Mumbai is the City of Dreams, but this weekend, it’s ready to take on a nightmarish quality with various Halloween events. With October 31 freakily falling on a Friday this year, we’ got the whole weekend to RIP. Time to extinguish all the Diwali diyas to welcome the eerie darkness of this fall festival with killer cocktail deals, deadly dance parties to show off your Wednesday Adam (or Manjulika) moves, and horror movie screenings. Your regrets will haunt you if you don’t attend!
1. Corporate Hell, Social
As the Diwali firecrackers have died out and we’re stepping into well, corporate carnage, this popular cafe and bar chain decided to make it a fun experience. Their after-office Halloween party, inspired by toxic workplaces and office culture that burns out souls, is ironically fun enough to make all the hell your boss puts you through worth it. Step into an office space decorated with tombstones highlighting missed deadlines and more. Go dressed as a satanic CEO or zombie intern to win free drinks.
📍: Social Powai
📆: October 31; 7pm onwards
🎟️: INR 1,180 per person, get tickets here
2. Halloween Carnival, Carnival by Tresind
Our friends in Secret Dubai are huge fans of this Dubai-born modern Indian restaurant’s award-winning food. Their Mumbai outpost in Juhu embodies the same level of excellence, featuring creative seasonal events, such as their Halloween dinner. Specially crafted cocktails so stunning to look at, sipping them feels sinister, will be served alongsidea monster mash of delicious food and music.
📍: 7th Floor Krishna Curve, Opp. Juhu Garden, Santacruz West
📆: October 26; 9pm onwards
📞: Call 9152100123 or 9152400123 for reservations
3. Creatures of the Night, antiSOCIAL
Social’s performance venue for alt music and events transforms into the underworld’s hellish landscapes for their annual Halloween party. After last year’s Met Gala-inspired haute horror rampwalks, this year goes back to the basics with a Creatures of the Night theme. Dress up as a vampire, a zombie, a corpse bride – the sky (or depths of hell) is the limit when it comes to creative costumes and makeup. Then, groove the night away to psychedelic techno music by international DJs Lestrange, Annhillison and Mozzez.
📍: CS #242, Near Viva Centre, Mathuradas Mill Compound, Lower Parel West
📆: November 1; 9pm onwards
🎟️: INR 500 per person; buy tickets here
4. The Souled Store Halloween Bash
Casual clothing brand Souled Store is hosting a Halloween party epic enough to wake up the dead. Beastly good sets by musician Dev Rayani and spooky games, face painting, and tarot card readings are all part of the terrific time you’ll have here.
📍: Anti Social
📅: October 31; 8:30pm-1am
🎟️: INR 1,699 per person; get tickets here
5. The Graveyard, Mitron
The graveyard shift has never been more fun than this Halloween party, considered one of Mumbai’s must-visit Halloween events. Live horror storytelling for some spine-chilling tales, a live DJ spinning hex-cellent music that’ll cast a spell on you. The icing on this cake, oops, the headstone on this grave is a costume party with prizes to be one for the goriest, most creative costumes.
📍: Mitron, Saki Naka, Andheri
📅: October 26; 7pm onwards
🎟️: INR 499 onwards; get tickets here
6. Pumpkin Patch, Independence Brewing Company
This craft brewery and brasserie has a cauldron bubbling with fun Halloween plans. Catch a live gig and you sink your fangs into a Halloween a la carte menu featuring weird and wonderful pumpkin dishes and hauntingly good pumpkin-infused beer called the Pumpkin Reaper.
📍: IBC Mumbai venues in Powai and Versova
📅: October 31
📞: Call 8484820401
7. Halloween Brunch, Pondichéry Cafe
The glam all-day dining restaurant of the Sofitel BKC will join the fright train with a family-friendly Halloween Brunch. Delicious themed dishes like Undead Chaat, Witches Curses, Cemetery Feast, and drinks (both cocktails and mocktails) such as Trick or Treat, Vampire’s Kiss, and Blood Moon Margarita will have you fiending for more. Desserts get a dreadful makeover, too, with skeleton chocolate cakes and creepy cookies.
📍: C 57, G Block BKC, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra East
📅: October 31, 7pm-11pm
📞: Call +91 91673 91130 for bookings
8. Go Goa Gone movie screening
India’s first-ever zombie movie, Go Goa Gone (2013), is being screened outdoors on Halloween by by Sunset Cinema Club at a SkyCinema session. This brainless comedy about brain-eating undead taking over Goa is a cult classic. Watch it with your coven of witches and wizards on a rooftop in Malad.
📍: Infniti Mall rooftop, Malad
📅: October 31; 7pm
🎟️: INR 450 per person; book spot here
9. Grisly Girgaon Ghost Tour
South Mumbai’s glitzy upscale exterior hides some dark horrors! Walking tour company Khaki Tours runs an in-depth two-hour tour of the Girgaon area unearthing its buried secrets. What better time than Halloween to book yourself into one, when the veil between the world of the living and dead thins. You’ll offer butter to a grave that devours the dairy treat, wander through a chawl full of ghosts, learn about the legendary headless ghost of Khotachiwadi – the Mankapya and more horrors.
📅: October 31 and November 1; 10:30pm
🎟️: INR 999 per person; book here
10. Talwinder Halloween concert
For a hair-raising yet head-banging Halloween, head to a concert by Punjabi hip hop artist Talwiinder – known always for covering his face with his skull-like facepaint to hide his identity. Jam to tracks like Wishes, Dhundala in a crowd of fans dressed in their coolest Halloween drip, while dramatic productions of eerie decor and visuals set the mood.
📍: Dome SVP Stadium
📅: October 31; 7pm
🎟️: INR 4,000 onwards, book here
11. Scary Night Stand-Up Comedy
Instead of howling in fear, howl with laughter at this comedy night where all things paranormal, horror and superstitious are made fun of. Ghost stories turn into roast stories of said ghosts, ghouls and demons as Rohan Chawda, Atul Sharma and Akshat Davla take to the stage when the clock strikes midnight on Halloween.
📍: Ink-A-Laugh Comedy Club, Ville Parle
📅: October 30-October 31; 11:59pm
🎟️: INR 249 per person, book here
12. Tic-Tac-Toe Halloween Party
Get witch-crafty with your little monsters at this fun and unscary arts and crafts party where Stitch from Disney’s Lilo and Stitch is the main attraction. Perfect for families with kids, there’s a thermocol zone, hands on arts and thrilling games adults can enjoy too. Kids get a Stitch keychain and candy for Trick or Treating.
📍: Damini Bungalows, 889, Juhu Tara Road Lane Next to Podar College, Juhu
📅: November 1; 5pm-8pm
🎟️: INR 1,800 for 1 child and 1 adult
📞: Call 9004767662