Universal Orlando Resort celebrates 35 years of fear as the world’s premier Halloween event, Halloween Horror Nights, returns for 48 select nights from August 28 through November 1. This year will be one of the most expansive events in Halloween Horror Nights history as Universal Studios Florida transforms into the Infernal Carnival of Nightmares, where legendary icon Jack the Clown and his rival, Dr. Oddfellow, reign as the event’s twisted ringmasters – unleashing a sinister slate of horrors that includes 10 all-new haunted houses, immersive scare zones, live entertainment, themed food and beverages, and other haunting surprises.
See below for an overview of the event content that has been announced to date. Stay tuned – more details about Halloween Horror Nights will be revealed soon. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.universalorlando.com/Halloween.
10 HAUNTED HOUSES (*notates haunted houses also featured at Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights)
Sinners*
Inspired by the 2025 Oscar-winning original horror film, guests transport back in time to 1930s Mississippi Delta and visit Club Juke on its opening night, where they celebrate with twin brothers Smoke and Stack and other familiar characters from the film. Celebration turns to panic when a troupe of nefarious, red-eyed vampires crash the party and threaten to violently curse guests who must survive the night as the terror only relents once the sun rises.
Stranger Things*
Guests are hurled into the fifth and final season of Netflix’s Stranger Things as the barrier between reality and the Upside Down collapses over the town of Hawkins. Visitors will navigate iconic locations from the show such as the Wheeler House, Hawkins National Laboratory, MAC-Z military base and the Abyss while being hunted by Vecna and otherworldly creatures in a desperate battle for survival.
Jack and Oddfellow: Chaos & Control (original content haunted house)
Dr. Oddfellow guides guests through Jack the Clown’s twisted origin story until Jack interrupts – ultimately taking over and sparking a fierce battle between them. After realizing they are more powerful together, Jack and Oddfellow form an uneasy alliance…for the season…and now set out to wreak havoc amongst guests.
INVASION: Alien Abduction (original content haunted house)
Guests witness a terrifying encounter with an aggressive, unseen alien craft that has abducted a family and its livestock from a remote homestead…and they are now plotting to tear everyone apart.
H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular! (original content haunted house)
Fan-favorite creature feature host, Larry Kurtzberg (better known as H.R. Bloodengutz), returns in this all-new haunted house. After his descension into violent madness where he tortured his crew when his show was canceled (as featured in HHN 21), H.R. Bloodengutz has escaped from prison to return to WKNB Television Station for a final Halloween Special of gruesome proportions.
MADLANDS: Caged Cannibals (original content haunted house)
Guests will navigate a post-apocalyptic wasteland where almost all life is nearly extinct, causing humans to feast on each other for survival. As guests try to seek shelter in the ruins of an old zoo, they find they’re not alone when a tribe of predatory cannibals set out to make them their prey.
Cybergoria (original content haunted house)
Set thousands of years in the future, guests enter a cold, dead world where humans have awaken from a cryo-sleep to find that the machines built to make them immortal and invincible have been harvesting human flesh and replacing with synthetic parts.
EVEN MORE HORROR IS ON THE WAY…
Stay tuned – additional details about the terror in store at Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights 35 – including the three remaining haunted houses, scare zones, live entertainment and more – will be revealed soon.
