Photography by Nick Velasco, 

The actress and singer celebrated the release of “Love Zombie: The Resurrection” with her second annual zombie-themed Halloween party at Hollywood’s SAY YES, transforming the exclusive venue into a haunted playground of celebrity guests, theatrical performances, extravagant treats, and undead glamour.

Halloween came early to Hollywood on October 13, and Victoria Justice made sure the dead were the life of the party.

The actress and singer took over the Houston Brothers’ exclusive SAY YES venue for her second annual zombie-themed Halloween celebration, marking the release of her latest remix, Love Zombie: The Resurrection, with a night that blurred the lines between a music release party, an immersive horror experience, and a celebrity-filled costume spectacle.

Presented by Chips Ahoy! and Avión Tequila, the event welcomed approximately 500 guests into a theatrical world of towering skeletons, bloodied handprints, flickering candles, and undead fantasy.

Justice herself embraced the occasion in a one-eyed zombie-slayer costume, turning the evening’s supernatural theme into a fashion statement.

And if the guest list was any indication, Hollywood was more than ready to join the apocalypse.

Hollywood’s Living Dead Come Out to Play

Among the evening’s guests were Lily Singh, Daniella Monet, James Charles, Jordan Barrett, Jillian Mercado, Jessica Belkin, Madison Grace, Alexia Umansky, Zach Herron, Paul Butcher, and Love Island personality Cierra Ortega.

Also in attendance were Bankrol Hayden, Nick Nayersina, Alia Shelesh, Kane Trujillo, Noor Debash, Michelle Kennelly, Valerie Lepelch, Zach Gordon, McKenzi Brooke, Mitchy Collins, Lucy Gou, and numerous other figures from the entertainment, fashion, and digital creator worlds.

SAY YES owners Mark Houston and Jonnie Houston, alongside partner David Weiss, joined the celebration, while event producer Ali Lasky helped bring the elaborate Halloween experience to life.

With music from Pookie Chapstick and DJ Shoop and emcee Judah Johnson keeping the evening moving, the party transformed the venue into a meeting point for Hollywood’s nightlife and entertainment communities.

But this was far from a conventional celebrity gathering.

Guests entered through a secret hallway designed to resemble a haunted maze, surrounded by cobwebs, candles, and eerie details that set the tone before they even reached the main room.

Inside, 24-foot-tall zombies and skeletons dominated the stage, while skulls, zombie arms, and bloody handprints appeared throughout the venue.

The result was a setting designed to make guests feel as though they had stepped directly into Justice’s Love Zombie universe.

A Sweet Tooth for the Undead

Of course, even the living dead need something to snack on.

Chips Ahoy! transformed the party into a Halloween candy lover’s dream, offering its classic cookies alongside new mini chocolate fudge and caramel drizzle varieties.

OREO joined the festivities with its new OREO Ghosts and customized cookies featuring imagery inspired by Victoria Justice’s Love Zombie release.

Three elaborate candy and cookie bars offered guests an assortment of Sour Patch Kids, Swedish Fish, Cadbury chocolates, and other Mondelēz treats throughout the evening.

For those seeking something more extravagant, Dear Caviar provided its signature caviar girl service, circulating with caviar bumps and bellinis.

One of the night’s more unexpected culinary combinations paired caviar with Chips Ahoy!’s signature chocolate chip cookies, bringing a playful sense of luxury to the Halloween celebration.

Meanwhile, New York favorite Prince St. Pizza brought its signature squares to Hollywood with a themed pizza parlor activation.

Serving cheese and pepperoni slices featuring a custom black charcoal crust, the pop-up embraced the evening’s dark aesthetic with signage declaring, “We only serve the living dead.”

The cocktail menu was equally committed to the theme.

Avión Tequila served specialty drinks with names including the Espresso Death-Tini, The Graveyard Shift, Brains and Berries, and The Love Zombie, incorporating Avión Silver and Reposado into the evening’s offerings.

Death Before Decaf supplied nonalcoholic options, including its Nitro Cold Brew, Nitro Vanilla Latte with Oat Milk, and Nitro Lemonade Cold Brew, while Peroni Nastro Azzurro provided its signature Italian beer.

A Midnight Resurrection

The evening reached its theatrical peak at midnight, when Justice took the stage to introduce a special performance by burlesque artist MISS TOSH.

Emerging from a seven-foot-tall martini glass positioned in the center of the room, MISS TOSH performed to Love Zombie, bringing the song’s seductive, supernatural atmosphere into a live spectacle.

Justice joined the performance onstage, dancing alongside zombie performers Easton Mags and Apollo Jay.

The production captured the spirit of the evening: extravagant, playful, and unapologetically theatrical.

Rather than simply playing her new release for an audience, Justice created an environment in which the music became part of a larger experience.

Guests could also embrace their own transformations at a makeup station led by artist Grace Jackson, who offered zombie, skull, and death-inspired appliqués.

A photo booth by Flash Reflectionz gave attendees the opportunity to document their undead alter egos.

Love, Death, and the Art of the Pop Spectacle

The celebration followed the October 9 release of Love Zombie: The Resurrection, the remix of Justice’s single Love Zombie.

And while Halloween parties have long been a staple of Hollywood’s social calendar, Justice’s approach reflects something increasingly central to contemporary pop culture: the transformation of a musical release into an immersive world.

Rather than treating a song as an isolated piece of content, artists are finding ways to extend its visual identity into fashion, nightlife, performance, and communal experiences.

For Justice, the living-dead aesthetic offered a particularly playful framework.

The evening brought together horror imagery, glamorous costumes, celebrity culture, and theatrical performance without taking itself too seriously.

It was an opportunity to celebrate the music while inviting friends and fans of the artist’s wider creative universe into the experience.

By the time the party wrapped at 2 a.m., guests departed with branded Love Zombie teddy bears, taking home a souvenir from a night designed to make Halloween arrive two weeks ahead of schedule.

Between its towering undead figures, extravagant food activations, midnight burlesque spectacle, and star-studded guest list, Justice’s second annual celebration made one thing abundantly clear:

In Hollywood, even the dead know how to throw a party.

Victoria Justice’s “Love Zombie: The Resurrection” was released October 9 and is available now on Spotify.