Halloween Horror Nights’ American Horror Story maze makes the Overlock Hotel’s maze look warm and cozy.
Mazes haven’t been this much fun since the Torrance family got lost in the snow at the elaborate labyrinth at the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s classic thriller The Shining. Halloween Horror Nights is hoping to lose at least some of their guests in a maze based on the FX television series American Horror Story. The Overlook might look positively cozy next to the maze scene lifted from AHS’s Hotel Cortez, which was originally as a torture chamber. All work and no beer make Homer crazy, after all.
"American Horror Story is one of the most disturbing television shows ever produced, and with such perverse storylines unfolding with each installment, Halloween Horror Nights is undoubtedly the only place that could create a living version of the nightmares that Ryan Murphy dreams up," John Murdy, Creative Director at Universal Studios Hollywood and Executive Producer of Halloween Horror Nights said in a statement.
"Plus, as a fan favorite, American Horror Story has been the number one requested maze from our guests and we're excited to let them know that we listened to them and are bringing 'American Horror Story' to life."
Every year during the witching season Halloween Horror Nights transforms Universal Studios into a series of haunted houses. Beginning on Friday, Sept. 16, the American Horror Story maze will feature memorable scenes from the anthology like the Murder House from Installment 1, where guests will be haunted by the tortured spirits trapped in the Harmon's house.
Three chapters of American Horror Story will haunt the nation's best, most intense Halloween event in all-new frightening mazes. Guests will embark on a terrifying journey, spiraling through decades of tortured dead who previously resided there
In the Freak Show maze, they'll join a sideshow troupe being stalked by Twisty the Clown. They will be unable to turn away from the tortured performers in the disturbing and twisted entertainment from Installment 4. Guests at the otherworldly, death-dealing Hotel from Installment maze, will be forced to succumb to the Countess' deadly desires, though that seems sexier than scary.
"American Horror Story is engaging for so many reasons, one of them being the fantastic way each installment of the series reveals completely new characters and stories for its viewers," Michael Aiello, Director of Entertainment Creative Development for Universal Orlando Resort, said in a statement. "It's that constant evolution that makes this popular series a perfect fit for Halloween Horror Nights – and we can't wait for our guests to experience some of the horror they've seen on the show."
Since its debut in 2011, American Horror Story has won 13 Emmys, two Golden Globes, four Critics' Choice Awards and one People's Choice Award. For the first time ever, guests will venture through Ryan Murphy's groundbreaking horror anthology, encountering a “plethora of iconic scenes and memorable characters designed to jolt them to their very core.” But they won’t get to touch the trophies.
"20th Century Fox Consumer Products is thrilled to team once again with Universal Studios to premiere visionary Ryan Murphy's groundbreaking series, American Horror Storythrough an all-new Halloween Horror Night maze," said Greg Lombardo, SVP of Global Live and Location Based Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Consumer Products. "The attraction – which showcases multiple chapters from the acclaimed FX anthology – offers a chilling live-action thrill and simultaneously complements the series highly anticipated premiere on September 14th."
“For more than 25 years, guests from around the world have visited Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando and Hollywood to become victims inside their own horror film,” reads the press statement. “The streets of each coast's event are transformed into highly-themed scare zones where menacing "scare-actors" lunge from every darkened corner. Multiple movie-quality haunted houses are erected throughout the event, based on anything from iconic slasher films to hit horror television series to haunting original stories.”
The park warns that this maze is neither corny nor family-friendly and kids under 13 will have to wait outside in the dark while their parents go in. Of course, even outside of the haunted houses at Universal lots, actors in creepy costumes will stalk you until you either scream or promise to see them during the next evening’s dinner theater.
American Horror Story season 6 begins September 14 on FX.
SOURCE: COSMOPOLITAN
