Although the temperatures were hovering around 90 degrees Fahrenheit, the season of scares has kicked off in Central Florida with last week’s grand opening of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Florida. I joined the media night event and experienced all 10 haunted houses—half of which are based on popular franchises such as Terrifier , Fallout , and Five Nights At Freddy’s —to examine how the spooky travels event holds up, especially just months after the much-touted new Epic Universe theme park opened at the same Universal Orlando Resort.

Epic Universe, the first major theme park to open in the U.S. in 24 years and which cost an estimated $7 billion to build (and was covered extensively by this author for Den of Geek ), has just celebrated its first summer in

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