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V/H/S/ in Long Beach
Date: November 9 at 11:30pm
Location: The Art Theatre of Long Beach, 2025 East Fourth, Street Long Beach, CA 90814 (562) 438-5434
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Description: This anthology horror movie recently played calendar houses around the country, while it was simultaneously available on VOD. Well, it’s no longer available on VOD, but it is back for [...]
Queen Mary Dark Harbor 2012 Review
The Queen Mary’s annual Halloween event sails into Long Beach. Can it capsize the competition?
When the Queen Mary rechristened its October attraction two years ago, the new Dark Harbor was intended to generate a titanic tidal wave of terror that would eventually rock the boats of rival theme park events, the Knotts Berry Farm Halloween [...]
17 Annual Historical Cemetery Tour
Date: October 27 – first tour starts at 9am; last tour starts at noon
Location: Long Beach Municipal Cemetery & Sunnyside Cemetery, 1095 E. Willow Avenue, Long Beach 90806
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Description: The Historical Society of Long Beach conducts its 17 annual living history tour at the city’s two oldest – and conveniently adjacent – cemeteries, [...]
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 [...]
The Queen Mary Dark Harbor 2012
The Queen Mary Dark Harbor returns for 2012. This year, the annual Halloween attraction exploits the venerable Queen Mary’s own haunted history, offering a frightful new maze and five new characters based on allegedly documented events. The new maze is Deadrise, in which the captain and the crew of a sunken WWII escort ship emerge from a watery grave to menace the living.
Location: THE QUEEN MARY 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, CA 90802
Dates: Oct. 5-7, 12-14, 18-21, 25-28, 31
Queen Mary is looking for a few dead men (and women)
If the late summer doldrums (not to mention the oppressive heat) have you wilting like a vampire exposed to sunlight, you can always cheer yourself with anticipation of all the upcoming Halloween events that will arrive in Los Angeles this fall. In fact, instead of simply waiting in line to be scared, you could turn [...]
16th Annual Historical Cemetery Tour in Long Beach
Date: October 29, from 9am to noon
Location: 1095 E. Willow Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90806
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Description: On Saturday, October 29, Long Beach’s two oldest cemeteries transform into a Living History tour that allows living tourists to stroll about listening to tales of the dead.
From the website:
Amidst old tombstones, tour participants gather [...]
RED STATE, plus Q&A with writer-director Kevin Smith
Date: October 27 at 7:30pm and 10pm
Location: Art Theatre of Long Beach, 2025 E. 4th Street, Long Beach, CA 90814
Description: The Long Beach Cinematheque welcomes in independent film-maker Kevin Smith for two special screenings of his new film RED STATE. The film is a satirical horror-thriller, set in Middle America, about a group of [...]
