Alice Cooper is this year’s schoolmaster in his own horror-filled maze at Universal Studios Hollywood’s annual Halloween Horror Nights event in Los Angeles.
Cooper said: “This is the lot where those classic horror masters were born. To be included with that is such an honour. I’ve done horror all my life, but I’ve never been in that class. I’m one of the new monsters.”
The maze, named after Cooper’s 1975 album “Welcome to My Nightmare”, will take place inside the foreclosed home of Cooper’s semi-autobiographical character Steven.
As guests walk through, they will encounter creepy babies, electric chairs, cadavers, stilt-walking creatures and guillotines, serenaded by a mash-up of Alice Cooper’s most famous songs.
Creative director John Murdy said: “We always want to scare the living fill-in-the-blank out of our guests. Every year, we push it a little further. We’re doing some things this year that are out-of-this-world extreme.”
Other contemporary horror-mongers will also be contributing their own attractions to the event for some hair-raising fun.
Horror film director Eli Roth has been attending the event since 1999 and will be contributing “Eli Roth’s Hostel: Hunting Season”, based on his 2005 and 2007 horror flicks.
He said: “We wanted to honour the films and have certain things that fans expected to see, but we also wanted to come with new ideas that I was never able to film. I was actually blown away by what they proposed and were able to pull off. I thought the stuff I was asking for would be too expensive or too crazy. They were absolutely gung-ho about it.”
Visitors to the lot will also be able to explore on the studio’s tram tour showcasing set pieces and other thrills from Scream 4, as well as experience classic thrills in a maze based on classic horror flick The Wolfman.
Halloween Horror Nights runs from 23 September to 31 October, Halloween night.
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