4/2/2023 0 Comments Project halloween orlandoSome of the haunted houses weren’t quite as scary as others, either. The afterlife waiting room in the Beetlejuice haunted house. (It’s worth noting: All of the performers and employees at Universal were wearing masks, and while the park per Florida guidelines doesn’t require guests to wear masks, they’re strongly encouraged through signage and frequent announcements over loudspeakers.) But if Universal’s sweet spot is feeling like they’re putting you right up to the edge of danger without technically crossing the line, I guess it applies to their performers as well. At one point, I watched a woman hula with a hoop completely covered in flames that were encircling her entire body. The stunt show, Halloween Horror Fuel, was part-magic show, part-aerial acrobatics performance and part-pyrotechnic extravaganza. There are definitely some less scary moments, like the Marathon of Mayhem lagoon show where clips of Universal’s classic monster movies are projected onto jets of water shooting into the sky, like in Disney California Adventure’s World of Color show. In a "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" house, Leatherface shows up around every corner, but the Universal HHN designers actually created new rooms in the murder house based on what’s pictured, but never fully explored, in the 1974 classic slasher film.Ī Slender Man-inspired monster without a face, holding his victim's head through his eye sockets? Sure, why not? Julie Tremaine In one house, the story line is that a child broke his deal with the tooth fairy, and that fairy (nothing at all like you’re picturing) murders everyone in the house, ripping their faces off to get back the teeth they were promised. This year’s icon is Jack, a fan-favorite killer clown with a twisted, evil grin who likes to just show up and scare you to your bones by sneaking up on you when you least expect it. There’s a Beetlejuice house for the first time ever (barring a brief weekend appearance last year just before Halloween), and one that captures all of the “icon” mascots of years past into one macabre walkthrough. Halloween Horror Nights this year includes a lot of throwbacks to HHN events past. 3 this year, but it felt a little like stepping back into history. I went on opening night, which fell on Sept. This year’s event features 10 walk-through haunted houses, five scare zones where costumed “scareactors” charge at you wielding chainsaws or try to grab you to be the next hanged man dangling from those same gallows.Ī scareactor in one of the Halloween Horror Nights scare zones. This year is the 30th anniversary of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando, which started as an homage to "Beetlejuice" in 1991 as "Fright Nights." The popularity of the event grew in tandem with the intensity of the scares. Halloween Horror Nights is easily the scariest Halloween attraction you can visit this year, and if you love scaring yourself to death, there’s absolutely nothing as wickedly fun. This event is absolutely nothing like Disneyland’s annual Halloween event, Oogie Boogie Bash. Unlike her, I knew exactly how scary it was going to be - on a 1-10 scale, I’d give parts of the event an 11 - but also unlike her, I welcomed every single scream. ![]() It was the first time my horror-averse friend had ever attended HHN, but not mine. Halloween Horror Nights 30 at Universal Orlando.
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