Halloween Horror Nights: Traditons on Terror

Icon: Sam

Sam, the mischievous spirit of Halloween has descended upon Universal Studios with some of his friends. 

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The ancient traditions of Samhain or All Hallows have survived years into what is now known as Halloween, but after years of commercialization have left these traditions to the history books but there's a reason these rules were meant to never be broken, now you will see why humans used to fear this time of year as Zombies, Vampires, Witches, Ghosts, Werewolves, psychos and the spirit of Halloween himself descends upon the small town of Waren Valley, Ohio. So put on your costume, light your jack-o-lanterns and remember check your candy! Or you'll never live for another year.

Haunted: In very neighborhood there is an old house at the end of the street lies Crawford Manor. It is said that the formal occupants have suffered tragic deaths and their spirits are doomed to wander the halls of this manor house. Do you dare enter this house of dead souls?  

Krampus, n ancient demon who comes not reward, but to punish those who have lost the spirit of Christmas as his minions wreak havoc on a dysfunctional family on this night they'll rember. So be good, for goodness sake.  

The Simpson's annual Halloween specials are coming to life in 3D. An accident in Springfield's Nuclear Power Plant has transformed all it's citizens and your favorite characters into monsters. Navigate your way through the twisted town, as you encounter killer Krusty dolls, cannibalistic teachers, zombies, mutants and aliens. 

 In the swampland of Louisiana, there is something strange going on at nighttime. Practitioners of voodoo seek an unwilling victim for their nightly sacrifice, as zombies walk the grounds intent to keep out any trespassers who wish to witness these heinous rituals. Will you make it out alive, or will your blood be spilled on the sacrificial alter?

 Remember those fairy tales that you're parents told you when you were little? They more than just stories, they were warnings. Based on the hit TV series by NBC, see through the eyes of a Grimm as you find yourself in village inhabited by creatures that were thought to be the stuff of legend.Confront you're inner beast and see the darkness that lurks within us all. 

There is a legend in Ireland of a spirit who is said to wail at the death of a family member. Some say she is a faery spirit from the Otherworld, other say she the ghost of scorned woman, many claimed she is The Angel of Death. Beware. No one knows who she is, but things for sure, she is seen and heard when those who hear her scream are marked for death.   

Housemother Crowley and the Sisterhood of H.E.X. known how to throw one hell of a party at Salem University. Within the walls this sorority house lies a hidden secret, they are in fact a coven of witches. It's All Hallows Eve and they're looking for someone to sacrifice to their goddess, as the Brotherhood of Alpha Lycon participate in their nightly ritual of life and death.  

The quiet town of Sleepy Hollow is said to home to many strange things and happenings that occurred in the dead of night. The most famous of these spirits is the ghost of Hessian soldier who lost his head in a battle and still searches for any mortal to replace his own. 

Scare Zones

Harvest of Souls: Off the beaten path lies hundreds acres of corn, where scarecrows guard their crops. The townsfolk of Hillside Farms are looking for one who is pure of heart to sacrifice to replenish their crops. For those who find themselves lost in the fields are doomed to wander for an eternity.

 Aokigahara; Suicide Forest: At the base of Mt Fuji,i s  Aokigahara known as Suicide Forest. For centuries the forest was home to hundreds of disappearances, deaths and suicides. Some say the souls of those who have perished tempt mortals to lose themselves within the forest of death. Will you make it out alive?

 Hollowed Grounds: At night the dead souls of Wickfeild Valley Cemetery walk among the living. Tread cautiously so long as you do not disturb them.

Dance Macabre: Loose yourself in this macabre festival where the living the dead mix and mingle with one another.

Tricksters: These devilish trick or treaters are out for more than just treats, they're out for some tricks.

The Halloween Tree: Venture through the roots of the Halloween Tree and learn about the traditions and lore of the holiday itself.

Halloween Horror Nights: Show Time

Icon: Vincent Shandor; The Actor 

Backstory: Vincent was one most celebrated actor of the Wyndott Theater at the turn of the century. He had a egotistical personality. But times were hard when the eraly cinemas were being replaced by theaters. Vincent was outraged and vowed to aveng the theater at any cost. As the years passed Vincent seem to disapere form the public, but some say Vincent's soul waits to claim his vengence on those who would dare desicrate his beloved theater.

Vincent will make cameos in many house as his incarnations:

Uncle Ghoulie

Dr Oddfellow

Pin Head

Jack The Ripper

The Maneger 

Headmaster Craven

Magnus the Magician 

The Phantom of the Opera

Their will also be playbills, photos, make up kit and gloves hidden within the mazes.  

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Join Uncle Ghoulie, you're master of scareamonies, as he hosts a scareathon of cult classic horror films. 

Whitechapel, London 1888. The east end streets of London are plagued by beggers and harlots by day and murdders by night. Relive the tramatic events of history's unsolved murder mystery, as you navigate you're way through a labryinth of alleyways and streets. Beware of the Ripper's blade.  

Scare Zones

Show Time: 

A Midsummer Nightamre:

Cirque Du Bizarre

  

Crimoson Peak

Allerdale Hall, a gothic victorian mansion with towering rooftops and arebesque style archittecture. As snow falls from the night sky, there seems to be a light in one of the top windows. 

Foyer: Inside the mansion, the foyer is designed with paintings and a staricase, it even seems to snowing inside. A red liquid like substance can be seen creeping in the walls. 

Drawing Room/Library: Turing to a left is the Drawing Room or Library. A painting of the house's matriach can be seen on top of a fireplace matel. Her eyes seem to fixate us, while a piano on the right plays a haunting tune. Sudnley, Lady Lucille Sharpe emerges from a hidden door within the bookcase brandishing a clever.

Gallery: Guests then come across a series of portraits in a cavernous hallway. Each painting depicts Tomas Sharpe with a different woman, as guests through the paintings, they would morph into ghostly images of their former selves. The wallpaer starts to move and bulge.   

Bathroom: In the misty bathroom, a corpse with a clever on it's head can be seen sitting in the tub as it lunges in front of guests. Emerging from behind a changing screen is Edith's father with is face brutally smashed.   

Corridor: Guests will then travel down a candlelit hallway with gothic archway and doors. The door handles begin to twich by unseen hands. Twoards the end corridor a ghoulish figure can be seen crawling on it's hands, as more entities emerge from behind the doors.   

Nursery: Inside an abandoned nursery decked with dolls and a mural, a lifesized automaton enterains/distracts the guests with a magic trick. A skeletal woman sits on a wheel chair cradling what appers to be her child, that will lunge in front of guests. Guests will also encounter the shrouded ghost of Edith's deceased mother.

Attic: Geust then navigate their way through the loffty attic filled with forgoten furinture collecting dust. Lucile Sharppe in a nightgown and long wild hair will emerge from dark spaces with a knife. 

Catacombs: Guests then decent into the bowls of the catacombs, where human bones are aranged on the walls. Some them are scareactors that will camouflage in the walls in order to scare guests. 

In the heart of the of the house, covered vats twich and shake as if someone is trying to get out. Skeletal corpses will then emerge from the vats.  

Finale: Outside of the house, guests then make their way through eniges that were used to digg up red clay. Snow flueries swirl around the open area on the blood red ground, where Edith can be seen holding a knife. From the distance, the now nelwly deceased Tomas Sharpe will manifest in seconds. The finale scare will come from Lucie Sharpe as she atmpets to attack guests before exiting the house.

Scare Actors

Lady Lucille Sharpe

The Ghost of Lady Betrice Sharpe

Carter Cushing 

The Ghost of Edith's Mother

Skeleton Corpses

Ghosts 

Howl o Scream: Curse of the Voodoo Queen

Icon: The Voodoo Queen 

Backstory: Desiree Erzulie worked as a servant for the Caine family in Shadyoaks Plantion in the 1840s/50s. For years she endured the torment and punishment from the Caine family. But unbenounced to her captors, she was a practitioner to the mythical voodoo arts taught by her grandmother, and practiced her craft in secert for her revenge on her tormenters. It on October 31 1856, when the Caine family were hosting an All Hallows Eve party, Erzulie summonded vengful spirits, resurrected the dead, and demons from beyond to asassinate the Caine family and their guests. Both Erzulie and the Caine household were never seen again. To this day, people reported seeing a woman wandering in the swamps and bayous of Lousiana. Searching for anyone foolish to stumble in her world of magic and death. 

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Returining Houses

Deathwater Bayou

Dead Fall; Seads of Evil

Zombie Contaiment Unit

The Basment; Freash Meat 

New Houses

Plantation of the Dead

Civil War of the Dead

Ye Old Curio Museum

Blood Sacrifice

Rou Garou

Scare Zones

Morti Grais

Necroplis 

Creatures 

Romaing hords of zombies and voodoo practitoners will be around the park. 

Ghost Stories Around the World

Ghost Stories Around the World is a theaterical experience at Epcot's World Showcase during the moths of Octorber after dark. Here park guests will discover the many folk tales, legends and darker side of history from the four coners of the globe. Each area of the park will have a diffrent style of theatre, such as pantomimes, Chinese Opera, Greek theatre and Noah theatre. Both educational and entertaining.  

Guests will asemble at the hub, where they'll meet their host or hostess as their guide and narator. They will be dressed in Victorian era mouring clothes.

Starting at the Canada pavilion, guests learn about the legends of the spirits, gods and demons that once roamed the untamed wildreness of the North. Spirits such as The Wendigo, the man eating spirit of hunger and isolation, Raven the trickster, and Sedna goddess of the sea.

In Great Britian, the guide will tell guests of London's dark and violent past. From the tortured souls that haunt in the Tower of London, including Queen Anne Boylen and the twin princes, to the mysterious killings of Jack the Ripper.

In France, guests will experince the encounters of two freinds, Anne and Elenor, that encountered the echos that once inhaited the place of Versailles. Including Marie Antoinette.

Moroco would have legends of the djinn, powerful spirits that haunt the desert.


The American Pavilion will provied folktales told in the Flordian swamps

At the Japan Pavlian, they hear the tragic love story of Yuki Onna, the story woman.

The Germany Pavilion will have The Story of the Youth who Learned how to Shutter, a fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm.

The tales of trolls and the seductive sirnes that haunt in the woods and streams of Scandianvia in the Norway Pavilion. Including the tale of Peter Gynt and his encounters with the Troll King. 

In the Mexico pavilion, guests will hear the cries anguish of La Llorona, The Wepping Woman who cries for her lost children, whom she drowned in the river. 

The Flying Dutchman

This attraction is loosely based on the one from Eftling in Netherlands. It will be a combination of dark ride, flume, and roller coaster. 

We enter through the cobble stone streets of a quaint sea side village of Rhinehaven. Standing among the shops and dominate among the building is a gothic Dutch manor house composed of wood and stone with a turret that seems to serve as a lighthouse to guide ship to prevent shipwrecks.    

Entering the facade of the attraction, we navigate our way through a small candlelit hallway and into an anti-chamber where we wait for 10 minuets. The doors then open, as a servant in 17th century attire leads us to the library with a large painting on the fireplace. The painting starts to come alive and tells the legend of The Flying Dutchman.

" In the year 1678, Captain Hendrik van der Decken, a wealthy dutch sea merchant of the East Indian Co, seated in the New World and built this house for his bride Katrina. His trading business brought happiness to him and his wife. It was on that stormy night on Easter, Hendrik set out for sea. Dissipate his wife's pleas that it was forbiten to go out on a holy day. The arrogant Van der Decken would believe in any nonsense and sailed away. From that day Hendrik was never seen again and his still waits for his return. "

After that, a secret passageway opens to lead us into an underground tunnel lit by lanterns. If you're lucky enough, you may spot a hidden treasure in small corner. 

Emerging from the cellars, we now find ourselves in the boarding docks where we board a barge that will carry 12 passengers in three rows. 

The barge begins to glides through the bustling port where life like animatronics of townsfolk can be seen going about their business. We then pass between two massive ships and through the canal and into the open sea, where the sky is dark and cloudless. 

Unearthly songs can be heard within the void coming the ruined remains of old figureheads of sea sirens in the jagged rocks. The figure of woman can be seen standing on the edge of a cliff waiting for someone to return.   

The strikes of lighten from the sky exposes the ghostly vessel of The Flying Dutchman hovering above the stormy clouds, as it advances quickly to us. Our barge is then take up to the accursed ship as we dodge through ghostly crew members in every direction.

The barge then begins to ascend to a an up hill lift, at the summit is the ghost of Captain Van der Deken at the steering wheel and taunts us.  

"I will sail, storm or no storm, forbidden or not. Even sail for entirety."

"And you shall sail with us until the end of time."

Doors open and the barge shoots in a curved declination through a tunnel. After this some airtime in a bunny hop and an 85 degree horseshoe. A steep fall and a left curve bring the barge back into the water. The barge then slowly glides to the unloading docks as disembark  the barge and back to land.