Watch 'Sinners' at a Victorian Village, Then Buy Fish at 2 A.M.

The Heritage Square double feature is $45 in advance, and the San Pedro fish docks mostly take cash.

Blade should let out at Heritage Square a little after 11 p.m. Friday. A few hours later, the wholesale fish docks on San Pedro's Signal Place open to anybody holding cash and a cooler.

That's how this weekend in L.A. lines up. The big Halloween nights land on Friday, and the cheapest seafood is sold in the dark before sunrise Saturday.

The Los Angeles Times on Thursday made the case for standing in line at 1:30 a.m. on a Saturday at the viral Saturday Morning Fish Market, more formally J Deluca Fish Co., on Signal Place in San Pedro. It opens to the public once a week, 1:30 to 7:30 a.m. Saturdays, and prices typically run 10% to 40% below stores, a market representative told the Times. Other wholesalers on the block open between 2 and 3 a.m., according to SanPedro.com.

Bring cash, because the listing says most sales are cash and credit cards and checks aren't welcome. Bring your own ice chest too. Ice for the drive home is free, and the block-long dock is soaked, so wear boots. The best deals are gone by sunrise, and the line starts forming around 1 a.m. Go early, not at 7.

If you'd rather do your eating in daylight, Fanny's, the restaurant inside the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures at 6067 Wilshire Blvd., is pouring horror-movie cocktails through Oct. 31. The restaurant's website names three of them: Split Pea Soup, The Sunken Place and The Final Girl. We Like L.A. counts ten on the menu, including a rum-based tropical drink called Creature From the Black Lagoon.

Prices aren't listed alongside the announcement. The dining room serves from 11 a.m. to 7:15 p.m. every day except Tuesday, and Friday's happy hour runs 3 to 6 p.m. Park at LACMA or the Petersen Automotive Museum, and know that Fanny's doesn't validate.

On your way home, pick up pan de muerto, since Día de Muertos is close and L.A. TACO just picked 12 L.A. panaderías for it. According to L.A. TACO, the bread's pre-Conquest ancestor was shaped like a butterfly, made from amaranth, masa and maguey syrup, and called papalotlaxcalli. The sugar-dusted loaf with dough bones laid across the top came after 1521, and it's the one you'll find on ofrendas now.

Got kids? From 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach hands out goodie bags and opens the whole place to trick-or-treaters at Scarium Family Night. Between candy stops there's a DJ spinning monster mash-ups and a vampire-themed magic show. It's $30.95, or $20.95 for members, and kids under 3 get in free. Leave the flashlights at home. The aquarium bans them, along with toy weapons and full-face masks.

Without kids, Friday belongs to Street Food Cinema's 21-and-over Boo-ze, Bites & Frights at Heritage Square Museum. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., Sinners starts at 6:45 and Blade follows at about 9:20. The Victorian houses are open for tours from 6 to 8:30 p.m., and the food truck list, which can change, includes Mariscos Arenita and Tha Gumbo Lady.

Tickets are $45 in advance or $50 at the door. A $65 pass adds Saturday, and We Like L.A. lists that night's double feature as Jennifer's Body and Bodies Bodies Bodies. Closed-toe shoes are required.

Organizers say parking is limited and suggest ride-sharing, or take Metro to the Heritage Square station. The event entrance and the Heritage Square Metro station share an address, 3545 Pasadena Ave., and the Homer Street address that shows up on maps has no way in.

Source: Los Angeles Times, retrieved October 22, 2026. Other sources: sanpedro.com, Fanny's restaurant website, welikela.com (2), lataco.com, aquariumofpacific.org, streetfoodcinema.com.