Universal Studios Hollywood Announces General Admission and Front of Line Tickets Now On Sale for the Eagerly-Anticipated ‘Halloween Horror Nights’ Event,
Taking Place on 19 Select Nights from September 21 to October 31, 2012
Universal City, California—Tickets are now on sale for “Halloween Horror Nights®,” Southern California’s premier Halloween event, taking place at Universal Studios HollywoodSM on 19 select nights from September 21 through October 31, 2012.
Tickets to this year’s event are available for purchase at www.UniversalStudiosHollywood.com/hhn, including a Front of Line ticket option that enables guests to enjoy priority access at each maze and theme park attraction. Advance purchase is recommended as event nights will sell out.
“We’re thrilled to be working with today’s leading horror movie, television and gaming properties to bring another bone-chilling ‘Halloween Horror Nights’ to life at Universal Studios Hollywood,” said John Murdy, Creative Director, “Halloween Horror Nights.” “Our collaboration with renowned filmmakers, producers and artists contributes enormously to the event’s authenticity. The limited amount of Front of Line tickets we make available to our guests is really a great opportunity and we hope they take advantage of this exclusive benefit.”
This year’s “Halloween Horror Nights” at Universal Studios Hollywood brings together the sickest minds in horror to immerse guests in the living, breathing, three-dimensional world of the most notorious and terrifying creatures. Featuring a slate of unrivaled film production quality mazes, terror-filled Scare Zones and a new “Terror Tram” experience, uniquely themed to today’s most definitive horror properties, “Halloween Horror Nights” will taunt, terrorize and torment guests with incomparable spellbinding and spine-chilling haunted attractions.
AMC’s Golden Globe®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning TV series will have a significant presence during “Halloween Horror Nights” when the critically-acclaimed hit takes center stage in a riveting new maze, “The Walking Dead: Dead Inside.” It will also headline the event’s signature backlot experience, “Terror Tram: Invaded by The Walking Dead” featuring hordes of roving, flesh-eating “walkers.”
Other haunted attractions will include “Welcome to Silent Hill,” based on the popular video games and film franchise; “Alice Cooper Goes to Hell 3D,” a new 3D maze inspired by the legendary shock rocker’s classic concept album; a fully-reimagined experience, “La Llorona: Cazadora de Niños,” based on the terrifying Mexican and Latin American legend that has terrified children for centuries; “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Saw is The Law,” maze based on filmmaker Tobe Hooper’s notoriously unsettling 1974 horror film classic, and the “Universal Monsters Remix,” walk-through attraction featuring Universal’s legendary horror monsters of yesteryear, re-defined for the 21st century along with the pulse-pounding sounds of electronic-fusion music.
The ever-popular “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure” will also add to the dynamic “Halloween Horror Nights” event, joining such theme park’s favorites scheduled to remain open throughout the course of the event as, “Transformers™: The Ride –3D,” “Jurassic Park® In the Dark,” “The Simpsons RideTM” and “Revenge of the MummySM – The Ride.”
Details on “Halloween Horror Nights” are available at Halloween Horror Nights, on Facebook at: “Halloween Horror Nights – Hollywood” and on Instagram @HorrorNightsHollywood or #UniversalHHN. Updates from Creative Director John Murdy can be found on Twitter at: Twitter.com/HorrorNights, as he reveals a running chronicle of exclusive information. “Halloween Horror Nights” maze announcement videos can be seen at Universal Studios Hollywood’s YouTube Channel.
“Halloween Horror Nights” kicks off on Friday, September 21, 2012 and continues on select nights through Wednesday, October 31. Event dates are: September 21, 22, 28, 29 and October 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 31.
Universal Studios Hollywood, The Entertainment Capital of L.A.SM, includes a full-day, movie-based theme park and Studio Tour; the CityWalk entertainment, shopping and dining complex, the Universal CityWalk Cinemas, the “5 Towers” state-of-the-art outdoor concert venue, and the Gibson Amphitheatre concert and special event arena. World-class rides and attractions include the critically-acclaimed mega-attraction, “Transformers™: The Ride—3D,” the intense, award-winning ride, “King Kong 360 3-D” on the famed behind-the-scenes Studio Tour, “The Simpsons RideTM,” “Revenge of the MummySM —The Ride” indoor roller coaster and “Jurassic Park® —The Ride.”
We thought you might enjoy these funny Halloween costume comparisons.
Courtesy of cabletv.com
Whether you’re throwing a Halloween party for the kids or hosting the neighborhood’s haunted house, Slacker’s got your back (even when it gets scary).
Slacker has four free stations to make this Halloween the spookiest yet. In addition to the main Halloween station (updated for this year), Slacker also has three new stations: Indie Halloween, Kids’ Halloween and Halloween Sounds.
Halloween:
Get the party started with Halloween on Slacker Radio. We cracked open the crypt to bring you the most terrifying tunes this side of the graveyard. You’ll hear creepy classics, freaky film scores and eerie effects to put a chill in your bones.
http://www.Slacker.com/station/halloween
Indie Halloween:
It’s often hard to tell the difference between costumed revelers and sullen hipsters. For this reason, Halloween is the most indie-rock holiday of the year. On this station, you’ll hear Indie artists singing about blood, death, bones, ghosts, pumpkins and other loosely-related Halloween topics.
http://www.Slacker.com/station/indie-halloween
Kids’ Halloween:
Kids’ Halloween on Slacker Radio is for the young and the young at heart. This station embraces the silly side of Halloween and features songs for the little ones that aren’t quite ready for the scary stuff yet.
http://www.Slacker.com/station/kids-halloween
Halloween Sounds:
Halloween Sounds on Slacker Radio is just that – the spooky sonics of the holiday. Haunting instrumentals, creepy sound effects and the perfect soundtrack for a trip through a haunted house.
http://www.Slacker.com/station/Halloween-Sounds
5 Halloween Urban Myths (That Just Aren’t True)
Fear – that’s what Halloween is all about. Ghosts and ghouls. Zombies and vampires. Poisoned candy. Hang on a minute – when did that become your worst trick-or-treating nightmare? Trick-or-treating is supposed to be fun, with a little bit of monster-under-the-bed type scary thrown in. It’s supposed to be a time when nothing in this world (or the next) can stop your child from getting as much sugar in them as inhumanly possible. When did you turn into the paranoid parent who screens your kid’s candy hoard like a TSA agent screens passengers on a flight to New York?
Before you start donning latex gloves to pat-down gummy bears, you might wonder what fuels your fear. Was it that email you got the other week about Al Qaeda’s plot to poison the nation’s candy reserves? Or how about that story you heard from your friend at work, who has it on good authority from his friend’s cousin’s mother’s aunt (twice removed) that Satanists run rampant in your neighborhood and are intent on performing child sacrifices?
Urban myths, like any good lie, contain just enough truth in them to be plausible. Here are a few urban legends you can tick off your nightmare list so you can get a good night’s sleep and worry about more important things, like how you are going to make that princess costume using only contact paper and cotton wool:
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The poisoned candy myth. It’s easy to understand how this one got started, but there’s no evidence that a stranger has ever handed out poisoned candy to random children at Halloween. That’s not to say despicable people don’t use trick-or-treating as a diversion to poison their nearest and dearest. The cyanide-laden Pixy Stix tend to stay in the family.
- The razor blade in the apple myth. This has actually happened before, but is rare and usually an unthinking teenage prank rather than a vicious plan to kill your child. In fact, nobody has ever died from needle- or razorblade-infused food (to date, the worst injury has required a few stitches). So although it isn’t likely that you’re going to bite into something sharp, you might want to wash any fruit you bring home before eating. Nothing like a dose of E.coli to ruin your Halloween.
- The blue star tattoo myth. This is an email perennial, warning of local drug-dealers handing out LSD-infused temporary tattoos, shaped as (you guessed it) blue stars, to grade-schoolers. Seems rather charitable of junkies to give away their drug profits to school children, but anything goes at Halloween.
- The strawberry Pop Rocks myth. Keeping with the drug theme, this myth started and spread via email back in 2007. The story goes that another group of kind-hearted drug-dealers are out there handing strawberry-flavored meth to your kids in the schoolyard. And if your innocent gets tired of strawberry, they can always try peanut butter or chocolate-flavored meth instead. Mmmm, peanut butter and strawberry meth-flavored sandwiches, anyone?
- The satanic rites myth. There is absolutely no evidence that your child is likely to be abducted, molested, sacrificed to Satan in a wild naked bloodlust ritual, or otherwise tampered with on Halloween more than any other day of the year. And the same goes for your pet cat (black or any other color). In fact, if you talk to any self-respecting Satanist they will tell you they often take Halloween off, since it’s obviously for amateurs.
Really scary things
So what should you be scared of at Halloween – apart from the obvious threat of the zombie apocalypse? One word: traffic. “More kids are hit by cars while trick-or-treating than any other time of the year,” said New Jersey personal injury attorney Richard Console. “Although poisoned candy makes for good evening news teasers, the real danger is in kids crossing streets without checking for traffic, or drivers not watching closely enough for children darting out into the street.”
To protect yourself (and your child), Console suggests:
- Wear light colored or reflective clothing/costumes. Black is ghoulish, but it’s also hard for drivers to see.
- Carry around flashlights or glow sticks for added visibility.
- Make sure costumes are of the appropriate length, to avoid tripping and falling.
- Decorative contact lenses can look cool, but they can also damage your eyes. Avoid the “one size fits all” lenses found at costume stores and get a prescription set from your optometrist. Buying decorative lenses any other way is both dangerous and illegal.
Being injured is no laughing matter, whether caused by a distracted motorist or by tripping over a Jack O’Lantern, so be careful this Halloween. Have fun, and worry more about speeding vehicles than roving Satanists.
Whether you’re a Harry Potter fan or a hater, here’s a funny little Harry Potter Halloween costume decision tree graphic from cabletv.com.
Ghoulishly Delicious Cupcakes
(Food Network) Sandra’s making creepy-crawly cupcakes trimmed with ghastly, gooey goodies.
For more Halloween recipes, go to www.halloweenrecipes.org
