We attended the opening night of Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights this weekend, and we’re here to tell you which mazes are the scariest and which we could totally handle with ease.
Universal Orlando is celebrating its 24th annual Halloween Horror Nights this year, and it’s safe to say they’ve outdone themselves. With a slew of new costumes for their scareactors (the people hired to scare the crap out of you) and a bunch of new mazes, this year is filled with frights and fun scares.
We had the privilege of going on one of the “R.I.P.” tours offered at the resort, which provides you with two guides that walk you from maze to maze, as well as through some of the scare zones, and now we get to tell you from our experience which mazes are the most frightening and which had us laughing more than screaming.
And keep in mind that while some of these mazes scared us silly and some didn’t really scare us at all, you might react completely differently to a clown with a chainsaw than we did. These mazes are ranked from least scary to most.
#8: Roanoke The Cannibal Colony
Universal took the familiar story about the lost colony of Roanoke, Virginia from the 16th century and turned it into a cannibalistic colony where the residents believe it’s totally fine to eat their neighbors.
While we loved the historical aspect of the maze, it was all very lackluster in execution. One of the scareactors was chomping on an arm like it was a piece of corn, and that just made us laugh.
Biggest scare: Watch out for the headless dude in the middle of the maze, because while he may look to be a prop sitting on a chair, he most definitely is not. He may have gotten us…
#7:Dollhouse of the Damned
The theme of this house is that anyone unfortunate enough to enter will be tortured and made into one of the doll creatures that roam the halls. And they definitely do a great job with making dolls creepier than ever!
The reason this is so low on our list is because while the dolls and scareactors were definitely creepy, it just didn’t feel scary enough for us. There is a room with gigantic cribs that hold full-grown adult men in diapers wearing baby doll heads, and we were torn: Were they attractive? Was it creepy that a baby doll had abs and pecs? Are we supposed to be slightly turned on in a haunted maze? We were very confused.
Biggest scare: None, other than the weird men baby doll creatures. Nothing particularly stood out to us as incredibly frightening beyond belief.
#6: From Dusk Till Dawn
Based off the TV series, this maze takes you through a remote biker bar filled with a ton of blood thirsty vampires, and they’re all a little sexy.
We’ve admittedly never seen the show this maze is based off of, but we loved the aesthetics of it! It was an old western bar combined with gory vampire chicks who want to kill you — the mix was executed really well. While there are no specifically memorable scareactors in this one, the entire group of them work well together to give everyone a fright.
Biggest scare: There is a point where you enter a room with a bar in the middle and you expect someone to jump out from it, but a vampire chick jumps out at you as you pass it, looking for the scare. We may have fallen down. Maybe.
#5: Dracula Untold: Reign of Blood
Based off the film of the same name, this maze takes you through the story of how Vlad the Impaler became the iconic Dracula. Themed as if you’re going through ruins and caves, this maze does a great job of making you wonder what’s coming around the next corner.
The scareactors in this maze do a great job of hiding and jumping out at all the right places, so even if you think you know where someone is going to be then you should probably expect the opposite.
Biggest scare: None. While the entire maze was relatively frightening and we definitely came away with our hearts racing, no single scareactor or prop made us lose our minds (or our balance).
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