Ozzy Osbourne Haunted House Opens at Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights

Universal Orlando Resort is turning 45 years of Ozzy Osbourne's career into a walk-through haunted house, opening Friday, August 28, 2025 and running through November 1 as part of Halloween Horror Nights — the event's 35th anniversary season.

The attraction, titled "Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness," uses the singer's album covers as a creative jumping-off point and scores its rooms with songs spanning his solo catalogue: "Bark at the Moon," "Crazy Train," and "Mr. Tinkertrain" among them. Music inside the house draws from six solo albums — The Blizzard of Ozz (1980), Diary of a Madman (1981), Bark at the Moon (1983), No More Tears (1991), Scream (2010), and Ordinary Man (2020) (Billboard).

One set, built around "Crazy Train," pays homage to Osbourne's early life in Birmingham, England, and the train journeys he took to and from London as a young musician. Universal's official website invites visitors to "bow at the throne of the Prince of Darkness" in a house "inspired by the twisted mind of one of rock 'n' roll's greatest legends" (Universal Orlando).

Charles Gray, senior show director of entertainment creative development at Universal Orlando Resort, leads the creative team. Osbourne's son Jack and widow and manager Sharon Osbourne were closely involved throughout, inspecting and approving every element from scenic design to mask sculpts (Billboard). Sharon Osbourne told Entertainment Weekly that Ozzy would have "absolutely" loved the attraction, noting that he used to joke every day was Halloween in their house.

Universal had announced plans for a pair of Osbourne-themed haunted houses in late July (The Hollywood Reporter). The Orlando resort's online shop is already selling Ozzy Osbourne crewneck fleece merchandise tied to the event (Universal Orlando Shop).

Osbourne died on July 22, 2025, at age 76 — weeks after Black Sabbath's final concert on July 5 in his hometown of Birmingham. The haunted house opens a little over a month after his death.

For fans, the house offers something Osbourne's recordings always did: a deliberate blurring of the menacing and the theatrical, now rendered in physical space. Visitors walk through it rather than listening to it, but the ingredients — the imagery, the music, the Birmingham setting — are the same ones that shaped a career that spanned nearly five decades.