Beetle House L.A. is the Tim Burton-themed restaurant and bar on Hollywood Boulevard. Freakshow performers and actors dressed as characters from Burton’s movies inhabit the place, entertaining diners and drinkers. Some just hang out. All photos by Jessica Peralta. ...
Once a year some of the finest artists and scare experts come from all around to promote and unveil their work. At ScareLA, one can expect to be in perpetual awe of fantastical exhibitions displayed across the convention center –...
Roundly ridiculed but strangely historical, the third film in a goofy franchise of Aztec mummy movies arrived on Mexican movie screens in the summer of 1958. No one knew at the time it would become the first ambassador of Mexican...
In the popular imagination, Orange County tends to conjure images of sunny suburbs and feuding housewives, not haunted mansions and shadowy valleys. But as paranormal investigator and director of OC Ghosts and Legends, Orange County resident Cris August has had...
Don Quixote, Frankenstein and Robin Hood were discovered by a lot of baby boomers in comic book form first. Even in turning those brightly colored pages, a bridge was built between kids and classic literature, and a simple idea became...
Cat and mouse is the best way to describe the story of Bad Samaritan. The hero is hardly a Boy Scout, and the bad guy is wonderfully bad. The audience is pushed somewhere into the middle, where you often are...
The Walking Dead’s current eighth season of “All Out War” will return from its holiday breather on Sunday, but one of the most notable moments of the first half so far included a surprise cameo from first season character Morales,...
This is not exactly a story you’ve heard before. They saw each other across a crowded room (full of zombies). As all the (staged) craziness of the world seemed to stop for a moment (actually, it had), a (zombie) girl...
“When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is...
