If you've prepared your jack-o'-lantern and chosen a scary costume, but are looking for where to find other zombies and ghouls to hang out with on October 31, here's a little help for Halloween night. We've collected the most tempting Halloween events in Budapest from pumpkin festivals to scary parties and even a Mexican Day of the Dead-themed carnival. Trick or treat!

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Halloween Festival at Vörösmarty Square

Halloween Festival
Vörösmarty Square
6pm - 9pm

The Halloween Festival takes over Vörösmarty Square with competitions for the best make-up/face painting, costume and Jack-o'-lantern pumpkin carving. There'll be candy for children and a performance by WildBuffalo Western Táncsapat. Remember pumpkins need to be carved at home because there are no carving or decorating facilities at the event.

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Halloween for kids at Millipop

Millipop
6pm
7500 forints

Millipop is an indoor wonderland and smile factory. They're holding a special Halloween party with a costume and pumpkin carving competition, a disco, laser tag, karaoke, a treasure hunt and a lot more! Spooky stories, a special haunted house, and Halloween decorations will amaze the kids. The kids can even stay the night and share a breakfast in the morning. It'll surely be the spookiest, funnest Halloween ever! Keep in mind that Millipop's programs are in Hungarian.

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City gastro promenade Halloween opener

Inner-city Gastro Promenade
Elizabeth Square
October 31 - November 2 Fröccsterasz and Prosit Wine Bar have opened a four-month-long 'Inner-city Gastro Promenade' and are celebrating its opening weekend with a Halloween party. Alongside a very Halloween atmosphere there's going to be mulled wine, street food, live music and craft markets. Look out for the pumpkin cocktails! The Gastro Promenade itself will be open until March 1.

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Halloween movie night with Tim Burton

Halloween with Tim Burton
G3
7pm

Free entry, popcorn and the best films that can be screened on Halloween night: Dark Shadows, Frankenweenie, Sweeney Todd, Corpse Bride, Alice In Wonderland. (S)laughter, gothic vibes, spider webs, adorable characters from the rushed mind of one of the most creative (and gothic) film directors to ever come out of a bat-cave. Ed Wood would surely advise you to go here!

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Mexican Day of the Dead at Fogasház

Funzine's Mexican-themed Halloween Party
9pm

A Budapest Halloween party with a twist! Funzine leaves the usual spooky, ghoulish parties to others and has gone with an altogether different theme: they invite you to Dia de los Muertos aka the Mexican Day of the Dead. Flowers, colours and sugar skull face paint! There'll be a costume competition. Music: Metha, Out of Sync and Blatti. If you want to be different from all your crypt-friends around the city...

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Wine-loving ghouls go to Dobolo Wine Bar

Doblo Halloween / Zombie Apocalypse

9pm

Devilish cocktails, freakish foods, scary staff, mysterious music - these are the basics of a really frightening Halloween party and has all of this in the cauldron. Dress in your most horrifying costume and down special brews like 'Blood Shot' or 'Bloody Brain' cocktails.

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Scary Halloween night at KIOSK

Scary Halloween Night
KIOSK
10pm

A bloody serious costume contest, scary Halloween decorations, vampires, zombies and mummies in one of the city's most beautiful clubs! This party is for those who can go crazy and dance all night. Say cheerio and get lost in the world of newtone music, tasty alcoholic treats and horror movie stars.

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Freak fusion: circus and cabaret at Trafiq

Halloween Cabaret - Freak Fusion Show
Trafiq
10pm

One night to evoke the mystical world of last century's traveling circuses, with spectacular juggling, acrobats and burlesque dancers. Cabaret performances spiced with smoke and some dark humour. Jugglers, dwarves, giants, pole dancers, magicians, giants on stilts, flying acrobats, costumes, masks, make-ups and tricks. For the Addam's Family and their club-going friends!