#4: Alien VS Predator
Based off the film of the same name, Alien VS Predator is a classic. Going through the maze you see both the alien and the predator numerous times, and even the walls are a little slimy.
Our favorite thing about this maze was the fact that near the end you had to actually bend down and worm your way through a tiny tunnel to get to the exit, and while you’re down there a bunch of aliens are coming into your personal space since your head is down to their level, and it was absolutely thrilling!
Biggest scare:. Don’t look at the windows too long because if you do then a chestburster alien will come crashing into the glass and totally throw you off. Just try to avoid the glass, basically.
#3: Halloween
You can’t have Halloween Horror Nights without a Halloween themed maze! Michael Meyers is everywhere in this maze, as he should be, and this is definitely one of the most frightening mazes in the entire park.
Everything from the music to the scareactors to even the partitions separating each room all combine to make this maze one of the best mazes we’ve been through. Having (shamefully) not seen the Halloween films but still knowing the lore, this maze scared the bajeesus out of us. Literally — we screamed out bajeesus at one point.
Biggest scare: Pretty much the entire thing, honestly. Mike Meyers is in so many places in this maze it makes us uncomfortable just thinking about it. There was even a window where we were warned that a scareactor would pop out of but still, despite knowing, we screamed like a baby.
#2: Giggle and Gore Inc.
Let’s preface this by saying we don’t like clowns, but we’re not deathly afraid of them. Now we are. Giggle and Gore Inc. is themed around an abandoned factory where bodies are torn apart and clowns are made out of the remains.
We admit that chainsaws, for whatever reason, scare the hell out of us. We also admit that chainsaws combined with murderous clowns literally had us against the wall a couple of times in this maze. This is one of the few mazes that’s more outdoors than it is in a warehouse, so the echoes of people screaming and chainsaws roaring are everywhere – even our tour guide refused to go into this one.
Biggest scare: The whole damn thing. From hearing chainsaws in the distance to having to deal with scareactors in clown make up, it makes us question if any insane clowns might actually be in the maze. We screamed like little girls so many times that this maze had us panting by the end of it.
#1: ‘The Walking Dead’: End of the Line
We’d probably be less scared of this maze had we actually seen the show (yes, this writer has avoided this show like the plague), but there’s a reason this is number one one our list: THEY’RE EVERYWHERE.
This is the largest maze in the history of Halloween Horror Nights, and it took us almost 15 minutes to walk through the entire thing. That, in addition to the fact that this maze also employs the largest amount of scareactors at any one time (at least 50) made this maze out to be a horrible, dreadful, almost-pee-our-pants worthy experience.
Biggest scare: There’s a point where you leave the prison to go outside and there are a bunch of chain link fences keeping in the zombies. And there are a lot of zombies in this one area alone – we’re talking at least 20, at the very, very least. It’s scary enough when the walkers are trying to grab at you through the fence while strobe lights above you make everything disorienting, but it’s worse when you realize there are holes in the fence that allow the scareactors to come and get you. This is another maze that made us fall down in pure fright, and we’re not exaggerating. We were on the ground and by the time we got back up we were already sprinting for the exit.
Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights runs now through November 1.
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