UPDATE: Bride of Frankenstein Lives (Halloween Horror Nights)

While I do strongly believe that Midsummer Scream’s Awaken the Spirits is a horror lifestyle convention, there’s no denying the presence of haunts dominates the incredible main panel stage. Many of California’s biggest players in the haunt scene have come out to tease us and today’s Halloween Horror Nights panel tells me that Universal’s nearly 30 years of screams is the headliner. It could be because I’m not a long and die hard fan but holy crap their Bride of Frankenstein Lives maze is so narratively elaborate it can be a feature film…

After the recalling of his long lasting love for the classic Universal Monsters, creative director John Murdy talks about how important the Bride is to horror despite being in her own movie for only a blink (as amazing of a blink as it is). “Would you like to hear something?” he asks the crowd before unleashing the opening of Slash’s classical electrical score for Halloween Horror Night’s latest announced maze. Turn that shit up:

While I won’t spend the entire article spilling every single bean in regards to the story of this richly thought out maze, I will give it my ol’ razzle dazzle and scribe it here the best I can. Patrick Brailliard’s sequel that never existed will physically put you in a giant Victorian style book that picks up right where The Bride of Frankenstein left off. “We belong dead”, the switch is thrown, the castle begins to crumble, and the Bride is left in the rubble with a dead Frankenstein. “My story begins where his story ended… but monsters never truly die!” With the learned ability to speak and the blood of vampires, the bride becomes the doctor, and quite literally picks up the pieces for Frank.

The full story of what the Halloween Horror Nights team has written when paired with the beautiful array of concept and finalized art at the very least begs to be turned into a comic book and at its most expensive potential a movie. It carries a female driven story so competently and with so much of the monster madness we love to see in our favorite works that I wonder what the point of Blumhouse taking the wheel is (I joke?). If you wanted more classic horror and iconic monster women, the Silver Scream Queens has you covered! Anck-Su-Namun: The Mummy, The She-Wolf of London AND DRACULA’S DAUGHTERS will be waiting for you in this fantastic sounding scare zone following The Bride of Frankenstein Lives!

The final big announcement of the panel was that the long requested Horror Tram will be making it’s return to Halloween Horror Nights despite it not being there in 2019. I didn’t know about the Horror Tram in the past as my first time going to Halloween Horror Nights involved seeing Lupita Nyong’o in full costume at the end of the Us maze with friends.

Pair the above announcements with the previously announced Texas Chainsaw Massacre maze and I am eagerly awaiting coming back to Universal Studios Hollywood to get scared!