By Mark and Eylat Poliner.
As we edge closer to Fall it was time once again for the amazing Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios. We always look forward to covering this event and this year was simply amazing.
The evening started with a star-laden red carpet premier. Guests included Tyrese Gibson, David Arquette, Barry Bostwick, Tara Reid, Dylan Minnette, Ty Simpkins, and many others. Recording artist Travis Baker was joined by the Insidious cast members Leigh Whannell, Lin Shaye, and Stefanie Scott. The award-winning hip-hop group Jabbawokeez debuted an all-original show.
Jabbawokeez, will transport guests into a new realm of gravity-defying choreography and accompanied by stunning visual effects. This show will mark their introduction into horror-themed entertainment and will take place at the park’s Castle Theater venue.
Halloween Horror Nights features new mazes and many frights. This is the End is a first of its kind 3-D maze. Other mazes include Insidious: Return to the Further, Halloween: Michael Meyers Comes Home and AVP: Alien vs Predator.
In the annual Terror Tram, guests will attempt to survive the night as they are immersed in Survive the Purge experience. Onboard the Terror Tram, guests will find themselves at the mercy of the affected vigilantes looking to annihilate people deemed unworthy, by the thousands. Follow Edith Cushing as she ventures from her home in America, to the decaying and haunted Allerdale Hall. With a foreboding “Beware of Crimson Peak” messages that echoes Edith’s past, guests will navigate a labyrinth of paranormal tortured souls who have born witness to the estate’s dark history.
Michael Myers, takes a stab at in a terrifying new maze, Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home. The maze takes guests through the tormented town of Haddonfield, Ill, where on one fateful Halloween night in 1963, a six-year old child named Michael Myers brutally and without explanation stabbed his sister.
AVP: Alien v Predator brings together two iconic species, when they take their fight to Earth’s desert. Guests will be entangled in the middle of an epic and primal war between the universe’s most deadly species.
Halloween Horror Nights event dates are: Sept 18, 19, 25, 26, 27; and Oct 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31; and Nov 1. The event begins nightly at 7:00 pm.
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From Universal P.R.
Universal City, CA, September 18, 2015 – Universal Studios Hollywood marked the opening of the highly anticipated “Halloween Horror Nights” with a celebrity-laden red carpet premiere, as Southern California’s most extreme horror event brought together the sickest minds in horror to immerse guests in a living, breathing, three-dimensional world of terror. “Halloween Horror Nights” continues on select nights through November 1, 2015.
Attending celebrity guests included actors Tyrese Gibson, David Arquette, Barry Bostwick, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Frankie Grande, Tara Reid, Dylan Minnette and Ty Simpkins as well as recording artist Travis Barker, who were joined by Insidious cast members Leigh Whannell, Lin Shaye and Stefanie Scott, and members from the award-winning hip hop-dance crew Jabbawockeez, who will debut an all-original show as part of this year’s event.
“Halloween Horror Nights” 2015 features a slate of new mazes, an exciting hip-hop dance show, a new cutthroat Terror Tram experience and terrifying Scare Zones, including “Guillermo del Toro Presents Crimson Peak: Maze of Madness,” inspired by the visionary filmmaker who directed, co-wrote and produced the upcoming Legendary and Universal Pictures feature film; “The Walking Dead: Wolves Not Far,” inspired by season 5 of AMC’s critically-acclaimed, Emmy Award®-winning television series; “This is the End 3D,” the first-ever 3D horror-comedy maze, based on the hit movie starring James Franco, Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill; “Insidious: Return to the Further,” based on the bone-chilling Insidious film trilogy; “Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home,” inspired by the original classic slasher film, Halloween, directed by renowned horror filmmaker John Carpenter; “AVP: Alien vs. Predator,” back by popular demand and inspired by Twentieth Century Fox cult sci-fi franchise; and an all-new backlot experience “Terror Tram: Survive the Purge,” inspired by Universal Pictures’ popular franchise film series. An electrifying all-new show featuring the highly-accomplished, hip hop dance group, Jabbawockeez, universally recognized as America’s best dance crew also debuts.
Adding to the event’s intrigue, Universal’s most popular rides and attractions also will be open to guests, including “Despicable Me Minion Mayhem,” “Transformers: The Ride-3D,” “Jurassic Park–In the Dark,” “The Simpsons Ride” and “Revenge of the Mummy–The Ride.”
A unique element to the this year’s “Halloween Horror Nights” is the premiere of the demonic short film One Night in Hell, featuring an original soundtrack by Brian May, legendary guitarist and songwriter for rock group Queen. The video will be screened for guests in the queue lines as they await entry to the mazes.
Tickets to this year’s event are available for purchase at www.HalloweenHorrorNights.com/hollywood, including a Front of Line ticket option that enables guests to enjoy priority access at each “Halloween Horror Nights” maze, Terror Tram and theme park attraction. Advance purchase is recommended as event nights will sell out.
For more information about “Halloween Horror Nights” at Universal Studios Hollywood, visit www.HalloweenHorrorNights.com. Join the “Halloween Horror Nights” conversation using #UniversalHHN on Facebook at Halloween Horror Nights – Hollywood and Instagram; Twitter and Periscope @HorrorNights. Add username HorrorNights on Snapchat for nightly live content, and watch the terror come to life on Halloween Horror Nights YouTube.
“Halloween Horror Nights” dates are: September 18, 19, 25, 26, 27, October 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31, and November 1, 2015.
