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Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood is really pushing AMC’s The Walking Dead. No big secret there,* and who cares, as long as the results are good? This year’s back lot Terror Tram tour occasionally feels like a long commercial for Season 3 of The Walking Dead, but the Dead Inside maze is quite good.
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Well, what do you know – it seems there are a few celebrities left in Los Angeles after all. So far this season, the only celebrity sightings we posted were from the Orlando Flordia version of Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights. Now at last we have some celebrity photographs from Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios [...]

Date: October 13 at 1pm
Location: Universal Studios Backlot, Theater 2, 3900 Lankershim Boulevard, Universal City, CA 91608
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Description: The Scriptwriters Network, a non-profit educational organization for screenwriters in Los Angeles presents a horror writers panel on Saturday, October 13. The panel of creature and fear enthusiasts will chill your bones with tales of [...]

Photographs from the 2012 opening of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, which was preceded by the annual Eyegore Awards show. Hollywood Gothique skipped the Eyegores this year, much to our regret; it would have been great to see shock-rocker Alice Cooper hand an award to writer-director Guillermo Del Toro, whose 2001 effort The [...]

Last night, we probably got a bigger adrenalin rush from Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood than we have in many years. The technical trickery at Universal Studios Hollywood always  exceeds that of any other Halloween haunt in Los Angeles – that is a given – but last night’s 2012 debut featured something else: [...]

Like a banshee bursting from its tomb, Halloween Horror erupts onto the Southland tonight, Friday, September 21. When night falls, the two best haunted theme park events in the Los Angeles area open their cemetery gates: Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood unleashes a crypt-full of movie monsters on the all-too-willing victims swarming Universal City. Not to be outdone, the Knotts Berry Farm Halloween Haunt in Buena Park resurrects its ghoulish ghost town, offering even more menace and mayhem. Who will win this year’s round in the on-going grudge match between the two reigning Halloween theme park attractions? Los Angeles fright fans – that’s who!

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 week, Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood offered a preview of the ghouls and ghosts that will be plaguing fright fans in Los Angeles when the theme park launches its annual haunted attraction on September 21. Halloween Horror Nights 2012 features new mazes based on THE WALKING DEAD, SILENT HILL, LA LLARONA, THE [...]

Tickets for Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood are now on sale. Depending on the day of the event, you can save from $5 to $25 on General Admission tickets by ordering online: advance prices range from $41 to $66 for general admission; the price at the gate is $66. There is no advance [...]

Hollywood Gothique loves Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood; we really do. And yet… Along with all the advantages of a movie studio (excellent sets, lighting, makeup, and special effects) also comes the downside: the tendency to recycle familiar franchises. Case in point: since resurrecting its annual Halloween event back in 2006, Universal [...]

Universal Monsters Remix promises pulse-pounding horror, featuring classic movie monsters backed by electronic music.
For fans of Halloween in Los Angeles, there is no more amusing double-edged sword than the House of Horrors, a prominent feature of the annual Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood. A year-round walk-through attraction that takes visitors on a historic [...]

Location: Universal Studios, Hollywood 100 Universal City Plaza Univeral City, CA 91608
Dates: September 21-22, 28-29, October 5-7, 12-14, 18-21, 25-31.

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 [...]