We talk to John Murdy, the architect of Universal's Halloween Horror Nights, on transforming the emotional terror of the Weeknd's music into a horror attraction.
, is often a horror show — a desolate wasteland where sex, drugs and love are life-wrecking obsessions. The protagonist is regularly an addict, yearning for emotions as much as substances, and letting himself down as often as any of his partners. For as sleek as the music can be, the lyrics are claustrophobic, a peek into someone tortured equally by delusions and uncontrollable compulsions.
John Murdy gestures inside a maze inspired by the music of the Weeknd. The haunted house looks at nightlife at its most depraved. The Weeknd has successfully upsized his louche, 4 a.m. club bangers about sex, drugs and dissolution for the enormodomes befitting a global superstar. But nowhere is there more of a narrative than in the Weeknd haunt, which has the full name of “The Weeknd: After Hours Nightmare.” Luckily, Tesfaye’s collection of music videos for “After Hours,” and an accompanying short film, provided plenty of grisly fodder.
Considering guests are only in each room for a few seconds, the mazes are complex and require clockwork-like procession, in which actors are watching live camera feeds to prep their scares before setting up to do it all over again. “It’s a quick read,” Murdy says. “The saying we have here is that it’s a new show every 10 seconds. That’s kind of the length of time it takes to walk through one of the scenes, and you have to communicate plot primarily visually.
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