Halloween events in Los Angeles for spooky fun

Confront familiar foes at Universal Studios’ annual Halloween festivities, where big-budget scares meet iconic horror movie characters. You’ll be able to navigate multiple scare zones and mazes, including ones based on A Quiet Place, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Insidious, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Weeknd, an all-female assembly of the classic Universal Monsters and a selection of creatures inspired by Latin American folklore. Also, the “Terror Tram” edition of the studio tour will return with a Blumhouse takeover, while The Purge will again assume stage show duties over at the WaterWorld venue.

This is one of the largest Halloween street parties in the world, and there’s really no better place to be on October 31st. Sure, the crowd is huge (like, a half-million people huge) and a bit belligerent, but the amazing display of costumes and general merry-making spirit deem it at least a worthy stop, if not your main destination for the evening. Find it along Santa Monica Boulevard, between Doheny Drive and La Cienega Boulevard.

See our guide to the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval.

What could be a better fit for Halloween than spooky films screened in a cemetery? This October, Cinespia will be showing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Coraline and Trick ‘r Treat at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, plus Suspiria at the Orphuem.

Each year the Walt Disney Concert Hall adds a little bit of Frank Gehry architecture to Halloween with a silent film screening accompanied by organist Clark Wilson for an extra eerie feel. This year, take a seat for the silent 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu.

The masters of alfresco rooftop movie viewing are awakening the spirits in October with a slate of Halloween favorites at their DTLA rooftop. The festive flicks continue to pick up as Halloween approaches, with plenty of chances to see Hocus Pocus, Friday the 13th and Halloween, among others.

The park-hopping alfresco film series will be screening The Shining and Young Frankenstein at the Ford.

As the scrambled name implies, this London-based collective spins nothing other than the sweet tones of new edits and remixes of Fleetwood Mac tracks. The parties themselves are blindingly good fun and pretty much all the edits are superb, often full of ambient disco and dreamy electronic vibes which give a lovely lush dancefloor touch to FM’s classics. For this “Leather & Lace Disco” edition held just after Halloween, extravagant costumes, Mac-related or otherwise, are very much welcome, so get your best Stevie Nicks bouffant on and prepare for unabashed Fleetwood fun.

Encounter free-roaming monsters, terrifying mazes—spanning themes like a twisted carnival and an alien-inhabited space station—a “boo-fet” dinner and all sorts of other haunted houses and attractions at the OC theme park.

The San Bernardino rave scene injects itself with a bit of Halloween flair at this annual music fest. Insomniac Events—the group behind EDC and the Wonderland series—is setting up multiple stages at the NOS Events Center; headliners include Martin Garrix, Afroki (Afrojack B2B Steve Aoki), Illenium, Alison Wonderland, Ludacris, Deadmau5 and more. Explore the grounds to find mazes alongside ominous artwork and freak show performers.