For its 13th year, the event's theme was based on the evil mind of the Director, a film creator who often did short snuff films in which his victims died on camera. The houses were all "sets", and the Director himself hosted his own stage show, Infestation, where guests were invited up on stage to live out their fears of creatures. The event's commercials featured a cover of the song You Oughta Be In Pictures by the Boswell Sisters. As with Halloween Horror Nights: Islands of Fear, the scarezones were featured in each of Islands of Adventure-themed lands. Only Boo-Ville and the Port of Evil returned for 2003's event. The Port of Evil served as a gathering point for guests to enter into the Director's world. Immortal Island, which took over the Lost Continent, was the battleground of the Ic