More news about Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights to report! It has been released today that a new maze, “Eli Roth’s Hostel: Hunting Season” will be a part of this year’s festivities at the Halloween Horror Nights.
According to the press release, the maze will be a truly horrific experience:
“Hostel: Hunting Season,” for which Universal will build elaborate sets re-creating locations in Slovakia, will mark the horror auteur and star’s first effort at transforming his screen work into a live theme park experience. The maze will re-imagine the film’s dehumanizing torture chambers and send guests on a spiraling journey through the corrupt halls of Elite Hunting’s torture factory. Elite Hunting, a secret society that tortures and kills American youth for sport in exchange for large sums of money, will prowl the factory and prey on its many maze visitors.
“Creating a maze for ‘Halloween Horror Nights’ is a horror fan’s dream come true. I’ve been visiting ‘Halloween Horror Nights’ for years, and still remember the heart-pounding terror of going through the mazes for the first time. For me it was like going inside the world of a movie and experiencing it in a visceral environment that simply cannot be replicated, and in subsequent years I’ve found I’m just as scared as I was the first time,” he said.
He also talked about how happy he was to team up with Universal’s creative team for the creation of the maze. “Our collaborative vision to bring ‘Hostel’ to life will give both fans of my movie and horror fans a scare they could never have imagined. People will have a chance to experience some exact moments from their favorite ‘Hostel’ scenes, along with some new surprises…I was honored to receive an Eyegore Award at last year’s ‘Halloween Horror Nights’ event, and began talking to Universal about a ‘Hostel’ maze even then. This is something I’ve dreamed of for years. I may even dress up and appear in the maze one night as a torturer. So when you say ‘I scared you,’ you can literally mean that I scared you!”
If you want to say you lived through the maze, you’ll be able to go through maze September 23 and continues on select nights through October 31 at Universal Studios Hollywood. You can learn more about the mazes that will be at the event by going to the official Halloween Horror Nights site, Twitter, or Facebook.
