Ghastly, ghoulish things are going on this Halloween

It’s Halloween this weekend. Here are some ghoulish, tasty and some very, very scary things to do – if you dare!

Halloween at Battersea Power Station

Gather your family and take part in Battersea Power Station’s Halloween Hunt around Circus West Village , solving spooky riddles and spotting creepy objects hiding around the place.

As you go, complete the Halloween questions and submit your answers to go in the draw to win four tickets to a movie of your choice at The Cinema In The Arches, plus two signed copies of Ghostcloud by Michael Mann.

Set in a vividly evoked, smoke-stained underworld beneath Battersea Power Station, Ghostcloud is a book about friendship, courage and finding your freedom against all odds.

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Spooky Maze – Open daily from 10am to 6pm

The Grade-II listed Coaling Jetty has been transformed into a Spooky Maze for you to journey through. Every turn could be a trick or a treat.

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Queen of the Crepes – Open weekdays from 11am to 4pm and weekends from 11am to 6pm

The delicious creperie on the Coaling Jetty will be serving special flavours with clever Halloween-themed names to get you in the mood for the spooky weekend.

Will you try a Cruella de Vil, or a Maleficent?

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DNR virtual reality arcade – Friday October 29 from 7pm to 10pm

DNR VR, London’s first ever virtual reality arcade, is challenging visitors to ‘survive the night’ in a one-off Halloween experience.

Many use Halloween as an opportunity to settle down and watch the usual horror flicks featuring a group of friends attempting to survive until dawn – be that in a haunted house, an eerie woodland or within a zombie apocalypse.

But DNA VR is taking that a step further, by allowing fans of all things eerie to live through those experiences, via a frightful selection of virtual horror settings.

Visitors can fully immerse themselves as they find their way out of the haunted Hospital Of Horror, evade the supernatural in Affected The Manor or navigate a zombie infested post-apocalyptic world as one of a few survivors in Arizona Sunshine, as well as many other spine chilling arcade games and experiences.

Part of the event is hosted in VR pods that allow up to 10 people in the same game and offer true escapism with virtual flying and teleporting.

They are suitable for any age and interest. The Free Roam gallery offers eight different games including five escape rooms, one horror experience and two shooting games.

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The event at Battersea Power Station will run from 7pm-10pm. For more information, visit www.dnavr.co.uk

Diane Chorley’s Spookalicious at Woolwich Works

The Duchess of Canvey, acclaimed 1980s superstar songstress Diane Chorley, is opening her legendary nightclub The Flick inside Woolwich Works for a Spookalicious Halloween show.

Diane Chorley is a character created by performer David Selley, as a love letter to the working classes, the strong independent women of Essex and the sequin drenched glamour of the 1980s.

This Halloween, she will be joined by her live band The Buffet and special guests including Nina Conti, Crystal Rasmussen and Le Gateau Chocolat.

Ms Chorley said: “So, chop off your head, zombify your two front teeth, rub one out of the genie’s lamp and don your most terrifying outfits for the most heart stopping, goose bumping, outrageously blood curdling night of your post pandemic bleedin’ lives.”

Tickets for the show on October 30 are available from www.berksnest.com/diane

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Spooky showings at Backyard Cinema, Wandsworth

If trick or treating out in the cold doesn’t sound like much fun then never fear, there are plenty of spooky showings at Backyard Cinema in Wandsworth.

The quirky cinema will take you on a mystical adventure as you walk through themed rooms lined with crawling cobwebs and flickering pumpkins to create the ultimate immersive experience.

New sets, expanded storylines, magical artifacts and a host of peculiar and outrageous characters have been added especially for Halloween.

A variety of Halloween films are showing including the new Addams Family 2, Disney’s bewitching Hocus Pocus, and Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice.

For the brave-hearted, there are also cult-horror classics such as Scream, Candyman, The Lost Boys and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The interactive experience includes a live band who’ll set the perfect spooky soundtrack, playing famous scores from the best Halloween films, alongside a whole host of crazy activities and competitions to enter – from a Trick or Treat Wheel of Fortune to a fancy-dress competition with prizes to be won.

A range of delicious food and drink will be on offer including Popcorn Shed, Honest Burger and Backyard Pizza.

There’ll be speciality cocktails to enjoy such as Witches Brew and a variety of toasty drinks to warm you up including the traditional mulled wine, mulled cider and the famous build-your-own boozy hot chocolate, which comes in a child-friendly version too.

You can book tickets to the Backyard Cinema online via www.backyardcinema.co.uk

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Catford Mews spook-tacular pumpkin carving event

On Saturday, October 30, Catford Mews in Lewisham will play host to a spook-tacular Pumpkin Carving Event.

The ex-retail unit has been entirely reimagined into multi-use cultural and entertainment hot spots for the local community.
The venue offers three cinema screens with a social space, live music, a bar and food vendors.

Visitors can get a free pumpkin when they buy a drink at the bar and the event is open to adults and children with a devilish prize up for grabs at the end.

Over Halloween weekend, the venue will be showing ghoulish films such as Get Out, Halloween Kills and The Addams Family 2, along with more fang-tastic titles – making it the perfect spot to get in the spooky spirit this year.