Entertainment Weekly has provided a first look at the houses coming to this year’s Universal Halloween Horror Nights, including a detailed look at the Five Nights at Freddy’s house, a tribute to Bray Wyatt, and a disgusting feces scent coming to the Terrifier house.
First Look at HHN Houses
Five Nights at Freddy’s House
Lora Sauls, a member of the Halloween Horror Nights creative team, led the preview tour through the Five Nights at Freddy’s experience coming both parks. Guests will travel through Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza and its horrific interior which mirrors “the textures, tones, the carpet, the pizzeria booths” of the film.
In collaboration with Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, Universal also created “exact replicas of homicidal characters like Freddy, Foxy, Bonnie, Chica, and Cupcake.” Sauls added that the characters are full-scale and “strictly [represented as] animatronics and puppeted characters in our house…Freddy will step forward and swipe at us.”
When the house was announced, Universal shared the following description:
You wouldn’t last one night at Freddy’s, let alone five. You’re about to start the night watch at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria, where nothing is what it seems. You’ll be hunted by the deadly animatronics Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy as you flee through creepy, abandoned hallways. You’ll even encounter the ghosts in the machines.
Fallout House
Continuing to the new IP-based Fallout house, Sauls shared that specific locales from the show, such as Ma June’s Sundries, bunkers, and the New California Republic headquarters, will be part of the experience.
A secret character from the show’s second season will also make a surprise appearance at the request of Amazon:
“They worked with us all during filming their second season,” Sauls recalls. “We’re excited about the tease.”
Apart from this mystery character, the house will largely be inspired by the first season of the Fallout show. Guests will enter Vault 33 and follow Lucy MacLean as she tries to escape a bloody massacre. They will then travel outside the vault and into the Wasteland while dodging attacks from Scavengers, Raiders, and RAD Roaches. The experience will rely on connective tissue to jump around “montage” scenes, allowing movement between a variety of locations in the show and game.
Terrifier House
In the first look, no specific photos of the Terrifier House were shared, although Sauls did explain some of the gruesome details that guests will experience:
They’ll also douse attendees in waves of warm water (complete with an iron smell to mimic blood) in the finale that, on a trial run, soaked Sauls’ hair and feet. It’s the scent that lingers, though.
“[The feces smell] sticks to you. It clings to your clothes, to the walls — even when that house isn’t going, it smells,” she says. “Not only are the water effects leveled up, [but] we have smells representing the second film, in a scene where Art scalped his victim and poured bleach and salt on the body.”
Guests will traverse Art the Clown’s Funhouse locations, in addition to the Clown Cafe food court and Art’s bathroom for a sequence that’s “worse than it is in the movie,” according to Murdy. The splatting blood attributed to Art will rain down from “Art’s best kills” from all three Terrifier films and more.
WWE Presents: The Horrors of the Wyatt Sicks House
While the entire house for WWE: The Horrors of the Wyatt Sicks is something of a tribute, the article mentioned that there will be a more specific tribute to Wyatt in a particular area:
The WWE: The Horrors of Wyatt Sicks house includes references to the origin story of their Firefly Fun House children’s TV show and a tribute to Wyatt, who died in 2023, with the WWE star’s signature lantern atop a chair out front.
Sauls also revealed that at some point, guests will go through a TV tunnel surrounded by “multiple video screens featuring 10 wrestlers through WWE history.”
El Artista: A Spanish Haunting
The first original house announced for HHN 2025 at Universal Studios Florida was El Artista: A Spanish Haunting. The new Halloween Horror Nights house is described as “In 19th century Spain, a tortured artist moves into an isolated country manor for inspiration, but the art comes alive and possesses him.”
The exterior of the isolated country manor is detailed with dark lighting, candlelight, and vines.
The artist, Sergio Navarro, appeared for the house announcement at Spooky Empire on June 20, where some of his art as well as character designs were previewed. Pictured above is one of the haunting portraits that first debuted during that event.
Halloween Horror Nights 34 takes place on select nights from August 29 – November 2 at Universal Studios Florida. Elsewhere in the park, the upcoming 2025 Tribute Store has received some more theming and some new Easter Eggs referencing previous years.
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