As people race to find the perfect costume, they’re also on the hunt to find a place that will give them the scare of their life.

        Generally, people want to avoid the mild clown pop-ups but aren’t quite ready for the intensity of the 17th Door Haunt Experience either. Lucky for these people, the Los Angeles area promises a handful of fun locations to explore. 

        Starting off, Halloween enthusiasts rave about the “Urban Death” in North Hollywood, an intense and shocking haunted theater attraction. It’s not said to be the scariest experience, yet it does present the audience with enough fear to make it a memorable night. The attraction itself offers a fun and exciting time, with prices starting as low as $23 online. 

        Next on the list is the very well known Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios, famous for its new and unique haunted houses yearly. At Halloween Horror Nights (HHN), you can explore the Universal Studios Hollywood park and ride their notorious attractions. There are eight total Haunted Houses, with the addition of the Terror Tram, a must when visiting. Accompanying the haunted houses, scare actors station themselves in certain areas, ready to spook you when unguarded. While it may be too late to get the cheapest tickets, “it was [totally] worth it”, Alexa Mariscal, a senior at MACES, said. 

        As the list moves on, the places get spookier, just like the Haunted Maze, a two-acre haunted corn maze at “Frosty’s Forest Christmas Trees & Pumpkin Patch,” located just 45 minutes outside of the Los Angeles area in Chino Hills, California. “It was worth it, it had better scares and actors compared to HHN,” fans on social media say. While this haunted attraction’s a little further out than you’d like it’s highly recommended and is said to be worth every second. Prices for this maze, which has six embedded haunted houses, start at $30 general admission plus the fee of entering the pumpkin patch itself, which varies by the day. 

        Last but certainly not least, an attraction leaving visitors with no regrets is the “Reign of Terror”, the epitome of a haunted house experience, in Thousand Oaks. Based on their website, Reign of Terror is made up of “142 bone chilling rooms, 11 terrifying attractions, and over 32,000 square feet of floor space.” Tickets are sold online for a price of $42 regular admission and it will be open from October 30 – November 2, with a special event on November 2 where customers are able to walk through the houses with only a glow stick and no other light, multiplying the scare factor by a lot. “Out of all the other [attractions], this one’s the #1, easy…15/10,” Ms. Torres, a teacher at MACES said.