Orlando, FL — Universal is taking you to a remote Southwestern homestead overrun by aliens with a new original haunted house, “Invasion: Alien Abduction,” for Halloween Horror Nights 2026. The house completes Universal Orlando’s five-original-concept slate for the 35th-anniversary event and is the first original alien-abduction house in the event’s history.
From Universal: “Just Announced: INVASION: Alien Abduction. Make contact with horrors from worlds unknown in this haunted house, where a ship full of Grays have torn apart a remote homestead in search of fresh test subjects,” Universal said in its announcement on the @HorrorNightsORL social channels.
What is Invasion: Alien Abduction?
Guests enter the middle of an in-progress abduction. A ship of “Grays,” the large-eyed gray-skinned aliens of UFO folklore, has descended on a remote Southwestern homestead and is tearing the property apart, snatching the family and its livestock for experiments.
Senior show director Charles Gray told Nerdist the team deliberately set the house apart from the campy 1950s sci-fi tone the subject usually invites. “When you do the little gray men or the aliens, it can quickly get humorous. It can quickly get kitsche and cheesy,” Gray said. “In Invasion: Alien Abduction, we really wanted to tell a story of the horrific moment at night when they are coming to take you. And that’s frightening.” He described the result as “almost home invasion type of horror and fear.”…