Cabin in the Woods Maze Announced for Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Florida

Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort has become a huge tradition for horror fans, thanks to the terrific and elaborate mazes guests pass through. The Hollywood location in particular has been known to base those mazes off popular titles like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, though last year, this expanded more to Orlando as well, with both parks boasting Silent Hill and The Walking Dead mazes. Now, the first maze for Orlando’s 2013 Halloween Horror Nights has been announced and it’s a really cool one – Cabin in the Woods.

Yes, the Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard written film, which Goddard directed, will be getting the HHH treatment. Universal Orlando Entertainment Team member Michael Aiello told Zap2It, "We are building the cabin completely. You're going to walk through a forest to get there. You're going into the cabin. You're going to go into the cube cells. We're literally taking everything we can in the film and giving you a kind of best-of montage of the film with this kind of linking story.”

Oh yes, and Bradley Whitford will be happy to learn, "You're going to be in the control room when merman attacks."

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Goddard has been closely involved with the development of the Cabin in the Woods maze, which will involve guests being initiated as a new hire in the Facility seen in the movie that design the horror rituals needed to properly give sacrifices to the Old Gods. A large number of the creatures from the film will be a part of the maze, mostly played by “scare-actors” in costume.

As Aiello explains to Zap2It, “We're trying to adapt this film as best as we physically can in the context of what we have. The whole idea of the maze is to have varying creatures in it. In the maze, we've got many that were in the forefront of a lot of the scenes -- the ballerina, the Sugarplum Fairy, the Hell Lord -- but also too there are a couple rooms where we're kind of featuring some of the creatures that were just on the screens in the control room of movie. And then in the finale we've got a couple characters that could open up from Halloweens past, our own events, because we were granted amazing permission to be able to include some of our lineage into 'Cabin's' lineage."

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Says Goddard, “My wish for Cabin was always that it would live on outside the film, that people would take that ball and run with it, and I can't imagine a better fit for what we were trying to do with the movie than to make a maze out of it.”

Cabin in the Woods fans should note that the maze will only be at the Universal Orlando Resort location and not at Universal Studios Hollywood. Halloween Horror Nights runs on select nights at Universal Orlando Resort from September 20th through November 2nd this year and tickets can be purchased here.

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