It’s time to pull back the curtain a bit.

The fundamental drive for doing a giant book like Horrors Untold or writing any of my countless articles covering Halloween Horror Nights Orlando over roughly the past decade is the same: being comprehensive and authoritative, providing as much thorough information on the given subject as possible, as succinctly as possible (yes, really), which allows you, the reader, to get a high-level overview within just a few minutes so that you can enjoy the haunted house or scare zone more than you otherwise would. (Just take a gander at our piece covering Fallout as a great for-instance – I run down the originating videogame source material, then quickly cover the television adaptation, before wrapping up with the specifics that Universal itself has provided on the maze. That’s a lot.)

All of which is why this current announcement, regarding WWE and the Wyatt Sicks, posed such a huge challenge to me.

Pulling that confessional curtain back even further, I have to admit to having a certain… incompatibility with professional wrestling. I tried, as an elementary-school student back in the ‘80s, to get into what was then the WWF, and then was completely inundated with it when I first moved into my college dorm in the late ‘90s, but at no time could I even feign the slightest interest in the subject – there is absolutely nothing about it that speaks to me on any level whatsoever. (If it does for you, all the more power to you – we should each be allowed to have our own guilty pleasures [and God knows I, in fact, have more than my fair share].)

But simply not covering it for the Horrors Untold Blog was never an option, and that meant I would need to be as equally comprehensive in my explainer as I was in all the others for HHN 34 – which, in turn, meant I needed to start with wrapping my arms around WWE as a basic subject, cobbling together a rudimentary framework so that I could then proceed to the particulars of Universal’s haunt. When did professional wrestling first begin? How many different shows does the WWE generate, and on what platforms, and for how many hours each week? And how do the different wrestlers approach creating their characters, and how does this change over the course of their careers, and why? (Yes, this is precisely the process my obsessive-compulsive brain demands I take; I quite literally cannot fathom any other way to interface with any given subject, even the ones that I don’t especially care for.)

This is where Nick, co-host of the delightful Fear and Beer podcast, entered the equation and saved my life.

It turns out that not only is Nick a lifelong wrestling fan, he also does this wonderful series of “homework” videos that take a similar approach to this year’s intellectual properties as we do here at Horrors Untold, breaking everything down for you, the viewer, in some pretty great detail. Asking him for an interview, in which I could just throw my annoying list of probably-way-too-detailed questions at him and otherwise pick his very knowledgeable brain, was a slam-dunk for me – and, luckily, for him, it helped prove to be good prepwork for his own forthcoming video.

And, for you, the excited attendee, you get a treasure trove of detailed information and insightful commentary, delivered in a witty, streamlined fashion.

A conversation with Fear and Beer about WWE and the Wyatt Sicks

Ever wonder what it’s like when two Horror Nights diehards, who just so happen to have their own platforms, pick up the phone and get into an in-depth nerdy conversation about one of their favorite subjects? That’s exactly what I got the chance to do with Fear and Beer‘s Nick (sorry that it is, indeed, just a phone call and not a polished podcast episode – but, then again, just chalk it up to even more of the roughspun authenticity).

We chatted on the night of Monday, July 28, just for the sake of context and transparency. I hope you find it just as enlightening – and enjoyable – as I did.

What does Universal have to say about The Horrors of the Wyatt Sicks at Halloween Horror Nights 2025?

Enough with the nerds already – what does Universal itself have to officially say about HHN 34’s upcoming house?

Universal promises that WWE Presents: The Horrors of the Wyatt Sicks will, indeed, focus on the Wyatt Sicks and their leader, Uncle Howdy – describing this “chilling crew of five” as “one of the most disturbing and disruptive groups in WWE history” – but that it will also honor “the legacy of Bray Wyatt.” 

The company went on to tease:

Horror fans brave enough to travel through the light of the lantern will find themselves transported into the maniacal minds of the Wyatt Sicks, where each member reigns supreme within their own horrific domains. There, Uncle Howdy, together with Ramblin’ Rabbit, Mercy the Buzzard, Abby the Witch, and Huskus the Pig, will be waiting to take bloody retribution on a world that has abandoned them. Along the way, guests will be stalked by the eerie presence of The Fiend, Bray’s sadistic alter ego, who looms within the shadows and beckons them to let him in.

WWE Presents: The Horrors of the Wyatt Sicks joins Five Nights at Freddy’s, two shows, an array of scare zones and street experiences, a collection of original haunted houses, Terrifier, Jason Universe, and Fallout at Halloween Horror Nights 34, which runs for 48 event nights, from August 29 through November 2.

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