Orlando, Florida, and Universal City, California — Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood are joining forces with AMC’s The Walking Dead for their Halloween Horror Nights events. Visitors to both theme parks will be able to experience the horror of The Walking Dead in elaborately themed, haunted mazes.

Universal Studios’ Halloween creative teams are working with AMC and The Walking Dead team, to create an authentic experience that is true to the series. The haunted mazes on both coasts feature eerily authentic, elaborately designed, movie-quality sets that include some of the most iconic locations and scenes from the show. Mobs of undead walkers bring to “life” the hungry zombies from the show.

Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights events have a more than 20-year history of creating  entertaining, horrifying Halloween experiences that have been voted among the nation’s best. The events on each coast feature highly-themed, disturbingly real, haunted mazes based on everything from film to nightmares, and streets filled with hundreds of specially trained “scareactors.”

“The collaboration with Universal Studios’ creative teams is a fantastic cross-promotional opportunity and a great way to capture the spirit of the series, which makes its season three debut on AMC this October,” said Linda Schupack, AMC’s Executive Vice President of Marketing.

The Golden Globe-nominated, Emmy Award-winning series The Walking Dead is based on the comic book written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics. The series tells the story of the months and years that follow after a zombie apocalypse. It follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, who travel in search of a safe and secure home.