Summon the spirit of Halloween with these spellbinding events and activities!
Halloween has been resurrected this year! Your whole month will be filled with delightful frights and crawling with all the familiar creeps. But fear not, while there will be plenty of wonderfully dark soirees going on, there will also be plenty of family-friendly events and activities to make your October 2021 a memorable adventure. From drive-through pumpkin picking to encounters with the dead, here are all the thrilling things to fill your calendar with!
1. Haunt O’ Ween
Wander through Haunt O’ Ween’s dazzling 150,000-square-foot Halloween haven. While the 2020 drive-thru practically saved the season, this year’s walk-thru experience is set to be bigger and better with more themed zones and interactive experiences added to the adventure. It’s Hollywood’s take on all your favorite traditions, so expect epically-scaled tricks and tons of treats for all ages. Get your tickets here.
2. Sip Spicy Ghost Margaritas at a mysterious and macabre cocktail soirée (from October 8)
Step into L.A.’s hair-raising House of Spirits for an evening of secrets, séances and spooktacular spicy cocktails from Ghost Tequila. Roam around a historic, haunted mansion and mingle with its eerie spectral residents. Commune with spirits using a giant ouija board, and stop by the themed bars for devilishly delicious Spicy “Ghost” Margaritas. Get your tickets here.
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3. Street Food Cinema’s Halloween Series
Street Food Cinema is known for matching up the movie, food, and settings to the season. Whether it’s a classic horror film at the Million Dollar Theater replete ghouls and spooky treats or the Yuletide Cinemaland outside the heritage museum, you’re always in for a charming (and delicious) surprise. Since it’s Halloween, you can gather your picnic clique and head to one of these deliciously thrilling Halloween screenings at various open-air locations around L.A. Here’s what showing every Saturday throughout the month:
Saturday: October 30:Beetlejuice
Saturday: October 30: The Craft
4. Fear Grounds
From the award-winning team that brought attractions for Disney, Universal Studios, Six Flags, and more to life, comes a Halloween experience full of haunts and screams! At Fear Grounds, you’ll explore two horrifying open-air haunts—The Cage, and The Terror Trail – and do your best to make it out in one piece. You’ll also have access to the Dead Zone Beer Garden, a cozy area with food, fun and excitement! The horrors lurking in the Fear Grounds are loud, in-your-face, and pure wickedness. Get tickets here…if you dare!
5. Candlelight Halloween Concert Series
The wildly popular Candlelight concerts are bringing you a delightfully haunting series this October. Experience classic renditions of some of your favorite haunting melodies like Danny Elfman’s classic, “This is Halloween”, John Carpenter’s “Halloween Theme” and Bernard Herrman’s “Psycho”. Get your tickets here.
6. Haunted House: The Clown Academy
Enter an abandoned school run by clowns with this ultra-realistic horror maze. High-energy music will reverberate through the haunted hallways and you find your way out. You’ll be immersed in carnival games with live entertainers, waiting to welcome you. Get your tickets here and keep up with the class!
7. Haunt Massive: Halloween Festival at Avalon Hollywood
The highly-anticipated HAUNT MASSIVE Halloween Party is coming to the world-famous Avalon Hollywood this month! The club will be transformed into a themed, haunted world beyond your imagination with three themed areas (The Graveyard, Cell Block, and Death Trap) and dance the night away with your favorite tracks played by various local DJs from 9 am to 3 am. Get your tickets spooky outfits on get ready to groove with tortured souls.
8. Minimal Effort: All Hallows’ Eve
Enjoy 7 hours of music from a line-up of amazing artists across 2 stages. This party will be going on all night long, so make sure to have your dancing shoes ready! For all you Funk and D and B fans – this is the party for you! Get your tickets here.
9. Haunted Hollywood Walking Tour
Take a walk on the spooky side with this Haunted Hollywood Walking Tour. You’ll discover the dark and haunting horrors that lie beneath the flashy Hollywood facades. You’ll get to explore the well-researched stories of crimes, accidents, and traumas that echo through to the modern day and more. Get your tickets and uncover the real stories that haunt the hills.
10. Fly Across Ventura Waters For The 3rd Annual ‘Witches Paddle’
In California, witches are not limited to brooms as means of transport. Nope, on this stretch of the coast the mystical beings “fly” in on boards, wielding paddles instead of gnarly wands. On the foggy afternoon of October 29, paddleboarders in pointy, black hats, capes and striped stockings will depart from dock “C” of Ventura Harbor. Find out more here.
11. DTLA Murder Mystery Ghost Walking Tour
Go on an investigation of the noir underbelly of Los Angeles. You’ll visit the Biltmore Hotel, the last place the Black Dahlia was seen alive. Then, you’ll head to Clifton’s and learn about the anti-corruption drive of its Christian founder (who had a few secrets of his own). But the journey continues and covers all the tales that still haunt the city today. Get your tickets here.
12. Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios
Universal Studios is bringing you big-budget mazes, sinister scare zones and outrageous live entertainment along with some of the park’s most thrilling rides. You’ll have tons of activities (mostly paranormal) and attractions themed around the most terrifying films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist, The Walking Dead, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and more! Get your tickets here, just make sure you never go alone!
13. ‘Carved’ at Descanso Gardens
Descanso Garden’s beloved Carved trail returns for three weeks starting from October 11. Guests will take evening strolls under the stars amongst hundreds of glowing, beautifully hand-carved pumpkins and other oversized sculptures created from natural materials like sticks. Find out more here.
14. Los Angeles Haunted Hayride
This year the producers of one of L.A.’s beloved holiday events are bringing you a trail of thrills and frights where you’ll encounter the spirits of the underworld and explore the afflicted town of Midnight Falls. There’ll be scare zones and trick-or-treating, but only for the brave (and those 13 or older). Find out more here.
15. Enter SoCal’s Most Electrifying Halloween Carnival
The creators of Electric Daisy Carnival are summoning all audio slaves to enter Escape Halloween’s wicked wonderland from October 29th. Explore 4 mind-bending realms filled with interactive performances, superstructures and artworks with a sinister twist. Get tickets and join the eccentric creeps for 2 days of bone-rattling revelry…if you dare.
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