Here you'll find all the scary movies, horror film festival and undead...live shows to keep your eyeballs in your head for Halloween.
Sep 20, 2025, 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Los Angeles, 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Los Angeles, 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
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Screamfest Horror Film Festival 25th Edition
Sat, Sep 20
October 7-16, 2025
TCL Chinese Theater
$
The largest and longest-running horror film festival in the United States is back again.
October 4 - October 18, 2025
$
Sold Out
* We assume this is this year's Beyond Fest, it doesn't seem like any other films are coming, but here's hoping.
Oscar-winning
director and master filmmaker, Guillermo del Toro, joins in person for a
sweeping retrospective spanning three decades of dreams and demons,
including new restorations, special Director’s Cuts, and rare 35mm
screenings.
Beyond Fest, the
biggest and most highly attended genre film festival in the U.S., in
partnership with the American Cinematheque, proudly announces a
spectacular celebration of the great Guillermo del Toro. Está Vivo: The
Gods and Monsters of Guillermo del Toro is the most complete
retrospective of the filmmaker’s illustrious career and spans his
revolutionary and electrifying debut, CRONOS 4K Restoration (Theatrical
Premiere), through to his most recent descent into madness, NIGHTMARE
ALLEY: VISION IN DARKNESS AND LIGHT.
Sat, Oct 11 @ 12:00 pm
Brain Dead Studios
$31.50
35mm
can be beautiful, but 16mm is personal. Join this 12-hour laugh-off of
sizzling slapstick, scary spoofs, and a cornucopia of pulpy
creatures-of-the-night — all from Secret Sixteen’s incredibly siqq
collection of this wondrous film format.
Titles aren’t revealed until they unspool onscreen. What we can say is that this six-film marathon is soaking in cartoonish carnage, sassy familiars, self-aware unseriousness, blood in the fridge, high school horndogs, neon techno-pop, head-spinning line readings, goth MILFs, juvenile jerks, “Scooby-Doo”-style intrigue, the biggest of hairdos, the dirtiest of dancing, mood whiplash, dramatic eyeliner, indulgent improv, idiot morons, camp on camp on camp, law enforcement refusing to believe the protagonists to a ridiculous degree, gore geysers, claustrophobic cackles, disembodied heads and a truckload of timeless whimsy.
Titles aren’t revealed until they unspool onscreen. What we can say is that this six-film marathon is soaking in cartoonish carnage, sassy familiars, self-aware unseriousness, blood in the fridge, high school horndogs, neon techno-pop, head-spinning line readings, goth MILFs, juvenile jerks, “Scooby-Doo”-style intrigue, the biggest of hairdos, the dirtiest of dancing, mood whiplash, dramatic eyeliner, indulgent improv, idiot morons, camp on camp on camp, law enforcement refusing to believe the protagonists to a ridiculous degree, gore geysers, claustrophobic cackles, disembodied heads and a truckload of timeless whimsy.
20th Annual Horrorthon ?
Aero Theatre
Undead Shows
September 6– November 9, 2025
Bob Baker Marionette Theater, 4949 York Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Tickets: $25 per ticket, Children 2 & under get in for free
Bob Baker Marionette Theater (BBMT) is pleased to present Hallowe’en Spooktacular. Hallowe’en Spooktacular is an hour-long, family-friendly boo-sical revue featuring over one hundred spirited puppets rallying to regale you with silly things on strings. With new thrills and curious creations, from Frankenstein’s monster’s toe-tapping inception to an out-of-this-world Venutian dreamscape, Hallowe’en Spooktacular beckons you to the place where imagination … lurks!
This year, Spooktacular now includes a Día de los Muertos sequence with a celebratory scene to pay tribute to the holiday and honor our community.
Orpheum Theatre, Los Angeles
$23
Be
afraid. The hit podcast “Spooked” comes to Los Angeles as host Glynn
Washington (he/him) and guests celebrate spooky season with a night of
Snap Judgment LIVE storytelling magic.
Question. Everything.
Join us for amazing, true-life supernatural stories from people who can scarcely believe it happened themselves.
And come decked out in full Halloween costume for a chance to win the Spooked LIVE Best-Dressed Prize! It’s storytelling, with a beat – and it’s all going down at the historic Orpheum Theatre. (We’re not saying it’s haunted, but we’re also not saying it isn’t.)
Question. Everything.
Join us for amazing, true-life supernatural stories from people who can scarcely believe it happened themselves.
And come decked out in full Halloween costume for a chance to win the Spooked LIVE Best-Dressed Prize! It’s storytelling, with a beat – and it’s all going down at the historic Orpheum Theatre. (We’re not saying it’s haunted, but we’re also not saying it isn’t.)
HALLOWEEN
Friday, October 31 @ 8:00 PM
Friday, October 31 @ 8:00 PM
Hudson Mainstage Theatre
6539 Santa Monica Blvd
Hollywood, CA 90038
6539 Santa Monica Blvd
Hollywood, CA 90038
$$
SAW
The Musical hilariously captures the events of the first movie
parodying the Saw that started it all following from where Lawrence
Gordon and Adam Stanheight find each other for the first time in the
bathroom trap. Will they follow ''the rules'' as they discover each
other's secrets? Will they escape the game in time and saw right
through? A love story with fluidity (and lots more fluids), 'SAW The
Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw' is Little Shop of Horrors meets
Avenue Q, pushing the boundary on sexuality and how to love.
Screenings
CREATURE FEATURES 2: THE SEQUEL
Featuring Gorgazma Horror Shorts & More!
At Nuart Theatre in September & October!
• Featuring Gorgazma Horror Shorts with each screening!
• Raffle prizes!
• Post-show Q&As with meet and greet at select screenings!
• Special edition collectors poster by Nathan Cabrera giveaway to the first 100 attendees with ticket purchase for each show, while supplies last!
September:
Fri, Sep 05 - EVIL DEAD 2 (1987) with short film: WHITCH
Post show Q&A and meet & greet with WHITCH director Hoku Uchiyama!
Post show poster signing with Nathan Cabrera.
SYNDICATE Collectibes - Ash's Chainsaw giveaway!
Fri, Sep 12 - GHOSTBUSTERS II (1989) with short film: MYSTERIOUS MOSE by Screen Novelties
Fri, Sep 19 - DEMONS 2 (1986) with short film: THE BLACK CUBE by Gorgazma
Special Collectible Toy Announcement by Ubox Industries.
Fri, Sep 26 - CRITTERS 2: THE MAIN COURSE (1988) with short films: SNAKE D*CK by David Mahmoudieh and CAPTAIN TARDIGRADE Created by Ian Millar and TITMOUSE ANIMATION
Special Guests: Creature Creators The Chiodo Brothers! Post show Q&A and meet & greet.
October:
Fri, Oct 3 - BASKET CASE 2 (1990) with short film: ZOMBOOBIES by Mike L. Taylor
Special Guest: MFX Artist Gabe Bartalos! Post Show Q&A and meet & greet.
Photo Opportunity - The Altar of Bilial.
Fri, Oct 10 - CHILD’S PLAY 2 (1990) in 35mm! 35th Anniversary!
With short film: BULLET TIME by Eddie Alcazar, Music by Danny Elfman. Voiced by Eric Bauza.
Special Guest: Voice Actor Eric Bauza! Pre-show lobby meet & greet and Film Introduction.
Photo Opportunity - Meet Bullet Time the Dog!
Fri, Oct 17 - GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (1990) in 35mm! 35th Anniversary!
With short film: A GOD'S PURPOSE by Gary Ye and Titmouse Animation.
Select Nights In September & October
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
John Carpenter Residency at the Egyptian Theatre
FRI SEP 12, 2025 7:00 PM
THE FOG
$27.00 (members-only)
Egyptian Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker John Carpenter and producer Larry Franco
THE FOG
$27.00 (members-only)
Egyptian Theatre | Q&A with filmmaker John Carpenter and producer Larry Franco
[REDACTED TITLE] in 70mm + Q&A
Sat. Sep 27, 2025
Egyptian Theatre
Sat. Sep 27, 2025
Egyptian Theatre
The
American Cinematheque is thrilled to present a special residency with
legendary filmmaker John Carpenter ahead of his return to the stage with
John Carpenter: Live In Concert this October in Los Angeles and New
York. Kicking off the series, we’ll celebrate the 45th anniversary of
THE FOG with a screening featuring John Carpenter and producer Larry
Franco in-person.
Admission is free. No advance reservations.
Join
us for a screening of an eclectic mix of television programming
inspired by the research paper, “The Ideology of Liveness,
Theatricality, and the Star Persona: Vincent Price on Television,”
written by archivist Gabz Norte. The paper was produced for the graduate
seminar “Researching the UCLA Film & Television Archive,” taught by
Maya Montañez Smukler (Head, Archive Research and Study Center) in
UCLA’s Cinema and Media Studies program, Winter 2022.
Q&A
with Victoria Price, daughter of Vincent Price and author of “Vincent
Price: A Daughter's Biography,” moderated by archivist Gabz Norte. Price
will sign copies of the book before the screening beginning at 6:30
p.m.
A TASTE OF VAMPIRE MOVIES AROUND THE WORLD
A TASTE OF VAMPIRE MOVIES AROUND THE WORLD
Wednesday, October 1 · 7 - 9pm
Philosophical Research Society
3910 Los Feliz Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90027
3910 Los Feliz Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90027
$14.64
With
roots going back to Ancient Greece and Asian folklore, the vampire
captivated the human imagination like never before with the arrival of
the novel Dracula and the subsequent birth of cinema. The evolution of
the terrifying and sometimes seductive monster in film and television
will be explored through common themes and trends over the years in
countries ranging from the U.S. and U.K. to France to Hong Kong,
touching on everything from slapstick comedy to searing social
commentary along the way in this perfect occasion to get into the
Halloween spirit.
Select Nights In October
October 4, 2025
SFC x DTLA Alliance Present: Twitches
SFC x DTLA Alliance Present: Twitches
October 30, 2025
The Ford x SFC present: Get Out
The Ford x SFC present: Get Out
October 30, 2025
The Evil Dead in Concert
The Evil Dead in Concert
October 31, 2025
The Ford x SFC present: Night of the Living Dead
The Ford x SFC present: Night of the Living Dead
October 31, 2025
The Evil Dead in Concert (Friday)
The Evil Dead in Concert (Friday)
November 1, 2025
The Evil Dead in Concert (Saturday)
The Evil Dead in Concert (Saturday)
Thursday, October 30 · 7:30 - 10pm
Philosophical Research Society
3910 Los Feliz Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90027
3910 Los Feliz Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90027
$27.45
Please join us for a special presentation of Nosferatu (1922) with a live soundtrack performed by Circuit des Yeux!
Walt Disney Concert Hall
$$
Clark Wilson transports us back to 15th-century Paris with a spine-tingling organ accompaniment to The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Lon Chaney stars as Quasimodo in the 1923 silent film remembered as Universal Studio’s smash-hit “Super Jewel”—the company’s largest, most expensive, and top-priority production at the time.
Clark Wilson transports us back to 15th-century Paris with a spine-tingling organ accompaniment to The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Lon Chaney stars as Quasimodo in the 1923 silent film remembered as Universal Studio’s smash-hit “Super Jewel”—the company’s largest, most expensive, and top-priority production at the time.
Cult classics or mainstream mayhem, you'll have plenty of special screenings September into October from both theaters in LA
Redead Screenings
