue and said, "You have been a good father."
"Thanks, son. I love you." was my reply.
Moral- Don't take your kids until they are ready. But if you wait it can be an incredible bonding opportunity. Be excellent to each other!

 

[PrincessKaitex3]

Well last time I went down was October of 2006, and I was 11. It looked scary but i told myself it wasn't real. Although I didn't go, I look back and regret my descision. I went on the website for HHN and it didn't look too scarry. I really want to go this year, alas I don't think we can. But what my dad did last time was he kept asking me to go but I said no,maybe... wait no, yes? no. It made me feel guilty because I didn't go and he really wanted to take me. But age wise it doesn't depend on how old, but if this kid is easily scared I wouldn't bother. Also look upon how much knowlage they have on the people not being real. I hope I helped

 

[Luv2Roam]

While we were in line waiting for a house to open a young gal behind me (with her mother) said she had been coming to HHN since she was 4.
Can't say I would do that, but guess it depends on the kid.
IF I was taking a kid I would probably also spring for the behind the scenes tour that takes guests into three houses in the afternoon with the lights on.