There’s no doubt Universal Studios Hollywood has been getting a little crowded, with upcoming or current construction limiting where mazes for Halloween Horror Nights could go. Or so it seemed until today’s announcement that Horror Night’s new Walking Dead maze would be moving from the theme park and right into the historical backlot’s city streets.
The news is so exciting, even Steven Spielberg himself has piped in about it.
“Universal’s backlot was deliberately created to mirror real life urban streets, metropolitan cityscapes and intimate European settings,” said Steven Spielberg. “As filmmakers, we strive to find the ideal, most authentic filming locations to legitimize our productions and make every scene as realistic as possible, which is why Universal Studios Hollywood continues to take creative risks by extending ‘Halloween Horror Nights’ to include the studios’ backlot. Theme park guests will be in awe when they have this rare opportunity to walk through the backlot’s definitive Hollywood movie-making sets.”
“The Walking Dead: No Safe Haven” will turn the city streets backlot set in Woodbury, the town featured in Walking Dead’s third season. From the press release:
With life imitating art, guests will first be tasked to brave swarms of ravenous zombies milling aggressively about the maze entry in a terrifying zombie apocalypse scare zone. A putrid infestation of predatory walkers with an unwavering appetite for humans will lurk throughout the backlot’s dark alleyways and protective doorways with only one place to escape: the maze.
If guests survive this fleet of crazed, blood-thirsty walkers, the terror begins.
“The Walking Dead: No Safe Haven” haunted maze will place “Halloween Horror Nights” guests at the core of the show’s once impenetrable prison, the West Georgia Correctional Facility, now overrun by decaying walkers. The eerily authentic and disturbingly real attraction will send them cowering through the walker-infested wilderness that surrounds the prison and into the seemingly utopian town of Woodbury where gruesome secrets are concealed.
Watch John Murdy, Creative Director for Halloween Horror Nights, and Walking Dead’s Greg Nicotero give a quick tour of the backlot here:
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Halloween Horror Nights opens September 20th. Tickets on sale crazy soon!
