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By Phurpurska

Halloween can never come soon enough! That’s a good thing because every year it seems to start earlier and earlier. For us, the season started July 29th with Sinister Circus, a whole three months before All Hallow’s Eve. The event was marketed as a “Haunted Costume Summer Ball” aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA that took place after the Midsummer Scream Convention. The idea was to offer a dance party and costume contest for convention goers after a day of exclusives and sneak peaks for events like Dark Harbor and Halloween Horror Nights. This was a far cry from what we actually experienced, but first let’s do a walk through of what there was to do.

The Good, The Bad, and The Scary

Once checked in, guests were shuttled up a tight flight of stairs and led immediately into a large, but extremely over-crowded dance floor. It reminded me of a Vegas nightclub around 1 am. For those who have experienced this, you know the claustrophobic feeling. I would imagine its how a child feels coming into this world for the first time. The dance floor experience overshadowed what was actually a neat and fairly well themed stage they had set up. Throughout the night, various acts would perform attempting to maintain some sort of circus atmosphere. We arrived just in time to see the silk performer do a set dressed as a crazed circus clown. Next to the dance floor was a DJ, as expected, playing 90’s and current top 40. This was great! Unfortunately, the DJ and his speakers were right next to the line for one of the two bars. Later in the night I would get to experience just how loud they were first hand. If you crossed the dance floor and hooked a hard right, there was a long aisle that led to the food (pizza, popcorn, and nachos), a tequila bar selling flights of tequila, a short maze experience, and a hookah lounge. The maze was a pleasant surprise! They had a tent set up with fog machines and green lights which made it feel like you were walking through a moist and dank swamp. I know how uncomfortable the word moist is. Let me tell you, it is the perfect way to describe the feeling inside the tent. I drew a little layout below for everyone to get a feel for how the entire Circus was set up. Now even though there seemed to be plenty to do, there was one huge and glaring problem. The place was terribly organized and way too small for the crowd they drew. We found out later on this was primarily due to the fact that the Queen Mary and Midsummer Scream were not communicating and oversold the event.

Our Night

So what did we do? We spent the night tracking down the Dark Harbor characters. After we found a few, we avoided the whole mess and posted up at the hookah lounge. Completely worth it! And we had a ton of fun catching up.

Sinister Circus aboard the Queen Mary By Phurpurska Halloween can never come soon enough! That's a good thing because every year it seems to start earlier and earlier.