Space Fantasy The Ride: Black Hole
Space Fantasy is one of the roller coasters at USJ and puts riders in a rotating car that will twist as the coaster falls and turns. Usually the ride is all cutesy but entering it during the Halloween event gives you some kind of story with a scientist that is using a black hole to open a dimensional rift or something. The ride itself is just Space Fantasy but with all the lights turned off. The exact same ride only this time you can't see shit and there's a voice in the background saying stuff like "Ha ha! I have you now!" and stuff like that. Maybe if you had never been on the ride before and had no idea what was coming it might be exciting but otherwise it was just kind of "meh"
Area 51
A walk through "horror maze" that was hosted inside the Backdraft ride. Starts with a guy coming out telling you that there's an alien invasion and that you have to escape through a forest only for him to be gunned down by some woman who then informs you he's been taken over by an alien parasite and now you have to escape to their base at the end. Interestingly, only half the backdraft ride is used and you get taken out of a back door for the "maze" part of the attraction which has alien dudes following you around the place. When you get to the base it turns out that it's been completely overrun and you move through alien infested corridors to the exit. At the end you mash a bunch of buttons with some randos on a panel and save the earth. Not bad but even it's attempts at jump scares were kind of weak although this is probably by design since the maze opened early in the morning.
Cult of Chucky
A similar walk through horror house to Area 51 but with the intensity ramped up a little bit since it didn't open until the evening, standard fare.
Blood Legend
Blood Legend was a short horror movie in the same "4D" theatre that they host that Shrek show in, 4D being the gimmick of seats moving around and blasting air at you when certain things on screen happen. The show starts by recanting the legend of actual serial killer Elizabeth Bathory and then plays a movie about two girls who are on holiday in Hungry. The two girls end up visiting her estate under the impression its some kind of museum and then get chased around a bit. Fairly standard stuff but I'm pretty sure Elizabeth Bathory is the main villain in Castlevania Bloodlines although I might be mistaken
Biohazard: The Extreme
This was the attraction in particular that I went all the way to Osaka for. Before you can ride the thing you have to go get a ticket to book a time slot and what I was surprised to see is that there was a "Leon Route" and a "Claire Route" and then whole thing was very clearly styled after the Resident Evil 2 remake. We did both routes on this trip starting with Leon. Once again, it's just a standard haunted house type affair but seeing all the scenes from Resident Evil 2 remade for the attraction was kind of cool. There's a few zombies stomping around that jump at you as you walk through but eventually you get stopped by a staff member who warns you about a creature that's sensitive to sound so you have to be quiet. You are then led down a corridor with a Licker in it and once out you come to a corridor with a big glass window in it. This is where the two routes are different as Mr X comes out on one end and then either Leon or Claire will pop out of the other, yell at you to escape and then have a little tussle with the big lad. You go through some more rooms with some more monsters until you get told that your going to have to fight whatever is chasing you and you are led into a room with a bunch of light(?) guns. You grab one and start blasting and the enemy on screen which changes depending on which character you are. I think you can beat it and escape but both times we did it the group didn't do enough damage so it popped up during our escape sequence and we got a "You have died" message. All in all, a good bit of fanwank if your familiar with Resident Evil but my wife also seemed to enjoy it a fair bit and she doesn't know anything about the series
It may be a little on the pricy side but the Halloween night at Universal is a pretty good time. I'll probably go again next year when they have more Resi goodness for me.
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