SHE STARTED HER CAREER AT Universal’s theme park performing as the Bride of Frankenstein – except she had to watch her first horror film for research, as she wasn’t a fan of the genre at the time. Now Lora Sauls is the queen of Halloween, working as one of the creative team at America’s number one spooky season attraction, Halloween Horror Nights, which returns this month for its longest ever run of 48 nights at Universal Orlando.
During its 32 years of building after-hours screen-replica haunted this year marks a first, Sauls tells Red Alert: “Never in our history have we been seven weeks before the film opens. That’s a huge distance.”