From the Crypt: Michael Myers at HHN 2009
As you have probably heard, Michael Myers - the unstoppable slasher from John Carpenter's Halloween - will haunt this year's
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Halloween 2009: Vampyr Inn's Bloody Ball - Review & Video
Finally, after an unforgivably long delay, we are back to wrap up this year's edition of our annual Halloween Haunt Odyssey. Atypically, our final stop was at not an amateur yard haunt but a professional Halloween haunted house: the Vampyr Inn's Bloody Ball, a new Halloween attraction in West Hollywood.
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After beginning our 2009 Halloween Haunt Odyssey - an annual night-time tour of amatuer haunted houses - with a visit
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We are back for another installment of our annual Halloween Haunt Odyssey. This is an article in which we round up all the haunted attractions and Halloween events in Los Angeles that we visit on the night of October 31; predominantly, these tend to be Halloween yard haunts, because many of those tend to be open only on Halloween night. This year's odyssey was small in number but large in quantity, because we toured haunted houses in widely separated geographical areas: the Forest of Mirrors and the Reign of Terror in the West Valley; the House of Restless Spirits and the Eternal Rest Cemetery not far from the beaches of Santa Monica and Venice.
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Nightmare at Scareview Farms 2009: Review
Nightmare at Scareview Farms is the new Halloween attraction at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, replacing Fearplex(which was sold off after the death of owner Bob Koritzke) Located in the fairgrounds’ Big Red Barn (instead of the stadium that housed Fearplex), Nightmare at Scare View Farms offers three mazes, which benefit from the vast expanse of available space, creating wide open environments quite different from the claustrophobic confines of most walk-through Halloween haunts. The results are not as intense as in some scare factories, but they are frightening in a fun sort of way that should appeal to families as long as their children are not too easily frightened (recommended age is over twelve). Also, Halloween fans looking for something besides the usual chainsaw-killer-in-the-corridor approach will appreciate the distinctive approach.
Read moreLos Angeles Haunted Hayride 2009 - Video
We got a kick out of the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride, a new Halloween attraction for 2009. The open-air setting
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Halloween Horror Nights 2009 - Terror Tram & Shaun of the Dead Video
Here is Hollywood Gothique's second video from the 2009 Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios in Hollywood - featuring the
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The Haunted Queen Mary - Halloween 2009 Review
The Queen Mary has long provided one of our favorite Halloween events in Los Angeles (as you can see in
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Halloween Horror Nights quotes yours truly
I never aspired to be a quote whore, but apparently Universal Studios Hollywood likes my copy: previously they quoted my review
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Knott's Scary Farm 2009: Dia de Los Muertos Video
Well, we saved the best for last! We found the 2009 Knotts Berry Farm Halloween Haunt to be enjoyable, but the new mazes were not quite as full of new and exciting stuff as we had hoped. Lockdown The Asylum and Uncle Bobo's Big Top of the Bizarre were fun, and we appreciated the old-fashioned Victorian atmosphere of Terror of London, but the real highlight was Dia de Los Muertos: Day of the Dead, which is the subject of our fourth and final video from this year's Knott's Scary Farm.
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Knotts Scary Farm 2009: Terror of London Video
Here is the second of our videos detailing the four new mazes at the 2009 Knotts Berry Farm Halloween Haunt.
Read moreReminders: Heritage Haunt, Ghost Train, Scareview Farms this weekend
The October season is definitely heating up as the middle of October rolls around. We hope you already hit all the
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Los Angeles Haunted Hayride 2009 - Review
This is a real Halloween treat for fright fans who want to enjoy their scares in the open air. Climb aboard a tractor-pulled trailer that winds its way through woods haunted by monsters of every size and shape, some ten feet tall. Travel past cemeteries, corn rows, and old dark house; even go inside a dark carnival filled with crazy clowns. See demented maniacs, mad doctors, zombies cannibals, werewolves, and living scarecrows. Is that Sadako climbing out of the well, looking for victims? And is that Jason Voorhees atop the hill, ready to attack? What other strange, unseen things lurk in the shadows, unseen but ready to attack at any moment?
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