The Weeknd’s lifelong dream is about to return true — and encourage a scrumptious nightmare for followers.
The Weeknd’s 2020 album “After Hours” will function the theme to his very personal haunted home at Halloween Horror Nights theme parks in Florida and California, the Canadian singer-songwriter and Common Studios informed Leisure Weekly.
Followers of high-production fright have flocked to the yearly Halloween Horror Nights shows since they started in 1991. This would be the first time a haunted home within the manufacturing will probably be based mostly round an album.
For The Weeknd, whose authorized title is Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, the nightmarish improvement fulfills a dream. In spite of everything, “After Hours” was accompanied by a spine-chilling quick movie largely impressed by horror motion pictures.
“I at all times needed my very own Halloween Horror Nights haunted home, as Halloween has at all times been vital to my music, so this can be a complete dream come to life,” The Weeknd informed Leisure Weekly in a press release. “I really feel like my music movies have served as a launching pad for a collaboration like this, and I can not watch for folks to expertise this insanity!”
A few of the album’s songs will probably be performed in The Weeknd’s haunted homes and “reimagined as a horror film soundtrack,” Common stated in a press release.
“Blinding Lights” from the album has been licensed as platinum 10 occasions by the Recording Trade Affiliation of America, in response to Yahoo, and “Heartless” has gone platinum 3 times.
The haunted homes will welcome guests with a hypnotic greeting into The Weeknd’s unconscious, stated Halloween Horror Nights government producer John Murray, who described the challenge as a “fever dream” impressed by The Weeknd’s ardour for movies like “Jacob’s Ladder.”
“It’s not a retelling of the ‘After Hours’ album; it’s getting into the nightmares that have been the muse for his songs,” Murray informed EW.
Guests will see The Weeknd’s unconscious pour from his head to create the nightmarish imagery round them. A lifelike reproduction of the singer will twitch as guests cross — and reside performers will leap from the shadows.
“It could get fairly tactile,” Orlando’s senior present director Charles Grey informed EW.
The interactive expertise, “The Weeknd: After Hours,” will open Sept. 2 on the Common Orlando Resort and Sept. 8 at Common Studios Hollywood.
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