The best Halloween parties in Los Angeles 2025

Every year, Haunted Little Tokyo turns the area into a ghoulish maze of Halloween-themed pop-ups, walking tours and performances. On October 25, a full-day Halloween celebration kicks off at Terasaki Budokan with a free, family-friendly scavenger hunt (1–5pm). Later on, dance the night away at a popular 21+ block party with music, a costume contest and full bar (6pm–midnight). RSVP online for the secret Little Tokyo location.

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. There will be dancing, drinking and many impromptu costume contests. Even if you don’t plan on entering one, it’s best to still come dressed to the nines—no one likes a party pooper in jeans and a T-shirt. Find it along Santa Monica Boulevard, between Doheny Drive and La Cienega Boulevard.

See our guide to the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval.

This Mexico City art car bound for Burning Man became an L.A. mainstay for its dance-centric pop-ups—and spawned a bona fide EDM institution in the process. The beloved car was destroyed in a fire in 2023, thus putting an end to its decade-long run. However, a new iteration of the car, Mayan Warrior Galaxyer, was debuted last year, and local event collective Stranger Than is promising an event “bigger than ever before” this year, with the full art car experience, an all-star lineup of artists and brand-new production elements at Grand Park.

Step inside a historic—and haunted—Glendale theater to find a supernatural shindig full of magic, spirits and mystery. Don your best gothic glamour—the vibe here is dark elegance—and set out on a chilling journey with themed drinks in hand (not included in the ticket price).  Formerly known as House of Spirits, Haunted Soiree is an adults-only, two-hour immersive experience that allows you to roam around and discover all sorts of macabre performances and pop-ups. This year’s fang-tastic experience is all about vampires.

The Houston Brothers’ eight-in-one nightlife destination, Downtown’s Level 8, is celebrating Halloween with a hedonistic party. Each of the venue’s concepts will represent a different deadly sin, with dancers, acrobats and actors bringing envy, lust, sloth, gluttony, pride, wrath and greed to life (the eighth one is FOMO, apparently). If you upgrade to a VIP ticket, you’ll get access to a three-hour open bar and Sinners y Santos nightclub, though a GA ticket will still get you a free welcome drink.

The LA Opera and the United Theater on Broadway (formerly the Ace) once again join forces for a chilling mash-up of live music and film. No, it's not Andrew Lloyd Webber's bombastic megamusical; in fact, quite the opposite. The most faithful film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's illustrious novel comes in the form of this 1925 silent horror film—celebrating its centennial this year—starring Lon Chaney as the ghoulish masked man. Behold the iconic work at the historic Downtown theater, with the LA Opera Orchestra playing Roy Budd's score live. There are still tickets left for the Halloween-night screening, which will be followed by an after-party with themed drinks, a DJ and a costume contest.

Why settle for just one Halloween party when you can host three? That seems to be the thinking at the Mondrian’s Skybar, which will host a Halloween-themed edition of its regular disco series, the Hustle, on the Saturday before Halloween, playing groovy hits from the ’70s. Then, on Halloween itself—with the popular West Hollywood Carnaval going down only blocks away—you can swing by again for a costume party set to pulse-pounding beats. And on Saturday, November 1, the hotel keeps the festivities going with a Día de los Muertos edition of Deep House Halloween.

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 Marshmello B2B DJ Snake, Alesso, RL Grime, Porter Robinson, deadmau5 and more. Explore the grounds to find mazes alongside ominous artwork and freak show performers.