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SoulPancake.com (Rainn Wilson’s website) runs a series of short videos looking at different subcultures. Since it is now October, it only makes sense that SoulPancake would turns its camera lens upon home haunters. The six-minute vid features Jeff Schiefelbein, who made the transition from amateur haunting to professional with his Sinister Pointe Haunted Attraction. Also [...]

Can you survive the Empty Grave, Dark Realms & Sinister Pointe – all in one night?
Now that two-thirds of October is gone, Halloween fans in Los Angeles are probably running around like zombies with their heads cut off, wondering how they can get to all the great haunted house events around town in the days [...]

2011’s haunt was clever in concept but short on screams. Is 2012 better, badder, bolder? Yes!
Last Halloween, Hollywood Gothique made its first terrifying trek out to the Sinister Pointe Haunted Attraction in Brea. The haunt’s reputation for Halloween horror had lured us into the dreaded netherworld of Orange Country, where we were more than happy to [...]

Wondering what will be the best Halloween haunted house events in Los Angeles this year? Which should you eagerly anticipate like Dr. Markway swooning over Hill House in 1963’s THE HAUNTING? Which should you avoid like the Lutz family considering a return to Amityville? Hollywood Gothique acts as your real estate agent, taking you on a virtual tour of all the hot haunted properties that should be on your 2012 must-see list.

Halloween in Los Angeles began in earnest last week with the simultaneous opening of two major theme park events, the Knotts Berry Farm Halloween Haunt and Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood. The monstrous momentum continues this weekend with the early opening of several major professional Halloween events in Los Angeles and the surrounding [...]

The Sinister Pointe Haunted Attraction offers a special “Haunters Night” this Halloween. In addition to its regular days of operation, the Orange County Halloween attraction will open its demented doors on Tuesday, October 16, so that guests and monsters from other haunts will have an opportunity to enjoy the frightful delights on their day off.
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Southern California’s “only year-round haunt” once more opens its doors for Halloween, allowing foolish visitors to venture into a backwoods cabin infested by backwoods crazies and all manor of tortuous horror. The Sinister Pointe haunted attraction offers some innovative scares not seen anywhere else in the Southland, making it worth the trip for Los Angeles fright fans.
Location: 195 Arovista Circle Brea, CA 92821
Dates: September 27-29, October 11-14, 18-21, 25-28, 31.

Drum roll, please – or should that be a funeral dirge? Whatever soundtrack you choose to play in your mind or on your computer while reading this, it is time to bestow our annual accolades for the Best Los Angeles Halloween Events. As with last year, I will dispense with rigid categories in favor of [...]

The Sinister Pointe Halloween attraction erupted from the grave like a screaming banshee two years ago, scaring Orange Count residents as never before; at least, that’s what we heard, second-hand. In 2008, the haunt proprietor had earned a reputation for an officially licensed SAW maze; that reputation grew with the 2009 debut of Sinister Pointe, [...]

At Hollywood Gothique, we are all about Halloween in Los Angeles; nevertheless, we do make the trek out to Orange County to partake of the terrors on offer in that fearsome and mysterious land. This week, we checked out Sinister Pointe and Ghost Ship (the later of which, from the makers of the Los Angeles [...]

Dates: October 6-9, 13-16, 20-23, 26-31 (subject to change, so check)
Location: 195 Arovista Circle Brea, CA 92821
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Description: After going on hiatus in 2010, the highly regarded Sinister Pointe Haunted Attraction returns for another season of screams. This year, the highly regarded Orange County Halloween haunt promises a horrifying hybrid of THE HILLS [...]