Halloween Horror Nights is the marquee event of the year at both Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood. I am somebody who loves theme parks, who has written about them professionally for a decade, and yet, until just recently, I had never attended the event.
I am not a serious horror fan the way a lot of people are, but I also don’t completely avoid the genre. I'm also not a massive Halloween fan, and don't love the way Halloween invades the summer at theme parks. I’m happy to take horror and Halloween when they come and leave them when they're gone. However, there is one particular part of horror, and of Halloween Horror Nights, that I have always had a problem with, and has been the single biggest reason I have actively avoided going in the past. I fucking hate jump scares.
