Rocky Horror Picture Show invades Halloween Horror Nights
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW will be incorporated into this year’s Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood. No, there will not be a walk-through maze where you can come up to the lab and see what’s on the slab; instead, there will be a live musical performance, titled “Rocky Horror Picture Show: A Tribute,” featuring “audience participation and guest involvement.”
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW’s camp element seems in line with what you typically see at these special Halloween shows, which work overtime to be risque and outrageous. It will certainly offer a contrast to Universal Studios Halloween theme for 2009, which is based on SAW.
This year Halloween Horror Nights begins on October 2. The theme park attraction promises new Scare Zones (including one based on SHAUN OF THE DEAD), a new back lot terror tram tour, and “four all-new mazes” (including one based on SAW).
From the official press release:
Universal City, CA– Mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Rocky Horror and other famous Rocky Horror Picture Show characters will be part of the Halloween Horror Nights line-up at Universal Studios HollywoodSM this year as “Rocky Horror Picture Show: A Tribute,” is featured as part of the Halloween Horror Nights event which begins a 16-night run on October 2.
Universal Studios Hollywood will present the “Rocky Horror Picture Show: A Tribute” at this year’s Halloween Horror Nights event per an agreement between the theme park and Twentieth Century Fox’s Licensing & Merchandising Division.
The tribute will bring the musical mayhem of the classic horror spoof to life on-screen and on-stage with live performers singing and dancing in the celebrated, outrageous “Rocky Horror” costumes. The tribute will be interactive, featuring audience participation and guest involvement.
The “Rocky Horror Picture Show” cult phenomenon was created over three decades ago by A Lou Adler – Michael White Production of the Richard O’Brien musical and its momentum as a world-renowned cult phenomenon has never slowed.
Larry Kurzweil, President and Chief Operating Officer, Universal Studios Hollywood said: “Bringing film experiences to life is the essence of what we do at Universal Studios Hollywood and this classically edgy movie and its passionate following are a perfect fit for this year’s ground-breaking Halloween Horror Nights event.”
“The Rocky Horror Picture Show is more than a film, it’s become a cultural touchstone in American entertainment and this new attraction is yet another testament to its strength,” said Howard Nelson, Vice President Worldwide Promotion for Fox Licensing. “This tribute extends our relationship with Universal Studios Hollywood, which continues to do a great job translating our properties for live audiences.”
The entire Halloween Horror Nights event at Universal Studios Hollywood has been re-designed for 2009. “Halloween Horror Nights” will feature four all-new mazes, a new “Terror Tram” backlot studio experience as well as terrifying new “Scare Zones.” New attractions will include a “live” maze experience based on the “Saw” film franchise…