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 interactive performance series constitutes a literary cathouse, with a lineup of L.A.’s most bewitching poets summoning demons during a spooky and sinful night at Sassafras. Head to the haunted speakeasy for “a séance of lust, verse, and spectral mischief.” You can upgrade your experience with tokens that will give you access to private poetry readings behind closed curtains, tarot readings and typewriter poetry. Costumes, cocktail attire or themed eveningwear that reveals your inner siren or beast is encouraged.

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.

Dragula “queens of darkness” the Boulet Brothers are bringing their annual Halloween ball—now in its 25th year!—to the Globe Theater Downtown. Expect three stories of “music, sin and terror,” including a Halloween stage show, interactive horror rooms, a performance by ballroom dance troupe House of Ninja and a demonic puppet show from Rasputin’s Marionettes. Trixie Mattel herself is the night’s headlining DJ. Don your best drag and enter the costume contest—the cash prize is a cool $1,000. 

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.

Partake in an educational yet festive Halloween-themed night at the Huntington. Hear a whimsical operatic whodunit from LA Opera, learn about haunted spots throughout California, take an art history tour by candlelight, get up-close and personal with birds of prey, team up and solve cryptic clues about the Huntington’s collections, and let loose at the Red Death Dance Club. Admission includes two drink tickets (food from local vendors is available for purchase). Act fast, though: Tickets for the event typically sell out early.

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.

Like a Halloween version of its Yuletide Cinemaland series, Street Food Cinema will turn Heritage Square Museum into a spooky, cinematic playground. On the movie side, you can catch a different double feature each night (picks include American Psycho, Ready or Not and Scream 2, among others) while embarking on Victorian home tours and adult trick-or-treating and perusing food trucks, a bar and market vendors.