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. 

Fang Halloween Ball

Melbourne is built on a labyrinthine system of tunnels; dark, dangerous and off limits to the public - for the most part. Built into the subterranean Banana Alley Vaults that have stretched unseen from Flinders Street to the Yarra River since the late 1800s, Platform One can't really be beat for 'vibe' this time of year. The Fang Halloween Ball is taking full advantage of that fact, inviting masquerade ballers to party 12 feet under with Laeather Strip and IKON.

31 Oct, Platform One

Monster Fest

Monster Fest, Melbourne's premier fright-film event, is launching on the only night it possibly could - All Hallows' Eve - with an advance screening of musician, director and face paint enthusiast Rob Zombie's latest opus, 31. Watch five carnival workers forced into a blood-soaked game by maniacal circus clowns, pitted against the likes of homicidal "hillbillies" and "a Nazi midget" called Sick-Head. There will also be exclusive recorded intros and Q&As from cast and crew including the big Z himself.

31 Oct, Lido Cinemas

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 QV