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The Basement: A Live Escape Room Experience

Sylmar, California
Scare level · Moderate·Haunted attraction · ticketed event
This season
Seasonal — confirm dates with the venue
Category
Haunted Attractions
Season
Seasonal
Age suitability
All ages — confirm with the venue
Indoor / outdoor
Indoor & outdoor

About this attraction

The Basement operates in the Sylmar district of Los Angeles, California — the escape-room company that in 2014 fused the puzzle genre with full horror production and effectively invented the horror escape room as a category: players are 'abducted' into the story of Edward Tandy, a fictional cannibal serial killer, and must escape his basement, then his elevator, study and boiler room across the company's connected sequel rooms, harried throughout by live actors in a continuity the games maintain with film-grade sets, sound design and Hollywood-adjacent craft that earned it top national rankings among horror and escape experiences alike. It is a commercial attraction — fiction, actors and theatre, the flagship of the platform's Horror Escape Rooms category — with age guidance, waivers and contact-level options detailed on the official site; private bookings run year-round, no season required, and the company's designers came, fittingly, from the haunted-attraction world. Present The Basement as the genre's origin point: horror you solve, an hour at a time, booking and location specifics from its official pages.

Inside this season

Multiple haunted houses
A run of walk-through scare attractions staged across the grounds.
After-dark historic tours
Lantern-lit, after-dark tours of the site alongside the scare attractions.
Themed bars & lounges
Food, drink and live entertainment between the attractions (21+ areas).
Timed-entry tickets
Entry is booked for a specific night and time; busy nights sell out.

Photos & visitor evidence