In celebration of the Guillermo del Toro-produced horror film Mama debuting on Blu-ray and DVD today, we were invited along to take a tour of the darker side of Hollywood. Sure, it's all fame and fortune for the relative few who make it in this town, but the ones who came close - and the stars who think themselves invincible - sometimes meet a grisly end. In this city of glitz and glamour there's plenty of gruesome gore to be found, and the folks at Starline Tours know just where to look. Hit the jump to come along on our recap of the tour that took us through some of Hollywood's most famous haunts and be sure to check out writer-director Andres Muschietti's Mama, now available on Blu-ray and DVD. Our tour started at the unlikeliest of haunts, the world-famous TCL (formerly Grauman's) Chinese Theatre, smack in the middle of Hollywood Boulevard. The building certainly appears to be more of a tourist trap than a repository for ghosts, but the near 100-year-old landmark has its share of haunted history. In the heat of summer, numerous tourists have reported walking through unexplained cold spots while literally standing in the footsteps of celebrities past and present who have made their mark in the hardening concrete. Our tour guide was quick to assure us that, although the phenomenon may be caused by walking through a ghost, they don't particularly mind. Just across Hollywood Boulevard from the Chinese Theatre is the famous Roosevelt Hotel, the site ...
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