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Universal’s House of Horrors
Hollywood park resurrects familiar faces
Universal Studios Hollywood has opened a new walk-through themed areas that include the
attraction called Universal’s House of Horrors, featuring many Burial Crypt of The Bride of
fearsome familiar faces from the Studios’ 80-year horror film legacy. Frankenstein, Dracula’s Portal,
The multi-sensory attraction, set inside a castle, has been infused with The Mummy’s Tomb and Psycho
scents that capture the pungent odours of Egyptian tombs, musty Maze of Mirrors.
antechambers and decaying life. Universal Studios introduced
Guests are reacquainted with such notorious creatures as Count the horror genre to US
Dracula, Nosferatu, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, Frankenstein’s Monster, audiences in the early years of
the Bride of Frankenstein and the Phantom of the Opera. motion pictures when such artists
The adventure begins at the entrance to the castle ruins in Soundstage as Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney,
13, as guests are shepherded along the drawbridge into a corridor laden and Bela Lugosi were under
with dozens of movie props and artefacts including the original corduroy contract to the company. In the
blazer worn by Anthony Perkins in Psycho, the Hannibal Lector mask from decades that have followed,
Red Dragon and the original Chucky doll. many of the world’s greatest
Guests, however, do not have long to linger over these treasures. movie monsters came to life on
Attendants quickly usher them through a dark labyrinth leading into the the studio’s historic back lot.
FogScreen added
Dickens World opens
to Ghost Train Dickens World, which was due to open May 25, is a brand new
visitor complex themed around the life, times and printed works of
Guests at Linnanmäki in Finland one of Britain’s best loved authors, Charles Dickens.
are bracing themselves for foggy Guests are taken on a fascinating journey through Dickensian
conditions this summer. The England and immersed in the urban streets, sounds and smells of the
Helsinki city park’s classic ghost 19th Century. A host of captivating attractions including the Haunted
train, which originally opened in house of Ebenezer Scrooge, a high definition 4D show and one of
1950, has just be renewed with the Europe’s largest dark boat rides. Dicken’s World is located at
addition of a high-tech projection Chatham Maritime in Kent.
screen courtesy FogScreen, also
from Finland.
“We had been looking for something new for the ghost train for a
long time, but when we saw the FogScreen product for the first time
we knew right away that this was the renewal we had been looking
for,” says the park’s CEO, Risto Räikkönen. “This is something huge.”
FogScreen creates stunning, attention-grabbing effects by projecting
an image onto a fog surface that floats in the air. The fog is dry, so it
can be touched, and people can also walk through it. In the case of
Linnanmäki’s ghost train, the cars travel through the projection.
Riders travel through this A drak boat ride is central to
mist projection the attraction
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