<em>News :</em> ALICE COOPER AWARDS GUILLERMO DEL TORO AN EYEGORE, UNVEILS NEW HAUNTED MAZE AT UNIVERSAL HOLLYWOOD

ALICE MADE A QUICK STOP IN LOS ANGELES FOR UNIVERSAL HOLLYWOOD'S 2012 EYEGORE AWARDS, WHERE HE PRESENTED DIRECTOR GUILLERMO DEL TORO WITH THE EVENINGS FINAL EYEGORE.

THE ANNUAL AWARD SHOW IS THE PRECURSOR TO THE UNVEILING OF UNIVERSAL HOLLYWOOD'S "HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS" HAUNTED MAZE ATTRACTIONS. AMONG THE NEW MAZES THIS YEAR IS ALICE'S OWN MAZE CALLED "ALICE COOPER GOES TO HELL 3D". THIS MAZE WAS DESIGNED BY UNIVERSAL'S JOHN MURDY, THE SAME TWISTED MIND BEHIND ALICE'S 2011 HAUNTED MAZE.

THIS YEAR'S EYEGORE AWARDS SHOW, HOSTED BY MCKENZIE WESTMORE OF SYFY'S HIT SHOW FACE OFF, HONORED SEVERAL FIXTURES IN THE HORROR GENRE. FIRST TO BE AWARDED WAS CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY FOR HIS ROLE IN "HOUSE OF WAX", AND HIS UPCOMING FILM "A HAUNTING IN GEORGIA".

UP NEXT, WESTMORE CALLED ON MOTHER DAUGHTER HORROR DUO ANGELICA MARIA AND ANGELICA VALE FOR THEIR WORK ON "MUJERES ASESINAS" AND PRESENTED THEM WITH TWIN EYEGORES.

MACKENZIE TURNED HER ATTENTION TO THE TELEVISION SERIES "GRIMM", WHERE SHE AWARDED THE SHOW THEIR EYEGORE, WHICH WAS ACCEPTED BY ACTORS BITSIE TULLOCH AND SILAS WEIR MITCHELL.

OF COURSE, THE FINAL AWARD PRESENTATION WAS LEFT TO ALICE COOPER. OF GUILLERMO, ALICE SAID "GUILLERMO DEL TORO... JUST THE NAME CONJURES UP FANTASTIC IMAGES OF VAMPIRES AND DEAMONS, LABRYNTHS AND LAIRS, AND ALL MANNER OF THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT." AFTER A SHORT VIDEO CLIP HE ADDED, "THAT WAS A WHOLE BUNCH OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES."

GUILLERMO JOINED ALICE AND MACKENZIE ON STAGE FOR A SHORT ACCEPTANCE SPEECH, AND A FEW MOMENTS LATER THE ROOM GREW ANXIOUS ABOUT THE UNEXPLORED MAZES THAT WAITED JUST OUTSIDE THE GLOBE THEATRE ON THE UNIVERSAL LOT.

IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE AWARDS SHOW, ALICE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST WHO MADE THEIR WAY THRU THE "GOES TO HELL" MAZE. BEING A BIT OF A SCARY GUY HIMSELF, IT'S SURPRISING THAT EVEN ALICE WAS CAUGHT OFF GUARD AT TIMES. BUT AFTER ALL, ALICE IS AT HOME AMONG DECAPITATED BODIES AND CREEPY MUSIC. "LOOKS LIKE MY ROAD CREW!" ALICE SAID AFTER HIS FIRST PASS THRU THE MAZE. ALICE ENJOYED THE MAZE SO MUCH THAT HE WENT THRU 3 TIMES, EACH TIME MINGLING WITH THE PARK VISITORS AND SCARING A FEW CHILDREN HIMSELF.

MURDY AND HIS UNIVERSAL HOLLYWOOD TEAM DELIVERED ON THEIR PROMISE TO ALICE TO STEP THIS YEARS MAZE UP A NOTCH. THIS WAS NO EASY FEAT, AS JOHN MURDY'S CREATION FOR ALICE LAST YEAR WAS ONE OF UNIVERSAL HOLLYWOOD'S MOST POPULAR ATTRACTIONS OF THE SEASON, CLOCKING ALMOST A MILLION VISITORS. BUT LET'S POINT OUT SOMETHING YOU MAY NOT HAVE NOTICED ABOUT JOHN MURDY... THIS IS A MAN WHO'S LAST NAME IS DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO MURDER. THIS IS A MAN WHO IS ABLE TO GET DEEP INTO ALICE'S DEMENTED PSYCHE AND CREATE ATTRACTIONS THAT NOT ONLY SCARE PEOPLE, BUT ALSO APPEAL TO TRUE ALICE FANS.

THEY ARE ALREADY TALKING ABOUT NEXT HALLOWEEN...