Halloween is your chance to embrace the dark side and have some spooky fun, but there are a handful of things that make the night go even better.

Vibe counts down the 5 things that will make your Halloween frighteningly good.

Treats - lots of them

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When the little scams from around the corner come a-knocking, you’re not going to want to risk sending them away empty handed or having to scour the cupboards and finding you can only give them tinned tomatoes.

Be prepared with a big bag of sweeties or something creepy like Hartley’s limited edition Monster Jelly Pots (available at Asda and Tesco for 45p), available in spooktacular orange, fangtastic strawberry or shocking slime.

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Or maybe a Cadbury Crunchy Spider (55p for one, £1 for two) or a special Screme Egg with green goo filling (65p or £1 for two).

A cauldron full of a wicked brew

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The evening will go off a lot better if you’re sipping one of these:

Smirnoff Ghouls’ Goblet

Don’t be alarmed when you see these creepy creatures at the bottom of your glass! The ghouls’ goblet will ensure your guests get a fright, tricking them with this tasty treat. This eerie tonic will provide a perfect spell with its sweet and sour sensations.

Ingredients:

Tall glass (or martini glass, but apply half the measures of the below)
 Ice
35ml Smirnoff No.21 (one egg cup measure)
150ml Ginger Ale
2 Orange slices
2 Lemon slices
5 Sweet gummy worms

Method:

Take an ice tray and add your worm gummy sweets to each square, then fill with water
Add 1 to 2 drops of different food colouring in each and place in freezer
Once frozen add ice cubes to glass with all other ingredients

For more information visit facebook.com/Smirnoff and for more drinks inspiration visit uk.thebar.com

A kick-ass costume

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It’s not Halloween without some ghoulish fancy dress. Whether it’s your favourite horror movie character, a pumpkin or even just a bed sheet ‘adapted’ into a ghost, you’ve got to go for it.

Fun Dubi Dozy in Sidcup has lots, including this Grotesque Burlesque costume with exposed ribs and intestine.

Go to fundubidozy.co.uk

Some tricks up your sleeve

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Get in the spirit by tricking your house out with some scary little additions – maybe a severed hand holding the phone (like the one about from Fun Dubi Dozy, £6.58), some skeletons ready to leap of the cupboards and plenty of cobwebs.

A Scary movie

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It’s obvious, really. Halloween’s a creepy night so there is no more appropriate time to turn out the lights, draw the curtains and stick something truly terrifying in the DVD player.

We’d recommend The Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby or The Orphanage. Alternatively, you could head for the cinema. Greenwich Picturehouse is showing The Exorcist or if you want something new then The Babadook is mind-bendingly frightening.