The countdown is on to Universal Orlando’s 2023 Halloween Horror Nights and the house lineup, for this year, is sure to keep patrons screaming from first house to last! The last time I went to HHN, I was deemed to have the ‘best scream ever’ by one of the RIP tour guides and with good reason. The houses that year were terrifying. It’s been a good while, since I’ve been to HHN you know life and all, so I am super excited to get to go again this year. Our daughter is attending UCF in the fall, so we decided it was the perfect time to get annual passes and do all the things! Today, Universal Orlando released all ten Halloween Horror Night Houses, so now we know all ten and I’m going to break down each of them right now, but first….here’s a sneak peek of the horror that awaits!
Now, lets get into the houses!
House 1: Stranger Things 4
Season 4 of Netflix’s original series is brought to life in a terrifying all-new haunted house that transports guests to Hawkins, Indiana where they will be immersed in the eerie Upside Down for a heart-pounding experience while traveling through iconic scenes. Guests will confront their deepest fears and come face to face with otherworldly creatures like demobats, and even Vecna himself within his blood-red Mind Lair in a race against the clock to escape and save mankind from his deadly curse
House 2: The Exorcist – Believer
Inspired by the movie releasing on October 13, guests will be tranpsortewd to a bustling street market in Haiti, where an innocent purchase of a strange folk doll with three eyes leads to the opening of a demonic portal, the awakening of sinister spirits and the subsequent disappearance of two 12-year-old girls in the U.S. The girls are found three days later with no memory of what happened to them. After the girls begin to exhibit unsettling behavior, it soon becomes clear that only an exorcism can save them – and everyone who comes in contact with them, including unwitting guests, is suddenly at risk of losing their souls.
Let me just go ahead and let you know….this will be the house that gets me. The last exorcist house they had, literally had me crying. I loved it and hated it at the same time. I am both scared and excited…but just a heads up if you are in a group with a woman crying…I’m sorry!
House 3: The Last of US
For the first time ever, Naughty Dog and PlayStation’s award-winning post-pandemic video game. An all-new haunted house that propels guests into an obstacle course of carnage and mayhem as they join a brutal journey in a world overtaken by a fungal virus that turns humans into various forms of a new threat known as the Infected. Guests will find themselves navigating iconic locations from the video game in a desperate attempt to escape and survive. ~Universal Media~
House 4: Chucky Ultimate Kill Count
Inspired by the cult classic films, the killer doll is the star of his very own haunted house for the first time. A true sadistic killer, Chucky has been mired in the agony of disrespect he feels from his peers at not being taken seriously. Thus begins his quest to turn his haunted house into a living slaughterhouse by killing every person who enters. ~Universal Media
House 5: Universal Monsters Unmasked
The dank Catacombs of Paris house a much darker secret sixty feet beneath the bustling streets, as the all-new haunted house takes guests down into the infamous burial grounds where every corner and crevice overflows with millions of skeletal remains and even more sinister secrets. Deep within the Catacombs, Universal’s most notorious creatures – The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dr. Jekyll and his deranged alternate personality Mr. Hyde, and Dr. Jack Griffin, aka The Invisible Man – lie in wait as they bide their time and seek vengeance against guests after the opening of the Catacombs to public visitation. These desperate and dangerous fiends have become filled with a rage toward guests navigating the twisted tunnels of their underground labyrinth home. ~Universal Media
House 6: Dr. Oddfellow’s Twisted Origins
In the 1930s Dust Bowl era, guests won’t be able to resist going inside Dr. Oddfellow’s menacing menagerie of twisted oddities where they’ll encounter grotesquely distorted animals and freakish fiends. The price to enter this creepy caravan is steep as souls feed his immortal power. ~Universal Media
Dr Oddfellow is our resident showrunner, all scare zones will be themed around him. More to come, on that, in a future post
House 7: Dueling Dragons – Choose Thy Fate
The great wizard Merlyn has been transformed into the Enchanted Oak, leaving a power vacuum. When two powerful warlocks invade his castle to steal his spell book, they are turned into dragons of fire and ice. Now guests are caught in the middle of their battle and are forced to choose a path and a victor. But beware, one never knows who will win”
House 8: YETI, Campground Kills
In a 1950s campground, a group of towering, terrifying yetis are running rampant, ripping apart campers, rangers and anyone else who gets in their way. Guests must flee through the campground into cabins, a bait shack and even the outhouse in hopes of making it to the ranger tower before it’s too late.
House 9: The Darkest Deal
In the Mississippi Delta, blues musician Pinestraw Spruce meets at a crossroads with a diabolical entity known as The Collector to make a deal: his soul for musical glory. Guests will witness his big break performing for a crowd before The Collector drags him to Hades with the other musicians who learned the terrible price of fame
House 10: Bleed For the Blood Moon
Colonial-era villagers begin to worship the moon obsessively. When the blood moon rises at their fall festival, they take it as a sign that they must hunt down any non-followers within their village. Guests will need to try not to become part of the sacrifice as they gather body parts to form a grisly offering
There you have it, all ten houses! This lineup looks like it is going to be amazing. I am sure, as always, universal will have THE BEST scare-actors both in the houses and along the scarezones. There have been years I’ve been more terrified walking around outside, between the houses, than in the actual houses. I can’t wait to share all the scarezones with you, in a future post, so be sure to check back here.
Which 2023 Halloween Horror Night house do you think would terrify you, the most?
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