WWE's Payback has come and gone, but the aftertaste of a questionable House of Horrors match is everlasting. 

Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt brought their months-spanning feud to an end Sunday night in San Jose, competing in a match that was half straight-to-DVD horror movie, half sports entertainment. The decision to pre-record a portion of it made for a pretty unmistakable error, though. 

Nobody was quite sure what a "House of Horrors" match was to begin with, with the WWE even asking fans what they wanted to see in the match. Eventually it was decided that the two would battle in an abandoned home before bringing the fight back to the arena.

There's just one big problem with the way the WWE executed this production. Orton and Wyatt's battle began around 6 p.m. local time - so Pacific time zone with the event taking place in California, as Sportskeeda points out. The sun was still shining down at the time, except the match started in darkness.

California's never looked darker at 6 p.m. than it did on April 30, 2017. This was all a play by the WWE to make this little outing for the duo as spooky as possible, and they almost pulled it off. Fans on the East Coast may have been fooled, but anyone on the West must have been shocked.

It seems like a pretty small deal, but they went through all of this trouble to pull off an elaborate gimmick match and failed to take into account something as silly as sunlight. So close, yet so far. Good ole' Mother Nature remains undefeated. 

Fans are already riding the suspension of disbelief train if they're tuning in to wrestling, sure, but this crosses the line. Scripted outcomes are one thing, but pretending the sun is down at 6 p.m. on the West Coast? Now we've got a problem, Vince McMahon. 

The match went on despite it happening in an alternate universe without a sun, and eventually Wyatt would win after getting a little bit of help from Jinder Mahal and the championship belt he stole from Orton. This, after Wyatt hijacked Orton's limo to get back to the arena for the finish. 

It was a bit disconnected, and the match taking a bit of a break with Seth Rollins defeating Samoa Joe as the fight moved from the random house Bray owned to the SAP Center. Who knew the gimmick for House of Horrors would include blocking out the sun!