We may all live in space pods with robot servants and internet ports drilled into our skulls these days but Halloween still connects us back to our pagan past as goat worshipping, spirit raising, witch sacrificing fornicators. Just like West Street on a Friday then, arf.

Zombie Walk – CANCELLED
Caroline Of Brunswick Sat 26th
We’re more gutted than an eviscerated hellhound that there’s no Beach Of The Dead this year but the Caroline Of Brunswick team have stepped up to the mark. Leaving the pub at 3pm (or from The Level for families and kids) the Zombie Walk loops around the Old Steine and Victoria Gardens and back. Try not to leave too many rotting limbs and half-chewed skulls behind you. (SH)

Frankenstein
Duke Of York’s Thurs 31st
There are a lot of reasons to love this play, whose National Theatre production is being broadcast onto the Duke Of York’s screen tonight. Firstly, the director is the acclaimed Danny Boyle, of Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire fame; secondly, it stars acclaimed gruesome twosome Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller; and thirdly, the Duke’s is the most comfortable place that’ll accommodate your costumes with beer this evening. And, let’s face it, you’re a bit old for trick or treat
nowadays. (JMM)

The Halloween Bawl Pt.2
Blind Tiger Thurs 31st
Following last year’s messy inaugural bonefest, Stay Sick! and The Big Itch bring back their Halloween Bawl for the deadliest night of the year. They’re bringing along live R&B music from vintage voodoo sextet Derriere and friends, with a spine-tingling selection of spooky 50s and 60s sounds from their crypt-digging DJs. Brace your guts for schlock horror b-movie projections and gratuitously nasty interior decoration from Kirstie Allsopp’s nightmares. It’s a graveyard smash. (SH)