Hollywood Gothique

Non-profit haunted Houses, costume parties, and trick-or-treaty at churches, schools, and local community centers in Los Angeles and the surrounding area.

Date: October 31, 4-7pm
Location: Downtown Burbank, California
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Description: Downtown Burbank comes alive to the sounds of thousands of costumed kids and oodles of poodles decked to the K-9’s for Halloween. Parents are invited to bring their goblins and ghouls for an early evening of trick-or-treating. Downtown Burbank merchants provide free treats from store-to-store [...]

Dates: October 8 through 31
Location: 702 North Doheny Drive, West Hollywood
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Description: Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch offers a variety of kid-friendly activities. Hours are Sunday 9-7; Monday – Thursday 9-7; Friday – Saturday 9-8.
From the website:
Since 1986, our family has traveled from Oregon bringing the spirit of the farm and exuberant joy of [...]

Here at Hollywood Gothique, we occasionally receive requests to cover Halloween events that lie outside our usual domain (that is, Los Angeles and the surrounding Southland). This year, we finally took this advice, travelling up north to visit two haunts in the East Bay Area, near San Francisco: “The Candle Lighters Ghost House – Haunted [...]

Date: October 29, 12-5pm
Location: The Valley Mall, 10933 Valley Mall, El Monte, CA
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Description: The City of El Monte presents its second annual celebration of Dia De Los Muertos, the “Day of the Dead” festival that is becoming increasingly conflated with Halloween. The event includes alters, masks, rituals, and performances inspired by Dia [...]

Dates: Saturday, October 22, 12-3pm; Monday, October 31, 4-10pm
Location: Old Town Pasadena
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Description: Old Town invites families to come on down and enjoy some frightfully fun activities at their annual Halloween celebration. The free events takes place on two separate days, a week apart. On Day 1 – Saturday, October 22 – there will [...]

Dates: October 22 & 29, 5-9pm
Location: Golden Valley High School, 27051 Robert C. Lee Parkway, Santa Clarita, CA 91350
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Description: Much of the cast and crew of the now defunct Heritage Haunt at Heritage Junction have set up a new Halloween haunt this year. Expect to see the talking skeleton fortune teller, the [...]

Location: 5311 Acacia Avenue Garden Grove, CA 92845
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Date & Hours: Halloween night, 7pm to midnight
Price: The Murder Manor haunt is free but donations are encouraged.
Description: Every Halloween, this old Victorian estate transforms into Murder Manor, beckoning guests to travel once again down the haunted hallways, where horrific events from long ago return to life.

Dates & Hours:

Oct. 8,14,15,21,22,30 from 7pm-10pm
Oct. 28,29,31 7pm-11pm.
For the benefit of young and timid trick-or-treaters, there is a period from 6:30pm-7pm with no scares.

Location: 537 Palm Dr., Brea, CA 92821
Description: Haunt Worx Productions presents Dark Realms: An American Haunt. Although located in a private home, this Halloween event is more in the nature of a community [...]

Location: Westchester Recreation Park, 7000 W. Manchester, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Dates & Hours: October 28-31, 6-10pm
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Description: For over two decades, during the final days of October, Westchester Recreation Park transforms into a terrifying Halloween event. For 2011, the maze moves outdoors, leaving the indoor facilities behind and hopefully expanded to include even [...]

Location: The Way of the Shadow Martial Arts Academy 18727 Crenshaw Boulevard Torrance CA 90504
Dates: October 29-31
Hours: 7-10pm on Saturday and Sunday; 6-10pm on Monday, October 31 – the Halloween Fall Festival Block Party
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Description: The spirits of slaughtered ninja rest quietly most of the year, but come each Halloween, they return, seeking [...]

We never made it out to the Tustin Haunt in Tustin, CA, and now it seems we have have missed our chance. Too bad, it looked quite intriguing.
A ghost from the 2008 Tustin Haunt – the last time the haunt offered a walk-through maze
Located behind the Orange Curtain (i.e., in Organge County), this “semi-pro” attraction [...]

We made it out to the Terry Haunt only once, back in 2009, but it was quite an elaborate family affair – a former yard haunt that had expanded beyond the confines of its home, first moving to a recreation center and later (the year we attended) to an abandoned supermarket. The search for locations [...]

Location: The Beacon House, 1003 S. Beacon Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
Date & Hours: October 29, 7:30pm to midnight
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Description: This year, Beacon Street House offers another Halloween party at the Barlett Center. For over 20 years, the Beacon House Association of San Pedro produced a Halloween block party, providing a safe way [...]

The fourth and final installment of Hollywood Gothique’s 2010 Halloween Haunt Odyssey traverses Torrance, where we visit Revenge of the Ninja and the Haunted Shack. We had long dreamed of extending our annual tour of yard haunts and amateur Halloween attractions to the South Bay area of Los Angeles, and we are glad we finally made it this year; unfortunately, several that we hoped to see were not in operation this October. The Realm of Terror in Torrance, after skipping 2009, had promised to return for 2001; alas, the promise proved false. The Beacon Street House in San Pedro, which had offered a street fair and walk-through maze for the past few Halloweens, scaled back this year to a dance party, held on October 30 – the day before we made the trip down South. We certainly hope these events will be resurrected next Halloween. Despite their absence, our 2010 sojourn to the South Bay yielded tricks and treats a’plenty, and we anticipate a return visit next year. Click through for the details

Planning your Halloween Weekend? Wondering What to do with these final days of October? Looking for something new and different? With the opening of the Theatre 68 Haunted House this past Friday, all of Los Angeles’s professional Halloween haunts are in full swing, leaving the Halloween yard haunts to dominate the concluding weekend of October, along with various horror movie screenings. Here is a rundown of Halloween events and attractions opening around Los Angeles this weekend.

Title: Murder Manor
Location: 5311 Acacia Avenue, Garden Grove, CA 92845
Date: Halloween Night 7pm-midnight
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Description: Murder Manor is celebrating its 9th year running with two new rooms and more monsters than ever before! This old Victorian estate comes back to life on Halloween beckoning guests to travel once again down the haunting halls to [...]

Title: Revenge of the Ninja Halloween Haunt 2010
Location: The Way of the Shadow Martial Arts Academy, 18727 Crenshaw Boulevard, Torrance CA 90504
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Description: This community Halloween haunt promises a themed maze and a block party fall festival, with snack shack, carnival style games, prizes, drawings, and more. The back story is that every [...]

The Terry Haunt in Anaheim has been around in one form or another for over ten years. Once a Halloween yard haunt, it expanded beyond the confines of its home and turned into a community haunt a few years ago, benefiting the Loara Band Booster Club. After sitting out 2008 because of location problems, the [...]

This community Halloween haunt promises a themed maze and a block party fall festival, with snack shack, carnival style games, prizes, drawings, and more. The back story is that every October 31 the martial arts academy is haunted by spirits of Ninja slaughtered in a sneak attack, who rise from the dead to take revenge [...]

The Terry Haunt has had another location change: 1620 West Katella Avenue, Anaheim, CA 92804, where it is scheduled to run from October 23 through 31, 6-11pm nightly.
The Terry Haunt – a one-time yard haunt that expanded into the La Palma Recreation Center in Anaheim for 2007 – was cancelled last year when that location became unavailable. [...]

The Sacred Heart Church’s Youth Ministry presents “The Catacombs: A 3D Haunt” for two days in October, the 23rd and 24th. Haunting since 2004, this amateur Halloween event, set up in the Youth Center behind the church, is designed to provide fun for the local kids, while bringing in money and food donations. The proprietors promise “a [...]

The Beacon House Association of San Pedro offers a “Nightmare on Beacon Street,” an annual Community Halloween Haunt including a maze, a street fair, dancing, contests, food, and entertainment. Suitable for the whole family. This annual Halloween event has been produced by the for over twenty years, providing a safe way for the community to [...]

This Community Halloween Haunt is tentatively set to open at its new location on October 23 and run through October 31, from 6pm to 11pm. The Terry Haunt was cancelled last year when their old location became unavailable. Their unused theme – “Clownz” – will be revived in 2009.
Get more information on our Community Haunts [...]