Guide: London's Best Immersive Halloween Experiences (2025)
- Immersive Rumours
- Oct 6
- 8 min read
Updated: Oct 21
From family-friendly frights and immersive walking tours to intense experiences that promise big scares, here are our recommendations for London's best immersive experiences this Halloween...
Photos/Images: Ghost Newington/Alistair Veryard/ScreamWorks/Beavertown Brewery/Peter Broughton
As always, London is looking to play host to a number of spooky immersive experiences this October. To help you make the most of the spooky season, we've gathered together all the information you need to make your next night out a great one. Below is our pick of the best experiences on offer across the month for those looking for various levels of frights. From family-friend spooks to intense experiences, there's something on offer for everyone's taste this Halloween, if you're brave enough...
This guide will be updated as more experiences are announced.
Check back later in the month for more recommendations.
Phantom Peak - Hallowed Peak: THe Lunar Festival
Video: Phantom Peak
We've spoken at length previously about how good Phantom Peak is. In our opinion, this platypus-loving mining town is the most enjoyable immersive experience currently on offer in London. While it's open nearly year-round with regular updates and re-themes, Halloween is when the place comes into its own. For 2025, their Lunar Festival is back for a fourth year, with all three previous Hallowed Peak seasons having enjoyed multiple sold-out dates.
For this year's edition of Hallowed Peak, there are 11 brand-new story trails available for guests to experience, which feature everything from hell-bent TV hosts and missing mummies to monster stag-dos. Phantom Peak is a family-friendly experience, and the free-roaming, experience-at-your-own-pace design of the show means you can take a break from the storylines at any time and pick them back up without missing anything. There's a string of other activities on offer, including carnival games, costume competitions and multiple Hallowed Peak-themed food and drink options. The show's creators describe Hallowed Peak as 'more spooky than scary', so it's an ideal experience for those seeking a Halloween experience that's not intense.
Photos: Alistair Veryard
Following last year’s sold-out success, Hallowed Peak returns with a brand new chapter in the award-winning immersive open-world experience. This time, the town of Phantom Peak faces its strangest mystery yet: the old Mayor Furbish, long presumed dead, has resurfaced. But is he really back... or is something more sinister at work? Prepare to explore the sprawling, open-world immersive adventure set in a richly detailed steampunk-inspired town, enjoy a drink by the waterfall, and uncover exciting new storylines woven throughout with elements of escape rooms, interactive theatre, and free-roam exploration.
📍 Canada Water 💰 From £35.00 👻 Scare Level: 1/5
🕒 19th September - 9th November 2025 🎟️ Book via phantompeak.com
Creature by Peter Broughton
Image: Peter Broughton
Fresh off a sold-out debut run at COLAB Invitational Theatre Festival, Peter Broughton’s Creature is one of the year’s most exciting immersive productions. With each performance for one audience member, it’s also one of the most exclusive. For Halloween weekend, the 20-minute-long show returns to COLAB Tower for a 3-day run, which we expect will sell out almost immediately.
Fusing immersive theatre with puppetry and binaural audio, Creature explores themes of rejection and abandonment. Each performance’s single audience member takes their place in a wheelchair for the duration and assumes the role of a captive Victor Frankenstein as they come face-to-face with a life-sized puppet of their own creation. As one of the lucky few who’ve been able to experience it already, we can confirm that it’s an intense and overwhelming thrill ride that’s unlike any other immersive show out there.
From Peter Broughton (Co-Creator and Associate Director of Bacchanalia) comes a fusion of puppetry and immersive theatre, inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Take a seat in a wheelchair, guided into darkness by a gas-masked figure, and don headphones that plunge you into a world of shadows, sound, and tension. Confront the phenomenal, towering puppet in an intimate, one-on-one encounter with the unknown.
📍 London Bridge 💰 From £98.00 👻 Scare Level: 3/5
🕒 30th October - 1st November 2025 🎟️ Book via eventbrite.co.uk
Granny: The Horror Escape Game - Screamworks
Image: ScreamWorks
In recent years, ScreamWorks has earned a reputation for creating some of London's best immersive horror experiences. Their debut show, Bloodbath, launched in late 2022 and was unlike anything else on offer in the capital at the time. It pushed the boundaries and conventions of immersive theatre to an extreme and saw visitors being force-fed, tied up, undressed, and chased through an air vent on their hands and knees.
2023 saw them debut The Ghost Hunt - another exceptionally scary immersive horror experience that had guests make their way through a Victorian house illuminated only by torchlight, and 2024 saw the launch of Open House: The Escape Room, which combined horror and escape room elements and unlike traditional escape rooms, offered a huge amount of freedom, and very little in the way of help.
For 2025, they return with a new experience - Granny. Billed as an open-world horror experience, Granny has been designed to 'create fear, paranoia and anxiety in its participants'. While for most companies, that could be taken as an empty threat used for marketing, ScreamWorks have a track record of upping the terror with each new show. You can expect Granny to be an intense experience that's not for the faint of heart. You have been warned.
It starts as a Halloween dare: Break into the old lady’s house behind the abandoned bookshop. Everyone’s heard the rumours… She murdered her whole family and hid their bodies under the floorboards. She never leaves the house — and eats spiders and worms. Some say she’s over a hundred years old. Others say she’s immortal — and knows everything. Just stories… right? You keep telling yourself that —until the door slams shut behind you, and you realise you’re inside an elaborate trap. What started as a thrill becomes a game of survival. And while Granny may not see well, she hears everything —and moves like lightning. Run. Hide. Plot your escape. Just don’t let her catch you. Because once Granny’s got you in her arms…she’ll never let you go.
Photos of previous ScreamWorks shows.
📍 Bethnal Green 💰 From £34.00 👻 Scare Level: 4/5
🕒 3rd October - 31st December 2025 🎟️ Book via screamworks.london
Bridge Command - Halloween Missions
Images: Bridge Command
Across 28th October to 2nd November, Bridge Command - one of London's best immersive experiences - is suspending their usual rotation of intergalactic missions to provide two exclusive Halloween-themed experiences aboard the UCS Takanami and UCS Havock. Running for a limited time, these missions allow the usual group sizes (up to a crew of 14 on UCS Havock and 10 on UCS Takanami) to experience these brand new storylines with a spooky twist.
While details of their contents remain under wraps for now, the below descriptions offer a teaser of what to expect. In addition, access to The Mess - Bridge Command's highly themed bar aboard the USC Warspite - remain available for just £10 per ticket, and include a free cocktail.
Silo
A UCN destroyer class ship has gone silent carrying confidential cargo. Dark corridors, empty bunks, no crew. But something else lingers aboard.
Ghost In The Machine
A Terra Novan spiritual leader and the UCN High Command demand the crew’s support to cleanse a forsaken Exodus battleground. But does the past want to stay buried?
Photo: Alex Brenner
📍 Vauxhall 💰 From £45.00 👻 Scare Level: ?/5
🕒 28th October - 2nd November 2025 🎟️ Book via bridgecommand.space
Alibi: Dead Air by Tom Black and Dean Rogers
Image: Tom Black/Dean Rogers
While they've gained huge popularity in China since first appearing in the late 2010's, with over 10,000 physical locations and millions of regular players, Jubensha games have (until recently) largely passed English-speaking audienes by.
A 2024 video from People Makes Game diving into Jubensha introduced many to the genre for the first time, but it's only in the last six months that London audiences have had the chance to try them out for themselves, with several Jubensha-inspired experiences having debuted at Voidspace Live earlier this year.
Debuting this Halloweek weekend, Alibi: Dead Air - created by Tom Black (Bridge Command, Crisis? What Crisis?, Jury Games) and Dean Rodgers (The Crystal Maze Live Experience, Secret Cinema) - provides another opportunity to try out this new kind of social deducation game, and find out why the genre's gained such a following overseas.
Twelve suspects. One killer. And that killer could be YOU. A true crime podcast, with a murdered host. A serial killer on the loose. Alibi is an immersive murder mystery game where you play both suspect and detective. A game of social deduction, where you must solve the clues to uncover which one of your fellow players is the killer. In our first case: Dead Air, a true crime podcast host dies in a recording booth while hunting a serial killer.
📍 Liverpool Street/Aldgate 💰 From £25.00 👻 Scare Level: ?/5
🕒 29th October - 2nd November 2025 🎟️ Book via eventbrite.co.uk
Ghost Newington - Halloween Walking Tour
Photo: Ghost Newington
Back after several years away, Ghost Newington - the much-loved immersive Halloween walking tour - makes its grand return to the streets of Stoke Newington for 2025. For the uninitiated, Ghost Newington has guests exploring the areas' winding backstreets and cobbled yards under nightfall alongside The Ghost Master (Paul Critoph) over two and a half hours. You can expect jump scares, unexpected encounters, macabre tales of local legend, and, of course, several stop-offs in local public houses.
Previously, the team behind Ghost Newington have staged The House of Dust in Haggerston, which invited visitors to enjoy three supernatural cocktails as The Ghost Master took them on a twisted journey through the annals of time to a world where ghosts, murderers and ghouls were brought to life, and last year they moved south of the river to Brixton for Tales Of The Strange, a spooky soirée hosted by fictional horror writer, Jeffrey Thrillerman.
As dusk falls, muster your courage at The Axe Pub, where the Mysterious Ghost Master and his Minions will meet you and take you on a journey to uncover the dark, the unusual, and the downright macabre stories of this strange little corner of London. Guard yourself against Bonkers Balloonists, walk the treacherous path of Edgar Allen Poe, discover the mystery behind Dusty Sally, and raise a toast to the Morbid Entity that lies deep beneath a car park. This isn't just any old run-of-the-mill Ghost tour. No Ma'am! This is GHOST NEWINGTON. One of Stoke Newington's top two ghost walks! (We can call it that because, to our knowledge, there’s only one other).
📍 Stoke Newington 💰 From £25.00 👻 Scare Level: 2/5
🕒 23rd October - 1st November 2025 🎟️ Book via designmynight.com
Beavertown Presents... The Lost Dimensions
Image: Beavertown Brewery
No strangers to a Halloween pop-up - having previously taken over The Prince Charles Cinema and Flat Iron Square for spook-filled events in years past - Beavertown Brewery are hosting an immersive experience at Kachette between Old Street and Shoreditch High Street across Halloween weekend for 2025.
Titled 'The Lost Dimensions', the 90-minute-long experience will have guests travel through five distinct zones and push people out of their comfort zones in an effort to reward those who 'say yes to the strange, the bold, and the bizarre'. As you'd expect, there's also some free drinks thrown in for those who attend, which is something we'll always say 'Yes' to.
The experience invites you to leave normality behind and enter the wonderfully weird, surreal journey where you ditch the fear of judgment and embrace the unexpected. Across five distinct worlds, you’ll be tempted, teased, and tipped out of your comfort zone through curious prompts, unexpected encounters and side quests that urge you to say yes to the strange, the bold, and the bizarre. Each space offers a fresh take on what it means to be Never Normal. Everything culminates in the Beavertown bar, the ultimate spot to swap stories, crack open cans and celebrate your truest, weirdest self. Within the bar, the clothing pop-up returns with the brand-new range, and to top it off, the space will come alive each day with sets from some of London’s most exciting DJs, including two secret headline performances. This isn’t a fright fest. It’s storytelling with a deliciously twisted edge. So, loosen your grip on reality, steel your nerves, and prepare for spine-tingles of the finest variety. Because life’s more fun when you stick your neck out.
📍 Old Street 💰 From £20.00 👻 Scare Level: ?/5
🕒 31st October - 2nd November 2025 🎟️ Book via beavertownbrewery.co.uk
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