Ghouls Allowed

Even silence can't save you at this year's Halloween Horror Nights

- DARREN SCOTT

THE AIM OF A THEME PARK haunted house is to make guests scream - so how do you adapt a film franchise where your very survival depends on silence? That was the problem for the creative team at Universal Studios when bringing A Quiet Place to life for their record-breaking Halloween Horror Nights event in Orlando and Hollywood.

"Uniquely different" is how queen of Halloween, Lora Sauls - one of the team at America's most popular spooky season attraction - describes the horror maze based on the first two movies in the series. "It's going to be a huge experiment," she tells Red Alert.

"The guests are a part of this - you can be quiet and just let the haunted house around you do the work. But we know not all guests are going to do that, we know some guests are going to be loud and yell and they're going to get a completely different experience. But we're not catering it to your sound. It's still a haunted house that's catered to our sound." Specifically, that will mean a soundscape of environmentals, low-level drone and, of course, the terrifying clicking noise of the alien creatures, the Death Angels, as you walk through both films in scene order.