Universal Orlando spilled its guts about houses, one by one, for this year’s Halloween Horror Nights. It’s smart — if maddening – to keep anticipation building.
But it would be easy to lose track this year because HHN is featuring 10 haunted houses, a record-high number for the event. We’ve compiled these offerings alphabetically, and tossed in the five scare zones, with a horrifying little bit of info provided by Universal for your handy reference.
• Carnival Graveyard: Rust in Pieces – Trespassers to this thought-to-be-abandoned amusement park must be punished by revenge-seeking carnies. Where is the Scooby gang when you need them?
• Dead Exposure: Patient Zero – A dark, dark comeback for flesh-eating undead types.
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• Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers – As in the 1988 film, Myers is out of prison and searching for his young niece in Haddonfield.
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• The Horrors of Blumhouse – A hybrid house featuring scenes from both “Happy Death Day” (Babyface Killer alert) and “The First Purge.”
• Poltergeist – A dream come true: Moments from the nightmarish 1982 film
• Scary Tales: Deadly Ever After – “A demented twist on your most beloved fairytales,” Universal say, featuring an appearance by the original Wicked Witch of the West.
• Seeds of Extinction – Meteorite hits Earth, and as if that’s not bad enough, plantlife grows crazy.
• Slaughter Sinema – Drive-in theme with werewolf bikers and deadly barbers (and the scent of popcorn).
• Stranger Things – Scenes from the first season of the Netflix drama “Stranger Things,” including a look at the dreaded Upside Down, the Hawkins National Laboratory, the Byers family living room and what Universal calls “most loved characters.” Fingers crossed, as always, for Barb.
• Trick ‘r Treat – Cult film, was featured as a scare zone at Halloween Horror Nights last year, gets the full-blown house treatment this year.
Scare zones
• The Harvest – A barn setting near park entrance that features “foul creatures and elements from the 10 haunted houses
• Killer Klowns From Outer Space – Cotton-candy rayguns from the 1988 “Outer Space” flick.
• Revenge of Chucky – He’s a living doll, but not in the good way. Chucky encourages his toy-like minions to terrorize.
• Twisted Tradition – Tour of Central Park with “rotting pumpkins fused with decaying human flesh.”
• Vamp ’85: New Year’s Eve – It’s New York street, it’s New Year’s Eve, it’s big-hair vampires.
And more
• The Academy of Villains show goes Cyberpunk at the Fear Factor theater. The production mixes dance, acrobatics and theatrics.
• And several Universal Studios rides and attractions are open during HHN, including Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit, Fast & Furious: Supercharged, Revenge of the Mummy, Transformers: The Ride – 3D, Men in Black Alien Attack and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley.