John Murdy

Like, sorry, dude.

By the way, did you hear what John Murdy said? About? I guess the chick who actually plays Nikki, they asked him, well, is she going to come and play Nikki? All she has to do is call.

She can come and play Nikki if she wants to.

That'd be fucking crazy.

mean, yeah, there's different creative leads.

So like you have Michael Aiello and then John Murdy on the different coasts.

So it's they you can clearly see their artistry is very different.

And sometimes I think, you know, it works.

Read our lights-on walkthrough guide for a room-by-room tour with the jokes and deep-cut callbacks the house is built on.

John Murdy breaks down Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood Sinner's House from a flying vampire to a 1925 truck.

John Murdy, creative director of Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood, walked through the event's Sinner's Haunted House with the lights on and let out how his team turned one of the most decorated films in Oscar history into a maze full of firsts.

The house's showpiece recreates the film's big battle.

Murdy's team decided they needed a real stunt performer, so they brought in a flying company of the kind that rigs Peter Pan on Broadway, and hid a large winch system behind the sets he can jump off land right in front of you take a swipe at you and then fly up to disappear into the darkness said murty on the tour h h and orlando's desserts tie each treat to a house starting with an aussie chocolate Halloween Horror Nights 35 at Universal Orlando does not stop at the mazes.

And then we think, what are we going to do this year? What are we going to do differently?

Creative director John Murdy says one of the most important ingredients is something you can't put on a blueprint.

The element of surprise.

Darsha Phillips, NBC4 News.

I just, I have never been.

Well, John Murdy is the brains behind that operation for Horror Nights.

And literally when it's going now, it started really early.

Every year it starts earlier and earlier.

And one of the individuals that was part of this was Hollywood, basically on the Hollywood side.

So, it's John Murdy.

And he's Universal's longtime creative director and producer for the Halloween Horror Nights over there.

Great follow on X.

It's going to be here before we know it.

So as promised, we are going to head to Long Beach first, where we had Midsummer Scream and John Murdy's Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood panel, where he promised us 13 things to talk about.

Basically, 13 announcements of some sort, right? He admitted he messed up and only gave us 12.

So we have 12.

No, this is...

so exciting i like the territory even when like it's not the best idea even like a blumhouse territory i'm like whatever but it's just enjoyable because it's something we don't have and this is a character that fits perfectly and there's details about it that are even more exciting than just it being arthur clown on the terror tram

Yeah, so John Murdy did announce that there is a story to this, as you have to with the territory.

I mean, you usually have a host.

You know, for Orlando, we had articles to kind of base this stuff on for the teasers and whatnot.

But for Hollywood, we've got it from the man, the myth, the legend himself, John Murdy, Mr. Presenter of the Year.

He's got...

Gave us all the deets on some haunts at Midsummer Scream.

But that means that a lot of the interactions hopefully are going to be based on the actual scare and the actual performance and not necessarily the actors chatting and making noise, which isn't a bad thing, but it's something different from what we've gotten in the past, which is what I'm most excited for.

Also, this is a fun little tidbit for Midsommar Scream.

If you guys haven't seen any construction photos of it, John Murdy intentionally made the little facade uh things for the walkthroughs to appear as the blumhouse logo because we've had blumhouse terror tram however many times this year uh he intentionally faked everyone out knowing that everyone was going to jump onto a blumhouse when it was actually hardly climbed the whole time so kudos to you murty 3000 iq play there right that's that was a great i

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