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10 spooky things for grown-ups to do this Halloween in the North East
If you’ve aged out of cheap horror mazes and sticky nightclub “fright nights” but still love a bit of drama, this is for you.
Halloween doesn’t have to mean fake blood and plastic capes – it can be spooktacular fine dining tasting menus, twilight pumpkin picking and cinematic firework displays.
Halloween, but classy.
Spooktacular Halloween Breakfast Tasting at Hide
Sunday 26th October, 11.30am
Loved the breakfast tasting menu at Hide, Heaton? It’s back for one morning only with a Spooktacular Halloween theme. Sink your fangs into pumpkin custard with maggots, broth served in a cauldron, fillet steak with blood red sauce, and more, in this multi-course experience that’s perfect for foodies who like a fright. Costumes welcome, but not required.
‘A Halloween Feast of Horrors’ Supper Club at SIX, Baltic
Friday 31st October, 5.30pm – 8.30pm
Views, wine and witchy glamour? Yes please. SIX is hosting a Halloween-style supper club, A Halloween Feast of Horrors, pairing spooky seasonal dishes with panoramic rooftop views of the Tyne. Think charred sardine remains, pasta sacrifices and witch’s broth. Dress code? Somewhere between vampire and woman who poisons her husbands but gets away with it.
Psycho Path
Throughout October 2025
A bigger ad better experience than ever, from arguably one of the scariest Halloween events in the North East. This award-winning scream-a-thon is one of the biggest Halloween attractions in the country, transforming Lintz Hall Farm in Durham into a nightmarish attraction filled with scares. Work your way through a psychotorium, doll house, isolation units and more… if you’re brave enough (we aren’t).
Halloween Weekend Spectacular at Kynren
Saturday 1st November, 6.15pm for a 7.00pm start
You’ve never seen fireworks like this. Kynren, famous for its epic historical show, transforms into a spooky spectacular with a cinematic firework display, for one night only. Follow a pumpkin-lit trail down to the tribune, before a 25-minute pyrotechnic display set to the backdrop of Auckland Palace fills the sky. A festive night out that you won’t forget in a hurry. Gates open from 4.30pm to enjoy fire pits, hotdogs, mulled wine and hot chocolate before the show.
Meat Loaf by Candlelight at Newcastle Cathedral
Friday 31st October, 7.30pm – 10.00pm
Bat Out of Hell, but make it candlelit. Newcastle Cathedral will be taken over by a live cast of West End singers, accompanied by a live rock band, to perform Meat Loaf’s most dramatic hits surrounded by flickering candles. Not strictly spooky, but atmospheric, theatrical, and a great alternative Halloween activity.
Beamish After Dark, and Hocus Pocus in a 1950s cinema
27th, 29th and 31st October, 5.00pm – 9.00pm
Beamish is transforming into the Un-living Museum of the North this Halloween, for a series of after-dark family-friendly evenings. Play spooky games in the 1950s welfare hall and walk through the haunted Edwardian cobbled streets. Plus, this year, they have recreated The Grand cinema from Ryhope in Sunderland as part of their 1950s town. Head along to see Hocus Pocus (pre-booking essential), with screenings on Saturday 1st November and Sunday 2nd November at 2.00pm.
Spirits of Newcastle at the Lit & Phil
Friday 24th October, 7.00pm – 9.00pm
The Lit & Phil is beautiful by day, and this live event is a great place to experience it by night. Cara Hamilton, a psychic historian, will be sharing tales of Spiritualism, Gypsies, Fortune Tellers and Mystics who escaped persecution in Newcastle. Entertaining and educational.
Halloween all-nighter at Tyneside Cinema
Saturday 25th October, 9.30pm – 8.10am
Tyneside Cinema is bringing its legendary Halloween all-nighter back for 2025, with a line-up of five blood-chilling films played throughout the night. From classics like The Monster Mash to blood-soaked tales of female revenge in Good for Her! – only the bravest sousl should step into this Nightmare on Pilgrim Street.
Panic in Alnwick at Lilidorei
Friday 31st October, various times
Alnwick’s fairytale play village Lilidorei will become horror-ravaged for one night only in their goriest event yet, Panic in Alnwick. Strictly for 16+ with parental guidance advised, expect adult horror themes, jump scares, depictions of extreme violence, tight spaces – you get the idea. Calm down afterwards at the Dance of the Damned at The Alnwick Garden, with music, drinks, light food and a Halloween atmosphere.
Twilight pumpkin picking at Brocksbushes
Friday 17th October and Friday 24th October until 8.00pm
Pumpkin picking, but after-dark. These magical events at Brocksbushes combine live music, street food, warming drinks and twinkling lights with the pumpkin patch – such a cute Halloween-themed date night beneath the stars.
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