Terrifier fans will get to experience a funhouse of horrors starring the one and only Art the Clown as part of this year’s Halloween Horror Nights event.
Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort announced the slasher franchise as the latest addition to the 2025 house lineup on Thursday. The news follows previous reveals of houses and experiences based on Fallout, Friday the 13th, and Five Nights at Freddy’s.
Based on the universe created by writer-director Damien Leone, producer Phil Falcone along with Dark Age Cinema Productions, the maze promises to deliver “a grisly haunted house oozing with a new sense of terror.”
Inspired by Art the Clown’s nightmare funhouse at the abandoned carnival from the 2022 sequel, the house will see attendees become the latest victims of Terrifier’s titular murderer. As they walk through, fans can expect to be overwhelmed by the “sights, sounds, smells and dread” of Art’s grotesque kills, which will be “gleefully displayed for all to see,” according to the event.
In addition to witnessing a number of iconic kills from the franchise, within the house’s “claustrophobic” corridors attendees can also expect to run into some familiar faces, including Vicky and the Little Pale Girl, as they move through recreated locations like the Clown Café, a revolting bathroom, and a deadly Christmas horrorscape.
Known for its unbridled brutality and unabashed gore, the Terrifier franchise is one of the horror genre’s biggest modern success stories, with the low-budget, unrated trilogy garnering around $100 million at the global box office on a combined budget of less than $2.5 million. The slasher universe began its feature journey in 2016 with Terrifier, but its leading serial killer appeared in several of Leone’s short films dating back to 2008. Since then, the franchise has spawned not only a big screen trilogy, but an arcade game, novelizations, and comic books, alongside a fourth film in the works.
Set in the fictional town of Miles County, New York, the Terrifier franchise follows the demonic serial killer known as Art the Clown, who has been terrorizing and torturing residents on Halloween in increasingly sick, cruel and sinister ways.
Halloween Horror Nights kicks off at Universal Orlando Resort on Aug. 29 and Universal Studios Hollywood on Sept. 4, with both events running through Nov. 2 and tickets already on sale.