Taylor Winters, Author at Haunting

Hauntington Beach Manor’s Followers of Pythia is a Dark Labyrinth through your Mind

October 15, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Haunted House, Hauntington Beach Manor, Review No Comments

Hauntington Beach Manor's Followers of Pythia What can be scarier than the inside of your mind? Than the weight of having to step forward to seize your future? Than the inner demons that hide in the sulci of the mind? Well, Hauntington Beach Manor asked that question too and has created Followers of Pythia a [...]

Twisted Dreams 2023 Home Haunt - Buena Park - 2023

Twisted Dreams 2023 Left us Running & Turning Vegetarian

October 15, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Home Haunts, Review, Twisted Dreams No Comments

Twisted Dreams 2023 is a haunted house themed to perfection with grindhouse meets Texas chainsaw massacre. Located in Buena Park, this home haunt offers guests the closest thing to entering a backcountry teeming with cannibals, man-sized babies, and the deranged. This haunt is Ed Gein’s dream and has enough flesh on its walls to make [...]

Meyer2Meyer - Haunted Soiree - Theatre Du Vaurien - Dinner and Drinks - Immersive Horror - Los Angeles

Haunted Soiree Combines Deep Lore, Monstrous Creatures, and Immersive Elements This Halloween

October 15, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Dinner & Drinks, Immersive Theater, Meyer2Meyer Entertainment, Review No Comments

The Haunted Soiree: A Macabre Cocktail Party was previously known as House of Spirits: A Haunted Cocktail Soiree—and it was one of our favorite events during the Halloween season. The experience runs two-hours and is sandbox in style, meaning guests have free roam over the entirety of an atmospheric theater, finding monstrous scavenger hunts, demonic [...]

Downtown Repertory Theatre - Fangs - Mountainview Mausoleum - Immersive Horror

Downtown Rep’s Fangs is the strongest literary theater for this Halloween

October 14, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Downtown Repertory Theater, Immersive Horror, Review No Comments

The body goes limp. Blood pooling out from around the wound. The small girl on top of the body raises her head to address my group. With a slight smile, she asks, “How fast can you run?” Her white gown is splattered with blood. “I’ll give you a ten second head start.” I hesitate, as [...]

ACB The Rite Burlesque Ballet - Performance theater

ACB Trailblazes Modern Ballet with The Rite and Burlesque

October 13, 2023 By Taylor Winters In American Contemporary Ballet, Performance Theater, Review No Comments

Traditionally, ballets elicit connotations of properness, structure, and elegance. Yet, American Contemporary Ballet skirts these expectations by pushing the boundaries of dance, venue, and classical storytelling in the absolute best way possible. Beginning their twelfth season under an October moon, their first offering is The Rite and Burlesque—a three-part ballet infused with deep meaning, impressive [...]

Angel of Light - Los Angeles Theater - Immersive Horror

Angel of Light is the Best Immersive Haunt in Los Angeles

October 7, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Haunted House, Immersive Horror, Review No Comments

Angel of Light: An Aesthetic Experience “Cigars… Cigarettes….” The concession girl’s voice wafts through the violet air, carried by a heavy fog. I move past her, into the Angel of Light's expansive ballroom, lit like a dream. Deep blues and purples flood the space, as men and women in black tie regalia float past me. [...]

Six Flags Magic Mountain - Fright Fest 2023 - Valencia CA

Fright Fest 2023 Expertly Brings Saw and The Conjuring to Life

October 2, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Fright Fest, Review, Theme Parks & Installations No Comments

I was raised in Santa Clarita, with a view of Six Flag’s crimson Sky Tower visible from my backyard. Fright Fest was an annual tradition for my family growing up. Even before they implemented haunted mazes into Fright Fest, visiting the dyed red fountain, seeing the giant spider that dangled above guests at the entrance, [...]

ScareScape - Haunted House - Murrieta CA

ScareScape Brings Fear, Drinks, and Mazes to the Inland Empire

September 29, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Review, ScareScape Haunted Attraction No Comments

ScareScape : Fear, Drinks, and Mazes ScareScape is a new haunted house attraction produced by Creative Minds Productions bringing quality scares to Murietta, CA. Consisting of four distinct mazes (three standard and one VIP), multiple bars, food vendors, and a lively DJ, this first-year experience sits atop Heritage Hill, providing a gorgeous 360 degree viewpoint [...]

American Contemporary Ballet - Homecoming 2023 - Performance Theater - Los Angeles CA

American Contemporary Ballet’s Homecoming Invites You Out into the Bleachers in an immersive Ballet

April 30, 2023 By Taylor Winters In American Contemporary Ballet, Performance Theater, Review No Comments

“I have regrets.” A man in a mismatched suit and a striped tie announces to bleachers full of students. But his statement is only answered by the squeak of the left wheel on the lunch lady’s cart and the smell of peanut butter and jelly in the air. “Close your eyes and imagine you’re twenty, [...]

The Hotel Who - A Love Story - Immersive Theater - Los Angeles - Millennium Biltmore

The Hotel Who: A Love Story Excels In Its Musical Storytelling

April 25, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Dinner & Drinks, Immersive Theater, Review, The Hotel Who No Comments

I received a letter from my Aunt Leticia, Matriarch of the Sunflower family. I guess her son, Johnny, has met—and proposed to Judy Rose. Yes, you read that right: a Rose. Us Sunflowers have never gotten along with the Roses, worse than soil and salt; but if I know Leticia, she has something up her [...]