It’s the most horrifying time of the year once again as Universal Orlando Resort’s Halloween Horror Nights 2025 has officially begun as this 48-night event will run until November 2nd and this year has 10 frightfully good mazes served up for us to experience.
We brought you our thoughts on last years incredible event and ranked all of the mazes from best to worst but just to clarify like I did last year, even the ‘worst’ maze at Halloween Horror Nights is no doubt better than 99% of the world’s scare mazes so just keep that in mind when I go through this list.
It’s also worth mentioning that this is my own opinion and it’s subjective, you may have enjoyed a maze way more than myself and that’s perfectly fine. This article isn’t gospel or fact and is merely opinion.
So with that said, let’s dive right in!
10. Fallout
I wasn’t a fan of the games and I couldn’t last through 3 episodes of the Amazon series so it’s safe to say this particular IP just isn’t one I can connect to or enjoy all that much and whilst I could appreciate the premise of the maze I once again just didn’t really seem to get entirely what was happening or see the point of the maze whatsoever.
There’s winks and nods and Easter eggs aplenty for the fans but I just couldn’t get into it and quite simply, it wasn’t scary in the slightest.
Set recreations are of course beautiful and you really are stepping into the series so fan service is definitely of the highest order but from a scare maze angle, it was boring AF. From a walkthrough recreation and immersive angle, it was AMAZING.
9. Hatchet and Chains: Demon Bounty Hunters
Slaughter Sinema 2 was such a good maze last year, one of my favourites as every single room was an experience of cutting-room floor HHN ideas that had been realised into mini-mazes within the attraction.
Hatchet and Chains Demon Bounty Hunters was a Slaughter Sinema addition and that mini-maze from last years experience is now a fully fledged scare maze for the 2025 season.
This is another maze which feels light on scares but certainly has some wonderful walkthrough spaces but the general story and concept of the maze is so fun as a bounty hunter and a demon join forces after an old lady summons hordes of lava demons from hell after she’s angry about a new train station being built. Logic.
Demons possess their victims in the most grotesque way and they’re all there for you to see and to experience in this rather fun and frantic addition.
Light on scares means that this particular maze is way down on our list, it’s got to be reviewed as a scare maze after all and this one sadly didn’t hit the mark on that front.
8. The Horrors of The Wyatt Sicks
The late Bray Wyatt always said he wanted his character / legacy to be immortalised in a Halloween Horror Nights maze and here we are.
HHN history as WWE and Universal honours Bray’s legacy with this rather creepy and unnerving maze.
I was skeptical about how this maze would manage to deliver the scares when its essentially built upon a WWE character storyline but they’ve done it rather brilliantly from being pulled into the stage of Bray’s ring entrance and then into the world of the various personas of Bray’s in-ring character.
The creepy lantern lighting the way and the darkness of The Fiend (Bray’s in-ring alter ego), it really is a loving tribute to the late wrestler and certainly a twisted and unique maze that may be rather lost on non-WWE fans but it certainly delivers heart and horror in equal combination if albeit not being one of the strongest mazes in this years incredible strong line-up.
7. Grave of Flesh
Immersing guests into the sense of being buried alive Grave of Flesh is a visual masterpiece that just gets more and more insane as your journey continues throughout.
The initial introduction to the maze lingers from start to finish but it does seem to lose its way as you venture further into it.
A real shame as Grave of Flesh is certainly one of the coolest and most unique storytelling angles out of this years group of mazes and it’s such a shame that it lets it down as though the creative angle literally buried itself come the midway point.
6. Gálkn: Monsters of the North
This maze just stands outside the top 5 but it was a damn close call as guests are transported to a village where a long-buried evil has returned.
It’s in the 6th spot for the Wicker Man wink and nod alone but there’s a heavy use of puppetry throughout which is always a cool jump-scare moment.
There’s a wonderful vibe about this particular house and it really feels heavy in terms of jump scares and eerie moments, you’re forever on your toes and when I’m feeling anxious I literally have this weird niggling pain behind my ears and it was on high alert throughout.
5. Jason Universe
Jason makes his first HHN return in 10 years and just squeezes into the Top 5 for nostalgia alone, well, that and the fact the maze is GREAT!
With the maze trying to cram 12 films into one walkthrough experience is a little disorientating at times there’s lots to cover and lots to get into but you really are being served up a rather immersive highlight reel of all things Jason.
Storyline goes out of the window when it comes to Friday the 13th movies and it’s no different in the maze it’s just Jason Voorhees on a warpath hunting you down with a machete or any other weird and wonderful weapon at his disposal.
Take a stroll to Camp Crystal Lake and enjoy yourself in this rather beautiful maze that brings Jason back with quite a bang at Halloween Horror Nights 34.
4. Dolls: Let’s Play Dead
Guests are shrunk down to the size of a doll as we take a walkthrough what is essentially The Curse at Alton Manor at Alton Towers dark ride but done with detail, love, care and attention.
What I liked about this maze is that there are interactive things for guests to do along the walkthrough that can influence the scares which I thought was very clever.
The dolls are all absolutely terrifying as you’re surrounded by oversized props as far as the eye can see as the sense of scale is distorted and you’re really immersed in their world now.
3. Terrifier
The Terrifier really hit home at HHN as Art the Clown runs amok in his own haunted house stapling himself not only in HHN history but horror icon history alongside Freddy, Michael Myers and Pennywise.
Signs of ‘You Will Get Wet’ adorn the queueline for this maze and already that gets you excited about what’s to come (don’t worry there’s a dry path too). There’s a strange iron scent during the wet path that really makes you feel as though you’re being sprayed with blood, it’s clever and for something as simple as this the queueline perfectly reflected the popularity of the maze.
The goriest maze in HHN history it really is truly mind-blowing how dark they went with this one but it’s over-the-top, it’s crazy, it’s dark and it’s disgustingly fun.
2. El Artista: A Spanish Haunting
Immersion doesn’t get much better than this as we are catapulted back into 19th-Century Spain following the story of an artist who seeks inspiration inside a Spanish Manor that is haunted by spirits.
This maze oozes with class and quality, you really are inside the story and the world outside fails to exist, it’s staggering just how deep this maze throws you into the narrative and they’ve delivered in every department delivering this absolute gem of a scare maze to guests.
This is a maze that people will talking about many years down the line as one of HHN’s very best and it absolutely deserves to be.
Last years event we put an IP maze at the top of the list (check out our review of HHN33 HERE) surprisingly as its usually the independents who stand strong at HHN but I just couldn’t quite bring myself to knock this one into second place.
Introducing our favourite maze at HHN 34.
1. Five Nights at Freddy’s
Five Nights at Freddy’s went above and beyond what many expect of a HHN maze.
FNAF is this years most popular maze by quite some distance with queues nearly 3 hours long already this early into HHN season and you can see why.
Animatronic recreations throw you into the game franchise and movie and never relents, it’s truly a work of art and the amount of money that has gone into this maze must have made FNAF the most expensive maze to create at HHN and it really does show.
Jim Henson Creature Shop have longingly recreated these characters and they are truly incredible and when you’re guessing which jump scare is real or animatronic you know they’ve blended it close to perfection.
This maze deserves the top spot and for faithfulness to a franchise, immersion and genuine horror this will certainly take some beating in future HHN’s to come!
