“It’s not a party,” said Tara Subkoff of the Haunted Hollywoodland performance art installation she hosted with producer Victor Kubicek on Monday night. Rather, the designer turned filmmaker had directed a series of eerie vignettes which were performed by actors and dancers throughout the gardens of her hillside home in Echo Park to celebrate All Hallows’ Eve. Guests including designer Bella Freud, musician Jordy Asher, and Elizabeth Jagger sipped on warm mulled wine as they wound their way up and down landscaped terraces misty with dry ice and dotted with artist Peter Regli’s iconic marble statues. The art installation culminated in a performance by artist Millie Brown (best known as the woman who vomited on Lady Gaga at SXSW) who was slowly covered in several gallons of molten wax until she too resembled one of Regli’s alabaster forms, finally breaking free like a mummy out its wrapping.
Once the performances were over, guests were in the mood to party, hitting the dance floor or lining up to have their tarot cards read. Costumes ranged from the extravagant—Rose McGowan came as Bride of Frankenstein wearing a wig she had picked up on Hollywood Boulevard earlier that day—to the mundane—Marilyn Manson eschewed his usual Goth getup for a store-bought Spiderman mask. And as the evening drew to a close, many found themselves lost in the mazelike garden along with a pair of ghouls resembling the scary girl from the movie, The Ring. “This garden really lends itself to a really creepy Halloween,” said Subkoff. “So to do something in this space felt really appropriate.”
