Sept. 4, 2023
Halloween Horror Nights Orlando: Press Conference
Halloween Horror Nights opened Friday in Orlando, and this season is the longest run ever at 48 nights. Media members were invited Friday night to a presentation about this year’s event – and that’s what I’m playing for you today. You’ll hear the...
Halloween Horror Nights opened Friday in Orlando, and this season is the longest run ever at 48 nights. Media members were invited Friday night to a presentation about this year’s event – and that’s what I’m playing for you today. You’ll hear the backstory behind all the event offerings, and there’s an appearance from Michael Aiello and Neil Druckmann (Naughty Dog Co-President). Subscribe: https://linktr.ee/hauntedattractionnetwork
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From the Haunted Attraction Network. I'm
Philip and this is our sixty one day
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Hauntathon. We're recounting down to Halloween
by celebrating haunted houses daily via videos,
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podcasts, and in person experiences.
Since this podcast is only part of the
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Hautathon, the best way to follow
everything is by subscribing to our newsletter at
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the link in our show notes.
And remember that the best way you can
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support us this Halloween season is by
sharing our hautathon with someone you think will
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enjoy it. Halloween Horror Nights opened
up Friday in Orlando and this is the
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longest run ever at forty eight nights. Members of the media were invited Friday
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night to a presentation about this year's
event, and that's what I'm going to
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play for you today. You'll hear
the backstory behind all of the event offerings,
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and there's an appearance by Michael Allo
and Neil Druckman, the Naughty Dog
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co president that's accompany the created the
Last of Us. So basically, think
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of this like an audio cliff notes. If you're going to the event but
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you haven't really dug much into what
the houses are, what the themes are,
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or what's going on with the backstory
of the Last of Us. The
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presentation was led by Laura Soul's show
direction at Universal or Landoversort and here she
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is or Halloween Hornites thirty two.
WHOA, I know, everyone's a bit
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soggy, but most of us know, right, it's not Halloween Horror Nights
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if it doesn't rain on no many
weekends. But we're gonna get through it.
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We're not gonna go anywhere. This
year, We're set up for the
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most amazing Halloween Hornnites that we've had
yet. We have ten incredible haunted houses,
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five amazing scare zones, live shows, and more. But this year
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we're setting a record for the most
Halloween Horror nights ever forty eight nights of
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screens. Yeah yeah, And we
have the biggest and I mean the biggest
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names in the horror genre. But
here at University Orlando, we love the
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most is creating those terrifying original content
stories. And let's start with the original
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content haunted houses. First. We
have the Darkest Deal, Yes, please,
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the darkest deal is that age old
story of wanting fame and selling your
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soul to the collector, and that
house is doing just that. We see
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our musician Pine Straw Spruce. He's
a bluesman in the Mississippi Delta. He
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wants that fame. And when we
enter that house, he's selling his soul
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to the collector. And as we
take his journey to his rise to fame,
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the collector is possessing everyone on his
route. And when he gets to
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the big stage and he's having that
moment of fame, he strums one chord
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and our collector comes and takes his
soul. Then you're thrust into a hellscape,
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a musician's hellscape, where you see
all of those that the collector has
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taken before and our friend Pine Straw, and you're gonna meet the most demonic
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collector of all. Will you survive
the darkest deal? Next, we have
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YETI Camp round Kill It yet This
is our third installment of the Yeti.
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Some of you remember Slaughter Cinema where
we had swamp Jettis, Yes, give
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it up for the Yetti. Then
we had Yetti Terror on the Yukon.
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Now whoop. Now Yetti is at
a nineteen fifties campground. This is our
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dark comedy house. We have a
family of Yeti this year. Yeah,
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you're gonna see a baby Yetti.
You're gonna see Mama Yetti, You're gonna
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see a little teenage Yetti and Daddy
Yetty. Of course, they are going
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through this campground, tearing everyone from
limb to limb. It's really great fun.
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Yeah, yeah, and that's Yetti
campground kills. Next, we have
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blood Moon Dark Offerings. Yes,
in a similist form, this is a
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colonial era kill cult. Everyone is
praising in this cult is praising the blood
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Moon, and anyone who does not
follow their fellowship, they are murdering because
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they must make a totem to the
blood Moon, and that totem exists of
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the body parts of those non followers. The blood Moon has risen and we
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must follow. Next, we have
Dueling Dragons truth like Yet. Some of
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you may know this was an amazing
attraction at Islands of Adventure when we first
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open, And what was even more
amazing about this attraction was it's que line
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and the story that went with it. So for Halloween Horror Night's thirty two,
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we're telling a more horrific story.
But you're gonna see that story of
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Merlin trapped in the enchanted oak.
He's set a spell on his spell book
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so that these two competing warlocks,
Pie Rock and blizz Rock. The Fire
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Warlock and the Ice Warlock wouldn't take
over his realm. And we're following them
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trying to protect Merlin's book. But
as pie Rock and blizz Rock both compete
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to get that book, Merlin has
set a spell to turn them into these
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wicked, fire breathing dragons. We
meet the ice Warriors, the Fire Warriors,
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the Ice skeletons, the fire skeletons, and yes, you must choose
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fire or ice at the end.
There are four different endings to this Haunted
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House. Yes, and to round
out our original content houses, we have
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Doctor Oddfellows twists. We have brought
andite hantic character back to Halloween Horrinites.
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And in this story, this whole
year, you're gonna follow doctor Oddfellow's path
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to immortality. And in this original
Haunted House, he's in the dustful era
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of United States in the nineteen thirties. He's set up this twisted, demented,
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dark circus, hiring all these murderous
clowns and twisted acts of distortion just
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so that he can kill anyone that
comes into his circus to gain the immortality
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he needs to rule this world.
The reason this title has an plural on
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the end is because this is not
only a part of doctor odd Fellow's origin
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story, but there's another person icon
that we all love that is connected to
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doctor Oddfellow. We all know who
he is. It is Jack the Clown.
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Them also tells Jack the Clowns part
of his origin story. You're gonna
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see Jack in this house a few
times, but the biggest moment is you're
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gonna see when Oddfellow kills Jack the
Clown and Jack is stuffed in the box.
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We all know what happens after that, right. So those are our
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original content haunted houses. But again, like I said, this year,
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we have the biggest and best intellectual
properties in the horror genre and we're gonna
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start with Universal Monsters Unmasked. Yeah. Universal Pictures created the classic monster,
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and every year we get to create
such cool original stories with these classic monsters,
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from the Friday Frankenstein Lives to the
Mummy, Dracula and Wolfman fighting over
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one amulet. This year is no
different. This year, in the One
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Night in Paris, this collection of
maniacal monsters comes together to cause mayhem in
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the city of Paris. The Phantom
of the opera is stealing your face to
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make a skin face for himself.
The Hunchback is cursing and going after everyone
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in the corridors of London. In
the alleyways of London, the hide character,
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this bigger than life monster is ripping
everyone apart. And of course the
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Invisible Man makes an appearance as he
strangles his way through the streets of Paris.
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Next we have Chucky. Oh yeah, So in the side By series
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of Chucky, it lends a little
meta a roach, right, He's very
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self aware of what he does and
how he does it. So we hear
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at Universal want to just celebrate Chucky, celebrate all those amazing kills in his
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entire franchise and on the side By
Network series. And so we purchased about
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two hundred and fifty Chucky dolls.
We put him in our Haunted House.
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But we did one thing that maybe
we shouldn't have done. We invited the
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real Chucky here to our haunted house. And he said, what the you're
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not really killing anybody. I'm gonna
put horror back in horror Nights, and
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I'm gonna kill everybody possessing all your
dolls, possessing your eight foot tall mask
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out of me and have everyone that
comes through Halloween Horror Nights become one of
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my ultimate kill counts. I don't
know if we make it out of that
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house, because I've met the real
Chucky. I'm really happy. I'm alive.
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Maybe it's my right here, I
don't know. Next, we have
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The Exorcist Believer. Yes, this
is one of the first times we're creating
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a living, breathing trailer for a
film that comes out six weeks after we
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open. Right. The Exorcist Believer
comes out on October sixth, and we
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open tonight this amazing living trailer.
You're gonna follow Angela and Catherine's You're gonna
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follow their path of becoming these demonic
little girls. We're gonna go into the
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demon world. You're gonna go into
the exorcism and you yourself will will be
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possessed by the demon as you try
to make your way out of this amazing
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trailer for The Exorcist Believer. Next, Stranger Things. We are so happy
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that Stranger Things is back at Universal
Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights. This will be
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our third installment of Stranger Things.
This is based on season four when we
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watched this season. We were like, oh, this is right for a
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haunted house. We're gonna follow Fetnah's
curse. You're gonna see the very first
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person that he cursed, Chrissy,
broken apart and stretched to the ceiling of
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Eddie's trailer. Then you're gonna follow
Max's curse. You're gonna go into the
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mind of everyone Fetna's cursed, and
you're gonna follow his curse to the end
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to see Eleven and FeTNA battle it
out. Who wins. Well, we'll
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have season five to really tell us. And then there's the US Creative Creative
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Development here at Universal Orlando. My
dad, Hello there, running Happy Halloween
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everyone. That's the most dramatic entrance
I've ever happened. Yester Young rehearsal.
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They're like, so we're gonna bring
you on. It's gonna be this dramatic
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thing. And then then we're gonna
stroke the hell out of the room and
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you're gonna appear. And here we
are, and here's Neil Drugman. How
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about that. Uh so it's I
guess it's no secret how all this collaboration
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began. Literally, something really great
came from social media. Yeah, I
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was here with my family who's somewhere
out there in this park about two years
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ago, just gushing over rides and
tweeting about it, and someone replied to
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me. I was like, Oh, it wouldn't be cool if last this
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was part of Holloman hor Nights.
And I was like, I wonder if
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I put a tweet out there or
X whatever their cliver it is, now,
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if you'll reach someone and then they'll
take it to their boss, and
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we'll take it to their boss and
someone will start a conversation and maybe it
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all happen. I didn't believe that. Within twenty four hours, Mike DMed
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me and it was like, dude, this would be so cool. Let's
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do this thing. And I was
like, can I drop I won't drop
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everything if yeah, let's do this. And we hit the ground running pretty
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fast again les less than two years
ago we had that conversation and the house
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is open tonight. It is an
unbelievable experience if you are a fan of
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this video game like we are.
Again, this is celebrating its tenth anniversary
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as one of the greatest video games
of all time, and I'm not afraid
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to say that because it is,
and this experience is something that you're going
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to absolutely love. If you love
this game, it is you are on
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this journey with Ellie and Joel,
and you're with them every step of the
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way. Laura and the team have
created an absolutely fantastic experience. The collaboration
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with Neil and the Naughty Dog team
has been one of the most greatest collaborations.
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We've ever had. The ability to
talk freely with this group and ask
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for basically the world in assets and
it's that collaboration has been such an honor
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and a pleasure. It's like,
really, we just we spend some time
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outlining the sequence. We really wanted
the guests to go on a journey,
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like Mike was saying, with Ellian
Joel, going through Pittsburgh, crashing at
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the beginning, making your way through
it, through the tour, its ending
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with the suburbs. I'm spoiling too
much of it. No, No,
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you could say anything you want,
Neil, but I again, on the
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half of anybody, everybody at Naughty
Dog, this has been such an honor.
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It's been so cool. I got
to see it yesterday. It's freaking
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awesome. If you're a fan of
the game, you're going to be inside
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the game yeah, yeah, so
we cannot wait for you to experience it.
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Thank you all for being here and
uh Laura, it is all yours
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once. Thank you both very much, very much, Neil Grating guy,
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all everybody say me thank you.
Like they said, the Last of Us
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is incredible and our collaboration was amazing. You're gonna see hunters, runners,
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clickers, stalkers, bloaters say that
five times best. It's pretty sweet.
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But we don't just have ten incredible
haunted houses, right, There's so much
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more to Halloween Hornites. The show
Nightmare Fuel Revenge Dream. Nightmare Fuel Revenge
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Dream is back for its third installment. It's a new Dreamer. It's hotter
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if you can believe it. It's
sexier. I've seen it, if you
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can believe it. Yes, and
there's it's bigger than ever before. There's
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more fuel, more fuel girls,
more illusions, more dancing, more aerialis.
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It's an incredible show and you can't
miss it. Then we have five
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terrific scare zones and this year the
scare Zones are tying that incredible story of
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doctor Oddfellow. You're gonna go on
his journey of becoming immortal, because that's
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why He's brought you all here.
That's why you're here, because you love
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fear. And his journey starts in
the Jungle of Doom Expedition Horror. This
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isn't our central Park area of the
park. This is where Oddfellow finds the
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glowing green skull that, as most
of you know, becomes the top to
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the cane of souls. When this
explorer Oddfellow found this skull, he knew
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it had powers. He could feel
the power, he could feel himself changing.
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But so in the jungle he harnessed
those powers. He twisted jungle beings
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and tropical things together to create these
horrific creatures. And these horrific creatures are
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just coming after everyone because the more
souls he takes, the more immortality he
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feels. That's the Jungle of Doom. But once we pass the jungle,
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and that's in the nineteen twenties and
the nineteen thirties, he went to the
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dustful era of the United States and
collected all those demented clowns and twisted all
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those zodiac creatures. He had to
have some place to put those things right,
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and that is Shipyard thirty two Horrors
Unhinged. It's doctor Oddfellow's shipyard where
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he sent all of these monsters to
be kept for when he needed to unleash
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them. And on this night,
he's unleashing those beasts and no one will
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make it out of there alive.
It is a blood bath. But for
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you super fans, there's some Easter
eggs in this zone. Maybe Oddfellow has
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manipulated has been manipulating us, the
creators of this event, the whole time.
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Maybe he's kind of gotten into our
minds and made us create these monsters
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that we've seen before, tooth fairies, chupicabras, demons. Maybe he's been
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apart and working us the whole time. And that is Shipyard thirty two Horrors
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Unhinged. Next, we have Vamp
sixty nine Summer of Blood. Yes,
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we love our Vamp series, right. We started in nineteen fifty five where
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we dropped a horde of vampires on
a homecoming parade. Then we went to
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nineteen eighty five where we've dropped that
horde of vampire on a New Year's Eve
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celebration. Now doctor Oddfellow has befriended
a horde of vampires in New York and
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he wants to drop that Horde of
Vampires right in to a music festival in
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nineteen sixty nine. If you all
saw those previous scare zones Vamp fifty five,
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Vamp eighty five, you knew it
had sweet sweet BGM. Right we
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leaned into the era of the vamp
story. Well, this year is no
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different. You're gonna hear the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, You're gonna hear
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all the songs you know that my
grandparents loved. You're gonna hear all those
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songs with blood curdling screams over it. And another Easter egg for all of
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you super fans. Watch for the
people in the zone. You may see
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doctor Oddfellow in each of these zones, as he can twist himself into any
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being he wants to be. And
the last part of doctor oddfellow journey to
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immortality was the Dark Zodiac, so
an icon we all know and love.
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Thought he killed Doctor Oddfellow many many
decades ago, but he didn't. Doctor
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Oddfellow, being immortal, went to
the realm of the Zodiac. And when
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he was in the realm of the
Zodiac, he found that if he twisted
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every single Zodiac creature, he could
have every being in the world fall to
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him and make him the most immortal
being in the universe. And so he
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did just that. Dark Zodiac,
all of your zodiac signs are twisted into
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these diabolical creatures. You're gonna want
to take a picture with your zodiac,
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I'm pretty sure. So we have
all this amazing content, and it culminates
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in our doctor Oddfellow's collection of horrors. Doctor Oddfellow is going to welcome everyone
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to Halloween Horror Nights. Every single
night. He's sending you on his journey
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of immortality. He wants you to
follow his path. He's here, he's
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now, but ultimately he wants you
to be a part of his collection.
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Fee. I send it here in
this room, so there's no hid I
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see you. Should he see it
yet? Begging for more? And if
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it's more that you want, then
surely there's something that I could do for
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you. Most people try to avoid
the talk. I like to show them
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what's suicide you pract those who stood
here before me, doctors, directness,
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even clown what. I don't want
your work here? No, I want
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what you want. You desire fear
cool, you want to feel its power.
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You long more immortality high up all
of that and more for grand price,
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of course, what does it take
it to be amongst my collection of
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soul? Why your very soul?
Indeed, I clad price to the cards.
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Mellow, don't you think out?
There's a look into my past that
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will show you your future. Your
destiny awaits and to now. As this
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horror night began, break the week, thank you wish I had the rest
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good. Today's episode was produced and
edited by me Philip Hernandez, with post
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production by David Swope and original music
composed by Chris Thomas. We're counting down
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Gary. This is a Haunted Attraction Network produce
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From the Haunted Attraction Network. I'm
Philip and this is our sixty one day
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Hauntathon. We're recounting down to Halloween
by celebrating haunted houses daily via videos,
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podcasts, and in person experiences.
Since this podcast is only part of the
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Hautathon, the best way to follow
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And remember that the best way you can
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support us this Halloween season is by
sharing our hautathon with someone you think will
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enjoy it. Halloween Horror Nights opened
up Friday in Orlando and this is the
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longest run ever at forty eight nights. Members of the media were invited Friday
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night to a presentation about this year's
event, and that's what I'm going to
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play for you today. You'll hear
the backstory behind all of the event offerings,
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and there's an appearance by Michael Allo
and Neil Druckman, the Naughty Dog
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co president that's accompany the created the
Last of Us. So basically, think
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of this like an audio cliff notes. If you're going to the event but
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you haven't really dug much into what
the houses are, what the themes are,
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or what's going on with the backstory
of the Last of Us. The
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presentation was led by Laura Soul's show
direction at Universal or Landoversort and here she
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is or Halloween Hornites thirty two.
WHOA, I know, everyone's a bit
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soggy, but most of us know, right, it's not Halloween Horror Nights
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if it doesn't rain on no many
weekends. But we're gonna get through it.
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We're not gonna go anywhere. This
year, We're set up for the
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most amazing Halloween Hornnites that we've had
yet. We have ten incredible haunted houses,
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five amazing scare zones, live shows, and more. But this year
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we're setting a record for the most
Halloween Horror nights ever forty eight nights of
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screens. Yeah yeah, And we
have the biggest and I mean the biggest
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names in the horror genre. But
here at University Orlando, we love the
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most is creating those terrifying original content
stories. And let's start with the original
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content haunted houses. First. We
have the Darkest Deal, Yes, please,
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the darkest deal is that age old
story of wanting fame and selling your
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soul to the collector, and that
house is doing just that. We see
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our musician Pine Straw Spruce. He's
a bluesman in the Mississippi Delta. He
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wants that fame. And when we
enter that house, he's selling his soul
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to the collector. And as we
take his journey to his rise to fame,
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the collector is possessing everyone on his
route. And when he gets to
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the big stage and he's having that
moment of fame, he strums one chord
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and our collector comes and takes his
soul. Then you're thrust into a hellscape,
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a musician's hellscape, where you see
all of those that the collector has
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taken before and our friend Pine Straw, and you're gonna meet the most demonic
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collector of all. Will you survive
the darkest deal? Next, we have
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YETI Camp round Kill It yet This
is our third installment of the Yeti.
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Some of you remember Slaughter Cinema where
we had swamp Jettis, Yes, give
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it up for the Yetti. Then
we had Yetti Terror on the Yukon.
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Now whoop. Now Yetti is at
a nineteen fifties campground. This is our
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dark comedy house. We have a
family of Yeti this year. Yeah,
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you're gonna see a baby Yetti.
You're gonna see Mama Yetti, You're gonna
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see a little teenage Yetti and Daddy
Yetty. Of course, they are going
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through this campground, tearing everyone from
limb to limb. It's really great fun.
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Yeah, yeah, and that's Yetti
campground kills. Next, we have
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blood Moon Dark Offerings. Yes,
in a similist form, this is a
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colonial era kill cult. Everyone is
praising in this cult is praising the blood
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Moon, and anyone who does not
follow their fellowship, they are murdering because
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they must make a totem to the
blood Moon, and that totem exists of
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the body parts of those non followers. The blood Moon has risen and we
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must follow. Next, we have
Dueling Dragons truth like Yet. Some of
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you may know this was an amazing
attraction at Islands of Adventure when we first
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open, And what was even more
amazing about this attraction was it's que line
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and the story that went with it. So for Halloween Horror Night's thirty two,
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we're telling a more horrific story.
But you're gonna see that story of
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Merlin trapped in the enchanted oak.
He's set a spell on his spell book
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so that these two competing warlocks,
Pie Rock and blizz Rock. The Fire
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Warlock and the Ice Warlock wouldn't take
over his realm. And we're following them
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trying to protect Merlin's book. But
as pie Rock and blizz Rock both compete
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to get that book, Merlin has
set a spell to turn them into these
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wicked, fire breathing dragons. We
meet the ice Warriors, the Fire Warriors,
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the Ice skeletons, the fire skeletons, and yes, you must choose
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fire or ice at the end.
There are four different endings to this Haunted
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House. Yes, and to round
out our original content houses, we have
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Doctor Oddfellows twists. We have brought
andite hantic character back to Halloween Horrinites.
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And in this story, this whole
year, you're gonna follow doctor Oddfellow's path
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to immortality. And in this original
Haunted House, he's in the dustful era
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of United States in the nineteen thirties. He's set up this twisted, demented,
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dark circus, hiring all these murderous
clowns and twisted acts of distortion just
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so that he can kill anyone that
comes into his circus to gain the immortality
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he needs to rule this world.
The reason this title has an plural on
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the end is because this is not
only a part of doctor odd Fellow's origin
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story, but there's another person icon
that we all love that is connected to
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doctor Oddfellow. We all know who
he is. It is Jack the Clown.
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Them also tells Jack the Clowns part
of his origin story. You're gonna
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see Jack in this house a few
times, but the biggest moment is you're
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gonna see when Oddfellow kills Jack the
Clown and Jack is stuffed in the box.
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We all know what happens after that, right. So those are our
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original content haunted houses. But again, like I said, this year,
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we have the biggest and best intellectual
properties in the horror genre and we're gonna
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start with Universal Monsters Unmasked. Yeah. Universal Pictures created the classic monster,
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and every year we get to create
such cool original stories with these classic monsters,
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from the Friday Frankenstein Lives to the
Mummy, Dracula and Wolfman fighting over
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one amulet. This year is no
different. This year, in the One
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Night in Paris, this collection of
maniacal monsters comes together to cause mayhem in
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the city of Paris. The Phantom
of the opera is stealing your face to
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make a skin face for himself.
The Hunchback is cursing and going after everyone
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in the corridors of London. In
the alleyways of London, the hide character,
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this bigger than life monster is ripping
everyone apart. And of course the
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Invisible Man makes an appearance as he
strangles his way through the streets of Paris.
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Next we have Chucky. Oh yeah, So in the side By series
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of Chucky, it lends a little
meta a roach, right, He's very
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self aware of what he does and
how he does it. So we hear
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at Universal want to just celebrate Chucky, celebrate all those amazing kills in his
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entire franchise and on the side By
Network series. And so we purchased about
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two hundred and fifty Chucky dolls.
We put him in our Haunted House.
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But we did one thing that maybe
we shouldn't have done. We invited the
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real Chucky here to our haunted house. And he said, what the you're
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not really killing anybody. I'm gonna
put horror back in horror Nights, and
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I'm gonna kill everybody possessing all your
dolls, possessing your eight foot tall mask
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out of me and have everyone that
comes through Halloween Horror Nights become one of
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my ultimate kill counts. I don't
know if we make it out of that
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house, because I've met the real
Chucky. I'm really happy. I'm alive.
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Maybe it's my right here, I
don't know. Next, we have
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The Exorcist Believer. Yes, this
is one of the first times we're creating
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a living, breathing trailer for a
film that comes out six weeks after we
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open. Right. The Exorcist Believer
comes out on October sixth, and we
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open tonight this amazing living trailer.
You're gonna follow Angela and Catherine's You're gonna
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follow their path of becoming these demonic
little girls. We're gonna go into the
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demon world. You're gonna go into
the exorcism and you yourself will will be
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possessed by the demon as you try
to make your way out of this amazing
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trailer for The Exorcist Believer. Next, Stranger Things. We are so happy
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that Stranger Things is back at Universal
Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights. This will be
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our third installment of Stranger Things.
This is based on season four when we
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watched this season. We were like, oh, this is right for a
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haunted house. We're gonna follow Fetnah's
curse. You're gonna see the very first
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person that he cursed, Chrissy,
broken apart and stretched to the ceiling of
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Eddie's trailer. Then you're gonna follow
Max's curse. You're gonna go into the
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mind of everyone Fetna's cursed, and
you're gonna follow his curse to the end
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to see Eleven and FeTNA battle it
out. Who wins. Well, we'll
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have season five to really tell us. And then there's the US Creative Creative
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Development here at Universal Orlando. My
dad, Hello there, running Happy Halloween
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everyone. That's the most dramatic entrance
I've ever happened. Yester Young rehearsal.
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They're like, so we're gonna bring
you on. It's gonna be this dramatic
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thing. And then then we're gonna
stroke the hell out of the room and
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you're gonna appear. And here we
are, and here's Neil Drugman. How
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about that. Uh so it's I
guess it's no secret how all this collaboration
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began. Literally, something really great
came from social media. Yeah, I
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was here with my family who's somewhere
out there in this park about two years
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ago, just gushing over rides and
tweeting about it, and someone replied to
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me. I was like, Oh, it wouldn't be cool if last this
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was part of Holloman hor Nights.
And I was like, I wonder if
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I put a tweet out there or
X whatever their cliver it is, now,
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if you'll reach someone and then they'll
take it to their boss, and
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we'll take it to their boss and
someone will start a conversation and maybe it
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all happen. I didn't believe that. Within twenty four hours, Mike DMed
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me and it was like, dude, this would be so cool. Let's
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do this thing. And I was
like, can I drop I won't drop
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everything if yeah, let's do this. And we hit the ground running pretty
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fast again les less than two years
ago we had that conversation and the house
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is open tonight. It is an
unbelievable experience if you are a fan of
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this video game like we are.
Again, this is celebrating its tenth anniversary
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as one of the greatest video games
of all time, and I'm not afraid
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to say that because it is,
and this experience is something that you're going
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to absolutely love. If you love
this game, it is you are on
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this journey with Ellie and Joel,
and you're with them every step of the
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way. Laura and the team have
created an absolutely fantastic experience. The collaboration
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with Neil and the Naughty Dog team
has been one of the most greatest collaborations.
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We've ever had. The ability to
talk freely with this group and ask
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for basically the world in assets and
it's that collaboration has been such an honor
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and a pleasure. It's like,
really, we just we spend some time
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outlining the sequence. We really wanted
the guests to go on a journey,
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like Mike was saying, with Ellian
Joel, going through Pittsburgh, crashing at
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the beginning, making your way through
it, through the tour, its ending
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with the suburbs. I'm spoiling too
much of it. No, No,
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you could say anything you want,
Neil, but I again, on the
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half of anybody, everybody at Naughty
Dog, this has been such an honor.
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It's been so cool. I got
to see it yesterday. It's freaking
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awesome. If you're a fan of
the game, you're going to be inside
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the game yeah, yeah, so
we cannot wait for you to experience it.
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Thank you all for being here and
uh Laura, it is all yours
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once. Thank you both very much, very much, Neil Grating guy,
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all everybody say me thank you.
Like they said, the Last of Us
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is incredible and our collaboration was amazing. You're gonna see hunters, runners,
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clickers, stalkers, bloaters say that
five times best. It's pretty sweet.
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But we don't just have ten incredible
haunted houses, right, There's so much
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more to Halloween Hornites. The show
Nightmare Fuel Revenge Dream. Nightmare Fuel Revenge
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Dream is back for its third installment. It's a new Dreamer. It's hotter
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if you can believe it. It's
sexier. I've seen it, if you
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can believe it. Yes, and
there's it's bigger than ever before. There's
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more fuel, more fuel girls,
more illusions, more dancing, more aerialis.
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It's an incredible show and you can't
miss it. Then we have five
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terrific scare zones and this year the
scare Zones are tying that incredible story of
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doctor Oddfellow. You're gonna go on
his journey of becoming immortal, because that's
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why He's brought you all here.
That's why you're here, because you love
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fear. And his journey starts in
the Jungle of Doom Expedition Horror. This
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isn't our central Park area of the
park. This is where Oddfellow finds the
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glowing green skull that, as most
of you know, becomes the top to
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the cane of souls. When this
explorer Oddfellow found this skull, he knew
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it had powers. He could feel
the power, he could feel himself changing.
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But so in the jungle he harnessed
those powers. He twisted jungle beings
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and tropical things together to create these
horrific creatures. And these horrific creatures are
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just coming after everyone because the more
souls he takes, the more immortality he
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feels. That's the Jungle of Doom. But once we pass the jungle,
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and that's in the nineteen twenties and
the nineteen thirties, he went to the
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dustful era of the United States and
collected all those demented clowns and twisted all
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those zodiac creatures. He had to
have some place to put those things right,
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and that is Shipyard thirty two Horrors
Unhinged. It's doctor Oddfellow's shipyard where
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he sent all of these monsters to
be kept for when he needed to unleash
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them. And on this night,
he's unleashing those beasts and no one will
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make it out of there alive.
It is a blood bath. But for
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you super fans, there's some Easter
eggs in this zone. Maybe Oddfellow has
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manipulated has been manipulating us, the
creators of this event, the whole time.
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Maybe he's kind of gotten into our
minds and made us create these monsters
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that we've seen before, tooth fairies, chupicabras, demons. Maybe he's been
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apart and working us the whole time. And that is Shipyard thirty two Horrors
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Unhinged. Next, we have Vamp
sixty nine Summer of Blood. Yes,
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we love our Vamp series, right. We started in nineteen fifty five where
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we dropped a horde of vampires on
a homecoming parade. Then we went to
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nineteen eighty five where we've dropped that
horde of vampire on a New Year's Eve
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celebration. Now doctor Oddfellow has befriended
a horde of vampires in New York and
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he wants to drop that Horde of
Vampires right in to a music festival in
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nineteen sixty nine. If you all
saw those previous scare zones Vamp fifty five,
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Vamp eighty five, you knew it
had sweet sweet BGM. Right we
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leaned into the era of the vamp
story. Well, this year is no
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different. You're gonna hear the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, You're gonna hear
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all the songs you know that my
grandparents loved. You're gonna hear all those
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songs with blood curdling screams over it. And another Easter egg for all of
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you super fans. Watch for the
people in the zone. You may see
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doctor Oddfellow in each of these zones, as he can twist himself into any
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being he wants to be. And
the last part of doctor oddfellow journey to
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immortality was the Dark Zodiac, so
an icon we all know and love.
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Thought he killed Doctor Oddfellow many many
decades ago, but he didn't. Doctor
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Oddfellow, being immortal, went to
the realm of the Zodiac. And when
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he was in the realm of the
Zodiac, he found that if he twisted
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every single Zodiac creature, he could
have every being in the world fall to
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him and make him the most immortal
being in the universe. And so he
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did just that. Dark Zodiac,
all of your zodiac signs are twisted into
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these diabolical creatures. You're gonna want
to take a picture with your zodiac,
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I'm pretty sure. So we have
all this amazing content, and it culminates
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in our doctor Oddfellow's collection of horrors. Doctor Oddfellow is going to welcome everyone
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to Halloween Horror Nights. Every single
night. He's sending you on his journey
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of immortality. He wants you to
follow his path. He's here, he's
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now, but ultimately he wants you
to be a part of his collection.
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Fee. I send it here in
this room, so there's no hid I
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see you. Should he see it
yet? Begging for more? And if
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it's more that you want, then
surely there's something that I could do for
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you. Most people try to avoid
the talk. I like to show them
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what's suicide you pract those who stood
here before me, doctors, directness,
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even clown what. I don't want
your work here? No, I want
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what you want. You desire fear
cool, you want to feel its power.
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You long more immortality high up all
of that and more for grand price,
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of course, what does it take
it to be amongst my collection of
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soul? Why your very soul?
Indeed, I clad price to the cards.
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Mellow, don't you think out?
There's a look into my past that
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will show you your future. Your
destiny awaits and to now. As this
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horror night began, break the week, thank you wish I had the rest
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good. Today's episode was produced and
edited by me Philip Hernandez, with post
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production by David Swope and original music
composed by Chris Thomas. We're counting down
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to Halloween with daily podcasts, videos, and events in our sixty one day
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