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Alice Cooper Welcome to My Nightmare
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Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare
Attraction type Haunted House
Event Halloween Horror Nights 22
Park Universal Studios Florida
Area World Expo
Year 2012
Housed in Sprung Tent 1

Based on

The songs of Alice Cooper
Welcome to My Nightmare (1975)

Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare was one of the seven haunted houses that were featured during Halloween Horror Nights 22. The house was based on the works of legendary rock star Alice Cooper. It came to Halloween Horror Nights Orlando that year based on it's immense popularity with guests at Halloween Horror Nights 2011 (Hollywood) the previous year. This house was located in Sprung Tent 1.

History and Location[]

On July 24th, 2012, Universal announced that a haunted house based on the legendary rock star Alice Cooper would be coming to Halloween Horror Nights 22. This was due in part to the immense popularity of the Alice Cooper haunted mazes in Hollywood. The house would mainly be focused on Welcome to My Nightmare, but would also feature many other songs from his other albums.

In 2006, Universal built two hurricane-proof tents behind the World Expo area of the park specifically for holding Halloween Horror Nights haunted houses. This house would be located in the southernmost one (called Sprung Tent 1).

Description[]

Journey into the legendary rocker Alice Cooper’s twisted mind and witness the natural melding of horror and Cooper’s four decades-long career. Here you will follow Steven, the iconic character from many of Cooper’s works, as you come face-to-face with a myriad of tormentors who threaten an already-decaying sense of sanity.

Face your demons in legendary rocker Alice Cooper's twisted mind and bear witness as horror and music become one.

Story[]

Steven is a mental patient who is being admitted into the hospital.

The scene with Nurse Rozetta shows him given IVs.

The Black Widow Scene showed how he saw the nurses. There's the beautiful nurse and then the more grotesque one as he goes deeper into insanity.

The Kitchen Scene is a flashback to when Steven (hence why he is hiding) and his mom are being abused by Steven's Father.

The School Stadium Scene shows Steven being bullied by a jock and a cheerleader. He is the one in the bag with freak written on it.

The Church Scene is when he lost it and decided to kill everyone who has ever hurt him.

The Scene with Mercy in the strip club is what he did after he killed her and how he sees her.

Then the house goes back to the asylum to show Steven/Alice in the padded cell in a straight jacket. The Showman would appear at the end because he put on the whole house and watched Alice through this.

Experience[]

Queue and Facade[]

Guests would enter the queue near the entrance to the Barney show. Guests would go through the queue for the Barney show, and would eventually reach the Barney show area. Going through a backdoor, guests would head towards Sprung Tent 1.

Alice Cooper music would play throughout the queue. In front of the entrance to the house, Alice Cooper's head was built with the words "Alice Cooper" in front of it. Guests would enter the house through the facade's mouth.

Haunted House[]

As guests enter, they were transported into an asylum hallway covered with chains and mattresses blocking the path as two inmates attacked from both sides. There was writing on a wall that said "It's feeding time!" as guests left the room. Guests would then see "Welcome to My Nightmare" written over the wall and enter a hospital room of some sort, where Nurse Rozetta drew blood from her latest victim on a slab. She reached out to attack guests as they rushed into another hallway, which featured writing on the left wall that said "YOU TRAP, YOU KILL, YOU EAT, THAT'S WHAT A GOOD SPIDER DOES!". This served as a transition into the Black Widow's Lair.

As guests entered the room, they would notice flashing lights and spider-webs everywhere. Guests would see the Black Widow Spider's seductive side growling and screeching at them. Her more ravenous, spider-like version of herself lunges at them while they were distracted as they rush into the next room. Guests would then find themselves in Steven's house. Steven could be seen as a static figure with his flashlight clicking on and off hiding under a cabinet while guests are attacked by Steven's Mother and Father.

Guests would then quickly enter a brick wall hallway with a sign that said "Vincent D. Funier Memorial Stadium". As they walk by, they found themselves under bleachers and are subsequently attacked by a Bully scareactor wearing a mask donning Alice Cooper's signature make-up. Next to him was a hanging body with a bag over their head and sign on its body that said "FREAK". While distracted by the Bully, guests would then be ambushed by a Cheerleader scareactor wearing the same mask as the bully. Guests entered the next room, which had a continuous brick-wall on the left with "SCHOOL'S OUT!" written in red writing. As they continued, guests walked down a hallway of some sort of church with scareactors blended in with mannequins. As guests got one last scare from a man in a white tank top donning Cooper's makeup, guests saw an altar-like wall frame of Cooper's eyes.

Quickly moving into the next room, guests would see flashing lights and many corpses. Mercy could also be seen dancing on a pole. As guests left the room, they found themselves walking down a hallway. On the right, there was writing on a wall that said "You're Poison" . As they continued down the hallway, they came face to face with Alice Cooper performing surgery on a victim. Guests would then rush through another hall of mattresses and chains as they were chased by inmates once again. Flashing lights blind guests as inmates come from all sides. Alice Cooper in a straight jacket attacks guests, and one last scare for Cooper in his showman attire beckoned to guests as they run out of the house.

Scareactors[]

Quotes[]

  • "Stop! Stop it!" - Steven
  • "I wish you were never born!" - Steven's Father

Pictures[]


Soundtrack[]

Videos[]

Trivia[]

  • Even though this house is called Alice Cooper Welcome to My Nightmare, it seems to draw very heavy inspiration from the album and comic book, The Last Temptation.
  • The facade is inspired by the cover of the album, From the Inside.
  • At the beginning of the house before you enter the Nurse Rozetta Scene you can see the Black Widow logo next to the room number.
  • The asylum inmates were inspired by the song, Inmates (We're All Crazy).
  • Nurse Rozetta was inspired by the song of the same name.
  • The Black Widow Spider could be seen outside the asylum window before the Black Widow Scene.
  • The Kitchen Scene was inspired by the song, When Hell Comes Home.
  • Outside the kitchen window, you can see the Showman.
  • In the Kitchen you can see a flipped chair and plate of food strewn on the table to show Steven's Mother and Father arguing.
  • "Vincent D. Furnier Memorial Stadium" the name is a reference to Alice Cooper's real name.
  • The floor in the school stadium is slightly bouncy to give guests a "unbalanced" feeling to match what is happening in Steven's mind in that point of the house's narrative.
  • The Church Scene was inspired by the song, Vengeance Is Mine.
  • In the mirrors of the church is the Black Widow Spider.
  • The character of Mercy is inspired by Lyrics from the song, You're My Temptation, being "Mercy please, I'm on my knees. You're my temptation". She also is inspired by the character Mercy in the Alice Cooper comic book The Last Temptation.
  • The chains hanging down in the asylum portions were inspired by lyrics from the song, Poison, being "I don't want to break these Chains".
  • The straight jacket and guillotine at the end of the house were taken from gags that Alice Cooper has performed live.
Halloween Horror Nights 22
Characters: The Legions of Horror  • Alice Cooper
Haunted Houses: Dead End  • Gothic  • Universal's House of Horrors  • The Walking Dead: Dead Inside  • Welcome to Silent Hill  • Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare  • Penn & Teller: New(kd) Vegas
Scarezones: The Legions of Horror
Shows: Bill and Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure  • 20 Penny Circus: Fully Exposed
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