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The legendary Jack the Clown makes his triumphant (and twisted) return to present the biggest and scariest Halloween Horror Nights® ever, select nights from September 18th through November 1st. Now in its 25th year at Universal Orlando® Resort, the nation’s premier Halloween event puts you right into some of the most pulse-pounding moments in horror history.
Come along as Jack the Clown makes his triumphant return to present Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights 25, the nation’s premier Halloween event.
Halloween Horror Nights 2015 – overview & explanation
Think you have what it takes to survive the biggest names in horror, including Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, and venture through original, twisted nightmares?
Now in its 25th terrifying year, Universal Orlando Resort’s Halloween Horror Nights, the nation’s premier annual Halloween event, puts you right into some of the most pulse-pounding moments in horror history. During the day, you can experience the fun and excitement of Universal Orlando’s two amazing theme parks. But on select nights from September 18th through November 1st, 2015, the streets of Universal Studios Florida theme park come alive with hordes of horrifying mutants, monsters and maniacs. All throughout the night you’ll be completely immersed in the worlds of the biggest names in horror.
With 25 years of experience to draw from, nobody creates a more nightmarish Halloween event than Universal Orlando, filled with truly original scares and authentic horror movie moments. You can explore terrifying haunted houses, each remarkably themed and detailed by Universal’s designers and special effects wizards. You’ll make your way through multiple scare zones where gory and grotesque creatures lurk around every turn. You’ll roar with laughter at outrageous live shows. And, you can experience many of the park’s most exciting rides and attractions.
Halloween Horror Nights is a seven-time winner of Amusement Today’s “Best Halloween Event” Golden Ticket award. Tony Timpone, Editor of Fangoria Magazine, said, “After visiting scream parks all across the U.S. for the last 20 years, I can easily say that Universal’s is the best in the business… Halloween Horror Nights is the ultimate Halloween experience.” The 25th edition of this must-see event promises to bring to life the ultimate in scares past, present, and future.
Halloween Horror Nights 2015 will run a record-breaking 30 nights from September 18 through November 1 on these select dates:
September: 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27
October: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31
November: 1
BUSIEST DATES
Here is our projection for the busiest dates, often referred to as peak nights:
Oct 3, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30 & 31.
EVENT TIMES
The event is always scheduled to start at 6:30pm for general admission. New this year, closing times vary from 1AM to 2AM depending upon the night. Previously, some HHN event nights ended at midnight.
HHN 2015 haunted houses
Although there are shows, scare zones, and plenty of terrifying activities as part of Halloween Horror Nights, the haunted houses are the primary attractions for the event. Halloween Horror Nights 25 features nine, one more than ever before.
HHN haunted houses are best described as “movie-set quality” recreations of fantastic and fearsome locations. Sometimes referred as mazes, each haunted house is indoors, often set up in the unused queue area of a daytime attraction or one of the Universal soundstages. These haunted houses rely on every effect you can imagine to scare the pants off you, including hideous creatures, blood-curdling sound effects, loud music, tight passages, strobe lights, air bursts, mirror effects, and, of course, very elaborate – and in many cases very gruesome – props and set decoration.
Throughout much of the event’s history, haunted house themes have been original creations. However, in more recent years, Universal has started basing more and more houses on third-party licenses (often referred to by fans as IPs, or intellectual properties), such as AMC’s The Walking Dead.
2015 intellectual property houses include:
- Freddy vs Jason
- Insidious
- The Purge
- The Walking Dead: The Living and the Dead
- An American Werewolf in London
This year’s original creations and stories include:
- Jack Presents: 25 Years of Monsters and Mayhem
- RUN: Blood, Sweat, and Fears
- Asylum in Wonderland 3D
- Body Collector – Recollections
In general, guests are sent through houses in a steady flow (sort of like a conga line, versus being “pulsed” through in small groups), and, once inside, each house is typically a three to four-minute experience.
Full details on each house can be found here: http://www.halloweenhorrornights.com/orlando/rides-and-attractions.html