by: -RoG-

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These killer clowns don't have cartoonishly large noses to pop. So how do you kill them?

Great... now somebody's gonna have to take their van to the local carwash to scrub off all that graffiti.

Yep, things sure are looking Halloweeny in Zombieville tonight.

Speaking of zombies, it's time to check out the House of 1000 Corpses maze.

Signs promoting all of Captain Spaulding's horrific attractions for the whole family to enjoy.

Looking forward to meeting him!

Enough clowns already!

Captain Spaulding admiring some of his maniac heroes.

Yes, they even had a display stand filled with Captain Spaulding's famous fried chicken. Gotta love the attention to detail.

Okay, maybe I'll come back for my chicken another time.

I don't remember giant, killer, neon octopus tentacles in the original film, so that's another reason why this maze is better.

Such a tragedy. A victim of a porcupine attack.

Part of Spaulding's tour showcases some of Ed Gein's handywork.

No wonder people hate going to the dentist.

Halloween jack-o-lanterns peeking in to watch you get slaughtered.

I know you're real, Mr. Scarecrow.

Somebody left a perfectly good severed head in the living room.

It's gonna be really hard getting those stains out of the sheets.

Run rabbit, run!

Crucifixes, chains, barbed wire and ribcages... sounds like the early stages of a monster-making experiment.

Hey I think I saw the rest of your family in Norway. They loved black metal too.

Hung by his tongue.

Haunted mazes need more bright skeletons, don't ya think?

What's up, Doc?

He's probably better off this way. If he had any brains to begin with, he could've easily slid his hands out of those restraints.

We're always happy to end our night by checking out the glorious
dancing cheese-fest that is Bill & Teds Excellent Halloween Adventure.

Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted "Theodore" Logan arrive... excellent!

The show was okay this year, but nowhere near as fun as previous years.
There was far too much focus on tired and dated Osama Bin Laden jokes. Here's hoping next year's show is better.

Here's one of my favorite photographs from the evening.
Not sure why, but I really loved how these glowing skull wands looked in the dark.

Last but not least, we concluded our evening on The Simpsons Ride.
Experiencing the world of Springfield in 3D never gets old.

And that about wraps it up for my extensive pictorial of the 2011 Eyegore Awards and Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood. I hope you guys enjoyed checking 'em out. If you live anywhere near Universal Studios, I can't recommend visiting Halloween Horror Nights enough. It's easily one of the best (if not the best) haunts you'll ever see and the mazes this year were some of the best I've seen in a while, so kudos to the staff there for putting together one hell of a good Halloween haunt. Can't wait to see what they come up with next year.

Now I leave you with Doc Mock's two-part coverage of the Eyegore Awards on the red carpet:

PART 1:

PART 2:

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