Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home added to Halloween Horror Nights
As the event approaches ever so closer, likely watching you from outside your window as you read this, Universal Studios Hollywood has announced the latest addition to Halloween Horror Nights with a terrifying new maze, Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home.
The classic 1978 film will “come to life in the demented new experience” which will take guests through the tormented town of Haddonfield, Illinois, where on one fateful Halloween night in 1963, a six-year-old child by the name of Michael Myers inexplicably and brutally stabbed his sister to death with a kitchen knife. Guests will relive the terror that a maniacal Michael Myers inflicted upon the once quiet town after his escape from a psychiatric hospital to take bloody revenge on new and unsuspecting victims.
The unsettling and shocking film scenes from the film will come to life as they navigate their way through Haddonfield, adorned in classic Halloween décor on a similar Halloween night in 1963. Meyers abandoned family home and its blood-splattered walls, where the violent murder took place, will set the stage for a new crime scene as guests attempt to evade the relentless killer–armed with his signature bloodstained knife.
Halloween is the ultimate classic slasher film that spawned an entire horror film genre, said John Murdy, Creative Director at Universal Studios Hollywood and Executive Producer of Halloween Horror Nights. Bringing John Carpenters disturbing, cutting-edge vision to life as part of Halloween Horror Nights is the ideal complement to our maze lineup as we continue to break creative ground with outstanding horror icons that raise the intensity level of our experience.
We are extremely excited to team up with Universal Studios Hollywood’s fantastic event, Halloween Horror Nights, said Malek Akkad, President of Trancas International Films and Compass International Pictures. The attention to detail that the creative team gives to the Halloween maze creates a realistic and terrifying experience for guests that is truly authentic to the film. This years maze will be the best yet.
“Halloween Horror Nights” 2015 at Universal Studios Hollywood kicks off on Friday, September 18 and continues on select nights through November 1. The popular event brings together the sickest minds in horror to immerse guests in a living, breathing, three-dimensional world of terror. Featuring an all-new slate of unrivaled film production quality mazes, frightful scare zones and a fully re-imagined Terror Tram experience uniquely themed to todays most definitive horror properties, Halloween Horror Nights will taunt, terrorize and torment guests with spine-chilling haunted attractions during Southern Californias most extreme Halloween experience.
Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home joins a number of other mazes, including: Guillermo del Toro Presents Crimson Peak: Maze of Madness, based on Legendary and Universal Pictures much-anticipated Crimson Peak film; The Walking Dead: Wolves Not Far, based on season 5 of the critically-acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning television series, and Insidious: Return to the Further, based on the bone-chilling Insidious film trilogy. This years event will also feature the global phenomenon and multi-talented dance crew, Jabbawockeez, direct from Las Vegas in an all-new original show, performing multiple times per night throughout the run of Halloween Horror Nights.”
