High-Tech Haunted House
A high-tech Hollywood production in existence since 2000, the House at Haunted Hill was featured on HGTV in 2006. This event is fully-scripted with stunningly scary special effects and an original music score. Past themes have included a seance, cemetery and ghouls, but shows are a new surprise every year.
House at Haunted Hill
4400 Saltillo Street
Woodland Hills, CA
Hollywood Forever Cemetery Walking Tour
Consider a tour and creepy tales about some of Hollywood's well-known performers, including C.B. DeMille and Rudolph Valentino. Weave your way through the crypts, headstones and mausoleums as you listen to frightening tales of the cemetery and its inhabitants. This tour is particularly apt during the Halloween season. Film historian Karie Bible leads the tours in vintage gowns. Two-hour tours are available on Saturdays and Sundays, including Halloween day and begin at the flower shop near the main entrance
Hollywood Forever Cemetery Walking Tour
6000 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA
(323) 769-0195
Harvest Festival/Fright Fair
Despite the name, this event is kid-friendly during the day. There is a harvest festival with a corn maze, farm animals, hay rides, a bounce house and a rock wall. At night, though, bring your flashlight to investigate the "Adventure in the Corn Maze," the haunted house or the "Haunted Corn Trail," all of which have plenty of scares along the way. There are various dates through the fall, including Halloween day. Open at 10 a.m. Thursday to Sunday.
Halloween Harvest Fesitval/Fright Fair
Piece College
20800 Victory Blvd.
Woodland Hills, CA
(818) 999-6300
Horror Nights at Universal Studios
Universal Studios rarely opens its backlot at night, but this Halloween, you can see some of the studios' most famous (and scary) film characters, including those from "SAW," "My Bloody Valentine," "Chucky" and "Halloween." The lot will be set up with haunted houses and "deadly" mazes. It is open weekend nights through Halloween beginning at 7 p.m.
Universal Studios
100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA
(800) 864-8377, option 7
Poe at the Huntington
Get goosebumps the good old-fashioned way--by listening to the creepy, literary works of Edgar Allen Poe and Edward Gorey at the Huntington Library. The Guild of St. George actors put on performances around the library grounds and you'll be able to take in several different performances through the night in addition to enjoying the lush Huntington Gardens.
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA
(626) 405-2100
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