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Vancouver Adult Halloween Activities and Events in 2025

October 16, 2025

Halloween activities for adults in Metro Vancouver include nightclub events, haunted houses, costume parties and other fun yet spooky stuff.

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Halloween for Adults in Metro Vancouver

Below is a list of fun Halloween things to do for adults. Activities include walking tours and haunted houses, plus other fun events. Fun activities for adults that take place include Halloween Boat Parties. There are also lots of amazing haunted houses in the Lower Mainland as well as a number of nightclub-themed events.

Another place to look for things to do is our article about Vancouver on the Halloween Weekend.

Spooky Adult Walking Tours

Walking tours aren’t only for tourists! They are also a fun way for adults to have fun, especially at Halloween. There are spooky tours in both Gastown and Stanley Park with Forbidden Vancouver. There are also Grave Tales walking tours in Fort Langley as well as The Haunting of Vancouver Film Tour.

Lost Souls of Gastown Tour (with Forbidden Vancouver)

Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours is a local family-owned company that offers a selection of guided walking tours throughout the year, including fabulously spooky ones in October. Small groups are guided through the streets and back alleys of downtown Vancouver, or along the Seawall and forested trails of Stanley Park, all depending on which tour you select.

Forbidden Vancouver’s Lost Souls of Gastown tour makes for an exceptional Halloween-themed activity. It’s one of the most popular tours in the city and highly recommended. With it, a professional actor in period costume leads the group through the streets of Gastown, describing the neighbourhood as if the tour took place in the 1880s.

Other exceptional yet non-scary tours with this same company include the Forbidden Vancouver Tour, Dark Secrets of Stanley Park, Sinners & Sweets Tour and Really Gay History Tour, all of which also happen in October.

For tickets and to learn more, see the forbiddenvancouver.ca website.

The Haunting of Vancouver Film Tour

The Haunting of Vancouver Film Tour is presented by Storyboard Experiences as part of its Vancouver Film & TV Tours series. All of this company’s various walking tours look at the history of Vancouver, but with a focus on movies that have been filmed in the city. With The Haunting of Vancouver Film Tour, the guide leads guests around neighbourhoods, and shows them where various Hollywood North horror movies have been filmed. It’s a popular tour for fans of ghost stories, architecture, history and scary films.

For tickets and to learn more about this company and its tours, visit the storyboardexperiences.ca website.

Grave Tales in Fort Langley

In addition to the above walking tours in Vancouver, there is also an exceptional walking tour in Fort Langley. Hosted by the Fort Langley National Historic Site, the Grave Tales tours happen on select dates in October. The adult tours are quite scary, hugely popular and sell out well in advance each year. There are usually youth edition tours on a couple of days too. In 2025 the tours happen on the weekends of October 18th & 19th and 25th & 26th.

For more information about Grave Tales, see the parks.canada.ca website.

Haunted Houses at Halloween

There are dozens of great haunted houses in the region. Places that offer exceptional haunted experiences include Brinkworth Dungeon in Langley, Cougar Creek’s House of Horrors in Surrey, the Haunted Corn Maze at Maan Farms in Abbotsford, and Reaper’s Maze of Terror in Chilliwack.

In Vancouver there is Fright Nights at Playland, which features amusement rides, haunted houses, midway games and other entertainment.

FlyOver at Canada Place isn’t a haunted house, but it’s a fun place to visit in its own right. The attraction offers an awesome family-friendly experience at Halloween. The HowlOver Canada film shows from October 9th to 31st in 2025. Canyon Frights takes place at Capilano Suspension Bridge from October 10th until Halloween night this year. It’s also a family-friendly attraction, as well as a great romantic date destination. (And at the bridge attraction an annual pass is the same price as a single day ticket for residents of British Columbia.)

A few of the above are suitable for older children, and a couple are good for little kids too. Most, however, are best for older teens and young adults.

Click Lower Mainland Haunted Houses to learn about the above and other spooky places in Vancouver and the surrounding region during Halloween month in October. There are lots of them!

Halloween Adventure Games

Vancouver Mysteries offers games for groups of between two and six friends in downtown Vancouver. The games are like escape room challenges, but ones where everything is outside in the streets and on the sidewalks of the city. There’s also the Case of the Hotel Detective, which takes place inside the Delta Hotel Vancouver Downtown Suites.

You can play most of their games pretty much any time of the year. On Thursdays to Saturdays between October 16th and Halloween night this year, however, the company offers Halloween Mystery Nights. That’s when teams can compete for prizes by playing Secret Mission, Crime in Downtown and Ghost Patrol. The Heroes & Villains game is also popular this time of year.

In addition to the above, in 2025 there is also The Castle Confidential on the Friday and Saturday of October 24th & 25th. It’s a special event game and cocktail reception at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.

To learn more see the Vancouver Mysteries website.

Halloween Movies and Music

There are a number of great films to see during the Halloween season, and a spooky play too.

Vancouver Horror Show – the horror movie film festival takes place in 2025 from October 15th to 19th at various venues in Vancouver.
Silent Movie Monday – Vancouver Civic Theatres hosts the film Phantom of the Opera at the Orpheum Theatre on October 27th, 2025. The 1925 film is accompanied by a live orchestra, choir and organist.
Rigoletto Opera – presented by Vancouver Opera, the opera by Giuseppe Verdi shows at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on October 25th and 30th, as well as on November 2nd. It’s not a “Halloween” show. It does, however, feature a tragic story with a dark backdrop.

In addition to the above, there is also the family-friendly HowlOver Canada film which runs daily at FlyOver in downtown Vancouver.

Speaking of films, you might also be interested in Metro-Con. It’s a pop culture tradeshow at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown in Burnaby. The 2025 event is on October 4th and 5th. Expect to see lots of cosplay characters and merchandise from the science fiction, superhero and anime film industries at this event, plus even a few celebrities.

Nightclub Halloween Parties & Cruises

On the weekend and week leading up to Halloween various adult-only events take place in Metro Vancouver. They include boat parties and nightclub events.

Halloween Boat Parties

In 2025 there are three Halloween Boat Party events hosted by Vancouver Boat Parties. The Halloween Boat Party and Halloween Havoc Boat Party both take place on October 31st. Then the Bollywood Halloween Boat Party happens on the next day, so on November 1st. All three of these events are dance party cruises on multi-level boats with DJs and licensed bars. Halloween costumes are encouraged.

Halloween Pub and Nightclub Events

Cave of Bats / The Dark Eighties Halloween Party – this event takes place on October 24th in 2025 from 8:00 pm onwards. It’s held at The Skylight Warehouse at 1800 Main Street. Expect to hear music from the 80s, 90s and 2000s. There’s lots of dancing and costumes are encouraged. Tickets cost around $13.
PLUR Halloween – the longest running night club in Vancouver hosts their annual Halloween celebration with costume contests, two bars, DJs and exotic entertainment on October 26th. Admission starts at about $30 per person and the event opens at 9:00 pm.
Halloween Party Vancouver – presented by Vancouver Persian Events, this event is held at the RedRoom Nightclub at 398 Richards Street. It’s a haunting party with dancing, DJ music and more on October 30th from 9:00 pm until 2:00 am. Admission costs about $35 each.
The Rocky Horror Music Show – an event at the Fox Cabaret nightclub on October 30th starting at 7:00 pm. The soundtrack from the classic movie is performed live, plus the Crypt Keepers play Halloween-themed songs. Tickets cost about $30 if purchased in advance.

Other Halloween Events for Adults

There are a number of other Halloween events that are great for people of all ages, but especially for adults. These include the following:

Parade of Lost Souls – a grassroots Halloween parade event starting at 7:00 pm where the exact location isn’t revealed until midnight on the Friday before Halloween. Donations of $10 are encouraged. In 2025 the parade is on Saturday, November 1st.
Click Vancouver Haunted Houses for a list of more spooky places in the Lower Mainland.

Halloween Activities for Children

Of course, Halloween isn’t just for adults. For a list of family-friendly and only-moderately-spooky fun check out Vancouver Children’s Halloween Activities.

Activities you’ll find here include miniature train rides and attractions designed especially for children and young families.