The best haunted house in Los Angeles depends on your budget and how you like to be scared. Big productions run from $55 to $250, home haunts are often free, and horror escape rooms such as ours at Maze Rooms take groups of 2-8 players.
Scary haunted houses in LA come in every shape: amusement park spectacles, mansion plays, ship-board horror and porch displays run by neighbors. The big productions are great, but the cheaper options are easy to miss, and a horror escape room gives you a different kind of scare that you play rather than just walk through.
Halloween haunted house tickets in LA run from $55 to $250, and each scares differently
Time Out describes LA haunts as a range from homegrown horrors to big-budget amusement park shows, and the prices show it. Its 2026 guide lists Halloween Horror Nights from $77, Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor from $55, the Delusion mansion play from $113 and the immersive The Willows at $250. Check the current price before you buy, because these numbers move every season.
Time Out picks Halloween Horror Nights for big-budget scares, a haunted house in an amusement park style. It picks Dark Harbor, on a historic ship in Long Beach, for overall vibe, and its writer called it the “sleeper hit”. Delusion, picked for special effects, is an interactive horror play in a mansion near downtown at 2218 S Harvard Blvd. Reign of Terror in Thousand Oaks bills itself as the largest indoor haunt in Southern California, with 135+ rooms, and has run since 1999. Zombie Joe’s Underground is a theater-style walk of about 40 minutes through a flashlight-guided labyrinth. Creep LA has run since 2015 and leans slow and psychological instead of a conga line of jump scares (confirm that it’s running this year). Haunt Harvester also names the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride in Griffith Park, Reign of Terror and Dark Harbor among the top LA-area haunts for 2026.
Quality varies a lot. CBS notes that nearly 5,000 professional haunted attractions open across the US each Halloween, and Yelp’s LA results for October 2026 swing widely: The House At Haunted Hill in Woodland Hills sits at 4.8, Murder House at 4.7, while Blackout Haunted House shows 2.9 and the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride 2.6 from 1.4k reviews. Read recent reviews, not just the average. That goes for any Los Angeles haunted house, whether it’s a famous name or a local newcomer.
Do you need to book in advance? For the big names, it’s wise to buy tickets ahead. Press-Telegram’s Halloween roundup also advised calling ahead for horror escape rooms.
Can anyone touch you inside? It depends on the venue. Some experiences are full-contact: Escape Hotel Hollywood ran Hide & Seek, a full-contact horror survival game, on Sundays in October (2023 info). Read the rules on the ticket page.
How long does it take? A walk-through can be 40 minutes, and Creep LA ran about 75 minutes in 2018. Most escape games are 60-90 minutes.
Haunted houses near me: free home haunts and decorated haunted houses suit tight budgets and younger kids
If you search for haunted house attractions near me and your budget is tight, look at home haunts. FrightMaps lists many across LA with free admission and nightly hours, such as Burroughs Place Cemetery in Stevenson Ranch, open nightly October 9-31 from 7 to 10 p.m. Yelp also lists Arcadia Haunted House as a free, 30-year tradition. Long Beach has the Creepy Pumpkin House, where a pumpkin-patch front hides a zombie and dollhouse maze. FrightMaps notes that the number of home haunts in LA grows every October, so halloween haunts near me are rarely far away.
These decorated haunted houses are great for families with younger kids and for anyone collecting haunted house decoration ideas for their own porch. Expect short lines of neighbors, not actors with chainsaws. Bring a flashlight and check dates, since home haunts often run only on set nights.
What are haunted houses, and how is an escape room different?
A haunted house is a themed walk-through attraction where actors, sets and effects aim to scare you. Time Out draws a useful line between jump-scare haunts and slow-burn ones. A walk-through puts you on a conveyor of monsters: you watch, you scream, you move on. A horror escape room locks you in a story and makes you solve puzzles to get out, so the fear comes from atmosphere and pressure, not from a stranger leaping at you. That’s why Yelp’s haunted-house search also surfaces escape rooms such as The Basement in Sylmar (4.8 from 1.6k reviews).
Pick a walk-through if you want adrenaline and don’t want to think. Pick an escape room if you want to play with friends, talk through clues and still get a proper spooky night. Group size differs too: haunts take whoever buys tickets, while a game at Maze Rooms typically fits 2-8 players per session. Many people planning a halloween haunted house outing end up combining both: a walk-through one night and a puzzle-and-scare game another.
Our themed haunted house alternative: horror escape rooms for haunted attractions for Halloween and beyond
To be straight with you: Maze Rooms isn’t a haunted house, and we don’t run a dedicated one. What we do have is a set of horror-flavored escape rooms across our Los Angeles locations. Our genres run from horror to adventure to mystery, and the scary-leaning rooms include Ghost Hunters, Something’s Out There, They’re Coming, The Abyss, Jack The Ripper, Twisted Matrix and Whatever Happened to the Garretts. If you are comparing a haunted house in LA with something you can play as a team, these rooms are our answer.
Something’s Out There is set in a Louisiana swamp at night. Your team searches for a missing friend among people who have vanished in the area. Room Escape Artist called the outdoor set unnerving but beautiful, with a variety of well-built horror scenes.
They’re Coming is our zombie room. It starts as a simple escape game, then the undead rise in the middle of Los Angeles and the government quarantines your group. A 2023 Press-Telegram roundup listed tickets from $37 (a 2023 price, so confirm today’s price and the location when you book). Our LA guide puts typical rooms at roughly 30-50 per person, with the total growing with group size.
For a date, pick two to four players and a room with a story. For a Halloween party or a team night, bring up to eight and book a private session; our staff are trained to guide group interactions, and we can add a debrief or catering.
Can kids play? Yes. The site says kids can take part and the rooms are generally safe if players follow the rules. Playa Del Rey and Robertson are marked as good for kids on Yelp. Ask about the minimum age, the scare level of a specific room and how to stop the game if someone feels uncomfortable when you book and choose a gentler room for younger players.
Maze Rooms locations in Los Angeles
Our corporate-events page lists these Los Angeles locations: West LA, Koreatown, Robertson, Playa Del Rey and Highland Avenue. Location and room counts differ between pages of our site so confirm what’s open now on the booking page. Addresses below come from Yelp and Google Maps; we don’t have a confirmed Koreatown address to list here, so check the booking page for it:
- Playa Del Rey: 8632 S Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045, by LAX, with street and private-lot parking
- Robertson: 900 S Robertson Blvd, CA 90035
- West LA: 11901 Santa Monica Blvd, Ste 211, CA 90025
- Highland: 1328 Highland Ave, CA 90028 (marked closed on Yelp in October 2026, so check before you go)
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Book your horror escape room and check the booking page for what’s open now. Yelp lists hours of 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday to Thursday and open until midnight on Fridays for one listing, but hours can differ by location, so confirm before your visit. Call +38 052 028 20 81 or +38 010 595 28 81, or email contact@mazerooms.com with your group size and date.