The proliferation of ghouls and gourds can solely imply one factor: Halloween cometh. Our Halloween calendar has tons of of occasions celebrating the season of the witch, however when you’re in search of all killer, no filler, we’ve curated our high Halloween happenings under. Choose your poison from freaky movie nights to haunted homes to events the place you possibly can showcase your costume. Take a look at our roundup of Halloween food and drinks specials
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for extra treats.
Double Characteristic: Bride of Frankenstein and Younger Frankenstein
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As a Mary Shelley stan, every of the Frankenstein movie diversifications has upset me—the unique textual content accommodates darkness and depth that the movies have by no means captured (we will see if Guillermo del Toro delivers together with his upcoming adaptation). Nonetheless, I am prepared to confess that as standalone movies, Bride of Frankenstein and Younger Frankenstein are the very best entries within the monster saga. Regardless of being filmed practically 40 years aside, each motion pictures reinvent the mad scientist story whereas not taking themselves too significantly. Get into the Halloween spirit this week because the Seattle Symphony performs the unique Bride of Frankenstein rating by Franz Waxman. For the second act, the orchestra will take a break whereas the viewers howls at Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy traditional Young Frankenstein. AV
Benaroya Corridor, Downtown (Thurs Oct 24)
BOO Seattle
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This annual EDM spectacular will hang-out your Halloweekend with a number of themed levels, ghoulishly enjoyable rides, larger-than-life artwork installations, and roaming performers. Plus, DJs together with Misplaced Frequencies, Afrojack, Illenium, Chris Lorenzo, and Maddix will rattle your bones. AV
WaMu Theater, SoDo (Oct 25–26)
Magnuson Haunted Home
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I actually cannot do scary, however this haunted walk-through of the Magnuson Group Heart guarantees the sort of kid-friendly leisure I must be geared up to deal with. Proper? Proper?? The middle was once a navy base, so friends is perhaps haunted by ghosts of troopers from the previous. If you end up shaken by the darkish, winding hallways, you possibly can all the time run off that nervous vitality afterward within the vast, open areas at Magnuson Park—however no guarantees that your folks will not bounce out from behind bushes to present you an additional fright. SL
Magnuson Group Heart, Northeast Seattle (Oct 25–26)
Thrill the World Seattle
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I as soon as discovered the dance to “Thriller” for a fundraiser and truthfully, it is fairly enjoyable. It is greater than only a TikTok dance—you additionally get to decorate up in thrifted ’80s clothes and canopy your self in grime or faux blood (if you need). If you happen to’ve by no means had this thrilling expertise, now’s your likelihood! Be a part of The Seattle Thrillers for Thrill The World, an annual worldwide simultaneous dance to “Thriller,” on Saturday, October 26 at exactly 3 pm. You possibly can spectate or get impressed by final yr’s efficiency and take part. The group may also carry out on the West Seattle Harvest Fest
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on October 27, and on Halloween at Trick or Deal with on the Ave
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in Queen Anne. SL
West Queen Anne Playfield, West Queen Anne (Sat Oct 26)
Trick or Bushes
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This neighborhood Halloween occasion options anticipated actions like trick-or-treating for teenagers and a pet costume contest, however free timber may also be up for grabs. The Filth Corps gives paid on-the-job coaching for people going through limitations in coming into the environmental subject, and so they’ll be on-hand with quite a lot of native, urban-friendly timber. You are welcome to take dwelling as much as 4, whereas provides final. And when you thought the day could not get any higher, Bakescapade will promote their scrumptious conchas alongside the Highland Park Nook Retailer’s ordinary items. SL
Highland Park Nook Retailer, Highland Park (Sat Oct 26)
Bride of the Beacon Halloween Particular
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If there’s any theater in Seattle that I belief to curate a reliably bizarre and chilling mix of Samhain shorts and creepy-crawly TV episodes, it is the cinema freaks (mentioned with love!) over on the Beacon. Their Halloween video “mega-mix” will serve up a mish-mash of tips and treats within the type of “spookies, ghoulies, occult rituals, and candy-mad kids” on display screen. Come on, you are not too scared, are you? LC
The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis (Solar Oct 27)
Collide-O-Scope Halloween
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It is HalloweeEEEeeeEEEeeeen! (Please learn that in your greatest Vincent Value voice.) If you’re an indecisive Gemini (hello! I really feel your ache!) and also you want one Very Good advice, it’s this: Collide-O-Scope’s Halloween present on the Egyptian. Collide-O-Scope comes from the good minds of Michael Anderson and Shane Wahlund (The Stranger’s personal video wizards!). They string collectively cinematic masterpieces utilizing discovered footage from among the deepest, dankest corners of popular culture. It is all the time nice—they have been at it for over a decade, and you may see them month-to-month at Right here-After—however their proclivities for summoning the actually unusual and surprising recorded bits of our historical past shines like werewolf eyes within the moonlight throughout their annual Halloween extravaganza. STRANGER MANAGING EDITOR MEGAN SELING
SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Capitol Hill (Thurs Oct 31)
Trolloween
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I really like that the Fremont Troll is a Seattle landmark; it is just a little odd-looking, it’s just a little dusty, and it fittingly has a birthday on Halloween. Don your festive garb and attend the annual Trolloween celebration, the place there shall be dwell music and a pageant beneath the bridge adopted by a neighborhood parade generally known as the “Hang-out of Fremont.” This family-friendly, rain-or-shine gathering takes place after darkish, so light-up, reflective, and waterproof costumes is perhaps good. SL
Fremont Troll, Fremont (Thurs Oct 31)
Black Lagoon Halloween Bar Pop-Up
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Escape your greatest goth finery: The swanky cocktail lounge Rob Roy is internet hosting Black Lagoon, a ghostly Halloween-themed expertise proclaimed “Canada’s Finest Pop-Up Bar” by Canada’s 100 Finest in 2022. The expertise, dreamed up by bartenders Erin Hayes and Kelsey Ramage in New Orleans in 2019, options dungeon-esque decor and deliciously morbid libations just like the “Blood Lust” (Giffard Sirop, miso falernum, rooibos tea, lemon juice, and ginger beer) and “Nosferatu’s Rise” (Coconut Oil Lot 40, Lustau Amontillado Sherry, cinnamon syrup, Bitter Queens Caribbean Bitters, and saline). JB
Rob Roy, Belltown (By means of Nov 2)
That is Halloween
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Impressed by the Tim Burton traditional The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas, Can Can Productions’ unique musical adaptation will have fun 16 years at Triple Door with a “darkish fantasy burlesque musical” and all issues Skellington—count on a spooky cabaret with burlesque stylings, dwell orchestral music, haunting vocals, and video projections. C’mon, I do know you former Scorching Subject lovers have an interest. LC
Triple Door, Downtown (By means of Nov 2)