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| Dead Exposure: Death Valley | |
| Attraction type | Haunted House |
| Event | Halloween Horror Nights 2024 (Hollywood) |
| Park | Universal Studios Hollywood |
| Area | Lower Lot |
| Year | 2024 |
| Housed in | Mummy Queue |
| Based on | Original |
Dead Exposure: Death Valley was one of the haunted houses that was featured during Halloween Horror Nights 2024 (Hollywood). It was located in the Mummy Queue.
History and Location[]
Universal Studios Hollywood announced that Dead Exposure: Death Valley was one of the original haunted houses coming to Halloween Horror Nights 2024 (Hollywood) and inspired by Orlando’s Dead Exposure from Halloween Horror Nights: Reflections of Fear and its Prequel haunted house Dead Exposure: Patient Zero from Halloween Horror Nights 28.
The house would be located in Mummy Queue.
The codename for the haunted house was Crumble.
Description[]
These Zombies Just Went Nuclear
Enter a top-secret government facility where an experiment to create super soldiers has gone horribly wrong, turning people into radioactive zombies. And they escape just as you arrive!
Experience[]
Queue and Facade[]
The facade features the entrance to the United States Military Proving Grounds in Death Valley. As guests enter, they see that a white truck with a sticker claiming it is carrying radioactive materials has crashed through the barbed wire fence and into the facility itself, with smoke emitting from the vehicle. The right side features a separate room for security measures for the entrance, however, the corpse of a soldier is seen bent over the broken window, and guests are attacked by a zombified soldier at the door. Guests then enter the security station check-in with warning alarms blasting throughout the facility. To the left, they can see the crashed truck, which features the driver dead at the wheel as they turn right to enter the facility.
Haunted House[]
Guests pass by the security clearance room and are attacked by the zombie who originally worked there. As they turn right, they see signs directing them to the Primate Research Facility, where they are suddenly attacked by two zombies wearing hazmat suits. They then pass by glowing, radioactive chemicals into the primate section, where they come across cages of monkeys with exposed brains and wires in their heads going berserk as the lights continually flash.
In the next room, the right features a dismembered monkey sealed off in a glass box for experimentation. On the left is a zombified ape tearing apart a scientist in a hazmat suit devouring on his intestines. Guests then enter the hallway and see a large trail of blood on the floor, implying a body was dragged through there. They then come across a display of green fire before turning right into the communications room. A bloodied hazmat zombie is separated from a window screen and repeatedly knocks against the window.
In the communications room, two bodies are found sealed in bags hooked to oxygen. A hazmat scientist is beaten and bloodied on the ground. On the screen there are three different camera monitor views. The first and prominent one is the base commander yelling at the crew to terminate "Project Galahad" (implied to be the super soldier program they were working on). The second two monitors feature hallways views of scientists running away from the experimental zombies. A zombie to the right of the monitor hooked up to electrical wires will suddenly awaken and attack the guests.
Guests then pass by prison cells containing deceased scientists with exposed guts. The second one features a zombie that attacks them. As they walk towards the next part of the facility, they are attacked by a zombie in a tanktop to the left and see two doors in front of them. The one in front features silhouettes of zombies walking around, so they turn left into Project Galahad's Cold Storage unit. In the facility's freezer, guests have to push away several zombies hanging from the ceiling. Some of which are sealed and some of which have some chemical doused on them. As they prepare to leave, they are attacked by zombies on the left and right.
Guests then enter the Ventilation Tunnel, where they are attacked by a hard hat zombie on the left. Guests then come across some radioactive barrels as they turn left into Project Galahad's Radiation Zone. With the sirens at their loudest, the Base Commander announced that the breach could not be contained and that they will have to burn everything to the ground so that the infected can't spread anywhere else.
Guests then enter the radiation room, where green fire is emitting everywhere as several zombies can be seen covered in radioactive material, some of them standing in the barrels themselves. Several skeletal, radioactive zombies attack the guests as they make their way towards the exit of the burning building. After leaving the facility, they are attacked one last time by three zombies covered in radioactive material, implying a few managed to escape.
Settings[]
- Military Proving Ground
- Primate Research Facility
- Quonset Hut
- Communication Room
- Project Galahad Cold Storage
- Ventilation Tunnel
- Project Galahad Radiation Zone
Scareactors[]
- Radioactive Zombies
- Hazmat Zombies
- Monkey Zombies
- Ape Zombie
- Hazmat Zombies
- Hardhat Zombies
- Skeletal Zombies
- Soldier Zombies
Quotes[]
- "WARNING. BREACH. WARNING. WARNING. BREACH." - Computer System
- "WARNING. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS." - Computer System
- "Attention attention! This is your base commander! We are in breach! Commence protocol Omega! Terminate Project Galahad! Repeat, terminate Project Galahad! TERMINATE!!!" - Base Commander
- "WARNING. POWER FAILING..." - Computer System
- "This is your base commander speaking! The breach could not be contained! Repeat, the breach could not be contained! If you believe in a God, now's the time to pray!" - Base Commander
- "The day… the day of the Lord shall come like a thief in the night. The heavens shall pass away with great noise. The heavenly... the heavenly bodies will be dissolved in the Earth, and all this work shall be burned up!" - Base Commander
Pictures[]
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Videos[]
Soundtrack[]
Trivia[]
- The treatment for the haunted house was 91 pages.
- The Clues for this haunted house were Murdy's research which included Borax, Quonset Hut Designs, Cryogenic Freezers, Bible Verses from Proverbs 16 18-20 and Sir Galahad.
- According to John Murdy's Q&A for the haunted house:
- Aside from the obvious connection to the Orlando HHN houses, this house is trying to tap into "existential fears" of our times (as the genre of horror has always done), namely all the online theories on secret military labs & the speculation on what takes place inside.
- Despite the name, it is not connected to the lore of Dead Exposure or Dead Exposure: Patient Zero.
- Besides the zombies, it did contain some elements reminiscent of both houses. Namely the flashing lights from the original and the room with the zombified monkeys from Patient Zero.
- While he did a lot of research on real facilities, the setting in Death Valley is fictional, he figured if someone were to build a secret facility in order to conduct top secret experiments, they'd build it in one of the most inhospitable places on earth.
- The radiation contamination that's drawn from real life experience. Murdy was an exchange student in Europe in college in 1986 and was actually in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, shortly after the Chernobyl accident.
- The facade of the house its not the entrance of the haunted house but that something has crashed through the front of it (which you'll view from outside and inside the house). It will continue to evolve in the coming weeks as details get added, so there's some tidbits for those that visit and see the facade.
- This house will be intense and scary.
- The house will have targeted UV in some parts of it.
- The masks for this house will be done by MageeFX
- The house will have a performer outside but he won't be talking.
- The announcement was met with some controversy as many users believed the promotional image was A.I. generated. While he hasn't commented on the official promotional image, Murdy did confirm the concept art in the teasers were done by Lucas Culshaw.
- According to John Murdy, The location provides much more than just a snappy title. he said “If you were gonna build a facility somewhere that you didn’t want anyone to know about, you’d build it in Death Valley. It’s one of the most inhospitable places on Earth.”
- The name of the secret military project created in the Death Valley Proving Grounds is called Project Galahad.
- The plans for a Dead Exposure house go all the way back to 2019.
- The base commander (on video and in audio) was played by a longtime USH performer who also played Larry Larva in Terror Tram at HHN 2023.
| Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood 2024 |
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| Characters: Death Angels • Zombies • Muerte • El Cucuy • El Cadejo • El Charro Negro • Garraka • Slimer • Lipstick Face Demon • The Bride of Frankenstein • Saskia Van Helsing • Dracula’s Daughter • Anck-Su-Namun • She-Wolf of London • Leatherface |
| Haunted Houses: A Quiet Place (Hollywood 2024) • Dead Exposure: Death Valley • Monstruos 2: The Nightmares of Latin America • Ghostbusters Frozen Empire (Hollywood) • Insidious: The Further (Hollywood) • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Legacy of Leatherface • The Weeknd: Nightmare Trilogy • Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines (Hollywood) |
| Terror Tram: Terror Tram: Enter the Blumhouse |
| Scarezones: Luchadores Monstruosos • Murder of Crowz (Scarezone) • Chainsaw Punkz • Skull Lordz |
| Shows: The Purge: Dangerous Waters • Late Night with Chucky |