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2012 Halloween Screening: The Creature from the Black Lagoon in Digital 3-D
The American Cinematheque presents a digital 3-D screening of the 1954 monster movie – the last of the classic movie monsters from Universal Studios Hollywood. Location: The Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue Santa Monica. Date: 2012-Halloween Night at 7:30pm
2012 Halloween Horror Screenings: Ghostusters in 70mm
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
Description: The American Cinematheque offers two screenings of this 1984 laugh fest – which also features fine special effects and awesome apparitions, on par with the best that serious horror films could offer at the time.
Parapsychologists Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd start Ghostbusters, a company [...]
2012 Halloween Horror Screenings: The Selling with guests in person
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
Description: The American Cinematheque presents a screening of this 2011 comedy horror film. Too-nice real estate agent Richard Scarry (Gabriel Diani) talks people out of buying houses they can’t afford. When his business partner Dave Ross (Jonathan Klein) schemes a plan to flip a decrepit house for [...]
LOGAN’S RUN at Arclight Hollywood
The Arclight Cinemas Hollywood screens a brand new digital restoration of the 1976 science fiction film, set in a future time when no one is allowed to live past 30. Date: September 8 at 8pm
THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM in Cinerama
Location: Arclight Cinemas Hollywood, 6360 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Description: The 1962 bio-pic, which features fantasy sequences depicting the work of the brothers who wrote down many of the world’s most famous fairy tales, screens in the Cinerama process, which uses three projects to create the widest screen image ever achieved.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in Cinerama
Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction masterpiece screens as part of the Arclight Cinemas’ Cinerama festival, which also includes THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM, among many other titles. Date: September 28 at 11pm
Mourning Rose Manor 2012: Halloween Yard Haunt
Location: 5250 Aurelia Street, Simi Valley
Description: The Simi Valley yard haunt – literally a decorated front yard, filled with skeletons, ghosts, and spiders – returns for Halloween 2012. Unlike most amateur attractions, this one opens the crypt early, unleashing its ghouls throughout the month of October. There are no real scares here: the dangling mechanical [...]
October Shadows V
Dates: October 13-14, 20-21, 27-28, November 3
Hours: 10am to 3pm.
Location: Mountain View Mausoleum, 2300 North Marengo Avenue Altadena, CA 91001
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Description: Creature Features presents the fifth installment of its annual celebration of Halloween in art. October Shadows launches with a private reception on Saturday, October 6, then opens for regular business the next [...]
The House at Haunted Hill 2012
One of the best Halloween yard haunts in Los Angeles returns for another season of spookery. The House at Haunted Hill features elaborate mechanical and lighting effects synchronized to recorded music and narration, telling the tragic tale of a Hollywood starlet who had the misfortune to marry a man whose late wife apparently never read the part of the wedding vow that stats “till death do us part.”
Spider-Lights 2012: Halloween Yard Haunt
Location: 806 Catalina Street, Burbank, CA 91505
Description: The Spider-Lights at Catalina return for another Halloween of tricks and treats. More colorful than most yard haunts, with many lighted decorations in the shape of – you guessed it! – spiders, this is a perfect place for families with young children to enjoy Halloween in Los Angeles: [...]
Halloween 2012 Tidbits: haunted shacks and cemeteries but no Nightmare at Scareview
If it sometimes seems that front page updates have slowed to the pace of a crawling corpse laboriously dragging itself out of the grave, rest assured that we are updating Hollywood Gothique – it’s just that often we are updating our permanent lists of the various Halloween Haunts in Los Angeles: Halloween Theme Park Attractions; Halloween [...]
Coffin Creek 2012
This Halloween haunt in Corona returns for another season of scares, offering five haunted attractions: one hayride, two guided tours, and two unaccompanied walk-throughs. Hollywood Gothique has yet to make the long sojourn to Riverside County, but Coffin Creek’s reputation is sorely tempting us this year.
Dates: October 5-6, 12-13, 19-21, 25-28, 30-31.
Forest of Mirrors 2012: Halloween Yard Haunt
The miraculous mirrored attraction opens its gates in Woodland Hills once more, on October 31, 2012, from 6:00pm to midnight. The Forest of Mirrors features a cemetery that seems endlessly extended thanks to a clever illusion: the forking pathways lead to arches, but the arches actually contain mirrors carefully placed so that you do not see your own reflection until you are almost ready to step through the looking glass.
