The Horror Make-Up Show is the sleeper attraction at Universal, and one of the only theme park comedy shows we can watch over and over again. Its humor and tongue-in-cheek style transcend the gruesome effects, and most folks (including preschoolers) take the blood and guts in stride. But it’s the exception that proves the rule, as this reader relates:

My 7- and 9-year-olds had no problem with Terminator but were scared by the Horror Make-Up Show (despite my telling them the guy really was not cutting anyone's arm off!). We ended up leaving before the show was over.

A good test is to take your child into the theater lobby between shows, where display cases filled with bloody props and monster masks act as a mini-museum of Universal horror history from The Hunchback of Notre Dame to Hellboy. If the static severed heads here send your kid into hysterics, the show itself may have you paying therapy bills for decades to come.

Look to the second story windows to the left of the theater marquee for a touching tribute to victims of the Pulse nightclub tragedy.

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