I will be the first to admit I am a huge chicken. When I watch horror movies, I do so at home with my hands partially covering my eyes. Yet somehow, I spent last weekend screaming my head off in 10 frightfully fun haunted houses at Universal Orlando's annual Halloween Horror Nights event.
Why would a self-proclaimed scaredy-cat willfully put herself through several hours of monsters, demons, ghosts and gore? Because even though I may have lost my voice by the end of the night, there is so much more to Halloween Horror Nights (known as HHN among fans) than cheap jump scares. The teams who design and build the houses are as twisted as they are talented, and the scare actors give their minds, bodies and, let's face it, probably their souls to fully embody the characters they've been cast to portray.
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Plus, there are all the makeup artists, costume designers, sound and lighting technicians, and other staff members who helped make this event possible. In short, despite being terrifying, when you walk into the houses at Halloween Horror Nights, you feel transported into the (under)worlds these artists have dreamt up. In between screams, I find myself awestruck by what they've been able to create. That feeling keeps me coming back year after year ... along with the fact that I'm pretty good at laughing it off when I survive yet another house.
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To help you prepare for your visit, I've ranked all 10 houses from this year's event. But for all the reasons mentioned above, my rankings aren't based on scares alone. Almost every house is one I would happily take on again, and the ones that I'm less enthusiastic to repeat are only because of how terrifying they were. Instead, my rankings are based on how excited I would be to go through a particular house again.
Even so, rankings are subjective. My list will likely be totally different from yours, and that is just one more thing I love about Halloween Horror Nights. Each house has its own unique blend of storytelling, set design, creative characters and, of course, scream-inducing scares. No matter what flavor of horror you prefer, you'll find it here.
Read on to see how my rankings compare to yours — I'll see you in the fog.
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