A Guide to Halloween Horror Nights 2024

The Universal theme parks have officially announced all the houses for both the Hollywood and Orlando Halloween Horror Nights (HHN) event, featuring eight houses and ten houses, respectively. This year features a mix of franchises across the Universal parks, like A Quiet Place, Ghostbusters, and the Universal Classic Monsters, as well as original concept ideas, including Latin American myths and zombies.

Halloween Horror Nights is an annual, after-hours event at Universal Studios that offers guests a variety of haunted houses and scarezones based on Universal IPs and original concepts. Throughout the years, some houses have repeated and others have had “sequels,” but the overall lineup each year varies. With all eighteen houses officially announced, here is a breakdown of the houses coming to Universal Hollywood and Universal Orlando.

A Quiet Place

• Inspired by: A Quiet Place Franchise
• Location: Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood

The now-iconic franchise A Quiet Place has continued to make a mark for itself in the horror film genre with its latest release, A Quiet Place: Day One. This year, the franchise makes its debut at Halloween Horror Nights, with the house likely to recreate some familiar scenes from the films. According to the house’s description:

Keep quiet as you travel from the farmhouse, to the woods, to the foundry.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

• Inspired by: Ghostbusters Frozen Empire
• Location: Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood

Ghostbusters returns to Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights this year with a focus on the new releases and new generation of Ghostbusters. The first time that Ghostbusters featured at the event was in 2019, along with several other iconic 80s horror films, and this year is sure to bring several beloved characters back to life. Earlier this summer, Universal Orlando debuted the Mega Movie Parade, which features several nostalgic movies and franchises, including Ghostbusters, so this isn’t a surprise.

It seems the house will follow the events of the latest Ghostbusters release, Frozen Empire, including the HHN debut of the younger Spengler family. It’s likely that guests will also see the original Ghostbusters make appearances throughout the house as well.

Insidious: The Further

• Inspired by: Insidious Franchise
• Location: Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood

This year marks the return of the Insidious franchise to Halloween Horror Nights following its debut at the event in 2015. While the original house included elements from Insidious, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3, this year seems to focus on the two most recent films, The Last Key and The Red Door. The house’s description states:

Don’t get trapped in The Further as terrifying demons try to ensnare you. Enter the Red-Faced Demon’s
lair behind The Red Door
. And try to keep away from KeyFace, so he can’t lock up your spirit.

Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines

• Inspired by: Universal Monsters, Dracula, Frankenstein
• Location: Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood

The Universal Monsters have featured at Halloween Horror Nights every year since 2019, but this year focuses on women in horror. Follow Saskia Van Helsing and the Bride of Frankenstein as they battle against Dracula’s daughter, the She-Wolf of London, and the mummified Egyptian princess Anuck-Su-Namun.

Epic Universe is expected to open next summer with Dark Universe. This is an entire area dedicated to the classic Universal Monsters, which have experienced a resurgence in popularity among theme park fans thanks to their inclusion at Halloween Horror Nights over the last several years.

Monstruos: The Monsters of Latin America

• Inspired by: Latin American mythos
• Location: Universal Studios Florida

Monstruos: The Monsters of Latin America makes its Orlando debut after featuring at Universal Studios Hollywood in 2023. The Hollywood house won “House of the Year,” making its Orlando reveal and sequel announcement an exciting update.

Attendees will follow La Muerte as they try to survive the horrors of three horrifying Latin American legends: Tlahuelpuchi, La Lechuza and El Silbón. Tlahuelpuchi, the Mexican bloodsucker; La Lechuza, the Witch Owl known throughout Mexico and Texas, determined to seek vengeance on those that wronged her; and El Silbón, or The Whistler, known throughout Colombia and Venezuela for killing and torturing his victims but making his presence known through a specific whistling tune. Try to keep your wits about you as you make your way through these terrifying legends.

Slaughter Sinema 2

• Inspired by: Retro Horror B-Movies, a sequel to the 2018 Slaughter Sinema
• Location: Universal Studios Florida

Slaughter Sinema returns for a second year after its debut in 2018. Featuring scenes reminiscent of a by-gone era of drive-in movies, 80s B-movie horror releases, and a children’s arcade, Slaughter Sinema became one of the most popular houses that year and in the years since. It’s featured in several Easter eggs in other houses in recent years, and this year promises an even more terrifying horror movie marathon, including:

[…] creature features, grindhouse gore, spaghetti westerns and more.

The Museum: Deadly Exhibits

• Inspired by: Original concept
• Location: Universal Studios Florida

A folklore museum’s newest exhibit, The Rotting Stone, has released an evil spirit that decays everything. And it’s coming for you.

Not much else is known about The Museum house, making it a complete surprise for guests attending the event.

Major Sweets Candy Factory

• Inspired by: Sweet Revenge Scarezone, 2022
• Location: Universal Studios Florida

Major Sweets first appeared in the Sweet Revenge Scarezone in 2022, where it told the story of an evil candymaker who turned the town’s children into crazed killers. It was one of the more popular scarezones that year, which led to the announcement that Major Sweets would be getting a larger storyline and a house for this year’s event.

Take a field trip through the 1950s Candy Factory, but beware of the candy and the killer children that have eaten it.

Goblin’s Feast

• Inspired by: Original concept
• Location: Universal Studios Florida

Welcome to the Goblin’s Feast Tavern and visit the goblin village, where a lavish feast is being prepared for goblins, orcs, hobgoblins and witches.

Halloween Horror Nights is no stranger to adapting fairy tales and children’s myths into horrifying stories and haunted houses. Previously, the event has featured twists on Hansel & Gretel, the Tooth Fairy, and others, so adapting these mythical creatures into a spooky tale is no

Triplets of Terror

• Inspired by: Original concept
• Location: Universal Studios Florida

You’re invited to the Barmy triplets’ birthday bash. But beware, they celebrate by recreating their family’s murders. Prepare for a gory gathering.

Not much is known about this original concept debuting at this year’s event either, so guests are in for some terrifying thrills.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Legacy of Leatherface

• Inspired by: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Franchise
• Location: Universal Studios Hollywood

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise has featured at several Halloween Horror Nights events, and this year it returns to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The Legacy of Leatherface will be the ultimate multi-verse homage to the Texas Chainsaw franchise, including several variations of Leatherface from the original film to the most recent and the entirety of the Sawyer Family.

Guests will be able to see their favorite versions of Leatherface and walk through the horrors of each of the films in the iconic franchise that goes back to 1974, which now includes a video game based on the original film and appearances across other forms of media.

Dead Exposure: Death Valley

• Inspired by: Radioactive Zombies
• Location: Universal Studios Hollywood

Dead Exposure returns to Halloween Horror Nights, this time in Death Valley. Guests can enter a top-secret facility where experiments to create super soldiers have gone horrifyingly wrong. Instead of turning into super soldiers, the people have turned into radioactive zombies intent on escape.

Dead Exposure zombies have returned on and off between Hollywood and Orlando since the first house debuted in 2008, with a focus on Bloody Mary. The most recent Dead Exposure house was 2018’s Dead Exposure: Patient Zero, which served as a prequel story to the original franchise.

Monstruos 2: The Nightmares of Latin America

• Inspired by: Latin American legends
• Location: Universal Studios Hollywood

Monstruos 2: The Nightmares of Latin America is a sequel to the 2023 house Monstruos: The Monsters of Latin America. This year, the house will feature legends including El Charro, the soul-stealing entity who wanders the streets of Mexico on his horse; El Cadejo, the dog-shaped spirits who roam Central America and search for prey; and El Cucuy, the Portuguese bogeyman who finds disobedient children and eats them as punishment.

The Weeknd: Nightmare Trilogy

• Inspired by: The Weeknd’s albums and music videos
• Location: Universal Studios Hollywood

This marks the return of The Weeknd to the Halloween Horror Nights events after featuring in The Weeknd: After Hours Nightmare at both Hollywood and Orlando in 2022. Featuring music and inspiration from recent albums, including After Hours and Dawn FM, as well as a “horrifying new tale,” guests will be able to experience some of the most iconic moments inspired by The Weeknd. The After Hours house was one of the more popular houses in 2022, although it remains to be seen if Nightmare Trilogy will live up to expectations.

With ten houses at Universal Orlando and eight houses at Universal Hollywood, plus several themed scarezones at each resort, guests are in for an exciting 2024 Halloween Horror Nights season. Each resort features a good mix of franchise or IP-based houses as well as original ideas, and several ticket options sold out early in anticipation. Universal Hollywood Halloween Horror Nights runs on select nights from September 5 to November 3, while the Universal Orlando event runs on select nights from August 30 to November 3.