Universal Studios Hollywood Announces General Admission and Front of Line Tickets Now On Sale For Much-Anticipated "Halloween Horror Nights," Taking Place Select Nights from September 23 to October 31

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Sept. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tickets are now on sale for "Halloween Horror Nights®," taking place at Universal Studios Hollywood(SM) on select nights from September 23 through October 31.

Tickets to this year's event are available for purchase at www.UniversalStudiosHollywood.com/hhn, including a Front of Line ticket option that enables guests to enjoy priority entry at each maze and theme park attraction.  Advance purchase is recommended as event nights will sell out.

John Murdy, Creative Director, "Halloween Horror Nights," said: "We're really excited about this year's event. The caliber of filmmakers and artists working with us adds to the event's authenticity.  The limited amount of Front of Line tickets we make available to our guests is really a great opportunity, and we hope they take advantage of this exclusive benefit."

This year's terrifying event features a noteworthy six mazes bringing together unprecedented star power to create the definitive Hollywood horror "dream team" and craft the ultimate "live" Halloween nightmare.  The team includes an encore performance by multi-platinum recording artist and filmmaker, Rob Zombie, whose nightmarish 3D world of carnage and chaos, "Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses: In 3D ZombieVision" returns due to popular demand. Legendary rocker Alice Cooper, who single-handedly masterminded the rock-horror genre, will spin a new collection of disturbing horror imagery in the outrageous new "Halloween Horror Nights" maze, "Alice Cooper:  Welcome To My Nightmare."

Director, writer, producer and actor Eli Roth will bring his twisted movie to life in the spine-chilling new maze, "Eli Roth's Hostel: Hunting Season," which will feature props cast from Eli Roth's personal collection of original "Hostel" movie props. In the new maze, "La Llorona:  Villa De Almas Perdidas" ("The Weeping Woman: Village of Lost Souls"), actor and director Diego Luna, will help re-imagine the fearful legend  of melancholy and murder that he was told as a child and has terrified Mexican and Latin American children for generations.

Working in collaboration with the filmmakers and featuring props cast from the original molds used in Universal Pictures' upcoming thriller, "The Thing: Assimilation" maze will offer "Halloween Horror Nights" guests an unprecedented virtual three-dimensional sneak peek of the movie in advance of its release on October 14.   "The Wolfman:  The Curse of Talbot Hall," inspired by the Academy Award®-winning Universal Pictures film, will round out the six new "Halloween Horror Nights" horror mazes.  

A frightening new backlot experience, "Terror Tram:  Scream 4 Your Life," based on the latest installment of Wes Craven's "Scream" film series, will unleash the iconic "Ghostface Killer" on Universal's famed backlot, the heart of the world's most famous horror moviemaking studio.

Terror- filled "Scare Zones" and the ever-popular "Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure," will add to the nightmare.  The theme park's favorite thrill-ride attractions will also remain open for "Halloween Horror Nights," including "Jurassic Park® In the Dark," "The Simpsons Ride™" and "Revenge of the Mummy(SM) – The Ride."

Updates on "Halloween Horror Nights" are available at Halloween Horror Nights.com and also on Twitter and Facebook, as Creative Director John Murdy reveals a running chronicle of exclusive information.  Fans are invited to follow John Murdy on Twitter at: Twitter.com/HorrorNights or via Facebook at: "Halloween Horror Nights - Hollywood (Official)."

"Halloween Horror Nights" will take place on select nights beginning September 23 and continue on September 24, 30; October 1,7, 8,9, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31.

Universal Studios Hollywood is a unit of the Universal Parks & Resorts division of NBCUniversal.  NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. Comcast Corporation owns a controlling 51% interest in NBCUniversal, with GE (NYSE: GE) holding a 49% stake.

SOURCE Universal Studios Hollywood