Help provide the kids in Tijuana a Happy Halloween

Very few homes decorate or give out candy to trick or treaters in Mexico due to the economy. The children are aware that there’s Halloween excitement across North America, but barely get to participate.

In 2004, we decided to start Buena Vista Horror Club, a small Halloween yard display in Tijuana to encourage the kids in the area to come out and trick or treat in a safe and fun environment to celebrate the Halloween Holiday. As word spread that there was a house giving out candy on Halloween night, we went from a few dozen kids that first year to 300 the following year! As years went by, the number of kids kept growing and we kept adding props and décor to make the yard display more elaborate (and lots more candy!)

We always thought it would be cool to do a haunted house scare maze for them, so in 2012 we took the leap and did our very first walk-through. It mainly consisted of black fabric, plastic sheets and a handful of friends volunteering as scare actors.

We made a commitment to make the experience bigger and better for them each year, we transitioned from simple fabric and plastic sheets to using lumber and real building materials for the construction of the maze as well as adding a full size Facade, scenery, sound and lighting.

In 2019 we did an homage to Stephen King’s IT, we built a 1:1 scale Facade of the Neibolt House and full maze walkthrough with 20+ scare actors and we had over 4,000 people come through our maze! Here’s a clip of the San Diego Union Tribune‘s coverage of our 2019’s IT event:

Last year we did an homage to the Conjuring Universe. Here’s a clip from the SD UT’s coverage of our 2022’s The Conjuring event:

All of this has ALWAYS been (and ALWAYS will be) absolutely free of charge to anyone that wants to come and visit our haunt. This is our way of contributing to the community and creating lifelong memories for both kids and adults.

The cost of building and running this project was initially funded by me and assisted by the invaluable help that friends and family provide by volunteering their time, talent and dedication; but as the number of people that come to our haunt increases each year, unfortunately, my personal income and budget could not keep up with the scope of the event.

For that reason we decided to reach out for help by setting up this GoFundMe Campaign and through the generosity of our supporters be able to cover the shortfalls and allow us to keep making this event a reality.

This year's theme will be a Haunted Cinema as an homage to some of our favorite Horror films. This year is also our 19th Anniversary and due to the increased media exposure of recent years we are expecting the number of trick or treaters to increase even more…That’s why your help through this campaign is more important than ever before!

I have already invested personal funds towards this year's event and our campaign goal will allow us to purchase the extra building materials, tools and paint to finish the build and expand the square footage of the maze layout; as well as upgraded Lighting/Audio/Video, Props, actor costumes and candy needed to support the number of people that we expect this year.

Can you help us provide the kids in Tijuana another safe and HAPPY HALLOWEEN?

There’s no minimum or maximum pledge limits. Please feel free to contribute as much as you are financially comfortable doing.

Even if you are not able to make a monetary donation you can still help us out tremendously by spreading the word and sharing our campaign on social media through the share links on this page.

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On behalf of the children and their families, we thank you in advance for helping us to make this happen again!