UPDATE: 2024/09/13 BY ROB KEYES
See our Ranking of Universal Hollywood ’s Haunted Houses
We also visted the west coast Universal Studios to rank their 8 haunted houses . Readhere and compare !
Halloween Horror Nightsis the most wonderful meter of year for repugnance lover visitingUniversal Orlando . I was fortunate enough to be there to celebrate the opening night for the 33rd iteration of this iconic horror - theme event which , over its outpouring , has delivered over 200 haunted houses to Edgar Guest .
2024 ’s horror festivity launched August 30 , earlier than ever , and there are 48 prize dark for Halloween Horror Nights where 10 new haunted menage are ready to be experienced : four ground on IP and six original story - based mazes . Below I detail all of them and deal my thoughts on what I loved the most and what you necessitate to plan for , with insight and added information from Lora Sauls , Universal Orlando ’s show managing director of entertainment output .
HHN 33 hand over an impressive ticket of IP adaptation , which may be the high spot of the set of mansion this twelvemonth , but some of the original stories will blow you away too . Here arethe 10 stalk houses of Halloween Horror Nights 33 , ranked …
10Goblin’s Feast
Goblin version of Thanksgiving
Hordes of bloodthirsty goblins , orcs , hobgoblins , and hag welcome young visitant to their village for dinner party .
Goblin ’s Feasttakes guests through a detailed Goblin village of sorts featuring a pub , castle , and a giant hand , where you ’ve been ask over for what can be best described as a Goblin Thanksgiving . They have a pet food for thought : it ’s us . They are in reality welcoming guests in to be eat and have-to doe with to you as various sorts of meat , even calling you out for trying to escape .
" We are walking into a goblin village where they are celebrate the Goblin ’s Feast . And what is on the menu for this Goblin ’s Feast ? You as humans!“says Lora Sauls , Creative Director at Universal Orlando Resort . “You must seek to lam the goblins , trolls , spicy hob and witches . As you go through this goblin community . "
There are some tasteful bits and the motif is consistent , like the color palette , but it lack the coolheaded constituent or scares , and we advocate visiting this one early in your escapade .
9Slaughter Sinema 2
A sequel to Slaughter Sinema for Halloween Horror Nights 28
Head to the Carey Drive - in for a B vitamin - film horror endurance contest full of spaghetti westerns , grindhouse gore and more .
There ’s something special about the original traditional knowledge the teams at Universal craft and then continue and Slaughter Sinema is a fun example of this that brings guests back to Carey Drive - in for some notable fear and delights .
" In 2018 we start up the first Slaughter Sinema where you went into the Carrie Drive - in , and you see tons of group B - flick repulsion movies . Well , Slaughter Sinema 2 is doing just that , " says Lora Sauls during the HHN 33 opening presentation . " You ’re returning to the Carey Drive - in , where you ’ll not only see revulsion B - movies , but you ’re move to see some Spaghetti Westerns and a few creature feature . We ’re featuring slaughter jesters . We ’re boast zombie clown , and you may see a few killer kringles in Slaughter Sinema 2 "
This Slaughter Sinema from HHN 28 feature these in - lore fictional B complex - movies :
cracking bill sticker and costumes , some that light up , a elephantine shark , lots of quick - themed experience packed into one maze make this one a must - see for ' 80s retro horror aficionado , even if the labyrinth itself lack a account that pulls Guest through . It ’s more about encompass the creative thinking and amount of invention work .
8The Museum: Deadly Exhibits
This relic will leave you in ruins…
Transport guest to the new folklore museum , The Rolling Stone , where there is malevolent lurking within , quick to destruct everything in its path .
The Museum : Deadly Exhibits was my first maze of HHN 33 and it bring guests to the The Museum of International Folklore where , after yours , you ’re entering to see the tardy and most mysterious exhibit - The Rotting Stone . This ancient , benighted object is corrupting everything around it .
" It ’s folklore that wherever the rotting gem goes , it creates demise and rot and devastation . And so once that new display and that rotting stone enters the museum , it ’s doing just that . It is causing expiry and wipeout throughout the museum , and have everything in the museum to hail to life . And when I say everything , absolutely everything,“hints Lora Sauls in describingDeadly exhibit .
Sauls continues:“The workers in the museum are attack us . The tables in the museum are assault us . The tapestries in the museum are attacking us . The exhibits are lash out us . And then you ultimately have to cope with the rotting stone at the ending who is coming to living and never going to grant you to leave that museum . "
Great music and a cool , uniform theme and color pattern make Deadly Exhibits a great maze to experience at HHN 33 , even if it ’s not the most memorable of the set .
7Monstrous: The Monsters of Latin America
This haunted house introduces something never before seen at Halloween Horror Nights…
Home to the descent - blow Tlahuelpuchi , bird of Minerva - face witch La Lechuza and bone - ripping El Silbón who ca n’t look to predate upon node .
Based on the democratic house of the same name from last year at Universal Studios Hollywood , Monstrous : The Monsters of Latin Americamakes its debut at HHN 33 as an master copy for Orlando .
client pass through a cemetery upon entering the tangle , which begins with far too much lighting but gets darker the further you get . As the light fade , the grossness increases as guest go from skeletons to hanging intestine . There are some just panic and surprising characters featured in The Monsters of Latin America , including a line of descent - nurse vampire creature that enjoys the blood of infants .
" We require to convey it to the east coast to keep it here in Orlando , and we ’re doing just that,“says Lora Sauls . “We are taking a journey with Muerte as he tells the tarradiddle of three huge Romance folklore creatures . We ’re drop dead to see La Lechuza , El Silbón and Tlahuelpuchi . They ’re all vile . They all do vile things , and you ’re give out to assemble up with them aspect to facial expression . "
A notable highlight here is that La Lechuza , an owl - enchantress case character that attack womanizers and drunks , make up the first ever amply programmable animatronic used for Halloween Horror Nights .
6Triplets of Terror
The Barmy triplets birthday parties are always ones to remember…
Guests will celebrate the Barmy triplet ’s birthday and soon realize they celebrate by embolden their family ’s horrifying murders .
Triplets of Terror is one of the most godforsaken original origination for Halloween Horror Nights in year and its story begins March 3rd , 1984 where for their ninth natal day , the Barmy Triplets slaughter their house . Every 10 year they vivify this joyous case to fete and kill more .
jump forward to present day and Melody , Harmony and Junior are 40 , and you ’re invitedT The Triplets put their masks back and get to work . Even the misfortunate family dog does n’t see a happy end …
" We want to build an original slasher story in our event , and we did n’t want to have one slasher . We need to have three,“says Lora Sauls when describing Triplets of Terror . “So you are rifle to follow Harmony , Junior , and Melody on their journeying to enact their carnage of a birthday political party , and you are go to have to sample to skirt those triplets everywhere you go . "
triad of Terrorfeatures some environmental force but it ’s the topnotch gory approximation and set decoration that make Triplets of Terror an unforgettable experience .
5Major Sweets Candy Factory
A prequel to Sweet Revenge…
Join a arena misstep to a confect factory , only to realize the free samples have transform the kids into candy - coated killers .
Major Sweets Candy Factory is another large instance of the Universal team expanding upon their own original lore . Where Slaughter Sinema 2 is asequel , Major Sweets Candy Factory is actually aprequel . arrange before the events of theSweet Revengescare sone from Halloween Horror Nights 31 this new original maze see children become the villains thanks to candy - fueled brainwashing .
" Major Sweets and Miss Treats are back , but it is a prequel , and in this prequel , they have to quiz the confect before they go to the Halloween celebration in the small Ithiel Town of New York . They invite a schooltime on a field trip to occur to the candy factory . Once the schooling accede , the tike are whisk off to test the candy , and we , as teachers and chaperons , are escort into the factory,“Lora Sauls teases . " Well , their candy workplace , and those kids are turning into vile , candy coated killers . You ’re going to see Major Sweets , Miss Treats their new ally , Taffy , who they ’ve done fortune of experiments for their candy on . "
you may sense the candy as you enter theMajor Sweets Candy Factoryhaunted star sign which features a bang-up theme with impressive war paint and performance . It ’s super disgusting and I love the continuity Universal is building for this .
4Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Who you gonna call?
“ Ghostbusters : Frozen Empire ” will transport lover of the film franchise to New York City where the Spengler home teams up with the original Ghostbusters who are now at the helm of a top - cloak-and-dagger research lab for their ghost - busting enterprise . With the daunting discovery of an old souvenir that has set free the vengeful spirit of Garraka , who endanger to freeze everyone to death , Ghostbusters young and old must fall in forces to protect their urban center and deliver the world from a 2nd Ice Age .
Fans will enter on this petrifying journeying run into iconic wraith who slime and villainous villains who are out for revenge – all while trying to escape an army of ghastly creatures bent on crack bones and turning their veins into rivers of methamphetamine .
In 1984 , four gentlemen came together to hold open New York . Many years have past since this event and we ’re still busting spectre .
Many class have past tense and we ’re still busting ghosts . Now we confront Garraka who delivers venerate so acute it ’ll literally free you .
" We are so activated to have the Ghostbusters enfranchisement back in Halloween Horror Nights , and we are feature the newest pic in this awesome franchise , Ghostbusters : Frozen Empire , where you will see new Ghostbusters and some of those original Ghostbusters battle Garraka , as Garraka is try out to spread an ice age over New York City - the second one , mind you . He did it in the early 1900s and he ’s escaped his housing , and he ’s sample to do it again , and you are in that battle,“says Lora Sauls who excitingly draw the maze .
Sauls continues:“But of course , because we love this horror enfranchisement so much , we require to give you a few little Easter eggs of some of the other films . So you ’re going to see Vigo , a Terror Dog , maybe a library specter . Also , all those teeny , tiny small Mini - Pufts doing all variety of mischievous thing . We ’re very activated about Ghostbusters : Frozen Empire . "
The Frozen Empiremaze is a flagship - grade Halloween Horror Nights drawing card and is quite simply a must - see . And there may not be another like this ever again as it honour the legacy of the all five Ghostbusters picture in the franchise , and feature some telling room with noted environmental and lighting effects . There ’s verticalness , there ’s Slimer , there ’s Ecto-1 , and so much more that you may need to queue up a few times to fully receive it .
3A Quiet Place
If they hear you, they will hunt you…
Fans will relive the tenseness that will issue forth to life history in iconic scenes from the first two cinema , from traveling through the farmhouse that serve as the Abbott family ’s protection and step into the root root cellar where Evelyn Abbott escapes to give birth as one of the creatures closes in . Mirroring the silence in the films , the haunted house will embrace unequaled sound design , special gist and will integrate the employment of American Sign Language ( ASL ) for the first time ever at Halloween Horror Nights .
WhereGhosbusters : Frozen Empireembraces the fun and colorful nature of the cinema enfranchisement , A Quiet Placeis darkness , grim , and hyper focused on accurately recreating the first movie in the John Krasinski ’s epical repugnance franchise .
" A Quiet Place , you kind of have to hush your howler as you go through a quiet place,“Lora Sauls tells us . “You’re following the Abbott home as they adjudicate to escape these creatures , these monstrous creatures who have a lancinating sensation of auditory modality . If they pick up you , they will trace you . So seek to muffle those screams when you ’re walk through A Quiet Place . "
A Quiet Placeis scarey and dark and does a marvellous job of revive the filmic experience . It ’s anothermust - seeattraction and a shine example of Universal ’s squad embracing and adapting IP for Halloween Horror Nights .
2Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines
An all-female haunted house!
This haunted house will inaugurate guests to an all - new terrific plot line send guest in the nerve centre of an larger-than-life struggle for dominance , headlined by an all - female aggregation of classic Universal Monsters .
Fans will run into Saskia Van Helsing , a new fearless huntress . She faces off with Dracula ’s daughter , Countess Marya , who arose from the dead to look for revenge for her Father-God and destroy the Van Helsing bloodline . With a military mission to bolt down , Dracula ’s daughter , from 1936’sDracula ’s Daughter , shape a pernicious coalition with the She - Wolf , inspired by the 1946 filmShe - Wolf of London , and Anck - Su - Namun , from the 1932 filmThe Mummy – only to be wiretap by Saskia and an unlikely friend , The Bride of Frankenstein . The terrifying risky venture will take guests on a journey between the hunted and the hunter in a life and last battle with only one bloodline leave alone to pull through .
Eternal Bloodlines is based on IP , sort of , but truthfully , it ’s an original story featuring iconic Universal Monsters and it may be their best one at Halloween Horror Nights 33 . Eternal Bloodlines follows the disconsolate journey of Saskia Van Helsing , last of the Van Helsing bloodline , in what ’s essentially a continuation to Universal Monsters : The Bride of Frankenstein live from Halloween Horror Nights 30 .
In the lore , Saskia ’s father Abraham Van Helsing hound and killed Count Dracula , and now his daughter Countess Marya wants retaliation . As node journey through the maze , they ’ll see what happened to Frankenstein ’s Monster , they ’ll meet Anck - Su - Namun in Egypt , they ’ll see a full moon give wage hike to the She - Wolf of London , and they ’ll see an unconvincing alliance form on the way to Dracula ’s castle for the ultimate encounter .
" Every twelvemonth our Universal Pictures teams allows our creative teams to curate new floor with these Universal Monsters , and this twelvemonth is no different for the teams from both West Coast and East Coast . Universal Orlando and Universal Hollywood come together to create Universal Monsters : Eternal Bloodlines . Yes , it ’s an all - female monster floor . We are featuring the Bride of Frankenstein , the daughters of Dracula . The Brides of Dracula , Anck - Su - Namun , the She - Wolf , and brand - fresh character Saskia Van Helsing . And you are following her as she ’s endeavor to defeat these devil . You must go through the mansion to see how this fib ends,“Lora Sauls say about the heroic collaborationism .
" But not only is it an all - female fiend haunted star sign here in Orlando , we got the great delight to have a female composer and a female show manager work on this haunt house . We have Sara Barone as our composer . She has composed an original mark for this awing haunted menage , and she just recently got nominated for an Emmy so not too ratty . "
heavy performances , dynamic hardened pieces , and even a zipline will capture your imagination by experiencing this Universal Monsters obsess house . The mediaeval idea , and twirl along this way , make Eternal Bloodlines one of the cool element of Halloween Horror Nights 33 .
1Insidious: The Further
The scariest haunted house of HHN 33…
bring forth by Blumhouse Productions in association with Sony Pictures , Insidioustells the disturbing story of the Lamberts , a family haunt by vicious supernatural forces after their son slips into an inexplicable comatose state after becoming possessed by a demonic entity . In the all - novel Halloween Horror Nights haunted house , guest will follow in the footsteps of the Lamberts , bump familiar setting and scares as they are transported directly into “ The Further ” – the ethereal place where spook and demons lurk . And just like in the films , guests will quickly learn that the paranormal puppet are here to stay …
Guests ’ journey into “ Insidious : The Further ” start as they step through the iconic red doorway , where many of the tormented spirit and fiend from the franchise await – determined to frame humans and steal their souls . Fans will come face - to - side with The Red - Faced Demon , who will attempt to lure them into his lair ; the grim KeyFace , hoping to interlock his victim in this dark dimension ; the sick and dangerous Bride in Black ; and the vengeful emotional state of the human beings Who Ca n’t Breathe . As guests make their way through the preoccupied star sign , they ’ll go from red threshold to red door – move deeper into a dark and timeless astral world where they must evade this collection of minacious creatures at every back - chill turn , or their soul will be trapped here … forever and a day . "
The beginning of the Insidious haunted planetary house at HHN 33 prepare the stage right off the chiropteran as guests walk down a long and passing marvelous corridor towards a giantred threshold , where banners fall from the ceiling show Dalton Lambert ’s ( Ty Simpkins ) various ominous artworks .
Insidious : The Further"is just terrifying " I was told by Lora Sauls during our interview , and our tour guide for the event said the same , describing it as " the scarey house of the result . " And we agree . Not only does this take on the Insidious franchise redeem the panic attack , it ’s also the one haunted houss that feels like an actual tangle .
There are amazing performer and a super creepy-crawly setup that regard , from a technical linear perspective , eight triggers and three actor so you ’ll never jazz where jump scare will get along from . Normally , statue elbow room like one featured in The Further may look in the back portion of a given stalk house but thisInsidioushaunted house puts one of these room at the commencement as well and pulls off the tricktwice .
" You ’re gon na meet the KeyFace demon . You ’re gon na meet The tenacious - haired Fiend , The military man Who Ca n’t emit , The Bride in Black , and of course , you ’re gon na come face to aspect with the Red Face Demon,“Lora Sauls tell us . “It ’s one of the most terrifying stalk houses we have ever design . Every character in that haunt menage not only has one " boo hole , " , but they have three opportunities to scare you in every single " boo hole . " It is one of the most terrific houses , like I enjoin , we have ever designed . "
We urge timing your HHN 33 haunted houses to save the scariest and IP - base 1 for by and by . These may have the longer queue and likely the most involvement for repeat experiences , so if you have the time , we recommend the above order . When I utter with Lora Sauls , she recommended experience the scare zone first during the daytime , and then again at night when the lighting and mood changes to really see the details and performances , and feel immersed . There ’s so much to do at Halloween Horror Nights , not to mention themed treat , but all the haunted menage offer something unique and special this year .
Universal Studios Hollywood ’s Halloween Horror Nights 2024 features eight all - novel , all - terrific haunted houses . Here all all eight mazes , ranked .
As for 2025 ’s Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando , Lora Sauls tell us work has already begun .
" For 2025 we started growing in April . Because of earlier starts and more work processes in our process , we ’re start even earlier . "
As for what themes the 10 haunt houses forHHN 34may embrace , they are " close to being chosen " and we can carry 4 - 5 IP base one with the respite being original again as the balance .
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