Thais don’t traditionally celebrate Halloween with trick or treating and pumpkin carving, but they do love scary movies, ghost stories, slutty nurse outfits, and on-theme cocktails just as much as people coming here from abroad. Here are some spots around the city to mingle with fellow horrormongers, scary clown impersonators, and gore makeup aficionados in the days leading up to the holiday.
Friday, Oct. 26:
Free candy without getting into a stranger’s van at Fatty’s Nightmare on Fatstreet
Fatty’s hosts a dive-bar style Halloween bash with THB120 tallboy cans of PBR and cheap drink specials, including jello shots, while seven live music acts — The Pillars, Ramsey Judson, Five by Five, Viped, Matthew Fischer, Peace, and Plague Pits — perform.
Guests can enter the costume contest for the chance to win a free case of PBR or line up to play Cock Tossers, Double Bean Snake Shake, or Tall Gunners, at least one of which we assume is a drinking game.
598/66 Asoke-Dindaeng Rd.
Oct. 26, 5pm–12am
MRT Rama 9
Get scared in a second at Whiteline’s Short Horror Film Festival
The Bangkok Filmmakers Short Horror Film Festival will screen a selection from the short-form horror genre to be shown on a big screen with discussion and party afterwards. Local and international filmmakers can submit scary films under ten minutes for inclusion until Oct. 21st here.
Silom Soi 8
Oct. 26, 9pm-12am
BTS Sala Daeng
Saturday, Oct. 27th:
Freebird offers 7-hour of freeflow booze at Freakbird Halloween Party
Freebird, known for their high-quality Aussie meats and wild, free-flow garden parties hosts one of the latter for Halloween on Saturday. Though guests are invited to come in spooky costumes, probably the results of a whopping 7 hours of endless booze will be the scariest thing at the party. The THB2,500 tickets gets visitors red, white, and sparkling wines, beer, spirits and mixers as well as a full buffet and gift certificate prizes for winners of the costume contest. Heineken Beer on Draught, Dirty Forty Bottled Beer, Spirits & Mixers.
28 Sukhumvit Soi 47
Oct. 27, 3pm-late
BTS Phrom Pong
Halloween Night:
The Vagabond moves house with pop-up Halloween party at Upside Hostel
One of our favorite bars, The Vagabond, recently and sadly closed their doors (well, as an outdoor bar they didn’t actually have a door but you, like, understand). They’ll throw the first of a series of pop-up events in the form of a costume party on Halloween while they search for a new location. The Halloween party will be on the rooftop of a hostel featuring the bar’s notoriously cheap drinks, including the Klong Island Iced Tea and homemade yadong.
Charoen Krung Soi 46
Oct. 31, 8pm-late
BTS Saphan Taksin
Get knotty at Maison Close’s Shibari Halloween party
The gallery becoming known as home to Bangkok’s growing creative bondage scene hosts a party showcasing Japanese shibari rope bondage at their Old Town location. Featuring fashion for sale by Masokiss shop and rope technique by artist Unnamedminor on “rope bunny” Kitarang Tasee, the event, which has a THB300 cover, promises a less tame party than your standard hotel bar jam.
397 Charoen Krung Soi 45
Oct. 31, 7pm–2am
BTS Saphan Taksin
Check into the psych ward at The Demented at Oskar Bistro
This Soi 11 staple always throws a good Halloween bash and this year should be no different. This year, the theme is The Demented and Halloween night will see the bistro transformed into a psych ward with deranged patients and sadistic surgeons roaming around. Live DJs and free shots will complete the craziness.
24 Sukhumvit Soi 11
Oct. 31, 7pm–2am
BTS Nana
American Horror Story night at Aqua Bar
Aqua, the courtyard bar in Anantara Siam Hotel, is hosting a party themed after the hit TV series American Horror Story. The costume party will feature Halloween decor based on myths and legends about the portal to the afterworld being weakest on Halloween.
The bar has devised on-theme cocktails such as “Black Dahlia,” “Insidious,” and “Blood Omen.”
155 Ratchadamri Rd.
Oct. 31, 6pm-11:30pm
BTS Ratchadamri
Celebrate Mexican-style at Revolucion Cocktail’s Dia de Muertos party
Latin music will be mixed with a spooky soundtrack at Revolucion Cocktail’s Dia de Muertos party. A DJ backed up with live percussion will provide the soundtrack and social lubrication is available in the form of free shots for everyone in costume. To help meet the Dia de Muertos dress code, the bar will have a make-up artist on hand painting sugar skulls on guests all night.
50 Soi Suksawittaya (Sathorn soi 10)
Oct. 31, 7pm-3am
BTS Chong Nonsi
Hit a Halloween house party at The Home’s Halloween Spirits party
The creative space on Soi 23, which usually hosts everything from talks on creativity to yoga and dance classes to clothing swaps, is having a chill “house party” event. There will be a talk on tarot from 6:30-8:30, and the after party will feature seasonal songs and homemade on-theme cocktails. Guests can come in costume or choose from a selection of costumes at the venue.
120/18 Sukhumvit Soi 23
Oct. 31, 9pm-12am
BTS Asoke
Drum ‘n bass, scary movies, and cheap drinks at The Overstay’s Halloween Extravaganza
The DIY staple bar and hostel in Bangkok’s farthest reaches hosts a Halloween party with drum ‘n’ bass set by evil D&B and performance by Bangkok Riddim Syndicate. They’ll be hosting Halloween games, showing horror movies, selling cheap drinks, and having a virtual costume contest. Entrants have to post a photo of themselves in the building in their costume and tag The Overstay. Whichever photo has the most likes at the end of the night wins a gift certificate.
Charan Sanit Wong Soi 40
Oct. 31, 6pm–1am
Best to cab it
Get freaky on a rooftop at Char’s Halloween Party
The Ploenchit area rooftop bar has put together a Halloween cocktail menu complete with dead finger accessories and dripping blood accents. Arrive at this party in costume and get a seasonal drink for free. They’ll have a live DJ spinning from 8pm-midnight.
81 Wireless Road (Hotel Indigo rooftop)
Oct. 31, 5pm-1am
BTS Ploenchit
