Brat Summer is so last season. All the “It”-girls, mean girls, brats, baddies, and Julias are already gearing up for Bat Autumn. Universal Studios has announced its newest haunted-house experience for its upcoming Halloween Horror Nights event on both coasts, and this one’s for all the green girls.
Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines will star an “all-female assemblage of classic Universal Monsters,” because women can be anything they put their minds to, including undead spooky ghoulies. If you’ve never experienced the pure theatrics that is Halloween Horror Nights, what you need to know is that Universal’s haunted houses are so much more than that. These things are set decorated down, they are mood pieces, and they have plots.
The plot of “Eternal Bloodlines” is as follows: Fans will encounter Saskia Van Helsing, a new fearless huntress and daughter of revered Abraham Van Helsing — who killed Count Dracula by driving a stake through his heart and destroying his reign of terror. Saskia now faces Dracula’s daughter, Countess Marya, who arose from the dead to seek revenge for her father and destroy the Van Helsing bloodline. With a mission to kill, Dracula’s daughter, from 1936’s Dracula’s Daughter , forms a deadly alliance with the She-Wolf, inspired by the 1946 film She-Wolf of London , and Anck-Su-Namun, from the 1932 film The Mummy — only to be intercepted by Saskia and an unlikely ally, the Bride of Frankenstein.
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