Posted on Sunday, 30th October 2011 by Wayne Toigo

As the Halloween season comes to its climax, I thought I’d offer some scenes and impressions of my recent visit to one of the best Halloween entertainment events in Southern California.  Halloween Horror Nights 2011 at Universal Studios Hollywood brings together some of Hollywood’s most creative designers with the movie studio that is well known [...]

Tags: Alice Cooper’s Welcome to My Nightmare, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure, Eli Roth’s Hostel, halloween, Halloween Haunt, Halloween Horror Nights, La Yorna, Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpuses, The Thing: Assimilation, The Wolfman, Universal, Universal Studios Hollywood
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Posted on Tuesday, 20th September 2011 by Dave Parfitt

Last week, the DIS Unplugged received a special package from our friends at Universal Orlando Resort.  However, this present was more of a trick rather than a treat.  It would seem Lady Luck, the icon for Halloween Horror Nights 21, wants to give the DIS a “hand” in covering this year’s event, and invited us to ”try our [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 31st August 2011 by Aaron DelPrince

Universal Orlando has released additional details about its very popular Halloween Horror Nights 21 event scheduled for this September and October.  This year’s event will showcase 8 frightening new haunted houses and 6 spooktacular scare zones.  Also, a brand new live show called ‘Death Drums’ will run alongside the popular ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Halloween [...]

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Posted on Friday, 24th September 2010 by Dave Parfitt

Take a handful of creative types, chain them in a room with an ink board and yellow legal pad, and what do you get?  Halloween Horror Nights, one of the most terrifying, nightmarish, and outrageous Halloween events in the country.  Recently, I was able to talk with Universal Orlando’s Mike Aiello, Show Director for Halloween [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 22nd September 2010 by Dave Parfitt

The DIS Unplugged received an invitation from Universal Orlando Resort to the grand opening of Halloween Horror Nights XX: Twenty Years of Fear.  Universal must know how much our audience enjoys learning about the behind-the-scenes aspects of theme park attractions and shows, because they sent along a video with an in-depth look at the event.  [...]

Tags: Fear, halloween, Halloween Horror Nights, Halloween Time, Universal Orlando
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Posted on Friday, 27th August 2010 by Dave Parfitt

Fear Himself.  Universal Orlando Resort revealed the theme for this year’s Halloween Horror Nights (HHN) XX is the embodiment of Fear.  Universal Orlando has been releasing bits and pieces (no pun intended) of their new icon for HHN, Fear.  Their latest video follows below. Video Update September 16, 2010: Fear Revealed II Original Article from [...]

Tags: Bill and Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure, Fear, halloween, Halloween Horror Nights, Legendary Truth, Mike Aiello, Patrick Braillard, TJ Mannarino, Universal
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Posted on Friday, 20th August 2010 by Dave Parfitt

Universal Orlando released a “teaser video” previewing their upcoming Halloween Horror Nights event “Twenty Years of Fear”.  In the video, Jim Timon, Senior Vice President of Entertainment for Universal Orlando, talks about how they take everything they’ve learned about frightening people the past 20 years, and evolve it to make it more intense to scare [...]

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