Halloween season might be on the distant horizon, but that’s not going to stop us from outlining our itineraries this fall in Houston. In addition for kicking off the holiday season, October is a time of year to binge-watch scary movies, spin your favorite niche goth playlist, paint the town red (literally), and eat all the candy your pillowcase can hold.
To get the most out of this spooky season in the city, sink your fangs into our list of 23 spellbinding Houston Halloween events 2024!
1. Trick or Drink Halloween Pub Crawl
Prepare yourself for a thrilling journey of Houston’s finest bars, all in a single evening! Take a nostalgic journey back to the days of trick-or-treating, but with a grown-up twist on three nights this Halloween in Houston.
Instead of candy, you’ll be treated to a variety of enticing libations. Throughout the night, you can revel in exclusive drink deals that won’t dent your wallet, ensuring an unforgettable experience.
📅 October 25, 26 & 31
📍1006 McGowen St, Houston, TX 77002
2. Chilling Candlelight Concerts
In celebration of the most hallowed time of the year, Candlelight presents a series of spellbinding concerts coming to cast a spell on audiences in Houston this fall. For these magically macabre performances, some of the city’s most magnificent venues will be lit up with the enchanting glow of candlelight including the Lone Star Flight Museum with Candlelight: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics.
📅 October 18 & October 24
📍11551 Aerospace Ave, Houston, TX 77034, 77034
3. Binge Watch Horror Movies
If you’re like us and spend the entirety of October watching exclusively horror movies, you’re in the right place. While there will be numerous cinemas in and around Houston screening horror flicks – including the reopening of River Oaks Theatre – Rooftop Cinema Club in Uptown is a mainstay that regularly screenings cult-classics, horror classics, and the latest and greatest in scary movies.
While the venue hasn’t yet released their fall program, stay tuned for a full list of horror screenings.
📅 October
📍1700 Post Oak Blvd 5th Level
4. Scream your Head Off at Texas’s Largest Horror Amusement Park
Scream Fest Houston stands apart from your typical amusement park. While others may offer occasional frights with specific rides and experiences that can provoke a few screams, akin to the scream canister moments from Monsters, Inc., Scream Fest Houston takes things to a whole new level, making other theme parks seem as gentle as a beloved Pixar film.
📅 Fridays & Saturdays in October
📍1500 Elton St.
5-7. Enter the Scariest Haunted Houses in Houston
If you’re looking for a hair-raising Halloween experience, visit the most spine-chilling haunted houses in Houston.
- 13th House: Rated one of the “top 5 most terrifying haunted houses in the U.S.A.” 13th House is an essential Halloween experience in Houston. Opening September 16, 13th House is celebrating 5 years of fear with three thrilling attractions: Chop House, Legends of the Deep, and All Hallow’s Eve. 📅 September 16 – November 9📍7075 Farm to Market 1960 Rd W Ste 20
- Houston Terror Dome: Once heralded as the “scariest haunted house in Houston”, Houston Terror Dome is back for another year this fall with all killer no filler. Featuring haunted houses, pumpkin patches, paintball, axe-throwing, escape rooms, live DJs, and carnival games, Houston Terror Dome is a sure-fire way to get your thrill this spooky season! 📅 September 20 – November 3📍16030 East Freeway in Channelview
8. POST Houston
The premier multi-purpose market in Downtown, Houston is showing up this Halloween with a couple of killer events to make it a fright night to remember. In the early evening, POST will be hosting Thriller: A Killer Hitt Workout high-energy workout that will give your body the cardio it needs to outrun slashers.
Later on, The Smiths’ former frontman and Jack the Ripper singer Morrissey will be performing his goth-tinged ballads at 713 Music Hall.
Finally, POST will be hosting a special POST Apocalypse Party in the X Atrium from 9 pm to 2 am. The party will feature multiple cirque-style performers, live DJs, and a best costume contest with big cash prizes.
📅 October 31
📍401 Franklin St
9. Zoo Boo
Among over 5,000 animals, over a dozen exhibits, and numerous dining, drinking, and shopping establishments, Zoo Boo hosts a variety of amazing seasonal events including the Halloween-themed Zoo Boo. Usually beginning late September, the Houston Zoo is set to reprise its thrilling Zoo Boo event, this year with some new spooky installations including a pumpkin tree, pumpkin arch, and spooky forest!
📅 Now – October 31
📍6200 Hermann Park Dr
10. Venture out to Texas’s Most Haunted Places
To kick off the eerie festivities, we’ve put together a compilation of the most haunted locations in and around Houston, along with the chilling stories that surround them.
📅 N/A
📍Multiple locations
11. Enter the Meow Portal in Houston
This October, step into the weird world that is Meow Wolf. After long anticipation, the surreal immersive experience is opening its doors to Radio Tave. Here, Houstonians can explore fantastically unique art pieces, tunnel through secret passageways, and solve mysteries. Opening this Halloween in Houston, Meow Wolf will also feature a hidden honky tonk inside its venue.
📅 October 31
📍2103 Lyons Ave Bldg 2
12. Monster Mini-Golf
This spooky, glow-in-the-dark mini-golf course in Katy is ideal for ghouls young and old! Monster Mini-Golf features an 18-hole putt-putt course – populated with docile creatures – as well as an arcade, mini-bowling alley, VR activity area, and laser maze.
📅 Daily
📍1705 North Fry Road Suite 3
13. The Black Lagoon at Nickel City
The continent-wide Halloween pop-up known as Black Lagoon is making its way into Houston this year. Much like the Sippin’ Santa and Miracle pop-ups that happen over Christmastime, Black Lagoon is an immersive Halloween pop-up taking over Nickel City with sinister sips and a dash of metal flair.
📅 October 11 – 31
📍2910 McKinney
14. Boo at the Boardwalk
Boo on the Boardwalk returns for another year this October, bringing a treat-filled experience for all age groups. Every weekend in October, the Kemah Boardwalk will host themed evenings filled with Halloween-themed activities. Whether you visit for Freaky Fridays, Scary Saturdays, or Spooky Sundays, you’re in for a delightfully eerie time, complete with live music, mesmerizing magic shows, and festive entertainment.
📅 October
📍215 Kipp Ave
15. Hop into the Most Festive Halloween Bars in Houston
From heavily decorated local haunts, haunted house bars, and actually haunted bars: these Houston haunts are a must-visit this Halloween season!
📅 Now – October 31
📍Multiple locations
16. The Cursed Cauldron
Summed for its second year, Cursed Cauldron is a spellbinding Houston Halloween pop-up that weaves enticing cocktails with witchy hi-jinx. While its location has still yet to be announced, visitors can expect to enjoy themed libations conjured by the resident cocktail coven, themed music, fortune tellers, and bewitching burlesque dancers – all inside an immersive interior that transports patrons to an otherworldly realm. The Cursed Cauldron materializes in Houston October 4th.
📅 October 4 – November 2
📍TBA
17. Go Medieval at The Texas Renaissance Festival
The 50th edition of the Texas Renaissance Festival, the biggest renaissance fair in the country, is poised for a grand comeback this weekend, starting on October 12h, offering a realm of entertainment suitable for the entire family. On the weekend of October 26 – October 27, the festival will feature a special All Hallows Eve weekend, with costume contests, Kettle Korn eating contests, and a Transylvanian court.
📅 Now until Dec 1
📍21778 FM 1774
18. River Oaks Theatre Halloween Program
The legendary River Oaks Theatre has reopened in all its glory! Much like its first iteration, the iconic theater has set a program of cult-classics, arthouse, and new, cutting-edge cinema. This week, the theater has a number of horror movie screenings planned including the following:
- October 29: Halloween (1978)
- October 30: Horror Show Spooktacular Triple Feature
- October 30: Halloween (1978)
- October 31: Halloween III: Season of the Witch
- October 31: Halloween (1978)
- October 31: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
📅 October 29 – 31
📍2009 W Gray St.
19. Haunted Hues at Color Factory
Houston’s most colorful immersive exhibition is reprising their annual Haunted Hues experience this September. Kicking off September 12, Haunted Hues is a special Halloween-themed attraction for all ages that offers bewitching photo-ops, seasonal treats, giveaways and more.
📅 September 12 – November 3
📍3303 Kirby Drive
20. Zombie Apocalypse pop-up at Popfancy Dessert Bar
Good news and bad news, Houston; bad news is that a Zombie Apocalypse is coming to Houston this October; the good news is is that it’s going to be a great time. This mid October, Popfancy Dessert Bar will debut its new The Outbreak: A Zombie Apocalypse Dining Experience – a free Halloween-themed event in Houston where visitors can enjoy immersive decor, themed eats and drinks, and more!
📅 October 11 to November 10
📍9393 Bellaire Blvd. a6.
21. Pumpkin Lights at Lagoonfest
Houston’s premier lagoon summer destination is morphing into a fall wonderland this October for Pumpkin Lights. Running Thursdays through Sundays from October 3 to October 27, Pumpkin Lights is a family-friendly event featuring walking trails through thousands of illuminated pumpkins. Pumpkin Lights will also feature Halloween-themed food and drink specials – all with the crystal lagoon as a backdrop.
📅 October 3 to October 27
📍12600 Crystal View Blvd. Texas City, TX 77568
22. Dine at the Texas Chainsaw Massacre House
Pay homage to Leatherface at the iconic Texas Chainsaw Massacre farmhouse in Texas! Located in Kingsland, Texas, four hours or so driving from Houston, the house is now a fully operational restaurant, Hooper’s. Open for brunch, lunch, and dinner, the TCM house is also hosting a special 50th Anniversary of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre weekend festival starting on October 26.
📅 Daily
📍1010 King Ct, Kingsland, TX 78639.
23. Take a trip down Nightmare on Candy Cane Lane
Candy Cane Lane in Quail Valley is a go-to for holiday decor during the Christmas season. But during October, the area also goes heavy on Halloween. Whether trick-or-treating or just a festive drive, take a trip down the most Halloween-decorated neighborhood in Houston!
📅 Daily
📍3100 block of Robinson Road
24. Take down Zombies at AGR Sports
AGR Sports is an all-encompassing action and entertainment venue with two locations in the Houston area. Throughout October, AGR Sports in Katy reprises their annual Zombie Hunt that allows patrons to open fire on infected zombies with glow-in-the-dark bullets. If saving humanity wears you out, you can enjoy replenishments from the venue’s kitchen and bar.
📅 October
📍830 Fort Bend Road Suite 200
25. Pumpkins After Dark
The award-winning Halloween experience based in Canada has made its US debut in Houston! Here, visitors can walk through a vibrant array of installations including over 10,000 hand-carved pumpkins, live demonstrations, food, drinks, and more!
📅 October
📍23101 TX-242, New Caney, TX