‘What We Do in the Shadows’ star Harvey Guillén takes us into Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights mazes

Halloween Horror Nights is backmost and successful afloat plaything astatine Universal Studios Hollywood. But travel on: Are the mazes truly scary?

For much than a decade, we’ve gone done each maze aggregate times to spot which ones get the adrenaline pumping. This year, we invited a peculiar impermanent to measurement successful connected our yearly maze ranking.

Southern California autochthonal Harvey Guillén, champion known for his relation arsenic Guillermo de la Cruz connected the FX bid “What We Do successful the Shadows,” volunteered to assistance america determine which attractions were the scariest.

“I deliberation I’m beauteous qualified,” Guillén said, citing his acquisition connected “What We Do successful the Shadows,” which returned to FX for a 3rd play earlier this period and precocious was renewed for a fourth. “I unrecorded with monsters each day, a radical of vampires and an vigor vampire, which is the scariest of each creatures successful the world, truthful I deliberation I person a small spot of expertise successful this area.”

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This line-up of attractions is unfastened prime evenings present done Oct. 31 and includes Universal Monsters: The Bride of Frankenstein Lives, The Haunting of Hill House, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, The Curse of Pandora’s Box, The Walking Dead and Terror Tram: The Ultimate Purge.

As we screamed done the night, we kept notes connected our favorites, ranking the mazes with No. 1 being the scariest and No. 7 the slightest frightening.

A look wrong The Texas Chainsaw Massacre maze astatine Universal Studios Hollywood’s 2021 Halloween Horror Nights. (Photo by David Sprague, Universal Studios)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Guillén’s Ranking: No. 1Fadroski’s Ranking: No. 4

The maze is arsenic disturbing arsenic the movie and it’s filled with the sounds of a chainsaw and plentifulness of scares courtesy of the film’s protagonist, Leatherface. Also: Disgusting smells permeate the nostrils (yes, adjacent done a look mask) from the Sawyer Family’s location of skin-peeling horrors; it’s capable to marque 1 privation to tally screaming retired of there.

“Texas Chainsaw truly enactment the fearfulness successful me,” Guillén said. “Every 2nd of the maze, astir each corner, determination was thing frightening.”

A look wrong the Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers maze astatine Universal Studios Hollywood’s 2021 Halloween Horror Nights.  (Photo by David Sprague, Universal Studios)

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Guillén’s Ranking: No. 2Fadroski’s Ranking: No. 1

Michael Myers is backmost to stalking Haddonfield and connected a ngo to termination his niece, Jamie Lloyd. The maze is filled with acquainted scenes and unexpected leap scares. The temper is truthful tense that adjacent simple, hanging achromatic sheets marque you uneasy. It’s a classical and an implicit rush.

“That was our archetypal maze of the nighttime and I don’t cognize however we apical that,” Guillén said. “It was beauteous astonishing and that is my favourite movie. I didn’t cognize which things successful determination were existent and they did a large job.”

A look wrong The Haunting of Hill House maze astatine Universal Studios Hollywood’s 2021 Halloween Horror Nights. (Photo by David Sprague, Universal Studios)

The Haunting of Hill House

Guillén’s Ranking: No. 3Fadroski’s Ranking: No. 3

This is simply a stunning recreation of the Crain household location successful the Netflix show. There are truthful galore details scattered passim the attraction and spirits tin beryllium hiding successful plain show oregon down disappearing walls. The usage of technology, sound, lighting and the costuming and show of the actors dispersed retired wrong is top-notch.

“It’s truthful bully and you don’t cognize what’s coming up next,” Guillén said. “The twisted cervix lady? And I similar the aged 1920s flapper pistillate done the walls … I did not expect that,”

A look wrong the Universal Monsters: The Bride of Frankenstein Lives maze astatine Universal Studios Hollywood’s 2021 Halloween Horror Nights. (Photo by David Sprague, Universal Studios)

Universal Monsters: The Bride of Frankenstein Lives

Guillén’s Ranking: No. 5Fadroski’s Ranking: No. 2

These attractions marque you consciousness similar you’ve walked onto a unrecorded movie acceptable and lawsuit producers person highlighted 1 of their ain truthful beautifully wrong this maze utilizing large-scale props and they created a communicative that allows The Bride to radiance and footwear butt arsenic she takes connected the Brides of Dracula. The distraction scares and back-to-back frights are a screamin’ bully time.

“That was truthful good, I wanted to spot the movie … I privation that to beryllium real,” Guillén said. “It picks up wherever the communicative of ‘The Bride’ near off, truthful I truly enjoyed that.”

A look wrong The Exorcist maze astatine Universal Studios Hollywood’s 2021 Halloween Horror Nights. (Photo by David Sprague, Universal Studios)

Guillén’s Ranking: No. 4Fadroski’s Ranking: No. 6

“The Exorcist” is 1 of the scariest movies of each clip and a beloved fearfulness classic, but it’s hard to recreate successful a maze setting. The archetypal twelvemonth it was done, it was a thrill to measurement wrong that world. However, now, it’s a spot similar “Groundhog Day” walking into the aforesaid head-spinning, assemblage floating, pea crockery spewing country connected repeat. Oh, and it smells atrocious successful there, too.

“The Exorcist was nostalgic fearfulness astatine its best,” Guillén retorts. “All the scary feelings came back.”

A look wrong The Curse of Pandora’s Box maze astatine Universal Studios Hollywood’s 2021 Halloween Horror Nights. (Photo by David Sprague, Universal Studios)

The Curse of Pandora’s Box 

Guillén’s Ranking: No. 7Fadroski’s Ranking: No. 5

An archetypal communicative created by lawsuit producers that explores assorted creatures successful Greek mythology. It’s an highly elaborate maze that uses neon overgarment and blacklight to exaggerate each facet and further fool the oculus arsenic to what’s a prop and what’s a scareactor looking to pounce.

“I similar the neon lights successful determination and the radical connected stilts,” Guillén said. “I didn’t deliberation they’d travel astatine you, but erstwhile they did I was a small terrified and jumped conscionable a small bit.”

“The Purge” franchise has been reimagined arsenic Terror Tram: The Ultimate Purge for Universal Studios Hollywood’s 2021 Halloween Horror Nights. (Image courtesy of Universal Studios)

Terror Tram: The Ultimate Purge 

Guillén’s Ranking: No. 6Fadroski’s Ranking: No. 7

There are a full of 5 movies successful “The Purge” franchise, the latest being “The Forever Purge,” which came retired earlier this year. It’s a freaky conception wherever the authorities looks the different mode for 12 hours each twelvemonth and each transgression is legal, including murder. Through each film, determination person been memorable costumed characters that spell retired and origin the chaos and they’re each scattered passim the backlot and hidden successful the “Psycho” Bates Motel and “War of the Worlds” acceptable looking for radical to terrorize.

The Walking Dead Attraction, which closed successful aboriginal 2020, was reopened for Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights successful 2021. (File photograph by Ed Crisostomo, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

The Walking Dead Attraction 

Guillén’s Ranking: No. 8Fadroski’s Ranking: No. 8

The Walking Dead Attraction officially closed astatine Universal Studios pre-pandemic, but was reopened for 1 past hurrah during Halloween Horror Nights successful grant of the last play of the deed show, which is presently airing connected AMC. It’s a good portion of zombie-filled nostalgia, but arsenic an attraction, it has tally its course.

Halloween Horror Nights

When: Select evenings and hours present done Oct. 31

Where: Universal Studios Hollywood, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City

Tickets: $69-$99 wide admission; $189-$279 Universal Express; $229-$319 Universal Express Unlimited; $99-$139 aft 2 p.m. day/night wide admittance passes; $219-$329 Universal Express aft 2 p.m. Not recommended for children nether the property of 13. halloweenhorrornights.com.