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Universal is building “Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness” at both Halloween Horror Nights parks, opening August 28 in Orlando and September 3 in Hollywood.
Universal announced on July 29 that Halloween Horror Nights will run an all original haunted house built around Ozzy Osbourne’s solo career. The attraction is titled “Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness,” and it is going up at both parks. It opens August 28 at Universal Orlando Resort and September 3 at Universal Studios Hollywood.
What Universal has actually described
The two coasts are not walking the same route. Orlando sends guests through ancient ruins and dungeons before they board the Crazy Train into a realm ruled by the Prince of Darkness, weighted toward the heavier sound and imagery of Ozzy’s later work. Universal names album art from Diary of a Madman, Bark at the Moon, The Ultimate Sin and Black Rain as source material for that version.
Hollywood starts earlier and further back. That house opens in Birmingham, England, where John Michael Osbourne was born, then follows “Crazy Train” out of childhood and into the Osbourne Asylum, an environment pulled from Diary of a Madman. Different versions of Ozzy surface as the decades pass, including Madman Ozzy, Werewolf Ozzy and the Prince of Darkness himself, a name Universal dates to the 1970s.
John Murdy, executive producer of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, said the house draws on all 13 of Ozzy’s solo albums. Universal is describing the whole thing as a living horror movie spanning 45 years.
Plenty is still being held back. Mike Aiello, senior director of entertainment creative development at Universal Orlando Resort, said fans “will discover so many meaningful details, including a few Easter Eggs,” and then declined to say what any of them are. There is no scene list. No creature roster. No room count. No song placement confirmed past “Crazy Train.” Universal has not detailed how far the two versions diverge beyond the starting points. Sharon and Jack Osbourne, who worked with Universal on the house, said in a joint statement that Ozzy “loved anything that gave fans a new way to experience his music and the worlds he created.”
Birmingham, Bava, and a fake televangelist
The horror paperwork was filed decades ago. Black Sabbath took its name from Mario Bava’s 1963 anthology film), the Boris Karloff one, after Geezer Butler suggested it in 1969. Ozzy’s screen debut came in *Trick or Treat* in 1986, where he played Rev. Aaron Gilstrom, a televangelist who spends his airtime warning America about the moral rot inside heavy metal records. Casting the man himself as the preacher denouncing him is a joke that only works once. It worked.
Universal has been here before, too. In 2013 Universal Studios Hollywood built “Black Sabbath: 13 3D,” a maze based on the band’s darkest lyrics that opened September 20 of that year with Lucifer, a graveyard and pools of what the announcement cheerfully called radioactive water. Murdy referenced that earlier collaboration when discussing the new house.
Osbourne died on July 22, 2025 at 76, weeks after Black Sabbath’s final show in Birmingham. The house arrives a little more than a year later.
Where it lands on the 2026 lineup
In Orlando, Ozzy closes out the slate. It is the tenth and final house of HHN 35, joining “Jack & Oddfellow: Chaos & Control,” “Sinners,” “Stranger Things 5,” “Hellraiser,” “H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular!,” “Madlands: Caged Cannibals,” “Cybergoria,” “Invasion: Alien Abduction” and “Evil Dead Burn.” The event runs 48 select nights from August 28 through November 1 at Universal Studios Florida, marking 35 years under this year’s Infernal Carnival of Nightmares banner, with Jack the Clown and Dr. Oddfellow appearing together as allies for the first time.
Hollywood runs 42 select nights from September 3 through November 1, and its lineup is not a mirror of Orlando’s. Ozzy joins “Sinners,” “Stranger Things,” “Hellraiser,” “Evil Dead Burn” and the West Coast original “Dead, Deader, Deadest,” with more Hollywood houses still unannounced. “Madlands,” “Cybergoria,” “Invasion: Alien Abduction,” the Bloodengutz house and the Jack and Oddfellow icon house remain Orlando exclusives so far. Anyone planning a trip around a specific house should check which park is actually running it.
Tickets and packages for both events are on sale now, and Universal is releasing limited house merchandise including a T-shirt and an acrylic figure. Calendars, ticket tiers and the rest of the house-by-house breakdown live on the official Universal Orlando and Universal Studios Hollywood Halloween Horror Nights pages.
