Hollywood Gothique

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 [...]

Date: October 30 at 10pm
Location: Los Globos, 3040 West Sunset Boulevard (downstairs), Los Angeles, CA 90026
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Description: The monthly “Fever” event at Los Globos offers an interstellar Halloween version. Guests are invited to come in costume as aliens and space explores. Musical acts include Fancy Space People; Bloody Death Skull; Babes; and Cabeza [...]

Date: Saturday, October 27, starting at 8:00 pm
Location: HM157, 3110 N. Broadway , Los Angeles , CA 90031
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Description: HM157 in Lincoln Heights presents its first Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Halloween Tribute Show, featuring performances by Tommy Santee Klaws, Dorian Wood, RT N the 44s, Amanda Jo Williams, VUM, Spirit Vine, Speedbuggy [...]

Tonight, Haunted Midnights at the Comedy Store has its final engagement for October 2012. Although the show has been running on Wednesdays in October, it will not be back on Halloween night next week, so if you are interested, get your tickets now.
Haunted Midnights is a variety show, mixing stand-up comedy with with first-hand accounts [...]

Wicked Lit continues with performances on November 8-10. This October’s incarnation of the Halloween Theatre Festival retains the spooky strengths manifested in previous years while adding a few new ingredients to the witch’s brew. Once again, a trio of terrifying one-act plays is presented within the Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery. This season, there is a bit more playful interactivity with the “Story Guides,” who keep the audience on the right track and then play (sometimes unexpected) roles in the dramas themselves. Wicked Lit also serves up brief mini-performances (poetry readings and storytelling) between the main courses, creating the theatrical equivalent of an elaborate French meal, with multiple entrees separated by appetizing hors d’oeuvre.

Once again, Hollywood Gothique finds itself transgressing the borders of its native soil in pursuit of Halloween events of northern climes of California (in this case, the Winchester Mystery House Fright Nights), leaving us without adequate time to fully review all the great Halloween attractions in Los Angeles. Allow us to rectify this error with a trio of mini-reviews, focusing on Old Town Haunt, FrightFair, and Wicked Lit – each of which made it onto our lists of 2012 Halloween Recommendations.

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 [...]

The run of the Wicked Lit 2012 Halloween Plays at Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery has been extended into the month of November, with additional performances on November 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 & 10. The extension is good news for those who wish to attend but have not bought tickets yet: with the [...]

Theatre 68, The Backwoods Maze, Wicked Lit, and Heritage Haunt launch their Halloween events this weekend.
We’re almost halfway through October, and it may seem as if every major haunted house, hayride, and theme park is already open; but wait – there’s more! In fact, the weekend of Friday, October 12 offers some of our favorite [...]

Date: October 14 at 3:30pm
Location: The Bob Baker Marionette Theatre, 1345 W. First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
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Description: In association with the Cinefamily’s month-long “Nightmare City” series of Halloween events, the Bob Baker Marionette Theatre presents this Haunted Hallabaloo, hosted by comedian Emo Phillips. The afternoon’s entertainment includes cartoons, short films, perfomances [...]

In 2011, Delusion horrified haunt-goers like no other Halloween event in Los Angeles. For 2012, Delusion: The Blood Rite is bigger, badder, bolder. But is it better? To find out, come along with us…if you dare!

Screenings: October 11 at 7:45pm and 10pm
Location: The Silent Movie Theater, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Description: The Cinefamily present a Halloween screening of Carl Theodor Dryer’s 1932 art house horror film Vampyr, accompanied by Steven Severin’s music, performed live. Although Vampyr is not a silent film, it almost was; sound was a [...]

Location: Downtown Independent Theatre, , 251 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA (213) 617-1033
Description: The Downtown Independent Theatre presents a new stage adaptation of Mary Shelly’s famous novel, scripted by Nick Dear.
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Oscar-winner Danny Boyle (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire) returned to the theatre to direct this visionary production with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee [...]