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Things to do in London this Halloween {Local}

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Halloween is almost upon us and Londoners are looking for ways to shed the rainy s.a.d.s.

Here’s just a few ideas of things to do and see. It doesn’t cover everything in this massive city but if you know of anything that we’ve missed, leave us a comment.

Outdoors for the brave:

  • Dance of the Dead – Strangework’s parade in honour of the dead starts at Hoxton Sq on the 30th at 7pm and makes it’s way up to Gillet Sq in Dalston. There’s also an official dance to learn (video below), I say dance, it’s 7 easy moves. Free.

 

  • If that’s far too trendy for you, South-East London Folklore Society are organising walks through the spookiest spots of London. A different location every day – Westminster (Thur £5), Farringdon (Fri £5) and Peckham (Sun £4).

Paranormal Parties

  • The 8th Annual Scary Costume Mash-up from Drop East on Commercial Street will be on Saturday 30th from 8pm. Entry is free.
  • The ‘Lost Souls Party’ is the place to go if you want to count the Captain Jack Sparrows. Being held at the London Aquarium on Saturday, expect “stonking house”, a cash bar and fish. £15-£20.

“Live” Performances

  • Watch a seance. Billed as an “extreme live action walkthrough horror experience”, The 13th Seance runs from 28th – 31st October, £8.
  • For spooky singing, sinister games and dressing to scare the bejaysus out of each other, The Choir With No Name (London’s homeless choir) and The CHC Jammers will be performing at 93 Feet East on Thursday 28th. £8 entrance fee goes to homeless charities. 

Freaky Food

  • Eat Your Heart Out (& the Pretox Potion) – From the people that brought you Cake Britain comes the worlds first 18+ cake shop. Containing horrifying and extreme Halloween edibles. Located in the basement of Maiden and runs fron 29th – 31st October. I always knew cake was evil really.
  • Boo at Bermondsey Square is a Halloween Fair starting from 10am on Saturday 30th. If apple bobbing, pumpkin carving and a hot hog roast arn’t enough to tempt you, then stay for the free open air screening of Tim Burton’s ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ at 6.30.

 Scary Screenings

  • For those with the stamina and inclination, Electric Cinema have a Horror All-Nighter from 12pm 30th Oct. Showing The Thing, Re-Animator, Evil Dead 2 and Poltergeist, your £27 gets you a 4 films, breakfast bap, fries, blanket and tea/coffee.
  • If it’s a night of 3d horror you’re hankering after, the BFI IMAX has one on Saturday 30th. Starts at 11.30pm and showing The Hole, Piranha, Resident Evil: Afterlife, My Bloody Valentine and The Final Destination all of course in 3d.

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Poirot Halloween Special Preview {TV}

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Halloween’s as much about guilty little treats as it is about undead souls. This Halloweens treat is a special episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot. Possibly the most dark and sinister Poirot yet starts out with a children’s Halloween party complete with witches, eerie music, jack o lanterns, fire a haunting game of snap dragon and of course a death. Add into the mix a cast of suspicious characters and an un co-operative police officer in a rural setting and you tada, one classic who dunnit.

Award winning actress Zoë Wanamaker makes a welcome return, alongside David Suchet, as Ariadne Oliver in Hallowe’en Party.

Adapted by actor, screenwriter and novelist, Mark Gatiss, Hallowe’en Party also stars Amelia Bullmore, Deborah Findlay , Georgia King, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Sophie Thompson, Paul Thornley, Eric Sykes, Fenella Woolgar and Timothy West.

When Ariadne Oliver attends a children’s Hallow e’en party in Woodleigh Common with her friend Judith, a young girl boasts of having witnessed a murder years before. Later that evening, the girl, Joyce Reynolds is found dead, drowned in an apple-bobbing bucket in the library. It appears that any one of the guests could have slipped out in the dark during a game of Snapdragon and murdered her.

At the request of Ariadne, Hercule Poirot arrives at Woodleigh Common to investigate the murder. Though Joyce was dismissed as a fantasist, Poirot is convinced her story has some truth to it. When he seeks out the local gossip, he discovers that there have been a number of suspicious deaths in the village in recent years which Joyce could have witnessed. But while Poirot pieces together the facts, another child is found murdered. Could a forged codicil, a missing au pair and a secret love affair be the key to solving the crime?

Watch the Poirot Halloween Special in ITV1 at 8pm on Wednesday 27th October.