Universal Studios Hollywood breathes life into Universal's most notorious celluloid creatures in Universal's House of Horrors, a new walk-through attraction that opened on April 2.

Featuring an award-winning line-up of the Studios' 80-year horror film legacy, Universal's House of Horrors reacquaints guests with such notorious creatures as Count Dracula, Nosferatu, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, the Phantom of the Opera, Psycho's Mother Bates, and the zombies of Dawn of the Dead and Land of the Dead. Guests will encounter all of these fearsome figures as they navigate the dark passages of a Gothic castle. The multi-sensory attraction will even use olfactory sensation to produce its effects: the castle has been infused with scents that capture the pungent odors of Egyptian tombs, musty antechambers and decaying life.

Universal's House of Horrors adventure begins at the entrance to the castle ruins in Soundstage 13. After being shepherded along the castle's drawbridge, guests will enter a corridor laden with dozens of recognizable authentic movie props and artifacts including such cinematic icons as the original corduroy blazer worn by Anthony Perkins in Psycho, the Hannibal Lector mask from Red Dragon, the police uniform worn by Roy Scheider in Jaws, the books and necklaces from Skeleton Key, the original Chucky doll and the Billy doll from Dead Silence.

Original horror film posters will also adorn the area as a further introduction to over 20 infamous horror characters that now permanently reside within the House of Horrors.

Guests will not have long to linger over these genre treasures. Attendants quickly usher them through a dark labyrinth leading into the themed areas that include Dracula's Portal, Nosferatu's rat-infested Catacombs, the Burial Crypt of The Bride of Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera's Lair, The Mummy's Tomb, Chucky's Good Guy Toy Factory, a Psycho Maze of Mirrors, the Land of the Dead Morgue, The Wolf Man's Forest, Dr. Frankenstein's Lab and the Dawn of the Dead Slaughter House.