Scary As Love: 10 Intimidatingly Romantic Date Ideas for This Year’s Halloween

Nothing’s scarier than love! Regardless of how broken-hearted in the past or frightened by the future, not a single soul can resist its bewitchery. In a way, the Hollow’s Eve seems quite a suitable holiday for celebrating our uncertain and spine-chilling, yet wonderfully enthralling feelings.

So let us all fill our pitchers with a bloody punch and raise our glasses in honour of the spookiest, most unnerving emotion of them all. And, since you already know when, here are a couple of friendly suggestions on where and how to spend this year’s Halloween date.

1. Get Sweetly Sinful

Yes, pumpkin carvings and trick-or-treating might seem a bit conventional for a marvellously kooky couple like you, but don’t underestimate the seductive power of liquorish just yet. Before the night finally falls, apples will have to be coated in poison, cookie dough will scream for its timely reshaping (try bats, ghosts or spiders) and chocolate cheesecake dip will have to be turned into a graveyard. Passion is ever-hungry in the kitchen, and even more so when spiced up with sinful sweets.

2. Smell the Roleplaying Spice

If together for only a day, the masquerade evening is a perfect opportunity to discover who you might be in the morning. Fortunately, the Halloween costume choices are infinite for couples as well: quaint and passionate like Morticia and Gomez Addams, vindictive and mischievous like Selina Kyle and Bruce Wayne, splendidly sanguine like Maggie Greene and Glenn Rhee, childishly enthusiastic like Amy and Rory Pond or unwaveringly flirty like Zoe and Wash Wishbone, there’s no doubt that, come tomorrow, your love will burn stars. Just be sure to slip into your costumes before you finally tear them off.

3. Find Your Haunted Corner

There are all kinds of hugs you’ll have to master over the course of your relationship. Still, nothing says “I’ve got you” like the caring Protector embrace. And where better to protect your significant other than in a haunted house? If quick to resist the cliché, just think about it — your eyes wide shut, hearts madly pounding and hands tuning warm — there’s no doubt the horror of losing each other will bring you closer together.

4. Get Lost & Found

Fear skyrockets our dopamine levels; it makes us dizzy and insecure enough that we start looking around for someone to lean on. And if alone and adrift in the darkness, we fall in love with the first person we meet, which is why you should definitely seize the opportunity and rush off to a corn maze. Let it be a quirky metaphor of your beginning — once found, you can never get lost again.

5. Set Up a Couch Horror

Sure, it’s somewhat safe for a night of endless possibilities, but after all, isn’t it what it is all about? Comfortably snug in the arms of another, deliciously excited from all the sugar you’ve devoured and pleasantly anxious about what might happen — a Halloween movie date will make you feel as bewildered and exhilarated as if you were high schoolers again.

6. Let the Fire Flicker

If a “Stranger Things” marathon sounds like your dream date, why not taking it up a notch for this special Halloween occasion? Instead of being your usual horror-loving selves, pack up the blanket, leave the TV at home and hit the secluded woods for some dread-evoking storytelling time. In case the obscurity leaves you speechless, bring your favourite Stephen King book to help you out.

7. Dance a Tim Burton Dance

It is controversial, we admit, but that’s what the greatest love stories are like. Hopefully, your silliness will match your date’s and you will live happily ever after; better still, consider avoiding the risk, and invite your pumpkin pie to some devil-dancing at an old cemetery instead. Whatever you choose, remember to be considerate and respectful.

8. Invoke the Abominable Bride

Now, a good old murder mystery is not for spontaneous souls, since it does demand a bit of elaborate planning. It is, however, the best possible way to put your Sherlockian skills to use and get yourselves in a brilliantly abominable scenario with a mind-boggling puzzle at the end. Scatter the clues, determine the rules and turn the lights off — the most thrilling night of your love affair may begin.

9. Join the Walking Dead

Nothing can be more satisfying after a strong drink than a nerdy undead walk. In fact, commence the theme early in the evening with a one of a kind Zombie cocktail and a fitting makeup routine. Once the mood is set, call up your roleplaying friends and start the march. Halloween might be the only night of the year when strolling around zombie-style won’t get you arrested.

10. Lock the Door

Unlike a murder mystery party for two, an escape the room date will actually have you confined in the prison of your own fantasy. There are so many different narratives you can scare and delight yourselves with, but whichever you choose, the very spirit of the escapade should remain the same — two sweethearts locked in a room, trying to decide whether they want to leave or stay for ever more.

If life is a maze and love is a puzzle, when better to start solving it than on the night when everything’s allowed? Ultimately, the rules for romance and trick-and-treating are the same — keep safe and responsible, but let your imagination run wild.