UNIVERSAL ORLANDO RESORT’S HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS XX: TWENTY YEARS OF FEAR OPENS

All New Haunted Houses, Scarezones and Shows Mark the 20th Year of the Event
Gory Getaway Vacation Package Offers the Best Value to Experience the Nation’s
Best, Most Intense, Halloween Event

ORLANDO, Fla. (September 24, 2010) – A new age of darkness begins as Halloween Horror Nights XX: Twenty Years of Fear opens tonight at Universal Orlando Resort.  For 24 nights this fall, Universal Studios Florida transforms into a horror-filled realm where menacing creatures lurk and guests must confront their deepest and darkest fears.

Guests will experience a new level of extreme and intense Halloween entertainment. They will walk through the ruined gates of Hades, become prey to blood-craving zombies, tour a Parisian catacomb where they will feel the vengeance of the dead – and more.

The mastermind behind it all is Fear – he is everything Halloween Horror Nights has been and will become.  For 19 years, he’s been behind every paralyzing scare, every horrifying creature and every piercing scream at Halloween Horror Nights.  Now, Fear is emerging from the shadows to reign over all he has created.

Halloween Horror Nights XX features eight all-new haunted houses, six scarezones and two live shows.

Tickets are on sale now.  The Gory Getaway Vacation Package is the best way to experience all of the fright of Halloween Horror Nights plus all of the thrills of Universal Orlando Resort.


Halloween Horror Nights Vacation Package

On-Site Gory Getaway Vacation Package ~Entire package starts at $480 per adult, tax inclusive
   
·         3-night accommodations at one of Universal’s three award-winning hotels: Loews Portofino Bay Hotel, Hard Rock Hotel or Loews Royal Pacific Resort

·         2-day ticket to both Universal Orlando theme parks – one park per day

·         Early park admission to Islands of Adventure

·         Complimentary Universal Express access to bypass the regular lines at select theme park rides and attractions during the day (an $87 value per person, per day)

·         1-night admission to Halloween Horror Nights

·         One 5”x7” souvenir photograph

Off-site Gory Getaway vacation packages are also available starting at $299 per adult, tax inclusive. Guests who have already purchased a vacation package through Universal Parks & Resorts Vacations can add Halloween Horror Nights tickets for as low as $34.99 plus tax per person.  Single-night event tickets can also be purchased for $74.99 plus tax.

Halloween Horror Nights runs September 24-25, September 30-October 1-3, 7-10, 14-17, 20-24 and 27-31.  For more information and to purchase tickets and vacation packages, visit www.HalloweenHorrorNights.com. Due to the event’s popularity, tickets for weekend nights are expected to sell out and should be purchased well in advance.

For a detailed listing of each haunted house, scarezone and show featured at this year’s event, see below.


HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS XX: AN OVERVIEW
EIGHT ALL-NEW HORRIFYING HAUNTED HOUSES

Horror Nights: The Hallow’d Past – Halloween Horror Nights.  The name brings with it millions of tales, each filled with thousands of screams.  Now, you have the opportunity to travel into a realm where Horror Nights isn’t just an event, but a reality.

The Orfanage: Ashes to Ashes – Ashes to ashes, forever now dust.  For years she has existed in the shadows, never getting her due.  Misunderstood by all around her, she has had enough of her playthings at the Good Harvest Orphanage - now is the time for vengeance.  This burned out shell contains the souls of the forgotten and the lost who all scream one name: Cindy.

Hades: The Gates of Ruin – Hades bids you welcome.  Make your way into the Underworld, and come face to face with the most terrifying creatures of legend as you cross through the Gates of Ruin.

Psychoscarepy: Echoes of Shadybrook – The truth, as they say, is far stranger than fiction, and in this instance they happen to be correct.  Although Shadybrook’s doors have indeed been closed for the last 15 years, the place is still very much alive with all of the criminally insane souls that have ever walked its halls.

Havoc: Dogs of War – Ten years ago, the Shadowcreek Enterprise was tasked with developing an elite corp of soldiers.  They succeeded. Through an inhalant that includes a compound of testosterone, adrenaline, and other anesthetics, Shadow Creek’s latest run of volunteer test subjects are ready for inspection.  The project name: HAVOC. The subjects are known simply as the Dogs of War.

Catacombs: Black Death Rising – During a plague of Paris and Marseilles in 1534, thousands died due to an undisclosed viral outbreak.  A group of doctors took it upon themselves to quarantine the most infected citizens of the city.  They had no way of knowing that the townspeople would betray them, sealing them into their doom.  They have been unable to escape for almost five hundred years.  Now that the dead inside have found a way out, they are rising to take their centuries old vengeance on any living being that dares to enter the Catacombs.

Zombiegeddon – The United States government has re-taken the continental United States, and is actively engaged in clearing the remaining infested pockets of Canada.  The government also licenses and sanctions private companies to capture “un-live” subjects and use them as practical targets during these training sessions.  Dozens of independent training consultant “companies” spring up, promising the best training that money can buy...and then there’s ZAP...The Zombie Awareness Program.

Legendary Truth: The Wyandot Estate – The Spirit Seekers have come up with a machine that actually gathers spirits toward it.  The group has decided to do a live broadcast from inside one of the most reportedly “haunted” sites in the entire United States, The Wyandot Estate, built in the 1920’s in Carey, Ohio by the entrepreneur Malcolm Wyandot and his wife Lydia.  The house has been rumored to be haunted since Malcolm brutally killed 13 dinner guests and his wife Lydia before committing suicide on October 30, 1929.  The team is about to get more than they bargained for as the murdered hear their call and answer with terrible violence.

SIX INESCAPABLE SCAREZONES

HHN: 20 Years of Fear – Step into the shadows of the last Twenty Years of Fear.  Move toward the lantern, and encounter the most frightening characters of Halloween Horror Nights past.

Fear Revealed – The souls of Chaos, Death, Sacrifice, Mythos and Vengeance — He created them and gave them terror.  Each with a part to play, they fulfilled their tasks.  Their malice provided him bone, their rage gave him blood, and their terror fulfilled his soul.  What has been 19 cycles for some have been eons for him.  He’s waited patiently for the final piece, and now on the 20th cycle… HE IS REVEALED.

Zombie Gras – This Mardi Gras parade has gone severely off course.  Infected by the North American zombie infestation, the undead walk among us, searching for their next meal...

Esqueleto Muerte – Revel in the seductive taunts of Death as you wind through a glowing skeletal nightmare.

Saws ‘n Steam – Enormous trenches in the earth’s crust have opened below its vast oceans, exposing them to intense heat.  Steam power is essential to the inhabitants of New Yorkshire, but diminishing oceans have put the city in jeopardy, forcing the citizens to evil lengths.  Beware upon entering the city, as the water in your body is now a coveted resource.  And the citizens will stop at nothing to get it.

The Coven – The Cult of the Raven has unsettled spirits, and its Sirens are screaming throughout the witches’ realm.  As you creep past their obelisk, beware their spells.  For those who don’t believe will be condemned to death.

TWO OUTRAGEOUS LIVE SHOWS

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure – Party on as those two most excellent dudes return to skewer the biggest names in entertainment and pop culture.

Brian Brushwood: Menace and Malice – Experience two realms of bizarre magic by one of the country’s most outrageous illusionists.