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Universal's Halloween Horror Nights (HHN) returned to Orlando, Florida, on Aug. 29, and kicks off in Hollywood on Sept. 4
PEOPLE staffer Jen Juneau shares her thoughts after attending the event almost every year since 2002
"This year, HHN feels like it has ushered itself into a new era of being able to perfectly straddle the old and the new," she says
As someone who has only missed a couple of annual Halloween Horror Nights (HHN) in Orlando, Florida, since 2002 (one being in 2021 when I gave birth and one in 2020 amid the COVID pandemic), not a lot about it scares me anymore. I go for the fun and to "oooh" and "aaah" at the spectacle and creativity — everything that so many people work hard to bring to life annually and have done for the better part of 35 years, while st