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	REVIEW NOW ONLINE. HALLOWEEN HORROR COMES TO UNIVERSAL ORLANDO RESORT Tickets Now on Sale for ‘Sweet 16th’ Halloween Horror Nights Universal Orlando Resort in Florida is gearing up for the most intense and chilling Halloween Horror Nights event in its 16-year history. Tickets are now on sale for the nerve-jangling event, which runs for 19 select nights between 29 September and 31 October 2006. Halloween Horror Nights is one of the largest events of its kind in the US and will bring guests’ deepest and darkest nightmares to life. The event will feature new haunted houses, terrifying scare zones, specially themed shows and hundreds of gruesome ‘scare-actors’ guaranteed to scare the wits out of even the bravest visitors. Jim Timon, Senior Vice President, Entertainment, Universal Orlando Resort, said: “Each year, we take our Halloween Horror Nights event to the edge and make it more and more intense. This year, our ‘scream team’ of designers has created a twisted ‘Sweet 16’ celebration that will not be for the faint-of-heart.” As night time approaches, Universal Orlando Resort will be transformed into a dark netherworld offering no escape for its visitors. Highlights will include ghoulish ‘scare- actors’ beckoning guests into their dingy domains, spine-chilling haunted houses, and all-new stage shows, including this year’s take on the ever-popular ‘Bill and Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure’. For the same price as a one-night Halloween Horror Nights ticket ($59.95 plus tax per person), the Frequent Fear Pass allows unlimited entry to the event from Sunday to Thursday nights, including admission on the first weekend (29 - 30 September). To purchase the passes, please visit our website at www.universalorlando.co.uk. Due to the event’s popularity, tickets can sell out in advance so UK visitors should buy tickets before leaving the UK. “We have robbed the graves of Halloween Horror Nights past to create a new, more terrifying monster,” said TJ Mannarino, director of entertainment for Universal Orlando. “This year will be more intense and frightening than ever before, and the icons will dominate the entire event from haunted houses to shows…it’s their world.” This year’s event features seven classic haunted houses from the past 15 years of horror with frightening new elements. Halloween Horror Nights 16 also features new shows, including a Halloween version of Universal 360, and a new version of the popular “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.” Also this year, guests are immersed in some frighteningly familiar scares in the streets, including the chainsaw drill team complete with precision routines and intimidating tactics, the rat lady being wheeled through the park in her rat-infested coffin, and zombies stalking the crowd on motorcycles, searching for the undead. Seven terrifying houses beckon guests as they navigate through Halloween Horror Nights 16: Dungeon of Terror – Retold – Mysterious whispers call you deeper into the dungeon. This is the place where The Storyteller demands the undivided attention of her “guests” until her story has been told. Hint: There is no happily ever after. Run: Hostile Territory – An underworld where guests can fulfill their most ghastly fantasies and where the innocent can be tortured, dismembered and killed. Choose your path but beware when the lights go out: the guests become the victims and nothing can save you. Psychoscareapy – Maximum Madness – Shady Brook Hospital’s newest resident is about to take over. If you think you know insane, you don’t know Jack. Step inside an asylum where the big top has padded walls and the sideshow is death. All Nite Die In – Take 2 – For The Director, film is forever but pain is everlasting. He takes you on a cinematic journey through classic horror movies. Grab your ticket and come face-to-face with film’s greatest evils. Scream House – The Resurrection – Evil has risen again. Abandoned for years, this gothic mortuary contains the eternally tormented souls of The Caretaker’s victims. Aided by a cultish group of followers – your time has come. Psycho Path: The Return of Norman Bates – There is vacancy once again at the legendary Bates Motel. Your eyes prove to be useless as your mind takes over and leads you through the macabre nightmares of a pathological killer named Norman Bates. People Under The Stairs: Under Construction – Is it possible for a house to be haunted before it is even completed? Focusing on the group experience, rather than the individual’s, this house forces a party of guests to work together to uncover an escape route, or perish. Their destinies are not their own as they must place their faith in their leader, who is randomly selected. Wearing a lighted helmet, the leader must navigate his or her group through the black to investigate the skeletal form of a home so demented that even its incomplete walls bleed. Sweet 16: The Director's Cut Each night throughout the event, guests can relive some of the most intense moments from Universal’s horror film history during the Halloween version of Universal 360: A Cinesphere Spectacular. Presented by The Director, all four icons had a hand in creating this horrific lagoon show which will have guests cringing with fear throughout the night. Universal 360 is a first-ever combination of 360-degree spherical projection, lasers, pyro effects, digital mapping technology–and four enormous spheres spread across acres of waterfront at the Universal Studios theme park. The spheres, which are 30-feet tall and 36-feet wide, float in the park’s central lagoon and serve as giant outdoor projection screens. Digital mapping technology allows Universal to project images and effects on buildings around the lagoon– transforming entire buildings into walls of flame. The Halloween Horror Nights will run as follows: 29 - 30 September 6 - 8 October 11 – 15 October 19 – 22 October 26 – 29 October 31 October When visiting Orlando, Nowt2Do.Com are staying at, and reviewing the following hotels. Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, Disney World Resort Swan & Dolphin, Disney World Resort Swan & Dolphin, Universal Orlando Resort This is part of nowt2do.com's Ultimate Destination Guide: Florida 2006.