Hollywood Gothique

Halloween events in and around Los Angeles, plus the occasional trip out of town. Haunted Houses, Walk-Through Mazes, Theme Parks, Yard Haunts, Garage Haunts. Locations, names, dates, and more

Delusion: The Blood Rite has extended its run once again, adding two more weekends: November 1 though December 2; and December 7 through 9. The Haunted Play, original scheduled to run through the the first weekend of November, has previously extended into the middle of the month, and now reaches into December. Hours for the [...]

The downtown Halloween haunt – which made its debut this October – offered a scream-filled final weekend.
Sometimes we say goodbye too soon. Only last Saturday, November 3, we were bidding farewell to the Halloween season with Hollywood Gothique’s 2012 Halloween Haunt Awards, listing the most memorable achievements that delighted our senses during the preceding six [...]

NOTE: Updated below.
Cue the scary organ music, for it is time to announce Hollywood Gothique’s annual Halloween Haunt Awards, recognizing the finest achievements for 2012. Which haunts had the spookiest  ghosts, the scariest monsters, the most disgusting gore, the most atmospheric architecture, or the most amazing special effects? Read on to find out – if [...]

The final installment of Hollywood Gothique’s 2012 Halloween Haunt Odyssey finds us retracing our steps over previously explored territory, as we head out on October 31, seeking those ephemeral haunts open only on All Hallow’s Eve. From Glendale to Sherman Oaks to Northridge and finally back to Woodland Hills (again!), we wander through the ghost-infested [...]

Date: November 1, 7-10pm
Location: 13420 Wentworth Street, Los Angeles, California, 91331
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Description: This Halloween walk-thru diorama actually opened on Halloween, but it flew beneath our radar. Fortunately, it returns for an encore engagement on November 1. The Fall of the Pumpkin People is a self-described “experiment in storytelling,” a walk through a back [...]

Date: November 1, 6-8pm
Location: 4602 Morse Avenue Sherman Oaks, CA 91432
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Description: From Boney Island’s Facebook page comes this message:
Due to the large crowds at BONEY ISLAND some were not able to see it. As an encore presentation, BONEY ISLAND will be open TONIGHT (Nov. 1) for a limited time. This WILL be [...]

For the record, we want to note that Hell Break L.A. (which we reviewed fairly favorably here) was apparently plagued by last-minute, unannounced closures – at least according to comments on their Facebook page, which is filled with frustrated rants from customers who pre-purchased tickets and arrived at the location, only to find it closed [...]

It’s the morning after Halloween – but that’s no reason to be mourning. With October 31 having fallen in the middle of the week, a handful of Halloween events in Los Angeles are remaining open through the weekend. So if you feel yourself going through withdrawal pains, consider the following options. (Be careful: some of [...]

Part 3 of Hollywood Gothique’s 2012 Halloween Haunt Odyssey returns to a land we visit every October: Woodland Hills, with stops in Tarzana and Encino along the way. Since we have reviewed most of these yard haunts before, we will not delve deeply into details here; instead we will note what new tricks and treats [...]

Hollywood Gothique lists a handful of notable Halloween Festivals and Community Haunts, but there are many more taking place around Los Angeles – too many for us to list, especially so because these events are intended to serve their local neighborhoods, not to attract hardcore horror connoisseurs from miles away. Nevertheless, if you are looking for [...]

Well, the big day has finally arrived! Ironically, Halloween is the one seasonal holiday in which the actual holiday is a trifle anti-climactic compared to the rest of the season. After several frantic weeks of visiting Halloween Theme Park Attractions and Halloween Haunted Houses and Hayrides, October 31 can be a relatively serene evening of [...]

One of the great agonies every October is that  many amateur Halloween events operate only on the last day of the month, making it truly impossible to get to all of them. A few open a day or two earlier, but often are not running at full-scale until Halloween Night; attempts to visit them beforehand [...]

This installment of the annual Halloween Haunt Odyssey is a bit of a geographical jumble, exploring the paranormal activities lurking inside two amateur Halloween events separated by miles of freeways. Divergent in location they may be, but Pumkin Jack’s Haunted House and Rotten Apple 907’s Wilsley Manor share certain salient traits: both of them are [...]