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Dark Harbor 2024 - Theme Park - Queen Mary - Long Beach CA

Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor 2024 Returns to Frightening Success!

October 9, 2024 By Taylor Winters In Dark Harbor, Review, Theme Parks & Installations No Comments

Queen Mary's Dark Harbor 2024, one of Southern California's most iconic Halloween events, has made a triumphant return after a four-year hiatus. This haunted attraction, set aboard the historic Queen Mary ship in Long Beach, offers a unique blend of maritime history and contemporary scares. The Queen Mary, with its storied past and long-standing reputation [...]

JFi Productions - Creep LA - Ghosts - CBS Ghosts - Immersive Horror - Los Angeles CA

CBS and Just Fix It Productions Join Forces to Present “Creep LA: Ghosts” in Los Angeles This October

August 7, 2024 By Alyssa Concha In JFI Productions, News No Comments

CBS haunts Los Angeles this October with an immersive experience inspired by its hit comedy GHOSTS, giving fans [ages 18+] more reasons to believe, perfectly timed around the show’s Oct. 17 fourth-season premiere! CBS and Just Fix It Productions’ Creep LA are creating an interactive 60-minute show, “ Creep LA: Ghosts ,” to be held [...]

Fairbrook Manor 2023 - Home Haunt - Long Beach CA

Fairbrook Manor 2023 Survives another Halloween to Haunt Long Beach

November 6, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Fairbrook Manor, Home Haunts, Review No Comments

Fairbrook Manor 2023 Fairbrook Manor is a favorite of ours, a local home haunt in the Los Altos neighborhood, doing what they do to support the Long Beach Rescue Mission. But while Fairbrook Manor 2023 only wanted to support a great cause, the city of Long Beach shut them down early in their run, citing [...]

Prism Haunt 2023 - Monstrous Meltdown - Hallloween Yard Display - Mission Viejo CA

Monstrous Meltdown by Prism Haunt 2023 Restores the Magic of Their Home Haunt

November 6, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Halloween Yard Displays, Prism, Review No Comments

The ramp leading up to the laboratory is already glowing green. A soapy sludge flies through the air, shot from a canon, and slowly slides down the decline. I bravely step into the radioactive residue—and it doesn’t burn my skin. Perhaps it only works on the monsters, I think to myself. Dr. Sanguine pulls a [...]

Hotel Who - La Séance - Immersive Theater - Hollywood - Los Angeles CA

Hotel Who’s La Séance: Spiritualism, Intrigue, & Recommendations for this Murder Mystery

November 5, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Immersive Theater, Review, The Hotel Who No Comments

Various rugs are laid across the floor, lit only by the flicker of candlelight. Strangers join hands together, forming a kidney bean shaped circle. Ludwig kneels at the center, the Ivar family remaining close, but not too close. Ludwig begins speaking in a tongue I cannot comprehend, his breath becoming more rapid, as he opens [...]

Dangling Carrot - Grisly Gardens 2023 - Haunted House - Santa Clarita CA

Dangling Carrot’s Grisly Garden – A Film Industry Fabricated Halloween Haunt

November 4, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Haunted House, Review No Comments

Dangling Carrot Creative - Grisly Garden The lights flash a blinding cascade of colors. My eyes try to adjust, but the figure at the end of the hall remains fuzzy; out of focus. As the lights change, the polka dotted walls appear to transform: blues becoming purple, yellows turning green. I look again, but the [...]

Deadwood Inn - Home Haunt - Buena Park CA

Deadwood Inn Wants you to Check into Room 1313 and not Check Out

November 4, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Home Haunts, Review, Town of Deadwood No Comments

Town of Deadwood presents Deadwood Inn Now in their third year, the Town of Deadwood continues their ever-changing theme by introducing Deadwood Inn. With an absolutely breathtaking two-story façade facing the street, all passerby’s will see Deadwood Inn and immediately stop for pictures and to investigate further. While the actual maze is more a singular [...]

Mystic Terror 2023 - Halloween Heritage - Home Haunt - Garden Grove CA

Mystic Terror 2023 Captures the Evolution of Horror with Halloween Heritage

November 4, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Home Haunts, Mystic Terror, Review No Comments

Long, long ago, there lived a drunk named Stingy Jack. Despite his proclivity for a drink, Stingy Jack was quite clever. When Satan decided he wanted the poor man’s soul, Jack made a deal to have a final drink with the devil. Jack, as clever as he was, left Satan with the bill—and one Satan [...]

Rotten Apple 907 - Rotten Apple 2023 - Lets Go to the Movies - Home Haunt - Burbank CA

Rotten Apple 2023 Invites us to Go to the Movies

November 2, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Home Haunts, Review, Rotten Apple 907 No Comments

Let's Go to the Movies with Rotten Apple 2023 Rotten Apple 907 is the constant in the Southern California home haunt scene—beginning in 1990 as a party for their daughter and now extending into the legend category. This home haunt is anything but what you’d think of when you think a home haunt. The walk-through [...]

Glenwood Mine Co 2023 - Home Haunt - La Crescenta CA

Glenwood Mine Co 2023 is an Exceptional Home Haunt in La Crescenta

November 1, 2023 By Taylor Winters In Home Haunts, Review No Comments

Glenwood Mine Co 2023 “Why was the miner depressed?” A woman asks, readjusting her hardhat. “Because he couldn’t see the light at the end of his tunnel!” She slaps her knees, showing dirt smudged across the bridge of her nose. “And he couldn’t even have a drink—because they don’t serve miners.” We laugh at the [...]