If you saw how many happy faces there were at the opening of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios L.A., you wouldn’t even remember that we are in the middle of a recession.
During the Halloween season, Universal Studios transforms from a regular theme park to the coolest, scariest Halloween attraction in the L.A. area. There are four mazes, three shows, the terror tram, and rides.
There’s so much to do, I couldn’t get it all done. I was there opening night and managed to fit in everything except for the Slaughterworld show (which I, for some unknown reason, have now missed three years in a row) and the Chucky show (which I would have seen, but I mismanaged my time and missed it.)
I’ll tell you the real scoop on why this event is crazy good. When you enter the park, there will be a ton of monsters just lurking around outside, waiting to pounce. There’s smoke, chainsaws, helicopter noises, the works… everyone's getting scared. The monsters working the streets were some of the best. There was this pig, and I was coming out of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre maze and I was writing stuff on my clipboard for my article. He came over and starting yelling about how journalists were bad. It didn’t faze me; I don’t scare that easily. So, he leaves, and I put my clipboard down and start talking - and he turns his chainsaw on. I thought he was going after these two girls, because I was far away now, but he comes charging at me. I’ll tell you, I don’t get scared easily, but he scared me so bad I almost wet myself. I came to be scared, and he delivered.
The first maze I entered was the Friday the 13th maze. No monster scared me there. I got freaked two or three times, but other guests were getting scared a lot more. That’s what happens when you start going to these places when you're three - you just don’t get that scared. But there were very good visuals, like a guy in a mattress popping out. (I was there at 8:15 and there was only a ten-minute wait, but the line got longer later.)
Article comments
1 - Daisy H.
Good article and thanks for promoting us! A quick fix tho: there was never a Van Helsing ride. It was a maze after the movie came out and then the maze was turned into the "House of Horrors", which houses a lot of Universal monsters, including the new addition this year: the STRANGERS!
Also, for those of you taking your children, the Chucky Show is NOT intended for children under 13 (a lot of cursing, but a funny show after all).
2 - ANDREW MAVADDAT
OMG HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS IS SO FREAKIN COOL. I LOVED THE SCARE ZONES AND TERROR TRAM AND RIDES, OH BUT I MISSED THE SHOWS AND MAZES WHAT A BUMMER BECAUSE OF LONG LINES AND SUCH, OH WELL IN 2009 IM GETTING A FRONT OF LINE PASS WHERE I GET TO DO EVERYTHING IM DEFINIATELY GOING BACK TO GET SCARED SOME MORE, SEE YA!
3 - lalo
Question can i take my 1 year old to holloween horror nights?