“Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home,”

Based on the Cult-Classic Horror Film,
Slashes through Universal Studios Hollywood
in an All-New Terrifying
“Halloween Horror Nights” Maze,
Beginning Friday, September 18

Was that the Boogeyman? Indeed it was.

Today, Universal Creative Director, John Murdy, announced the all-new maze , “Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home” for Universal Studios Hollywood in an all new maze for Halloween Horror Nights beginning Friday, September 18, 2015. Inspired by the unparalleled, original classic slasher film, Halloween.

The unrelenting maze will take guests through the tormented town of Haddonfield, Illinois, where on one fateful Halloween night in 1963, a six-year-old child by the name of Michael Myers inexplicably and brutally stabbed his sister to death with a kitchen knife. Guests will relive the terror that a maniacal Michael Myers inflicted upon the once quiet town after his escape from a psychiatric hospital to take bloody revenge on new and unsuspecting victims.

As if the film wasn’t suspenseful enough, guests will have the sensation of stepping through the silver screen directly into unsettling and shocking film scenes from the terrifying 1978 film.  They navigate their way through Haddonfield, which will be adorned in classic Halloween décor on a similar Halloween night in 1963.

Meyer’s abandoned family home and its blood-splattered walls, where the violent murder took place, will set the stage for a new crime scene as guests attempt to evade the relentless killer–armed with his signature bloodstained knife.

“Halloween is the ultimate classic slasher film that spawned an entire horror film genre,” said John Murdy, Creative Director at Universal Studios Hollywood and Executive Producer of “Halloween Horror Nights.” “Bringing John Carpenter’s disturbing, cutting-edge vision to life as part of ‘Halloween Horror Nights’ is the ideal complement to our maze lineup as we continue to break creative ground with outstanding horror icons that raise the intensity level of our experience.”

“We are extremely excited to team up with Universal Studios Hollywood’s fantastic event, ‘Halloween Horror Nights,” said Malek Akkad, President of Trancas International Films and Compass International Pictures. “The attention to detail that the creative team gives to the Halloween maze creates a realistic and terrifying experience for guests that is truly authentic to the film. This year’s maze will be the best yet.”

The Halloween franchise is one that Universal Studios often returns to for its mazes and haunted houses.  In 2009, Universal Hollywood presented the wonderful, Halloween: The life and Crimes of Michael Myers, which references every film in the bloody cannon.  Last year we had the privilege of seeing the all-new Halloween haunted house at Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando.  While brilliantly re-creating key scenes from the movie, it seemed to veer into more creative areas, leaving the suspense far behind.  We have the utmost faith that the Universal Hollywood creative team will tap into the artery of suspense that is the original classic.

We have Crimson Peak Maze of Madness, Insidious Return to the Further, The Walking Dead: Wolves Not Far and now Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home.  SWEET! What terrors await us next?

Halloween Horror Nights 2015 at Universal Studios Hollywood kicks off on Friday, September 18, 2015, and continues on select nights through November 1.

Updates on “Halloween Horror Nights” at Universal Studios Hollywood are available here on HorrorBuzz.com and online at HalloweenHorrorNights.com/Hollywood

You can find them on Facebook at: “Halloween Horror Nights – Hollywood,” on Instagram at @HorrorNights and Twitter at @HorrorNights as Creative Director John Murdy reveals a running chronicle of exclusive information. Watch videos on Halloween Horror Nights YouTube and join the conversation using #UniversalHHN.