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Dates: December 1-30
Location: Halloween Town, 2921 W. Magnolia Boulevard, Burbank, CA 91505 (818) 848-3642
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Description: Halloween Town – Burbank’s excellent repository of all things ghostly and ghoulish – presents a month-long exhibition, featuring the ominous artwork of Rick Baker, Colin DeFrate, Chet Zar, Rob Zombie, and many others.
The Classic Monsters Group Art Show [...]

This installment of the annual Halloween Haunt Odyssey is a bit of a geographical jumble, exploring the paranormal activities lurking inside two amateur Halloween events separated by miles of freeways. Divergent in location they may be, but Pumkin Jack’s Haunted House and Rotten Apple 907’s Wilsley Manor share certain salient traits: both of them are [...]

As usual, Hollywood Gothique began its annual Halloween Haunt Odyssey a little early this year. This ritual trek began back in 2005, when we tried to hit as many Los Angeles yard haunts as possible on Halloween Night. However, as more and more of these amateur extravaganzas have appeared on our radar, October 31 no [...]

Date: October 27 at 5pm
Location: Victory Theatres, 3326 West Victory Boulevard, Burbank, CA 91505
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Description: This festival celebrates not B-movies but Z-Movies – or “Zeds.” You know the type – Robot Monster, with its alien in a gorilla suit. The goal is to support the passion of independent low-budget horror filmmakers, whether or [...]

Date: Halloween night, approximately 4-7pm
Location: Downtown Burbank
Description: Downtown Burbank offers its annual Halloween event for families with children and/or canines. Parents are invited to bring their goblins and ghouls for an early evening of trick-or-treating. Local merchants provide free treats from store-to-store. And pet owners are encouraged to bring along their favorite K-9 dressed in [...]

Location: Starlight Bowl, 1249 Lockheed View Drive, Burbank, CA 91504
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Description: The Burbank Park, Recreation and Community Services Department presents this Halloween event, featuring a frightening 15-minute tour of the Starlight Bowl turned into a haunted house. An adult must accompany children under 12 years old, and children under 6 years old will not be [...]

Hollywood Gothique previously posted an announcement regarding this year’s Rotten Apple 907 yard haunt, whose theme for Halloween 2012 will be Willsey Manor. However, we just received the poster art, along with a description of the back story for this year’s event.

This October, Rotten Apple 907 goes back to basic with a haunted house theme. The back story is that the Willsey Manor was was inherited by brothers William and Ramsley Thompson in the late 1800; unfortunately, one of the brothers suffered from homicidal tendencies, and his victims still roam the halls of the manor, where you will encounter them – if you dare.

Location: 1912 North Pepper Street Burbank, CA 91505
Description: Great news for fright fans eagerly anticipating the return of one of the best Amateur Halloween Events in Los Angeles: The Backwoods Maze Yard Haunt will haunt Burbank again this October, with an all-new theme. This year, the free walk-through attraction substitutes a post-apocalyptic wasteland for the [...]

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: [...]

Location: 907 N. California Street Burbank, CA 91505

Description: Rotten Apple – one of the best Halloween yard haunts in Los Angeles – returns for 2012 with another new theme: Willsey Manor. As always, admission is free, but donations will be accepted for charity; this year’s recipient is Family Promise. No word on what awaits us within this year’s haunt, but Rotten Apple 907 always presents an enjoyable variety of impressively scares. 2012 DATES: October 26-28, 31

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 Children, Halloween Parties [...]

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 Yard Haunt (1912 [...]

Date: October 31, 4-7pm
Location: Downtown Burbank, California
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Description: Downtown Burbank comes alive to the sounds of thousands of costumed kids and oodles of poodles decked to the K-9’s for Halloween. Parents are invited to bring their goblins and ghouls for an early evening of trick-or-treating. Downtown Burbank merchants provide free treats from store-to-store [...]