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Halloween Horror Nights Opens at Universal Studios Hollywood With ‘Sinners,’ ‘Stranger Things 5’ and a Blood-Soaked Nikki From ‘Obsession’
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Halloween Horror Nights has completed its opening night at Universal Studios Hollywood, launching this year's line-up of haunted houses and roaming scare actors themed around major film, television and gaming properties. The event pairs newly built mazes based on Netflix's "Stranger Things 5" and Ryan Coogler's "Sinners" with a debuting "Hellraiser" house and an area dedicated to Fortnite, reflecting Universal's strategy of tying its seasonal horror attraction to current pop-culture hits to draw crowds through the autumn season.
"Sinners" proved the busiest draw, with waits reaching 60 minutes within half an hour of the gates opening. The debuting "Hellraiser" maze ran a 50-minute queue, while "Killer Klowns From Outer Space," "Evil Dead Burn" and "Killceañera: Music by Slash" each sat around 30 minutes; "Stranger Things 5" and "Dead, Deader, Deadest" ran closer to 25 minutes. The night's busiest zone overall was the Ozzy Osbourne-themed Lower Lot area, where "Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness" hit a 35-minute wait and the adjoining Ozzy's Bar drew roughly an hour-long queue for themed food and cocktails, alongside a roaming, blood-soaked Nikki character from "Obsession" who surprised guests around the park. Halloween Horror Nights continues on select nights through 1 November.
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In short
- Halloween Horror Nights opened at Universal Studios Hollywood with a new horror line-up.
- "Sinners" maze had the longest wait, reaching 60 minutes early on.
- Ozzy Osbourne-themed area was the night's most crowded zone; event runs to 1 November.
How this story developed
- 2 months ago Halloween Horror Nights has opened at Universal Studios Hollywood, with newly reported figures showing "Sinners" drawing the longest queue of the night, reaching an hour-long wait after peaking at 60 minutes within just 30 minutes of the gates opening.
- 2 months ago Halloween Horror Nights opened on Thursday at Universal Studios Hollywood, launching this year's line-up of haunted houses and roaming scare actors inspired by recent horror and pop-culture hits.
- 2 months ago Halloween Horror Nights has completed its opening night at Universal Studios Hollywood, launching this year's line-up of haunted houses and roaming scare actors themed around major film, television and gaming properties.
Explained simply
Halloween Horror Nights is Universal Studios Hollywood's annual autumn event, running on selected nights each year in the run-up to Halloween. The park is transformed with haunted mazes, live scare actors and themed bars and food stalls, with each year's line-up built around a mix of horror franchises and popular current films, television shows and other properties.
This year's event links the park to several high-profile names, including the film "Sinners" from director Ryan Coogler, Netflix's "Stranger Things 5", the "Hellraiser" horror franchise, and a themed area based on musician Ozzy Osbourne, who died in July 2025. Other attractions draw on established horror characters such as the Killer Klowns and Evil Dead series.
The event matters commercially and culturally: it is one of the most popular seasonal attractions in the US theme park calendar, drawing large crowds and long queues, and its line-up is closely watched as a barometer of which films, shows and celebrities are resonating with audiences that year. Halloween Horror Nights runs on select nights until 1 November.
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