Hollywood Horrors Articles

Chainsaw 101 and Other Fun at ‘Halloween Horror Nights’

If you enter a class to see a disheveled professor teaching you the proper way to cut into bodies with a blood-stained chainsaw, chances are you are an employee of Universal Studios Hollywood. (If not, run!) Along with calls for zombie go-go dancers, Chucky puppeteers and zombie dancers, you know you are in for more than a trick or treat come October 5th at Universal Studios Hollywood. Freddy, Jason and Leatherface are joining in ...

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There’s No Place Like Home for the Holiday

By John Pearson It was more than 20 years ago that Bob Burns and his crew of Hollywood FX masters magically transformed his quaint home in Burbank, California, into a haunter's paradise. This past Halloween, they resurrected the tradition one last time hoping to dazzle guests once again with a final show based on the 1951 film "The Thing." Bob began haunting his home 1967. Tired of hearing true horror stories of razor blades in apples ...

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The Story Behind Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum and Universal Studios

Madame Tussaud's Sculpter Creating the Wax Frankenstein Universal Studios, an industry leader in creating horror films, celebrated the anniversary of several Universal classics horror classics in 2001. In a landmark relationship, Universal Studios Home Video (USHV) joined Tussaud's Group of London and Madame Tussaud's worldwide attractions to pay tribute to Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Development of the Dracula, Frankenstein and Mummy characters for Madame Tussaud's Wax Museums coincides with USHV's ...

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Harry Houdini Died on Halloween

The name Houdini is inextricably linked with Halloween because of his death on October 31, 1926 at Grace Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. The Official Houdini Séance, held each year since his death, has its roots in Houdini's efforts to expose fraudulent mediums. He claimed if there was truly a way to contact the living after one's death, he would do so. He set up a code with his wife, Bess, who faithfully attended the annual ...

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