The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Back in Business

Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood attraction
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Back in Business
Attraction type	Haunted Maze
Event	Halloween Horror Nights 2007 (Hollywood) Halloween Horror Nights 2008 (Hollywood)
Park	Universal Studios Hollywood
Area	Lower Lot
Year	2007 2008
Housed in	Mummy Queue
Based on	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974-2006)
Followed By	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Saw is the Law (2012)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Back in Business was one of the four haunted mazes that was featured during Halloween Horror Nights 2007 (Hollywood). The maze returned the following year during Halloween Horror Nights 2008 (Hollywood). It was located in The Mummy Queue.

Settings

• Foyer
• Dining Room
• Laundry Sheets

Description (2007)

Leatherface and his family of cannibal crazies have taken over the condemned Blair Meats factory, bringing a new level of terror to the heart of Texas.

Description (2008)

Leatherface and his family of cannibal crazies have taken over the condemned Blair Meats factory, bringing a new level of terror to the heart of Texas. Step inside the #1 rated maze of 2007 and come face-to-face with one of the sickest, most sadistic murderers in the history of film: the one and only Leatherface. His chainsaw will roar as you run for your life through a labyrinth of unspeakable horrors, each more terrifying than the last. You may get out alive, but it could cost you a limb.

Scareactors

• Leatherface x Various
• Face Peeled Victim
• Chop Top Sawyer
• Grandpa Sawyer
• Luda May Hewitt
• Monty Hewitt
• Sheriff Hoyt
• The Tea Lady

Experience

Queue and Facade

Outside the entrance a screen can be seen showing vignettes of the 2003 film while then showing the haunted house logo from time to time.

Facade

The Hewitt House was the facade

Haunted House

Guests enter the haunted house and enter the foyer of the house as they make a left they pass by a staircase where bodies can be seen all over the bottom of the staircase.

Guests continue forward through the corridor where they come face to face with Uncle Monty taunting them as they go pass him to the next room on the right.

Guests enter the next room and caught between the Tea Cup lady and tv as they continue forward they are met with Leatherface who paces between the groups revving his chainsaw at them pushing them forward.

Guests enter a kitchen where Sheriff Hoyt can be seen sawing off a recent victims legs off while turning towards guests hollering causing them to run pass them.

Guests then enter the dining room where bodies can be seen seated all around the table, Grandpa can be seen laying on the table but from time to time pop up and lunge at passing guests

Guests enter Leatherface’s bedroom where Leatherface attacks them on their right with a sledgehammer donning a new victims’ face.

Guests then enter Leatherface’s lair where a recent victim can be seen suffering and would lunge at guests from time to time as they continue forward.

Guests would continue down a corridor passing hanging bodies in their way and would lead themselves to Leatherface where he would be experimenting on a new victim.

Guests would continue forward walking pass s white curtain with a silhouette of Leatherface running with his chainsaw.

Guests would continue forward as Leatherface could be seen pacing around groups pushing them forward and revving his chainsaw as he runs through the curtains around them.

Guests then enter the Blair’s Meat Factory where they’re lunged at by Leatherface as they try to narrow themselves through hanging bodies in meat bags.

Guests would enter another corridor passing a bathroom and on their right a recently skinned victim who lunges at them to continue forward.

Guests enter another room of the factory where Leatherface could be seen chainsawing a new victim on a table

Guests would enter a gated area where above them Leatherface could be seen chainsawing a female victim above as they exited out of the house not before getting one last chainsaw scare by Leatherface hiding in a dumpster.

Pictures

Image from DanHarkless

Image from DanHarkless

Image from DanHarkless

Videos

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre- Back in Business@USH HHN'07 (Halloween Horror Nights 2007,Unv.Std.Hwd.)

[From DanHarkless]

Trivia

• The Creative Team for Universal was angry that John Murdy made the facade for this house so big.
• The maze used real chainsaws in the outdoor portions. Soon, the Creative team realized that the exhaust from the chainsaws was a big problem.
• In 2007, John Murdy took Tobe Hooper (the director of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacred) through the maze.
• According to John Murdy, the maze featured unique effects, including the "Chainsaw Plunge" (in which Leatherface would plunge a chainsaw into a victim's stomach), and the "Face Peel" (in which Leatherface would have peeled off a victim's face). The victim of the "Chainsaw Plunge" wore a bull riding vest backwards to protect him while the victim of the "Face Peel" wore a double facial prosthetic with magnets.
• This maze won House of the Year in 2007.