Halloween Horror Nights fans will stare death in the face and unearth dark secrets inside the Deville Family Funeral Home in the new original haunted house coming to Universal Studios Hollywood.
The Dead Deader Deadest haunted house joins the lineup during Halloween Horror Nights 2026 that runs on 42 select nights at Universal Studios Hollywood from Sept. 3 through Nov. 1.
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The backstory for the funeral home haunted house involves a new miracle drug called Ambrotox, used to restore the facial features of the dead without embalming.
A zombie army of reanimated corpses rises from the grave and terrorizes the living when the revolutionary process backfires.
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Funeral homes have served as the theme and setting for two Horror Nights haunted houses at Universal Orlando: Tombs of Terror in 1997 and Scream House in 2002, 2003 and 2006.
Dead Deader Deadest becomes the first original maze to join the Horror Nights 2026 lineup at Universal Studios Hollywood that already includes haunted houses based on Stranger Things, Sinners, Evil Dead and Hellraiser.
Fortnitemares is the first of several Horror Nights scare zones planned at Universal Studios Hollywood that will also feature the Terror Tram.