History Main / MysticalHollywood

Various productions throughout Hollywood's history have been said to have been "cursed" due to various mishaps befalling the cast and crew. For more information, see TheProductionCurse.

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* Various productions throughout Hollywood's history have been said to have been "cursed" due to various mishaps befalling the cast and crew. For more information, see TheProductionCurse.

* This is the core of Creator/CliveBarker's ''Literature/ColdheartCanyon''; the titular location is where a silent movie star's grand mansion stands... still inhabited by said movie star in TheNineties. A cursed tiled room within the house's depths has rendered her unaging and immortal, and on top of that, her perverse, hard-partying ways in her prime have resulted in the grounds being haunted by many celebrities from UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood and UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, while HalfHumanHybrid creatures prowl the overgrown gardens.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2163 SCP-2163]] is the entirety of the American film industry, with BrownNote effects accidentally being generated during film production.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Silverblade}}'', a mystical being grants ageing actor Jonathan Lord the power to transform into character he ever portrayed on film, and he gets caught up in a millennia old battle between ancient forces, with Hollywood itself as the battlefield.

* The AlternateHistory of ''VideoGame/RedFlood'' has a non-supernatural version, but one that still bears most of the hallmarks of this trope. In this timeline, the aftermath of an even worse UsefulNotes/WorldWarI sees the rise of Accelerationism, an ideology that can best be described as {{Mad Artist}}s coming together to craft a political program for national rebirth, which fertile ground in the arts all over the world, including the American film industry. In the event of [[DividedStatesOfAmerica the collapse of the United States]], California is one of the many independent states to emerge from the chaos, and one potential leader is Edward Longstreet Bodin of the Spiritualist Party, California's Accelerationist faction. Hollywood's actors, writers, and directors constitute an important chunk of Bodin's base of support, and when he takes over California after the Collapse, he renames it the Spiritual Golden Realm and moves the nation's capital to Hollywood, with cinema given an exalted position in society. Radical spiritual ideas and conspiracy theories about alien "hidden rulers" threatening the Anglo-Saxon race are elevated to a position of official sanction and backing, with Creator/LRonHubbard becoming one of Bodin's closest advisors and many experiments conducted into psychedelic drugs. This goes hand-in-hand with the [[ThePurge vicious persecution]] of Catholics (and by extension Hispanics) as a subversive threat, with one event saying a church was bulldozed to make room for a film set after it was the scene of a riot. Overall, Bodin's California can be described as the worst stereotypes of Hollywood New Age flakes given their own country to run as they see fit.

* In the book ''Vampyres of Hollywood'' and its sequel, ''Love Bites'', many Old Hollywood film stars and producers such as Creator/MaryPickford, Creator/ThedaBara, Creator/OrsonWelles, Creator/CharlieChaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, etc. are actually vampires who used their abilities to mesmerize audiences on film. Many of them are actually responsible for popularizing false myths about vampires being vulnerable to garlic and holy symbols by depicting vampires that way in films so humans would underestimate them. Many of these old film stars faked their deaths and are trying to get back into the film business without being recognized as their old selves. Since the books were written by Adrienne Barbeau, they give a very detailed portrayal of Hollywood and the film industry from an insider's perspective, as well as a very detailed "what-if" scenario that shows Hollywood as being created and run by vampires from the beginning. There are a lot of humorous throwaway lines about various celebrities, such as a brief description of Joan Crawford as an out-of-control werewolf.

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* Likewise, ''Film/InlandEmpire'' is centered around the production of a Hollywood movie which is said to be cursed, and the surreal events surrounding it.

* ''Film/MenInBlack'', its continuations and ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'' demonstrates that many big-name Hollywood celebrities (including such people as Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/SylvesterStallone and Creator/DennisRodman) are all aliens, and one episode of the series had J and K visiting the MIB's Hollywood office on a missing aliens case, which was more of a talent agency with additional weirdness and less of a super-secret police station (the agents had even stopped carrying weapons a long time ago), and showcased that InUniverse stand-ins for the ''Alien'', ''Predator'' and ''Teletubbies'' franchises all starred aliens. As well, it's mentioned that Hollywood of all places is where people almost catch on to the fact aliens exist more often, forcing the Men In Black to wipe memories and allow films that cover things up to be produced on a regular basis.

* This is the core of Creator/CliveBarker's ''Literature/ColdheartCanyon''; the titular location is where a silent movie star's grand mansion stands... still inhabited by said movie star in TheNineties. A cursed tiled room within the house's depths has rendered her unaging and immortal, and on top of that, her perverse, hard-partying ways in her prime have resulted in the grounds being haunted by many celebrities from UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood and UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, while HalfHumanHybrid creatures prowl the overgrown gardens.

* ''{{Series/Angel}}'' thrived on this. Its Los Angeles had an underworld of vampires, demons and an evil mystical law firm called Woldram and Hart.

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* The ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' supplement ''LA By Night'' has it that the founding and flourishing of Los Angeles was guided by an extremely powerful Toreador, who was Embraced at 13 and came to California after his artistic debut saw him laughed out of Boston's Kindred society. It's mentioned that this child vampire's ancient mindset and relative lack of talent may explain why nothing original seems to come out of Hollywood.

* The 1920s arc from ''ComicBook/AmericanVampire'' shows that a coven of the Carpathian vampires controls Hollywood, using it to strengthen both their financial clout and influence over mortals. It also turns old Hollywood from merely being cruelly exploitative to horrifyingly dangerous, as the conscienceless vampires are more than happy to feed on naive wannabe actors and actresses and have all the power necessary to cover up their sadistic and murderous deeds.

* A conspiracy theory prevalent among American evangelical Christians claims that Hollywood is one of the agencies that {{Satan}} and and TheAntichrist will use in the Last Days to corrupt the hearts and souls of men by denying God, perverting morals, promulgating socialism, feminism, and false gods, making it okay to persecute Christians, and of course bringing down America. In this analysis, the Devil is alive and well and living in Beverly Hills and Hollywood is a godless miasma full of Satanism and Black Masses. [[ComicBook/ChickTracts Jack Chick]] probably wrote a tract about it.

* In ''Discworld/MovingPictures'', [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] arrive from Dungeon Dimensions as a result of alchemists creating movies at Holy Wood.

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* This is the core of Creator/CliveBarker's ''Literature/ColdheartCanyon''; the titular location is where a silent movie star's grand mansion stands...still inhabited by said movie star in TheNineties. A cursed tiled room within the house's depths has rendered her unaging, and on top of that her perverse, hard-partying ways in her prime have resulted in the grounds being haunted by many celebrities from UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood and UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, while HalfHumanHybrid creatures prowl the overgrown gardens.

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* In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', Hollywood is all but run by the vampires, particularly, of the Toreador clan, and is host to all manner of supernatural creepiness.

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* The conspiracy theory prevalent among American evangelical Christians, that Hollywood is one of the agencies the Devil and the Antichrist will use in the Last Days to corrupt the hearts and souls of men by denying God, perverting morals, promulgating socialism, feminism, false gods, making it okay to persecute Christians and of course bringing down America. In this analysis, the Devil is alive and well and living in Beverley Hills and Hollywood is a Godless miasma full of Satanism and Black Masses. [[ChickTracts Jack Chick]] probably wrote a tract about it.

* The 1920s arc from ''ComicBook/AmericanVampire'' shows that a coven of the Carpathian vampires control Hollywood, using it to strengthen both their financial clout and influence over mortals. It also turns old Hollywood from merely being cruelly exploitative to horrifyingly dangerous, as the conscienceless vampires are more than happy to feed on naive wannabe actors and actresses and have all the power necessary to cover up their sadistic and murderous deeds.

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* The conspiracy theory prevelent among American evangelical Christians, that Hollywood is one of the agencies the Devil and the Antichrist will use in the Last Days to corrupt the hearts and souls of men by denying God, perverting morals, promulgating socialism, feminism, false gods, making it okay to persecute Christians and of course bringing down America. In this analysis the Devil is alive and well and living in Beverley Hills and Hollywood is a Godless miasma full of Satanism and Black Masses. [[ChickTracts Jack Chick]] probably wrote a tract about it.