[This story contains spoilers from Halloween Horror Nights 2026’s Stranger Things L.A. house and Orlando lagoon show.] When Universal Studios Hollywood debuted its Stranger Things house as part of the bicoastal Halloween Horror Nights 2018 event, it was already two years into the show’s pop-culture takeover. Season one had garnered buzz, but the Duffer Brothers-created series would ultimately cement itself — and its ensemble of young stars — into a massive global hit by season two, just in time for its HHN debut. “All of them were just little kids,” John Murdy, creative director of USH’s event, recalls of Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin,…
