HalloweenHorrorNights posts
by Leigh Caldwell (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Oct 25th, 2010 at 3:00PM:
Theme parks around the United States are getting in on the Halloween fun this week, with special events featuring everything from horror-filled haunted houses to magic shows to trick-or-treating for kids. Here's a look at our top 10 Halloween theme park events:
1. Halloween Horror Nights: Universal Studios Florida, Orlando, Florida
Universal's Halloween scarefest, which tops lists of ...
by Leigh Caldwell (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Oct 11th, 2010 at 10:00AM:
Creepiness is all about eye contact.
That's what I learned after a night spent as a Halloween Horror Nights "scareactor" (rhymes with character). Universal Orlando invited me behind the scenes to see what it is like to be one of the nearly 1,000 employees hired each year to scare up guests during the theme park's Halloween festivities.
And what I found after two shifts on the streets of ...
by Leigh Caldwell (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Oct 7th, 2010 at 2:30PM: April Richardson and Adam Cohen (that's the blood-drenched, happy couple in the picture at right) are the winners of a wedding package at Halloween Horror Nights.
The Vermont couple, who describe themselves as "lifelong fans of Halloween," will wed on the steps of a haunted house at Universal Orlando on Oct. 15.
April, a graphic designer, and Adam, a pharmacist, met six years ago and got ...
by Leigh Caldwell (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Sep 16th, 2010 at 11:30AM: If your idea of the perfect wedding involves his and hers coffins, chainsaws and a ride in a hearse, then you're in luck, because Universal Orlando is now offering wedding packages during Halloween Horror Nights.
The new horror-filled wedding packages include options such as having a "chainsaw drill team" at your nuptials, and taking a post-ceremony hearse ride through the fog-filled streets of ...
by Leigh Caldwell (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Aug 26th, 2010 at 9:00AM: It's the 20th year for Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights, a scarefest that routinely sells out the park on weekends in September and October.
Now in its 20th year of the horror-filled celebration, Universal is personifying fear:
Halloween Horror Nights XX is about Fear himself. He is the Master of everything Halloween Horror Nights has ever been and will become. His weapons: Chaos, ...