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Halloween Horror Nights 21 officially began last Friday night at Universal Studios Florida and it’s one of the best Halloween Horror Nights events I’ve been to. Our last Halloween Horror Nights blog post gives a little bit of info as to what each haunted house, scare zone and show is about this year at Universal Studios Florida. I was able to go to a special

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Halloween Horror Nights 21 information has finally been revealed by Universal Studios Orlando today and we have all the gory details on this year’s Halloween Horror Nights event. This year’s Halloween Horror Nights forces you to test your luck against the mysterious Lady Luck, who forces Universal Show Director Patrick Braillard to reveal details about this year’s Halloween Horror Nights in the video. Watch it

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Halloween Horror Nights 21 is drawing near! The frightening event, anticipated worldwide every year, will be on select nights from September 23rd until October 31st. After Universal Studios Florida is closed, the park is transformed into every horror lover’s dream. With chilling (and often humorous) live shows, scary scare zones, mysterious mazes, and horrible haunted houses, Halloween Horror Nights 21 is the place to be

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My last blog covered the first part of Halloween Horror Nights event icon Bloody Mary. A crazed psychiatrist possessed by her grandmother’s music box, she killed her patients with her deranged “fear treatments.” Here’s what happened next…

Dr. Mary Agana’s patients were not usually killed by her physically; her first two patients require asylum treatment after she attempts to cure them, while the rest start dying.

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While we’re waiting for some more news about this year’s Halloween Horror Nights event, you’ve likely read a few blogs already about some of the more popular and interesting Halloween Horror Nights event icons. One of my personal favorite event icons is the terrifying Bloody Mary.

Dr. Mary Agana, psychiatrist, had been rejected funding by the National Association of Mental Health after it became clear she

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The Director is another of Halloween Horror Nights’ icons; he was the main event icon at Halloween Horror Nights: 12 and co-iconed for Halloween Horror Nights: Sweet 16 with the Caretaker, Jack the Clown, and the Storyteller. He also appeared in Halloween Horror Nights XX as the Fear’s minion, Sacrifice- fitting for a director who sacrificed real people to make his movies.

Born in Eastern Europe,

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The second event icon developed for Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights was the Caretaker. One of the creepier of the event icons, Albert Caine was a respected surgeon until it was discovered that he would use deceased patients’ bodies for experiments. He became the Shady Oaks Cemetery caretaker, converting the Victorian mansion his family lived in into a mortuary and funeral parlor. There, his gruesome family-

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Our last post covered some of the back story for popular Halloween Horror Nights icon Jack the Clown. Here is the rest of the story:

After his body and the bodies of the 13 children he murdered were found and consequently vanished in a freak accident, Universal found and bought the box, unleashing the clown. He was turned mortal and placed in an asylum. Shady Brook

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Following the theme from the last blog post about The Fear, let’s talk about one of the most popular event icons: Jack the Clown.

Jack the Clown, real name Jack Schmidt, was the first original character created by Universal just for Halloween Horror Nights. He is said by many to be the most popular Halloween Horror Nights A former circus clown gone completely mad, he is

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