Party Themes & MotifsNo. 5320 · The 2026 edition

Halloween Guide - BuzzFeed

Unleash your spooky spirit with our ultimate Halloween guide!

Halloween

Our own summary of the original — the full post and photos live at buzzfeed.com.

This guide covers everything you need for a spectacular Halloween, including costume ideas, delicious snacks, fun quizzes, party planning tips, and the best movies and TV shows to get you in the mood.

About this

BuzzFeed's Halloween Guide hub, described as a party-focused landing page rounding up spooky season content: costume ideas, snacks, quizzes, party tips, and movies and TV shows. It links out to themed sections including Costume Ideas, Quizzes, Recipes, What to Watch, and Party Ideas. The page itself is a roundup of headlines rather than a single party plan, so concrete party substance is limited to the ideas named in the linked headlines.

The plan

Browse the Halloween Guide sections: Costume Ideas, Quizzes, Recipes, What to Watch, Party Ideas
Plan a spooky movie night or Halloween movie marathon
Plan a Halloween playlist for your party
Plan a Halloween weekend before the date arrives
Put together trick-or-treat plans
Plan for a Halloween party theme around costumes

Decoration ideas

Go for comedy Halloween decorations — neighbors who refused to hold back
Carve intricate pumpkins (tradition goes back hundreds of years; craft has never been more intricate)
Haunted house setups
Disneyland Resort Halloween Time decorating inspiration

Food & drink

Pumpkin party snacks
Halloween-themed food (page links Halloween food fails for cautionary inspiration)
Halloween candy spreads (candy corn, Twix, Reese's Cups used as themed labels)
Spooky movie night snacks tied to a Halloween candy persona

Activities

Host a zombie rave or haunted house night
Sydney's Ghost Festival at The Rocks: four nights of haunted houses, zombie raves and spooky thrills
Halloween costume contests and sharing your best costume
Halloween-themed quizzes and games (quiz pack, polls, ghost detector AR)
Watch scary movies and Halloween TV episodes
Halloween Horror Nights maze ranking (Universal 2022)
Trick-or-treating
Seed a Halloween party playlist so guests can guess your zodiac sign
Halloween 'would you rather' party questions