Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Orlando

You can tell a good scare park by the names of the attractions. If they’re genuinely scary, or genuinely cheesy, you’re in for a good time. If they’re boring, well, then you’re not. With names like Leave it to Cleaver, Lights Camera Hacktion, and Horrorwood Die-In, it’s pretty obvious where Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios in Orlando lies.

We’re barely more than a week away from the start of all the Halloween scare-tainment, and we’ve got another big one for you. Halloween Horror Nights has the budget and real estate of a major theme park behind it, and they’ve managed to pack it dangerously full of movie magic, nostalgic fun and some blood-curdling frights. “Amusement Today” even voted it the country’s best Halloween event.

In keeping with the spirit of the park, the theme of Halloween Horror Nights is “ripped from the Silver Screen”. Classic, and some not-so-classic, movie monsters have escaped their celluloid prisons and have taken up scaring the heebie-jeebies out of the guests. With an entire park at its disposal, Halloween Horror Nights offers a staggering 8 haunted houses, 6 scare zones and even two live shows.

We know it’s the houses that matter most, and we recommend pushing hard and seeing as many as you can. A maze based on the Saw franchise sounds gruesome enough, though the promise to make the guest “feel pain” is one promise they (hopefully) can’t keep. Chucky: Friends Til the End is a terrifying romp in the world of a most demented doll. But the most disturbing and delightfully twisted of all must be Leave it to Cleaver. I think their writers put it best: “Meet me at Meetz…the Z stands for Cannibal.”

Speaking of cannibals: Apocalypse: City of Cannibals sounds like one particularly unpleasant scare zone, and it’s joined by other nasty neighborhoods like the Horrorwood Die-In, a theme town based on the upcoming vampire picture Cirque du Freak, and the simply titled Containment. You can also see a live tribute to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and a Halloween-themed tribute to my wife’s all time favorite, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

General admission is $69.99 online and can sell out, so be sure to purchase for specific dates in advance. If you’re an area resident, you can save additional money at the Florida resident rate, and also take advantage of the Frequent Fear Pass, which offers admission on 13 specific days for the price of one. Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Orlando runs from September 25 through October 31, dark Mondays and Tuesdays.

This event is not recommended for children under 13. Learn more about it all here.

Stay near to the park at one of our favorite hotels in Orlando, Florida, the Holiday Inn Orlando International Drive. They’re currently offering a package with tickets to Universal Studios, so why not check out the regular park once before seeing the whole thing with gory new eyes the next day?

Have fun at Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Orlando.

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