The theater was eventually closed, but it became the inspiration for Universal Studios Orlando to create a small-scale replica of the Palace and had models of all the victims of the Palace's curse including the Usher. And the ghost of the strangled usher was reported to have been spotted while these tragedies were happening. However he got caught in the sandbag drop line rope that was a leftover from the theater's time as an opera house and he was lifted into the air and slowly strangled to death.įrom then on strange and gruesome events began to happen in the theater as years went by including the severed finger in the hot dog, the rowdy teenagers that disappeared into the sewer, the mangled dolls and toys that overfilled the Lost and Found bin, the binge drinker that got electrocuted during a lightning storm, the rude man talking on his cell phone getting trapped in the roof access hallway, the bride-to-be found dead and drained of blood, and the rowdy man getting mauled by a werewolf. Upset, Browning had the patron kicked out of the theater and went to get his flashlight. The patron tossed the usher's flashlight and it ripped through the screen. The theater began to have a strange turn of events when in 1940, usher Julian Browning got into a fight with a rude movie patron who interrupted the presentation of The Phantom of the Opera. and was modified and turned into a movie theater that opened on October 19, 1922.

It was originally an opera house that was later bought by Universal's Carl Laemmle Jr. The Universal Palace Theater (sometimes called The Universal Plaza Theater) played a large part of the theme for Halloween Horror Nights: Ripped from the Silver Screen and was the main setting for Silver Screams. A picture of the interior of the Universal Palace Theater as seen on the Halloween Horror Nights: Ripped From the Silver Screen website.

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