Monster Mash at the Academy Museum

Sat Oct 25, 2025
10:30am to 5:30pm PT
Age: All ages
Price: Included with general admission, some activities are free to all without admission
Location:
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
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The Academy Museum hosts a day filled with monstrously good fun, including special effects makeup demonstrations, ghostly tours, special monster appearances, magic lantern shows, and activities.

This year's event explores the crossroads between the monstrous and the feminine in film.

SCHEDULE

9am: Calm Morning: Bride of Frankenstein Sound Lab

11am: Bride of Frankenstein Accessible Screening Family Matinee  (separately ticketed)

11am – 1:30pm: Special Effects Makeup and Hair Demonstration  (Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby, L1)  It's a scary good time with transformations by special effects makeup artist Gabi Gonzalez, Academy Award-winner Howard Berger, and Academy Award-winner Yolanda Toussieng. General admission ticket not required for this activity 

2:30pm: Screening: The Love Witch in 35mm (2016) with filmmaker Anna Biller (separately ticketed) 

2:30–5pm: Tarot, Palm Reading, and the Stars (Ted Mann Lobby) Embrace your past, present, and future in a fun tarot card and palm reading

12:30pm, 1:30pm, 3pm, 4pmMonster Meet and Greet (Sidney Poitier Grand Lobby, L1) Universal Studios' classic movie monsters - the Bride of Frankenstein and Frankenstein's monster - visit for frightful photo ops.General admission ticket not required for this activity 

Noon - 4pm: Scripted Fright Tours (Location: L2) Tours of the museum's mysteries, horrors, and thrills, (limited space, first-come, first-served).

3pm: Scream Queens: Voice-Acting Drop-in Workshop (Location: Shirley Temple Education Studio)  Open to all ages.

7:30pm: Screening: Jennifer’s Body (Rated R) with filmmaker Karyn Kusama (Location: David Geffen Theater) (separately ticketed) 

Museum admission is free for youth ages 17 and under.​

** Activity dates/times are subject to change. Please click through to the activity website to verify.