For most of us October cannot come quick enough. ScareLA returned last week (August 8th & 9th) to celebrate Halloween at the Pasadena Convention Center in sunny California. ScareLA offered so much for everyone it is impossible not find something to vest your time and energy.

“Yeah, if you get bored at ScareLA there is something that you are doing horribly wrong! We have so many things going on, it is meant to cater to so many tastes. We get everybody; we get people that bring their one-month-old babies to the show floor, and we get people that are eighty years old that have been fans of all things Scary. They come from such wide backgrounds from casual, to semi-professional, all the way to having a professional background that love Halloween and horror movies. We really try and program accordingly so that everyone can be engaged and ultimately find something at ScareLA.” – Lora Ivanova: Co-Founder of ScareLA & Executive Producer.

Premiering back in 2013, this weekend-long event has since become the hottest Halloween season teaser to haunt Southern California. Exclusive attractions, panels, screenings, workshops, vendors, and live haunts will give any Halloween hound a run for their money.

ScareLA was such a wonderful experience and had something to offer everyone. The program was jammed pack with events such as Disembodied Spirits: Voice-Over Experts, Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror Retrospective and Making Monsters: The Art Of Terror. Making Monsters featured the talent behind Six Flags Fright Fest, Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor, Knott’s Scary Farm, and Halloween Horror Nights. A very popular event was Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights Panel that was located on the main stage. Creative duo John Murdy and Chris Williams broadcasted on social media that a major announcement was going to be made. Roughly a thousand people from all walks of life filed into the main stage room eagerly awaiting the news. It was a surreal experience basking in the ambiance of hundreds of people who enjoy Halloween as much as I do.

“If you have been following us on social media and on Twitter, we have a big announcement to make today! Are you guys ready for this announcement? {Audience cheers} Alright, why don’t we roll video.” – John Murdy

The lights dimmed, and an image of the Myers House from John Carpenter’s Halloween appeared on the screen. The audience went nuts, cheering, yelling, and jumping up and down! It was chaos! Halloween producer Malek Akkad was introduced to the audience, and the three spoke about the all-new Michael Myers maze and the origins of John Carpenter’s Halloween.  Much of the original Halloween film was filmed in Pasadena where ScareLA was held, so John Murdy and Chris Williams believed that it was the perfect opportunity to make such an announcement.

After the Halloween Horror Nights Panel had concluded I did not believe it could get better; I was terribly mistaken. Executive Producer and Co-Founder of ScareLA Lora Ivanova appeared on stage with an important and fun announcement. All of us were about to make history with something special ScareLA had been preparing. ScareLA and Sticky made history by breaking the Guinness World Records for the most Halloween candy being unwrapped at the same time. A free bag of custom ScareLA candy from Sticky and Sweet in Hollywood was passed out to everyone in attendance, 1,000 people.

ScareLA has proven to be a success and I am sure will continue to grow each year. I am looking forward to next year to experience everything that I could not fit into my schedule plus everything else new that ScareLA will bring us.

Thank you, Lora, for allowing all of us to let our “inner monster out to play!”

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Ryan Cusick is a writer for ihorror.com and very much enjoys conversation and writing about anything within the horror genre. Horror first sparked his interest after watching the original, The Amityville Horror when he was the tender age of three. Ryan lives in California with his wife and ten-year old daughter, who is also expressing interest in the horror genre. Ryan recently received his Master’s Degree in Psychology and hopes to some day write a novel. Ryan can be followed on twitter @Nytmare112