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The Hollywood Reporter featured an inside look at this year's Halloween Horror Nights plans for the Universal Studios theme parks in Hollywood and Orlando, including the WWE crossover maze based on The Wyatt Sicks.
Mike Aiello, creative director of HHN in Orlando reached out to WWE through the company's Matt Miller after seeing The Wyatt Sicks' debut on Raw.
"...their entrance was them wreaking havoc and destroying environments unique to the backstage of a WWE live show. It looked like one of our haunted houses on live television, so I placed a call as soon as RAW ended.”
Each maze will be unique to their respective theme park.
The article notes:
"In Orlando, you’ll venture through the derelict and abandoned Firefly Funhouse featuring remnants of The Fiend’s influence, before being surrounded by “imagery of WWE media taken over by Uncle Howdy before you dive into the minds of the Wyatt six.” Scary monsters and characters are promised in various environments, such as Abby’s witch hut, where “she can crawl all around you,” teases Sauls. Human victims are pecked and consumed in Huskus the Pig Boy and Mercy the Buzzard’s realms, alongside Rambling Rabbit’s spiraling tea-party-inspired dimension, where their mouths are sewn shut. That’s along with new characters unique to the house, and a ton of easter eggs for WWE fans within environments that “live and breathe the same level of textures that exist in the ring,” says Aiello.
In Hollywood, [John Murdy, creative director for Halloween Horror Nights] take is partly inspired by seeing the wrestlers of the early ’70s live, mingled with the creative universe and cinematic storytelling approach of Bray. Fans are greeted by Uncle Howdy at the Wyatt compound, “this Bayou in the middle of a swamp,” and “an environment I’ve never done at Horror Nights with fireflies” that will feature music as part of the entry. Throughout the house, there will be inspirations, set pieces, or more tied to Bray’s rocking chair, the cave Uncle Howdy said he brought the Wyatt Sicks from, the Uncle Howdy sessions, and Bray’s lantern. “We use that whole idea of follow the lantern and follow the light of the fireflies to take you into this supernatural realm of the Wyatt six,” says Murdy. “In every scene you’re going to see that lantern and it keeps showing up in different ways, in different locations.”
Halloween Horror Nights launches next month.
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