 Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights knows how to bring your biggest fears to life. Often times the event takes the most horrific show or movie and places you right in the center of the horror. Universal has just announced the first haunted house to be included in this year’s scare-fest and it’s a gory one!
The theme park revealed the 1974 horror film, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” will be one of the houses coming to the event this fall. The Halloween Horror Nights website said fans will “experience every scene, every kill, every bone-chilling rev of the chainsaw from the original masterpiece.”
The film follows a group of traveling friends who stumble upon a cannibalistic family – most notably, Leatherface, the main antagonist who wears a mask made of human skin and loves to wield a chainsaw. So, yeah get ready to be chased by chainsaws at this year’s event!
This isn’t the first time Leatherface brought his chainsaws to Universal Orlando. The character was one of the icons of the 2007 edition of Halloween Horror Nights. That same year also brought a house called “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Flesh Wounds.”
"The horror fan in me is looking forward to reliving this story and entering that dilapidated Texas farmhouse," Michael Aiello, director of creative development for entertainment, wrote in a post on the official Universal Orlando blog. "The anticipation of coming face-to-face with a horror legend and having my screams drowned by that saw blade is just as prevalent now as when I first witnessed this amazing horror film decades ago."
This year’s house will be an all-new production, Aiello wrote.
"You will walk through the iconic Texas farmhouse and experience Leatherface’s kills from the 1974 slasher film," a Universal Orlando news release says. "You will desperately try to escape as the violent roar of his chain saw surrounds you. You will hear the cries – and see what remains – of Leatherface’s other victims. And you will come face-to-face with Leatherface himself."
Halloween Horror Nights will run September 15 through October 31. Stay tuned for more details on the horror. In the meantime, you can check out the rest of Universal’s attractions like the soon-to-open Skull Island: Reign of Kong with discounted tickets right here on Best of Orlando.
Orlando, FL – 4/14/16 By: Jena Pugh | 
