Michael Myers, one of the most terrifying villains in cinematic history, is set to terrify an entire new community, when the all new Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home maze premieres at Halloween Horror Nights on September 18. The maze is inspired by the classic 1978 slasher film, ‘Halloween,’ which co-written and directed by renowned horror filmmaker John Carpenter.
Halloween Horror Nights’ latest revealed maze will take guests through the tormented town of Haddonfield, Illinois, where ‘Halloween,’ which featured Jamie Lee Curtis in her acting debut, is set. The horror thriller, which begins on the title holiday in 1963, follows a six-year-old Michael Myers as he inexplicably and brutally stabs his sister to death with a kitchen knife. The maze’s guests will also relive the terror that the maniacal Michael inflicted upon the once quiet town after his escape from a psychiatric hospital 15 years later, as he sets out to take his bloody revenge on new and unsuspecting victims.
Guests will also experience the sensation of stepping through the silver screen directly into unsettling and shocking film scenes, as they navigate their way through Haddonfield, adorned in classic Halloween décor on a similar Halloween night in 1963. Meyer’s abandoned family home and its blood-splattered walls, where the violent murder took place, will set the stage for a new crime scene as guests attempt to evade the relentless killer, who’s armed with his signature bloodstained knife.
“Halloween is the ultimate classic slasher film that spawned an entire horror film genre,” said John Murdy, the Creative Director at Universal Studios Hollywood and Executive Producer of Halloween Horror Nights, who announced the plans for Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home during Scare LA this past weekend. “Bringing John Carpenter’s disturbing, cutting-edge vision to life as part of Halloween Horror Nights is the ideal complement to our maze lineup as we continue to break creative ground with outstanding horror icons that raise the intensity level of our experience.”
Halloween Horror Nights 2015 at Universal Studios Hollywood will be open on select nights through November 1. The popular event brings together the sickest minds in horror to immerse guests in a living, breathing, three-dimensional world of terror. Featuring an all-new slate of unrivaled film production quality mazes, frightful scare zones and a fully re-imagined Terror Tram experience uniquely themed to today’s most definitive horror properties, Halloween Horror Nights will taunt, terrorize and torment guests with spine-chilling haunted attractions during Southern California’s most extreme Halloween experience.
Besides Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home, Halloween Horror Nights will also feature an original hip-hop show from the acclaimed dance crew, the Jabbawockeez, as well as Guillermo del Toro Presents Crimson Peak: Maze of Madness. The latter event is based on Legendary and Universal Pictures’ anticipated horror fantasy drama, ‘Crimson Peak,’ which was directed, co-written and produced by the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker. Halloween Horror Nights will also include ‘The Walking Dead: Wolves Not Far,’ which is based on Season 5 of the critically-acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning horror drama television series. The other recently announced event at Halloween Horror Nights is ‘Insidious: Return to the Further,’ which is based on the hit supernatural horror ‘Insidious’ film trilogy.
For more information on Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home, visit Halloween Horror Night‘s Youtube page, and watch the video below.
Written by: Karen Benardello