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.

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 [...]

Looking for some new – or at least, lesser known – yard haunts in Los Angeles? Then you should check out this list of “Do It Yourself” haunts at deathbombarc.com. Somebody has really done his homework here: Along with well-known ones such as the Backwoods Maze and Boney Island, this list contains several obscure amateur attractions and [...]

Date & Hours: October 31, 5-8pm
Location: Westchester Recreation Center, 7000 W. Manchester, Los Angeles, CA 90045
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Description: The Westchester Recreation Center offers kid-safe Halloween fun: trick-or-treat village; jumper; arts and crafts; story time; face painting; popcorn – all for free!
Note: For those who do not live near the Westchester Recreation Center, www.laparks.org has [...]

Dates & Hours: October 26-28 & 31, 7-11pm
Location: Westchester Recreation Center, 7000 W. Manchester, Los Angeles, CA 90045
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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 moved outdoors, leaving the indoor facilities behind and hopefully expanding to [...]

Fear not, O Faithful Fright Fans. Los Angeles has many more tricks and treats in store for you during the final days of Halloween.
The end of October draws nigh; the dwindling days race by like sands in an hour glass, all too fast. Hopefully, you have attended most or all of the major Halloween Theme [...]

The final half of October has arrived, and most of the major professional Halloween events in Los Angeles have already opened. Fortunately, more cemeteries are opening their gates on Friday, October 19, unleashing ghosts and ghouls upon the world, in the form of amateur yard haunts, perilous plays, cemetery tours, and a brand new scary [...]

Date: Saturday, October 20, 5-9pm
Location: New View Elementary School, 29680 Lakeview Avenue, Nuevo, CA 92567
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Description: This family-friendly Halloween event offers a five-minute guided tour through a haunted house, featuring a maze of sets, characters, special effects, smoke machines, and strobe lights – but nothing too scary for elementary school kids, accompanied by [...]

Date: Halloween night, approximately 4-7pm
Location: Downtown Burbank
Description: Downtown Burbank offers its annual Halloween event for families with children and/or canines. Parents are invited to bring their goblins and ghouls for an early evening of trick-or-treating. Local merchants provide free treats from store-to-store. And pet owners are encouraged to bring along their favorite K-9 dressed in [...]

Location: Starlight Bowl, 1249 Lockheed View Drive, Burbank, CA 91504
Website: www.burbankusa.com
Description: The Burbank Park, Recreation and Community Services Department presents this Halloween event, featuring a frightening 15-minute tour of the Starlight Bowl turned into a haunted house. An adult must accompany children under 12 years old, and children under 6 years old will not be [...]

Location: The Way of the Shadow Martial Arts Academy, 18727 Crenshaw Boulevard, Torrance CA 90504 310-327-1837
Dates & Hours:

Maze: October 27, 28 & 31, 6:30pm-10pm
Block Party: Halloween Night, 6-10pm

Warning: The ghosts of murdered ninja rise once again this Halloween – vengeance is their legacy!
The Way of the Shadow Martial Arts Academy presents their annual Revenge [...]

The Downtown Center Business Improvement District of Los Angeles invites families living in the area to bring their children out for a night of fun and games. This Community Halloween Haunt features: trick-or-treat doors; inflatable bounce house; video game truck; fun face painting and crafts; balloon animals and jugglers; marionettes; and hot dogs, cotton candy [...]

A little pre-Halloween housekeeping: I have just added a new page to the Halloween Haunts section of Hollywood Gothique. Entitled, “Graveyard of Lost Halloween Haunts,” this page collects all of the various Halloween events in Los Angeles that have passed into the dust of history: Halloween Haunted Houses & Hayrides, Halloween Yard Haunts, Community Halloween [...]

After going on hiatus for 2011, The Heritage Haunt returns for Halloween 2012, with a smaller attraction centered around the Newhall Ranch House – an allegedly real-life haunted location that served as the focus of the Heritage Haunt until behind-the-scenes problems forced a change in 2010, eventually leading to the haunt’s closure for a year. [...]