UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD PRESENTS
2010 “HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS,”
WHERE HORROR LEGENDS COME TO LIFE
This year’s 2010 Halloween Horror Nights®, at Universal Studios HollywoodSM will feature five terrifying mazes and six “Scare Zones,” including “La Llorona,” based on the timeless Mexican urban legend. The event will also feature a fully re-imagined “Terror Tram” backlot studio experience, offering guests a chance to walk through Universal Studios historic movie sets.
Universal’s most popular rides and attractions will also be open to guests, including, an unprecedented “express” ride to “King Kong 360 3-D,” the world’s largest, most intense 3D experience. “King Kong 360 3D: The Shull Island Express” at “Halloween Horror Nights” will be the only time guests will be able to experience the “King Kong 360 3-D” attraction separately from the theme park’s world-famous Studio Tour.
“Halloween Horror Nights” will extend to 17 nights, beginning on Friday, September 24 and continuing through Halloween, Sunday, October 31. Event dates are: September, 24, 25; October 1-2, 8-9, 15-17, 21-24, 28-31. The event will begin nightly at 7:00 p.m.; closing hours vary by night throughout the event.
Tickets are on sale including a new “Killer Deal Nights” option, offering discounts of up to $25 on selected dates. Advance purchase is recommended, as event nights will sell out. More information and tickets for purchase are available at www.HalloweenHorrorNights.com/hollywood or www.UniversalStudiosHollywood.com/HHN
SIX HORROR-FILLED “SCARE ZONES”:
Lurking in dark corners and prowling for prey throughout “Halloween Horror Nights” are countless “scare-actors” and numerous horror-filled “Scare Zones” designed to torment and torture guests at every instance. This year, six “Scare Zones” will provoke a new sense of terror in guests.
“La Llorona,” a compelling new “Scare Zone,” recounts the 500-year-old Mexican legend of a woman who drowned her children to gain the hand of a wealthy man. Her reprehensible sacrifice backfires when the man, horrified by her actions, rejects her. In desperation, the woman drowns herself, and that’s where the horror commences. The women, referred to as “La Llorona” – the Crying Woman – is destined to a life of eternal weeping, doomed to wander the Earth in search of her dead children. Preying on women, men and children she finds after dark, “La Llorona’s” anguishing wail translates to a mantra of death. Her incessant chanting of “¿Dónde está mi hijos?” (where are my children?) serves as a warning that death is imminent as she drags her victims to the water’s edge to drown them.
Further immersing guests in Jigsaw’s vengeful games, the “Pigz” “Scare Zone” will serve up a fatty slab of chainsaw-wielding “Pigz,” reminiscent of “Saw’s” infamous Pigman character. Situated adjacent to the “Saw: Game On” maze, a snorting gauntlet of pig-faced disciples will play diabolical games with roving guests.
Inspired by “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” the “Nightmarz” is a warning to all guests brave enough to wake-up in this “Scare Zone.” Disfigured dream stalker Freddy Krueger roams the area, stalking and preying upon guests foolish enough to sleep walk though his “Nightmarz.”
In true carnival style, the “Freakz” “Scare Zone” will set the stage for a plethora of deranged human oddities who’ve lost their only gig during hard economic times and have redirected their maniacal attentions on hapless guests.
The circus may have come to town, but it’s the “Klownz” that are running the show in this gang-filled “Scare Zone” of violent killer clowns whose three ring circus entertains to the applause of murder and mayhem.
A group of dangerously disturbed “Lunaticz” have slaughtered their caretakers and have overrun the asylum in this “Scare Zone” filled with demented murderous loonies.
NEW PRODUCTION:
“BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT HALLOWEEN ADVENTURE”
With astonishing topics torn from the pages of today’s most salacious tabloids and acid-tongue bloggers, the kings of comedic satire spin pop culture and celebrity public blunders into riotous laughter. Bill and Ted, never without their most excellent time-traveling phone booth, add hilarity to the already ridiculous for sublime parody performances in the return of the very popular “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure.”
POPULAR RIDES JOIN “HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS”:
“KING KONG 360 3-D: SKULL ISLAND EXPRESS”
During “Halloween Horror Nights” 17-night run, guests will have the rare opportunity to experience “King Kong 360 3-D” as the only ride on the world-famous Studio Tour. Via the “King Kong 360 3-D: Skull Island Express,” guests at this year’s event will have unprecedented opportunity to ride the world’s largest, most intense 3-D experience by way of a dedicated, non-stop tram. It will be the only time guests will be able to experience “King Kong 360 3-D” separately from the theme park’s Studio Tour.
“JURASSIC PARK®—IN THE DARK”
Havoc erupts when Universal’s oldest monsters turn their ravenous appetites on unsuspecting guests thrust unwittingly into the cold, still night of the Jurassic era. Only inches from gigantic carnivorous dinosaurs, guests in fear for their lives will navigate uncharted waters before they plunge headfirst down an 84-foot drop into the frigid waters of “Jurassic Park®—The Ride.”
“REVENGE OF THE MUMMY®— THE RIDE”
Fear of the dark, fear of insects, fear of speed, fear of heights and fear of death are served up to deliver the world’s first psychological thrill ride roller coaster. Utilizing animatronics, sophisticated motion picture technology, state-of-the-art ride, audio and robotics engineering, “Revenge of the Mummy®—The Ride” preys on every human phobia, immersing guests in a total multi-sensory environment in utter darkness.
“THE SIMPSONS RIDE®”
What could possibly be scarier than a wild virtual roller coaster ride through “Krustyland” with The Simpsons wreaking havoc and mayhem on “Krustyland, “ the theme park within a theme park. Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson will lead guests on an adventure when they board “The Simpsons Ride,” a mega-attraction based on the blockbuster movie and TV series and the centerpiece of Krusty The Clown’s fictitious “Krustyland” theme park. Voted “Best New Theme Park Ride” by Theme Park Insider.com, “The Simpsons Ride®” is as motion simulation comedy thrill ride that hurls guests on a wild adventure through Krustyland, immersing them in a “Simpsons” satire of one creative amusement park experience. Guests will be clinging to each other for dear life and laugh till it hurts.
“HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS”
DATES, TIME & MORE INFORMATION:
“Halloween Horror Nights” will extend to 17 nights, beginning on Friday, September 24 and continuing through Halloween, Sunday, October 31. Event dates are: September, 24, 25; October 1-2, 8-9, 15-17, 21-24, 28-31. The event will begin nightly at 7:00 p.m.; closing hours vary by night throughout the event.
More information and tickets are available at www.HalloweenHorrorNights.com/hollywood. Updates on “Halloween Horror Nights” will be available at HalloweenHorrorNights.com and also on Twitter and Facebook, as Creative Director John Murdy reveals a running chronicle of exclusive information. Fans are invited to follow John Murdy on Twitter at: Twitter.com/HorrorNights or via Facebook at: “Halloween Horror Nights – Hollywood (Official).”
