Halloween in San Francisco Bay Area

Halloween Events near the San Francisco Bay Area: Winchester Mystery House, Pirates of Emerson, Terror Vault, Candle Lighters Ghost House, and more.

Review: Festival Fright Nights at Winchester Mystery House

Does Festival Fright Nights boost the PKE readings inside San Jose's famous haunted attraction? To hear frightened Reddit users tell…

10 months ago

Terror Vault’s Hexed offers a bewitching brew

It's Wiccan Witches vs Wicked Witches within the bowels of the San Francisco Mint, where drag queens and pole dancers…

10 months ago

Terror Vault’s Fatal Abduction pits Earth against Alien Invaders

Immersive alien thriller probes the depths of San Francisco Mint - and more! If it's not vampires, it's cults. If…

2 years ago

Halloween Review: Unhinged Hotel at Winchester Mystery House

At Winchester's Unhinged Hotel, room service is stretched thin. Winchester Mystery House stands by itself against the evening sky, holding…

2 years ago

This way to Winchester Mystery House

Coverage coming soon. Spoiler: This year feels like the 13th Floor Entertainment version of Winchester Mystery House...

2 years ago

Review & Interview: San Francisco’s Terror Vault reopens The Initiation

We review The Initiation: Revival and interview Into the Dark producers David Flower & Joshua Grannell about resurrecting last Halloween's…

2 years ago

Winchester invites you to Halloween Housewarming

As befits a website named Hollywood Gothique, we focus on events in the Greater Los Angeles area (what helicopter traffic…

3 years ago

The Summoning stakes a claim to greatness

The Summoning enlists audiences into a human-vs-vampire conflict staged in the depths of the San Francisco Mint, where the undead…

4 years ago

Unhinged: Nightshade’s Curse (review)

Winchester Mystery House resurrects its Unhinged Halloween show, restoring the scares and adding a few new ones Unhinged: Nightshade's Curse,…

4 years ago

Paranormal Activity in the Bay Area

After enjoying Halloween events Winchester Mystery House and the San Francisco Mint, we managed to squeeze in a visit to…

4 years ago

Miniature Mystery House

Looking down at this miniature of the Winchester Mystery House makes me feel like Jack Torrance in The Shining (1980).…

4 years ago

San Francisco Smackdown

Talk about interactive experiences - I got smacked so hard I did not realize my glasses were gone for five…

4 years ago

Hollywood Gothique goes Unhinged

Sorry, Los Angeles - we have abandoned you this weekend, heading north to the Bay Area to visit Unhinged: Nighshade's…

4 years ago

Review: Winchester’s All Hallow’s Eve gets lost in the Mystery House

Lighting & visual effects fill the venerable tourist attraction with the spirit of Halloween, but this new production is no…

5 years ago

Pirates of Emerson: read the review, see the scenery

So now when it's too late to do anything about it, people are suddenly reading my review of the Pirates…

6 years ago