The Halloween season is upon us, and what better way to get into the spooky spirit than by watching some spine-tingling classics on the big screen? Los Angeles is full of horror movie screenings all around town this Halloween, and there’s something for every level of thrill seekers. From spine-chilling classics to family-friendly flicks, there’s a screening waiting for you around every corner. Gather your bravest (and even not so brave) friends and plan a movie date below!
1. Street Food Cinema: Booze, Bites, & Frights
Street Food Cinema is bringing the chills this spooky season with an awesome lineup of horror films, fan-favorite food trucks, and live performances at unique venues. The scariest part? The fear of missing out! Get ready for photo ops, a themed bar, audience games, and plenty of Halloween fun. Grab your tickets to Street Food Cinema here!
📅 Schedule:
- October 4, 2025
- 🎥Movie: Hocus Pocus
- 📍Location: Grand Hope Park
- October 16, 2025
- 🎥Movie: Terrifier 2
- 📍Location: Heritage Square Museum
- October 17, 2025
- 🎥Movie: American Psycho (25th Anniversary)
- 📍Location: Heritage Square Museum
- October 17, 2025
- 🎥Movie: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- 📍Location: Heritage Square Museum
- October 18, 2025
- 🎥Movie: The Menu and Ready or Not
- 📍Location: Heritage Square Museum
2. Get scared at El Capitan
El Capitan Theatre is bringing back some iconic spooky family favorite films this Halloween season.
📅 Schedule:
- Sept. 6- Oct. 2, 2025
- 🎥Coco
- Attend the special Coco fan event on Sept. 26. See the Mariachi Divas and Ballet Folklórico De Los Ángeles live on stage as you enter the theatre! Before your showtime see a Fiesta of Lights featuring music from the movie!
- Coming Soon
- 🎥Hocus Pocus
- Coming Soon
- 🎥The Nightmare Before Christmas
3. Cinespia
Cinespia is bringing another season of creepy movie magic to iconic locations in L.A. This fall they’ll be taking over the Hollywood Forever Cemetery with DJs, themed photo booths, good food, and more. Grab your tickets here, and find the schedule below.
📅 Schedule:
- October 4, 2025
- 🎥Movie: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (50th Anniversary)
- 📍Location: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- 👻Status: Sold Out
- October 11, 2025
- 🎥Movie: The Craft
- 📍Location: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- 👻Status: Sold Out
- October 18, 2025
- 🎥Movie: ParaNorman
- 📍Location: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- 👻Status: Tickets still available!
- October 18, 2025
- 🎥Movie: ParaNorman
- 📍Location: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- 👻Status: Tickets still available!
- October 25, 2025
- 🎥Movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street
- 📍Location: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- 👻Status: Tickets still available!
- October 31, 2025
- 🎥Movie: Scream Halloween Party
- 📍Location: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- 👻Status: Tickets still available!
4. Rooftop Cinema Club
Experience your favorite horror films with the backdrop of the DTLA skyline views at Rooftop Cinema Club. This outdoor venue offers a spine-chilling atmosphere complete with a bar and delicious food. Elevate your dinner and a movie experience to thrilling new heights all spooky season long!
📅 Schedule:
- Sept. 25, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Jennifer’s Body
- Sept. 26, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Hocus Pocus
- 🐕 Dog-Friendly Screening
- Sept. 26, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Friday the 13th (1980)
- Sept. 29, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Hocus Pocus
- Sept. 30, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Scream (1996)
- October 1, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The Menu
- October 2, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Twilight
- October 3, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Halloween (1978)
- October 4, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The Addams Family (1991)
- October 4, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Get Out
- October 5, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Beetlejuice
- October 5, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Hereditary
- October 7, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Supernatural Mini Marathon
- October 8, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The Craft
- 🍷Wine Wednesdays
- October 8, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The 6th Sense
- October 9, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Sinners
- October 9, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Shaun of the Dead
- October 10, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Scream (1996)
- October 11, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Black Swan
- October 12, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Psycho (1960)
- October 12, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Donnie Darko
- October 13, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The Mummy (1999)
- October 13, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Scream 2
- October 14, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Twilight
- October 14, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Se7en
- October 15, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Hocus Pocus
- October 15, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Shutter Island
- October 16, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Edward Scissorhands
- October 16, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The Blackening
- October 17, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The Others
- October 17, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Jennifer’s Body
- October 18, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Practical Magic
- October 18, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The Silence of the Lambs
- October 19, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Death Becomes Her
- 🎭 Movie & Drag Show
- October 19, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Zombieland
- October 20, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Scream (1996)
- October 21, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Wicked
- 🎶Singalong
- October 21, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Sinners
- October 22, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Beautiful Creatures
- 🍷Wine Wednesdays
- October 22, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Rosemary’s Baby
- October 23, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Scary Movie
- October 23, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Mulholland Drive
- October 24, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The Crow (1994)
- October 24, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Ready or Not
- October 25, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Bones
- October 25, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Halloween (1978)
- October 26, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The Addams Family (1991)
- 🐕 Dog-Friendly Screening
- October 26, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- October 27, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Scream (1996)
- October 27, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The Exorcist (1973)
- October 29, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Hocus Pocus
- 🍷Wine Wednesdays
- October 29, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Trick ‘R Treat
- October 30, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Twilight
- 💃Girls Night Out
- October 31, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Practical Magic
- October 31, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Halloween (1978)
5. The Montalbán
Nothing screams Halloween like a foggy skyline with glowing lights of the city and your favorite cult thriller lighting up an open space. Make your way to one of these rooftop movies at The Montalbán for a cinematic experience for a night full of films, food, and more. Just make sure you grab the front seats; you never know what’s lurking behind you in the dead of the night. Get your tickets here!
📅 Schedule:
- Sept. 27, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Twilight
- Oct. 5, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The Addams Family (1991)
- Oct. 10, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Beetlejuice
- Oct. 11, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The Lost Boys
- Oct. 12, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Death Becomes Her
- Oct. 17, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: American Psycho
- Oct. 18, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Shaun of the Dead
- Oct. 19, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The Hunger
- Oct. 24, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
- Oct. 26, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: Hocus Pocus
- Oct. 31, 2025
- 🎥 Movie: The Nightmare Before Christmas
👻 Location: The Montalbán Theatre, 1615 Vine St., 90028
6. AMC Black Ticket Deal
Fever is giving horror fans an extra treat this spooky season with the AMC Black Ticket, offering discounted admission to participating AMC Theatres® across L.A. Whether you’re catching the latest terrifying releases like Weapons or The Conjuring: Last Rites, these exclusive tickets are the perfect way to enjoy a thrilling movie night or escape a rainy day in the city. Grab your AMC Black Ticket here!
7. Vidiots
Film buff favorite cinema, Vidiots, is serving up unique and classic horror films this Halloween. Grab your tickets early online, but Vidiots also offers Limited Walk-Up tickets when showings no longer have online tickets for sale. A limited number of tickets will be available at the box office 45 minutes before a show’s start time, on a first-come first-served basis. Get your tickets here!
🗓️ October 21, 2025
- 🎥 Blade + A Blood Rave!
- 🌟 Vidiots has got a whole Blood Rave planned with DJ sets before and after the screening from DJ Alley Gorgon and TR666, a costume contest, drink and concession specials, and even more vampiric surprises in store!
🗓️ October 22, 2025
- 🎥 Predators
- 🌟 Director David Osit will be there in person for one night only!
- 🎥 Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
- 🌟 Director Ernest R. Dickerson in person!
🗓️ October 23, 2025
- 🎥 I Am A Ghost
- 🌟 Vidiots is terrified to welcome back indie legend H.P. Mendoza for a special screening of his wholly original low-budget spectral gem presented in their haunted microcinema!
🗓️ October 24, 2025
- 🎥 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- 🎥 Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
- 🎥 Get Out(on 35mm)
- 🎥 Jacob’s Ladder
🗓️ October 25, 2025
- 🎃 Vidiots Annual “Unscary” Halloween Open House
- A free, sensory-friendly, all-ages Halloweenie community event featuring Bob Baker Marionettes, pumpkin carving, costume parade, and trick-or-treating!
- 🎥 Hocus Pocus
- 🎥 Poltergeist (on 35mm)
- 🎥 Dumplings
🗓️ October 26, 2025
- 🎥 Them!
- 🎥 A Chinese Ghost Story
🗓️ October 27, 2025
- 🎥 Sweet 16mm: Halloween Haunts
🗓️ October 28, 2025
- 🎥 Director’s Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein
- 🌟 With filmmaker Tim Kirk in person!
- 🎥 Carrie
- 🌟 Featuring pre-screening entertainment from drag icon Jackie Beat!
🗓️ October 29, 2025
- 🎥 Dawn of the Dead (2004)
🗓️ October 30, 2025
- 🎥 The Omen
- 🎥 Hellraiser
🗓️ October 31, 2025
- 🎥 Halloween
- 🎥 Video Home Satanism – Horror on VHS
- 🎥 Halloween III: Season of the Witch
👻 Location: 4884 Eagle Rock Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90041
Originally written by Sophie Len.