Officially confirmed, Halloween Horror Nights icons Jack the Clown and Dr. Oddfellow will return for Halloween Horror Nights 35 at Universal Orlando this Halloween season!
Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights celebrates 35 years of fear, screams, and nightmares later this year, and the first reveal announcement was made at MegaCon yesterday.
Jack the Clown and Dr. Oddfellow will be your Ringmasters of Fear for Halloween Horror Nights 2026, which marks the landmark 35th annual event at Universal Orlando.
The original HHN characters will also star in their own haunted house at HHN 35, titled Jack & Oddfellow: Chaos & Control. What can you expect from the original haunt?
The HHN team previews, “Witness Jack the Clown’s unholy origins, then enter Dr. Oddfellow’s wickedly twisted universe where two of the most powerful forces in horror face off in a deathmatch of chaos versus control.” Check out the teaser and official artwork below.
Jack the Clown was first introduced all the way back in 2000, and he’s become the most iconic villain in the stable of original Halloween Horror Nights characters. Dr. Oddfellow has similarly been haunting the event in various different ways throughout the past 25 years, and the time traveling dark sorcerer is responsible for the death of Jack Schmidt aka Jack the Clown.
At Halloween Horror Nights 35, the battle between Jack the Clown and Dr. Oddfellow will be taken to a whole new level. The team previewed that expansion of mythology at MegaCon, “There’s a new little twist. We all know that Oddfellow can go from place to place. He’s a time traveler. We kind of coined the term for that, the OddVerse. And he has these different portals that he goes through. Well the box [that he sealed Jack the Clown in] was one of those portals.”
Halloween Horror Nights 35 will run from August 28th to November 1st, 2026.
Stay tuned for much, much more on HHN 2026 in the coming months.
the forces of horror are BACK 🎪
Jack The Clown and Dr. Oddfellow return to wreak havoc together at this year’s Halloween Horror Nights. u ready? #HHN35 pic.twitter.com/inlWUve5rE
— Halloween Horror Nights (@HorrorNightsORL) March 21, 2026
