L.A. Halloween Horror Screenings 2019

October 1, 2019 Steve Biodrowski, Administrator Classic Horror, Halloween on Screen, Old Town Music Hall, Street Food Cinema 15 min read

This month we’re all busy visiting as many Halloween Haunts as we can, and we all know you can stream your favorite movies at home, but there’s something magical about seeing horror movies in a theatre with a screaming audience. Though home video has nearly killed the repertory theatre business, October offers a cornucopia of Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings, including classic, cult, and contemporary titles – everything from golden oldies like Mad Love (1935) to modern terrors like Get Out and IT (2017).

Most of these horror films are part of month-long series put on by specific venues or organizations. Some are random titles squeezed into otherwise scare-free programming. The locations are fairly widely spread around Los Angeles, so with a little luck you should be able to find a few of your favorites on screen somewhere near you.

Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings 2019: The American Cinematheque

Horror of Dracula Christoher Lee 1958 — Horror of Dracula screens on October 25 at the Egyptian.

Though the American Cinematheque is not presenting a “Halloween” festival per se, it is screening numerous horror films throughout October as part of other series, beginning with Beyond Fest, which runs through October 8. After that, there will be “Tuesdays with Peter Lorre,” which includes The Beast with Five Fingers, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Mad Love. Other titles include Horror of Dracula and Let The Right One In. The Aero Theatre presents its annual All Night Horrorthon on Saturday, October 26.

Below is the complete listing of horror titles. Screenings are at the Egyptian Theatre except where noted.

October 3: The Exoricst – 7:30pm
October 4: Portals – 8pm; The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue – 10:30pm
October 5: The Evil Dead – 4pm; VFW & Bliss – 7:30pm
October 6: Halloween III, Night of the Creeps, The Fog – 11am; In Search of Darkness – 6pm
October 7: Are You Afraid of the Dark – 7:30pm; Mary – 8pm (in the Spielberg room of the Egyptian Theatre); The Gate – 10:30pm
October 15: The Beast with Five Fingers – 1pm
October 22: Arsenic and Old Lace – 1pm at the Aero Theatre
October 25: Horror of Dracula & The Time Machine – 7:30pm
October 26: All Night Horrorthon – 7pm at the Aero Theatre
October 29: Mad Love – 1pm at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica
October 30: Let The Right One In – 7:30pm at the Aero Theatre
October 31: To Be Announced

The Egyptian Theatre is at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. The Aero Theatre is 1328 Montana Avenue in Santa Monica. Get more information here.

Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings 2019: Cinespia

Sixth Sense 1999 — The Sixth Sense screens on October 19 in Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Cinespia celebrates Halloween with two horror titles this month. Both screenings takes place in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, starting at 7pm (gates open at 5:15pm). Lawn chairs and blankets are advisable.

October 19: The Sixth Sense 20th Anniversary. M. Night Shyamalan will attend this screening to tell the behind-the-scenes story of how the film came to be. There will be a picnic with beer and wine as Cinespia’s resident DJ spins tunes.
October 27: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Hollywood Forever Cemetery is at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles. Get more information here.

Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings 2019: El Capitan Theatre

Maleficent 2: Angelina Jolie & Elle Fanning — Maleficent: Mistress of Evil debuts at El Capitan with a special opening night event on October 17.

Disney’s El Capitan Theatre offers a mostly light-hearted take on the Halloween season, featuring two previously released Disney productions in anticipation of their latest offering.

September 26-October 7: Hocus Pocus
October 10-13: Coco
October 17 – November 17: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (Opening Night is a “special event with “fun and surprises”)

Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings 2019: Fright Nights – The Science Behind Scary Movies

Los Angeles County Natural History Museum launches of Fright Nights: The Science Behind Scary Movies with a screening of Dracula (1931) on October 11. The after-hours event includes access to the the museum’s Natural History of Horror Exhibition, a performance by Captured Aural Phantasy Theater, and introductory remarks dissecting “how scientific discoveries have stirred fear and inspired creativity in people, both past and present.” Light snacks and a cash bar are available.

Later installments of Fright Nights will take place after the Halloween season has ended: The Creature From The Black Lagoon on February 14, 2010; Frankenstein (1931) on March 26, 2020; and The Mummy (1932) on the exhibition’s final day, April 10, 2020.

The Natural History Museum’s address is 900 Exposition Boulevard in Los Angeles. Click here for information about the exhibition and here for information about the screening.

Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings 2019: Heritage Square Museum

Alfred Hitchcock Psycho 1960 Halloween screening — Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho screens at Heritage Square Museum on October 20.

This Halloween’s Heritage Square Movie Night features a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) on October 20. The event includes food trucks, cash bar (beer and wine), and tours of the museum’s historic buildings. The screening is presented in association with Street Food Cinema, whose schedule is listed further down this page.

Heritage Square Museum is located at 3800 Homer Street near Montecito Heights. Learn more at the museum’s website.

Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings 2019: My Valley Pass

The Shining (1980) — The Shining screens on October 12 at the Langham Huntington, Pasadena.

My Valley Pass (which bills itself as the San Fernando Valley’s #1 Visitors Guide) offers a handful of Halloween horror screenings as part of two different series: San Fernando Valley Halloween Drive-In and Movies on Location. The former takes place at the Lake Balboa Complex in Lake Balboa; the latter takes place at the Langham, Huntington in Pasadena.

San Fernando Valley Halloween Drive-In:

These “double bills” require separate admission for each film. Events start at 7pm and run till 11:30pm

October 11: Ghostbusters (1984) & Friday the 13th (1980).
October 12: The Addams Family (1990) & The Exorcist (1973)

Movies on Location:

This new series screens classic films at “actual filming locations or at settings that go hand-in-hand” with the films. Clearly the latter is the case here, since The Shining was not filmed in Pasadena.

October 12: The Shining (1980), starting at 8pm.

The address of Lake Balboa Complex is located at 6335 Woodley Avenue. The address of Langham Huntington, Pasadena is 1401 S Oak Knoll Avenue. FInd ticket information here.

Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings 2019: The New Beverly Cinema

The New Beverly Cinema is mixing horror and exploitation titles in with its usual repertory programming. The Halloween horror screenings are 2pm matinees unless otherwise noted.

October 6: The Monster Squad
October 7: Deadly Friend
October 9: The Haunting (1962)
October 11: Hello Mary Lou – Prom Night II
October 12 & 13: Cartoon Club (Halloween Edition) at 10am; Mad Monster Party
October 14: Scream
October 16: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
October 18: Hellraiser III – Hell on Earth; From Dusk Till Dawn (11:59pm)
October 19: Blackbeard’s Ghost; All-Night Horror Show (7:30pm – SOLD OUT!)
October 20: Blackbeard’s Ghost
October 21: The People Under the Stairs
October 23: Eyes Without A Face
October 25: Halloween H20; Grindhouse (11:59pm)
October 26 & 27: Abbott and Costell Meet Frankenstein
October 27: The Fearless Vampire Killers (9:05pm – middle of a Sharon Tate triple bill)
October 28: A Nightmare on Elm Street; followed by a Joan Crawford triple bill of Straight-Jacket (7:30pm), Berserk (9:35pm), and Trog (11:30pm)
October 29: The Boogens (7:30pm), Slithis (9:35pm), The Deadly Spawn (11:20pm)
October 30: The Innocents; followed by a triple bill of Return of the Living Dead (7:30pm – SOLD OUT!), A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 (9:30PM) and Uninvited (11:15pm)
October 31: a triple bill of Uninvited (noon), A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 (2pm), and The Return of the Living Dead (3:50pm); followed by Kwaidan (7:30pm).

New Beverly is at 7165 Beverly Boulevard in the Fairfax District. Their website is here.

Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings 2019: The Nuart Theatre

Halloween (1978) Michael Myers — Halloween (1978) screens at October 11 at Landmark’s Nuart Theatre.

As part of its weekly Friday-night Cine Insomnia series, Landmark’s Nuart Theatre will present midnight screenings of a few cult and horror titles this Halloween season.

October 11: Halloween (1978)
October 18: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3
October 25-26: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (featuring live shadow cast, The Sins of the Flesh)

The Nuart Theatre is at 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles. Get more information here.

Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings 2019: Old Town Music Hall

Frankenstein (1931) screens on October 12 & 13 at Old Town Music Hall.

Every Halloween, Old Town Music Hall turns into Old Town Music Haunt, offering classic horror movies preceded by live music played on the venue’s Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ, an audience sing-along,
and a comedy short. Shows take place on weekends, with start times at 8:15pm on Fridays, at 2:30pm and 8:15pm on Saturdays, and at 2:30pm on Sundays.

October 5-6: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
October 11-12: Dracula (1931)
October 12-13: Frankenstein (1931)
October 18-19: The Mummy (1932)
October 19-20: The Invisible Man (1933)
October 25-26: The Wolf Man (1941)
October 26: The Phantom of the Opera (1943) – one show only at 8:15pm

Old Town Music Hall is located at 140 Richmond Street in El Segundo. Get ticket info here.

Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings 2019: Rooftop Cinema Club

The Exorcist 1973 Linda Blair — The Exorcist screens at Neuehouse Hollywood on October 26.

Rooftop Cinema Club Los Angeles screens movies at Neuehouse Hollywood and Level Downtown. The October schedule for both venues is loaded with Halloween horror screenings. All films start at 8pm unless noted.

Neuehouse Hollywood

October 9: Halloween (1978)
October 10: Midsommar
October 11: Hocus Pocus (7pm); Aladdin (9:45pm)
October 12: The Blair Witch Project (7pm)
October 19: Halloweentown (7pm)
October 25: Beetlejuice (7pm); Practical Magic (9:45pm)
October 26: Hocus Pocus (7pm); The Exorcist (9:45pm)
October 27: The Return of the Living Dead
October 29: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
October 30: King Kong (1933)
October 31: Halloween (1978)

Level Downtown

October 9: Midsommar
October 10: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
October 11: The Lost Boys (7pm); Candyman (9:45pm)
October 12: The Craft (7pm); Practical Magic (9:45pm)
October 13: The Devil’s Backbone
October 16: Hocus Pocus
October 17: John Carpenter Screening – title to be selected during a live recording of the Screen Drafts Podcast before the film (7:30pm)
October 18: Beetlejuice (7pm); Death Becomes Her (9:45pm)
October 19: The Blob (1958, 7pm); Village of the Damned (1960, 9:45pm)
October 20: Fright Night (1985)
October 23: Halloweentown
October 24: Hocus Pocus
October 25: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, 7pm); A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (9:45pm)
October 26: Tales From the Hood (9:45pm)
October 27: The Blair Witch Project
October 30: Carnival of Souls
October 31: Halloween (1978)

Level Downtown screenings are on the fourth floor of 888 South Olive Street in downtown Los Angeles. Neuehouse Hollywood Screenings are on the third floor of 6121 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Get more information here.

Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings 2019: Rooftop Screams

28 Days Later screens on October 11 at the Montalbán.

Rooftop Screams is the annual Halloween Horror Film festival on the rooftop of the The Montalbán. Films are presented on a large, high-quality digital projection screen, with noise-cancelling headphones for the audio. Drinks, burgers, and popcorn are available. Doors open at 6pm. Films start at 8:15pm. Prices are $18 for single seats, $50 for a love seat for two.

October 6: The Addams Family with a tribute from the Sinister String Quartet at 7:30pm
October 9: The Evil Dead (2013), with Q&A with Dana DeLorenzo
October 10: Carrie (1976)
October 11: 28 Days Later
October 12: Scream
October 13: Friday the 13th (1980)
October 16: The Lost Boys
October 17: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
October 18: American Psycho
October 19: Interview with the Vampire
October 20: Shaun of the Dead
October 23: Let The Right One In
October 24: Hocus Pocus
October 25: Dawn of the Dead (2004)
October 26: The Mummy (1999) with a tribute from the Sinister String Quartet at 7:30pm
October 27: Ghostbusters (1984)
October 29: Death Becomes Her
October 30: Beetlejuice
October 31: Get Out
November 1: Coco

Screenings take place on the rooftop at 1615 Vine Street. Get more information at the website.

Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings 2019: Screamfest Horror Festival

The annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival runs from October 8 through 17 at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres. Programming includes premieres of short subjects and independent feature films, such as Immortal with Tony Todd (Candyman) and the Soska Sisters’ remake of David Cronenberg’s Rabid.

The address is 6801 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. Screamfest’s complete schedule is listed on their Facebook page. The event’s website is: screamfestla.com.

Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings 2019: Secret Movie Club

The Thing 1982 Russell — The Thing screens on October 11 at the Vista Theatre.

Programming movies throughout the year, the Secret Movie Club turns toward the horror genre every Halloween, offering an eclectic selection of old and new titles projected in 35mm, with an emphasis on the work of John Carpenter. Screenings are at midnight in the Vista Theatre unless otherwise noted.

October 11: John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)
October 12: Rosembary’s Baby
October 13: The Cat People (1942) & I Walked with a Zombie
October 18: The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
October 19: What We Do In The Shadows
October 20: 16mm screenings of classic Twilight Zone episodes (10am)
October 22: 16mm screening of Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse (Regent Theatre, 8pm)
October 25: John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness
October 26: Frankenstein (1931) & Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (9:45am)
October 26: The Witch
October 31: A Nightmare on Elm Street & A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (8:15pm)
November 1: John Carpenter’s In The Mouth Of Madness
November 2: Luis Bunuel’s The Exterminating Angel (10:30am)

The Vista Theatre’s address is 4473 Sunset Drive in Hollyood. The Regent is located at 448 S Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. For more information, visit the Secret Movie Club’s Facebook page.

Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings 2019: Street Food Cinema’s Phantasmagoria

IT (2018) Pennywise — IT (2017) screens on Halloween Night at the Million Dollar Theatre as part of Cinema Phantasmagoria.

Street Food Cinema offers a plethora of horror, science fiction, and fantasy films, screened in a variety of venues. The screenings at the Million Dollar Theatre are part of a special Halloween event called Cinema Phantasmagoria, which bills itself as “an immersive haunted theater experience” involving “a mysterious 1920’s movie palace where time stands still.” These screenings include musicians, spooky ushers, and an undead Master of Ceremonies. horror film. Guest can enjoy cocktails before the movie and take a backstage Ghost Tour into the depths of the Million Dollar Theatre.

October 5 : Guardians of the Galaxy (Victory Park, Pasadena)
October 5 : Ghostbusters (La Quinta Park, La Quinta)
October 11 : Halloween (1978) (Million Dollar Theater, Downtown)
October 12: Beetlejuice (Will Rogers State Historic Park, Pacific Palisades)
October 12 : Hocus Pocus (Million Dollar Theater, Downtown)
October 13 : A Nightmare on Elm Street (Million Dollar Theater, Downtown)
October 18 : Saw (Million Dollar Theater, Downtown)
October 14 : Ghostbusters (Westdrift Gold Course, Manhattan Beach)
October 19 : Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Million Dollar Theater, Downtown)
October 20 : Psycho (Heritage Square Museum, Los Angeles – listed separately under Heritage Square Museum)
October 20 : The Thing (Million Dollar Theater, Downtown)
October 25 : Shaun of the Dead (Million Dollar Theater, Downtown)
October 26 : Beetlejuice (Million Dollar Theater, Downtown)
October 27: The Conjuring (Million Dollar Theater, Downtown)
October 30 : Sleepy Hollow (Million Dollar Theater, Downtown)
~~October 31 : It (Million Dollar Theater, Downtown)~~
November 1: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Million Dollar Theatre is at 307 S Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. For other theatre locations, visit Street Food Cinema’s website.

Los Angeles Halloween Horror Screenings 2019: Walt Disney Concert Hall

The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923 Lon Chaney — The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) screens at Disney Concert Hall on Halloween Night.

For its annual, “Halloween Organ & Film” presentation, Walt Disney Concert Hall screens The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) with live musical accompaniment on the venue’s organ. The event takes place on Halloween Night, starting at 8pm. The address is 111 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Learn more here.