Everything You Need To Know About Halloween Horror Nights 28 At Universal Orlando Resort
7. The Original Houses Are Must See
If you've never been to HHN before, you may be tempted to look past the original houses in favour of the big names. You'd be missing out if you chose to ignore these home-grown mazes.
At last year's event, Scarecrow: The Reaping was the event's highest rated maze, beating out the heavy hitters of American Horror Story and The Shining to take the crown of the scariest maze for 2017.
Universal usually leaves the original houses to be announced last and tends to bundle them together in one announcement. This year they have instead given each one its own time in the spotlight by revealing them separately and with their own video packages.
Here's a run down of the Universal's in-house created mazes that are appearing at this year's event.
Dead Exposure: Patient Zero
Based on a house from 2008, Dead Exposure: Patient Zero takes you back to 1982 Paris. A zombie virus has broken out and is spreading fast. The only known cure has a terrible side effect... blindness. Will you be able to make it through the darkness as the infected search for you?
Slaughter Sinema
This maze will take you right into the middle of a B-movie marathon with "werewolf bikers... alien cannibals... and a ravenous swamp yeti". You're going to smell the popcorn as you enter the theatre but with Midnight Snacks 2: The House Swarming also playing at this horror special, you might be put off your food.
Carnival Graveyard: Rust In Pieces
The rides at this fairground are long rusted but trespassers beware, you are not alone in this carnival graveyard. "Horrifying guard dogs, a grotesque ‘tunnel of love’, gleefully vicious performers loaded with deadly weapons fabricated from old rides" will make sure you don't have all the fun of the fair.
Seeds of Extinction
Thanks to a meteor strike humans have become extinct and new life has taken hold of Earth. These man eating plants that now cover the planet use "strangling vines, razor-sharp thorns and poisonous pollens" to hunt any remaining people left on this terrifying graveyard to human life. Universal have also confirmed that guests will see nods to past HHN houses, releasing some behind the scenes images from the maze.
Scarytales: Deadly Ever After
Imagine if the Wicked Witch of the West finally took control of all the fairytale land and there were no more happily ever afters. She's "tormenting treasured storybook characters in hideous and cruel alternate storylines." These aren't the quaint stories of your childhood, these are going to be way darker than what you've ever experienced before.