HOLLYWOOD WAX MUSEUM HORROR CHAMBER MOVIE

Beth Sazama, the city's recreation specialist who is coordinating the event, anticipates as many as 100,000 revelers.

Nonetheless, horror enthusiasts may warm to a surprisingly accurate re-creation of Boris Karloff in his makeup for ''Bride of Frankenstein'' and Pinhead from the ''Hellraiser'' films, among others.īy far, the biggest participatory celebration - almost everybody wears a costume - is the City of West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval, which closes down nearly a mile of Santa Monica Boulevard between Robertson and La Cienega Boulevards the evening of Oct.

This museum should not be confused with the similarly named Hollywood Wax Museum, at 6767 Hollywood Boulevard, where many exhibits would benefit from dimmer lighting. The Chamber of Horrors contains Boris Karloff in ''Frankenstein,'' Bela Lugosi in ''Dracula,'' Vincent Price in ''House of Wax,'' the Creature from the Black Lagoon and a memorable tableau of Linda Blair in ''The Exorcist,'' complete with spinning head and pea-green vomit. Unlike many waxworks, this one is notable for its often uncanny likenesses.

HOLLYWOOD WAX MUSEUM HORROR CHAMBER MOVIE

Parents take note: a gentler version of the experience, the Children's Chamber of Chills, with clowns and non-horrific effects, is open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons.Ī quieter display of classic movie monsters is featured at the Movieland Wax Museum, 7711 Beach Boulevard in Buena Park. The attraction, a Hollywood version of a haunted house features Universal monster characters as well as newer, more icky creepers like chainsaw-wielding maniacs. Universal Studios Hollywood is operating the Chamber of Chills on Universal Citywalk nightly through Halloween.

Costumes are encouraged for children and parents, but no masks are allowed, and the park will provide trick-or-treat bags (no other bags permitted).

Other familiar attractions will receive atmospheric makeovers: Frontierland, for instance, becomes a ghost town, and the Sleeping Beauty Castle will be covered with creeping vines. For five evenings, Main Street will feature giant carved pumpkins and hayrides, and ''live'' goblins will supplement the robots at the Haunted Mansion. Less frightening is Mickey's Halloween Treat, a family-oriented event inaugurated last year at Disneyland. Tickets for the event went on sale in August. Given the general grisliness, the Halloween Haunt is not recommended for small children. Over 1,000 professionally costumed performers will provide the screams visitors, however, are not permitted to wear masks and costumes.

Ten walk-through attractions and mazes are planned, and seven live shows will run continuously throughout the evening. 2, the park's regular attractions are embellished with macabre special effects, pumped-in fog, music and monsters. But the home of movies and make-believe has turned out to be a prime location for costume and cosmetic artifice on a grand scale.įor the 24th consecutive year, Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park will be host to Knott's Scary Farm's Halloween Haunt. Evidence of the multibillion-dollar Halloween industry - growing like some mutating organism from a 1950's science fiction film - is everywhere: a drive through neighborhoods in late October will provide glimpses of homes and yards ghoulishly decked out with the kind of elaborate lighted displays once reserved for Christmas.Īs a recently transplanted New Yorker, I feared that Los Angeles would have little to match the Greenwich Village Halloween parade for street theater. WHILE Southern California is better known for sunshine than shadows, each October Hollywood goes Holly-weird, joining the rest of the country to celebrate Halloween, the latest mega-holiday.

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