All 8 Universal Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood 2025 Houses Ranked

From Five Nights At Freddy’s to Terrifier, Universal Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood 2025 offers a wide range of houses. Here they are, ranked.

From the moment the sun sets and the Hollywood sign fades into the night, Universal Studios Hollywood transforms into a world of pure terror for its specially ticketed event, Halloween Horror Nights. This year, the event boasted a spectacular lineup of eight haunted houses, each a unique and terrifying journey into the darkest corners of horror. From iconic cinematic legends like Five Nights At Freddy’s to twisted original creations like Scarecrow: Music by Slash, the 2025 event promised to deliver a new level of fear, and it certainly delivered.

Ranking these houses is a task I don’t take lightly. I’ve walked through each one, bracing for the next scare while meticulously taking in every detail. My ranking is based on a number of factors, including the originality and effectiveness of the scares, the immersive quality of the production and set design, the chilling sound and lighting effects, and the overall atmosphere that each house delivers.

Universal Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood 2025 Houses Ranked

While some houses stood out more than others, it’s important to note that this year’s collection was exceptionally strong, making even the lowest-ranked house a truly great experience. Here is my ranking of the haunted houses at Universal Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood 2025, from worst to best.

8. Poltergeist

While the Poltergeist house has its fair share of cool effects and jump scares, its biggest issue is all the unused space. What I mean by that is that there are several dark hallways where literally nothing happened. Now, perhaps we walked through the house during a shift change and somehow missed several jump scares, but I couldn’t help but think how much better it would be if scares lurked around some of those corners.

That said, the story aspect, as well as the production design and set, are pretty incredible in this house. It is still absolutely worth checking out.

7. Monstruos 3: The Ghosts of Latin America

Monstruos 3: The Ghosts of Latin America had the opposite problem as Poltergeist. This maze highlights three iconic ghosts – La Llorona, La Muelona, and La Siguanaba. Each of them has their own section of the maze, just as the previous two Monstruos homes have in the past. Some are better than others when it comes to the sets (looking at you La Llorona) but they all just have the same character popping out at you over and over again.

In terms of jump scares, this was one of the best houses, but it cannot help but feel repetitive the longer it goes on. I don’t want to spoil too much, but the La Llorona section could easily have stood on its own. There are some truly great scenes and effects being utilized in that part.

6. The Horrors of The Wyatt Sicks

I know absolutely nothing about WWE, so The Horrors of The Wyatt Sicks was not even remotely on my radar. After walking through it, however, I was quite impressed. There are a lot of great characters hiding within the house. While the story being told was a little hard to follow, mostly because there were so many cool things to look at and so many scareactors jumping out at guests, I really appreciated the originality of this one.

5. Jason Universe

I am going to be honest, Jason Voorhees has never really scared me. So much so that I gave up on his franchise after just watching two movies. So this house is another one I was not really looking forward to.

That said, I was overly impressed by it. There are so many Jasons inside that I lost count. But they are not there just to jump out at you and scare you; there are several kill scenes that play out in front of guests. Lots of beheadings and a lot of really great effects.

4. Fallout

While the Fallout house isn’t exactly scary, per se, it is a very cool house for those that are fans of the series (and the games) – which is me. I truly felt like I was stepping into the vault and then exploring the wastelands. I loved getting to see The Ghoul and so many other key scenes from the show. It is very much based on the series, but it is still a lot of fun for gamers.

3. Five Nights At Freddy’s

The same can be said for Five Nights At Freddy’s. Because so many of the “scares” are from animatronics, the house is not as terrifying as others. Freddy, Chica, and Foxy are insanely awesome to look at, but because they don’t have as much free will as scareactors, they need to mostly stay in one place. There are some scareactors in the house, and they offered up the best jumpscares for sure.

The set makes it feel like you are stepping right into the movie. The attention to detail is absolutely ridiculous, which will have FNAF fans everywhere thrilled. It is a very exciting and thrilling experience, just not super scary.

2. Terrifier

As someone who has never seen the Terrifier movies, and never plans to, I was a little anxious going into this house. I am not a big fan of clowns and even though Art is a lot of fun as a wandering character throughout the park, I was not thrilled to have him jump out at me in the maze. Thankfully, he really doesn’t do that much.

Art puts on more of a show, highlighting key scenes from the movies but also having fun with the guests walking through the house. I had heard horror stories of the smell, but honestly, it wasn’t nearly as terrible as I thought it would be.

1. Scarecrow: Music by Slash

I am totally shocked that Scarecrow: Music by Slash was my favorite of the houses this year. I do not particularly like scarecrows (all thanks to Harold from Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark), so I wasn’t exactly looking forward to it. But I honestly had a blast walking through this maze.

Not only is the production design great, but there were lots of scares that I never saw coming. The music is the perfect soundtrack for what you are experiencing (no surprise there), and the walkthrough itself is LONG. I kept wondering when it was going to end, but then I would turn the corner and have to pass by even more scarecrows. We did this one early in the night and I continued to think about it the rest of my time at Universal Halloween Horror Nights.

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