The Season has Arrived

Here, we are.  The Season!

Baseball players feel this way around early March.

Accountants get a rise as April approaches.

People working on their tans can’t wait for August.

But for Halloween season enthusiasts - this is our time!

So, where are you gonna go in 2025?  Are haunts and mazes your thing? Perennial events like Reign of Terror and Queen Mary's Dark Harbor might float your boat (sorry). Maybe you're more the reimagined theme park type?  Well, greater L.A. has you covered, between Knott's Scary Farm, Universal Halloween Horror Nights, Magic Mountain Frightfest and the mouse-eared-much-easier-on-the-nerves action down in Anaheim.

Perhaps you like your chills in a more theatrical or unique setting?  We've got that too.  If you’re lucky enough to score a hard-to-find ticket to the mansions of The Willows or Delusion and fancy your thrills in the realm of immersive theatre, then there is a ticket to be found for scripted events in those appropriately eerie and authentic venues. Live actors, sometimes looking quite dead, bring their talents to these elevated and often high-priced theatrical productions where you too are an integral part of the storyline. No Wicked Lit in 2025 but we can dream.

There are also sure to be those hard-to-define Halloween events that tend to hold their quasi-secretive and often quite edgy content in hidden-only-to-be-revealed-to-ticketholder-spaces downtown or in warehouses in the San Fernando Valley.  And if you're feeling a little friskier there are always adult-themed Halloween affairs like the immersive nightclub turned Halloween theatre, Haunted Soiree: VAMPIRE and the nearly indescribable happenings at the maze/theatre hybrid known as Zombie Joe's Urban Death Tour of Terror.

Don't like being on your feet pursued by goblins, committed actors and jump-scare experts? Well score a ticket to a classic seasonal play like Dracula: The Musical or a flick like Scream, screened by Cinespia in the perfect location for maximum chills, the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

And let's not forget very cool and more family-friendly Halloween fare like pumpkins-as-you've never seen-them interactive experience, Night of the Jack or Bob Baker's Marionette Theatre presentation of Hallowe'en Spooktacular.

Okay, maybe you'd just prefer to keep your wallet in your pocket and just seek out a home haunt or amazingly decorated scary block across the area.  There’s plenty here too. In a metropolis that boasts more creatives than anywhere in America, it's no surprise when a set decorator or gaffer turn their property into a Halloween haunt that rivals the professional options in town.

As you can see, there just aren't enough nights in the season to see them all...that is unless you begin your seasonal tour now, tonight. Get your reservations (see Halloween Scene L.A.'s A to Z section), map out your calendar and prepare for what we hope will be the most amazing Halloween season yet. Halloween Scene Los Angeles is with you all the way.

A sweet house in January, a veritable fright zone come October