Another themed house displayed in the park that year was Scary Tales II, hosted in Toon Lagoon. This house featured scare actors dressed as Treaks and Foons, servants of the Caretaker with wide, grinning faces.

They would act out spooky retellings of famous stories such as the three little pigs and the headless horseman, all while frightening guests of all ages.

In addition to these popular and well-received houses, one stood out for other reasons. Fear Factor, a haunted house set up within the Thunder Falls Terrace restaurant in the Jurassic Park area, received some of the most negative feedback of any Halloween Horror Nights house before or since. This house tried to play on peoples' common fears--insects, spiders, worms, intestines, snakes, and rats all scurried about in the rooms and around guests.

Perhaps the most notorious scarezone made an appearance at Marvel Super Hero Island, where serial killer Cletus Kasady and the bloodthirsty symbiote Carnage had taken over. Imbued with the Caretaker's power, Carnage and his band of villains overthrew the city and wiped out the superheroes, leaving the city a lawless and dangerous place. The haunted house at this location was Maximum Carnage, a name shared by the recently released comic book story.

Following a similar plot of the comics, this haunted house told the story of Carnage's rise to power and the devastating loss of the heroes. Inside, guests would witness the gruesome remains of some of their favorite heroes. allegedly, this house contained a bloodied shield of Captain America and Wolverine impaled on a spike. There were even reports of a decapitated Spider-Man. 

Supposedly, Marvel was not too thrilled about fan favorite characters meeting such grisly ends, and feared that if younger audiences were to see their favorite superheroes dead inside, they would stop buying their comics. This was 2002 after all, a full decade before the Avengers craze would take the world by storm. Unfortunately, because of this dispute, Marvel has yet to make another appearance in any future Horror Nights instalments.

The final haunted house to be used during this event was Screamhouse. This house held the role of the icon house and featured the Caretaker himself. The queue entrance was located inside Seuss Landing and the house itself utilized one of the behind-the-scenes soundstages. Throughout the house, guests would be chased and tormented by zombies and other servants of the Caretaker.

In addition to these various haunted houses, there were a handful of independent scarezones scattered around the park. These areas included Port of Evil, the Caretaker's first scarezone that was set up around the entrance of Islands of Adventure, the Island of Evil souls which took over the Lost Continent area and featured an army of orcs and monsters, and Boo-Ville, a creepy overlay of the usually bright and bouncing Seuss Landing. Because Audrey Geisel, the widow of Dr. Seuss, prevented anything scary from bein placed in Seuss Landing, the scarezone was vacated of all scareactors, turning the area into a creepy ghost town. 

Lastly, the event also included a handful of delightfully spooky shows including the Fountain of Evil, Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure, Studio 666, and the Town Square of Tortured Souls. 

Despite the popularity of the annual Halloween Horror Nights event held at Universal, it has still suffered its fair share of controversy throughout the years. Because of the many changes the Halloween Horror Nights: Islands of Fear was forced to endure, it has held the reputation as one, if not the, most controversial in the event's history. Since then, the event has not been hosted in Islands of Adventure. However, despite the changes and controversy, the event was still a great success and thrilled guests from everywhere with its ominous and immersive offerings.