NEWS: Universal Horror Unleashed attraction coming to Las Vegas

[jedimaster1227]

Universal Destinations & Experiences has unveiled Universal Horror Unleashed, a year-round attraction in Las Vegas built upon the Halloween Horror Nights events offered across Universal parks. This new experience on the Area 15 campus will feature four haunted houses, entertainment, shopping and dining and will open on August 14th, 2025. Tickets for this new offering are now available to purchase.

 

https://www.universalhorrorunleashed.com/en/us

Universal Horror Unleashed

Get ready to experience the nightmare in a year-round, fully immersive, high-quality horror spectacle that brings your greatest fears to life.

Enter the evils of four haunted houses, each with their own terrifying stories: Universal Monsters, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Scarecrow: The Reaping, and Blumhouse's The Exorcist: Believer. Surrounding the haunted houses are four fully themed immersive entertainment areas, each with its own unique live horror experiences, plus decadent food and drink offerings in select areas.


Your deepest fears are closer than you think.

The Living Heartbeat of Year-Round Horror

Experience Universal Horror Unleashed, a year-round celebration of horror from the creators and masters of the genre. Filled with haunted houses, themed live-entertainment areas and unique food & beverage experiences in select areas. Coming to Las Vegas in 2025.

Four Haunted Houses of Undying Thrills

Enter the evils of four haunted houses, each with its own terrifying story. Step inside the living nightmares inspired by Universal’s legacy of cinematic and live-entertainment horrors.

Universal Monsters

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Scarecrow: The Reaping

Blumhouse’s The Exorcist: Believer

[CaptainUnknown]

Opening with Believer is definitely a choice. Makes me wonder how interchangeable the themes will be. I also have concerns about the longevity of the attraction as a whole with the price point and how short lived the Eli Roth attraction was.

[Hilltopper39]

So around $90-$100 for general admission and one time access to each house and about $150.00 for admission and unlimited access.

I mean I love the concept, love the idea of there being some themed common areas with food and drinks around the houses themselves but man that's an expensive admission ticket to something that's not a multi experience or something that I would probably only do once every three or 4 years. 

[tndank]

Expensive. 

[Satans Hockey]

On 2/21/2025 at 2:11 PM, Hilltopper39 said:

So around $90-$100 for general admission and one time access to each house and about $150.00 for admission and unlimited access.

I mean I love the concept, love the idea of there being some themed common areas with food and drinks around the houses themselves but man that's an expensive admission ticket to something that's not a multi experience or something that I would probably only do once every three or 4 years. 

 

There's some days with $69 or $79 for general admission with one time access to each house but yeah I think that should really have unlimited access for that price. At least that I could justify a bit. Plus how many times are people really going to go through the same 4 houses? The vast majority would maybe go through 2x. Once to see how it is and once to see if they missed anything on the second time. Maybe they go to their favorite house a 3rd time?

The unlimited cheapest price is $99. I paid $80 the last time I went to Halloween Horror nights in Orlando in 2023 and that was unlimited access to all the houses plus access to rides, scare zones and shows.

I know it's Vegas and things are more expensive but geez. 

The biggest difference and plus about this would be at the very least there should be no conga lines like there are in Orlando so this should be much more catered to letting the groups in spaced out so they get to experience all the scares properly. 

[Hilltopper39]

On 2/22/2025 at 11:47 AM, Satans Hockey said:

 

There's some days with $69 or $79 for general admission with one time access to each house but yeah I think that should really have unlimited access for that price. At least that I could justify a bit. Plus how many times are people really going to go through the same 4 houses? The vast majority would maybe go through 2x. Once to see how it is and once to see if they missed anything on the second time. Maybe they go to their favorite house a 3rd time?

The unlimited cheapest price is $99. I paid $80 the last time I went to Halloween Horror nights in Orlando in 2023 and that was unlimited access to all the houses plus access to rides, scare zones and shows.

 

yeah looking at the calendar again there are some $69.00 tickets on some Mondays and Thursdays but almost every Friday, Saturday or Sunday is $89 or $99.

 

Also something interesting that I didn't notice initially is that they're showing the attraction being closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays almost all year, even closed every Tuesday in October. I guess that could be subject to change based on popularity, or those days could be bought out for private events but kind of interesting. 

I'm curious to see how well staffed the attractions are with live actors. It's one thing to fully staff the houses for 30-40 days days for Horror Nights at the parks, it's another thing to fully staff them 52 weeks a year. Maybe the houses will rely more on animatronics and less on live actors but we all know the live actors are kind of what makes these things good most of the time. Should be an interesting project to follow.

[ryder]

Have any of you been to Vegas lately?  This price point is right in line with nearly every other attraction there.  Omega Mart is about $60-80+, the downtown zipline (which isn't exactly long) is $50-70+, the Fly Over (which is basically Soarin') is about $40-70+, and Zac Bagan's Haunted Museum is $50-80+.

[Hilltopper39]

No I have not been to Vegas lately but that's about where I thought those attraction s would be priced, I guess the more I think about it the Universal Horror attraction isn't as expensive as it seems, especially compared to other attractions in the area, but my mindset was comparing those prices to a theme park or another stand alone haunt.

I think I'd rather pay $60-$80 for Omega Mart before I'd pay $100-$150 for Horror Unleashed, and I love horror and haunted houses. Omega Mart at least has a certain uniqueness to it that you can really only get there where as Horror Unleashed might be kind of the same thing I've seen at Horror Nights and various other haunts for 20 years, but we'll see!

[Chiselphane]

I think it's a fair price for being in Vegas at the scale of what they're going for.  Would I personally pay it? No, but it's not out of scale for the area.   Time will tell.  I just hope that if it doesnt do well, they fix it by reducing the price instead of giving up on it completely, as I think the idea has merit.

[prozach626]

20 hours ago, ryder said:

Have any of you been to Vegas lately?

Or anywhere...?

[KBrylczyk]

22 hours ago, Chiselphane said:

I just hope that if it doesnt do well, they fix it by reducing the price instead of giving up on it completely, as I think the idea has merit.

Yeahhhhhh, Goretorium had a prime center-strip location at Harmon Corner, next to Planet Hollywood.  It did alright at Halloween time but dove off a cliff the rest of the year.  Universal is really banking on this being an in-demand year-round attraction and I just don't see it happening regardless of what special events they pull.  I know many permanent installation haunts will do a Krampus haunt and/or a Valentines haunt, but those are very short opening periods, usually one or two weekends.

HHN does killer business for 12 weeks of the year.  This might do the same.  What are they going to do for the other 40?

[ryder]

Meh... Goretorium didn't really have that great of a location.  I suppose it was great in terms of "middle of the strip", but not great in terms of the fact it was part of a very long, dull, tourist trap/strip mall connector hallway.  It wasn't part of a casino, and it was practically surrounded a magnet kisok and a store that sold novelty socks.  Not really that appealing of a location.  It didn't even really have any close access to a parking lot.

Also, while I seem to recall it had a bar, it was minuscule (maybe 8 stools) and barely themed.  The place practically had zero curb appeal.

Now, it's still not a given this place will be successful.  But being it's own building, more (I presume) free parking, adjacent to the successful Area 15, and having a much more elaborate full restaurant and bar will definitely put things more in it's favor.

Will that be enough?  Still hard to say, but I'm a bit more optimistic.  Even if it does ultimately go under, I think it'll hang around for a fair number of years first (Goretorium lasted barely just over a year).  If nothing else, it has the backing from Universal, so they'll have some money to throw at it if it flounders (another luxury that Goretorium did not have).