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The Queen Mary, Haunted Hayride, Reign of Terror, and other must-see Halloween haunts open this weekend.
This is it! The Gates of Hell have opened! The tombs have been torn asunder! The graveyards have disgorged their ghosts, and the bats have flown the belfry! In short, all of the major Halloween events in Los Angeles have [...]

What will be this year’s Best Los Angeles Halloween Events? For those who like to plan ahead, Hollywood Gothique offers a series of 2012 Halloween Recommendations, beginning with a perusal of Halloween Theme Park Attractions, such as Halloween Horror Nights and Knotts Scary Farm. Which should you seek like Professor Challenger finding the Lost World? Which should you avoid like Dracula shunning sacred ground? To find out, come along with us…if you dare!

Last month, when we posted the dates for the Magic Mountain Fright Fest 2012, there were scant details available; weeks later, Six Flags has updated their website and issues a press release, telling fans of Halloween in Los Angeles what to expect this October. This year, the annual Fright Fest promises three new mazes, one [...]

Six Flags Magic Mountain in Los Angeles presents their annual Halloween Fright Fest on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays in October. The Six Flags Magic Mountain Fright Fest features half a dozen walk-through mazes of various intensity (some too intense for younger children, some not); a handful of scare zones; and several seasonal shows. Your ticket [...]

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 [...]

Dates: October 7-9, 14-16, 21-23, and 28-31
Six October seasons have passed since last we visited the Six Flags Magic Mountain Fright Fest, in the eldritch year of 2005 (review here). That is vast eons of time in the competitive netherworld of Halloween haunted houses and hayrides, and Six Flags has expanded its Fright Fest with more mazes, scare zones, and shows than ever before; we found this year’s event to be much the same as before in terms of its overall impact, but it is bigger and better than before.

Dates: October 7-9, 14-16, 21-23, and 28-31
The misty Magic Mountaintop beneath the Six Flags once again unfurls its hideous Halloween entertainment for trick-or-treaters both young and old. Hours are 10:30am to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays (except October 7, which closes at 10pm, and October 8 which closes at 11pm); 10:30am to 10:00pm on Sundays; and 10:30am to 10:00pm on Monday, October 31. There will be no Fright Fest on Monda, October 10, although the park will be open for daylight hours.

We certainly hope you followed our advice and got a jump on the Halloween season by attending the Knotts Berry Halloween Haunt, Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, and the Queen Mary Dark Harbor. If you failed to heed our sound suggestion, it may already be too late to catch up, because even more [...]