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Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare

Attraction type Haunted Maze
Event

Halloween Horror Nights 2011 (Hollywood)

Park Universal Studios Hollywood
Area Lower Lot
Year

2011

Housed in Jurassic Park Queue
Based on Welcome to My Nightmare (1975)/ Welcome 2 My Nightmare (2012)

Various Alice Cooper Albums

Followed By Alice Cooper Goes to Hell 3D (2012)

Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare was one of the six haunted mazes that were featured during Halloween Horror Nights 2011 (Hollywood). It was supervised by Alice Cooper himself. The maze was located in the Jurassic Park Queue.

Description[]

Enter the gruesomely twisted mind of shock rock legend, Alice Cooper, as he takes the stage in what is sure to be your final performance. Find your way through a labyrinth of razor-sharp guillotines, smell the burning flesh rotting upon electric chairs, and face off against deadly boa constrictors, demonic dolls and more!


Lose sight of what's real as you begin your dark, demented journey through the eyes of Alice Cooper. If you didn't believe in nightmares before, you soon will! For even staying awake won't save you!

Experience[]

Facade[]

The facade was Steven’s Decrepit and Foreclosed Home that transforms under UV to reveal windows trimmed in Alice Cooper’s eye makeup. To the left of the facade was a Furnier Reality foreclosure sign. Guests would enter the maze.

Haunted Maze[]

Guests enter a empty room with boarded up windows and a portrait on the walls with the adults scratched out.

Guests then enter Steven's Bedroom which is covered in spiders and cobwebs. A mirror on a table shows behind it Steven with Alice Cooper's eye makeup. There is a bunch of childhood toys and Steven's bed. Alice Cooper then pops out from behind a door with a chainsaw or with a knife.

Guests go through the closet to go through hanging bodies and children's clothes. Guests are then attacked by a Alice Cooper Skeleton from a boo hole. Guests are then scared by another one that comes back around for a second time.

Guests then go into the Billion Dollar Babies Toy Room where there is a bunch of Billion Dollar Babies in shelves with 1 of them being real that would pop out at guests. Guests then go down a long hallway with hanging baby dolls with glowing eyes.

Guests exit the house and enter the outside where there are a bunch of heads on stakes and Executioner Alice that pops out at guests with a severed head. There was also a guillotine with severed heads on the side. Guests would then go through a forest bathed in red lighting seeing more severed heads on stakes.

Guests then approach a facade for Gordon Asylum to which they then enter. Guests go down a hallway with flashing red lights and a dead body to which Dr. Alice pops out from behind a door.

Guests then enter a room where Nurse Rozetta electrocutes a Crispy Critter in a electric chair. The room is covered in graffiti and writings on the walls.

Guests then enter the morgue where they go down a hallway of coffin drawers to which to 2 sick things pull back the coffin drawers and both sides and attack guests. Guests could see at the end of the hallway a sick thing biting off the face of Nurse Rozetta as blood then sprays onto guests face.

Guests then enter the embalming room where an obese corpse pumped full of embalming fluid oozes bubbling green liquid on a table on the left and on the right Donald is cut up into pieces as Dr. Alice then busts into the scene to attack guests with a bone saw.

Guests then enter a science classroom where it's covered in cobwebs and there are cases of snakes and spiders in the scene. The lights would flash from red to blue. Headmaster Alice Cooper then pops into the scene attacking guests. Guests as they are exiting the classroom are attacked by a Snake that sprays venom at guests.

Guests then enter Steven's basement lair where on a table is a human spider made out of body parts. The Scene is covered in Spiders. Alive Cooper then busts into the Scene with a Chainsaw attacking guests.

Guests go down a hallway with hanging bodies. Guest then enter the Black Widows lair which is covered in cobwebs with flashes of blue and red lighting. Humanary Stew then pops out from both sides from behind Cobwebs at guests. Guests then see the Black Widow Spider that spews water and reaches out at guests with it's legs.

Guests then go down a hallway where Alice Cooper then pops out with a chainsaw and guests then exit the maze.

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Trivia[]

  • The codename for this maze was "Steven". [1].
  • The creation of this maze started when John Murdy got a phone call from a rep who wanted to pitch him the idea of an Alice Cooper maze. Instead, he asked to speak to Shep Gordon (Alice’s longtime manager) as he had my own idea, which was to use Alice’s music to create a “living horror movie.” Shep loved the idea[2].
  • Aside from “Welcome to my Nightmare,” the maze's inspiration/ music was mainly drawn from the classic Alice Cooper band albums of the 70’s; “Love it to Death,” “Killer,” “School’s Out” & “Billion Dollar Babies.” These were Murdy's introduction to Alice as a kid via 8 track tapes & vinyl[3].
  • Being a lifelong Alice fan, Murdy made the maze feature deeper cuts & references to less well known albums from his long solo career including the concept albums “From the Inside” & “Along Came a Spider” & 2 80’s “lost albums” Alice doesn’t remember making: “Special Forces” & “DaDa”[4].
  • Welcome 2 My Nightmare also inspired a lot of elements for this maze. [5].
  • Murdy did the Voice for several characters throughout the maze including Steven's Mother in the closet scene. [6].
  • Just before the maze opened, Alice came down to check it out and shoot a promo with John Murdy. As a goof, they stopped a passing tram and surprised the guests[7].
  • Towards the end of the run, John Murdy made a strange cameo in the maze. He appeared in pink bunny pajamas having a tea party with a giant roach & spider. The last night he walked the maze by himself when it was closed & took back his puppet that he loaned for the maze. Alice Cooper drew the eyes on that puppet[8].
  • Murdy has stated that this maze was originally planned to be a 3D maze. [9].
  • This maze replaced a maze codenamed "Nicasio" which was rumored to have been Freddy Vs Jason. [10].
  • Alice Cooper stated on KLOS that John Murdy knows his music better than he does. [11].
  • Murdy stated that he originally planned for a trilogy of concepts of Alice Cooper mazes starting with this one and Alice Cooper Goes to Hell 3D for Halloween Horror Nights 2012 (Hollywood). However, a third one was never made. It requires Alice Cooper to make a album based on a Concept. [12].
  • The facade for the maze was Steven from Welcome to my Nightmare’s home which Murdy saw as a abandoned haunted house. [13].
  • Murdy wanted to use Alice's eyes as a recurring theme throughout the house, and a pair of his eyes could be seen on the top two windows of the facade. [14].
  • There was a pumpkin outside the facade that had Alice Cooper's signature makeup on it.
  • The realtor sign outside the facade had Alice’s high school photo on it[15].
  • Entering the house, guests discovered Steven’s bedroom. Informed by the lyrics, Murdy saw him as a demented man-child living in his deteriorating childhood bedroom, dressed in footed pajamas. Guests entered the nightmare through his closet[16].
  • One of the photos inside the house is a photo of Alice Cooper as a child. The photo has the black eyes makeup on it.
  • There is a bunch of mail stacked on top of each other to imply Steven hasn't checked his mail for awhile since he's been stuck in his nightmares.
  • There is a bunch of spiders in Steven's Room as a Reference to the album, Along Came A Spider.
  • There is a bunch of photos of clowns on Steven's Room door as a reference to the song, Can't Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me.
  • Steven's bed was Jason's bed from Friday the 13th: Kill Jason Kill. [17].
  • The closet scene with the Alice Cooper Skeletons is a reference to the song, Skeletons in my Closet.
  • The next major scene was a surrealistic kid’s toy room occupied by the Billion Dollar Babies, the design for which was inspired in part from a scene in Terry Gilliam’s 1985 film “Brazil.”[18]
  • The Kid's Toy Room was inspired by lyrics from the song, Years Ago being "All my Toys are broken."
  • The Billion Dollar Babies scareactors are reference to Alice Cooper's song of the same name.
  • All of the hanging baby dolls have Alice Cooper's black eye makeup.
  • The guillotine was a gag that Alice Cooper would perform live for his shows.
  • Murdy wanted the maze to have a surrealistic feel to it, so for the guillotine scene he set it in a barren landscape with leafless trees & a blood red sky. The executioner in that scene was inspired by the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution[19].
  • Executioner Alice has a spider symbol on his hat which is a reference to the album, Along Came a Spider.
  • One of the head's in the guillotine head pile is from My Bloody Valentine: Be Mine 4 Ever.
  • Gordon Asylum: Asylum For The Criminally Insane was a reworked version of the facade from SAW: Game Over. [20].
  • The laughter of Renfield from 1931's Dracula can be heard in the asylum hallway before the Electrocution Chair Scene.
  • The laughter of Renfield being included was a possible reference to Alice Cooper's personal assistant, Brian Renfield Nelson who passed away in 2009.
  • The electric chair was a gag that Alice Cooper performed live for one of his shows.
  • The electric chair effect was reused from The Asylum.
  • The maze also featured Gordon Asylum (named after Alice’s manager Shep Gordon) where Nurse Rozetta (a character from one of Alice’s songs on “From the Inside”) was giving endless shock therapy to a another character called the “Crispy Critter"[21].
  • There was several pieces of graffiti that were in the electrocution chair scene that referenced lyrics and certain Easter eggs:
    • The Quiet Room which is a reference to the song from the album, From the Inside.
    • Nurse Rozetta as a snake with a syringe. Murdy said he drew this illustration. [22].
    • A head in between pipes with a guillotine blade at the Top.
    • Markings of the amount of days staying in the asylum.
    • The Last Temptation which is a reference to the album of the same name.
    • Welcome 2 my Nightmare as a Reference to the album of the same name.
    • Brutal Planet as a reference to the album of the same name.
    • Dada as a reference to the album of the same name.
    • A face that's crying as a reference to the song, I Never Cry.
    • Steven which is a reference to the song from the album, Welcome to My Nightmare.
    • Pain which is a reference to the song of the same name.
    • I'm a Great Big Man which is a reference to Lyrics from the song, Years Ago, from the album, Welcome to My Nightmare.
    • I Gotta Get Outta Here which is a reference to the song from the album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare.
    • Can't Sleep, Clowns will Eat Me which is a reference to the song from the album, Brutal Planet.
    • Log's Bunny who is the unofficial mascot for the Terror Tram. [23].
    • Terror Ape who is another unofficial mascot for the Terror Tram. [24].
    • A web with a spider coming down which is a reference to the album, Along Came A Spider.
    • Alice Cooper as a snake which looks very similar to the Beetlejuice snake.
  • The asylum connected to a morgue which featured “Dr. Alice,” the “Sick Things” (Zombie-esque creatures inspired by the song) and Cold Ethyl, which was a fantastically disgusting prop made by Unit 70[25].
  • The Sick Thing biting the Face off of Nurse Rozetta was inspired by the Song, I'll Bite Your Face Off from the album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare. [26].
  • The following scene had was a classroom with old educational posters about snakes & spiders covering the walls. The character of Headmaster Alice with snakes in his hair was inspired by Pink Floyd’s The Wall[27].
  • The Education Classroom Scene might have been inspired by the lyrics from the song, Devil's Food which is from the album, Welcome to My Nightmare.
  • In the Classroom Scene, there is a mini figure of 4 monkeys on the teacher desk that all have the black eye makeup.
  • At the end of the classroom was a giant snake that blasted guests with venom (water). The snake was sculpted by Magee FX and was inspired by the album cover art for Killer. The idea was to make you think this was the finale of the maze...but there was more to come[28].
  • The final sequence of the maze took guests back into the basement of Steven's house where he is building a human spider made out of the body parts of his victims. This was inspired by the album “Along Came a Spider"[29].
  • Steven's basement idea was inspired by lyrics from the song, The Awakening, "I wake up in the basement".
  • The Humanary Stew characters was inspired by Lyrics from the song The Black Widow, "we're all humanary stew if, we don't pledge allegiance to the black widow".
  • The Humanary Stew design was changed prior to the maze opening since they came up with a scarier design. [30].
  • The final scare in the maze was a giant black widow that attacked guests. It was inspired by the Black Widow song from Welcome to My Nightmare. The prop was created by Magee FX[31].
  • The maze won Maze of the Year of Halloween Horror Nights 2011. Alice released a Welcome to My Nightmare sequel album that year that would be his highest charting album in 22 years. His manager Shep Gordon called Murdy to say “You played a part in this”. He then invited Murdy and his wife to hang out with him in Hawaii[32].

References[]

  1. https://twitter.com/HorrorNights/status/98590733866516480?s=19
  2. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301556576768217093
  3. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301559307058769922
  4. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301561196559183876
  5. https://twitter.com/HorrorNights/status/117350226339168256?t=FyNxaRB96xEV47_-8S73og&s=19
  6. https://twitter.com/HorrorNights/status/116902590083641345?t=xALZ8LCI_GJWodErthqrQg&s=19
  7. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301617679242059776
  8. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301620517212913665
  9. https://twitter.com/HorrorNights/status/118365080223088640?t=PwYd9MX_2z8lrvaUoUsaVg&s=19
  10. https://twitter.com/HorrorNights/status/46229610215645184?t=SoHOm6g7dYj0h6hrT8gfAQ&s=19
  11. https://twitter.com/HorrorNights/status/114026296618655744?t=khoVmA4-G8CmJNcD3scwQQ&s=19
  12. https://twitter.com/HorrorNights/status/672585806461014016?t=FzsPC5ueR96EVp3Q3IQtkQ&s=19
  13. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301563067210366981?s=20
  14. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301563067210366981?s=20
  15. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301563067210366981
  16. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301564570717347840
  17. https://twitter.com/HorrorNights/status/120185023558193153?t=m5QNnaxVNXIzJFP-BWRBZQ&s=19
  18. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301566350964469760
  19. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301568932910968832
  20. https://twitter.com/HorrorNights/status/120185023558193153?t=oguL16CbG3H-8yLZW91Jag&s=19
  21. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301578609728122880
  22. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301564848585822210?s=20
  23. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1441186478302793729?t=OBNhbknz80wntjUogZn-4A&s=19
  24. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1299099613652299787?t=D5BjAn55-YVg4zPNo3gfBw&s=19
  25. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301584981685424128
  26. https://twitter.com/HorrorNights/status/114380713893171200?t=I97ZBXVwktgg9_SQqT6e-w&s=19
  27. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301596299133947904
  28. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301612740683980800
  29. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301613982982246400
  30. https://twitter.com/HorrorNights/status/108781554091819008?t=cz62ln_VnDtSRx0at2dZnA&s=19
  31. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301615084440084480
  32. https://twitter.com/john_murdy/status/1301621571984011264
Halloween Horror Nights 2011
Characters: Ghostface (Event Icon)  • The Businessman  • The Wolfman  • The Thing
Haunted Mazes: Hostel: Hunting Season  • Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare  • The Thing: Assimilation  • The Wolfman: The Curse of Talbot Hall  • Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses: In 3-D Zombievision  • La Llorona: Villa de Almas Perdidas
Terror Tram: Terror Tram: Scream 4 Your Life
Scarezones: Scream  • Freakz  • Zombieville  • Klownz • The Reapers
Show: Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure
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