Top 10 Halloween events in Honolulu

In chronological order, here are some terrifying things do to on Oʻahu to get you pumped for the big day on the 31st!

1.) Haunted Houses: Oct. 4

Nightmares Live Haunted Attractions has teamed up with Dole Plantation to bring the Nightmare at Dole Plantation. This year they are rolling out three different attractions at one location: 13 Haunted House, Nightmare Express, and Trail of Terror. 13 Haunted House is open daily from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. On Friday and Saturday nights, all three attractions are open from 7 to 11 p.m.

The Haunted Plantation, voted Hawaiʻi’s Scariest Haunted Attraction, will be worth the drive.  Located at Hawaiʻi’s Plantation Village in Waipahu, the website warns to leave your children at home, don’t even think about going if you are pregnant, and they are not to be held legally responsible if you have nightmares for the rest of your life.

Scare Hawaiʻi presents The Evolution of Fear at Windward Mall, which opened on Oct. 1.  This haunted house promises to be a mentally and physically draining experience that brings you to face the deepest, darkest places of your mind and the hidden fears that you thought were locked away.

 

 

2.) Miss Vamp Hawaii Pageant: Oct. 10

 

 

The Miss Vamp Hawaii is a beauty pageant of the macabre to crown the most voracious vixen vampire in town! Like any other beauty pageant, expect the girls to show off a talent, a skimpy outfit, and answer questions in front of a live audience at the historic Hawaii Theatre Center in Chinatown. If these girls don’t leave you feeling a little creeped out, and yet pulled in by their fangs, you might already be dead.

 

 

 

3.) Death Plays the Market: Oct. 11

 

 

Dine on a three course meal that at Dave and Busters that coincides with a three act thriller. Work with your table to solve who committed the murder and their motive behind it.  If you solve this chilling crime, you could win devilish prizes!  The show start promptly at 7 p.m. with the doors to the showroom opening at 6:30 for the blood thirsty in need of a cocktail. Call 589-2215 for tickets and more information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.) Pumpkin Festival at Aloun Farms: Oct. 12

 

The Pumpkin Festival at Aloun Farms in Kapolei starts on October 12 but goes for the three remaining weekends in October.  It’s $2 to get in, free parking, free hayrides, and miles of pumpkin patches to hunt through to find your perfect pumpkin to pick. Pumpkins are priced by weight and variety. Last year’s pumpkin types included Frankenstein pumpkins in oval shapes, Cinderella pumpkins in pastel colors, and giant pumpkins in, well, giant shapes. There’s a farmer’s market with other gourds and vegetables, too!

Also, there are three pumpkin carving festivals on Oʻahu!

On Friday, Oct. 21 at 9 a.m., The Neal S. Blaisdell Center is hosting an all ages Pumpkin Carving Festival.

On Wednesday, Oct. 23, at Tamarind Park in Bishop Square, from 4:30-8:30 p.m. will be the Corporate Competitive and Executive Carve Down.

On Saturday, Oct. 26, at Windward Mall, from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. is the Pumpkin Carving Family Day.

 

 

 

5.) The Walking Dead returns: Oct. 13

 

For those who like a thrill along with their drama, a little undead blood on our hands, and lots and lots of gun fire, “The Walking Dead” returns to AMC this month.  The marathon of all of the episodes will begin on October 7th. Wetpaint.com says, “Even if you’ve seen all three seasons before, nothing matches that shared experience of watching episode after episode for hours on end until you become half-zombie yourself.” Couldn’t have put it better myself.

 

 

 

 

6.) Hawaii Zombie Crawl III: Zombie Island: Oct. 18

 

 

This is a 21+ event that infests the local haunts in Chinatown with zombies. You can go be a casual observer of what the zombie apocalypse might look like, or buy a wrist band for $13 before the event and $15 at the door. Zombie attire is encouraged and the information website says, “If you don’t, zombies will eat your braaaaaaains!!!”

If, by chance, you leave your brain at home and dressing up slips your mind, professional make up designers will be on site to turn you into a fresh corpse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.) Ghost Story: Oct. 25

 

The Honolulu Museum of Art is hosting a scary good party for their last ARTafterDARK of 2013 from 6 p.m.-9 on the 25th. Wear your costume, win prizes, listen to ghost stories by master story teller Lopaka Kapanui, monster mash the night away, and feast and drink on ghoulish pupus. A howling time will be had by all and you can tell your friends it all went down while you were getting schooled about paintings, art, and ghosts.

 

 

 

 

8.) Thrill the World: Oct. 26

Oct. 26, 2 p.mm Pacific time, is Hawaiʻi’s Thrill Time!  Thrill the World is a world wide tribute to Michael Jackson where groups or individuals all over the world join forces and dance the music video choreography for “Thriller.”

The website has lots of tutorial videos to help you learn the dance, along with audio tracks of the song with the founder of Thrill the World calling out dance steps to make learning it easy and fun!  Honolulu has two groups participating this year that you can join up with to get your Thrill on. Or, you can always create a group of your own.  Youtube has great videos of groups of thousands and individuals participating on their own making the 26th a Thriller, um, afternoon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.) Hallobaloo: Oct 26

 

 

The 6th annual Arts and Music Festival known as, Hallobaloo, will rock the socks off of Chinatown on Oct. 26.  This year promises to be extra wild since the tsunami closed the streets early last year. The free street festival starts at 5:30 p.m. with vendors, stages, bars, and thousands of costumed characters filling the streets. The streets open up again at around 10:30, but the bars rage on with revelry until 2 a.m. Forget Halloween in Waikīkī, if you had to choose between the two, this is the costume party not to be missed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.) Dawn of the Dead Dash: Nov. 9

 

Although the month of October will officially be over, the Dawn of the Dead Dash is coming to Honolulu in November! My very first article was about races in Hawaiʻi and included a paragraph lamenting about not having zombie runs here in the Pacific. My undead dreams have been answered with this race for your life through zombies that spans about three miles, depending upon how many brain munchers you need to dodge. Registration is available online or on the day of the race and you can be a human, zombie, or a human who gets turned into a zombie. Unfortunately, there is no cure for the undead so you become a part of the course when zombified.