The best Halloween parties in London

After a two-year hiatus, elrow's legendary Horroween festival is back. Once again, the elrow collective brings their immersive clubbing experience to Enfield’s huge 15,000-capacity venue, Drumsheds. The 10-hour daytime party will feature ‘a sprawling cinematic world inspired by classic horror stories, where monstrous characters, roaming performers and larger-than-life theatrical installations’ are soundtracked by electronic music so on-point it’s almost frightening. Part rave, part theatre and part fever dream, it’ll be a night you won’t forget in a hurry. 

Nomadic party starters Cirque du Soul are back in town for the Halloweekend, and they’re throwing a massive Friday night shindig at Canning Town megaclub The Cause. Expect circus performers, haunted decor, food stalls, confetti canons, costume prizes and a genuinely terrifying house of horrors featuring ‘killer clowns, rabid bats and marauding zombies’. DJs will be spinning jackin’ house, breaks, techno and club bangers across four rooms until 5am, with tunes guaranteed to keep you going all night. Get on eBay and start putting together the perfect evil clown look stat. You might want to run away with the circus after this one...

There’s no rest for the wicked. Following an all-night Halloween takeover by Cirque du Soul on Friday night, the Cause will keep the spooks going with a Halloween Festival starting from midday on Saturday and lasting until 6am on Sunday. It’ll be a full venue event that ‘makes the most of every inch’ of the warehouse. And that’s about all we know of the festival so far. Keep your eyes peeled for what we expect to be a deadly lineup. 

Housed inside a (possibly haunted) Victorian theatre, south London’s modern variety palace The Clapham Grand is known for its camp-as-Christmas programming, so expect it to pull out all the stops for its epic Halloween party. This year’s line-up is still under wraps but the venue is promising that it’ll be ‘massive, and scary, but in a really fun, silly way’. Fancy dress is a must! 

Studio 338’s garden and terrace will morph into an enormous haunted wonderland for its Halloween rave. The sprawling Greenwich club (home to one of the largest terraced arenas) is notorious for its Halloween parties, so it strives to bring something bigger and better every year. Lasting from sundown on Saturday until dawn on Sunday, 28 Raves Later promises to be a huge production fuelled by tech house and rolling tribal grooves, but the lineup is still under wraps for now. 

After a two-year hiatus, elrow's legendary Horroween festival is back. Once again, the elrow collective brings their immersive clubbing experience to Enfield’s huge 15,000-capacity venue, Drumsheds. The 10-hour daytime party will feature ‘a sprawling cinematic world inspired by classic horror stories, where monstrous characters, roaming performers and larger-than-life theatrical installations’ are soundtracked by electronic music so on-point it’s almost frightening. Part rave, part theatre and part fever dream, it’ll be a night you won’t forget in a hurry. 

Spanish DJ duo Mestiza will be at the Roundhouse to make your hairs stand on end this Hallow’s Eve. They’re bringing their spellbinding SACRO series to the city, which fuses electronic music with classic flamenco. This will be a special Halloween edition of the show, but you’ll have to wait and see to find out what exactly that entails. 

Clapton dive bar and brewery Blondies is gritty at the best of times, but it turns things up a notch come Halloween. Every year, it goes all out with the spooky decor and joins forces with tattoo studio/record label/ events promoter Only Here For You to throw a frighteningly good Halloween bash. Garage rock band Onlooker and shoegaze group Highdrive will both be there providing live tunes alongside a ‘very special’ guest headliner yet to be unveiled. Go all out for your costume – there are prizes up for grabs. 

Right next door to Camden Town tube station, Electric Ballroom is hosting fittingly chaotic Halloween party filled with lasers, hair-rising visuals, outrageous fancy dress and goosebump-inducing house and techno. With capacity for more than 1,500 revellers, it’s billing itself as the capital’s biggest Halloween party this year.