Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights 2025 to Feature the First-Ever Fallout Haunted House

IGN tin exclusively uncover that Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights successful some Orlando and Hollywood volition beryllium getting a caller haunted location based connected Prime Video’s Fallout series and that HHN’s Five Night’s astatine Freddy’s acquisition volition beryllium based connected the movie, the second of which volition beryllium brought to beingness with the assistance of the legendary Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, who besides did the animatronics for the film.

While we don’t cognize overmuch much astir the Five Nights astatine Freddy’s experience, Fallout’s haunted location volition unfastened connected August 29 astatine Universal Orlando Resort and connected September 4 astatine Universal Studios Hollywood, and it volition let fans to relive the top moments from Fallout’s archetypal play and more.

Guests volition archetypal participate Vault 33 and travel Lucy LacLean arsenic she tries to flight a bloody massacre portion besides learning of an “evil hidden secret.” The travel volition past instrumentality guests extracurricular the vault and into the Wasteland, wherever they volition request to dodge attacks from some Scavengers, Raiders, and adjacent mutated cockroaches known arsenic RAD Roaches. Throughout the trek done the Wasteland, guests volition sojourn the Super Duper Mart, brushwood the Ghoul, and adjacent conscionable Maximus and his monolithic T-60 armor.

To larn much astir this breathtaking and terrifying travel to the atomic wasteland, we had the accidental to talk to John Murdy, Creative Director / Executive Producer astatine Universal Studios Hollywood, and Matthew Flood, Senior Show Director astatine Universal Orlando Resort, for IGN Live. Among different things, these large fans of Fallout shared however they and the squad are doing each they tin to marque this the champion Fallout acquisition ever.

“As you spell done these environments, we privation fans to say, ‘I admit this, I'm successful a Fallout vault. How chill is that?!’ Flood said. “Where other are you going to get to accidental that you walked done a Fallout vault and past into the Wasteland and saw ghouls?

“And you tin spot and recognize what the satellite is conscionable by what you pass, including the bodies erstwhile Lucy archetypal exits the vault. That benignant of happening is truly bully for america successful Halloween Horror Nights and… yes, it’s gruesome, which is what our fans privation astatine Halloween Horror Nights. It’s besides scary and provides large characters, bully monsters, each the mutated creatures, and the ghouls. That’s ripe for the picking erstwhile it comes to Halloween Horror Nights.”

Fallout besides offers the squad a accidental to bash thing they’ve ne'er done before.

“Fallout is benignant of retro futuristic, and a batch of the aesthetics of it are precise 1950s,” Murdy said. “The information that we get to woody with the aftermath of a atomic holocaust is precise breathtaking for america since we've ne'er done thing similar that astatine HHN before. It’s similar tapping into a full antithetic realm of horror.”

What’s besides absorbing is that Hollywood and Orlando volition each person unsocial aspects to their Fallout experience, including for the T-60 armor.

“It's massive,” Murdy said of the T-60 Armor. “We enactment truly intimately with the radical who are producing Fallout, and they've shared an unthinkable fig of assets with us. We've done a batch of truly large worldly implicit the years with Horror Nights, but this has got to be, I think, 1 of the biggest things we've ever had to do. We besides thought it’d beryllium chill if each parkland had a batch successful communal but besides immoderate differences. So, for Hollywood, the Power Armor is simply a afloat animatronic; we’re doing it arsenic a afloat animated figure.”

“In Orlando, we bash person benignant of a last conflict moment,” Flood added. “I’m not going to uncover excessively much, but yes, T-60s volition beryllium portion of that battle. We besides got a accidental to acceptable successful Filly, and I deliberation having a infinitesimal to get a real-life Fallout conflict happening determination is beauteous cool.”

Murdy besides teased that each Fallout location volition person its ain “creature takes,” and Hollywood’s volition beryllium the horrifying Yao Guai Bear.

With ghouls and mutated bears and murderous scavengers abound, this haunted location is meant to beryllium a chaotic thing, but Flood, Murdy, and the squad person taken large attraction to person it beryllium much than conscionable non-stop terror. Murdy told america that his penning treatments for this Fallout acquisition averaged 100 pages, which diagnostic some a communicative usher and a method breakdown from commencement to finish.

“It's that elaborate due to the fact that we request to spell it each retired for our squad truthful they cognize precisely what to create,” Murdy said. “And what Horror Nights is known for is our attraction to detail. And what we're aiming for alongside the casual impermanent is the uber fan. We privation to person truthful galore antithetic Easter Eggs that definite radical won't peculiarly notice, but that the existent hardcore fans of the video crippled and the bid will.”

Flood teased that determination is simply a Pip-Boy they’ve been moving connected that volition beryllium a dainty to find, and helium teased that guests should look successful each the windows of the storefronts oregon sides of buildings, arsenic determination volition beryllium “little things scattered around.”

“If you're present for a 2nd oregon 3rd clip done the house, and you get a accidental to glimpse down erstwhile you're not wholly terrified, you tin spot a batch of those Easter eggs existing passim the house,” Flood said.

Lastly, we asked what the brace what they were astir excited astir bringing to beingness for Hollywood Horror Nights.

“For me, it was evidently the Wasteland,” Murdy said. “It is amusive to spell from the vaults wherever you're successful a claustrophobic situation to past benignant of unfastened it up into the Wasteland. However, erstwhile I deliberation of it purely from what Horror Nights delivers, it’s Super Duper Mart.”

Speaking of breathtaking fictional businesses, we were capable to get 1 much breathtaking punctuation for the Five Nights astatine Freddy’s acquisition astatine this year’s Hollywood Horror Nights, and it’s making the hold for much details adjacent worse!

“When you acquisition this, it is virtually similar surviving successful the movie,” Murdy said.

For more, cheque retired a look astatine our reappraisal of Fallout Season 1 and the tease of Season 2, a look astatine the sinister poster for Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 2, and everything you request to cognize astir IGN Live, which is kicking disconnected connected June 7.

Adam Bankhurst is simply a writer for IGN. You tin travel him connected X/Twitter @AdamBankhurst, Instagram, and TikTok, and perceive to his show, Talking Disney Magic.