Halloween Horror Nights 2010 featuring "La Llorona" and now "Freddy Krueger"!!!

EXCLUSIVE: 'La Llorona' To Haunt Universal Studios Hollywood Halloween Horror Nights!
By George 'El Guapo' Roush on August 10, 2010

Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year. The opportunity to dress up like anyone I want and steal candy from children is a wonderful way to bully young ones without getting caught. One of the other great things about Halloween are the haunted houses. Living in Los Angeles, some of the studio and special effects gurus go all out with their own front yard haunted attractions. There is one in Burbank every year that's really, really cool.

Another place I go to every year is Universal Studios Hollywood and their Halloween Horror Nights. A huge attraction filled with various haunted houses and themed rides. You can even explore the studio backlot if you're brave enough. Last year saw the debut of Saw, and this year looks to be even more terrifying with this exclusive news on a brand new attraction for 2010.

Here is the press release we "dug up" before its official announcement to the public:

“LA LLORONA”— THE BLOODTHIRSTY SPECTRE OF MEXICAN LEGEND, TO STALK HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS GUESTS ON THE UNIVERSAL BACKLOT AND WITHIN HER OWN “SCARE ZONE” AS UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD UNVEILS AN ALL-NEW HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS EXPERIENCE FOR 2010

Universal City, California— La Llorona, whose fearful story of melancholy and murder has terrified Mexican and Latin American children for generations, will cast a grim shadow upon guests at Universal Studios HollywoodSM this fall as her dreaded presence is unleashed upon guests at the 2010 Halloween Horror Nights® event, where the legends of horror come to life.

According to the legend, a beautiful Mexican woman fell in love and married the most handsome man in the village. She bore two beautiful children, but her husband soon fell in love with another woman. Blinded by jealousy, the woman ran with her children to a river, where her faithless husband was courting his new love. Enraged, she threw her children into the river, where the current carried them away. When she realized what she had done, she threw herself into the river as well.

But the woman did not leave this Earth. Late at night, in the deep woods, or by a small creek, children can hear her weeping, searching in vain for her lost children. “La Llorona,(“the crying woman”) they call her, for she frequently wails “My children, where are my children?” Her frail, drenched body is a chilling sight; any child wandering alone is sure to be snatched as her newest victim.

At the 2010 Halloween Horror Nights event, La Llorona will stalk guests as they make their way through the Universal back lot as part of the all-new “Terror Tram” experience and she’ll also terrorize her own “Scare Zone,” hiding within the shadows of a gauntlet haunted by the ghosts of her dead victims.

The 2010 “Halloween Horror Nights” event at Universal Studios Hollywood will offer spine-chilling new mazes based upon the horror genre’s most compelling characters. Rob Zombie and other top artists are collaborating with Universal Studios Hollywood in the creation of new mazes, “scare zones” and backlot experiences. Additional new content for the 2010 Halloween Horror Nights mazes and attractions will be announced shortly.

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Kuzeh said:

It's never too early!!!
I know Sam mentioned doing Knotts Berry Farm this year, but I'm interested in both!!

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Freddy Slashes His Way Back to Uni Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights!
Thursday, August 19, 2010


By: MrDisgusting

Bloody Disgusting can exclusively confirm that Freddy Krueger, the iconic undead dream stalker whose burned, disfigured face, tattered green and red sweater and four-bladed glove has been the searing central figure of nine movies, a television series, video games and comics, will provide a cutting edge for Universal Studios Hollywood's SM A Nightmare On Elm Street: Never Sleep Again, an all-new horror maze experience for the 2010 Halloween Horror Nights event, where the legends of Hollywood horror will come to life, beginning September 24! It will join "Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses: In 3D ZombieVision" (info). More details inside.

"A Nightmare on Elm Street: Never Sleep Again," will bring guests back on a nightmare journey to the town of Springwood, the scene of Freddy Krueger's unspeakable crimes. They'll wind through the ominously twisting corridors of the Barham Day Care Center, glimpse ghastly scenes of carnage among the young people of Springwood and face the ultimate showdown with Freddy in his infamous boiler room lair.

The new maze is based upon the 2010 motion picture, A Nightmare on Elm Street which opened to number one at the box office earlier this year. The Blu-Ray and DVD is set to release on October 5.

The 2010 "Halloween Horror Nights" event at Studios Hollywood will offer spine-chilling new mazes based upon the horror genre’s most compelling characters. Rob Zombie and other top artists are collaborating with Universal Studios Hollywood in the creation of new mazes, "scare zones" and backlot experiences.

The theme park’s favorite thrill-ride attractions will also remain open for "Halloween Horror Nights" as well, many with menacing twists. Favorites include "The Simpsons Ride®," "Revenge of the MummySM – The Ride" and "Jurassic Park® In the Dark."

Updates on "Halloween Horror Nights" will be available at Halloween Horror Nights.com and also on Twitter and Facebook, as Creative Director John Murdy reveals a running chronicle of exclusive information. Fans are invited to follow John Murdy on Twitter at: Twitter.com/HorrorNights or via Facebook at: "Halloween Horror Nights - Hollywood (Official)."

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Kuzeh said:

Freddy has been added to the roster!!! !

https://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/21360

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