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Sinners and Stranger Things Can Wait - H.R. Bloodengutz Just Hijacked HHN 35

Photo:Universal Orlando   by Tara Adams The Creature Beat While Stranger Things and Sinners will be massive draws, Universal Orlando just dropped the news I’ve been waiting for since 2011: the campy, creature-feature house H.R. Bloodengutz is returning to Halloween Horror Nights this fall. Universal creates top tier haunted houses every year. I loved The Exorcist house in 2016. I loved The Shining house in 2017. They rank among my Top Five HHN houses. But my favorite has always been 2011's H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror . Located in the Disaster! queue during HHN 21, the house recaptured the gritty, low-budget spirit of late-night monster movies while delivering some of the most creative scares in the 2011 lineup. ​The strength of Holidays of Horror relied on its narrative framing. It centered on Larry Kurtzberg, a man driven mad by his alter-ego, H.R. Bloodengutz, a cynical, unhinged late-night horror host. When the fictional network executives at WKNB in Carey, ...

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