Remember how excited I was last year about the "horror hat trick" Universal Studios was pulling with their Halloween Horror Nights? Freddy, Jason AND Leatherface (even CHUCKY!) in one place??!!!'Member?!
No?
Read THIS then.
Did Universal deliver to my excited expectations? Yes.
Yes it did.
So here we are again and Universal is about to deliver AGAIN. Freddy, Jason and Leatherface are all back. So's Chucky. How do they make it better? By throwing in the masked killers from The Strangers, THAT'S how. According to the website:
Plus there’s a new scare zone based on the hit movie, “The Strangers” and an all-new Bill & Ted’s Halloween Adventure.
Very exciting.Though I wonder what a The Strangers "scare zone" is? Is that a nice warm candle lit living room with masked crazies in it?
Will I want to scream or settle in with a book?
How else are they upping the ante?
Well they're putting Freddy "loose" on the backlot AND putting him in an all-new Nightmare on Elm Street maze that you enter through the front of the Elm Street house!
Wow. Very cool.
Speaking of the backlot tour, it was definitely one of the high points of my trip last year. The trams drop you off at a point and you walk ON FOOT right next to the Psycho house and Bates motel. For a horror fan, you can't get any closer to a legendary screen classic than that.
One other item of note was the Universal Monster walk thru. I entered thinking it would be childish and lame but when I found myself walking on a ledge above a 3 story giant Frankenstein's monster lab, I thought "oh this isn't just thrown together." Do check it out when you go.
For a "so bad it's good" watch I highly recommend the Bill & Ted's Halloween Adventure show. Imagine one of the current parody films like Epic Movie done live on stage... with no plot... and fart jokes. Seriously, check out this car accident of a show. You'll be talking about it for years.
So let's recap: Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, Chucky, The Strangers, Universal monsters and Psycho. All in one trip.
They really take care to make the mazes with a high Hollywood production value. It shows. In the costumes the Jasons and Freddys are wearing to the rooms you walk through. A woman being speared through the roof of a REAL VW Beetle? Wow.This behind the scenes video is sort of a mini "making of" that shows the care they give to the event.
Not to mention some of the park's rides are still open like the Mummy rollercoaster, the Jurassic Park Ride without lights, etc.
My point is this: All in all the best bang for your Halloween buck is Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights.
Or should I say something more quotable like: The most screams for your dollar is Universal's Halloween Horror Nights.
4 comments:
Aw, I'm SO JEALOUS!! I'm stuck here in Oklahoma where we get the cheesiest crap... nothing that awesome! I expect a full review! hehe
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie to you: it's pretty cool. I also forgot to mention how they fog up the park so there are sections you're walking through where you can barely see your hand in front of your face. Then a rotten zombie jumps out of the bushes to scare you. Cripes. Awesome.
I just went there this Thursday and was very disappointed.
There were at least 4 times the normal amount of people there for this time of year.
It looked like a sea of people, similar to what you might see on T. V. of some crowded
third world country.
The lines were so long there must have been well over 1000 people in the regular line
for each haunted house at least an hour wait for each line.
I finally got in and all it was a bunch of people in rubber masks looming over you as
you walk through all the while there was black lights and flashing lights.
It might be scary for a child or an idiot I guess.
I didn't even get scared once.
If you really want to go there you must and I mean must get the express pass.
There were two line workers in each haunted house express line trying to get the
express pass holders through and the express lines were still backed up. They would
let about a hundred express pass holders through then about 30 regular pass holders
through then repeat the cycle.
I checked out to two more haunted house lines but they were just as backed up as the
first one so I gave up because of the bad experience with the first crappy haunted
house.
All I could see in the entire time I was there was one real crummy haunted house, one
Infomercial magic show wanting you to buy his book and T-shirt deal at the shows end.
One trip on the M.I.B. ride The only bright spot of the whole time there!. And one
bill & ted show which I thought started off OK with Presidential candidates parity but
slowly went downhill because I didn't know all the very numerous caricatures .
I was so angry with the whole crappy event I left a half hour early.
I wish I could get our money back.
I certainly would never go there again.
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