The fall season brings us a lot to look forward to, from apple picking in quaint local orchards to picking the perfect pumpkin. But if you’re all-in on the scary side of Halloween, then you’re in luck here in L.A., because this city produces some absolute bucket-list haunted houses and Halloween attractions every single year.
The area’s most dedicated actors and production crew team up to scare the wits out of brave Angelenos in some seriously creative attractions and displays, including Universal Studios’ legendary Halloween Horror Nights and the fan-favorite Haunted Hayride. Recruit your bravest friends and read on for our favorite spooky destinations and 2025 haunted houses in Los Angeles.
🎃 If you’re not up for the jump scares, consider getting tickets to this hauntingly beautiful Candlelight concert featuring all your favorite Halloween classics.
Keep in mind that Shaqtoberfest, the Halloween festival at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, will not take place in 2025. The ship will instead host Dark Harbor — more on that below.
1. Halloween Horror Nights
Everybody knows about Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, one of the most notorious haunted attractions in Los Angeles. See the world-famous theme park transformed into an enormous Halloween haunt with eight spine-chilling haunted houses, plus a new riff on the horrifying Terror Tram and a haunted house soundtrack from guitarist Slash. All of the houses will be based on cult-favorite horror movies, including Five Nights at Freddy’s, Terrifier, Fallout, and Poltergeist. Given Universal’s role as a still-active film studio, you can bet on a crazy-high production value at Halloween Horror Nights.
🗓️ Dates: Sept. 4 – Nov. 2, 2025
📍 Location: Universal Studios Hollywood, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608
🌐 Website: Halloween Horror Nights
2. Edgar Allen Poe Speakeasy
This themed cocktail experience in L.A. takes guests through the chilling tales of Edgar Allen Poe, set in an eerie environment lit with flickering candles. A team of Poe historians and talented mixologists has collaborated to create an immersive and memorable experience that’s a treat for the senses.
🗓️ Dates: Oct 2-4, 2025
📍 Location: The Grand Annex Music Hall, 434 W 6th St, San Pedro, CA 90731
🌐 Tickets: Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy
3. Knott’s Scary Farm
Knott’s Scary Farm has brought the scares for over fifty years, making it the longest-running Halloween theme park event in SoCal. Over 1,000 terrifying creatures will be stalking the grounds of the massive theme park, congregating around ten creative haunted mazes, sinister shows, and unbelievable attractions. New this year is “The Zoo,” a horrifying laboratory filled with animal/human experiments.
🗓️ Dates: Sept. 18 – Nov. 1, 2025
📍 Location: Knott’s Berry Farm, 8039 Beach Blvd, Buena Park, CA 90620
🌐 Website: Knott’s Scary Farm
4. Los Angeles Haunted Hayride
As one of L.A.’s most sought-after haunted attractions, the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride brings a uniquely terrifying experience aboard creepy haywagons. If you make it through the disturbing scare zones, you’ll enjoy a respite with more light-hearted experiences, including a macabre performance from Monte Revolta, a zombie shooter game with live actors, and axe throwing. This year’s event is hosted by Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, who brings an epic twist to the fan-favorite trick-or-treat maze.
🗓️ Dates: Sept. 19 – Nov. 2, 2025
📍 Location: 4730 Crystal Springs Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027
🌐 Website: Los Angeles Haunted Hayride
5. Delusion: Harrowing of Hell
Delusion is back for 2025, this time at the Variety Arts Theater in Downtown Los Angeles! This year, you’ll play your part traveling with Pagan’s Path, a supernatural cult that takes followers through the circles of Hell in Dante’s Inferno. This interactive horror experience hosts guests as part of an engaging story created by Jon Braver, who has collaborated on projects including Star Wars, The Dark Knight Rises, Ironman, and Indiana Jones.
🗓️ Dates: Sept. 20 – Nov. 9, 2025
📍 Location: Stimson House, 2421 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90007
🌐 Website: Delusion: The Red Castle
6. Six Flags Fright Fest Extreme
Spend a sinister evening at Six Flags Magic Mountain, which will be outfitted with eleven haunted houses and nine scare zones to make up California’s largest haunt. Lights will be turned off for rides and coasters too, so you’ll experience the theme park in a thrilling new trip for the senses.
🗓️ Dates: Sept. 19 – Nov. 2, 2025
📍 Location: Six Flags Magic Mountain, 26101 Magic Mountain Pkwy, Valencia, CA 91355
🌐 Website: Six Flags Fright Fest
7. Reign of Terror
Reign of Terror has grown and fine-tuned its walk-through haunted house every year since 1999, and at 32,000 square feet of floor space, it’s now the largest indoor attraction of its kind in Southern California. Get lost in 142 custom interconnected rooms outfitted with living and mechanical characters that will scare you to your core.
🗓️ Dates: Sept. 26 – Nov. 2, 2025
📍 Location: 285 N Moorpark Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
🌐 Website: Reign of Terror
8. Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor
Long Beach’s Queen Mary ship is transformed into a horrifying maritime haunt with a unique festival atmosphere. Choose your poison from a range of haunted mazes, immersive attractions, live performances, carnival rides, themed bars and lounges, and plenty more delightfully spooky thrills.
🗓️ Dates: Sept. 19 – Nov. 2, 2025
📍 Location: 1126 Queens Hwy, Long Beach, CA 90802
🌐 Website: Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor
9. The Willows
Just Fix It Productions presents an interactive psycho-drama experience at an undisclosed mansion location in L.A. this year. Dates are already selling out for the 25-guest performances, where attendees are invited to an eerie family gathering with several complex, immersive narratives. Make sure you reserve a spot at the table before it’s too late.
🗓️ Dates: Sept. 25 – Nov. 2, 2025
📍 Location: TBA in Los Angeles, CA
🌐 Website: JFI Productions
10. The 17th Door Haunt Experience
17th Door’s 2025 haunted house takes place in a horrific prison, where tormented inmates roam the shadows. You’ll need to survive encounters with the demented prison barber, the bloodstained butcher, and the notoriously cunning warden. Be prepared for an especially “immersive” attraction at one of the scariest haunted houses in Los Angeles—that is, moving floors, claustrophobia, total darkness, strobe lighting, and 100+ MPH winds. Just remember the safe word, “Mercy!” if it gets too intense.
🗓️ Dates: Sept. 26 – Nov. 2, 2025
📍 Location: 8420 On the Mall, Buena Park, CA 90620
🌐 Website: The 17th Door Haunt Experience
11. Urban Death Tour of Terror
A small but mighty theater group puts on a hell of a show in this NoHo strip mall. Test your bravery around these talented players from Zombie Joe’s, who present a raunchy and thrilling haunted tour experience. Check it out on weekends through October, with extra days added leading up to Halloween.
🗓️ Dates: Oct. 3 – Nov. 1, 2025
📍 Location: ZJU Theatre Group, 4850 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, CA 91601
🌐 Website: Urban Death
12. All Saints Lunatic Asylum
All Saints Lunatic Asylum is a year-round haunted house in Apple Valley dating back to 2011. They open on big holidays throughout the year, but of course, the Halloween season is an ideal time to visit. At only $15, this is one of the best budget haunted houses to see around LA this year.
🗓️ Dates: Oct. 3 – Nov. 2, 2025
📍 Location: 22521 Shawnee Rd, Apple Valley, CA 92307
🌐 Website: All Saints Lunatic Asylum
13. Haunted Heck: A ’90s Alt Nightmare
Step into Haunted Heck: A ’90s Alt Nightmare, an experiential graveyard of nostalgic nineties nightmares and a cursed karaoke bar in the heart of DTLA. Built entirely by local artists and scare actors, this new haunted experience runs from Oct. 23–26 and Oct. 30–Nov. 1, featuring a twenty-six-room immersive journey that’s part haunted house, part art installation. Prepare to enter a living time capsule of grunge, glitter, and ghosts with VHS fever dreams and cursed nostalgia.
🗓️ Dates: Oct. 23–26 and Oct. 30–Nov. 1, 2025
📍 Location: 2260 East 15th Street Los Angeles, CA 90021
🌐 Website: Haunted Heck