Halloween in August – Yes, we’re already looking forward to the holiday of the year. Universal Studios, the birthplace of horror icons such as Dracula, Frankenstein and The Creature From the Black Lagoon, will unleash Halloween Horror Nights, which will extend over seven nights beginning Friday the 13th of October and continue Oct. 14, 20-21, 27-28 and on Halloween, October 31.Universal will be holding zombie auditions Thursday, August 24, at Universal Studios Hollywood - Globe Theatre (located inside theme park), beginning at 10 a.m.

The Halloween Horror Nights experience is to be staged as a production by “The Director,” [pictured, © Universal] a mysterious and demented horror genre auteur who will convert Universal’s working studio back-lot and the theme park’s most popular rides and attractions into terrifyingly realistic settings for an intense and enveloping manifestation of mayhem. The back-lot experience, incorporating such Hollywood landmarks as Psycho House and the War of the Worlds disaster scene, will play a central role in “The Director’s Halloween Horror Nights production.

For more info on the zombie auditions and the general admission event, visit the official web destination. www.HalloweenHorrorNights.com

If you can’t make it to the event, you can still enjoy the experience vicariously through two new DVDs - Dracula, and Frankenstein - that Universal is releasing on September 26 to celebrate the 75-year anniversary of both seminal films.