| Halloween Horror Nights Orlando attraction | |
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| Halloween | |
| Attraction type | Haunted House |
| Event | Halloween Horror Nights 24 |
| Park | Universal Studios Florida |
| Area | World Expo |
| Year | 2014 |
| Housed in | Sprung Tent 2 |
| Based on | Halloween (1978) |
| Followed by | Halloween: Hell Comes to Haddonfield (2016) |
Halloween (Orlando 2014) was one of the eight haunted houses that were featured during Halloween Horror Nights 24. It was located in Sprung Tent 2.
History and Location[]
On August 28th, 2014, Universal announced that a haunted house based off of the 1978 movie, Halloween would be coming to that years Halloween Horror Nights event. The house would feature many scenes of the iconic scenes from the movie. The codename for this house was "Captain", as Michael Myers mask is a William Shatner (Captain Kirk) mask.
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 house would be very popular, and would go on to co-win House of the Year in 2014 with Dollhouse of the Damned. The house would also get a sequel based on Halloween II in 2016. It would be called Halloween: Hell Comes to Haddonfield.
In 2022, another house with the same name based on the original film would be featured at Halloween Horror Nights 31 celebrating the film and the 31st year of the event.
Description[]
Follow in Michael Myers’ footsteps as he begins his historic night of horror. John Carpenter’s classic original film comes to life – just as yours is coming to an end.
Settings[]
Experience[]
The queue entrance was located to the right of the Men in Black restrooms. It went down a road that led to the front of Sprung Tent 2 where it would then continuously loop around the side of the Men in Black building. Eventually guests would reach the facade, which was The Myers House from the film. Guests would then enter the house from the side of the Sprung.
Guests would enter the house by passing the facade of the Myers house during which a video projection would play showing guests the backstory of Halloween. Guests would enter by passing through a hallway with various photos of the family before walking through the entry way where a body was lying on the staircase. While guests were busy looking at the scene, sometimes a young Michael Myers wearing a children's clown costume would pop out of the doorway just behind them.
The next room was the infamous kitchen scene, where guests could see Michael pinning Bob to a wall with his butcher knife. Then would come Judith's bedroom, with her gravestone on the bed. Guests would then enter a room made to look like a backyard in a residential neighborhood before entering a garage where a static figured dressed like Ghost Michael would be found attacking Lynda . A couple of rooms later would come to the closest scene. The last room shows Dr. Loomis coming out of a closet and repeatedly shooting an approaching Michael in the chest. After guests walked outside, a final Michael Myers would pop out from behind a wall.
Scareactors[]
- Young Michael Myers
- Michael Myers X Various
- Annie Brackett
- Trick 'r Treaters X3
- Doctor Samuel Loomis
Pictures[]
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Soundtrack[]
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- Although Michael himself didn't appear in the film, a group of Trick 'r Treaters from Halloween III: Season of the Witch were featured in the house.
- During the closet scene, clothing worn by other famous movie villains, such as Freddy Krueger and Leatherface, could be seen.
- The T.V in the Living Room scene sometimes showed the commercial for Silver Shamrock masks which appeared in Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
- This house tied for House of the Year in 2014 with Dollhouse of the Damned.
- This was the first time that the characters from the film (other than Michael Myers) were used in a haunted house in Orlando.
- While Hollywood's version of the house was based on sequence of scenes from all the films, Orlando's was designed to encapsulate the horror and scenes from the original film.
- The house facade would feature impressive projection of Michael killing his sister, the house rotting away, and Michael smashing through the boards and staring down at guests.
- The word Samhain can be seen written in blood on the wall of the staircase in the first room and is a nod to the word being written on the classroom board in Halloween II.
- In the hall of the second room a mirror can be seen that is a nod to Halloween II where Young Michael Myers can be seen in it.
- The scenic team built the houses almost to full scale, so that the guest never leaves the experience. They wanted the guests to feel like they were walking in the real house, and down real alleyways, just like Michael Myers did, so they built the houses to huge scale.
- An audio track can be heard of the dog that Michael Myers kills in the film.
- Annie's car in the garage scene is real, and functional, it’s rigged with lights and sound to recreate the perfect scene of Michael Myers strangling her from behind. The way that it’s done is that Michael Myers is a dummy, while the scareactor just wraps its arms around her and acts like it is strangling her.
- One of the challenges for the creative team in creating the look of the 70’s from Halloween, was to actually have a look of the 70’s. The more time goes on, the harder it is to find things that match that look. Things like the stove in the kitchen scene were very hard to find in the exact same colors, so similar items were found and simply painted to look like it.
- The kitchen scene was the same kitchen used in the Evil Dead house from Halloween Horror Nights 23.
- A picture of the cat that was pointed out by someone on Twitter to the A&D team had them go back and find it in the film, then find it to hang in the house. The team was that committed to recreating the house. The shoestring budget of the film had the crew finding whatever they could to make the house look like it was the perfect suburban Illinois home.