Things to do in Boston this Halloween

Boston is packed with Halloween celebrations this unseasonably warm spooky season. Here are our picks for the best scares, thrills and family fun around the Hub between now and Oct. 30.

🍬 Trick-or-treating among Beacon Hill's old money mansions is a rite of passage for many Boston candy-hoarders.

• The tonier streets like Mt. Vernon and Pickney are closed to traffic starting in the late afternoon on Halloween and residents along Acord Street might have some extra special treats.

🎞️ Nothing says Halloween more than a scary movie night and Boston's cinemas have plenty to offer.

• The Coolidge Corner Theater is celebrating William Castle, "the master of macabre movie gimmicks," with a showcase of films the movie marketing genius had a hand in, like "Rosemary's Baby," and "The Tingler."  
• Over at Harvard Square's Brattle Theater, you'll get a chance to see "The Bride of Frankenstein" Friday 10/25, "Evil Dead II" Monday 10/28, "Practical Magic" Tuesday 10/29 and the 1922 "Nosferatu" Wednesday 10/30.
• Go to Fenway Park to see the new "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" projected on the center field video board Saturday 10/26 at 6:30pm. Tickets are $10.

🐕‍🦺 Boston's hosting not one but three different pet parades to show off the real stars of the holiday season: pet parents with disposable income and costume budgets.

• It's the 20th annual Jamaica Plain Canine Costume Parade at 1pm Saturday 10/26 from the First Baptist Church down Centre Street to the Loring Greenough House where there will be a red carpet for the dogs to strut down.
• Downtown's annual Doggone Halloween kicks off Saturday 10/26 at noon from Summer Street Plaza. Vendors will be on hand and good girls and good boys will compete for scariest, cutest and best human-dog duo costumes.
• Kids and Paws for a Cause is Sunday 10/27 at 1pm at Farm Pond Park in Framingham. It'll have a costume parade for kids and pets.

👺 And of course there are parties galore to help you get your spook on.

• Hit the dance floor at the Substation in Roslindale Friday and Saturday night for "A Haunted Circus" with DJ TROY and Rilla Force. There will be aerialists, stilt walkers, acrobats, and other performers from the Commonwealth Circus Center on hand to thrill.
• The scariest music genre of all — earnestly performed ska — scares the checkered pants off The Rockwell Halloween night at "Skalloween."
• Time Out Market in the Fenway hosts "Bewitched Bash" where you can pick a side — good witch or bad witch — and enjoy cocktails, a tarot card reader, costume contest and appearances by resident drag queen Big Atlas.