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Nicolas Cage has excelled in the manic assassin role in movies over his 40-year Hollywood career. Now he faces his ultimate challenge in the forthcoming new horror-comedy “Willy’s Wonderland,” and the latest trailer is sure to raise the kick-ass potential of this long-awaited film debut next month.
Patrick Braillard, Nate Stevenson and Jacob McAlister all worked for Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights for numerous years. With the all too common news this year of talented folks losing their jobs due to the ongoing pandemic, Braillard, Stevenson and McAlister decided to take their love of horror and gaming to create a brand new card game called Oh, The Horror!, currently running a Kickstarter campaign to become a reality.
Without any official announcement at all, Universal Orlando gave fans in the park a Halloween surprise today with the opening of a new Beetlejuice haunted house.
Halloween Horror Nights has shared a behind-the-scenes look at the annual haunt event in a new video – as well as a sneak peek at the first haunted house for 2021.
Pseudonym Productions has launched a new digital experience that resurrects the fun of the haunt season by bringing the scares online with “Virtual Frights.”
Even though Halloween Horror Nights isn’t happening as usual at Universal Orlando Resort this year, you can still bring some of the spooky tastes home with this recipe for the Nachos Queso Fundido!
As a kid, I always thought that if an attraction was in a Universal Studios theme park, that meant it was a Universal film. As I grew older, I started to recognize that isn’t the case, and that a lot of the time, intellectual properties are licensed in order to use certain characters in the parks. A great example is “Beetlejuice.” For a long time, I thought this was a Universal character since he was featured so much in the park. I was surprised to find out that that film was distributed by Warner Bros. It was equally as confusing at a younger age with everything at Disney-MGM Studios.
Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando Resort got a bit of a makeover this year, but there are still plenty of Halloween tricks and pumpkin-y treats to help everyone celebrate the most horrifying time of year.
Right from the top, I’ll admit that I am not the biggest fan of “The Simpsons.” I haven’t seen very many episodes and I simply was never enthralled by it the way so many are. But it always seemed like a no-brainer to me that “The Simpsons” could have (and should have) been a part of Halloween Horror Nights in the Universal Studios theme parks. But now, it’s probably too late and this opportunity has been missed.
Attractions Magazine is proud to announce that we will be presenting “We Party On,” a live-streamed virtual reunion of the original creators and performers of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure, on Oct. 22 as a benefit for the Greater Orlando Performing Arts Relief fund.
