Halloweekend

According to the internet, clown swarms are abandoning their native heavily wooded areas now that their king is about to conquer the Free World. Since this might be your last Samhain we've got a few suggestions so you don't spend it standing 'round a punch bowl in a mullet wig like a big Halloweiner. 

Fright Night

Fright Nights have run every Friday and Saturday through October and The Final Party is on 31 Oct. Stumble screaming through horror mazes based on classic nail biters From Dusk Till Dawn, The Conjuring 2, Friday The 13th and cult Aussie zombie apocalypse flick Wyrmwood. You will also get access to the rides, make-up tutorials so you can look like a proper lil' horror and unlimited soft drink - because we all know sugar is the real monster.

31 Oct, Warner Bros Movie World

Butcher's Burrow

You liked Saw right? Of course you did, it was a genre-changing piece of cinema. Well now escape rooms are all the rage and you can have your own locked-room experience without doing any surgery. Exitus do a range of themed head scratchers, but on Halloween you can go past Butcher's Barrow where "you've been kidnapped. Everything is black. Only darkness surrounds you... There's a severed hand on a plate. You might be next. Now is not the time to be afraid. Now is the time to make your escape." Brutal.

Exitus Escape Rooms Wintergarden

Double Double Feature

One-man retro film revival Kristian Fletcher has disturbed the resting place of some long forgotten horrors for two nights of old school Halloween screams at New Globe Theatre. The show starts 27 Oct with Grindhouse Double Feature where you can see Blood Feast (1963) and Pieces (1982) uncut and uncensored. Then on Sunday Fletcher has lined up two '70 classics in Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He's even thought to throw a holiday appropriate party at Padre Bar on the Friday in between since you won't be sleeping anyway.

27 & 30 Oct, New Globe Theatre; 28 Oct, Padre Bar