From August 29 through November 2, Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights transforms the theme park into a living nightmare. This year’s event delivers its most chilling experience yet, featuring 10 all-new haunted houses, four immersive scare zones, live shows, and spine-tingling street experiences. Guests are invited to journey through the “origins of fear,” where horror takes on new and twisted forms every night.
The event’s headliners are its ten haunted houses, each crafted with cinematic precision and terrifying detail. Fans of Prime Video’s Fallout can step inside the post-apocalyptic Wasteland to face Scavengers, Raiders, and mutated RAD Roaches while following vault-dweller Lucy MacLean’s desperate escape from Vault 33. In Jason Universe, guests relive the legend of Camp Crystal Lake, where Jason Voorhees hunts through creaking cabins and dark forests in a relentless pursuit of vengeance.
For those seeking true shock value, Terrifier invites fans into Art the Clown’s gruesome Funhouse—a blood-soaked maze of horror featuring familiar victims, chaotic scenes like the Clown Café, and a deadly Christmas nightmare. Meanwhile, Five Nights at Freddy’s brings the cult video game to life. Guests step into Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria, where animatronic characters like Freddy, Chica, and Foxy lurk in the shadows, waiting for their next victim.
In a chilling crossover, WWE Presents: The Horrors of the Wyatt Sicks honors the legacy of Bray Wyatt, plunging guests into a world ruled by Uncle Howdy and haunted by the sadistic Fiend. Other new original houses push the limits of imagination: Hatchet and Chains: Demon Bounty Hunters transforms an Old West town into a fiery battleground; Dolls: Let’s Play Dead shrinks guests to toy-size in a nightmarish dollhouse; and Grave of Flesh dares them to attend their own funeral and descend into a flesh-eating underworld. The icy terror continues in Galkn Monsters of the North, where Nordic creatures merge into one colossal beast, and El Artista: A Spanish Haunting blurs the line between art and evil as ghostly paintings come to life.
Beyond the haunted houses, four scare zones stretch across the park. “The Origins of Horror” introduces guests to monsters and chainsaw-wielding fiends, while “Masquerade Dance with Death” lures them into a vampire ball. In “The Cat Lady of Crooked Lane,” trick-or-treaters warn of feline horrors, and “Mutations: Toxic Twenties” revives a roaring decade gone terribly wrong.
The horror spills into the streets with spontaneous frights. “Mel’s Die-In Zombies” serve up undead mayhem, “Club Horror” turns San Francisco into an undead rave, and the roaming “Chainsaw Horde” ensures no corner is safe.
Live entertainment amplifies the screams with “Nightmare Fuel: Circus of Decay,” a fiery, acrobatic spectacle of terror, and “Haunt-O-Phonic: A Ghoulish Journey,” a haunting lagoon show that mixes eerie music and ghostly visuals.
Between screams, guests can visit the Tribute Store, packed with exclusive Halloween Horror Nights merchandise, collectibles, and apparel.
This year’s Halloween Horror Nights isn’t just an event—it’s an invitation to face the fear that started it all.
