MUSIC
If you're not out trick-or-treating on Saturday evening, or getting freaky with Meatloaf at Vector Arena, there's a couple of large local Halloween events to get dressed up for.
Zombie Prom, which is on at The Powerstation features The Drab Doo Riffs, 1995, Mellow Grave, O'Lovely and several others, and the line-up at the Cheese on Toast Halloween Party at Whammy Bar and Wine Cellar includes Tourettes, Panther and the Zoo, Tono, $noregaZzZm and X-Ray Fiends.
Other gigs on this week that don't require a costume include Auckland rock lads Midnight Youth launching their sophomore album World Comes Calling at The Powerstation on Friday night, and rock-chick Gin Wigmore launching her sophomore album Gravel & Wine at The Kings Arms on Tuesday evening.
MOVIES
Keeping with the Halloween fun, the aptly named Fright Night opens this week. A remake of the 1985 Tom Holland horror comedy, the updated 2011 version stars Colin Farrell, doing a spell-bindingly good turn as a vampire who's slowly stalking, kidnapping and killing the teenagers of a Las Vegas suburb. He moves in next door to geek-turned-popular-guy Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin), who becomes suspicious after witnessing some odd behaviour, and soon realises he's going to have to stop this monster himself. Tremendous fun.
Also being released are British teen buddy comedy The Inbetweeners, French star Audrey Tatou's new rom-com Beautiful Lies, and Kiwi director Andrew Niccol's philosophical futuristic thriller In Time, starring Justin Timberlake and Cillian Murphy.
