As autumn chills creep in and pumpkins begin to glow, Halloween in Liverpool transforms the city into a playground for ghouls, ghosts, and families alike. From scream-inducing scare parks to family-friendly spooky trails, there’s something for everyone this October. Whether you’re chasing adrenaline at a horror maze or enjoying pumpkin fun with the kids, here’s your essential guide to Halloween in Liverpool.
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Family-Friendly Halloween Events in Liverpool
Not all spooky fun has to be terrifying. These city-based events are ideal for families and children:
Liverpool ONE Halloween Party
On Sunday, 26 October (11am – 5pm), Liverpool ONE hosts its annual Halloween party. Highlights include a children’s fancy dress competition, live music, street performers, and spooky characters roaming the shopping district. This free event adds a fun, family-friendly twist to Halloween in Liverpool.
Katumba Halloween Carnival Parade 2025 – “Ancestral Spirits, Ritual Fire”
On Saturday 25 October 2025, Liverpool’s streets will come alive as the Katumba Halloween Carnival Parade returns. Starting on Bold Street at 7pm and ending with a fiery finale at Liverpool ONE, this year’s theme, “Ancestral Spirits, Ritual Fire,” blends Afro-diasporic drumming, dance, and fire performance with the ancient spirit of Halloween. Celebrating 10 years of Katumba and the finale of Black History Month, it’s a powerful night of rhythm, community, and transformation.
Find out more and join the workshops at katumba.co.uk/halloween-carnival-2025.
Spooky Welly Walk (Sefton Park)
On Saturday 25 October 2025, families can enjoy the Spooky Welly Walk, a charity fundraiser that transforms Sefton Park into a spooky trail filled with games, crafts, mask-making, and entertainment. A great way to celebrate Halloween in Liverpool while supporting the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.
Free Halloween Family Funday at Blackstock Market
Blackstock Market is hosting four free Halloween Family Fundays on Sunday 26 October, and from Wednesday 29 to Friday 31 October, packed with spooky entertainment for all ages. Expect creepy face painting, Halloween mascots, themed movies, live music, dancing, and plenty of eerie surprises throughout the day.
Pumpkin Picking
We’ve rounded up the best spots to go pumpkin picking near Liverpool, where there’s plenty of photo opportunities in the fields, pumpkin mazes and much more.
Shiverpool Ghost and History Tours
The multi-award winning Shiverpool Ghost Tours are one of the best ways to spend Halloween. Shiverpool provide brilliant, hilarious, street theatre ghost tours which are also packed full of history. Led by the eerie Chiller Black and their team of macabre experts, you’ll unravel the bone-chilling tales from Liverpool’s haunted history.
On all year round!
Tickets and Info
The Florrie’s Halloween Fancy Dress Party
The Florrie’s Halloween Fancy Dress Party is on Friday 31 October. Tickets are just £1 per child and the event is suitable for children aged 0–12 years. Come in the spookiest, silliest, or most magical costumes and join The Florrie team for an afternoon of fun, games, and Halloween treats! All ticket money goes towards the Cash for Kids Sports Challenge fundraising page. The Florrie are raising funds to help local disadvantaged children get active and involved in sport, and every little bit helps.
Spooky Storytime
The ghouls at Arts Groupie will host two spooky story sessions on Thursday 30 October at Liverpool Library and on Friday 31 October at 1st floor at Museum of Liverpool. On each day there will be three 45x minute storytelling sessions which will be free and completely family friendly and fun for all ages.
Meet the Skeletons at Williamson Square
On Monday 27 October, join the skeletons as they head to Williamson Square to shake their bones and get you feeling a Halloween chill with some spooky performances.
Halloween Scare Parks In Liverpool
Newsham Scream Park
The city’s most famous Halloween attraction, Newsham Scream Park, returns for 2025 from 1 to 29 October. Set inside the eerie, abandoned Newsham Park Hospital, this immersive experience is a must-visit for anyone celebrating Halloween in Liverpool. Expect:
- Multiple themed haunted mazes and scare zones
- A selfie museum, food court, and bar area
- Live scare actors and spine-chilling special effects
Tickets are available via Skiddle, but they sell out fast.
Farmageddon
Just outside the city, Farmageddon remains one of the UK’s favourite scream parks. Every year it draws thrill-seekers from across the North West for its sprawling horror mazes, themed sets, and terrifying live actors. If you want your Halloween in Liverpool to be filled with maximum fear factor, Farmageddon is unmissable.
Halloween Cinema Screenings
Spooky Cinema at The Mansion House
Liverpool’s biggest open-air cinema experience is set to make a hauntingly good return this autumn as The Reader, the national Shared Reading charity based at Calderstones Park, brings back its hugely popular outdoor screenings with a spooky seasonal twist.
The Halloween film season offers family favourites each afternoon, including Hocus Pocus, Hotel Transylvania, The Addams Family Values and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Evenings are reserved for grown-ups, with classics like Practical Magic, Hitchcock’s Rear Window, Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice and a special 50th anniversary screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show to close the celebrations in style.
Plaza Cinema’s 90s Halloween Family Special – The Addams Family (1991)
The Plaza Community Cinema in Crosby will be celebrating Halloween with a special screening of The Addams Family (1991) – the supernatural black comedy that brings Charles Addams’ iconic macabre clan to life. DJ Nick Gartland will kick things off with a Halloween themed DJ set. Fancy dress is fully encouraged with a prize for best dressed!
Plaza 80s Halloween Special – The Shining (1980)
The Shining (1980), directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Jack Nicholson, is a chilling psychological horror film based on Stephen King’s novel. It follows Jack Torrance, a struggling writer and recovering alcoholic, who descends into madness while caretaking a remote, haunted hotel with his wife and clairvoyant son.
DJ Nick Gartland will start the evening with a Halloween themed set, with a bar available and fancy dress is fully encouraged with a prize for best dressed.
Halloween (1978) 4K Restoration – Picturehouse at FACT
This 31 October, experience John Carpenter’s iconic slasher Halloween (1978) like never before with a stunning 4K restoration at Picturehouse at FACT Liverpool. Step into the chilling world of Michael Myers on the night it all began — a perfect way to spend Halloween with one of cinema’s most terrifying classics back on the big screen.
Adults-Only Halloween Events in Liverpool
Albert’s Schloss Corporate Hell
From Monday 27 October – Sunday 2 November, abandon all office etiquette and prepare for seven nights of supernatural showtime, prowling promenade performers and hell-raising Haus bands.
Corporate Hell schedule includes:
- Monday – BACK TO MEIN: THE LATE SHIFT: DJ sets straight from hell’s office party. No 9–5, just dark beats till late.
- Tuesday – HOME GROWN: A live musical exploration of artisanal beats, brewed in the boardroom of doom.
- Wednesday – BABY FANG SLAM: Haunted duelling pianos. Killer kocktails. Audience anthems to raise the dead.
- Thursday – STUDIO FIFTY-GORE: THE OFFICE PARTY: Disko Wunderbar reimagined with glitter, gore + grooving ghouls ’til the witching hour. Dress code: business casual.
- Friday + Saturday – CORPORATE HELL: Punch in + freak out. Haus bands, DJs + prowling promenade actors raise hell all night long.
- Sunday – SUNDAY SERVICE + KLUBNACHT: Confess your sins, repent, rejoice + repeat.
Guests are encouraged to dress the part – the creepier and more cursed, the better.
Visit albertsschloss.com to find out more.
The Upside Down Market at Blackstock Market
Blackstock Market will transform into a fully immersive Stranger Things-inspired world, where retro horror collides with electrifying live performance and eerie interaction. Taking place on Thursday 31 October and Friday 1 November, the venue will host live shows every hour and a free party from 5pm until midnight, filled with haunting energy and 80s nostalgia. The centrepiece is a 20-minute live performance inspired by the dark supernatural force of Vecna — combining intense dance, live bongo drumming, and a spine-tingling soundtrack of 80s classics.
Flight Club’s Spooky Brunch Special
Flight Club Liverpool – the lively Social Darts and cocktail bar – is serving up a bottomless Halloween brunch this October that’s so good it’s scary. The two-hour Halloween Brunch Weekender is available on Friday 31 October through to 2 November, so whether you’re a Friday-night ghoul or a Sunday-funday spirit, you won’t miss out.
Expect some Halloween-themed tunes from the resident DJ, a devilish cocktail on arrival, a bottle of prosecco for every guest, frighteningly good bottomless pizza paddles and an hour at the oche throwing sharp pointy things (otherwise known as Social Darts!). Come dressed up and be in with a chance to bag some treats!
Book tickets here from £33 per person: flightclubdarts.com/brunch/halloween.
From family-friendly fun to late-night frights, embrace the magic, mystery, and mayhem — and make Halloween in Liverpool 2025 one to remember.
