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Universal Studios Hollywood Presents “Eli Roth’s
Hostel: Hunting Season,”
A Terrifying New Horror Maze at “Halloween Horror
Nights”
Universal City, CA --
Eli Roth, the multi-talented director, writer, producer and actor,
will adapt his enormously successful “Hostel” film franchise to
create “Eli Roth’s Hostel: Hunting Season,” a twisted new
“Halloween Horror Nights® maze at
Universal Studios HollywoodSM. The event begins on
September 23 and continues on select nights through October 31.
“Hostel: Hunting
Season,” for which Universal will build elaborate sets re-creating
locations in Slovakia, will mark the horror auteur and star’s first
effort at transforming his screen work into a live theme park
experience. The maze will re-imagine the film’s dehumanizing
torture chambers and send guests on a spiraling journey through the
corrupt halls of Elite Hunting’s torture factory. Elite Hunting, a
secret society that tortures and kills American youth for sport in
exchange for large sums of money, will prowl the factory and prey on
its many maze visitors.
"Creating a maze for ‘Halloween
Horror Nights’ is a horror fan's dream come true. I’ve been visiting
‘Halloween Horror Nights’ for years, and still remember the
heart-pounding terror of going through the mazes for the first time.
For me it was like going inside the world of a movie and
experiencing it in a visceral environment that simply cannot be
replicated, and in subsequent years I've found I'm just as scared as
I was the first time.
“I am so happy to join forces with
the creative team at Universal. Our collaborative vision to bring
‘Hostel’ to life will give both fans of my movie and horror fans a
scare they could never have imagined. People will have a chance to
experience some exact moments from their favorite ‘Hostel’ scenes,
along with some new surprises.
“ I was honored to receive an
Eyegore Award at last year’s ‘Halloween Horror Nights’ event, and
began talking to Universal about a ‘Hostel’ maze even then. This
is something I’ve dreamed of for years. I may even dress up and
appear in the maze one night as a torturer. So when you say ‘I
scared you,’ you can literally mean that I scared you!"}
In addition to the
“Hostel” franchise, Eli Roth is well-known to film audiences as the
writer-director-producer of “Cabin Fever” and as the baseball
bat-wielding co-star of Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds,”
for which he won a Screen Actor’s Guild Award. As a producer, his
film “The Last Exorcism” was a box office smash and he is currently
in post-production on the “Clown” and “The Man With the Iron Fists,”
both of which are slated for release in the coming months.
Eli Roth is the first
star to be announced as a collaborator in this year’s
Halloween Horror Nights event and will be a key member of a
Hollywood horror “dream team” assembled by Universal Studios
Hollywood to create the ultimate “live” Halloween nightmare. He is
also serving as a judge in Universal Studios Hollywood’s annual “Halloween
Horror Nights” short film competition, which will culminate in a
presentation to a winning filmmaker during the “Eyegore Awards” on
the event’s opening night, September 23. “The Thing: Assimilation,”
a new maze inspired by Universal Pictures’ upcoming thriller, has
also been announced and will add to the Hollywood horror clout.
“Halloween
Horror Nights” 2011 will bring
unprecedented star power
to an array of
unrivaled, film production quality mazes uniquely themed to today’s
most definitive horror properties and deliver the most compelling,
spine-chilling, haunted attractions. All-new terror filled “scare
zones,” original shows and the popular “Terror Tram” will be among
the ““Halloween
Horror Nights” offerings.
Additional new content for the 2011 “Halloween
Horror Nights” mazes and attractions will be announced
shortly.
The theme park’s favorite thrill-ride
attractions will also remain open for “Halloween Horror Nights” as
well, many with menacing twists. Favorites include “The Simpsons
Ride®,” “Revenge of the MummySM – The Ride” and “Jurassic
Park® In the Dark.”
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).”
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 holding a 49% stake.
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