Where to Find Spooky, Scary and Hellish Halloween Attractions in Los Angeles (Before it’s Too Late)

Common Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights

By way of Nov. 3, from $77100 Common Metropolis Plaza, Common CityThe freaks do come out at evening on the Common Studios Hollywood lot each season because the park is remodeled into “Southern California’s scariest Halloween event” as soon as the solar goes down. Stars like Pedro Pascal, Sydney Sweeney, Jack Quaid, Nicole Richie and Kumail Nanjiani have booed their means by means of lately to take a look at the eight walk-through haunted home points of interest, 4 “sinister scare zones,” rides and different surprises like Terror Tram: Enter the Blumhouse, The Purge: Harmful Waters and Late Evening With Chucky. Different points of interest embody A Quiet Place, Ghostbusters Frozen Empire, Insidious the Additional, The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath: The Legacy of Leatherface and extra.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: The Afterlife Expertise

By way of Nov. 3, from $25Ovation Hollywood, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Los AngelesThe well timed (and 11,000 sq. foot) activation pops up sizzling on the heels of the discharge of Tim Burton’s newest big-screen journey that includes the foul-mouthed maestro of the undead. The Afterlife Expertise will get company up shut to the lately deceased for leisure, film set recreations, themed merch, meals and drinks and extra.

Los Angeles Haunted Hayride

By way of Nov. 2, from $36.99Griffith Park, 4730 Crystal Springs Dr., Los AngelesThe sprawling pop-up is again with quite a lot of activations and experiences together with a brand new collaboration with Janelle Monae on Monae Manor “where it’s Halloween every night” with speaking partitions, bumping music and a “twisted soiree” that will even characteristic a cameo from the host. There’s a trick-or-treat maze, Madame Aurora’s Séance Theatre that includes a non secular medium, Midnight Falls Basic Retailer with a s’mores station, mini escape video games, performances by undead irreverent lounge singer Monte Revolta, and Hellbilly Halloween that includes the long-rumored cannibal household, amongst different points of interest.

Queen Mary’s Darkish Harbor

By way of Nov. 2, from $491126 Queens Freeway, Lengthy BeachThe sprawling grounds across the iconic ship in Lengthy Seaside are remodeled right into a Halloween-a-palozza that includes haunted mazes, “hundreds of monsters,” immersive points of interest, dwell leisure, VIP experiences, themed bars, secret speakeasys, lounges, carnival rides, ax throwing, meals and drinks. This yr marks a boo-tastic return after a 4 yr hiatus. Among the many highlights: Lullaby includes a “sinisterly playful ghost of Scary Mary” who rises from a swimming pool to accost passengers; Infirmary options “the wicked spirits of a sadistic surgeon and his accomplice” who torment the residing; and Feast starring a cannibalistic chef who has grown annoyed with first-class passengers. Who can relate!

Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch

By way of Oct. 31, from $1010100 Jefferson Blvd., Culver CityThe seasonal activation is an L.A. establishment relationship again to its founding 1987. It has since develop into a hotspot for celebrities and households to expertise farm life, kid-friendly leisure, music, artwork installations, meals and, naturally, gourds for acres. “We are full of new tricks up our sleeve,” proprietor Lyra Marble says on Instagram.

Delusion: The Purple Citadel

By way of Nov. 2, from $109Stimson Home, 2421 S. Figueroa St., Los AngelesAn interactive horror play written and directed by Jon Braver that provides viewers members the prospect to take part or just take in the scares as they arrive. Set in the mid twentieth century, the story follows an excellent psychologist named Dr. Frederick Lowell who has been banished from his neighborhood due to his unorthodox strategies. Together with “his most prized patients,” Lowell finds refuge in an deserted fort solely to expertise tragedy when his spouse tumbles and dies there. “With your help and abilities, he may be able to bring back the greatest love of his life.” However bear in mind: “Resurrection hardly ends well.”

Reign of Terror Haunted Home

By way of Nov. 2, from $42285 N. Moorpark Street, Thousand OaksThe expansive scare headquarters ­— billed as “the ultimate haunted house for L.A. and Southern California” — options 142 rooms and 11 interconnected haunted points of interest together with a “forest of fear.”

Medieval Torture Museum

Each day, from $29.996757 Hollywood Blvd., Los AngelesThe title says all of it however there are extra particulars to shred: The museum is designed to assist guests “enter the minds of fanatics, madmen and murderers” as they move by means of a curated assortment of confinement and torture units, or as the web site states, “an unprecedented collection of cruelty based on historical documents and engravings.” Oh my!

West Hollywood’s Halloween Carnaval

Oct. 31, from 6—11 p.m. with extra data hereWest HollywoodThe Metropolis of West Hollywood is mounting a giant Halloween return to Santa Monica Boulevard in 2024. Hundreds of costumed revelers are anticipated to descend on the town’s one-mile stretch between North Doheny Drive and North La Cienega Boulevard for the free public celebration. It would characteristic a dwell DJ set, meals vans, and hundreds of wildly dressed individuals in Halloween costumes for a one-of-a-kind expertise. Details about parking, avenue and amenities closures, transportation and security is on the market in the information part of the town’s web site.

Hollywood Eternally Cemetery Presents twenty fifth Annual Dia de los Muertos

Oct. 26, from $53.606000 Santa Monica Blvd., Los AngelesThis yr’s installment is rolling out as an all day occasion starting at 10 a.m. and closing at midnight. Within the hours therein, guests can peruse the choices together with an altars exhibition, ceremonial procession, cathedral artwork exhibition, arts and crafts distributors and take part in a dressing up contest. Title acts will even entertain the group together with Pedro Fernández, Los Lobos, Reyna Tropical, Ambar Lucid, El Santo Golpe and Tania Libertad.

Afterlife Switch Trolley

Billed as a “free and immersive hop-on, hop-off haunted experience” that takes riders up and down the enduring Sundown Strip. “A scary good time awaits” for these events for journeys scheduled for Oct. 26, 27, 31 and Nov. 1-2. All through the trolley’s journey, bars, eating places and resorts alongside The Strip will likely be serving up Halloween-inspired meals, drinks and particular occasions. Additionally spooky: Company can snap a pic with two unlucky riders who by no means made it off of the hearse. Character actors in full costumes will inform quite a lot of spooky tales meant to delight on the drive. For a full schedule, click on right here.

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Six Flags Fright Fest Excessive

By way of Nov. 3, from $4526101 Magic Mountain Parkway, ValenciaSix Flags Magic Mountain’s Halloween makeover hosts 11 haunted homes and 9 licensed scare zones, a few of that are impressed by Hollywood horror together with Stranger Issues, the Conjuring universe, Noticed, Military of the Lifeless and extra. Thrill seekers may also go for rollercoaster spins in the darkish whereas the extra cautious can snack on themed meals and drinks.

Home of Spirits: A Haunted Cocktail Soirée

By way of Nov. 2, various costs beginning at $59 relying on dayNocturne Theatre, 324 N. Orange St., GlendalePicture this: You and your buddies skip the bar this Halloween season and as a substitute head to a “macabre haunted estate” the place you’ll be able to imbibe whereas taking in a two-hour expertise that features music, magic, spooky characters, leisure and different interactive surprises. Oh, and there’s a Ouija board and alternative to communicate to the opposite aspect — aka the inhabitants of the home — if that’s your factor. Costumes, cocktail apparel or interval garb inspired!

CBS Presents Creep x ‘Ghosts’

By way of Oct. 27, from $70West Adams neighborhood, Los AngelesCBS and Simply Repair It Prods.’ Creep L.A. have teamed on a 60-minute present in two mansions in L.A.’s West Adams neighborhood. At one tackle, the foyer of Ghost’s Woodstone Mattress & Breakfast will likely be recreated to supply photograph moments and present memorabilia to company. Company are then escorted to cross over to the “dark side” of the road for a real ghost story expertise in an immersive surroundings. Lots may be discovered from the content material advisories that embody prolonged standing, uneven terrain, strolling, crawling, blindfolded, intense sound and strobes, fog, moments of darkness, sudden actions and moist or damp situations.

Knott’s Scary Farm

By way of Nov. 2, from $59.998039 Seaside Blvd., Buena ParkThe amusement park has had a long time, actually, to excellent its Halloween activation thanks to conjuring up greater than 50 years of scares throughout 57 acres. As well as to 10 indoor mazes and 5 designated scare zones, company can journey rollercoasters in the darkish, snack and sip on themed meals and drinks, and choose from 4 dwell reveals together with Conjurers, Le Magnifique Carnaval du Grotesque, The Hanging: The Errors Tour and Yours Cruelly, Elvira Xxperience.

City Demise Tour of Terror

By way of Nov. 1, $28 at doorZombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group4850 Lankershim Blvd., North HollywoodArguably not for all audiences (or the squeamish), the tour has been teased as “scarier, a little freakier” than final yr’s per director Denise Devin with Zombie Joe himself having mentioned that the present local weather of worry and nervousness has impressed the horror maze and the actors that populate it. “We really tried to bring the darkness and that excitement to the stage as entertainment. It’s almost like Urban Death received a facelift,” he says on YouTube. Word the disclaimer: Graphic content material, set off warnings and full nudity. We’re scared!

Museum of Demise

Each day, $21 “per body”6363 Selma Ave., Los AngelesAgain, the title kind of says all of it however inquiring minds would possibly need to know that the archive consists of physique baggage, coffins and cranium collections, a “theatre of death,” vintage mortician instruments, Manson household images, crime and morgue scene pictures, artworks, letters and ephemera from serial killers, graphic automobile accident pictures, cannibalism artifacts and extra. Mature audiences solely and “not for the faint of heart.”