Four Fairly Frightening Things to Do in Melbourne This Halloween
Dance with the Demogorgon, dress up like a dead celeb or devour 13 hours of horror films.
Four Fairly Frightening Things to Do in Melbourne This Halloween
Dance with the Demogorgon, dress up like a dead celeb or devour 13 hours of horror films.
It's the most frightening time of the year — and one of the most fun. Whether Halloween means scares, silliness or both is up to you. Yep, you can choose your own spooky adventure.
That certainly rings true this year, with Melbourne offering up plenty of options. Basically, however you choose to celebrate, somewhere around the city has you covered. From dead celeb dress up parties to haunting VR experiences, here's four Halloween events that'll get you into the spirit of the occasion.
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Step into the Upside Down at Good Things this Halloween. The South Yarra bar is hosting a Stranger Things party, and all your D&D travelling companions are invited.
Kicking off from 9pm on Monday, October 31 (that is, Halloween), the Netflix-inspired shindig will pay homage to 2016’s favourite TV obsession, with a playlist featuring all the best tracks from Jonathan Byers’ record collection. Think Joy Division, The Smiths, David Bowie and many more.
There’ll also be an array of Stranger Things cocktails, including Eggo martinis and the Demogorgon Spritz. And with this being Halloween, dressing up is highly encouraged, with a $100 bar tab going to the person with the best costume.
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Gone but not forgotten, the stars of yesteryear are rising from the grave at this creepifying Halloween party at Nieuw Amsterdam. Forget generic vampires, wolf men and sexy nurses. This shindig is all about the rich and famous…or what’s left of them, anyway.
Running from 7pm on Saturday, October 29 until first light the next day, the Dead Celebrities Halloween Party is a costumed affair where A-listers go after they die. You can be an actor, a musician or a world politicians — it really doesn’t matter, as long as rigor mortis has set in. Alternatively, come as a living celebrity you‘d like to see shuffled loose. Just a guess, but we reckon we might see a few zombie Donald Trumps.
Like all good Halloween parties there’ll be prizes for best dressed, along with various other spooky surprises. Entry is free, meaning you’ll have plenty of cash to spend on your costume.
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ACMI is unveiling a spooky new virtual reality experience just in time for Halloween. Premiering on Saturday, October 29 as part of Melbourne International Games Week, Ghosts, Toast and the Things Unsaid forgoes the traditional VR headset in favour of a ghost costume, as viewers peer into the corporeal world from beyond the grave.
A partnership between Google’s Creative Lab, Sandpit and Grumpy Sailor, the 16-minute piece puts you inside a haunted house…one that you yourself are haunting. There you’ll learn the deepest darkest secrets of Steve and Maude, a couple whose relationship is slowly falling apart as a result of the desires they can’t bring themselves to share. Deep and spooky stuff.
Entry into Ghosts, Toast and the Things Unsaid is free, however bookings are highly recommended.
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Historic Melbourne cinema The Astor is hosting their Great Astor Spooktacular again this year, which means nine movies will be shown in a 13-hour-long horror marathon — right in time for Halloween.
Directed by “the devil” and featuring a cast of “hell itself”, some of the films include The Amityville Horror — the original 1979 supernatural horror film that inspired the 17-film franchise — as well as 1988 slasher film Child’s Play (you know, the super creepy and murderous doll), and cult film Night of the Comet, a 1984 film about the survivors of a comet that killed (or zombified) almost all of humankind. The historic cinema, known for its presentation of classics and cult films, is the perfect venue for the all-right horror marathon.
It all kicks off at 8pm on Friday, October 28 and runs overnight. Needless to say, this one isn’t for the faint of heart.
