HALLOWEEN: Universal Studios cooks up yet another frightful Halloween event.
By Jonathan Whang, Staff Writer
September has come and gone, and this month theme parks everywhere converted their decor to celebrate Halloween. Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party returns to Disneyland, featuring festivities such as trick-or-treating at the park and visiting the Haunted Mansion. Meanwhile, Knott’s Berry Farm and Six Flags both offer some new scare zones and Halloween shows. However, Universal Studios stands out the most with its top-notch, frightening attractions.
Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios makes its 23rd appearance this year. One of the highest-ranked Halloween events in the country, it features new scare houses based on films, TV series and computer games every year. This year, the park reopens its back lot with the theme on the zombie-apocalypse TV franchise, The Walking Dead. The highlight attraction, a house called “No Safe Haven,” includes a prison facility setting and the Governor’s secret chamber, a room containing military tanks that release hordes of zombies. Of course, there aren’t any actual zombies at the park; the monsters are all acted out by “scaractors,” who are hired to dress up and scare people out of their minds.
Along with the Walking Dead, there will be a recreation of the classic horror-comedy film An American Werewolf in London, and houses inspired by Evil Dead, The Cabin in the Woods and Resident Evil. A review on DigitalSpy.com states that the business didn’t find anyone leaving the Cabin in the Woods attraction who “wasn’t shrieking, shaking or falling to the floor in a mixture of relief and joy.” Though the director of An American Werewolf, John Landis, was initially reluctant to give the copyrights to Universal Studios, he grew excited about the film’s participation in the event and even spoke at the launch. Similarly, John Diamonon, from the company that made Resident Evil, was also enthusiastic about Universal’s Horror Nights, and was the one who requested the video game’s inclusion in the event. With outstanding ratings (Amusement Today gave it the Golden Ticket Award six years in a row) and the approval of aforementioned big names in entertainment, Halloween Horror Nights should definitely be regarded with high expectations.
However, amidst all the horror and excitement that surrounds Universal Studio’s
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successful event, John Landis looks deeper into things. In an interview with DigitalSpy.com, Landis cites the popularity of zombies to an inner fear shared by all people: the fall of human order. “Look around the world…it is actually happening in lots of places,” Landis said.
For anyone looking for a good scare this October, Universal Studios is the best place to go. If this year’s Halloween Horror Nights 23 doesn’t disappoint, one can unquestionably look forward to Halloween Horror Nights 24, since the events only seem to become better and scarier over time.
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