If you’re looking for happy pumpkins and fluffy spiders, this list isn’t for you. (Our Manchester Halloween activities for kids might be more up your street.) But if you want dead-eyed clowns, crooked-neck zombies, and a lingering sense of unspoken evil, you’re in the right place.
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 more ideas for Halloween nights out in Manchester? Check out What’s on in Manchester: Halloween 2024.
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BlackpoolJourney to Hell at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
More detailsJourney 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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OrmskirkFarmageddon
More detailsFarmageddon 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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ChorleyScare City
More detailsScare City takes over the abandoned Camelot theme park for a completely immersive Halloween scare event.
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WarringtonSpooky World
More detailsSpooky 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.
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TuebrookNewsham Scream Park
More detailsOnce 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.
