Get ready for a spook-tacular Halloween in Johannesburg. Whether you’re into dancing, movie nights, or trick-or-treating, these events promise a hauntingly good time.
Emerald Resort & Casino’s Animal World Trick or Treat Halloween
The gates to Animal World’s mysterious Family Manor are opening for one unforgettable night in October.
Strange creatures have escaped, Wednesday has hidden clues, and Thing needs your help to complete a series of spooktacular challenges.
Whether you are brave enough to follow Wednesday, clever enough to solve the animal mysteries or simply ready for an evening of fun, the Family Trick-or-Treat Adventure has something waiting around every corner.
Children can collect a Trick-or-Treat Passport and visit treat stations throughout the Zoo, tackle themed games and challenges, brave the Kids’ Spooky House, get creative with craft activities and enjoy the playground.
The entertainment continues with a magic show, character meet-and-greets, music and a photo booth, with photographs available to purchase. Guests aged 10 and older can venture into the Forbidden Forest: The Aftermath.
Food, drinks, a beer garden and a sweet stall will be available throughout the evening. Come dressed up for a chance to win a prize in one of four categories: Best Addams Family Character, Best Animal-Inspired Costume, Creepiest Creature and Best-Dressed Family.
Cost: R110 per adult, including Zoo entry and the Forbidden Forest walk. R90 per child, including the kids’ games and Trick-or-Treat experience | Book via Webtickets
When: Friday, 30 October 2026 from 6pm to 10pm
Where: Animal World Zoo, Emerald Resort and Casino, 777 Frikkie Meyer Blvd, Vanderbijlpark
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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival
The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival showcases horror cinema directed, written, or produced by women and non-binary filmmakers. Final Girls Berlin are committed to creating space for female voices and visions — whether monstrous, heroic, or some messy combination of the two — to platform women as subjects and storytellers in horror. This year’s Best Of programme showcases six shorts from Belgium, the US, the UK, Australia, and Japan, as well as a local film from South African director Nace DeSanders.
The films include “Drosera”, a 2025 Belgian offering directed by Maud Carpentier and Boris Tilquin, where Alice, a sixteen-year-old motocross champion, is mysteriously brought back to life by a carnivorous plant after a violent trauma. “Take Care” is an American film released in 2025. Directed by Brittany Ashley, the film follows a woman who deliberately injures herself just to be in the care of a particular ER nurse. But when she’s discharged earlier than expected, she needs to find a new way to extend her stay.
The South African offering, “Hello Sickness,” tells the story of an American girl who, after moving to South Africa to care for her sickly grandmother, creates two imaginary friends to keep her company. Yet, after her grandmother’s passing, those friends and her own mind become enemies.
Cost: R104pp, book online
When: Wednesday, 7 October from 7pm
Where: The Bioscope at 44 Stanley, 44 Stanley Avenue, Braamfontein Werf, Johannesburg
The Haunted Forest ®
The Haunted Forest® is a one-of-a-kind Halloween-themed outdoor event.
Visitors walk through a forest with eerie fog, strange sights, multiple life-size scenes, and scare actors accompanied by the spine-chilling screams from the Haunted House. The event also consists of a main festival site with a big screen featuring films to draw the horror from the tips of visitors’ toes out through the little hairs behind their necks.
The festival features a bar and picnic area, accompanied by a vendor and food village with tastes for every palate. For the young ones, there is a Trick & Treat in the forest that takes place before the forest walk.
For an added fee, visitors can also tour a Haunted House at the event, play games, experience the Fun Fair, and visit the Hansel & Gretel House. There are costume prizes up for grabs for the Most Horrific Family and the Freakiest Couple.
Cost: From R150pp to R300pp for adults; From R200 for ages 13 to 17; From R70pp for ages 3 to 12; From R700 for a family; toddlers enter free. Book via Quicket
When: Saturday, 31 October from 3pm to 11pm
Where: Prison Break Market, 10 MacMillan Rd, Glenferness AH, Johannesburg
Ramfest x Halloween
Ramfest’s Halloween edition lands in Pretoria with international headliners alongside South African rock and metal mainstays.
The lineup includes Silverstein, Ruff Majik, Phfat, The Tazers, Doomtrigger, Fuzigish, Human Nebula, Middle Grounds, Your Cynical Sanity, Man as Machine, Walk These Skies, Daisy Arson, Worms, among others. The event builds out a full festival-style production with multiple bars, merch, and food vendors.
Fans can expect hard-hitting sets, professional stage design, and high-output sound. Feel free to come dressed up for Halloween.
Cost: R249 to R450pp; R899pp (VIP). Book via Howler
When: Saturday, 31 October from 3pm to midnight
Where: Heartfelt Arena, 1000 Voortrekker Road, Pretoria Central
Gold Reef City Halloween Movie Night
Halloween comes to Gold Reef City as the Town Square transforms into an open-air cinema under the stars.
Guests can enjoy selected rides, a gourmet picnic basket dinner for two, and a chilling screening of the 2010 horror flick featuring Freddy Krueger, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”.
Cost: R1200 per couple. Book online.
When: Saturday, 31 October from 6pm. Movie starts at 8pm.
Where: Theme Park – Townsquare, Gold Reef City, Northern Pkwy & Data Cres, Johannesburg
Secret Sunrise JHB Halloween Sunset
Secret Sunrise brings its Halloween-themed silent disco to Sandton Gate.
Whether you’re a little bit witchy, a certified dancing monster, or simply looking for an excuse to dress up and have some fun — this Secret Sunrise is the perfect place to let your inner creature out.
The morning features a guided silent dance experience with headsets, bone-shaking beats and spine-chilling sounds, playful breathwork, and a seriously spooky energy reset – a Halloween-inspired dance journey packed with fun, connection, and a little bit of mischief, alongside monster moves, wicked grooves, and ridiculous amounts of fun.
Dress up in a Halloween-inspired outfit, from capes to tutus, glow sticks, and quirky hats, as surprise treats await the most spook-tacular dancer.
Cost: From R100pp, book via Quicket
When: Saturday, 31 October from 8.30am to 9.30am
Where: Sandton Gate, 25 Minerva Ave, Glenadrienne, Sandton
Halloween at The Johannesburg Zoo
Johannesburg Zoo hosts an evening of Halloween adventure, opening its gates after hours for families to explore decorated trails and themed stations.
Children move between trick-or-treat points while zoo staff and volunteers guide the flow. Activities include trick-or-treating, live entertainment, and fun in themed zones.
The event’s mix of exploration and activity creates a festive yet relaxed experience for families. Parents and children alike enjoy the novelty of walking the zoo under the stars.
Cost: R132pp for adults and R78pp for kids. Book via Webtickets.
When: Saturday, 31 October from 5pm to 9pm.
Where: Johannesburg Zoo, Jan Smuts Ave, Parkview, Johannesburg
Kind Earth Halloween Market
The Kind Earth Market is one of Johannesburg’s best-voted markets, featuring the most popular vegan stalls.
With over 80 stalls, the market promises to deliver its usual vegan food fare and craft extravaganza. Visitors can expect vegan and hippie fare such as creamy cheeses, decadent desserts, fast food, and tie-dyed everything. There is also live entertainment between mouthfuls of delicious, healthy food.
Other offerings are a kid’s play area, massages, esoteric and crystal stalls, rescue shelters to support, and early morning yoga. Leashed dogs are welcome.
Cost: Free entry
When: Sunday, 4 October from 9am to 3pm
Where: Pirates Sports Club, 25 Braeside Road, Greenside
Halloween: Glow-in-the-Dark Paint Night
It’s a family event featuring spooktacular paint night of glowing creativity.
Lillian Gray Art Studio invites the entire family out for a Halloween Glow in the Dark Paint Night, where each person can paint a hauntingly beautiful scene featuring a black cat, pumpkins, and a friendly ghost using special glow-in-the-dark paints.
Everything is set out for guests, paints, artist palettes, brushes, aprons, and drinks so that they can each sit back, relax, and enjoy. Guests are also welcome to bring their own refreshments, including drinks, food, and snacks.
Cost: R350pp (children) | R550pp (adults) book online
When: Friday, 30 October from 6pm
Where: 82 Kessel Street, Randburg
Prime: Halloween Edition
Prime Halloween Edition is a city-centre party blending amapiano, hip hop, house, and chart-topping dance tracks. The club transforms with themed lighting and a costumed crowd, making it one of the liveliest nights of the season.
Get ready for a genre-fluid evening with some of your favourite local DJs keeping you on your feet all night.
Cost: From R100pp, book via Quicket
When: Saturday, 31 October from 8pm to 5am
Where: Residency, 34 Webber St, Selby South, Johannesburg
SAPRA Halloween Walkabout
Over the years, the SAPRA Halloween celebration has become one of the highlights of the Saxonwold & Parkwood calendar, welcoming hundreds of costumed guests for an afternoon filled with treats and community.
The celebration welcomes residents of the streets in Saxonwold and Parkwood to join the fun by setting up a Halloween stand along Blandford and Wells Roads with either spooky games, themed décor, or bowls of sweets. It’s more than just a fun afternoon out, it’s also a chance to invest back into the neighbourhood as all the funds raised from the event go directly into the upliftment and enhancement of Fearnhead Park.
The route begins and ends at Fearnhead Park. Last-minute tickets, as well as wristbands and route maps, are available for collection from 9am on event day.
Cost: R150pp for Halloween Walkabout. R80pp for a personalised Halloween bucket. R60pp for facepainting. Book via Quicket
When: Saturday, 31 October from 4pm to 6pm
Where: Fearnhead Park, 25 Blandford Rd, Parkwood, Johannesburg
4 Youth Haunted House
This Haunted House experience hosted by 4 Youth is a festival built for the youth, by the youth, and with a twilight twist.
Expect all the signatures. 4 Experience Zones (entertainment, play, enjoy, and chill) infused with a little more mystery, a little more thrill, and a lot more after-hours magic. DJ Kent also headlines the event.
Earn XP in the lead-up through special online challenges, then use them at Haunted House to unlock exclusive moments and mystery prizes. The XP serves as digital currency to access games, giveaways, and special competitions before and during the experience.
Cost: R200 to R600pp, book via Howler
When: Saturday, 31 October from 12pm to 11pm
Where: Sass The Venue, 12 Concorde Road, West, Bedfordview
Bollyween
The 4th year of Bollyween™ comes to Maracanà, and it is not your average Halloween party.
South Africa’s largest Bollywood EDM festival meets Halloween as the event goes full dark mode.
Featuring strong Halloween energy, guests can look forward to a festival stage, BollyRave™ DJs, live acts, Bollywood anthems meeting rave culture, and a full night of music, costumes, and great moments.
Cost: From R80pp | From R1000pp (VIP seater). Book via Howler
When: Saturday, 31 October from 5pm to 3am
Where: Maracanà, 58 Wierda Rd E, Wierda Valley, Sandton
Railways to Railways Party Bus – Halloween
The Railways to Railways Party Bus is a Halloween-themed ride featuring cold drinks, a party on wheels, and all-round good energy.
The trip starts at Railways Café Irene, where guests can purchase their drinks and get in the spirit before moving along to Railways Cullinan. Here, they enjoy Cullinan and all it has to offer for the rest of the day, before being taken back to Railways Irene.
Cost: From R235pp, book online
When: Saturday, 31 October from 12pm to 8pm
Where: Railways Café, 2 Hack Rd, Irene
Edenvale Halloween Night Market
The annual Edenvale Halloween Night Market invites the whole family for an unforgettable night filled with spooky market stalls, delicious food and refreshing drinks, trick-or-treating at every stall, a thrilling Best-Dressed Competition with awesome prizes up for grabs, and live music bringing all the Halloween vibes and keeping the dance floor alive.
Whether guests are wicked witches, creepy clowns, fearless superheroes, or tiny pumpkins, they should come dressed to impress and enjoy a magical evening packed with spooky fun, laughter, and memories for the whole family.
Cost: R30pp at entry
When: Friday, 30 October from 6pm to 11pm
Where: The Edenvale German Club, 8-10 Plantation Road, Edenvale
Rebels Night Market: Halloween
Enjoy a frightfully fun night out at the Rebels Night Market: Halloween Edition. The spine-tingling evening is packed with kids’ Trick-or-Treat options at the stalls, a Best Dressed Contest, spooky photo ops, incredible alternative and craft vendors, surprise giveaways, ghoulish goodies, and more spooky surprises haunting the night.
There’s also a free goodie bag for the first 50 people through the gate.
Cost: R30pp at entry
When: Friday, 30 October from 5pm to 10pm
Where: Rusty Hook, 22Wilge Rd, Honeydew
Gbedu Nights Nollyween
Gbedu Nights is a celebration of Africa and its diaspora through sound, movement, and shared energy on the dancefloor.
Nollyween is the event’s African take on Halloween, inspired by the favourite Nollywood films, iconic African cinema, and the vibrant world of African entertainment. In embracing the theme, guest are encouraged to come dressed as their favourite Nollywood character, an iconic African film or entertainment personality, or let their imagination run wild with their own African-inspired Halloween look. Nollyween is an invitation to celebrate African creativity, culture, and storytelling through fashion, music, and movement.
Cost: From R165pp, book via Fixr
When: Friday, 30 October from 7pm
Where: 5 De Beer St, Johannesburg
Surprisingly Good Sets: Halloween Edition
Presented by Flying Fish, Surprisingly Good Sets: Halloween Edition fuses the spooky season energy with cutting-edge electronic music.
Music lovers, party-goers and Halloween fiends are invited to enjoy an elevated Halloween experience right in the heart of Joburg.
Cost: From R300pp, book via Howler
When: Saturday, 31 October from 5pm to 1am
Where: Rand Club, 33 Loveday St & Fox Street, Johannesburg
Afro Visionary Movie Night: STREET TRASH
Afro Visionary Movie Nights (AVMN) hosts curated film screenings, and community events spotlighting Black filmmakers, and African storytelling.
Their Halloween edition features a showing of the movie ‘STREET TRASH’ – set in Cape Town in 2025, the film tells the story of the middle class disappearing and society being divided between the ultra-rich and those left to survive on the streets.
When Ronald and a fellow homeless friend uncover a government plot to “liquidate” the homeless population using a mysterious drug known as V, they find themselves caught in a brutal struggle for survival.
VMN invites audiences to enjoy ‘STREET TRASH‘, but also engage in conversations about inequality, power, survival and the kinds of futures we imagine when society begins to fracture, alongside director Ryan Kruger, who joins in person for a special post-screening Q&A.
After the credits roll at 9pm, the the night moves from the cinema to the dance floor, with DJ Black leading the AVMN Halloween Afterparty and attendees are enoucraged to come dressed as the darkest, most fabulous version of themselves.
Cost: From R120pp, book via Quicket
When: Saturday, 31 October from 6.30pm to 11pm
Where: The Bioscope Independent Cinema, 44 Stanley Ave, Milpark, Johannesburg
VNJ X SSS
The unofficial Jo’burg Pride after-party, VNJ x SSS captures the high energy of the Joburg pride celebration, bringing together a vibrant crowd looking to extend their festivities long after the official parade ends and embrace the Halloween energy.
Cost: From R215pp, book via Fixr
When: Saturday, 31 October from 8pm
Where: 1 Fox St, Johannesburg
The Halloween Monsters Ball – Katys Palace
Katys Palace Bar transforms into a dark circus and twisted carnival as they invite guests to enter the circus if they dare.
In celebration of Halloween, the night comes alive after dark for an evening of music, mayhem and mystery. Guests can rxpect a twisted carnival of curious characters, extraordinary performers and creatures of the night – where the line between spectacle and madness begins to disappear.
Cost: From R300pp | From R2000 (tables). Book via Howler
When: Saturday, 31 October from 6pm to 2am
Where: Katys Palace Bar, 6 Desmond Road, Kramerville, Sandton
OHM Halloween 2026
A premier alternative music event, the annual OHM Halloween invites gothic, industrial, and darkwave enthusiasts to imerse themselves into a unique sanctuary. Alternative music lovers are invited to gather, celebrate, and express themselves freely without the constraints of mainstream expectations.
Cost: From R100pp, book via Quicket
When: Saturday, 31 October from 7am to 2am
Where: Rumours Lounge Strydompark, 3 Tungsten Rd, Strydompark, Randburg
Halloween Ceramic Skull Painting
Embrace your creative side this Halloween season as Artwave provides attendee with a blank ceramic skull ready to be transformed.
These ceramic pieces serve as a durable, three-dimensional canvas, allowing painters to experiment with different color palettes, intricate patterns, or classic spooky motifs.
Cost: From R400pp | R700 for 2 tickets. Book online
When: Saturday, 31 October from 10.30am to 6.45 PM (broken into 2-hour slots)
Where: Artwave Studio at 44 Stanley, 44 Stanley Ave, Braamfontein Werf, Johannesburg
Melville Horror Punk Show
For lovers of punk rock and all things spooky, the Melville Horror Punk Show serves as a dark, high-energy celebration of heavy music and counter-culture.
Fans of punk rock, gothic aesthetics, and extreme theatrical performance are invited to experience a night filled with music heavily inspired by classic horror movies, sci-fi B-movies, and gothic folklore.
Cost: From R120pp, book via Quicket
When: Friday, 6 November from 6pm to 2am
Where: Smoking Kills, 78a Avenue, 4th Ave, Melville
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