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Creatures of the Corn at FrightFair
I always knew this gig would make me famous. A few seconds of my video of  the FrightFair Screampark show up in a segment that the local NBC news station recently ran a segment on the Pierce College Halloween Harvest Festival, which is where FrightFair takes place.
Hey, anything that throws a [...]

A Halloween event that is fun even before you reach the haunted mazes
Over the last decade, perhaps in response to competition from the big Halloween theme park attractions, there has been a trend among the smaller Halloween events in Los Angeles – a trend toward morphing these haunts into “destinations.” The proprietors do not want [...]

[ October 1, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:59 pm. ] Location: Pierce College, 20800 Victory Boulevard, Woodland Hills, CA
Date: October 1, 10am to midnight
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Description: This year, Ben Von Stawn presents his second annual Monster Party at the Halloween Harvest Festival and FrightFair Screampark. In addition to all the other Halloween hijinx provided at the fest, there will be live music, artists, and [...]

Harvest Fest Dates: September 23 to October 31
FrightFair Dates:  October 1-2, 6-9, 13-16, 18-23, 25-31
Location: Pierce College, 20800 Victory Boulevard, Woodland Hills, CA
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Description: One of the best Halloween events in Los Angeles returns for another season of frights and delights, with both the family-friendly Halloween Harvests Festival and the very scary FrightFair [...]

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. [...]

The two major theme parks launch their battle for Halloween supremacy.

The Halloween season begins in earnest tonight with the opening of the two major Halloween theme park attractions in or near Los Angeles: the Knotts Berry Farm Halloween Haunt in Buena Park and Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood. Also opening today is the Halloween Harvest Festival at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, which includes the Fright Fair Scream Park at night.

Title: Halloween Harvest Festival & Fright Fair Screampark
Location: Pierce College, 20800 Victory Blvd at Mason Avenue, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
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Description: The annual Halloween Harvest Festival and Fright Fair is back: the Harvest Fest offers family-friendly fun during daylight hours; Fright Fair serves up the shudders after dark. This year, in addition to [...]

You have idled away the Halloween season; your best of intentions have dwindled away to almost nothing, and now you find yourself on October 31 with too little time and too many haunts. You cannot get to all of them on Halloween night, and unfortunately most are not taking advantage of the weekend to stay open an extra day on November 1. What are you going to do? How can you prioritize? Well, it is your great good fortunate that you are reading this article, because we are about to enumerate 2009’s must-see Halloween events in Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. These are the best Halloween haunts, rides, and mazes – the ones you will regret missing if you do not make the extra effort necessary to enter their murky portals before the witching hour sounds tonight. Be bold and brave, dear traveller, and as you ride through the night, urged on by ghosts and goblins, do not despair of reaching your final destination before dawn, for remember: “the Dead travel fast….”

Back in the day, Fright Fair used to be one of our favorite Halloween events in Los Angeles; they stretched themselves a bit too thin when they expanded into the “Halloween Harvest Festival” for 2005 (reviewed here), and for a while we thought they had lost the old magic, but 2009 sees them back in fine [...]

The last time we visited the Halloween Harvest Festival, back in 2006, we were so profoundly disappointed that we took it off our list of must-see haunts; however, in 2008 we heard that their presentation was much improved. Unfortunately, the news came too late for us to check it out last year, but we moved the Harvest Fest [...]

Knotts Scary Farm officially launched Halloween Season 2009 last night, getting a jump on the competition. Not wanting to be left behind, four other Halloween haunts are opening today: Old Town Haunt in Pasadena, the Halloween Harvest Festival near Pierce College in Chatsworth, and Disneyland Halloween Time and The Empty Grave, both in Anaheim.

The Halloween Harvest Festival at Pierce College has announced its dates and hours of operation for the 2009 season. This annual October attraction used to be known as Fright Fair, back when it was just a large walk-through maze – one of the most intense in Los Angeles. Since 2005 the haunt has expanded into a month-long event, [...]

Long-time readers may recall that last October I posted a “Lament for Fright Fair,” one my my favorite Halloween haunts, which for various reasons was not in operation in 2004. Well, I am glad to announced that Fright Fair is returning for 2005.
The revived presentation goes under the slighltly lugubrious title of “Fright Fair Featuring [...]