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Last-Minute Halloween Suggestions for October 31, 2011
Boo-tiful Downtown Burbank Howl-o-ween
We know you’re out there, you prevaricators and procrastinators, wasting the precious days of October until Halloween Night rolls around, when suddenly you realize: This is it, the last chance to visit this year’s Halloween Theme Park Attractions, Halloween Haunted Houses & Hayrides, Halloween Yard Haunts, Community Halloween Haunts, Halloween Haunts for [...]
Halloween Yard Haunt Odyssey 2011: Mourning Rose Manor and Helizondo Haunt
After Burbank, Tarzana, and Woodland Hills, the next leg of Hollywood Gothique’s 2011 Halloween Yard Haunt Odyssey takes us from Los Angeles all the way to Simi Valley. The little bedroom community seems quiet and safe, but you never know what sort of hidden terror lies just beneath the placid surface – until now…
Halloween Yard Haunt Odyssey 2011: House at Haunted Hill, Haunt with No Name, Fallen Angel Cemetery
The House at Haunted Hill
The previous installment of our annual Halloween Yard Haunt Odyssey took us through two terrifying mazes in Burbank, The Backwoods Maze and Rotten Apple 907’s Space Oddessey. Moving on to Tarzana and Woodland Hills, we encounter a trio of Halloween Yard Haunts that are less interested in shocks and surprise than [...]
Halloween Yard Haunt Odyssey 2011: Rotten Apple 907 & Backwoods Maze
Our exploration of 2011’s Halloween Yard Haunts began last week with our trip to Boney Island (reviewed here). Next, we move on to Burbank for a pair of Amateur Halloween Events that display enough skill and imagination to rank along side professional Halloween Haunted Houses & Hayrides in Los Angeles.
The Backwoods Maze (1912 North Pepper [...]
Rango, with Gore Verbinski in person
Date: November 5 at 7:30pm
Location: The Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90403-1710
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Description: The American Cinematheque presents a screening of the motion-capture animated comedy, with the director in person to answer questions after the film.
Raiders of the Lost Ark at Egyptian Theatre
Date: November 20 at 7:30pm
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028-4605
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Description: The American Cinematheque invites you to join them for a beautiful new big screen digital presentation on the occasion of the 30th anniversary or RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981, Paramount, 115 min, Dir: Steven Spielberg). Archaeologist [...]
The Beast Within, Phillipe Mora & Paul Clemens in person
Date: November 11 at midnight
Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: The Cinefamily presents a screening of the 1980s horror film – which strives mightily to top THE HOWLING’s transformation effects – with the director and star on hand to answer questions after the film (schedules [...]
Ghost Ship and the Internet Troll Phenomenon: My Final Word (I hope)
Ghoulish piano player aboard Ghost Ship
I thought I had said everything I had to say about Ghost Ship, the new Halloween attraction in Newport Beach that completed its final voyage of the season last night, but I stumbled upon something in an apparently irrelevant article that seemed worth noting. In a Salon.com review of “Lulu,” [...]
Ghost Ship Update
The Captain of the Ghost Ship, seeking volunteers to join his crew
A final update for those considering a trip out to Newport Beach to enjoy the much maligned Ghost Ship:
As last we noted, the opening weekend reactions prompted Ten Thirty One Productions to promise a new and improved attraction during its second week of operation. Although [...]
Wicked Lit 2011: Production A Review
Dates: October 21 through November 5
Location: Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery, 2300 N. Marengo Avenue, Altadena, California
Wicked Lit’s innovative productions – based on the works of Poe, Lovecraft, Dickens, etc – fully immerse the audience in different times and locations, creating a unique brand of shuddery entertainment, quite distinct from other Halloween events in Los Angeles.
The Shining (1980)
Date: October 30 at 7:30pm
Location: ArcLight Sherman Oaks in the Sherman Oaks Galleria, 15301 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA
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Description: ArcLight Cinemas presents a Halloween screening of Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, about a family who take on a job as caretakers at a hotel closed for the winter season – [...]
Ghost Tour at Strathearn Park 2011 Review
Dates: October 14-16, 21-23, 28-30
The Ghost Tour at Stathearn Park brings to life the history of Simi Valley, told by dead souls from the past. The experience is not intended to be frightening, but it does hit the right mood for Halloween. People interested in history and/or in enjoying Halloween without being assaulted by costumed maniacs, will find this event to be a pleasant and educational diversion.
Psycho (1960)
Date: October 30 at 7:30pm
Location: ArcLight Beach Cities, 831 S. Nash Street, El Segundo, CA (between Sepulveda Blvd and Aviation Blvd)
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Description: ArcLight Cinemas presents director Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Robert Bloch’s novel, scripted by Joseph Stefano and starring Anthony Perkins as Norman, the nervous young man haunted by his homicidal mother. One [...]
1st Annual sCare Foundation Halloween Launch Benefit, Honoring Jamie Lee Curtis
Date: October 30
Hours:
6:30pm to 8:00pm: Red Carpet Arrivals
7:30pm to 1:00am Halloween Launch Benefit
Location: The Conga Room L.A. Live, 800 West Olympic Boulevard # 235, Los Angeles, CA 90015-1366
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Description: The sCare Foundation – a newly founded non-profit organization whose goal is to alleviate the hardships of poverty and homelessness facing North American youth [...]
The Exorcist at ArcLight Hollywood
Date: October 30 at 10pm
Location: Arclight Cinemas Hollywood, 6360 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
Description: The ArcLight Hollywood offers up director William Friedkin’s 1973 shocker, based on the book by William Peter Blatty, who won an Oscar for writing the screenplay. Decades later, this remains a great film – and far more subtle than audiences [...]
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) at Old Town Music Hall
[ October 28, 2011; 10:15 pm; ] Date: October 28-30
Location: The Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond Street, El Segundo, CA 90245
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Description: It’s an annual tradition: for Halloween, the Old Town Music Hall screens the silent 1925 version of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, starring Lon Chaney, with live musical accompaniment on the theatre’s Mighty Wurlitzer organ. The [...]
Poltergeist at Arclight Pasadena
Date: October 30 at 8:30pm
Location: ArcLight Pasadena, 336 E. Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA
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Description: ArcLight Cinemas presents a screening of the 1982 special effects opus, about a family whose daughter is dragged into another dimension by supernatural entities.
Rating: R
Running Time: 114 mins
Genre: Horror
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cast: Dominique Dunne, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O’Rourke, Beatrice [...]
Munsters, Go Home!
Date: October 30 at 11am
Location: The Billy Wilder Theatre at The Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90024
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Description: The Hammer Museum presents a family flick suitable for the Halloween season. The screening is free. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to [...]
The Phantom of the Opera (1925): Movie Review
Lon Chaney as Erik, the Phantom
This silent film adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s novel is one of the classics in the history of the horror genre, although it actually predates the widespread use of the term “horror film.” With its static camera style and sometimes slow pace, this old-fashioned gothic-mystery-romance about a deformed madman-musician, who haunts [...]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Date : November 6, 7 & 9
Location: The Bay Theatre, 340 Main Street Seal Beach, CA 90740
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Description: Steven Spielberg’s feel-good sci-fi film, about a man who leaves his family to go on a flying saucer ride, screens for three days: Sunday at 6pm, Monday at 8pm, and Wednesday at 8pm (no showing [...]
Theatre 68 Haunted House 2011: Review & Video
Dates: October 14-31
Hours: 8-11pm weeknights & Sundays; 8pm-midnight on Fridays & Saturdays
Theatre 68 doesn’t have the expanse of other Halloween haunts in Los Angeles, but it offers something distinctive that you would be hard pressed to find elsewhere: a more personal, intimate variety of horror, with audience and characters engaged up close and personal.
Boney Island 2011: Review & Video
Dates: October 21-31
Hours: 6-9pm Sunday-Thursday; 6-10pm Friday-Saturday
Location: 4602 Morse Avenue Sherman Oaks, CA 91432
After a three-year hiatus, Boney Island is back, and it’s even better than before! The Halloween yard haunt’s skeleton crew has morphed from a carnival into a magic show, but the familiar, whimsical aura still pervades the grounds, making this one of the best Los Angeles Halloween haunts for children.
Fallen Angel Cemetery 2011 Video
The caretaker at Fallen Angel Cemetery sent us this video, showcasing the souls of the damned who have been cast down to the nether regions. We don’t usually post videos from outside sources, but this one does a good job of conveying the atmosphere and look of this nifty little yard haunt. The only aspect [...]
