Universal Studios Orlando simply unveiled its full slate for Halloween Horror Nights 2022, and it’s scary good. This 12 months consists of 10 haunted homes, 5 scare zones, two stay exhibits, in addition to an after-hours collection of the theme park’s trip points of interest (Petition to maintain E.T. Adventure open through the occasion).

The Universal Monsters headline the occasion in a two-parter home Universal Monsters: Legends Collide that can exist in each Orlando and Hollywood. At HHN East, half one will invite basic 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 demise, with rotating winners in fact, has its personal standalone conclusion however performs into an element two of types at Universal Studios Hollywood. This one is the one I’m most to see as these mazes have lately served as theme park sequels to the basic Universal Monsters movies like final 12 months’s The Bride of Frankenstein LIVES!

As far as the opposite “big” film IP goes, I gotta admit this 12 months is just a little underwhelming to date. We’ve obtained one other tackle one other home primarily based on John Carpenter’s Halloween, which was final completed in 2014 (2015 in Hollywood). Music famous person 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 might work if his creepy Super Bowl halftime present from final 12 months is any indication. Then Blumhouse will deliver The Black Phone’s The Grabber and their teen killer from Freaky. This all is wild in a 12 months the place Netflix might have collaborated on a home primarily based on Stranger Things, which actually upped the ante with Vecna, and even with Fear Street, which was lengthy rumored on HHN hypothesis maps.

Thankfully the place Horror Nights Orlando stands aside is with its personal roster of authentic theme park universe characters and tales. Last 12 months, I obtained to expertise HHN Icons: Captured— which was primarily the cliff-notes that offered 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.

Here’s are some transient descriptions of their authentic mazes from the Universal press launch.

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Spirits of the Coven

Guests can be invited to a vigorous Nineteen Twenties speakeasy, however one thing sinister is brewing beneath in “Spirits of the Coven.” A coven of seemingly stunning flapper witches will lure those that enter right into a hidden brewing space. Once they’ve ensnared their victims, they’ll reveal their haggish true type and switch visitors right into a witch’s brew. They’ll be cackling; everybody else can be screaming.

Bugs: Eaten Alive

While touring a Nineteen Fifties house of the long run, visitors can be swarmed by hordes of revolting bugs after a pest management system failure unleashes them. Many-legged horrors, rising, mutating and laying eggs in human hosts will worm their means into the deepest of fears. Those who dare enter can be dropping like flies in “Bugs: Eaten Alive.”

Fiesta de Chupacabras

The mountains of Latin America are crammed with many great traditions. In one tiny village, they pay tribute to the legendary creature Chupacabras with an annual fiesta. In “Fiesta de Chupacabras,” there’s extra to the legend than meets the attention. And on this colourful village, the streets are lined with the crimson blood of holiday makers.

Hellblock Horror

They too do time for his or her crimes. In “Hellblock Horror,” visitors must survive visiting hours in a secret penitentiary that homes treacherous monsters and fiends of every kind which can be hellbent on taking up and destroying the world. The interdimensional energy core containing the inmates has failed and the monsters are breaking out of their cells, permitting them easy accessibility to visitors, 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 our bodies. Guests could have escaped their hooks within the “Dead Man’s Wharf” scare zone in 2016 – now they’d higher batten down the hatches earlier than they’re reeled in and drug below in “Dead Man’s Pier: Winter’s Wake.”

Descendants of Destruction

Deep within the subway tunnels beneath an deserted, poisonous metropolis, mutated people combat for survival in “Descendants of Destruction.” The deeper one goes, the darker their destiny. In the fading mild of the poisoned depths, hideous creatures who’ve way back left their humanity behind prey on all who attempt to make their means by means of the darkness.

Orlando additionally goes all out with festively immersive scare zones, which even characteristic cult icon Lil’ Boo, the cutest jack-o-lantern you’ll ever meet. (It’s the Grogu of haunts.)

Here’s their checklist of scare zones for 2022, once more from the Universal press launch.

Horrors of Halloween

The Pumpkin Lord, the spirit of Halloween, has returned to take over this 12 months’s occasion, summoning hordes of fiendish creatures together with demons, ghosts and witches. Terror has taken root.

Scarecrow: Cursed Soil

At an deserted farm, scarecrow sentinels have risen from the crust of the earth to hunt souls and search revenge. They’ll harvest the screams of those that dare enter this dilapidated barn.

Sweet Revenge

The sweets from Major Sweets’ sweet firm have turned these Nineteen Fifties children into crazed killers. With pint-sized costumed maniacs roaming the streets, Halloween can be an evening of trick or deal with mayhem.

Graveyard: Deadly Unrest

On All Hallow’s Eve, a darkish storm descends upon a cemetery and awakens long-dead spirits. These specters rise from their graves to seize souls for all eternity. No one dwelling can escape them.

Conjure the Dark

An evil sorceress has entered twisted stone ruins and known as forth monstrosities from darkish dimensions. This Halloween, blood will feed her military of the night time.

Finally there’s two stay exhibits with a brand new authentic taking the place of the Universal Horror waterside sizzle reel, Marathon of Mayhem: Carnage Factory—however we nonetheless hope to see a cool montage of scary film moments.

Halloween Nightmare Fuel Wildfire

The present that sparked a firestorm final 12 months is ablaze with a brand new nightmare. Guests can get fired as much as the beat of steel, rock and electronica as pyro and aerial performers return to reignite fears.

Ghoulish! A Halloween Tale

As darkness falls, a ghost story turns into actuality as visitors transcend the grave in a spectacularly spooky present on Universal Studios’ lagoon, that includes big water screens and sinister music.

Halloween Horror Nights Orlando runs September 2 – October 31. All tickets and trip packages are on sale now at www.universalorlando.com/halloween.

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