Halloween Horror Nights™ XIX - 2X The Fear
2004 • Halloween Horror Nights™
What’s Your Breaking Point?
The Halloween Horror Nights™ Design Team were tasked with thinking about what scares guests, and what would become the breaking point of terror and horror. This thought sparked the entire theme for this year, with What’s Your Breaking Point. Halloween Horror Nights™ was ready to push guests past their limits, and with a two-park event for the first-time ever, guests would explore seven Haunted Houses, and the last Festival of the Dead Parade to date.
- Year:
- 2004
- Location:
- Universal Orlando Resort™
- Dates:
- October 1-2; 8-10; 13-17; 21-24; 28-31, 2004
- Event Name:
- Halloween Horror Nights™ XIX - 2X The Fear
- Event Phrase:
- What's Your Breaking Point?
- Hours:
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7:00 PM-12:00 AM (Non-Peak)
7:00 PM-2:00 AM (Peak Nights) - Pricing:
- $54.75 +tax
- Stats:
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7
Haunted House(s)
4 Scare Zones
2 Shows
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Event Facts
- Due to the hurricanes that devastated Florida in August and September 2004, construction was delayed, and final preparations weren't made for the event until last minute.
- The Team Member Preview was cancelled, and even on the afternoon of the event’s opening night, teams were still busy putting Scare Zones together.
- The logo for Ghost Town was done by horror make-up guru "Tom Savini," taken directly from the artwork from the film "Creepshow."
- For the first time since 1999, Halloween Horror Nights™ XIV was the first year to not feature an Event Icon.
- Universal rented several dozens of freight crates for the Fright Yard Haunted House. Due to this fact, they weren't allowed to spray paint or alter them in anyway, which is why wooden boards and tarps with graffiti on them were hung over the crates.
- The design team paid respect to several Halloween Horror Nights™ forum fans by spray painting their online aliases on the walls in the Fright Yard.
- In the castle courtyard for Castle Vampyr were two statues – One stands above a dried fountain. This statue was used the previous year for the entrance gates to Psycho Scareapy. The other statue, which lies to the left of the facade broken, was used in Scream House: Revisited.
- 2004 marked the first year of the “pondering bust” statue that has been hidden in various Haunted Houses every year since.
- Horror Nights™ Nightmares features several props from the past years events. Some of which include the entrance sign to Hotel Hell, the sign to Universal's Creature Feature, and the chair from HHN 13's Infestation.
- A sign from the Halloween Horror Nights™ X Haunted House Dark Torment can be found in the Midway of the Bizarre, as well as several props from previous years such as the entrance sign to Horror Nights™ 13's Funhouse of Fear, and 2000's The Fearhouse.
- The vomiting redneck and the ‘ol' smokey’ animatronics in Deadtropolis and Hellgate Prison were made by the same animatronic company.
- This year was advertised as Halloween Horror Nights™ at Universal Orlando, but merchandise had several different names for the event.
- T-Shirts, cups, and hats, can be found with Halloween Horror Nights™ XIV, Halloween Horror Nights™ 2004, and Halloween Horror Nights™ at Universal Orlando Resort.
- The second catch phrase, a substitute for What's Your Breaking Point? was 2X the Fear, in reference to the expansion from one park to two.
- Due to the popularity of this year, Universal opened all of Universal’s Islands of Adventure theme park on peak Fridays and Saturday nights, as well as expanding Universal Studios Florida to include both the JAWS and Men in Black Alien Attack! attractions.
- Field of Screams featured scarecrows with masks from HHN 13's Night Prey Scare Zone, and pumpkin masks that have been used in several other Horror Nights™, notably in Scary Tales II.
- Horror in Wax, while not exactly built around, can relate to the 1953 Vincent Price film House of Wax which was remade in 2005 by the same name.
- Castle Vampyr was built in Sound Stage 23, the same place "Vampyre Wars" was filmed in 1996.
- The centerpiece of Point of Evil was a giant Tesla Coil that shot electricity into the night sky. This feature lasted only a few nights before it was removed. Several claim that it was removed due to improper function, as it wasn't a reliable prop.
- Halloween Horror Nights™ XIV featured seven Haunted Houses, which – at that time – was more houses than any previous Horror Nights™ event.
- Halloween Horror Nights™ XIV also brought back the "Midway of the Bizarre," after a two-year hiatus.
- Disorientorium was originally titled Dr. Payne's Disorientorium, eventually Dr. Payne was dropped from the title, as guests would confuse him as the mascot of the event, rather a character of the house.
- The 2004 website won a prestigious Webby Award for interactive design.
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