Gothic Hills Cemetery
Halloween 2024: Gothic Hills closed for Halloween 2023 “due to unexpected events.” There is no word on a return for 2024.
Location: 11109 Middleborough Road, Riverside, CA 92503
Websites: gothichillscemetery.com – facebook.com/GothicHills
Our Take: Gothic Hills Cemetery is an ambitious home haunt, highly recommended for its large, colorful yard display in front and elaborate mini-maze in back.
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Gothic Hills Cemetery History
A charitable non-profit, Gothic Hills Cemetery is a home haunt that collects donations to benefit the community.
When located in North Hills, this Halloween home haunt offered a decorated yard and and a very impressive walk-through, with amazing decorations and effects. The yard display was beautiful, and the maze was fun – a search through a tomb for lost treasure. Jump-scares were relatively minimal; this was more like a guided tour with your host leading you on a treasure hunt and stopping here and there to show off effects, including a digitally projected witch who delivered an incantation and a mechanical monster guarding the treasure.
For Halloween 2017, the proprietors of Gothic Hills Cemetery moved from their old North Hills location to Sylmar, where they presented a simpler yard haunt and pumpkin patch for trick-or-treaters and guests on Halloween Night.
After reducing itself to a yard display during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, Gothic Hills Cemetery moved to a new location in Riverside, where they presented another yard display in 2021. A plan to resurrect the walkthrough in 2022 was abandoned when the haunt announced in September that it would go dark that year; fortunately, Gothic Hills ultimately wound up offering another yard display. Plans to resurrect the walk through crypt in 2023 were abandoned due to unforeseen circumstances.
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