Everything you need to know about Halloween in Liverpool 2025

Updated Friday, 9 September.

There’s loads of ghoulishly great goings-on in Liverpool to celebrate the spooktacular season of Halloween.

So if you’re frightened of missing out on all the best events, have a look at everything we know so far …

Farmageddon

Let’s start with one of the most well-known Halloween events which is Farmageddon, the annual horror festival in Ormskirk that’ll have even the bravest of souls quaking in their boots. It’s back from Saturday, September 27 to Saturday, November 1 with The Beast of Terror, The Meat Locker, the Fear Go Round, the Maze of Death, and more – and new for this year is The Facility, where people seeking refuge are being used as medical guinea pigs and left in confusion and zombification.  We’re terrified already.

Find out more here.

Spooky Cinema at The Reader

Open-air cinema returns to Calderstones Mansion for the spooky season with nine hand-picked Halloween favourites from children’s storybook animations to top family-friendly picks, an iconic Hitchcock thriller and cult classics during October half term, Tuesday, October 28 to Saturday, November 1.

Find out more here.

Newsham Scream Park

The abandoned Newsham Park Hospital is regularly cited as one of the UK’s most haunted buildings and it’s host to Newsham Scream Park for the third year with a month of mind-bending terror. Running from Wednesday, October 1 until Friday, October 31 there are four new scare mazes and a brand-new Horror Selfie Museum, and it’s definitely one for those who don’t frighten easily.

Find out more here.

Halloween Family Day at Aintree Racecourse

Aintree Racecourse is teaming up with Liverpool charity Nugent for a Halloween Family Day packed with racing, entertainment and spooky fun on Sunday, October 26. As well as live racing, there’ll be loads of Halloween-themed activities and frighteningly good food.

Find out more here.

Spooky special events at Blackstock Market

There are four free Halloween Family Fundays at Blackstock on Sunday, October 26, and from Wednesday, October 29 to Friday, October 31, with creepy face painting, spooky mascots, Halloween movies, live music, dancing, and plenty of eerie surprises; as well as The Upside Down Halloween Party with a Stranger Things theme on Friday, October 31 and Saturday, November 1. There’ll be live shows every hour and a free party from 5pm until midnight with dancers, drummers and the haunting beats of 80s’ classics.

Find out more here.

Spooky Welly Walk – Sefton Park

On Saturday, October 25, the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation is turning Sefton Park spooky with its ever-popular Halloween-themed two-mile fundraising walk, and they’ll be keeping your little monsters entertained with games, creepy crafts, a freaky funfair, menacing mask making, the Bugfest Beaty Parlour, and more. The Spooky Welly Walk event opens at 10.45am and the fun doesn’t stop until 4.30pm.

Find out more here.

Murder Mystery at The Everyman

Inspired by the historical ‘Witch Hunt Craze’ and the city’s dark history you’re invited to be the jury in this interactive Halloween Afternoon Tea Special, The City of Curses – A Murder Mystery by Trial. In the midst of civil war, hunger and incurable sickness, witchcraft haunts the streets of Liverpool, and you can join the secret trial held underground on Hope Street where a witch accused of sorcery, seduction and murder must prove her innocence. It’s happening on Friday, October 31 and Saturday, November 1.

Find out more here.

Psycho City at Moloko

Dress to distress on Thursday, October 30 when Moloko invites you to prepare for your worst nightmares at Psycho City. There’s a Haunted House of Horrors, a Psycho Carnival and Psychic Tent, a funfair featuring creepy clowns, along with three ‘terrifyingly haunted arenas of music’, and more.

Find out more here.

Halloween Party Fright Night at Novotel Liverpool

Check in for night of spooky fun, music and Halloween vibes at the ALL ACCOR Halloween Party on Friday, October 31. Entry is £2 and there’s themed food and drink – think ghostly sliders, bloody cocktails and more – a costume contest, and live music from 7pm. 

Find out more here.

The 80s vs 90s Halloween Day Party at Level

Not everything goes bump in the night! The 80s vs 90s Halloween Day Party is coming to Liverpool at Level Nightclub in Fleet Street on Saturday, November 1 from 3pm-8pm. Expect loads of fearful fun from Halloween classics and 80s & 90s club anthems, ghoulish performers and scare actors, and themed cocktails and potion bars, along with tricks, treats and haunted giveaways.

Find out more here.

Halloweenville at Partridge Lakes, Warrington

Previously known as the Halloween Lakeside Trail, Halloweenville is an enchanted land where you can immerse yourself in a spooky storybook setting. On from Friday, October 3 to Friday, October 31, this year’s theme takes visitors ‘under water’ to the haunting depths of the Gold Lake where ghostly sea creatures, sunken secrets and the skeleton pirates spring to life.

Find out more here.

Farmer Ted’s Pumpkin Festival

Get ready for a bewitching tedventure at the annual Farmer Ted’s Pumpkin Festival, with dinosaurs, a dead scary maize maze, a pumpkin carving zone, fancy dress competitions, spooky stories and more, between Sunday, October 5, and Friday, October 31.

Find out more here.

Old Skool Bingo Halloween Special at Modo

Billed as the Ultimate Spooky RnB Takeover, you’re promised a high-energy night packed with scary vibes, RnB anthems, stacks of surprises and the wildest bingo experience. It’s at the Concert Street venue on Friday, October 31.

Find out more here.

Find out more about Halloween in Liverpool by checking out our calendar HERE.

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