If there’s one thing the East Coast knows, its haunts.
From upstate New York to down South Carolina shores, some of America’s best haunted houses are here. And nowhere is that more obvious than with Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Orlando in Florida. Halloween Horror Nights is truly back in full swing, starting September 2nd through to October 31st open rain or shine. This year there are 15 attractions: 10 haunted houses and 5 full scare zones.
We at Horror Press, purveyors of all things terror, know you might need some help organizing all the delightfully frightful events. So let this article be a comprehensive fiend folio to let you know everything Halloween Horror Nights and Universal Orlando has to offer.
THE HAUNTED HOUSES
Save Your Tears for The Weeknd: After Hours Nightmares
The Weeknd’s 2020 album After Hours has some of the most horrifying music videos we’ve seen. And now, fans of the musical sensation can get a chance to immerse themselves with the sensual, nightmarish body horror visuals seen in the videos, with bandaged faces and blood-splattered maniacs abound.
A Deadly Double Feature in The Horrors of Blumhouse
Fans of both Freaky and recent smash hit The Black Phone will love that both these horror films share the stage at a doubled-up haunt. First, find yourself in the middle of the Blissfield Butcher’s rampage post body swap; then, escape The Grabber’s hellhole of a haunted basement—and survive the wicked murderer himself.
Finishing What Started with Halloween
How can Halloween end without an extreme haunt from the classic slasher himself? Going back to the franchise’s roots, this attraction sends you back to the fateful Halloween night in Haddonfield, Illinois, 1978, the night Michael Myers came home. Will you make it out like Laurie Strode, or perish as so many have before the embodiment of pure evil?
Experience A Legendary Clash as Universal Monsters: Legends Collide
They’ve been in the game longer than anyone, and the carnage starts piling up when they’re around. Dracula, Wolfman, and The Mummy burst onto the scene searching for a coveted mystical amulet, and you happen to be unlucky enough to be in their way. Let’s hope these O.G.s got slower cause you and your scream squad will need all the help you can get to outrun them.
Speak Easy, or Get Caught by The Spirits of the Coven
A group of 1920s “flapper witches” (sold, I already love this aesthetic so much!) drop all their glamour and make it plain that the only brew on the menu of their speakeasy will be made from the blood of its visitors.
Entomophobes, Beware of Bugs: Eaten Alive!
This haunt promises a lot of bugs and slime everywhere, as you explore a “home of the future”; will you survive this smart house’s transformation into a house of the damned when there’s a wall-to-wall infestation of mutated insects?
Make A Ghoulish Prisonbreak with Hellblock Horror
What’s more horrifying than the carceral system? How about being locked up with monsters and the undead hounding you from between the bars? That is, assuming the jail cells can hold them in much longer.
Avoid Going Under at Dead Man’s Pier: Winter’s Wake
The sea hasn’t been kind to the fishermen of this New England Coastal town, and their return from underneath the high tide promises to be just as cold, threatening to take you under the icy, midwinter waves.
Will You Be the GOAT or the Goat at La Fiesta de Chupacabras?
The legendary cryptid of Puerto Rican & Latin American folklore stalks a bright festival full of tourists and threatens to make blood bags out of you and the other attendees…and it may not be alone; when the body count starts rising, you know it’s time to leave the party.
Don’t Get Captured by the Descendants of Destruction
When cannibal mutants have plundered the post-apocalypse and picked it clean of flesh and bone, you and your scream squad must navigate a completely gutted New York City, traverse through the subways, and avoid becoming the next bite to eat.
THE SCARE ZONES
The frights go beyond the houses, though. To get around, you’ll need to travel through Scare Zones, stomping grounds populated with the monstrosities that rule them. This year’s Scare Zones include:
- Horrors of Halloween, where The Pumpkin Lord’s verdantly violent plant monsters roam free to terrorize resort goers
- Scarecrow: Cursed Soil, where haunted harvest guardians seek vengeance on the living
- Sweet Revenge, where good children have gone bad on a murderous sugar rush (courtesy of Major Sweets’ Candy Company!)
- The stormy Graveyard: Deadly Unrest, where returned souls seek out anybody in the land of the living
- And Conjure the Dark, where otherworldly entities summoned by a shadowy sorceress are out for your blood!
ALRIGHT, I NEED TO GO. HOW DO I BOOK IT?
Simple: the dark magics of the internet, courtesy of the warlocks at universalorlando.com! Tickets are on sale now, with prices start at $73.99+ per person, and Express Passes at $119.00+ that let you skip the regular lines. Single night tickets and multi night passes can be found here!
HAPPY HAUNTING, HORROR PRESS FANS! HOPE TO SEE YOU AT HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS ORLANDO!