San Francisco Halloween 2024
Some of my favorite Halloween theme events happening this October 2024 in San Francisco: From concerts, to scary movie nights, costume parties, nighttime museums, drag shows and more...
Yes, is that time of the year (my favorite time of the year)… Spooky season is here and I’m creating this list with some of my favorites spooky events happening this October in San Francisco.
Why so soon you ask? Because most of these events are already on sale and most likely they will sold out very quickly. Make sure to go back here and keep checking for the updated list as new events are announced.
Highlight:
The Rocky Horror Show
Ray of Light Theater x Oasis presents: “The Rocky Horror Show” an immersive experience. Meaning the story doesn’t just unfold on stage, but all around you and in every inch of the club
Price From $50.15 | 21+ | 6:30pm | Link
By date:
10/01
Terror Tuesday: The Gates of Hell (1980)
Lucio Fulci’s surrealist nightmare
$15.64 | 9:30pm | Link
10/05
Insomniac and The Midway present: Day of the deadmau5 Block Party
THERE'S A MOUSE IN THE HOUSE! the day of the @deadmau5 block party
From $99.76 | 18+ | 3pm | Link
Floating Features: Hocus Pocus
Playing as part of Floating Features on Red and White Fleet’s hybrid electric vessel Enhydra
$50 | All ages | 6:30pm | Link
Horror Movie Tinder Release Party!
Time to kick off the spooky season with the release party for HORROR MOVIE TINDER by @delightful.horror!
7pm | Link
10/06
Hollins & Hollins Mortuary Entertainment present: Nosferatu (1922)
A very special Apocalypse Sunday to kick off the Halloween month AND to celebrate Madrone Art Bar’s 20th anniversary. F.W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU! With a new score by Lester T. Raww and Possum Carvidi
4:30pm | Link
10/07
Alamo Drafthouse Graveyard Shift: Phantasm (1979)
See Don Coscarelli's waking nightmare, if you dare
$19.74 | 9:15pm | Link
10/08
Zombiezone: Clowns vs Zombies ~ Darkwave Tuesdays
2 rooms, guest Dj Rafael Fierro & Requiem
Free | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Terror Tuesday: Basket Case (1982)
4K restoration of the underground horror classic
$15.64 | 9:30pm | Link
10/09
Broadway SF: The Rocky Horror Picture Show The 49th Anniversary Spectacular Tour
Join the original 'Magenta' - PATRICIA QUINN - for a screening of the original unedited movie with a live shadow cast and audience participation! Plus a costume contest, and more!
From $57 | 8pm | Link
10/11
Mtm presents: Everyday's Halloween
Richgxth & Chxpo. Also performing: Baby Punk, Vomit Dastardly, Ososinna, Billygoat, Alien & Geek Shawty
$25 | 18+ | 7pm | Link
The Graveyard Shift: Horror Movie Marathon
An all-night horror movie marathon that will keep you on the edge of your seat until dawn
$36.66 | 9:15pm | Link
Reparations: Freakshow!
Welcome, welcome, queers, freaks & all, where big tops become big bottoms!It's spooky ooky season, so it's time to release the freak within!
$11.76 | 21+ | 10pm | Link
10/12
Alamo Time Capsule 1979: Nosferatu the Vampyre
Isabelle Adjani and Klaus Kinski haunt Werner Herzog's gothic freak out. Presented in German with English subtitles
$15.74 | 3pm | Link
Book release party for Ashley Robin Franklin‘s The Skin You’re In and Nick Winn‘s Bloody Mary
Featuring readings by Ashley Robin Franklin, Nick Winn, Tori Bowler, SKELEHIME, and Malcolm Johnson!
$15.74 | 7pm | Link
Day of the Dead Celebration: Lila Downs' Día de los Muertos LA SÁNCHEZ
With “a stunning voice, a confident multicultural vision grounded in her Mixtec Indian roots” (LA Times), GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY-winning vocalist Lila Downs brings a special night of music to the Paramount, celebrating Día de los Muertos, Mexico’s Day of the Dead and her latest album, La Sánchez, featuring folklorico dancing, stunning thematically-inspired visual projections and more
From $40 | 8pm | Link
Princess: TIM BURTON NITE
A DANCE PARTY + DRAG SPECTACULAR celebrating the release of "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" & diving deep into Tim Burton's world!
$16.89 | 10pm | Link
10/13
Movie Parties: Shaun of the Dead Movie Party
We'll provide inflatable cricket bats so you can smack your neighbor every time Shaun smacks a zombie onscreen, and your very own Shaun-esque name tag
$26.42 | 12pm | Link
Wicked
WICKED returns home to the Bay Area to cast a spell on audiences once again
From $80 | 6:30pm | Link
10/14
Alamo Time Capsule 1984: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
One, two, Freddy's coming for you...
$19.74 | 9pm | Link
10/15
Halloween Movie Party! *Return Of The Living Dead*
Watch RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD on the projector! Popcorn with fun toppings & Ghoulish drinks!
Free | 21+ | 7:30pm | Link
10/16
Movie Parties: Beetlejuice Movie Party (1988)
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse…BETELGEUSE! Well, we’ve summoned him, guess we might as well throw a Movie Party for him
$26.42 | 6:15pm | Link
The Super Sangri-La Show
7pm | Link
Kumbia Dark Halloween!
Kumbia Dark at Emperor Norton’s BoozeLand where we will be celebrating Black Bibles’ birthday with him behind the tables with DJ Chaos and Philthy Dronez!
$5-$10 (Suggested donation) | 9pm | Link
10/17
SpookFest 2024
Back for its seventh edition, SpookFest is the film festival that goes bump in the night!
$16.62 | 7pm | Link
Olivia Hart Presents: Halloween Drag-o-Licious with The Sanderson Sisters
This show is sure to be fierce and fantastic - the Sanderson Sisters are flying in for Halloween!!
$10 | 7pm | Link
BLOOD MOON Post-Mortem SF
GOREgeous Drag Performances by Redd FaFilth and Mocha Fapalatte! Live music set by Velas Negras (Los Angeles) Dark Art Vendors + much more TBA!
$13 | 9pm | Link
Helter Shelter
The Halloween Shelter, HELTER SHELTER, is here! THIS Thursday, at Underground SF, we get spooky! Full decorations, costumes, photo ops, candy and of course DNB. ALWAYS FREE!
Free | 9pm | Link
10/18
Gothic Feast - A Culinary Adventure in Darkness
Embark on a culinary journey into the macabre with our Gothic Feast cooking class
$145 | 5pm | Link
Sundown Cinema: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Jack Skellington, king of HalloweenTown, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion
Free | All ages | 6pm | Link
Floating Features: Jaws
Playing as part of Floating Features on Red and White Fleet’s hybrid electric vessel Enhydra
$50 | All ages | 6:30pm | Link
Marty Robbin’s Ghost, Pussy Velour & The Creepy Crawlies
Prepare For A Night Of Halloween Ghoulies And Scary Rock N’ Roll!
$10 | 21+ | 8pm | Link
2HARD x Egodeath presents: HALLOWEEN Havoc
Whos Ready To Get Spooky? Speed house, hard dance & Techno. Costume contest with $100 prize
$21.40 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Final Girl
Imagine if there was a night you could dance to a good vinyl set while watching women in horror. Screening all night nonstop
Free | 9pm | Link
Out & Abt: Halloween Queer Market
A Halloween-themed market, live music and DJs! Featuring @djmarisun, @mashuganaband, @djjfeld
$12.51 | 9pm | Link
Dancing Ghosts: Classic Horror Night
Creatures of the Night! Halloween is approaching – time to get SPOOKY! CLASSIC HORROR FILMS on THREE SCREENS! Blood-curdling tunes for Halloween! DRESS the part! Come in COSTUME for reduced admission!
$10 | Age | 9:30pm | Link
10/19
The Super Shangri-La Show Presents: The Supernatural Film Fest
A full day of supernatural films from the 1960’s to 1980’s!
$30 | 11am | Link
Fringe, the Indie Music Video Dance Party!
It’s a spooktacular month for Fringe to have a ghoulish time on the dance floor. Costumes not require but always encouraged
$10 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Noche de Hechizeras: Pre-Halloween Party
Brewing up a very special Pre-Halloween Noche de Hechiceras . Join us at your favorite Mission District SF Spanish Wine Bar Taberna. Spooky costume contest + tarot reading
Free | 8pm | Link
SF Short Film Festival: Eco-Horror Shorts
DYou are now just a moment away from checking out 95 excellent short films from around the world and around The Bay!
$15 | 8:15pm | Link
Halloween Cover Show
Featuring: Secret Secret (Abba), Country Risque & Sadie Alan (The Eagles W/ Linda Ronstadt) And Mitch Rocket (The Smashing Cranberries)
$15 | 9pm | Link
Safada Halloween
Calling all ghouls! We’ve been cooking up something special in our cauldron for you
$25.40 | 10pm | Link
TOXIC HAUS x BATCAVE presents [𝓥𝓔𝓝𝓞𝓜]
Toxic Haus + Bat Cave join forces to bring you a Venomous treat. Join us as we bring @aleroj.xo + @isa_blu98 from Colombia for their (SF DEBUT) follow us to a spooky warehouse where our spider friend has made her new nest . Beware she’s hungry
$20 | 10pm | Link
10/20
Gialloween at the Roxie Theater
Murder, mania, and black leather gloves. A double feature of Mario Bava's genre-defining BLOOD AND BLACK LACE, followed by Emilio Miraglia's feverish and freaky THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE
$18 (Double feature) | 5:40pm | Link
Hubba Hubba Reveu: Creepshow Peepshow
Glamour ghouls, glitter ghosts, and things that go bump & grind in the night!
$15 | 18+ | 7:30pm | Link
10/21
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
There’s nothing better in life than watching a movie where Patricia Arquette and Heather Langenkamp battle Freddy Krueger while a theme song by Dokken plays
$19.74 | 9:30pm | Link
10/22
White Zombie (16mm)
How better to celebrate Halloween season than with a special 16mm presentation of history’s first zombie film?
$16.62 | 6:30pm | Link
Terror Tuesday: Séance (2000)
Kurosawa’s bewitching ghost story
$15.64 | 9:30pm | Link
10/23
Here Lies Nerd Nite SF: Legos, Zombies & Naughty Nuclear
Excited to unlock nuclear energy’s dirty little secrets with you all on October 23rd for @nerdnitesf
$10 | All ages | 7pm | Link
Cat Club Presents: PlayXLand Monster Mashup
Join San Francisco’s Weekly F3tish Night with Bootie DJs: Adriana A + Jupiter Gatling & Go Gos: Himma + Aly. Costumes Encouraged!
$10 (in Fetishwear) $20 (in Street Clothes) | 21+ | 9pm | Link
10/24
After Dark: Incantation
Join the Marigold Project at After Dark, where we’ll celebrate the joy of life through ceremonial poetry, pageantry, music, and dance, rooted in the signature Day of the Dead Festival of Altars traditions
$22.95 | 18+ | 6pm | Link
Haunted Mission Bar Crawl
Join us for a spooky night out as we crawl through the Mission District, sipping on drinks and hearing scary stories told by your guide. Costumes optional, fun guaranteed!
$39.19 | 6:30pm | Link
Disco Honey Halloween
Join us for our spooktacular happy hour! We’ll bring the beats, you bring the ghouls. Costumes are encouraged but not required. Free all night if you do dress up
$10 | 7pm | Link
Bayou Boys presents: VOODOO VIX
Featuring @cazcabeltequila, Tarot Reading, Music, Caviar & Potions
Free | 8pm | Link
Hot Goth GF presents: Machine Room
A queer Halloween party featuring live performance by darkwave industrial synthpunk artist I Speak Machine and DJ sets by ErinYes, Hot Goth GF, and Limoncito. Halloween costumes and industrial underground looks encouraged
$18 | 18+ | 9:30pm | Link
10/25
Japantown Halloween Carnival
Enjoy a night of Halloween family fun with games and prizes, craft activities, bounce house, cultural performances, and our annual Children's Costume Contest
Free | All ages | 6pm | Link
Bay Area 2024. Breakaway Music Festival
Halloween weekend! Two days of music, activities, and much more!
From $108.04 | 18+ | 6pm | Link
Roxie Theater and Floating Features Present: Scream (1996)
Playing as part of Floating Features on Red and White Fleet’s hybrid electric vessel Enhydra (sailing movie theater)
$50 | 6:30pm | Link
Kumbia Dark Present: "Dugi Pentagrama" (Birthday Bash)
Spooky music and some new friends playing Merengue Punk from NY!
Free | 8pm | Link
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger presents: Like A G6 Halloween: A 2010s Costume Bangers Nite
We bring the 2010 club banger vibes back for a Halloween party of epic proportions!
$30 | 18+ | 9pm | Link
Haus of Cream October Takeover
Indulge yourself with the taste of horror. Come celebrate the season with your best costume and you just might win a spooky surprise
9pm | Link
Yeah Yeah Yas Presents: Heads Will Roll! A Queer Indie Halloween Party
LA’s hottest, gayest indie dance night YEAH YEAH YAS is bringing their cult favorite Halloween party HEADS WILL ROLL to SF!!!
$10 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
All Hallows Leisure
Dance To All Your Favorite 90s Alternative, Britpop, Postpunk & Madchester Hits!
$10 | 9pm | Link
Full Flex presents: Terrorama
Descend into the crypt this Halloween weekend and reign in a night of dark allure and forbidden pleasures
$17.15 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Bounce Beat presents Riddim Highrise: Sanzu Halloween Special
Put on your favorite masks and costumes and enjoy face melting bass with the infamous riddim artist Sanzu!
$25 | 18+ | 9pm | Link
The Midway & Opel Productions Present: Dusk2Dawn James Hype
Featuring a 360° 3-hour extended set from JAMES HYPE! Full on Halloween Production & Vibez! Performance and Spectacle
$45.26 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Acid Pauli presented by Public Works
HALLOWEEN WEEKEND: Costumes encouraged
$31.67 | 21+ | 9:30pm | Link
CASA TULUM Halloween Weekend (A Tulum Inspired House Music Party)
Escape to the jungle with us, through sound this Halloween Weekend
Free (Before 10:30pm) | 21+ | 9:30pm | Link
Princess Halloween: BOO! Ball
Your favorite classic ghouls invade Oasis for an epic two-day, fully immersive monster bash
$38.90 | 21+ | 10pm | Link
10/26
It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween while Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin.
$10 | All ages | 10am | Link
Bottom of the Hill & Illuminate LIVE present: Halloween Rock 'n' Scream
A Free concert at Jerry Garcia Amphitheater with Die Spitz, The McCharmlys, Nobody's Baby, and Lost Puppy Forever!
Free | All ages | 12pm | Link
SuperNatural at California Academy of Science
Haunt the Academy at night at the Bay Area’s best family Halloween party!
From $35 | All ages | 6:30pm | Link
You Are So Cursed: J-Horror Classics presents Onibaba
A chilling movie, a waking nightmare shot in icy monochrome, and filmed in a colossal and eerily beautiful wilderness
$15.62 | 6:30pm | Link
Faightful Rising (Vently x Faight Collective) SF Halloween Party
Get ready for a night of thrills and chills at our Spooktacular Halloween Party! An unforgettable evening filled with eerie enchantment
7pm | Link
Nightmare on Montgomery St Halloween Party
Halloween Theme Party at Barbarossa Lounge: You're Invited to a Spooktacular Night of Fright and Delight!
From $17.85 | 8pm | Link
Golden Voice & Portola Presents: Raccoon Social #3
This time it’s spooky!!! The lineup bangs, the venue bangs, tis the season to be feral. if you need a costume idea, just be a raccoon
$28.43 | 21+ | 8pm | Link
Electroluxx, Non Plus Ultra and The Midway present: Ghost Palace at the Palace of Fine Arts
A Halloween extravaganza & dance party
From $70 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Monster Mash Bday Bash
A Discopill + Beesons Spooky Soirée featuring Mz Worthy
$10 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Desert Hearts presents: Haunted Hearts
Sharpen your fangs and polish your coffins, spooky season is here! Prepare for Haunted Hearts with Desert Hearts own Mikey Lion, Marbs, Lee Reynolds, and Porky. Plus, get your ass upstairs for The Graveyard Garden Party with Tony y Not, Benjamin K, and more
$31.67 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Emo Nite Fright Nite
Don't feel embarrassed that you still love all the emo jams from the late 90’s and early 2000’s, we’ll be your guide. It’s a Halloween party so costumes are strongly encouraged!!
$26.55 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Funkytown SF: 70s Disco & Funk vs 80s New Wave Halloween Dance Party!
Come join us and get your groove on with regular Funkytown DJ's and special guests. Wear your costume! At midnight in the backroom we'll be having a special Halloween costume contest
$15 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
The Ghouls Galla Halloween Costume Party and Contest
Get ready for the spookiest night of the year at The Ghouls Galla - Halloween Costume Party with a chance to win $1000!
$13.63 | 9pm | Link
WHY2K: Halloween Edition
Dress up like your favorite 90s & 2000s celebs, musicians, idols or, like, a minion if thats ur vibe
$20 | 18+ | 9:30pm | Link
Lost Kings | Halloween 2024
Get ready to get spooky! Lost Kings are taking over Temple this Halloween
$33.76 | 10pm | Link
Diyklub Presents: Demon Hours
Your creepy neighborhood dykes are back to announce our annual goth & industrial inspired Halloween renegade DEMON HOURS!
$10-$15 (Suggested donation) | 18+ | 10pm | Link
The Rocky Horror Picture Show w/ The Bawdy Caste Live Shadow Cast!
Live shadowcast performance by The Bawdy Caste!
$15 | 11pm | Link
10/27
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Perfectly blending Universal's classic monster heritage with the science-fiction explosion of the 1950s
$19.24 | 11am | Link
Bernal Heights 3rd Annual Pet Parade!
A fun-filled day with your furry friends
Free | All ages | 12pm | Link
Drag Me to Arcana
Anniversary weekend. Drag Brunch is back!! at its finest! Mark your calendars for an afternoon delight
$10 | 12pm | Link
Sunday Scaries
Show out and support small, local businesses within our community while turning Sunday into a FUN DAY!
Free | 21+ | 2pm | Link
Vertigo (1958) Movie screening + Halloween Costume Party
Dress in your favorite Hitchcock inspired attire or any costume of your choosing
$13-18 | 5:30pm | Link
The Crow [1994] Original Movie + Dance Party!
The Crow [1994] Movie + 90s Goth + Industrial + Alternative Dance Party. Costume contest at 11pm
$20 | 18+ | 8pm | Link
Cyber Sunday: House Party/SleepOver
Join us for week 28 of Cyber Sunday, Our free weekly at Cat Club in SF. This will be our pre-Halloween party as we go into Halloween week: Our Halloween theme for this night is House Party/Sleep Over
Free | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Motel Club Presents: Let's Go Disco
Calling all San Francisco freaks! Motel Club welcomes Marco Weibel (Darker Than Wax, NYC) to the party
$23.18 | 9:30pm | Link
Sunset Sound System Halloween After-Party
The only and best way we know how to celebrate the wild unabashed Halloween energy and amazing costumes with our Sunset Family
$10-$20 | 21+ | 10pm | Link
Stamina Sunday: Halloween Edition
It’s Halloween weekend and we’re gettin spooky this Sunday!
Free | 21+ | 10pm | Link
10/28
Queer Film Theory 101: The Brood (1979)
It’s spooky season, and that means it’s psychotherapy time…or rather “psychoplasmics” time at Queer Film Theory 101
$19.74 | 7pm | Link
Hubba Hubba Revue presents: Monday Night Hubba Halloween - Dan Block & The Three Legged Dog
Come out for a night of sword swallowing, drag, world record setting stunts, electrifying performances
$10 | 18+ | 9pm | Link
Death Guild Pale Guild
As the spooky season marches towards the darkest night we invite you to celebrate in your finest inverted fashion… Wear white!
$5 | All ages | 9:30pm | Link
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
This time, staying awake won't save you
$19.74 | 10pm | Link
10/29
Halloween Karaoke Night
Halloween Karaoke Night - Costumes Encouraged! Hosted by Evan Richard
Free | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Kill O’ Watt Scary-Oke
Halloween Karaoke Night At Kilowatt. Wear a costume and come thirsty for delicious potions and brews
Free | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Interzone SF: Devils Night
Devils, Dark Angels and Vampires welcome Devils Night at midnight for week 5 of Interzone’s month-long Darkwave Halloween celebration!
Free | 21+ | 9pm | | Link
Terror Tuesday: The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
A prince terrorizes local peasants while taking refuge against the plague
$15.64 | 9:30pm | Link
10/30
Big Leap Collective Presents: Not *Too* Frightening Fest
Featuring tons of incredible multi-genre local and independent touring live music, drag performances, free candy, comics, art, pizza, and general fun and spooky revelry for all
$14.60 | All ages | 7pm | Link
Pop Punk Halloween Party
A Live music from Arcade9 (Oakland), A Drop of Color (Santa Cruz), Tell Me Tell Me (Oakland). Pop punk emo, dance grunge and a drop more
$10 | 21+ | 7:30pm | Link
4 Star Theater & Total Accord Agency present: Tremours, System Exclusive, Pink Stiletto
A night of spooky new wave, synth pop, & shoegaze hosted by the freaky & fabulous Piranha. Costumes encouraged!
$14 | 8pm | Link
Cat Club Presents: Devil's Night!
Join San Francisco's Weekly F3tish Night with DJs: Starr Noir [Nightshift], Nebakaneza [Cyber Sundays] & Go Gos: Andy Rose + Rune. Free Devil Horns at the door while supplies last!
$10 (in Fetishwear) $20 (in Street Clothes) | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Strut SF Halloween Party
Strut SF is brewing something really special in collaboration with Houseology & Gold Bloc Records for our 2024 Halloween party with an all-star secret guest!
$10 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
10/31
Día de Muertos Celebration
Join us Friday November 1st on Golden Gate Avenue between Jones and Leavenworth from 12 PM to 8 PM for an extraordinary Día de Muertos celebration, part of Psyched! Fest 2024
Free | All ages | 12pm | Link
Día de los Muertos and Halloween at Mission Community Market
Celebrate Día de los Muertos and Halloween at Mission Community Market on Thursday, October 31. Stock up on fall produce, support local farms and food businesses, and join us in celebrating our Mission community
Free | All ages | 3pm | Link
After Dark: Creepatorium
Cocktails, costumes, and a creepy good time—After Dark has everything you need for a hair-raising Halloween. Put some scare in your science by exploring our galleries full of brain-tingling exhibits, decorated just for the season
$22.95 | 18+ | 6pm | Link
Fright NightLife
Everyone’s entitled to one good scare – so serve up your spookiest Halloween look at NightLife. Brace yourself for spine-chilling drag performances by Oaklash, a mystic market by OK Marketplace, creepy costumes and critters, and of course…candy!
$24.95 | 21+ | 6pm | Link
Thots and Slayers Presents: Fright & Mingle
Fright & Mingle just got spooky! Drag performances & costume contest for lesbian, trans, nb and queer cuties!
$5-$30 (Suggested Donation | 7pm | Link
(((folkYEAH!))) Presents: Minami Deutsch
Halloween fest with the cosmic sounds of Minami Deutsch + Hooveriii + Joel Robinow + UFO Baby + Sunday Mourners!
$34.38 | All ages | 7pm | Link
Psyched! Films & Graymatter Productions Co-Present: The Bad Sleepbomb Trip Experience
A Horror, Film, and Music Experience featuring an original live film score by Sleepbomb and short films by Greg Downing and GrayDaughter Films
$21.62 | All ages | 7pm | Link
SFJAZZ Hotplate: Smith Dobson plays Philly Joe Jones' Blues for Dracula & Showcase
Bay Area master drummer Smith Dobson and his superb band play drumming legend Philly Joe Jones’s late 50s classics Blues for Dracula and Showcase
$25 | 7pm | Link
Halloween...2 Allstar Supergroups - Freak Funk Party! Sf Is Dead Allstars (+The Attic)
A Costume Ball, Dance Party for the Ages!! The Oldest, Haunted, Live Music Club in the Fillmore!! he Boom Boom Room, fully decked out in vintage Halloween Regalia!!
$15 | 21+ | 7pm | Link
Film With Live Orchestra: Psycho
Watch favorite films on the big screen at Davies Symphony Hall as the scores are performed live by the SF Symphony
From $69 | 7:30pm | Link
Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog'
The sacred space of Grace Cathedral will transform into a grand movie palace for a special Halloween screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
$25 | 8pm | Link
It's Another Tribe Divine Halloween
We got @deadramones.official, Louie Louie’s, @jonnconnorofficial, costume contest and more!
$15 | 21+ | 8pm | Link
Rocky Horror Halloween at Swig
It's time for an Epic Rocky Horror Themed Halloween celebration. Rocky Horror Themed attire encouraged (let's see those fishnets, corsets and pasties!!)
8pm | Link
Under The Covers 11 Halloween Tribute Show
Join us at The Knockout on a fog-drenched Halloween night, the spirits of long-lost bands rise from their crypts to haunt the stage in an eerie Under The Covers resurrection
$13 | 21+ | 8pm | Link
Wake Up the Dead with Us: Halloween Live Cover Bands
Halloween Cover Show with Billie Joan And The Armstrongs (Green Day), Joann Zig (Danzig), "Huevos" Rancheros (Meat Puppets)
$12 (with costume) $15 (without) | 21+ | 8pm | Link
It's Another Tribe Divine Halloween
With Louie Louie’s, Dead Ramones & DJ John Conner + Costume Contest!
$20 | 21+ | 8pm | Link
Tunnel Records and CinemaSF present: West Marin Grateful Dead Appreciation Society Band
On Halloween the dead rise again. Featuring 2 full sets of Grateful Dead music
$20 | 21+ | 8pm | Link
Bad Acid & Kilowatt Present: A Liquid Sky Fever Dream
A Halloween special featuring MELDAMOR, @candy.whips (Album Release Party) and DJ Pink Stiletto
$18.03 | 21+ | 8:30pm | Link
DAFT DISKO Halloween: A French House & Disco Party
A HALLOWEEN party inspired by the music of: Daft Punk, Stardust, Justice, Cassius and more
$18.41 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Arcana x Mostly Cloudy: Halloween with Bianca Oblivion
Join us in our fairy garden for special drinks, contest prizes, and many more surprises. Looking forward to all the creatures the night may bring
$10 | 9pm | Link
Karaokiki Fright & Mingle Edition
Spooky season is upon us and it’s time to transform into our true self! w/ @sweetestmilksf & @th0tsnslayers and your hostess Dulce de Leche
Free | 9pm | Link
Public Works & DJ Dials present: Halloween 2024 with Patrick Topping
The Pumpkin Bash presented by Public Works & DJ Dials
From $25.96 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Cat Club and 1984 Present: Halloween 70s vs 80s
Come and party all night long. With a Coat-check, a Horror Alley, 2 dance floors, 2 bars with music and videos everywhere
$10 (in costume) - $13 (without costume) | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Insomniac presents: Benny Benassi
Electro house legend @bennybenassi is taking over this Halloween
From $45.26 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
DNA Lounge & Hubba Hubba Revue present: All Hallow's Eve
We're bringing you a super-sized Halloween madhouse in all four rooms!
From $30 | 18+ | 9pm | Link
House of Voodoo Presents: HOV-o-Ween
Join us for the spookiest night of the year: Post-Punk Deathrock Goth & Industrial
9pm | Link
DJ Dials & 1015 Present: Oliver Tree Halloween
An internet based vocalist, producer, writer, director and performance artist
$40 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Movie Party
As the cult of ROCKY HORROR nears its fifth decade, Alamo Drafthouse's celebration of this pioneer of interactive movies has incorporated new breakthroughs, elusive ingredients, and that... SPARK which will make the RHPS experience better than ever!
$26.42 | 9:45pm | Link
Bad Apple Records present: Demon Time III Halloween
The biggest Halloween rave in the Bay Area
From $35 | 18+ | 10pm | Link
Felix Da Housecat Halloween
The original mischief maker and legendary party cat promises a HALLOWEEN full of thrills and chills
$12 | 21+ | 10pm | Link
Halloween at Temple: Rich The Kid
We’re getting ready to kick off spooky season in style and one of the biggest shows we’ve lined up is with the legendary trap artist @richthekid!
$17.89 | 21+ | 10pm | Link
11/01
Dia de Muertos Celebration
Join us Friday November 1st on Golden Gate Avenue between Jones and Leavenworth from 12 PM to 8 PM for an extraordinary Día de Muertos celebration, part of Psyched! Fest 2024
Free | All ages | 12pm | Link
Dark Entries Records and Psyched! Radio SF presents: Hard Shiny Plastic & Dj Bstone
A Halloween decompression set
Free | 5pm | Link
Dia de los Muertos Outer Sunset
Sunset Mercantile’s fourth annual Día de los Muertos is a night full of food, music, dance, and culture
Free | All ages | 6pm | Link
Film with Live Orchestra: Coco
Watch favorite films on the big screen at Davies Symphony Hall as the scores are performed live by the SF Symphony
$87 | All ages | 7:30pm | Link
Vitamin1000, As You Like It and Public Works present: HAAi, Gabrielle Kwarteng and DJ Bone: A Halloween Party
Keep your Halloween weekend going for Public Works huge collaboration with Vitamin1k and As You Like It
$31.67 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Music For The Masses (Dark 80s New Wave Nite) S.F. - Halloween Edition
Join us for a special Halloween edition of Music For The Masses
$12.51 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Cowboys & Aliens: Space Cowboys Halloween
Blow off some steam this Halloween at Cowboys & Aliens presented by Space Cowboys SF!
$25.40 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Suavecito Souldies: A Special Halloween Edition
For one night only! Suavecito Souldies returns for a night of souldies with a spooky twist!
$10 | 21+ | 9:30pm | Link
Dark Sparkle: Memento Mori
This month we present Memento Mori. A tribute honoring artists that we've loved and lost
$10 | 18+ | 9:30pm | Link
Histrionixx Present: Drag Me to Hell
Featuring Cali Rose (Berlin), Neurokill (CDMX), Jasmine Infiniti & more. Text “RAVE” to 888 894 4365 for details
10pm | Link
11/02
Fleetmac Wood presents Leather & Lace Disco Halloween
Not a tribute, but a rave and AV show that reworks the classic-rock sound of the Mac into a spectrum of electronic genres
$30.90 | 21+ | 9pm | Link
Bootie Mashup: Halloween Hangover
After a week of Halloween parties, we're not over it yet!
$12.51 | 9pm | Link
Dj Dials, 15 Utah & Starfari present: Day Of The Disco
W/ Breakbot & Irfane + More
$20 | 10pm | Link
As always, please make sure to check with the organizer of the event directly for the most updated information (ticket pages, social media posts etc), as details can change at the last minute!
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