The Weeknd Haunted House Coming to Universal Studios – Billboard

Put together to enter into the macabre thoughts of The Weeknd this Halloween, because the famous person simply introduced his After Hours-inspired expertise with Common Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights.

As if all of the bloodied facial bandages and gory imagery from his blockbuster Billboard 200-topping album After Hours didn’t make us already lose our heads, The Weeknd (actual identify Abel Tesfaye) is making us scared to reside in his world once more. Choose tracks from After Hours — together with the title observe, “In Your Eyes,” “Heartless,” “Blinding Lights,” “Save Your Tears” (solo model) and “Too Late” — will likely be reimagined as a horror film soundtrack all through “The Weeknd: After Hours Nightmare.” And courageous company will wrestle to outlive the night time whereas being “stalked by slashers, bandaged maniacs, grotesque toad-like creatures and different unfathomable horrors from the thoughts of the artist,” based on a launch. Save your tears for the autumn, people.

The Weeknd’s three-part haunted home expertise will first contact down in Common Orlando Resort on Sept. 2 earlier than arriving at Common Studios Hollywood on Sept. 8. Tickets are on sale now at HalloweenHorrorNights.com. Each occasions will run choose nights via Monday, Oct. 31.

“I all the time needed my very own Halloween Horror Nights haunted home, as Halloween has all the time been vital to my music, so this can be a complete dream come to life,” The Weeknd advised Leisure Weekly in an announcement. “I really feel like my music movies have served as a launching pad for a collaboration like this, and I can not anticipate folks to expertise this insanity!”

Added John Murdy, government producer of Halloween Horror Nights at Common Studios Hollywood: “We’re thrilled to take company within the thoughts of The Weeknd, who’s a Halloween Horror Nights fan himself.”

“That is an unprecedented haunted home that’s going to shatter the expectations of our company and immerse them in an unforgettable expertise that’s equally surprising and terrifying,” stated Charles Grey, senior present director for leisure inventive growth at Common Orlando Resort.

In his Billboard cowl story about “Blinding Lights” changing into the highest Billboard Scorching 100 music of all time, The Weeknd defined how he threaded his “favourite psychological thrillers and dramas in a single universe” for the After Hours LP, from “Jack Nicholson’s character in Chinatown to the movie Possession to Tim Robbins in Jacob’s Ladder.“

Watch an official teaser of The Weeknd: After Hours Nightmare beneath.