Florence + The Machine's Everybody Scream Tour at Kia Forum — she turns concerts into rituals. 'Dog Days Are Over' as a closer is one of the great live music moments. Who's going?
Some shows exist because the room and the artist are the right match — Florence + The Machine at Kia Forum in Inglewood is one of those, the kind of night the regulars mention for months. Florence + The Machine performs at Kia Forum in Inglewood on May 19, 2026. The crowd at a show like this has been waiting for exactly this room — the specific night where the distance between stage and floor is close enough to matter.
Aug 7 – Aug 9, 2026
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Long Beach Convention Center, 300 …
Midsummer Scream, the West Coast's largest Halloween and horror convention, returns to the Long Beach Convention Center August 7-9, 2026, with the theme 'Horror Musicals.' Now in its tenth year, the event has grown into a three-day destination for haunted attraction designers, horror film fans, cosplayers, collectors, and anyone who lives for the season year-round.
The Hall of Shadows, the convention's signature attraction, runs all three days across a massive darkened section of the convention center. More than a dozen fully produced haunted experiences and haunt displays are open inside, included with all badge types, no separate ticket required. It is the largest indoor haunt zone in California outside of the October season itself.
The show floor features more than 350 vendors and artists offering horror-themed costumes, seasonal decor, original artwork, vintage collectibles, props, and franchise merchandise. Celebrity guests for 2026 include Matthew Lillard, Barry Bostwick, and Jasmin Savoy Brown. A special 20th anniversary celebration of Repo! The Genetic Opera is scheduled with director Darren Lynn Bousman and actor Bill Moseley confirmed.
Panel programming covers haunt design, genre cinema, practical effects, cosplay construction, and industry Q&As. The Long Beach Convention Center is at 300 E Ocean Blvd, minutes from the waterfront. Weekend and single-day passes available online in advance.
Oct 6 – Oct 15, 2026
TCL Chinese 6 Theatres, 6925 Holly…
Screamfest LA Horror Film Festival runs ten days at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood, October 7-16, 2026 — thirty-plus indie horror features and shorts, screened on Hollywood Boulevard by the people who made them.
Screamfest is the oldest and largest horror film festival in the United States. It has premiered films that defined the genre — The Haunting in Connecticut, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Insidious — years before wide release. What that history means for the audience: the films screening here are not afterthoughts. They are the next wave of horror, showing in the same theaters where classic horror played to its first audiences.
The atmosphere is exactly what you would want: Hollywood Boulevard at night, surrounded by people who take horror seriously and love it completely, watching a film so new that the director is sitting three rows behind you. Q&As after screenings. Festival badges cover all ten days, or buy single-ticket entry to pick your nights. The October air and the Chinese Theatre marquees set the rest.
DoubleTree Mission Valley, October 17-18, 2026. Scream Diego is the convention that gives San Diego's horror community its own weekend — a dedicated event built around the genre that deserves more than a panel at a general-purpose convention.
The floor runs across both days with the vendors, artists, and guests who came specifically because this is a horror event and they wanted to be in a horror room. The celebrity guests are from the films, not from adjacent franchises. The artist alley carries original horror art, prop replicas, and merchandise that doesn't appear at mainstream conventions. The community that fills Scream Diego is specific — these are the people who pre-order special editions, who know the director's filmography, who have opinions about the best practical effect in the last decade.
Two days. October, which means the whole city is in the season that makes this event make the most sense. The DoubleTree Mission Valley handles conventions at this scale cleanly — real function rooms, real space for the floor. Tickets on Eventbrite. If you take horror seriously, this is the weekend that belongs to you.