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Location: AMC Universal CityWalk, 100 Universal City Plaza
Date: September 30 at midnight
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Description: Director Adam Greenmakes a personal appearance at the midnight showing of HATCHET II, which officially opens on October 1. A
Q&A session will follow the screening.

Location: Mann Chinese 6 Theatres in the Hollywood & Highland Complex, 6801 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
Dates: October 8-17
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Description: Hollywood’s oldest and biggest horror film festival returns for its tenth year, featuring a bloody barrel-full of gory goodies, including feature films and short subjects, often with filmmakers in attendance. There is also a [...]

Old Town Haunt in Pasadena opens this weekend, on Friday October 1. In this age of Halloween theme park attractions and Halloween haunted houses with multiple mazes, it has become somewhat rare to encounter an attraction that features but a single walk-through labyrinth. Fortunately, the underground catacombs provide a memorable scare experience, well worth a [...]

Titles: FRIGHT NIGHT, DON’T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT, CANDYMAN, BLOODY BIRTHDAY, PHANTASM, CEMETERY MAN
Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA
Date: October 30 at 7:30pm
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Description: Spend all night at the Aero Theatre’s fifth annual Horrorthon! Complete with between-film free food, giveaways, trailers, crazy shorts and surprises!
Coffee courtesy of Peet’s Coffee and [...]

[ October 27, 2010; 7:30 pm; ] Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
Date: October 27 at 7:30pm
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Description: 1984, Warner Bros., 92 min. Director Wes Craven created one of his most famous movie milestones with this supremely entertaining horror opus. Dead child-killer/dream demon Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) proves a formidable homicidal antihero but finds a more than [...]

Titles: TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE, TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE: THE MOVIE, DR. TERROR’S HOUSE OF HORRORS, BLACK SABBATH, TALES FROM THE HOOD and FROM A WHISPER TO A SCREAM
Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
Dates: October 06-08
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Description: Nothing invokes dread like tales about the dead! Join the American Cinematheque at [...]

Location: Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach, CA
Dates: October 29-31
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Description: Guests include: Joel Adams, Bruce Boxleitner, Max Brooks, Howard Chaykin, William Christensen, Thomas Jane, Louis Leterrier,Gary Lockwood, William Smith, Tim Sullivan, and R.C. Young. And as if that were not enough, the con will be promoting SAW 3D, [...]

Title: GhostbustersLocation: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CALink out: Click hereDescription: 70mm Print! GHOSTBUSTERS, 1984, Sony Repertory, 105 min. Dir. Ivan Reitman. Para-hacks Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd start Ghostbusters, a company trapping ghosts, spirits and poltergeists for money. Before long, the slightly inept Ghostbusters are called on to save the Big [...]

Title: Night of Bloody Horror at CinemathequeLocation: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CALink out: Click hereDescription: The American Cinematheque Blows Up the Internet with this evening of web tricks-and-treats from Roger Corman and Danny DeVito. Program includes horrifying high-production webisodes from FearNet.com, Danny DeVito’s favorite “splattercuts” from his horror-gore site TheBloodFactory.com and Roger Corman’s [...]

Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA
Date: October 8 at 7:30pm
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Description: CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND, 2002, Miramax, 115 min. Dir. George Clooney. At the height of his career as a television game show producer, Chuck Barris (a revelatory Sam Rockwell) finds himself being followed by a suspicious character who [...]

Title: Halloween & The FogLocation: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CADescription: HALLOWEEN, 1978, 91 min. Dir. John Carpenter. Jamie Lee Curtis (in her first major role) stars as the resilient Laurie, who’s aware that evil stalks the shady streets and living rooms of her small town, in the form of escaped psychopath Michael [...]

Title: The Monster SquadLocation: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CALink out: Click hereDescription: 987, Paramount, 82 min. Dir. Fred Dekker. In this cult classic, young kids form a club that is devoted to monsters, but soon get more than they bargained for when Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein’s Monster, the [...]

Title: The ChangelingLocation: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CALink out: Click hereDescription: 1980, Joel B. Michaels/Garth Drabinsky Productions, 109 min. Director Peter Medak’s superb ghost story has been recently rediscovered for what it is: one of the most chillingly effective portraits of the supernatural made in the past 30 years. George C. Scott [...]

Title: Donnie DarkoLocation: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CALink out: Click hereDescription: 2001, Exclusive Media, 113 min. Dir. Richard Kelly. October 2, 1988: just another ordinary day in teenage Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal)’s existence. Suddenly, an outrageous accident occurs, just missing claiming Donnie’s life. As Donnie begins to explore what it means to [...]

Title: Freaky FridayLocation: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CALink out: Click hereDescription: Family Matinee! Fundraising for Santa Monica/Malibu School District: FREAKY FRIDAY, 2003, Buena Vista Pictures, 97 min. An equally delightful Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan star in this spunky re-make about a mother-daughter mixed-up identity crisis! Curtis is Tess, an organized [...]

[ November 1, 2010 8:00 pm to November 3, 2010 8:00 pm. ] Location: Bay Theatre, 340 Main Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740
Dates: November 1 & 3
Description: Robert Aldrich’s classic horror of personality film, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, screens four days: Friday at 10:30pm, Saturday at 3pm, Monday at 8pm, and Wednesday at 8pm(no screenings on Sunday, October 31 or Tuesday, November 2).

[ October 25, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Location: Bay Theatre, 340 Main Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740
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Description: The adaptation of Washington Irving’s classic tale of the Headless Horseman, directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker, screens for four nights: Friday at 10:30pm, Sunday at 6pm, Monday at 8pm, and Wednesday at 8pm (no screenings on [...]

[ October 18, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Location: Bay Theatre, 340 Main Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740
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Description: The gruesome adaptation of the graphic novel, about an isolated Alaska town besieged by vampires, screens for four nights: Friday at 10:30pm, Sunday at 6pm, Monday at 8pm, and Wednesday at 8pm (no screenings on Saturday or Tuesday).
Dates: October 15, 17-18, 20

[ October 11, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Location: Bay Theatre, 340 Main Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740
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Description: The hysterical horror comedy with Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis, and Sigourney Weaver screens for four nights: Friday at 10:30pm, Sunday at 6pm, Monday at 8pm, and Wednesday at 8pm (no screenings on Saturday or Tuesday).
Dates: October 08, 10-11, 13

[ October 4, 2010; 8:00 pm; 8:00 pm; ] Location: Bay Theatre, 340 Main Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740
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Description: Richard Donner-directed action comedy screens for four nights:Friday at 10:30pm, Sunday at 6pm, Monday at 8pm, and Wednesday at 8pm (no screenings on Saturday or Tuesday).
Dates Ocober 1, 3-4, 6

With all the attention focused last week on opening of the Knotts Berry Farm Halloween Haunt and Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, it was easy to overlook the other big Los Angeles Halloween event that opened its coffin lid on Friday: the Halloween Harvest Festival at Pierce College, including the Fright Fair Screampark. [...]

October arrives this weekend, heralding the return of many Halloween attractions in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. One of these, which we encountered for the first time last year, is The Empty Grave in Anaheim. We are not quite sure what this walk-through haunt has in store for us this year, but we are [...]

Location: Halloween Adventure, 330 S La Cienega, Beverly Hills, Ca 90048
Date: October 3, 1-8pm
Description: St. Jude Children’s Hospital and Halloween Adventure Superstore present Ben Von Strawn’s Mad Monster Party, with haunted vendors, monster music, spooky artists, plus a Phantom Coaches Hearse Kar Show with special guest Barris Kustoms. Meet the makers of the Musnter Koach [...]