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).

Check out the next page to see which maze is number 1!

#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.