Can you feel it? That feeling that Halloween is approaching and spooky season has begun. Well, you know it’s really drawing closer when details surrounding Halloween Horror Nights have begun to be announced.
Universal has just revealed that this season’s all-new haunted houses will include inspirations from the upcoming movie The Exorcist: Believer as well as “Chucky: Ultimate Kill Count,” based on USA and Syfy’s hit series, and “Universal Monsters: Unmasked,” inspired by the iconic Universal Monsters.
The haunting action kicks off at the Universal Orlando Resort on September 1st and at Universal Studios on September 7th, according to Deadline.
The Exorcist: Believer
Set in a bustling street market in Haiti, where an innocent purchase of a strange folk doll with three eyes leads to the opening of a demonic portal, the awakening of sinister spirits and the subsequent disappearance of two 12-year-old girls in the U.S. The girls are found three days later with no memory of what happened to them. After the girls begin to exhibit unsettling behavior, it soon becomes clear that only an exorcism can save them – and everyone who comes in contact with them, including unwitting guests, is suddenly at risk of losing their souls.
Chucky: Ultimate Kill Count
Chucky has been mired in the agony of disrespect he feels from his peers at not being taken seriously. Thus begins his quest to turn his haunted house into a living slaughterhouse by killing every person who enters.
Universal Monsters: Unmasked
Lurking sixty feet beneath the bustling streets of the City of Lights, the dank Catacombs of Paris house a much darker secret. . . The all-new haunted house “Universal Monsters: Unmasked” takes guests down into the infamous burial grounds where every corner and crevice overflows with millions of skeletal remains and even more sinister secrets. Deep within the Catacombs, Universal’s most notorious creatures – The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Dr. Jack Griffin, aka The Invisible Man – also lie in wait as they bide their time and seek vengeance against guests after the opening of the Catacombs to public visitation.
The original score for the West Coast’s “Universal Monsters: Unmasked” haunted house is once again being created by Slash.
In Orlando, there will be five additional new haunted houses: “Dr. Oddfellow: Twisted Origins,” “Dueling Dragons: Choose Thy Fate,” “YETI: Campground Kills,” “The Darkest Deal” and “Bloodmoon: Dark Offerings.”
The resort will also feature five new scare zones, including “Dr. Oddfellow’s Collection of Horror,” “Dark Zodiac,” “Jungle of Doom: Expedition Horror,” “Vamp ’69: Summer of Blood,” and “Shipyard 32: Horrors Unhinged.” According to Deadline.
Halloween Horror Nights will run at Universal Orlando Resort from Friday, September 1st through Saturday, November 4th, and at Universal Studios Hollywood from Thursday, September 7th through Tuesday, October 31th. Check out the new trailer below!
