Less of Paramount and more of just people in general that actually know how to scare and what actually scares people.
A few years ago there were tons of actors that knew the ins and outs and knew what got under peoples' skins to get them scared like no other.
This Haunt season, however, is an absolute joke with the lack of monsters in the attractions and the lack of enthusiasm from the majority of said monsters to warrant going through the mazes. Save for a small batch of monsters/mazes, I was severely let down with this year's event, and even more upset at the fact that the majority of time and energy went towards getting the Half-Pint Brawlers to come to KI (the commercials have been redone, removing the simple mention of Wolf Pack's name and focusing solely on HPB).
Maybe we ought to actually go back further than Paramount, and give the event back to WEBN, like the first three years of FearFest.
...oh wait, I forgot, we can't mention FearFest here; everything up until 2007 didn't exist according to the park.
I have to say Fear Fest or Halloween Haunt as they call it really has gone down hill this year. I swear I only saw 3 or 4 monsters in the Cemetary Drive and Probably only 6 or 7 in Death Row. Also, it seems like there are only 20 monsters walking around the park. I rarely see one anymore. What happened??? When I went on Tombstone Terror-Tory in '08. I jumped SO many times. it was really good. But now it's just 'eh. When I went to FearFest in '06 it was PERFECT scary. The Cornstalker maze was really good. And there was monsters everywhere you go!!! And I like how they put the KC trains and the old SOB trains outside the entrance with skelotons in them. I asked again, what happened to the top notch halloween event we used to have?