UNIVERSAL RESURRECTS ‘THE WALKING DEAD’

Fans of television’s “The Walking Dead”will have a chance to walk in the footsteps of human survivors when Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort debut all new terrifying mazes inspired by Season 3 of the critically acclaimed, award-winning television series at this year’s Halloween Horror Nights events beginning Sept. 20. The eerily authentic and disturbingly real maze experiences will place “Halloween Horror Nights”guests at the heart of the show’s once impenetrable prison, the West Georgia Correctional Facility, now overrun by hordes of flesh-eating walkers. The mazes will send guests cowering through the walker-infested wilderness that surrounds the prison and into the seemingly utopian town of Woodbury where gruesome secrets are concealed. Universal Orlando is also dedicating its entire “Halloween Horror Nights”street experience to “The Walking Dead”- making this the first time ever that all of the scare zones throughout the park will be themed after a hit television series. Guests brave enough to walk the streets of Universal Studios Florida will encounter iconic scenes from all three seasons of the hit show — including the perilous city of Atlanta and Hershel’s dismal barn — and fleets of blood-thirsty walkers who are hungry for their next victim. Universal Studios’ “Halloween Horror Nights”events have a more than 20-year history of creating incredibly entertaining, horrifying Halloween experiences that are consistently rated the nation’s best. The events on each coast feature highly themed, disturbingly real, haunted mazes based on everything from films to nightmares — and streets filled with hundreds of specially trained “scareactors.”(http://www.HalloweenHorrorNights.com)