Just when you think it’s safe, the new Insidious maze at Universal’s Horror Nights will hit you with a series of five final scares — and the terror won’t stop until the Red-Faced Demon makes you scream one last time.
“We stack them up at the end,” Halloween Horror Nights creative director John Murdy said. “Just bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.”
The new Insidious: The Further maze based on the horror film franchise will be part of Halloween Horror Nights 2024 at Universal Studios Hollywood.
Halloween Horror Nights 2024 will feature eight new haunted mazes along with four scare zones and the Terror Tram on select nights from Sept. 5 to Nov. 3 at Universal Studios Hollywood.
The new Insidious maze focuses on the “Insidious: The Red Door” supernatural thriller film that came out in 2023 while also folding in all the previous movies.
“There are callbacks to all of the best scares from the franchise,” Murdy said during a tour of the Insidious maze.
The maze starts in the Red-Faced Demon’s lair and keeps you in The Further – a netherworld between the living and the dead – as you move from room to room.
Throughout the maze, you pass through a baby’s nursery, child’s bedroom, college dorm, prison cell and other scenes from the Insidious films.
Red curtains and red doors divide each scene. Every appearance of a red door takes you into a new movie — with dripping black paint and demon scratches defacing the doors every step of the way.
All the demons from the Insidious franchise haunt the maze — including the Bride in Black, Parker’s Mother, the Man Who Can’t Breath and the KeyFace Demon.
But it’s the Red-Faced Demon who chases you throughout the maze and makes several appearances.
“He’s the primary antagonist in this one even though we hit all the other ones,” Murdy said. “He’s my favorite. He’s the scariest.”
Murdy likes to leave Horror Nighters screaming whenever they exit a haunted maze.
“We do a final scare sometimes or…
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