| Halloween Horror Nights Orlando attraction | |
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| Universal Monsters: Unmasked | |
| Attraction type | Haunted House |
| Event | Halloween Horror Nights 32 |
| Park | Universal Studios Florida |
| Area | Woody Woodpecker's Kidzone |
| Year | 2023 |
| Housed in | Parade Warehouse |
| Based on | Universal Classic Monsters
Original |
| Preceded By | Universal Monsters: Legends Collide (2022) |
| Followed By | Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines (Orlando) (2024) |
Universal Monsters: Unmasked (Orlando) was one of ten haunted houses that were featured during Halloween Horror Nights 32. It was located in the Parade Warehouse.
History & Location[]
On July 28th, 2023, Universal announced that Universal Monsters: Unmasked would be featured at Halloween Horror Nights 32 as a haunted house. The house would take place in the city of Paris, and feature four Universal Classic Monsters: The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Invisible Man, and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.
The house would be located in a building called The Parade Warehouse. The Parade Warehouse was a very large warehouse built to hold the various parade floats used at Universal. After the Superstar Parade was added, Universal had to build a structure to put the excess floats under, as both a haunted house and all of the extra floats from the new parade could not fit in the warehouse. They would also build a Second Parade Warehouse in early 2018.
The codename for this haunted house was BlackBerry.
Description[]
Four Universal Monsters. One New Nightmare.[]
Descend into the Paris Catacombs, where you and your squad will face a new horde of Monsters: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Phantom of the Opera, the Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Invisible Man.
Lurking sixty feet beneath the bustling streets of the City of Lights, the dank Catacombs of Paris house a much darker secret. . . The all-new haunted house “Universal Monsters: Unmasked” takes guests down into the infamous burial grounds where every corner and crevice overflows with millions of skeletal remains and even more sinister secrets. Deep within the Catacombs, Universal’s most notorious creatures – The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dr. Jekyll and his deranged alternate personality Mr. Hyde, and Dr. Jack Griffin, aka The Invisible Man – also lie in wait as they bide their time and seek vengeance against guests after the opening of the Catacombs to public visitation. These desperate and dangerous fiends have become filled with a rage toward guests navigating the twisted tunnels of their underground labyrinth home. It is here, in the darkness, where they hunt these trespassers and where the sounds of guests’ screams will go unheard.
Story[]
After the events of their own respective movies, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and The Invisible Man are on the run from the law and flee to Paris. They enter the Paris Catacombs, and cause chaos along with The Phantom of the Opera and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Settings[]
- Paris
- Paris Opera House
- Catacombs of Paris
Experience[]
Queue and Facade[]
Upon entering, guests find themselves under a full moon, walking towards a bridge. They are sprinkled with rain droplets as they continue. Atop the bridge is a police officer, telling the guests to clear the streets due to multiple serial killers being active in the area. The Invisible Man can be heard taunting the officer, and laughs as the officer tries to grab at him. The underpass leads to a dead end, forcing them to turn left and enter the catacombs.
Walkthrough[]
Guests enter the catacombs where they can hear a newspaper boy speak about murders happening in the Paris Opera House as guests move forward they find themselves deep within the Phantom's lair as they see a hole in the wall with the half-mask of the Phantom next to some candles and his violin as Phantom attacks them on their left.
Guests continue forward as they continuing the Phantom's lair as they can see a shadow on a wall in front of them where Christine's Silhouette can be seen ripping the Phantom's mask off by his piano as guests make a left and attacked by the Phantom on their left as they continue with candles on the right aligning above as they continue straight on their right there are some barrels that have been lit as the Phantom attacks them on their left above as they exit into the next room.
Guests enter the next room which brings them to one of the Paris Opera house corridor, where a bouquet can be seen hanging on the wall. The whole hallway is filled with the scent of roses. On the left side, the wall fades, revealing a collection of masks made from human faces. Further down. a red rope is cordoning off a door that has been blocked with a chair. A woman can be heard coughing and screaming on the other side as an orange glow and smoke emanate from under the door.
Guests continue forward as they walk pass by a mirror and another that Phantom breaks through swiping at them as they walk past a candle stick holder and opera poster into the next room.
Guests enter the next room which has them walking pass an opera box containing a dead body with candles impaled into both eyes. They then pass a second box where the Phantom is carving the face off a still-living patron, while stopping intermittently to lunge at guests. As guests pass a third opera box the Phantom attacks from behind a curtain on the left. The Invisible Man appears on their left reaching out to strangle them as they exit the room passing by a dead body caught in the stage rigging.
Guests enter into a black room that flashes from time to time with six Invisible Men in various states of undress flanking the sides. Four of them are mannequins with arms that slowly move up and down to trick guests, while one on each side is actually an actor. A blast of air distracts guests as the Invisible Man's arm reaches out of the ceiling for them as he laughs maniacally.
Guests enter the next room find themselves on the Paris streets as on their left a woman with a baby carriage runs forward to retrieve it. As they continue forward a slain Constable reaches out as a guests, serving as a distraction for Mr. Hyde to come out of the Cabaret entrance, causing them to exit into the next room.
Guests enter the next room and are attacked by Mr. Hyde on their left as they continue forward through a bar hallway where on their left Mr. Hyde can be ripping a Bar Maiden's spine out on the bar table as guests out of the bar and outside a shadow in an open hall on their right reveals a silhouette of Dr. Jekyll turning back human and running away on their right as they continue forward guests are attacked by Dr. Jekyll on their right before exiting the room.
Guests enter the next room where they pass through an elaborate facade of the Notre Dame cathedral. Quasimodo, angered at the loss of Esmarelda, falls towards guests in a bungee scare.
Guests enter the next room and are walking the cathedral hallways as they quickly are attacked by Quasimodo on their left leading them forward to where a candlelit shrine can be seen with corpses as a bell could be heard and Quasimodo attacks guests on their right as they exit the room.
Guests enter the final room where on their left they're attacked by The Phantom swiping at them and on their right Mr. Hyde lunges as they move forward to have one last scare by The Invisible Man laughing at them as they exit the house and out of the soundstage.
Scareactors[]
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Quasimodo
- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
- Invisible Man
- Constable on Bridge
- Woman with Baby Carriage
- Injured Constable
- Barmaid
Quotes[]
- "You! Yes you there! Get to your home and lock the doors there are killers on the loose tonight!" - Constable
- "Help her! She's bleeding! Grab a bench! Keep it moving, keep these streets clear!" - Constable
- "What? No! The Captain said 4 different killers. Yes! The Opera house, Notre Dame, and some alleyways! This madness, three nights in a row! You must get to safety, hold onto your children, and escort the ladies to the safest building and lock the doors! We'll catch these killers!" - Constable
- "Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Victims of the face carving killer found near the Paris Opera House!" - French Newsboy
- "Christine! Christine are you down here?! We're here to take you to safety! Christine!" - Constable
- "I'll wear your face!" - Phantom
- "Hahahaha! Christine is mine!" - Phantom
- ”My fingers around your throat! Yes!” - Invisible Man
- ”Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Strangulation occurs near Catacombs! Woman blames invisible force for violent crimes!” - French Newsboy
- "A murder here, a murder there!" - Invisible Man
- "I told you never to disturb me!" - Invisible Man
- “Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Murder in Paris streets continue! Persons report large beast roaming the streets!” - French Newsboy
- "Clear the streets! Immediately!" - Constable
- "My baby!" - Woman
- "Run!" - Slain Constable
- "Blood! Not my fault!" - Dr. Jekyll
- "Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Paris Catacombs! Ancient Tombs under Notre Dame discovered! Field workers missing!" - French Newsboy
- "You killed my Esmeralda. DIE!" - Quasimodo.
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Trivia[]
- This was the last time B-79 (old parade building) was used for a haunted house.
- A new giant-size version of Mr Hyde, standing at around 7ft, was created especially for the haunted house.
- The moon from the facade of Universal Monsters: Legends Collide from Halloween Horror Nights 31 could be seen above the facade of the Paris City Bridge facade.
- Invisible Man's scene is similar to his scene in the Universal Monsters: Music by Slash haunted house from Halloween Horror Nights 2018 (Hollywood).
- The Invisible Man's laugh and baby carriage woman's screaming were taken from the original 1933 film with Claude Rains.
- In the Opera House, there were several carved off faces of the Phantom's victims, one of which resembles the mask worn by the Phantom in the Andrew Llyod Webber musical.
- A poster in the Invisible Man/Mr. Hyde room made by the design team reads:
| “ | It's A French Poster This Makes No Sense At All |
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- The spine ripping effect used for barmaid has been used in the past, and was very problematic to maintain. At the beginning of the event, the spine used on the prop body looked fully intact, but by the end it had degraded to the point where it was just a couple vertebrae held together by an elastic cord.
- The effect also used the same "ripping" sound effect every time it was used.
- This year, the Art and Design team had hidden frogs throughout the houses as an Easter Egg for fans. This house’s frog, originally wearing a miniature version of the Phantom’s mask, could be found at the end in the Catacombs during the triple scare, sitting on one of the ducts before guests exit the house.
- One of the theater static figure victims was a reused Controller victim seen hanging in Seek & Destroy scarezone during Halloween Horror Nights 30.
- The woman trapped in the burning room is Carlotta, the singer that Christine ends up taking over for.
- The balcony victim we see the Phantom actively cutting the face off of is Raoul.
- In the tomb underneath Notre Dame, the two skeletons to the left are Esmerelda and Frollo.