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Maze AliceCooper

Alice Cooper Goes to Hell 3D 

Attraction type Haunted Maze
Event

Halloween Horror Nights 2012 (Hollywood)

Park Universal Studios Hollywood
Area Upper Lot
Year

2012

Housed in Terminator Queue
Based on Alice Cooper's Music
Preceded By

Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare (2011)

Alice Cooper Goes to Hell 3D was one of the six haunted mazes that were featured during Halloween Horror Nights 2012 (Hollywood). It was located in the Terminator Queue.

Description[]

Since the dawn of time, there is one place that man has feared above all others; a place of unending darkness, eternal torment and unimaginable horrors...a place called Hell. Now rock/horror icon Alice Cooper is going to take you there! Your journey into the abyss will take you through the mythical levels of Hell, each more terrifying than the last. With mind-blowing 3D visuals, you'll experience the inferno through the eyes of Alice Cooper. This promises to be one nightmare you won't easily wake up from!

Experience[]

Facade[]

The facade was the entrance to Hell as a old carny dark ride with the words "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell" next to the mouth of a snake surrounded by flames. There was also a ticket booth skeleton talking by the side of the facade. Guests would then enter the maze.

Haunted Maze[]

Guests entered and went down a hallway with various posters showing off Alice Cooper with the various sins from Dante’s Inferno.

Purgatory[]

Guests then see a door frame with the Words "Purgatory" written above it and enter. Guests enter a DMV where there are static figures all around the scene in chairs. The lights would go out and Alice Cooper would pop out.

Limbo[]

Guests then enter a nursery where there are static figures of demon babies in cribs and toys with their eyes gouged out. Guests continue to see the words "Limbo" on the wall. The Limbo Nurse then pops out from behind a wall panel at guests with a baby.

Guests then went down a hallway with hanging giant babies with glowing eyes in pajamas.

Gates of Hell[]

Guests then find themselves crossing a bridge with hands coming out of the ground on both sides. At the end of the bridge was a Snake Woman on the right popping out of a snake coil with a bitten apple. Stiltwalking Death would then pop out from the left.

Guests would enter the Gates of Hell which had skeletons on it and the Words "Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here". Guests then pass a dark room with a few tree branches.

Gluttony[]

Guests go down a hallway with hanging skinless bodies to a door frame with the Words "Gluttony" written above it. Guests enter and go into a buffet where on the right is the Gluttony Pig who is eating themselves. Chef Alice Cooper then pops into the scene attacking guests.

Greed[]

Guests then enter the outside of a house with a door frame with the words "Greed" written above it. Guests enter and go into a house with trash everywhere with hanging lights and the lighting would change from red to blue.

Guests would then be attacked by a Hoarder from behind a curtain and then be attacked by another one before exiting the scene.

Lust[]

Guests go down a brick hallway where they see a door frame with the words "lust" above it. Guests enter and go into a gentlemen's club where Lust Go-Go Dancers are dancing for static figures of patrons with the eyes gouged out. Guests would go through and see 3 Lust Go-Go Dancers with 2 eyeless victims pretending to be fake amongst the static figures to pop out at guests.

Vanity[]

Guests see a door frame with the Words "Vanity" above it and enter a mirrored room with flashing lights as Vanity sat in a chair having her skin removed by Dr. Alice. Guests could see Words on the wall like Pride, Addict, and Obsessed on the walls. A Dr. Alice would pop out at guests while they are distracted.

Wrath[]

Guests went down a hallway with hanging bodies before coming to a door frame with the words "Wrath" above it. Guests enter and immediately see Dr. Alice electrocution a Zombie on a electrocution chair that would then pop out at guests.

Guests then enter a scene where Stiltwalking Wrath is scaring guests as guests see a guillotine and a man being hung. Guests then enter a room where Alice Cooper is cut in half and Stiltwalking Wrath would pop out at guests again.

Hell[]

Guests then enter into a scene with a sign saying "Hell" and enter a cave covered in Ice with static figures of frozen people. A Frozen Guy would pretend to be fake and pop out at guests. Guests would then a scene with skulls on the floor as Satan Snake would pop out at guests. Alice Cooper would then pop out at guests one last time before they exit the maze.

Scareactors[]

Quotes[]

  • "Yes! You! Can go to Hell." - Alice Cooper
  • "Now Serving Number 666! Please report to Level 5, Wrath! And have a Nice Day." - Alice Cooper

Pictures[]

Videos[]


Soundtrack[]


Trivia[]

  • The codename for this maze was "Dante". [1].
  • Murdy flew to Peoria, IL to film a promo with Alice for the maze, his luggage got lost, script, backstage pass etc. He marched into his dressing room with no credentials the next day and improvised the promo with Alice on his stage. [2].
  • Murdy loved to work with Alice Cooper one more time to the end the trilogy after 2011's Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare (Hollywood) and this house, and hopes to work with him in the foreseeable future if possible to make it happen.
  • John Murdy's overall concept for “Alice Cooper Goes to Hell 3D” was pretty ambitious for a maze. The idea was to combine Alice’s 1976 concept album (titled Alice Cooper Goes to Hell) with Dante’s vision of Hell from “Inferno;” the first part of the 14th century epic poem called “The Divine Comedy"[3].
  • The concept for the facade was to make the entrance to Hell an old Carny dark ride. Murdy has always sought out those types of rides and drew reference from traveling carnivals in Europe and a night club called “Hell” that existed in Paris in the 20’s. Alice did the barker’s voice outside the facade[4].
  • Dante’s Hell was 9 circles that included the 7 deadly sins. While Murdy knew the majority of our guests wouldn’t have read a 14th century Italian poem, he was fairly certain they knew the sins from films like “Se7en.” To set it up, they used images of Alice to create posters for each sin[5].
  • All of the posters in the hallway of Sins have Alice Cooper on them.
  • The creative team needed to come up with an overall host character that could take on different iterations as guests travelled through the various circles of Hell. They landed on “The Showman” version of Alice inspired by his 1994 album “The Last Temptation” since the facade had a carny theme[6].
  • Before the waiting room there is a number calling card on the wall with the number, 666.
  • In Dante’s Inferno, the first circle of Hell is Purgatory, which they envisioned as a waiting room in the DMV. [7].
  • There is a reference to the song, Go to Hell in the Waiting Room Scene, "You'd poison a blind man's dog and steal his cane" and in the scene there is a blind man with no cane and a dead dog.
  • Afterwards was a hellish nursery (Limbo) with demon babies and The Nightmare Nurse, whose costume was inspired by WWI era nurses. It’s one of Murdy's favorite drawings by Lucas Culshaw. [8].
  • Many of the toys in the Nursery/Limbo Scene have red eyes or cut out eyes.
  • A few of the toys in the Nursery/Limbo Scene have black makeup on their eyes as a reference to the album cover of From the Inside.
  • One of the toys in the Nursery/Limbo Scene is tied up and has spiders for eyes which is a reference to the song, The Black Widow.
  • The hanging baby dolls were from Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare.
  • One of the scenes in the maze was so big that an entire wall had to be removed from the T2 Queue for it to fit.[9].
  • To reach The Gates of Hell you had to cross the River Styx which had scores of hands reaching out of the water. This was an image from a reoccurring nightmare Murdy had when he was six, so he put it into the maze. [10].
  • The Gates of Hell themselves were held up by a mound of skeletons who are fighting with themselves for the privilege. [11].
  • The Gates of Hell also had a snake on it which was the reimagined version of Satan the team made.
  • The Gates of Hell had text on it that said "Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here" which is text on the Gates of Hell that Dante reads before entering in Dante’s Inferno.
  • Just before the Gates of Hell was an eyeless girl caught in the coils of a giant snake holding an apple who represented Eve and the idea of original sin. [12].
  • Stiltwalking Death at the Gates of Hell was inspired by the Ferryman that takes the dead across the river Styx with a Medusa Twist. [13].
  • "Gluttony" was interpreted as an all-you-can-eat Las Vegas buffet with rotten, maggot covered food and a pig-faced man who is in the process of devouring himself. Alice was the chef. [14].
  • The overstuffed figure was from Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare.
  • “Greed” was interpreted as a hoarder’s house filled with trash; strange objects and bad smells. [15].
  • The Hoarder's House has a dead cat on the floor as a reference to lyrics from the song, Sick Things "My things, My pets, My things".
  • The Hoarder's House has a static figure gift wrapped with a letter saying "To: Aunt Jane" which is a Reference to Lyrics from the Song, Go to Hell "You'd gift wrap a leper and mail him to your aunt Jane".
  • The Hoarder's look was inspired by the urban legends of what Howard Hughes looked like towards the end of his life. [16].
  • “Lust” was interpreted as a seedy gentlemen’s club where all the patrons have had their eyes violently gouged out in different ways. [17].
  • “Vanity” was an all mirrored room where a doctor is performing cosmetic surgery to a patient whose had way to many turns under the knife. [18].
  • In the Vanity Scene there was a Bucket Full of Syringes as a Reference to Lyrics from the Song, Lay Down and Die, Goodbye "DDT poisoning me changing my relativity".
  • Vanity's Makeup was designed to have some skin pieces that were removable to expose the bloody, raw tissue underneath. [19].
  • "Wrath” was a torture chamber where Alice executioners were killing Alice victims in all the different ways he “died” on stage. Hanging, electric chair, guillotine, and a bi-sect kill they came up with. [20].
  • The guillotine and electric chair effect were both from Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare.
  • The ending of the Maze like Dante’s Inferno, the final circle of Hell is frozen with the damned trapped forever in the ice. Satan was interpreted as a giant snake which was a Puppet created by MageeFX. [21].

References[]

Halloween Horror Nights 2012
Characters: La Llorona  •Alice Cooper
Haunted Mazes: Alice Cooper Goes to Hell 3D  • La Llorona: La Cazadora de Niños  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Saw is the Law  • The Walking Dead: Dead Inside  • Universal Monsters Remix  • Welcome to Silent Hill
Terror Tram: Terror Tram: Invaded by The Walking Dead
Scarezones: Klownz  • Silent Hill  • Toyz  • Witchez
Show: Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure
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