New for Halloween 2024: Alien Encounter – A live horror experience

This Halloween Trepany House, the resident theater company at Titmouse Warehouse, presents Alien Encounter: A Live Horror Experience. Created by Adam Franklin & Amit Itelman, the approximately 25-minute show is an immersive show that promises to douse audiences in blood, so beware – and dress accordingly.

Alien Encounter: A Live Horror Experience is a parody of Disney World’s ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, a theater-in-the-round attraction that launched in the 1990s. Originally inspired by the Alien film franchise and titled “Nostromo,” the project was toned down, and its numbers were filed off before it was unveiled to the public as a more generic presentation in 1994. After shocking parents and their children, its preshow was quickly revised to let audience know what to expect. Still, the main event was uncharacteristically tense for a Disney attraction, strapping its audience into their seats and immersing them in darkness while an alien moved about among them, its presence suggested by vibrations, sound effects, and moist air simulating breath. Plans to open the show at Disneyland in Anaheim were scrapped, and the Disney World version closed in 2003.

Tepany House’s low-tech version ditches the Disney special effects and prerecorded performances in favor of live actors and a new “ultra-violent” script, which will bring audiences face to face with a man-eating alien.

Alien Encounter: A Live Horror Experience runs Fridays and Saturdays in October, plus October 30 and 31; shows start at 8pm nightly. Titmouse Warehouse is located at 1121 Seward Street in Hollywood. Tickets are $20. For more information visit trepanyhouse.org.