Universal Studios unleashes first all-female Halloween haunted house to counter 'male-centric' genre

Universal Studios hopes to "create almighty pistillate characters" to reinvent the "male-centric" fearfulness genre astatine its annual Halloween event.

Earlier this year, Universal announced the themes of 8 caller haunted mazes arsenic portion of the Halloween Horror Nights 2024. One caller summation was called "Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines," a caller all-female fearfulness quality attraction featuring the Bride of Frankenstein, Van Helsing’s daughter, She-Wolf and Dracula’s daughter.

In an interrogation with the Los Angeles Times, Halloween Horror Nights originative manager John Murdy revealed this was intentional to propulsion backmost against the "hierarchy" of Universal movie monsters that person been "all guys."

The "Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines" is chiefly focused connected lesser-known pistillate monster movie characters. (Photo by Universal Pictures/Getty Images)

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"I privation to make almighty pistillate characters," Murdy says. "When fearfulness started, it was beauteous male-centric. Even into the ’80s — it was Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, Michael Myers. That's what we started doing. It was that genre of horror. But arsenic clip has gone on, and the lawsuit has grown and evolved, we've kept an unfastened caput astir embracing each horror."

Murdy said the inspiration came from the popularity of a 2021 haunted maze that was centered astir the "Bride of Frankenstein," giving him the assurance that an all-female instrumentality connected the attraction could work.

Tourists instrumentality photos astatine the globe extracurricular the entranceway to Universal Studios Orlando connected Thursday, July 21, 2022, successful Florida.  (Katie Rice/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

"I truly emotion the female-centric take," Murdy says. "I person 2 daughters, and honestly I person astir apt 1 of the world's largest collections of Universal Monsters paraphernalia. It's successful my location present successful L.A., truthful since the clip they were babies, they were successful the monster room. I person pictures of them kissing the busts of Frankenstein, truthful they knew this arsenic mean arsenic kids. Like me, they person a weird affectional attachment to them, and I privation to make almighty pistillate characters for my kids."

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"My 11-year-old is coming for the archetypal time," Murdy added. "Up until now, she's ne'er asked, but she said, 'I deliberation I'm ready.' And I privation her to spot pistillate representation."

Halloween Horror Nights 2024 opened successful August astatine Universal Orlando and September astatine Universal Studios Hollywood. (Photo by Qiu Chen/Xinhua via Getty Images)

"Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines" opened connected Aug. 30 astatine Universal Orlando and Sept. 5 astatine Universal Studios Hollywood. It is expected to tally connected prime nights until Nov. 3.

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