"The first "Terrifier" was released in 2016, an unrated ultra-indie made for $40,000 as a love letter to the horror genre. It gave a wide audience its first introduction to Art the Clown, a ghoulish killer clown with a taste for unusually deranged murders. He has since skyrocketed into the pantheon of beloved big bads like Freddie Krueger, Michael Myers and Chucky. The film included nods to horror classics like "Saw" and "The Silence of the Lambs,""
""It's just going to rain blood," John Murdy, creative director of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, said at Universal's presentation at the 2025 Midsummer Scream horror convention in Long Beach. "We're just not giving you a choice." "This is a record," Michael Aiello, senior director of entertainment and creative development for Universal Destinations and Experiences, added. "This house has the most bodies ever in a haunted house in the history of Horror Nights.""
Universal Studios Hollywood's Terrifier haunted house has generated average wait times of 90 minutes since opening on Sept. 4. The attraction is deliberately designed as the bloodiest, goriest, most disturbing house ever built for Halloween Horror Nights, featuring the most bodies ever in an event house. The house has become a smash hit, described as disturbing, gag-inducing and simultaneously delightful, and it is satisfying increasing fan appetite for bigger, badder, scarier entertainment. Creative leaders promised overwhelming gore and confirmed the house set attendance and content records. The Terrifier franchise began in 2016 as a $40,000 indie that introduced Art the Clown.
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