The most wickedly wonderful Halloween activities in Brisbane

With a mix of haunting classical music and hair-raising modern hits, Candlelight takes over St John’s Cathedral for a spine-tingling Halloween concert.

Forget the tricks because it’ll be time to treat yourself to a night of frightfully spectacular music on October 30 and 31 as candles flicker, shadows linger, and musicians makes their instruments screech, scratch and scream melodically through the night. Booo-k your tickets here!

Join the Halloween weekend fun at Festival of Frights, coming to Redcliffe Markets on Saturday, October 25. Enjoy a spooktacular evening featuring the region’s best street eats, live entertainment, family activities and over 200 stalls. Think face painting, scavenger hunts, fireworks and more.

Spook ’n’ Sip’s gordgeous, adults-only pumpkin carving workshop is returning to Brisbane for its third year, for a decorating class that’s just a little darker, prettier and preferably served with a cocktail.

With everything taken care of, it’s an easy spooky-season date night or ready-made night out with friends: just arrive, grab a drink, then settle in to carve your own pumpkin with all tools, materials and guidance supplied.

Carve out a spot for yourself here!

Prison Island is an electrifying, immersive experience that fuses the excitement of escape rooms with the challenge of obstacle courses. This high-octane, 90-minute gameplay will put your team’s strategy, intelligence, and agility to the test.​

And this Halloween, the cells aren’t empty. Brave Brisbane’s most haunted escape adventure, if you can handle it. There’ll be live actors, eerie lighting, and a few… unexpected guests.

Get your one-way ticket here!

Everyone’s favourite food and entertainment hub, Eat Street Northshore is getting dressed up from October 30 to November 1, serving up spookily good treats from 70+ stalls, creepy cocktails, live entertainment, roving performers and, of course, costumes galore!

Step into the role of a real ghosthunter in this outdoor supernatural adventure! Strange spirits are roaming Brissy, and they’re mostly harmless, except for one plotting something truly terrifying. Your mission: track down the 10 wandering ghosts, solve their challenges, gather clues, and identify the evil spirit before time runs out.

Save the world here!

For the fourth consecutive year, Dendy Coorparoo’s screens will be possessed by nightmare-fuel classics. On October 31 from 6pm, dress your spookiest to get a free small popcorn, and get ready to bite your nails through any of these eight thrilling horror movies.

You’ll be spoiled for choice between foundational The Thing and Halloween, slashers like Sleepaway Camp, or more homegrown horror classics like Lake Mungo, and more. Book your seat — even if you’ll be on the edge of it — here.

If your ideal Halloween activity in Brisbane involves learning, grab a torch because you won’t want to miss this journey through Brisbane’s creepier side, from tragedy to crime, led by authority in all things ghostly, Jack Sim.

A fascinating figure himself, the writer, historian and speaker has been researching macabre happenings in the River City for over 25 years, so you know you’ll be in expert hands! Book your spot… if you dare!

Alexandra Hills Hotel’s Spooky Putt Putt is back from the dead. Show off your skills at this spine-tingling course, where clowns, aliens and zombies lurk around every corner, and may even shamble up to you!

Gather your nerves, maybe with the help of a boozy slushy, and get through all 18 ghoulish holes before they disappear again on November 8.

Mary Valley Rattler’s Halloween Ghost Train is getting ready for another fangtastic journey from historic Gympie Station on October 31. With a stopover at Amamoor Station and optional dining, you can really make a spooky evening of it. Passengers are encouraged to dress up, and there will be prizes up for grabs for the scariest costume!

All aboard the Scary Express! Get your tickets here.

Get ready for some frightful fun at Brisbane’s biggest Halloween street party! Back from beyond the grave for another year, Trick or Treat Little Stanley Street is ready to turn South Bank into a celebration like none other on Friday, October 30 and Saturday, October 31.

This haunting party is not just for kids and will have something for everyone, from eerie roving performers and themed markets to live entertainment and spooky surprises!

If your idea of a perfect spooky night out includes immersive storytelling, expertly mixed cocktails, and a touch of mischief, consider this your official warning: Alcotraz will grab you and won’t let you go.

This bar visit is a fully interactive experience where you’re dropped into a living narrative and encouraged to engage as much as possible. Will you side with the guards, scheme with fellow inmates, or mastermind a full-blown prison plot? There’s only one way to find out: getting inside.

If you never miss an episode of Spicks & Specks and Never Mind The Buzzcocks but you often find yourself yelling the answers at the TV, Not On Your Rider is for you! You can participate as much or as little as you want at this live music trivia game show.

Hosted at Felons Barrel Hall by The Creases’ Aimon Clark and music genius Simi Lacroix, with team captains Velociraptor’s Jeremy Neale and The Grates’ Patience Hodgson, the show will be taking on a spooky turn on October 30. Expect on-theme questions, décor and surprises along the way! Come dressed up and show off your trivia skills here.

Tamborine Mountain gets its Halloween on with a Scarecrow Festival, which is essentially a spooky sculpture show! Everyone is encouraged to display their own take on these beloved Halloween characters and the Scarecrow Discovery Trail will scare your socks right off!

For 1.5 hours, dive into the spine-tingling tales of Goodna Cemetery, on a chilling adventure that’s older than Queensland itself! From stories of the dead who won’t stay dead to eerie encounters with the “Headless Angel,” get ready to explore Australia’s most ghostly graveyard! Get your tickets here, if you dare!

Haunt and be haunted at Movie World’s Fright Nights. Between terrifying mazes, scare precincts with encounters ranging from goofy to frightening, and a screamingly fun time on your favourite rides after dark, it’ll be a night to remember! Get your tickets here.

With the tagline “Pay to enter. Pray to leave”, it’s clear that Evilcorp’s horror maze is not for the fainthearted. Deep underground and pitch black, the light at the end of the tunnel is that once you get through it, you can treat yourself to a spooky cocktail to calm your nerves at their themed bar. Get your tickets here for any Saturday in October — at your own risk.

If you’re looking for more family-friendly Halloween activities in Brisbane, The Morgue at Rochedale features three different mazes, so you can choose your own haunting adventure: a kids’ maze, a general one for all ages, and another terrifying maze (for those aged 12 and older), if your group is feeling brave.

It’s free entry but you can make a donation here!

Experience cocktails, theatre and true crime blended into a tense, immersive night that will leave your hair on end!

Serial Killer Speakeasy is a four-part live theatre and cocktail experience that stages performances based on Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy and Gein, pairing four themed cocktails with intimate, investigation-led storytelling inside a speakeasy setting. Get your tickets here, if you dare!

It may not be the Flying Dutchman but this ghost ship, leaving from the City Botanic Gardens promises to be just as legendary. Start thinking of your costume, savour the drink included with your ticket and get your dancing feet ready as you party the night away and take in scenic sights from the Brisbane River.

Newly-renovated The Warehouse is hosting Brisbane’s biggest Halloween party on October 31. Step inside the Haunted House — if  you dare — and experience a fully immersive atmosphere where shadows move, spirits stir, and nothing is quite what it seems.

Not only will The Warehouse be completely transformed with large-scale stage production, LED screens, lasers, and spine-tingling visuals, but you can expect roaming creatures, goosebump-inducing performances and eerie beats from some of Australia’s best DJs!

Get your tickets for Halloween Hall here.

The beloved Wynnum Halloween Parade is coming back for another year. The volunteer-run event includes music, live entertainment, a trick or treat trail, a haunted house and even a fang-bulous Halloween-themed drag show! This year, the free event will take place on Saturday, October 31.