This was the debut year for Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood (although a Halloween event also took place at the park in 1992).1
- Monsterquarium (WaterWorld theater) - Weird animatronics and actors in water.
- Classic Monster Maze - Short but fun maze of classic Universal monsters.
- Cryptkeeper Film Vault - Modern film monsters.
- Area 51 - Aliens in cold storage and running amok.
- Beetlejuice's Rockin' Graveyard Revue - Camp-laden musical show -- same as the daytime version.
- Creepy Animals - A live animal show with cockroaches, snakes, spiders, etc.
- Circus of Freaks
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure - Current events satire and a fight with the Cyberspace Witch.
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- Clive Barker's FREAKZ maze - Human curiosities, unusual oddities, and freaks of nature.
- Classic Creatures Features - Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, the Phantom of the Opera, and the Creature From the Black Lagoon.
- The Cryptkeeper's Screaming Room - The monsters and slashers that have taunted you through the years from the big screen.
- Alien Assault - You'll be abducted by the extraterrestrials and travel deep inside a spaceship to experience inhuman terror that would make Mulder and Scully weep!
- The Ultimate Tribute to KISS - Cover band Black Diamond.
- Chucky's Wedding Chapel - Chucky and his bride Tiffany host nightly weddings and audience participation is mandatory.
- SlaughterWorld - All the death defying stunts of WaterWorld plus all new visions of horror.
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure II - SPOOF is the word. The boys from San Dimas are back in an all new action-packed laugh-filled adventure.
- Carnival of Carnage - Sword swallowers, glass eaters, and human pincushions put their battered bodies through acts of brutality for your viewing pleasure.
- Clive Barker's Hell - Dare to enter the putrid put of infernal damnation from the Wizard of Wickedness.
- The Thrilling Chilling World of Rob Zombie - Tunnel deep inside the most depraved realm of all -- Rob Zombie's brain -- where the living dead reign supreme!
- The Mummy - Encounter the actual terrors that traumatized you in Universal Pictures' smash hit movie!
- Creature Features - Step through the movie screen to rub elbows and other body parts with classic Universal Monsters like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Wolfman.
- Cleaver's Meat Locker - Blood-thirsty butchers hack their way through various cuts of meat, including human flesh!
- Chucky's Insult Emporium - Petrifying put-downs to offend everyone!
- Animal House of Horrors - Wild, man-eating beasts unleashed to run amok!
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure III - The boys are back trashing media celebs in a most excellent, all new adventure.
- Carnival of Carnage - Freak out at the sight of this gory collection of sword swallowers, glass eaters, and human pincushions torturing themselves into a tizzy!
This was the last year of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood until its return in 2006. It is unclear what caused Universal to discontinue the event, although one Usenet poster at the time claimed it was because Halloween Horror Nights was not making them any money {Link without Title} .
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- The Undertaker: No Mercy - A raw, in-your-face, horror experience based on the WWE Superstar The Undertaker.
- Buffy & Angel: Hellmouth Haunt - An attraction created by the creators of the WB Network's series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel".
- Rob Zombie's The House of 1000 Corpses Maze - Based on Zombie's upcoming debut as a director and screenwriter.
- Clive Barker's Harvest - You'll walk through a hole in the wall of a mausoleum leading into the ground where something is reclaiming the dead to incubate its young.
- Theatre of Blood - A vault of Universal's classic horror films, where you'll find yourself prey to the most merciless celluloid slashers and fiends.
- Chucky's Insult Emporium - The infamous doll from hell's insults feast on the feeble, the ill-at-ease, and the socially inept.
- Carnival of Carnage - Medieval torture... sword swallowers, fire and glass eaters, and human pincushions toast their unusual talents with stomach churning chasers of cockroaches, worms, and maggots.
- Animal House of Horrors - Featuring pythons, cockroaches, bats, and rats.
Halloween Horror Nights returned to Universal Studios Hollywood for the first time since 2000. The event began on Friday, October 13 and continued for select days through Halloween. Because it was not the 16th year of the event in Hollywood, the theme was different from the "Sweet 16" one used in Orlando. The Director (a character originated at Orlando's HHN XIII as Paolo Ravinski, later Paulo Ravinski, and renamed here to Pavel Pranevsky, with some alterations in backstory) was said to have taken over the studio and to be directing his next film. For the first time in the history of the park, guests were able to walk through the studio's Backlot area, and some of the scariest sets in Universal Studios history.
To promote the event, Universal Studios developed an elaborate back-story for their central icon, the Director:
Due to the increasing success of the Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando, Universal Studios Hollywood decided that after several years of suspension they would have to do something elaborate to bring the event back to their park. Short on professional (and creative) event planners, who were busy at the Orlando Park, the Studio Executives decided to create an original horror film to both promote and inspire attractions for the event. Due to recent success with the Torture Genre , Production decided to hire small time Eastern European director Pavel Pranevsky, who had had made a name for himself in Slovakia for his realistically graphic Snuff short films, such as the controversial "The Widow's Eye", which showed an uncensored clip of a woman's eye being sliced open with a razor blade. Assuming that Pranevsky was using unusually graphic makeup effects, and despite rumors of his unethical filming techniques, they contacted him with an offer to make a movie on which to base the event. Pranevsky accepted, and shooting began on June 6, 2006 , but when a publicity crew was sent to interview him, they disappeared. A week after the interview the studio executives were sent the first several daily’s of Pranevsky's "progress" on the film. The executives were horrified to find that the uncut and unedited footage showed Pranevsky torturing the missing interviewers to death. The Studio shelved the Director's project, locked away the footage and tried to apprehend Pranevsky, but he simply vanished, and it was assumed that he returned to his native Slovakia. The Studio decided to continue with the event without the horror film to draw on, hiring several outside Hollywood makeup and special effects artists to replace Pranevsky. Employees, however, soon reported seeing a strange-looking man apparently living on the lot. There were also videos and pictures flooding the internet from guests on back lot tours of the studio, themselves being filmed by a shady figure in the woods. In late June, the Head of Production received a letter from Pavel, claiming that he wouldn't allow his vision to die. Included with the letter was a tape containing "scouting shots", footage of tourists riding the Studio Back lot Tour trams who, according to Pranevsky's narration, would "help" him complete his masterpiece. By the time Studio Security determined the location of the film, Pranevsky was gone, and because of the sheer size of the studio lot, security simply did not have the manpower to find him. There were literally hundreds of places a person could hide. The Studio issued a general issue advisory to all visitors to the park to keep an eye out for the deranged Director, and to not wander off alone. Despite the problems involving Pranevsky, Universal Studios decided to go ahead with their Halloween Horror Nights event, and whether the "Director" would interfere remained to be seen.
- The Asylum ''( Shrek 4-D queue area)'' - Travel through a maze of dark corridors in a high-security hospital for the criminally insane.
- Universal's House of Horrors ''(Van Helsing: Fortress Dracula)'' - Take a journey into Universal Studios' horror filled past. Come face-to-face with some of the most terrifying characters ever created at this ultimate slaughter house party.
- Terror Tram: The Director's Cut ''( Psycho and War Of The Worlds sets on back lot)'' - For the first time step foot onto the famous backlot. But beware: the Director will be lurking nearby to cast for fresh talent.
- Dawn of the Dead ''(New York Street)'' - New York Street is a scene of chaos and carnage where the dead have been feasting on the living.
- Old London ''(London Street)'' - Fog filled streets of Old London populated by a host of frightening characters from horror films past and present.
- Black Death ''(Parisian Courtyard)'' - Smoldering medieval town of Black Death crawling with plague infected villagers.
- Deadwood ''(Western Street)'' - Ghost town where skeletal inhabitants of the town's most notorious still roam the smoldering streets.
- Studio Center ''(the lower lot)'' - A bizarre assortment of Universal ScareActors including Mummies, The Flasher, Zombie Scarface, and more.
- SlaughterWorld ''(WaterWorld theater)'' - A spectacular tidal wave of death-defying stunts, awesome explosions, and an ocean of thrills.A naughtier version than the day show.
- Carnival of Carnage ''(Flintstones area)'' - Feed your morbid curiosity with freaks of nature and human oddities when you are exposed to a variety of bizarre and sickening acts of self torture.
- The Mutaytor ''( Plaza)'' - Dance till you drop dead as The Mutaytor perform 5 shows nightly.
- Chucky's Insult Emporium - Be insulted by everyone's favorite possessed psychotic doll.
- Fear Factor Live: Dead Celebrity Edition ''(Castle Theatre)'' - Cringe and squirm as pop-culture celebrities compete in a live "Death Match".
- Chainsaw Brigade (all over the whole park)
- Zombie Go-Go Dancers
- Jurassic Park: In the Dark
- MMM The Ride (revenge of the mummy)-ride the revenge of the mummy in complete darkness
The dates for 2007 are: Oct. 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27, 28, 31. Confirmed appearances by Leatherface from ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'', Freddy Krueger from ''A Nightmare On Elm Street'' and Jason Voorhees from ''Friday the 13th''.
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