Creepy Calendar: October 18-24

Selected events from the Creepy connoisseur…

The Nightmare Before Christmas In 3-D Thursday Oct. 18th at 7:00 PM, opening night panel discussion; Screening and Sing-A-Long at 9:50 PM. El Capitan Theatre, Hollywood. Runs through Nov. 19th. Tickets $13.00. Not to be missed, the genius of Tim Burton in pre-CGI stop-motion animation crammed with intricate, jaw-dropping detail and effects given even more luster now that it’s all in 3-D. Selected screenings are sing-a-longs. Check El Capitan’s schedule for details.

Evil Dead Double Feature at Angel City Drive-In Saturday October 20th, gates open at 6:30 PM, screening at 8:00 PM. $30 per car, unlimited number of occupants; cars MUST pre-register due to limited space. $10 per bike-in/walk-in. 529 S. Spring St., Downtown Los Angeles. The Evil Dead, Sam Raimi’s first film, is a horror classic shot on a shoestring budget that is recognized for its extreme, over-the-top, blood-and-gore effects as well as its droll sense of humor. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn upped the ante with a bigger budget and took the humor in a bloody slapstick direction, allowing for even more joyously executed, out-of-control, grisly mayhem.

Hollyween Through October 31st. A “Hollywood vs. Halloween” art show has new works by over 50 artists, including Plastic God, “Your 21st Century Andy Warhol,” at the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery, 6650 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood.

The Love Talker (about witches and demons) opens, Black Dahlia obsession and more after the jump.

Hollywood Horror Film Festival Fri.-Sun. Oct. 19-21, Arclight Theaters, Hollywood. Banish horror-film-fest fatigue until November. Another weekend of screenings and schmoozing moves to the Arclight as an annex to the Hollywood Film Festival. Tickets and schedule at Arclight Cinemas site.

Dali: Painting & Film Through January 6th at LA County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. Salvadore Dali knew his way around Hollywood, collaborating with Hitchcock and Disney as well as being influenced by Cecil B. DeMille and the Marx Brothers. This exhibit’s exploration of those connections will be rife with surreal images that can be considered creepy to say the least, incorporating film, photography, painting, sculpture and texts. Group costume inspiration, anyone?

Hollywood Forever Cemetery Tour Saturday, Oct. 20th at noon. 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood. Admission $10, tour lasts 2 hours. Rudolph Valentino? Got him. Janet Gaynor? Her too. Victor Fleming? Yep. Peter Lorre? Uh-huh…

Drama After Dark: A Night of the Macabre with Poe and Gorey Saturday October 20th 6:30 to 10 PM. Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens, San Marino. Member $25, non-members $30; ages 10 to adult. (And here’s the good part,) May be too intense for young children. Registration: 626-405-2128. More than a dozen haunting tales by Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Gorey will be enacted throughout the moon-lit grounds of the Huntington by the actors of the Guild of St. George; including The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Insect God, and more.

Hollywood Hell House Thu.-Sat. through Oct. 27th. 385 N. La Cienega, WeHo. Tickets $22.50; or $15 tickets via Goldstar Events. Yeah, it’s hilariously twisted for us debauched left-coast hedonists, but it’s based on actual scripts written by Texan fundamentalists. If you don’t want those nuts in charge, y’all best vote– oh, that’s right, they ARE in charge. Anyway, it features horrifying “lessons” on why it’s not cool to be queer, have an abortion or rape someone you just met. (Obviously they’ve never been to LA and don’t know what real fun is.) Last year it featured certifiably hellward-bound performers like Bill Maher, Sarah Silverman and Andy Richter.

The Love Talker Opens Saturday October 20th; performance at 8:00 PM followed by an Opening Night Costume Party. Drinks, hors’d’oeurves and DJ Jupiter spinning until 1:00 AM. Prizes for best costume, funniest costume and sexiest costume. Fri. & Sat. at 8 PM, Sun. at 5 PM, through Nov. 17th, Hub Theater, North Hollywood. No performance 11/4. Tickets $20 at Plays 411, or $10 at Gold Star Events. A sensual ghost story.

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” Fri. & Sat. at 8:30 PM through Oct. 27th. Tickets $12. At Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre, North Hollywood. Poe, performed live. What else needs to be said?

Murder-Mystery Bus Tour: The Real Black Dahlia Sat. Oct. 20th at noon. Esotouric Bus Tours, 370 W Avenue 26, Los Angeles $55; or $33.50 at Gold Star Events. The Real Black Dahlia Crime Bus Tour ranges across the city from downtown to Hollywood to South Central, visiting scenes of Elizabeth Short’s brief life and death in Los Angeles, and those places that have become attached to her in the mythology of the Black Dahlia murder.

Scare Me to Death Saturday, October 20th at 2:00 PM, Burbank Public Library/Buena Vista Branch, 300 N. Buena Vista St. Free. Get spooked with a panel of mystery authors from Sisters in Crime/LA.

Haunted Attractions are now listed on Where the Scares Are, Creepy’s new interactive map guide to Halloween-themed attractions throughout October in the greater Los Angeles area.

Also be sure and check out the Creepy Map of Haunted Los Angeles, a guide to reported supernatural activity throughout Los Angeles County.

AND… there are just a few more days to enter our Creepy contest to win Return to House on Haunted Hill on HD-DVD. New Navigational Cinema technology lets you choose from 96 story lines and 4 different endings, depending on your murderous mood of the moment.