review: albert reyes presents 7812

October 15, 2020

review: albert reyes presents 7812

For around 16 years, East LA artist Albert Reyes has been running a private haunted house out of the backyard of his family's El Sereno home. This haunt, like his artwork, is unique and highly imaginative. The haunted maze is built with boarded-up walls that look like they were pulled off of a shipwrecked pirate galleon. Strange mannequins meet you at every corner as AM radios crackle through Japanese and Mexican talk radio stations.

In a normal year, Albert’s scare actors would be played by his immediate family (including his grandmother), who would grab and tug at your feet as you turn a corner or while you are distracted by a blood-soaked mannequin. But as we know, everything is different in 2020, and Albert has replaced his maze with an incredible, evolving yard display.

This year’s unique yard display is named “7812”, and it’s a two story house in which dim orange and purple lights reveal the creepy residents within: clowns, skeletons, dolls, and more. These disturbing inhabitants peer out at everyone who dares to walk by. The design of this haunt possesses Reyes’ signature artistic vision and includes features like weathered pieces of wood that form geometrically unsettling layouts. The paint is peeling off of the structure - giving it the feeling of a place lost in time. There are even recycled medicine bottles that Albert’s mom used as colored filters over an old set of Christmas lights.

7812 is a wonderful Halloween yard display, and Reyes has promised us that he will be adding more features in the upcoming weeks. We are definitely going to make a second trip to see the newest additions. If you are one of the lucky visitors, Albert may even give you a walkthrough of his backyard maze (minus the characters of course).

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October 15, 2020
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