Universal Studios Japan Celebrates Halloween With First R-Rated Attraction
Theme parks tend to do a little something extra for Halloween, and this year, Universal Studios Japan is doing even more extra for the occasion. With this year being the park’s 25th anniversary, Japanese attendees will get to experience two big horror-focused attractions. First is Zanzō (or Lights Out: Nightmare Isolation), where guests enter a facility that’s researching nightmares.
- ▪Theme parks tend to do a little something extra for Halloween, and this year, Universal Studios Japan is doing even more extra for the occasion.
- ▪With this year being the park’s 25th anniversary, Japanese attendees will get to experience two big horror-focused attractions.
- ▪First is Zanzō (or Lights Out: Nightmare Isolation), where guests enter a facility that’s researching nightmares.
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Theme parks tend to do a little something extra for Halloween, and this year, Universal Studios Japan is doing even more extra for the occasion. With this year being the park’s 25th anniversary, Japanese attendees will get to experience two big horror-focused attractions. First is Zanzō (or Lights Out: Nightmare Isolation), where guests enter a facility that’s researching nightmares. As they’re tasked with getting out of private rooms housing “unescapable situations” with others or on their own, attendees will be “slowly consumed by a fear [with] no end.” As the translated press preview notes, this is the USJ’s first R-18 attraction, and will require a signed waiver before going…
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