Features
October 17, 2008
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Co-Photography Editor: Nicole Deck
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The only place to hide is the bathroom
Halloween Horror Nights scares for the 18th year
Nikki Torino
stepping through Mary’s mirror and replaced for a hand, looks for a heart ture” spoofs on the biggest movies of
is going to live that nightmare.”
through murder while flying monthis year like “Hancock”, “Sex
Co-Editor-In-Chief
HHN 18 has an action packed
keys come from flying from above.
in the City”, “Hell Boy”, “the
horrifying event in store with three
Show Director, Michael Aiello,
Dark Knight” and “Sweeny
In a child’s world every ending to
mazes, three live shows, six scare
helped create the back story behind
Todd”. The show even cracks
a story is happy; Dorothy returns to
zones and eight houses.
“Bloody Mary”.
jokes at John McCain, Barack
Kansas, Sleeping Beauty awakes, and
From the houses to the scare
“We placed her back story in
Obama and Hillary Clinton.
that nasty little frog becomes “Prince zones everything is based off of
1958 which
As soon as one enters the
Charming”. What happens however, myths, urban legends, fairy tales and was cool
park and the mirror breaks
when those beloved characters lose
folklore. They all have one thing in
because evthey are immersed into
and the wicked reign? The answer is common. They reside behind Mary’s erything from
the world of Halloween.
Halloween Horror Nights 18 (HHN), mirror.
that year coincides
There is no escape
at Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla.
“We knew we wanted to do some- exactly with this
until the guests leave the
Some remember the childhood
thing supernatural,” said Michael
year,” Aiello said.
park. No one place is
game of looking into a mirror and
Roddy, manager of show develop“This character is
safe except for the
chanting “Bloody Mary”. What
ment. “We wanted it to be scarier
named Dr. Mary Agana,
bathrooms and who
happened after the name was rethan ever before and so we started
Agana meaning blood. Her
knows what may be
peated differs among people, but it
doing research about urban legends
back story is in 1958 and she
lurking in there.
is assumed that only bad was to be
and Bloody Mary was the number
was a psychotherapist whose
expected.
two most recognized across the
study was fear. She believed if
The team at HHN understood and board.”
you truly feared something and
agreed that Mary was one scary lady,
According to Roddy, Amityville
were expose to that enough
so much so that they centered the
Horror was the number one most
times you would get over it.”
theme around her.
known, but after he and his team
Mary’s clients were not the only
“Bloody Mary is one of the most
discussed they realized there was not ones who had a nightmare. She had
widely recognized urban legends
a lot to do with that theme.
her own fear in the form of death.
of all time,” Jim Timon, senior vice
“Bloody Mary is this vocal bringer
“In her own sick and twisted
president of entertainment for Uniof tales,” Roddy said. “So we said
mind she can’t help anyone until
versal Orlando Resort, said. “If you
alright everything in the park, evshe helps herself,” Aiello said.
stand in front of a mirror and chant
erything on the property lets tie into “So in order to experience death
her name three times you will bring
an urban legend, story, fable and so
she needs to see it and so she
her forth. You will conjure her. She’s what happens is when you say Bloody started luring people into her
a spirit bringing darkness and evil
Mary and she breaks that mirror
clinic under the guidelines
upon you so every guest at HHN 18 is she brings you into her world which
that she is going to help them
is the opposite of
with their fears but at the
everything you
same time overcome hers by
know. So all of
taking them out in various
those fairy tales
ways that played off
you grew up
their fears.”
watching everyIf Mary is not
thing from “Cinenough to
derella”, to “Alice
“scare the
in Wonderland” to pants” off
the “Wizard of Oz” an individis a mirrored reual maybe
flection of that.”
Jack “the RipOne of the exper” and Sweeny
amples Roddy uses Todd could in “Body
is a scare zone en- Collectors” or perhaps
titled “the Path of
“Asylum in Wonderland”
the Wicked”. While which is a scare zone where evwalking through
erything is nonsense.
this particular
HHN does not only offer scary
street guests will
adventures but entertainment too for
see the aftermath
those of the fair hearted. “Bill and
of the Wicked
Ted’s Excellent Halloween AdvenWitch if
she had
Photo By Nikki Torino
won.
There is
no more
Dorothy,
October 2-5, 9-12, 16-19, 22-26, 29-31
the Scare
Crow
November 1
has gone
Times: 7p.m.-12p.m.
insane,
General admission: $69.99
and the
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Tin Man,
with an ax
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