Universal Orlando Is Making A Cabin In The Woods Halloween Attraction and I’m Scared.
Halloween is hands down my favourite holiday. I’m totes down with the spooky stuff. Theme parks have been putting together annual events to celebrate…the most notable being Disney Nightmare before Christmas-ifying their Haunted Mansion ride, and more locally, Wonderland’s Halloween Haunt.
This year, however, Universal Orlando has something quite a bit more grown-up for scare addicts to attend. Writer/Director Drew Goddard has teamed up with the theme park to freak the absolute fuck out of people by creating a Halloween Horror event based on the film The Cabin In The Woods.
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I know, right?
Halloween Horror Nights 23 will apparently re-create the entire film, as well as re-creating another story that runs parallel to the film itself, in a maze attraction featuring a recreation of the entire cabin itself.
*obviously, spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen the film.*
“We are building the cabin completely. You’re going to walk through a forest to get there. You’re going into the cabin. You’re going to go into the cube cells. We’re literally taking everything we can in the film and giving you a kind of best-of montage of the film with this kind of linking story,” Universal Orlando Entertainment Team member Michael Aiello told Zap2it. “You’re going to be in the control room when merman attacks.”
The concept revolves around a newly hired employee of the Facility, played by you, the guests, with videos explaining the mythology of the film as you make your way through the forest towards the cabin.
Goddard goes on to explain further. “In the maze, we’ve got many that were in the forefront of a lot of the scenes — the ballerina, the Sugarplum Fairy, the Hell Lord — but also too there are a couple rooms where we’re kind of featuring some of the creatures that were just on the screens in the control room of movie.”
These creatures will be played by actors – not animatronics – which will no doubt add to the already horribly unsettling ambiance guests will no douct be pexperiencing through the whole thing.
*note: Writing this is actually making me a bit nervous.
The script for the attraction is currently being written, and will runon select nights from September 20 to November 2. You can already buy your tickets here.
Haunted House attractions scares the absolute shit out of me. Here’s the thing – I love gore and monsters and dead things and all that fun stuff – but I can’t do jump scares. You know, when everything is quiet and tense, and then suddenly BAM! Yeah…can’t deal.
That being said…I kind of really badly want to go this. I might end up curled in a ball on the ground crying, but hey. Worth it. I think.
