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After weeks of anticipation the time has come, Halloween Horror Nights released the full line up of haunted houses, scare zone and shows for this year’s event along with a preview video including UCF graduate Phillip Wright. 

Halloween Horror Nights 31 will take place at Universal Studios Florida featuring 10 Haunted Houses, 5 bone chilling scare zones and 2 heart pounding live shows.  

The Halloween themed event previously announced popular Franchise based properties to headline this year’s event such as Universal Monsters: Legends Collide, John Carpenter’s 1978 Halloween, The Horror of Blumhouse: Featuring Freaky and The Black Phone and The Weeknd: After Hours Nightmare. 

Horror Nights unveiled that there will be 6 brand new original Houses that will complete the 2022 lineup in a preview video below featuring UCF Broadcast Journalism graduate Phillip Wright. 

Wright featured above in a Jack the Clown shirt and red jacket, graduated from UCF in May of this year and previously worked on the school’s talk show The Late Knight Show where he was a co-creator with UCF Senior Carla Mangual.

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During his time, Wright wore many hats for the student-run production seeing the Journalism Major co-host, act, lead meetings for creative and write for the entertainment production whose first season spanned six episodes. 

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This year’s original themed houses include: Enter an unsettling 1920s speakeasy only to discover that they are the main ingredient of witch’s brew in Spirits of the Coven. 

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Face a putrid, skin-crawling infestation of spiders, roaches, flies, bees and more in Bugs: Eaten Alive 

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Escape or become prey to a no-longer mythical, fanged creature in Fiesta de Chupacabras 

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Attempt to survive visiting hours for horrifying monsters serving time in Hellblock Horror 

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Endure a petrifying winter thunderstorm in a seaside village ruled by an undead fisherman in Dead Man’s Pier: Winter’s Wake 

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Encounter bloodthirsty mutants living in a post-apocalyptic subway system in Descendants of Destruction 

HHN 31 will also feature 5 all-new scare zones including: 

  • Encounter The Pumpkin Lord and all his devious subjects in Horrors of Halloween 
  • Reap the wrath of scarecrows who will stop at nothing to harvest their souls in Scarecrow: Cursed Soil 
  • Experience a terrifying 1950s Halloween parade-gone-wrong alongside bloodthirsty trick-or-treaters in Sweet Revenge 
  • Venture through an ominous Halloween thunderstorm within a ghastly cemetery in Graveyard: Deadly Unrest 
  • Escape an evil sorceress bringing forth an army of ravenous monstrosities in Conjure the Dark 

There will also be two new live shows featured at this year’s event including: 

  • Halloween Nightmare Fuel Wildfire – the sequel to last year’s fan-favorite “Halloween Nightmare Fuel” show featuring the world-famous performance group, The Fuel Girls – highlighting a new Dreamer in the depths of a new nightmare set to a heart-pounding metal, rock and electronica score. 
  • Ghoulish! A Halloween Tale, an all-new show taking place in the Universal Studios lagoon that follows the Grim Reaper on the undertaking of what happens beyond the grave – all set to eerily-remixed music by some of today’s most iconic artists. 

Halloween Horror Nights 31 will run on select dates from Sept.2 through Oct. 31. Single and multi-night Frequent fear pass options can be purchased on their website