The wildly popular “Run for Your Lives” series of zombie infused 5k runs has sent word out to all registrants that all future events have been “postponed indefinitely” and individuals should “should contact your bank for a full refund.” This includes a run scheduled for this weekend in Arizona, and […] Read more
To say the “Purge: Fear the Night” attraction in downtown LA had a disastrous first weekend is putting it mildly. Within hours after opening, over two dozen scathing one star reviews began appearing on Yelp! citing a confusing, and often boring experience. While opening weekends for many Halloween attractions are […] Read more
Back in April, Max Temkin, the creator of the wildly successful game Cards Against Humanity raised $42,451 on his Kickstarter campaign for a deck of cards to play the party game “werewolf.” Max designed the cards and promised to deliver a deck to anyone who pledged $10 to the project, […] Read more
The monthly storytelling series at Jumpcut Cafe called “Show & Tell” will feature a Halloween inspired theme for the Wednesday, October 9th show: “Trick or Treat.” Based on the same “show and tell” that made elementary school bearable, this version, produced by Claire Dunlap and Vanessa Marshall, is pretty much the same […] Read more
Last year Lauren Harper shared with us how she transformed into the Black Dahlia. This year, she goes into the kitchen (right by the boiler room, apparently) to bake us some cupcakes made with flour, eggs, sugar, and shards of glass. Yummy! Read more
I’m not going to bore you with details, but, yeah, Halloween Horror Nights: go. Always terrifying, this year bigger than ever, seemingly more monsters, blah blah blah. And I’m don’t mean to dismiss all that (seriously: go!), but there’s one thing that I’ve avoided on every visit until this year, […] Read more
Knott’s Halloween Haunt opens this weekend for their 41st season of scares. Which made our intrepid field reporter Alexander George ask, what frightens them? At a recent audition for returning scare actor, he asked them, and here’s what they said: [youtube]http://youtu.be/igSmvhEZsNw[/youtube] For more CreepyLA coverage of Knotts Halloween Haunt, visit […] Read more
Are non-supernatural, personalized horror experiences a new trend? A new attraction debuting in Los Angeles for the Halloween season seems to indicate so. “Alone: an existensial haunting,” debuting October 24th, is described as a thirty minute, individual walk thru experience that is “one part interactive theater, one part psychological haunting […] Read more
If you ever had nightmares of Martha Stewart judging you, now’s your chance to make it come true! The HUB Television Network is hosting a costume contest with Martha as one of the judges. Deadline to enter is September 29th, when one entrant from each state will be selected to […] Read more
Halloween Horror Nights creative director John Murdy divulges how deep his research into the “El Cucuy” urban legend went, and how some surprising detours inspired the look and concept behind a nightmarish maze. It includes classical painter Francisco Goya, Mexican wrestlers, and “a weird pumpkin fetish.” At it’s core, El Cucuy […] Read more
