How wonderful
day for me! Back in to the Walking Dead! Halloween Horror Nights runs select
nights in September through November 1, Wednesdays through Sundays. I plan to
join it for one year. Let me show you what cheerful night in Orlando!
The sun had set
and the sky was indigo. As you walked passed the revolving globe and up to the
arches, the eerie music coming from the loudspeakers and musky, earthy smell of
the lingering rainfall set the scene perfectly.
Though Universal
Studios Orlando can't control the weather, the trickling mist after the
afternoon downpour made the opening night of Halloween Horror Nights 24 (HHN)
feel as if you were transported into a classic horror movie.
And after
walking through the gates and encountering any scare-actors roaming the streets
with chainsaws, yeah, you totally felt like Laura Strode.
For the last 24
years, Universal Orlando has been inviting guests to lurk a little longer and
experience some night terrors at the park after hours. With the exception of a
few staple haunted houses, the creative team revamps the frights every year. At
this year's horror nights, for example, there's an entire haunted house
dedicated to the upcoming Dracula Untold movie. The film hasn't even reached
theaters, but they can sense it's going to be a good one (at the very least, it
made for a hell of a maze).
Set up inside
large production studios on the back lot of the park, the haunted houses are
the main attraction. Today, there's one dedicated to a colony of ancient cannibals,
the always-disturbing creepy clowns, some messed up dolls, aliens and
predators, vampires, more vampires, zombies, and a boy who grows up to be a
serial killer after seeing his sister do "it" .
While you're not
waiting to have strangers pop out at you from dark corners, there's the totally
tubular Bill & Ted Excellent Halloween Adventure Show. A staple of Horror
Nights since 1995, the show focuses on the most noteworthy aspects of pop
culture from the past year: Two radical dudes named Bill and Ted go down a
run-sheet of simple references while some attractive dancers shake their abs
and asses.
I don't want to
spoil anything, but there's a fantastic rendition of Frozen's "Let it
Go" that'll put any other parody to shame.
May I recommend
hitting up this 40-minute show before getting in line for the scares? And there
will be lines. Expect wait times as lengthy as those for the theme park rides
during the day. The lowest amount of time we witnessed was 90 minutes -- and
opening night wasn't even considered a peak night. Adding a fast pass (starting
at $59.99) or opting for the RIP experience (starting at $109.99) might be
worth the extra bang on your buck. But, if you want to manage your time best, I've
ranked the houses from must-see to okay-to-miss:
From Dusk Till
Dawn
Halloween
Dollhouse of the
Damned
Dracula Untold -
Reign of Blood
Roanoke
The Walking
Dead: End of the Line
AVP: Alien Vs.
Predator
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