Halloween Oct 30

Grown-up scares

Shocktober Fest

Tulleys Farm, Turners Hill Road, Turners Hill, Crawley, until Sunday, November 1, 6pm, from £9.95, www.halloweenattractions.co.uk

THE scream park features eight attractions ranging from a visit to a post-apocalyptic colony to a terrifying chop shop all aimed at 12 years and older. During the day the park turns into the child-friendly Spooktober Fest.

Spooky Supper

Bateman’s, Burwash, Friday, October 30, 6.30pm, £27, 01435 882302

GEOFF Hutchinson leads a spooky supper reading the supernatural words of great writers and poets, followed by supper in the Mulberry restaurant.

A Cabinet Of Curiosities

Preston Manor, Preston Drove, Brighton, Friday, October 30, 6pm to 10pm, £13/£10, museumsatnight.org.uk

AS part of the national Museums At Night Halloween special, Brighton’s most haunted house offers a taste of tarot and explains a Victorian séance, as well as a magic lantern show and look at the spooky cellars.

All Hallow’s Eve ghost tales

Bodiam Castle, Bodiam, Friday, October 30, and Saturday, October 31, 7pm and 9pm, £16.50, 01580 831324

FOLLOWING a warming supper a chance to explore the dark castle and hear about some of its oldest residents. Youngsters can meet the crones in their tower during the day.

Fear On The Pier

Palace Pier, Brighton, Saturday, October 31, £15, brightonpier.co.uk/

THE Palace Pier is taking on a spooky tone for Halloween, offering unlimited rides into the night tomorrow night, while Horatio’s bar takes on a creepy edge.

Shaun Off His Head – Halloween

Rialto, Dyke Road, Brighton, Saturday, October 31, 8pm, £5, www.rialtotheatre.co.uk

A FANCY dress party with four bands and a DJ – plus screenings of classic horror.

Coalition Day of the Dead

The Coalition, King’s Road Arches, Brighton, Saturday, October 31, 11pm to 3am, £6/£8, www.coalitionbrighton.com

A CELEBRATION of the Mexican Dia de Muertos, with zombie piñatas, candy skulls, skeletons and sombreros.

Nightmares

Nightingale Room, above Grand Central, Surrey Street, Brighton, Saturday, October 31, 8pm, £15, 01273 329086

CREEPY cabaret and burlesque with a distinctly horrifying edge accompanied by a Halloween buffet.

Family

Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain Part Three

De La Warr Pavilion, Marina, Bexhill, Sunday, November 1, 2pm and 4pm, from £12, 01424 229111

TERRY Deary’s Horrible Histories return with the gruesome facts teachers tend to leave out – from crazy King Charles to King John and the Magna Carta, the Great Fire Of London and the First World War.

Halloween Shriek Week

Drusillas, near Alfriston, until Sunday, November 1, 10am to 5pm, from £31, 01323 874100

EXPLORE the creepy corridors of Haunted Heights and play hide and seek with witch sisters Hocus and Pocus in this half-term special.

MyMiniDisco: Candy Rave

Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton, Sunday, November 1, 2pm, £8, 0845 2938480

AN ultraviolet disco special for zero to eight-year-olds – with prizes for best costume, free face painting and goody bags.

Halloween Week

Borde Hill Garden, Borde Hill Lane, Haywards Heath, until Sunday, November 1, 10am to 5pm, from £8.20, 01444 450326

BORDE Hill has a spooky trail, and a resident wizard demonstrating magic potions and spells, with stories from Storybox and face-painting over the weekend.

Bag Of Bones!

Petworth House and Park, Petworth, until Sunday, November 1, 10.30am to 4pm, £3 per child, 01798 342207

SEARCH out the scary skeleton parts in Petworth’s ancient parkland to help it lay to rest.

Halloween Trail

Birling Gap, until Sunday, November 1, 10am to 4pm, free, 01323 423197

THE visitor centre hosts a pumpkin trail and stories about ghosts and beasts residing in the area. Plus there is a family-friendly story trail today from 3pm, for £3 per person.

Alternative

The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown

Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton, Friday, October 30, 7.30pm, £20, 0845 2938480

AUTHOR of perhaps the most terrifying number one singles of the 1960s, Fire, Lewes-based Arthur Brown plays a homecoming show with support from The Slytones and Rayne.

Traumfrau: Inner Demons and Out There Bogeymen

Envy, Charles Street, Brighton, Friday, October 30, 9.30pm to 3am, £6/£7, www.wegottickets.com/event/334350

QUEER disco Traumfrau is encouraging partygoers to dress as their most shameful secrets and filthiest fantasies in a night which also includes a cabaret exorcism from New York’s Sabrina Chap.

Brighton Early Music Festival: Voices Appeared – La Passion De Jeanne D’Arc, St George’s Church, St George’s Road, Brighton, Friday, October 30, 8pm, from £12/£10, bremf.org.uk

ALTHOUGH not strictly a horror movie, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 powerful silent film depicting the last days of Joan Of Arc mixes both mental and physical torture that would put Jigsaw through his paces as the maid of Orleans is forced to confess to charges of heresy. This screening is augmented by a soundtrack of contemporaneous medieval music from the Orlando Consort.

Brighton Death Festival

The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, Saturday, October 31, 1pm to 5pm, free, 01273 201801

STARTING with a parade of coffins from Churchill Square at 12.30pm the Brighton Death Festival hopes to crack the ultimate taboo – death – with a series of talks and performances.

Wyntercon

Winter Gardens, Carlisle Road, Eastbourne, Saturday, October 31, and Sunday, November 1, 9.15am to 6pm, day passes from £11.50/£7.50, www.wyntercon.com

HORROR Channel’s Emily Booth, Bond girl Caroline Munro, Red Dwarf’s Norman Lovett and Dr Who’s Davros aka Terry Molloy are among the special guests descending on Eastbourne for two days celebrating cult horror, comics and science fiction. Look out for a replica of Tim Burton’s Batmobile and the chance to sit in The Iron Throne.

Halloween Film Fest

Royal Hippodrome Theatre, Seaside Road, Eastbourne, Saturday, October 31, 9pm and 12.15am, £6, 01323 802020

A DOUBLE bill of spooky classics – starting with Rick Moranis in the musical Little Shop Of Horrors at 9pm, followed by Mars Attacks at 12.15am.