While Halloween Horror Nights is known for its house based on popular films and television show — this year featuring titles like Stranger Things and Sinners — their original houses are nothing to balk at. Universal Orlando has just revealed one of their newest, unique specifically to the Florida location, and alongside this year’s icons, it’s bringing back another beloved fan-favorite character for another round of scares,
H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular! brings the beloved fictional horror host back into the fray, this time for a gruesome new Halloween night special. The description of the house is as follows:
Fan-favorite creature feature host, Larry Kurtzberg (better known as H.R. Bloodengutz), returns in this all-new haunted house. After his descentinto violent madness where he tortured his crew when his show was canceled, H.R. Bloodengutz has escaped from prison to return to WKNB Television Station for a final Halloween Special of gruesome proportions.
H.R. Bloodengutz originally appeared at Halloween Horror Nights in 2011, and made a brief appearance in 2021 as a part of the Welcome to SCarey house, but 2026 marks the first time in fifteen years he’ll have his own headlining show. According to HHN show director Ramón Paradoa, who spoke to Bloody Disgusting about the new house, some aspects of the creature feature host will be familiar, but he’ll also have a new look to mark the passage of fifteen years.
“Since he’s escaping straight from prison and returning to the derelict studio, he tries to piece together his former look as much as he can, but there’s a fun little twist to how he looks this go around. And he’s older because we were able to work with the original actor who played Bloodengutz in 2011, to reprise his role. So, we’re getting an authentic, older version of the character in this new haunted house that is being played by the original actor, which again, our fans are going to love.”
Paradoa says that the house will be split into seven scenes corresponding to seven horror movies, some of which are “callbacks to HHN’s past.” Everything is tied into the classic theme of Halloween, and has “what you’d expect out of that Halloween comfort food kind of feel when it comes to monsters, zombies, skeletons, [and] ghosts.”
Halloween Horror Nights runs from August 28 through November 1 in Orlando, and from September 3 through November 1 in Hollywood. For information, and to purchase tickets and Horror Nights themed merch, you can check out Universal’s website.
