Halloween Horror Nights 2026 kicks off at the end of this month, unleashing holiday terror across multiple parks, haunted houses, scare zones, and more. That includes the return of a HHN icon at Universal Orlando.
Fan-favorite creature feature host Larry Kurtzberg (better known as H.R. Bloodengutz) is back in the original new house H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular! Discover Universal has unveiled a sneak peek at the Halloween-themed terror in story.
Halloween Horror Nights show director Ramón Paradoa previously gave Bloody Disgusting the scoop on this sequel house to 2011’s H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror, teasing the horror host’s return to WKNB Television Station for a final Halloween Special of gruesome proportions.
“What I’ll say about that without giving too much away is that there are seven movies that we’re presenting as scenes in the haunted house; seven movies that are a part of the marathon. Some of those movies are callbacks to HHN’s past,” Paradoa explained.
A Halloween Fright-Tacular! will take guests through multiple different visions of the holiday: “Once we knew that the holiday of Halloween and the world of horror cinema was our playground, we knew that there was a lot to tap into,” Paradoa said. “There are so many different Halloween-based tropes that people know and love. We were really inspired by that, and we wanted to make sure that when you’re being transported into the worlds of these movies, although they have the throughline of Halloween, they’re all completely unique from each other. That they all have a very distinct feel, and they present environments and characters that again, are rooted in what you’d expect out of classic Halloween textures, but are different from each other.”
The new images give a glimpse at some of the scenes guests will step into, from monochromatic visions of terror to a ghoulish Tiki oasis.
This year’s Halloween Horror Nights event begins on Friday, August 28 at Universal Orlando Resort and Thursday, September 3 at Universal Studios Hollywood. Tickets are on sale now.
