Halloween Horror Nights 2025 Mazes Ranked! (HHN34)

HHN 34

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

Fallout Scare Maze

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.

We got very lucky with this one as it had gone down just before we arrived at the queue and it was a 5-minute walk-on meaning we didn’t need to use our express passes for this particular maze and to be fair I think it was for the best, I don’t think I’d have been too happy to have waited a long time for this particular maze.

9. The Horrors of The Wyatt Sicks

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.

The maze felt very disjointed at times and seemed to stray away from the main lore of the Wyatt Family if albeit just to extend certain scenes but even as a fan of the Wyatts I was sadly very disappointed with this maze despite it looking quite cool throughout, it just didn’t hit home for me in the slightest.

8. Dolls: Let’s Play Dead

Dolls Lets 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.

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.

What lacked within this maze was a sense of originality, each room felt very similar and whilst it was fun to walk through it just didn’t hit home for me and felt very generic and quite poorly executed in terms of scare factory but in terms of walking around a creepy dolls house whilst shrunken down, I thought it was OKAY.

7. Grave of Flesh

Grave of Flesh HHN

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.

The masks within Grave of Flesh really are incredible and I love the scene walkthrough where it feels as though you’re being buried as you venture deeper and deeper below ground, that was so clever as the set pieces got larger and larger around you.

All in all it was a real shame overall 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

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. Hatchet and Chains: Demon Bounty Hunters

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.

There were some great jump scares in this one and it hit home in terms of both a solid walkthrough and a jumpy maze.

4. Jason Universe

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.

Jason Universe was such a long maze and you really got the full immersive walkthrough for this one, this is a special addition to this years line-up and is well worth a visit.

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. Terrifier

Terrifier HHN

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 queue line perfectly reflected the popularity of the maze.

Terrifier hit home in all departments, it really was an assault on the senses and I absolutely loved every waking second of it.

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. Five Nights at Freddy’s

FNAF Scare Maze

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 puppet is real or animatronic you know they’ve blended it close to perfection.

Now having FNAF at number 2 is a debatable one for me even now whilst typing this because as a whole the maze isn’t scary in the slightest. In terms of jump scares or even scare factor it’s rock bottom out of the entire HHN lineup for me but you’re completely inside the game and I haven’t experienced anything like that before anywhere, it’s a very special maze and completely justifies the absolutely insane queues it has been getting so far.

This maze would deserve the top spot for faithfulness to a franchise, immersion and genuine horror but there’s one particular maze that went above and beyond and blew the entire line-up out of the water for me.

1. El Artista: A Spanish Haunting

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.

From the beautiful mansion to the jaw dropping garden scene this is one of the most beautifully designed mazes I’ve ever seen. You are walking through living, breathing art and it’s just absolute perfection, it truly is.

The designers went above and beyond to throw you into the story and it’s one scare maze that I just didn’t want to end, I was hoping for more rooms to explore and more inner secrets of the mansion to be unveiled before me. Truly outstanding.

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.

 
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