Next level horror: Halloween things to do near Manchester and Liverpool
By: Sarah Tierney
Updated: 9 September 2025
If your idea of a top night out includes dead-eyed clowns, crooked-neck zombies, and a lingering sense of unspoken evil, this is for you.
Here we’ve brought together the North West’s most disturbing, unsettling, and downright terrifying scare attractions including Scare City and Newsham Scream Park. Get ready to get seriously spooked with our Halloween things to do for adults, all within easy drive of Manchester and Liverpool.
Want details of Halloween events and one-offs? Check out our what’s on guide: Halloween 2025 in Manchester and Liverpool.
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Ormskirk
Farmageddon
Farmageddon is the big one. Every year it’s a sellout, welcoming thousands of willing lambs to the slaughter. There are enough fright actors here to keep every repertory company in the North busy.
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Blackpool
Journey to Hell at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Journey to Hell at Blackpool Pleasure Beach is a mixture of live action horror thrills, a scare maze and terrifying rides – all as part of a series of gruesome scare zones.
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Tuebrook
Newsham Scream Park
Once an orphanage and later an asylum, the derelict Newsham Park Hospital has been attracting ghost hunters and urban explorers for years. The atmosphere in its maze of abandoned wards and crumbling corridors is enough to make most people turn around and leg it straight back home – and that was even before it was made into Newsham Scream Park.
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Chorley
Scare City
Scare City takes over the abandoned Camelot theme park for a completely immersive Halloween scare event.
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Warrington
Spooky World
Spooky World comes in three strengths of spookiness. There’s Fun by Day which is all smiling pumpkins and friendly ghosts for small children. Then, there’s Spooky at Night for age ten and over which is basically a diluted version of the main event: Scary at Night.