It is clearly Fall here in Central Florida and you know what that means -- one of the most popular seasonal theme park attractions is here -- the 18th edition of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios.
We found Central Florida On Demand's John Handiboe in the Three Bears House, just one of the many haunted houses scaring visitors to the park.
The horror Halloween madness includes the fairy tales, the freaky fairy tales, urban legends and the big draw this year, Bloody Mary.
One of the gurus of the gore said it is all new this year.
"That's the coolest thing about Halloween Horror Nights is we get to reinvent it every single year. And this year, I think we've taken it to a level of complete saturation and emergence. When the guest walks through the gate, whether you are in the street or the haunted house, you are in it. You can't escape it," said Jim Timon, senior vice president of entertainment at Universal.
"Now, tell us about the freaky fairy tales. Right now, we are in the Three Bear house," Handiboe asked.
"Yeah, this is the scary tales haunted house. Everything this year is based on urban legends, myths, folklore, fairy tales, everything you sort of know. So we took all of that and made it horribly wrong and twisted. And then, Bloody Mary is kind of the 'bringer-of.' Everyone knows the urban legend of Bloody Mary, 'Say her name three times in the mirror,'" Timon said.
"No. You say her name three times in the mirror," Handiboe told Timon.
"Somebody has to do it. The cool thing is, when the mirror breaks, no one knows what happens. So, now we created that. We pull you into her world and this is what Halloween Horror Nights is," Timon said.
"You kind of take all of those things people have grown up with over the years and you make them, kind of, their worst nightmare.
"Their absolute worst nightmare. If there's something you kind of think you understand, or you heard when you were a kid, or an urban legend you talk about with your friends, we bring that to life, we put you in the middle of it, " Timon said.
"You have to live it and can't escape it, whether you are inside a haunted house, like we are now, or even out in the street, we've got more 'scareactors' than we ever had -- over 1,000 a night -- more scare zones, the most haunted houses we've ever done. It's terrifying. Truly terrifying," Timon said.
Halloween Horror nights runs througn Nov. 1 at Universal Studios Orlando.