Halloween Horror Nights Reveals All Details, Haunted Houses for Universal Studios Hollywood

Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood is the best adult Halloween event offered at any theme park. The event includes multiple haunted houses with Hollywood quality special effects and scare actors, walk through themed scare zones, and horror entertainment.

Halloween Horror Nights is one of my favorite events because it changes so much from year to year with the different lineup of haunted houses. This is an event you can keep repeating and never get sick of.

Keep reading for the full lineup of the eight haunted houses, scare zone themes, and details on the returning Purge show.

Terror Tram: Enter the Blumhouse

The best part of Universal Studios Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights is how they transform the Studio Tour trams into a haunted tram experience. The theme changes each year just like the haunted houses do!

This year's theme is “Terror Tram: Enter the Blumhouse” and will feature all of the iconic characters from Blumhouse's popular franchises including M3GAN, The Black Phone, Freaky, The Purge and Happy Death Day.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Legacy of Leatherface

What I predict will be one of the most popular houses this year is the legacy haunted house that will honor the 50th anniversary of the original 1974 film. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has been featured many times at Halloween Horror Nights and this haunted house will include many iterations of Leatherface from all nine films in the franchise.

The Weeknd: Nightmare Trilogy

The Weeknd is returning to Halloween Horror Nights with a brand new house inspired by his “After Hours” album. “The Weeknd: Nightmare Trilogy” provides fans an “authentic, one-of-a-kind horror experience” with music by The Weeknd scored by seminal producer, artist, and seven-time Grammy award winner Mike Dean.

The Weeknd haunted house will feature some of the most iconic moments inspired by his music videos and live performances.

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A Quiet Place

The “A Quiet Place” haunted house focuses on the events of A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II. A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II follow the Abbott family as they try to survive the aftermath of sightless creatures with a sharp sense of hearing that draws them to prey on anything that makes the slightest noise.

This Halloween Horror Nights haunted house will mirror the silence in the films while embracing unique sound design, special effects, and will incorporate the use of American Sign Language (ASL) for the first time ever within the “A Quiet Place” haunted houses to capture the authenticity of the films.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Haunted House

“Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” will bring the latest installment of the franchise to life capturing both the humor and horror of the films.This haunted house will transport fans to New York City where the Spengler family teams up with the original Ghostbusters to their top-secret research lab. Guests will experience the story of the vengeful spirit of Garraka being free and threatening to freeze everyone to death and bring about a new Ice Age.

Guests will find themselves in the world of the supernatural, from Ray’s Occult Books shop to the Ghostbuster’s new high-tech lab and containment facility to the dank New York City sewer system. Horrifying encounters include iconic ghosts who slime and nefarious villains out for revenge along with other ghastly creatures bent on “cracking bones and turning their veins into rivers of ice.”

Since the Ghostbusters is such an iconic franchise, I expect this haunted house will be quite popular and likely one of the “least” scary among the bunch and more story driven. This is a similar approach we saw last year with Stranger Things although it did still have some scary moments!

Insidious: The Further

In another house I predict will be among the most popular, “Insidious: The Further” will take guests on a haunted house adventure inspired by the Insidious film franchise. Insidious tells the story of the Lamberts, a family that is haunted by evil supernatural forces after their son is possessed by a demonic entity. Guests will follow the same footsteps of the family and enter “The Further” which is the place where ghosts and demons lurk.

Iconic moments from the film franchise are featured as guests step through the red door, where the tormented spirits and demons from the films wait to “ensnare humans and steal their souls.” Guests will come face-to-face with The Red-Faced Demon, who will attempt to lure them into his lair; the grim KeyFace, hoping to lock his victims in this dark dimension; the ghastly and dangerous Bride in Black; and the vengeful spirit of the Man Who Can’t Breathe. Guests will go from red door to red door as they travel deeper into the astral world.

Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines

Each year Halloween Horror Nights often includes a haunted house that honors the classic monsters of the franchise. This year's Universal Monster house focuses on all the female monsters.

Guests can get caught up in an “epic battle” as Saskia Van Helsing and the Bride of Frankenstein go up against Dracula’s daughter and her monstrous mavens. The haunted house features music by Slash. This is one I am looking forward to the most!

Monstruos 2: The Nightmares of Latin America

“Monstruous 2: The Nightmares of Latin America” a sequel to the hit 2023 haunted house which has an unique storyline created by Universal and is not based on a film. These are often my favorite haunted houses from Halloween Horror Nights as the Universal design team gets to show off the full scope of their creativity! This year's house features the “infernal rider El Charo, devil dog El Cadejo, and the boogeyman El Cucuy” as guests try to escape these unique monsters.

Dead Exposure: Death Valley

The second original concept house “Dead Exposure: Death Valley” will feature radioactive zombies! Guests will enter a top-secret government facility where an experiment to create super soldiers has gone horribly wrong turning people into radioactive zombies.

Zombies and Halloween go hand in hand so I am excited to see the creativity behind this new original haunted house.

The Purge: Dangerous Waters

“The Purge: Dangerous Waters” will return to the WaterWorld venue which is great news as this was one of our favorite moments of Halloween Horror Nights last year.

“The Purge: Dangerous Water” focuses on The Purge movies where crime is legal for 12 hours as part of the government’s annual Purge. The story of this show focuses on a race against time as a politician escapes to an island to avoid The Purge. The island is then overrun by Purgers and then a fight ensues with action sequences, lighting, laser effects, high fall fire burns, and massive explosions.

Scare Zone Themes Revealed

The scare zones are similar to the jump scares in the houses but are smaller and in more contained areas of Universal. The scare zones are just as popular as the mazes and are a must to complete once you’ve finished the top haunted houses you’re interested in. You will end up walking through most of these on the way to the haunted houses.

This year's Scare Zones include “Chainsaw Punkz,” an area of chainsaw killers, a gothic inspired royal court of the dead in “Skull Lordz,” plus “Murder of Crowz” that are “flocking” to a new space including mama crow debuting at the nest. There is also a scare zone that ties into the new haunted house, “Luchadores Monstruosos” will put guests in the middle of a Lucha Libre horror film as two luchadores battle masked monsters.

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