Prepare for terrifying thrills at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights, quickly to saturate each coasts with cinematic chills. The Exorcist: Believer has simply been introduced as rounding out the massive names coming to HHN 2023 at Common Studios Hollywood and Common Studios Orlando.
The upcoming sequel to 1973’s The Exorcist—which itself has had two of essentially the most horrifying homes on the annual occasion—leads this yr’s slate, together with homes based mostly on Stranger Things season 4, The Last of Us online game, and Chucky (in his first solo haunted home).
Let’s not overlook the Common Monsters: the studios’ mainstay horror legends may even be returning in a brand new unique home for Halloween Horror Nights 2023. At each West and East Coast resorts, “Common Monsters: Unmasked” will take friends to the haunted catacombs of Paris, the place the Phantom of the Opera, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, and Dr. Jack Griffin (aka the Invisible Man) await with horrors of their very own. One other returning luminary, Weapons n’ Roses guitarist Slash, will present an unique rating for the home at HHN Hollywood.
Right here’s a breakdown of every thing you might want to learn about Halloween Horror Nights 2023 at Common Studios Hollywood and Common Studio Orlando, courtesy of Common.
Halloween Horror Nights at Common Orlando Resort
5 new unique haunted homes await in Orlando:
• A demented, late-night circus led by an evil ringmaster and infamous icon searching for human souls to gas his darkish intentions in “Dr. Oddfellow: Twisted Origins”
• A horrific twist to a daunting, but acquainted story and sinister battle between Fireplace and Ice in “Dueling Dragons: Select Thy Destiny”
• Blood-soaked campgrounds deep within the trenches of mountains the place vicious, bloodthirsty monsters have returned with a vengeance in “Yeti: Campground Kills”
• Promoting one’s soul for fame in “The Darkest Deal” rapidly reveals a deal will be greater than what you’ve bargained for
• A colonial cult trying to slaughter those that dare refuse to worship the Bloodmoon in “Bloodmoon: Darkish Choices”
Plus, 5 new scare zones:
• Come nose to nose with the devious legend who’s promising immortality for many who dare to enter “Dr. Oddfellow’s Assortment of Horror”
• Cower in concern because the indicators of the zodiac come to life in “Darkish Zodiac,” the place Dr. Oddfellow makes use of his energy to remodel the zodiac indicators into horrifying horoscope creatures
• Enterprise into the “Jungle of Doom: Expedition Horror,” the place Dr. Oddfellow’s twisted and weird experiments mix parts of nature and animals to create vicious jungle creatures trying to fulfill their cravings
• Attend a music competition crashed by bloodthirsty vampires let unfastened by Dr. Oddfellow in “Vamp ’69: Summer time of Blood”
• Bump into Dr. Oddfellow’s crates and cages that after housed monsters of all types who’ve escaped in pursuit of chaos in “Shipyard 32: Horrors Unhinged”
New leisure and immersive food and drinks
• Friends can benefit from the all-new disturbingly entertaining present, “Nightmare Gasoline Revenge Dream,” that includes a brand new dreamer confronting the creature that’s been turning her desires into nightmares.
• Whereas purchasing the most recent Halloween Horror Nights merchandise and treats in an all-new Tribute Retailer, friends can enter a mysterious NYC Comedian E-book Store and expertise the “Tribute to Terror” by getting into the pages of this unique, terrifying, horror comedian guide.
• Friends can get pleasure from a drink on the Crimson Coconut Membership as it’ll as soon as once more remodel to the Useless Coconut Membership, donning a brand new theme and menu.
• When friends wish to take a chunk out of the horror, they’ll get pleasure from a monstrous menu of all-new meals and beverage objects, together with Bloody Campground Poutine, El Pastor Torta, and Bitter Apple Pie Funnel Fries, along with returning fan-favorites like Pizza Fries.
• New this yr, Peacock’s Halloween Horror Bar will function themed libations inside an ominous nightclub vibe, photograph alternatives, and extra.
• For these dying to expertise this yr’s “killer” meals and beverage earlier than the occasion even opens, Style of Terror will supply friends an unique preview of choose objects that shall be featured at Halloween Horror Nights, choose nights from August 10-26.
Common Studios Hollywood
The next homes shall be featured predominately in Hollywood however may even be at Common Orlando.
The Final of Us: For the primary time ever, Naughty Canine and PlayStation’s award-winning post-pandemic online game The Final of Us involves life in an all-new haunted home that propels friends into an impediment course of carnage and mayhem as they be a part of a brutal journey in a world overtaken by a fungal virus that turns people into numerous types of a brand new risk often called the Contaminated. Friends will discover themselves navigating iconic places from the online game in a determined try to flee and survive.
Stranger Issues 4: Season 4 of Netflix’s unique sequence Stranger Issues is dropped at life in a terrifying all-new haunted home that transports friends to Hawkins, Indiana the place they are going to be immersed within the eerie Upside Down for a heart-pounding expertise whereas touring by way of iconic scenes. Friends will confront their deepest fears and are available nose to nose with otherworldly creatures like demobats, and even Vecna himself inside his blood-red Thoughts Lair in a race in opposition to the clock to flee and save mankind from his lethal curse.
The Exorcist: Believer: Impressed by Common Footage’ terrifying new horror movie from Blumhouse and Morgan Creek Leisure (in theaters October 13), The Exorcist: Believer haunted home will transport friends to a bustling avenue market in Haiti, the place an harmless buy of a wierd folks doll with three eyes results in the opening of a demonic portal, the awakening of sinister spirits, and the following disappearance of two 12-year-old ladies within the U.S. The women are discovered three days later with no reminiscence of what occurred to them. After the women start to exhibit unsettling conduct, it quickly turns into clear that solely an exorcism can save them—and everybody who is available in contact with them, together with unwitting friends, is instantly susceptible to dropping their souls.
Chucky: Final Kill Depend: Impressed by the hit USA and SYFY sequence and cult basic movies, “Chucky: Final Kill Depend” casts this killer doll because the star of his very personal haunted home for the primary time. A real sadistic killer, Chucky has been mired within the agony of disrespect he feels from his friends at not being taken severely. Thus begins his quest to show his haunted home right into a residing slaughterhouse by killing each one that enters.
Common Monsters: Unmasked: The dank Catacombs of Paris home a a lot darker secret 60 ft beneath the bustling streets, because the all-new haunted home “Common Monsters: Unmasked” takes friends down into the notorious burial grounds the place each nook and crevice overflows with hundreds of thousands of skeletal stays and much more sinister secrets and techniques. Deep inside the Catacombs, Common’s most infamous creatures—the Phantom of the Opera, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dr. Jekyll and his deranged alternate character Mr. Hyde, and Dr. Jack Griffin, aka the Invisible Man—lie in wait as they bide their time and search vengeance in opposition to friends after the opening of the Catacombs to public visitation. These determined and harmful fiends have turn into crammed with a rage towards friends navigating the twisted tunnels of their underground labyrinth residence.
There shall be extra to return for Common Studios Hollywood that shall be introduced at this weekend at Midsummer Scream, the place HHN Hollywood’s artistic director will seem for a panel.
Halloween Horror Nights is ready to start Friday, September 1 at Universal Orlando Resort and Thursday, September 7 at Universal Studios Hollywood.
For extra data and to buy tickets to Common Studios Halloween Horror Nights, go to here.
This occasion announcement, which incorporates activations for main studio tasks, was written through the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. With out the labor of writers and actors presently on strike, the movies and TV lined right here wouldn’t exist.
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