Common Studios Orlando simply unveiled its full slate for Halloween Horror Nights 2022, and it’s scary good. This 12 months contains 10 haunted homes, 5 scare zones, two dwell exhibits, in addition to an after-hours choice of the theme park’s trip sights (Petition to maintain E.T. Adventure open throughout the occasion).
The Common Monsters headline the occasion in a two-parter home Common Monsters: Legends Collide that can exist in each Orlando and Hollywood. At HHN East, half one will invite traditional monster-heads to see the primary chapter of the overarching battle between The Wolfman, Dracula, and the Mummy for a cursed amulet with mysterious powers all of them search. The combat to the dying, with rotating winners in fact, has its personal standalone conclusion however performs into an element two of kinds at Universal Studios Hollywood. This one is the one I’m most to see as these mazes have just lately served as theme park sequels to the traditional Common Monsters movies like final 12 months’s The Bride of Frankenstein LIVES!
So far as the opposite “massive” film IP goes, I gotta admit this 12 months is a bit of underwhelming to date. We’ve received one other tackle one other home based mostly on John Carpenter’s Halloween, which was final achieved in 2014 (2015 in Hollywood). Music celebrity The Weeknd seeks to take us into his twisted thoughts with slasher motifs and trendy Argento vibes all set to his music in After Hours Nightmare, which may work if his creepy Tremendous Bowl halftime present from final 12 months is any indication. Then Blumhouse will carry The Black Cellphone’s The Grabber and their teen killer from Freaky. This all is wild in a 12 months the place Netflix may have collaborated on a home based mostly on Stranger Issues, which actually upped the ante with Vecna, and even with Concern Avenue, which was lengthy rumored on HHN hypothesis maps.
Fortunately the place Horror Nights Orlando stands aside is with its personal roster of unique theme park universe characters and tales. Final 12 months, I received to expertise HHN Icons: Captured— which was basically the cliff-notes that supplied the best hits of 30 years of interconnected tales and monsters like park icons Jack the Clown, The Storyteller, The Caretaker, and the central fictional areas they wreak havoc upon. So this 12 months’s home choices ship on a bevy of wealthy horror sub-genres that vary from supernatural fantasy, creature options and sci-fi thrillers.
Right here’s are some temporary descriptions of their unique mazes from the Common press launch.
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Spirits of the Coven
Guests will be invited to a lively 1920s speakeasy, but something sinister is brewing beneath in “Spirits of the Coven.” A coven of seemingly beautiful flapper witches will lure those who enter into a hidden brewing area. Once they’ve ensnared their victims, they’ll reveal their haggish true form and turn guests into a witch’s brew. They’ll be cackling; everyone else will be screaming.
Bugs: Eaten Alive
While touring a 1950s home of the future, guests will be swarmed by hordes of revolting insects after a pest control system failure unleashes them. Many-legged horrors, growing, mutating and laying eggs in human hosts will worm their way into the deepest of fears. Those who dare enter will be dropping like flies in “Bugs: Eaten Alive.”
Fiesta de Chupacabras
The mountains of Latin America are filled with many wonderful traditions. In one tiny village, they pay tribute to the legendary creature Chupacabras with an annual fiesta. In “Fiesta de Chupacabras,” there’s more to the legend than meets the eye. And in this colorful village, the streets are lined with the crimson blood of visitors.
Hellblock Horror
They too do time for their crimes. In “Hellblock Horror,” guests will have to survive visiting hours in a secret penitentiary that houses treacherous monsters and fiends of all kinds that are hellbent on taking over and destroying the world. The interdimensional power core containing the inmates has failed and the monsters are breaking out of their cells, allowing them easy access to guests, and the exit.
Dead Man’s Pier: Winter’s Wake
There’s nothing charming about this ghostly New England fishing village. A phantom sea captain is summoning undead fishermen from their watery grave, a grisly crew with rotting, barnacle-encrusted bodies. Guests may have escaped their hooks in the “Dead Man’s Wharf” scare zone in 2016 – now they’d better batten down the hatches before they’re reeled in and drug under in “Dead Man’s Pier: Winter’s Wake.”
Descendants of Destruction
Deep in the subway tunnels below an abandoned, toxic city, mutated humans fight for survival in “Descendants of Destruction.” The deeper one goes, the darker their fate. In the fading light of the poisoned depths, hideous creatures who’ve long ago left their humanity behind prey on all who try to make their way through the darkness.
Orlando also goes all out with festively immersive scare zones, which even feature cult icon Lil’ Boo, the cutest jack-o-lantern you’ll ever meet. (It’s the Grogu of haunts.)
Here’s their list of scare zones for 2022, again from the Universal press release.
Horrors of Halloween
The Pumpkin Lord, the spirit of Halloween, has returned to take over this year’s event, summoning hordes of fiendish creatures including demons, ghosts and witches. Terror has taken root.
Scarecrow: Cursed Soil
At an abandoned farm, scarecrow sentinels have risen from the crust of the earth to hunt souls and seek revenge. They’ll harvest the screams of those who dare enter this dilapidated barn.
Sweet Revenge
The sweets from Major Sweets’ candy company have turned these 1950s kids into crazed killers. With pint-sized costumed maniacs roaming the streets, Halloween will be a night of trick or treat mayhem.
Graveyard: Deadly Unrest
On All Hallow’s Eve, a dark storm descends upon a cemetery and awakens long-dead spirits. These specters rise from their graves to capture souls for all eternity. No one living can escape them.
Conjure the Dark
An evil sorceress has entered twisted stone ruins and called forth monstrosities from dark dimensions. This Halloween, blood will feed her army of the night.
Finally there’s two live shows with a new original taking the place of the Universal Horror waterside sizzle reel, Marathon of Mayhem: Carnage Factory—but we still hope to see a cool montage of scary movie moments.
Halloween Nightmare Fuel Wildfire
The show that sparked a firestorm last year is ablaze with a new nightmare. Guests can get fired up to the beat of metal, rock and electronica as pyro and aerial performers return to reignite fears.
Ghoulish! A Halloween Tale
As darkness falls, a ghost story becomes reality as guests go beyond the grave in a spectacularly spooky show on Universal Studios’ lagoon, featuring huge water screens and sinister music.
Halloween Horror Nights Orlando runs September 2 – October 31. All tickets and vacation packages are on sale now at www.universalorlando.com/halloween.
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