Anxiety in 3-D

Halloween Horror Nights Orlando attraction
The entrance sign to Anxiety in 3D (on the right).
Anxiety in 3-D
Attraction type	Haunted House
Event	Halloween Horror Nights X
Park	Universal Studios Florida
Area	Production Central
Year	2000
Housed in	Soundstage 22
Based on	Original

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Anxiety in 3-D was one of the five haunted houses that were featured during Halloween Horror Nights X. It was located in Soundstage 22 along with Total Chaos.

History and Location

Due to the success of the previous years 3-D haunted house, Universal decided to create another one for their Halloween Horror Nights event in 2000. This one would be located in Soundstage 22 along with Total Chaos. Soundstage 22 is one of the smaller soundstage facilities designed to be used as filming locations for movies and television shows.

The house would be tied in with the event's icon Jack, as he created a malfunctioning video game that plays on the primal fears of humans, which was the setting for this house. This could also be considered the first house based on a video game, even though the video game it is "based on" doesn't exist.

The 3D house concept would be absent for two years, until returning with Funhouse of Fear in 2003.

Description

Enter the 3-D virtual reality of The House That Jack Built, and find yourself trapped in a malfunctioning 3-D video game.

Concept (from here/ https://twitter.com/RonIsAJerk/status/1664073911154221056)

LOCATION SOUNDSTAGE 22

A virtual reality world gone horribly wrong. Fright game master Richard Price has created a simulated nightmare world where the player walks through the game in groups of six. Through the enhanced 3-d process that was very successful in last years Creature Feature Experience the player wears gaming goggles(3-d glasses). which create weird and surreal textures and images. Of course there are a few bugs to work out. The game is malfunctioning and you are trapped inside. The scary icon of the game-Jack the clown has warped the very fabric of the virtual reality and created his own twisted playground. He appears throughout taunting and terrorizing. This scary simulation has become terrifyingly real and now the competition is to stay alive. Guests must enter against the powerful action and disorientation of a moving turntable, rotating in the opposite direction. Once past this first obstacle, an array of mystifying experiences await us as we try to make it through, not sure of our location. A room of eyeballs that come to life, a wall of blood splatters that chase us, all creating the warped world of Jack the Clown.

Experience

Entrance

The entrance was lit with red lights. Between the soundstage pillars were a large sign with the words "HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS" and two smaller signs with the words "TOTAL CHAOS" and "ANXIETY", showing the way to the eponymous haunted houses.

Haunted House

The house took place in a video game Jack made to make people experience many different things that invoke fear. Reportedly, there were rooms featuring spiders, rats, heights, and confined spaces. According to this, there was a room with Ghostface masks covering the walls. According to this, there was a room where guests were surrounded by rotating mirrors. There was also reports of a giant circular room with a rotating floor (which may actually be the "rotating mirror" room stated previously) and a room with a giant tarantula.

The Revolving Tunnel seemed to have made an appearance in this house, as well as the "Eyeball Room" which was featured the previous year in the Psycho: Through the Mind of Norman Bates haunted house. The room would be completely covered in eyeballs (ping pong balls) and a scareactor wearing a completely black suit covered in "eyeballs" would camouflage into the environment and jump out at guests. Additionally, there may have also been a giant Jack in the Box with Jack popping out of it at the end.

Website Pictures

Image from the Halloween Horror Nights: Sweet 16 website page.

Anxiety In 3D logo

Image from HHN Yearbook

Trivia

• The 3-D Glasses seemed to be called "Jack's Eyes". They would allegedly be painted to look like Jack's face.
• The Revolving Tunnel (a spinning and disorientating tunnel that guests would walk through) appeared in this house. The effect would later be used in many haunted houses, with the next one being Scary Tales during Halloween Horror Nights XI.