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Daily Email - Friday - 10/17/2025

October 17, 2025

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Halloween is coming up fast, and this newsletter’s got all our treats, no tricks! DoMORE members can win a trip to Austin for a Halloween Freakend at The Far Out, featuring Stereolab, Viagra Boys, and Machine Girl. VIP tickets, hotel stay, and $600 flight credit included. Sign up for DoMORE to enter this Golden Ticket trip!*

JUST ANNOUNCED

  • Lavish rooms cloaked in velvet and fangs, pulsing with live music, dazzling costumes, illusions, seductive dance, and more at Haunted Soiree: VAMPIRE, which takes over the Nocturne Theatre until Saturday, 11/1!*

  • Transport back to 15th-century Paris with a spine-tingling organ accompaniment to The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Halloween night. Lon Chaney stars as Quasimodo!*

  • Happy Hallo-weed! The Halloweed Scavenger Hunt is an app-guided cannabis car quest through LA’s most spooktacular and stoner-friendly neighborhoods. Explore haunted homes, spooky lights, 420 lounges, and more!*

  • This Halloween, the (Hollywood) Hills come alive. Head to Yamashiro on Friday, 10/31 for the annual Expression Halloween with DJ sets by Discos xxx, Masha Mar, Heidi Lawden, and more of your faves! Costumes mandatory!

  • Space Yacht is taking over an undisclosed Hollywood hotel basement for a haunted night of house, garage, breakbeats, and techno Halloween night. You might just win tickets to enter the Haunted Hotel, if you aren’t chicken…

HOLLYWOOD RECORDS, INC. PRESENTS:

HALLOWEEN EVENTS IN LOS ANGELES

With parties, themed events, and terrifying experiences happening all month long, there's no shortage of things to do in the name of All Hallows' Eve. Whether you're looking for some family-friendly fun at local pumpkin patches or want to get your pants scared off this weekend, we’ve got your Halloween plans covered!

In case your exorcist won’t return your calls, alt-pop trio little image are back with a new track and video - “KILL THE GHOST”! We recommend streaming it while you’re scanning our events list, sorting out your costume, and dropping plans in the group chat.

FOR THE SPOOKIEST SPOOKY SEASON

✨ Preciosa Night - Queer Perreo Halloween Bash

Saturday, October 25 at The Regent Theater (9PM)

This is not your abuela’s Halloween party. Preciosa Night is back with a queer perreo freakfest in DTLA. Think: glitter, booty, and Bad Bunny on blast. Enter to win tickets to this Queer Perreo Halloween Bash for a night of tricks, treats, and reggaetón!*

🐾 Howl-O-Ween

Sunday, October 26 at Angel City Brewery (12PM)

Head to the Arts District for Howl-O-Ween, a pet-friendly Halloween celebration packed with specialty beer-and-candy flights, food for humans and pups, costume contests, and more. Enter to win ACB merch and Halloween dog accessories!*

💀 The Evil Dead in Concert

Thursday, Friday, & Saturday, October 30 - November 1 at Million Dollar Theater

Sam Raimi’s beloved cult classic like you’ve never seen before, The Evil Dead rises again with live score, blood-soaked visuals, and an immersive scare experience for three nights beneath the Million Dollar Theater in DTLA. Win tickets, if you dare!*

🤡 Escape Halloween: Psycho Circus

Friday & Saturday, October 31 - November 1 at NOS Event Center

Two nights of sinister sounds await. Escape Halloween: Psycho Circus brings Porter Robinson, DJ Snake, Peekaboo, Walker & Royce, and more to San Bernardino. The biggest Halloween party in the country is calling. Enter to win tickets now!*

🚢 Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor

Select Nights through Sunday, November 2 in Long Beach

If a haunted ocean liner filled with fog, freaks, and full-on psychological warfare sounds like your kind of night out, welcome aboard! Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor is part ghost tour, part haunted maze, and yes, the fog is very much alive and hates you personally.

Boo-ze, Bites & Frights

Join Street Food Cinema through 10/25 for Boo-ze, Bites & Frights, an immersive Halloween movie series at Heritage Square Museum in Pasadena! Halloween double features, mouth-watering street food, adult trick-or-treating, boo-zy bars, creepy photo ops, guided tours of hauntingly beautiful Victorian mansions, and much more!*

LOCALS ONLY

  • 26 rooms of candlelit Lilith Fair daydreams, coffeehouse confessionals, fog-drenched raves, and Nu Metal chaos at Haunted Heck, a 90’s-themed haunted house and cursed karaoke bar in DTLA!

  • Cabaret turns crime scene when a performer drops dead mid-party. Solve it — or die trying — at this Prohibition-era murder mystery at Hollywood Distillery on Thursday, 10/30! Free tacos, one drink, no alibi…

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