| Halloween Horror Nights Orlando attraction | |
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| Dr. Oddfellow's Twisted Origins | |
| Attraction type | Haunted House |
| Event | Halloween Horror Nights 32 |
| Park | Universal Studios Florida |
| Area | World Expo |
| Year | 2023 |
| Housed in | Sprung Tent 2 |
| Based on | Original |
| Preceded By | The Fearhouse (2000) |
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Dr. Oddfellow's Twisted Origins was one of the ten haunted houses that were featured during Halloween Horror Nights 32, and was also that year’s icon house. It was located in Sprung Tent 2.
History and Location[]
On July 28th, 2023, Universal announced that they would hold a haunted house centered around their icon for that year's Halloween Horror Nights event: Dr. Oddfellow. The house would be set in his Carnival of Thrills, which travelled to a rural Midwest town in 1939 during the Dust Bowl. It would be focused on how Dr. Oddfellow gained his immortality, as well as show the death of Jack the Clown. This would mark the first time Dr. Oddfellow would appear at the event since The Fearhouse in 2000, and his design and backstory would be drastically altered in this house.
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 northernmost one (called Sprung Tent 2).
The codename for this haunted house was either Tomato or Apple because a Tomato is considered a fruit and vegetable and which makes it odd and apples are known to be sold in carnivals.
Description[]
Your Soul is a Price He’s Willing to Pay[]
You won’t be able to resist going inside Dr. Oddfellow’s menacing menagerie of twisted oddities. But the price for you and your friends is steep: the cost of your souls to feed his immortal power.
In the 1930s Dust Bowl era, guests won’t be able to resist going inside Dr. Oddfellow’s menacing menagerie of twisted oddities where they’ll encounter grotesquely distorted animals and freakish fiends. In “Dr. Oddfellow: Twisted Origins,” the price to enter this creepy caravan is steep as souls feed his immortal power.
Backstory[]
In the 1930's, Oddfellow's Grand Circus & Exposition would travel across the country putting on various circus and freakshow acts. One day in 1933, Dr. Oddfellow would stop in a rural Midwest town during the Dust Bowl and set up his carnival. He would advertise his carnival with posters all over the town and entice unsuspecting patrons to enter his carnival. There, he would kidnap and torture them, forcing them to participate in various carnival "acts" and eventually sacrificing their souls using his Cane of Souls in order to harness the power of the Zodiac. He would then mutilate their corpses, contorting their bodies in ways that mimicked the 12 Zodiacs. Once sacrificing enough souls to the Zodiac, he put symbols all over the carnival in order to complete the ritual and gain immortality.
It was also during this time that Jack the Clown confessed to the murders of 13 children, which he hid in Jack in the Boxes in Dr. Oddfellow's House of Horrors. Fearing capture and wanting to cover his tracks, Dr. Oddfellow killed Jack the Clown and stuffed him in a box. Before he was murdered, Jack the Clown would scratch Dr. Oddfellow, permanently scarring him and causing some of his blood to drip onto Jack the Clown, giving the dying clown immortality as well.
Guests would sneak into the carnival through the bleachers of a circus tent after it closed to see the sights, only to discover the sinister true nature of Dr. Oddfellow's purpose. At the end of the house, guests would be killed by Dr. Oddfellow, and their souls would be sent into another plane of existence.
After the carnage and mayhem, Dr. Oddfellow would cover his tracks by burning all traces of his name, including posters and billboards advertising the carnival. He would then flee elsewhere to cause even more chaos with his newly gained powers and immortality.
Settings[]
Queue and Facade[]
Haunted House[]
Guests enter through the circus tent, a wanted dead or alive poster of a woman named Dorthy Richmond can be seen as they continue to move forward they are enticed by signs and colored lights guiding them through to another corridor that leads them around a corner into another hall where guests are attacked by a carnie on the right as they exit the room.
Guests enter another room where Dr. Oddfellow can be seen on a stage on their right beckoning to them to witness his power, goat creatures on either side of the stage as he begins to swing his cane of souls towards guests as they quickly exit the room.
Guests enter into more of the circus tent and in the backstage area where they are entering into the dressing room upon entering guests are attacked by a clown on their left with a severed head in their hand moving them past the dressing room mirrors on either side of them as they make right around the corner, they pass the last few mirrors with an animatronic clown with its head spinning serving as a scare while being scared by a carnie on their left and right as they exit the room.
Guests enter the next room and are met with a beheading of a clown on a stage in front of them by a magician as the magician fades back behind the curtain below the clown's body rises to and lunges at guests as Dr. Oddfellow attacks from their right beckoning for their soul as they quickly move out of the room.
Guests then enter into a corridor where a performer can be seen drowning and water sprays at them. Guests then make a left continuing through the corridor and are quickly met with a scare by a carnie lunging at them out of curtains as guests would exit out of the room.
Guests are then entering more of the backstage of the circus tent where they come face to face with a lion on the right that lunges at them as a distraction as a bullheaded carnie pops out from the left behind some curtains as they exit the room.
Guests then enter a funhouse of puppets and trinkets as a carnie can be seen on a stage on their left trying to stuff body parts of a recent victim into a suitcase while behind them are a mini theater of static clowns sitting. Guests continue forward as they're attacked by clowns from various of areas while also walking pass by past victims who have made their demised and stabbed on many of the walls, as knives fly at them (through the use of wind effects.) upon exiting the room, guests pass by a hammer strike game where a clown pops out from the curtains next to guests and smashes a victim head on the machine spraying water at guests as they exit the room.
Guests then enter another room where the shadows of Jack The Clown and Oddfellow are fighting and Oddfellow kills them and hides the body as a distraction as the Sea Goat scares guests on their left continuing forward guests are scared again by another carnie on their left as they exit the room.
Guests then enter the next room where ahead of them Dr. Oddfellow beckons them as the zodiac signs begin to glow in the room as Oddfellow swings his cane of souls and beckons them to be killed as a clown pops out on the right of them and again on their left as they exit the room.
Guests then enter the final room with a long black hallway with glowing zodiac signs on either side, they're quickly attacked by a clown on their right laughing at them as they exit the house.
Scareactors[]
- Dr. Oddfellow
- Circus Clowns
- Lion
- Magician
- Sea Goat Boy
- Scorpion Lady
- Contortionist
- Minotaur
- Aerialist/Acrobat
- The Conjoined Twins
Quotes[]
- "All we need is a little rain, maybe it'll come this year until then just keep listening CLXB The Blaze!" - Radio DJ
- "I welcome those with kindred souls like me! You seek the gut-wrenching oddities of our time. Now I invite you to step behind this facade and witness Dr. Oddfellow's Striking Acts of Distortion!" - Dr. Oddfellow
- "Welcome to Oddfellow's!" - Clown
- "Striking acts of distortion!" - Clown
- "Feel the power of your distorted souls!" - Dr. Oddfellow
- "Be stunned by creatures half-human, half beast!" - Dr. Oddfellow
- "It tastes... FUNNY!" - Clown
- "Die laughing!" - Clown
- "Your soul is mine!" - Dr. Oddfellow
- "Only holding on by his teeth!" - Carnie
- "Your souls have been distorted and you are mine. KILL THEM!" - Dr. Oddfellow
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Trivia[]
- The facade of the house had guests enter from underneath the bleachers of a tent.
- Oddfellow used an artifact called "The Cane of Souls" which harnesses the power of the zodiac.
- Jack the Clown was confirmed to be in the house, and guests will witness Oddfellow killing Jack in through projection/ small silhouette.
- A Wanted Dead or Alive Poster of Jack Schmidt can be seen posted on a fence that is a reference Jack The Clown.
- This house not only aimed to tell the story of how Dr. Oddfellow gained his immortality, but to also tell the story of how Jack the Clown was murdered and became immortal as well.
- A giant jack in the box with the letter J is a reference to Jack the Clown.
- Jack The Clowns costume can be seen hanging in the dressing room.
- The lion puppet seen in this house was a recreation of the Lion used as The Cowardly Lion in Scary Tales: Deadly Ever After during Halloween Horror Nights 28 and in the Nightingales: Blood Pit haunted house during Halloween Horror Nights 29.
- Despite the house taking place in the past, a wheel with white, red, blue, green and pink can be seen with a figure murdered female tied to it as a reference to Amanda, Jack and Chances' victim from The Carnage Returns show during Halloween Horror Nights 25.
- Dr. Oddfellow wears the same ringmaster coat Jack Schmidt would wear for Halloween Horror Nights 17.
- According to the Unmasking The Horror Tour at the end of the house the trunk that Oddfellow has his foot on is the very same trunk that Jack's body was hidden in.
- Coincidentally, this marks the second time an evil-circus-themed house was located in Sprung Tent 2, the first being Jack's Funhouse in Clown-O-Vision from Halloween Horror Nights 17, with both involving Jack the Clown and evil clowns in some capacity.
- Inside the house is a giant funhouse entrance resembling the face of a clown. This is a reference to The Fearhouse from Halloween Horror Nights 10. Also seen next to the clown entrance is Jack's silver-headed cane from Halloween Horror Nights 17.
- The body of Billy the Doll from Dead Silence: The Curse of Mary Shaw is hidden inside Dr. Oddfellow's carriage while the head was originally in the scene but was possibly removed.
- A bumper car from the Killer Carnies area from Halloween Horror Nights 17 can be seen in the house.
- This year, the Art and Design team would hide frogs in each of the houses as an Easter egg for fans to discover. This house’s frog could be seen sitting on a wooden animal crate during the caravan scene (after the lion scare), wearing a smaller version of Oddfellow’s top hat.
- The house features a lot of props that were used in the Carnival Graveyard: Rust in Pieces house during Halloween Horror Nights 28 and Puppet Theatre: Captive Audience during Halloween Horror Nights 30.
- Some of the puppets are Mary Shaw's Puppets (Children) from the Dead Silence (Movie) and the Dead Silence: The Curse of Mary Shaw haunted house during Halloween Horror Nights: Carnival of Carnage.
- In the Carnies' dressing room some of the carnies' tables had different items from bloody switchblades, handcuffs, razorblades.
- Jack's mirror and make up stand can be seen in the dressing room with a chained trunk that vibrates as if someone is trapped inside also not in guests' view but behind you can see one of his caught outfits sticking out of it.
- Some of the carnies The Scorpion Lady represented Scorpio, The Conjoined Twins represented Gemini and The Sea Goat Boy represented Capricorn.
- Many of the zodiac signs are represented in the facade outside of the haunted house.
- A Wanted Dead Or Alive poster for a Walter Nicholson can be seen on a fence outside of the house.
- According to the Unmasking The Tour guide the wanted poster of Dorthy Richmond of a member on the decor team of the haunted house and not Chance as she is not at all apart of this house.
- The Baby Doll head from Dollhouse of the Damned (Haunted House) during Halloween Horror Nights 24 and the exit of the Carnival Graveyard: Rust in Pieces haunted house during Halloween Horror Nights 28 reappears in the beginning of the house donning clown makeup.
- On the left side of the Dr. Oddfellow's Carriage is a Zebra head laying on a haybale.
- Upon entering one of the halls the shadows of clowns and most notably Jack The Clown can be seen flashing.
- A note from one of Oddfellow's writings could be found in his trailer reading: "Let any mortal who meet my gaze learn the true meaning of fear, for I am the harbinger of life eternal. My staff is true and unwavering as I cast into the celestial abyss. A man scarred by this uncaring earth finds solace in the stars. My only friends - the Collection of Horror - struggling to surmount the mortal pointlessness that permeates this barren world." - Oddfellow