Is this the year to finally take part in the Halloween tradition that is the Thriller flash mob? You’ve seen the moves a million times! Thriller Night will be held at 1847 Food Park on Scott Street in Milwaukie Friday Oct 30. There's a class from 4-6pm. If you just want to show up to watch the fun performances are at 6:30p & 7:15p.

Marlon Wayans is at Helium Comedy Club Friday Oct 30 and Halloween night. You probably know him and his brother Shawn from Scary Movie and White Chicks. Then in two weeks, one of the longest running cast members on "Saturday Night Live." Tim Meadows will take the Helium stage.

The Davis Graveyard, started 30 years ago by husband and wife team, Jeff and Chris Davis, who were obsessed with Halloween. They began by creating a small display in their front yard at 8703 SE 43rd Ave, Milwaukie with a few tombstones and skeletons. Now it's a must see every year with fog machines, lighting, and sound effects. You can even custom order headstones on their website. (For your halloween decor, not for when you're RIP'ing)

A chance to let the kids get more than one wear out of their Halloween Costume. HOWLoween at the Oregon Zoo where they can trick or treat, get their face painted, see the animals knock around giant pumpkins. All tickets must be purchased in advance on their website

The Spirit of Halloweentown, an October event in St. Helens, Oregon, that features haunted tours, celebrity appearances, costume contests and more.

The Pittock Mansion is doing candlelight tours through Nov 7 and on Halloween night they're inviting everyone to come dressed as a character from the new LAIKA move Wildwood. .which hits theaters Oct 23.

The Wildwood Trail ends with a farewell weekend at Darcelle XV Plaza where all of the crow scultpures will be on display before being auctioned off for Doernbecher Children's Hospital October 31 & Nov 1.

Trackers Portland’s free Halloween Goblin Market returns Saturday, October 31, inviting kids and families to swap treasures, barter trinkets and celebrate Halloween with hands-on activities at Trackers Lodge in Southeast Portland. Track or Treat includes the market, zombie axe throwing, pumpkin archery and other fun.

Holidays on Franklin in Vancouver is a house at 46th and Franklin that goes big every Halloween and Christmas. This year it's spookier than ever with live actors after dark from 6-9pm nightly.

A Most Peculiar Evening is going down at Powell’s Books as they turning their landmark Burnside location into a mix of bookstore, carnival and spooky night out for 18 and overs with carnival games, fortune tellers, costume contests and local food and drinks. Carnival games cost extra, and tickets are limited, so grabbing them early is smart. Tix are $35, carnival games extra.

Newberg's Trick or Treat Street will have family-friendly trick-or-treating, a pet costume contest, live music, and Halloween bashes at Stoller Wine Bar and Stumptown Taps on Halloween night starting at 4:30.

Raven's Manor in Old Town is a year round Haunted Restaurant for 21+, get reservations early.

Old Town's Haunted Taproom will serve you a slice, a beer and tell you about its resident ghost while luring you below ground to tour the historic Shanghai Tunnels.

Halloween candy isn’t just for kids. Hip Chicks do Wine is bringing back its Halloween Candy and Wine Pairing event Oct 23-25. Costumes are highly encouraged (because wine tastes even better in disguise!) and reservations are recommended to secure your spot. For $30 per person, enjoy five classic Halloween candies paired with six wines.

The Midnight PDX on Belmont, a moody, gothic-tinged rock-and-roll cocktail lounge upstairs with an intimate live music and event basement venue. It’s an easy spot to escape the drizzle and dive into seasonal events.

The Blazers regular season begins Oct 21 against Phoenix at Moda Center. Find their season schedule and catch all the games on RipCity Radio 620

The Portland Book Festival (formerly “Wordstock”) is November 2-8 and features a pretty great lineup of local and national authors.

PUMPKIN PATCHES & CORN MAIZES

Lee Farms Fall Festival in Tualatin is open through Halloween (at which time they switch to Christmas trees) If you go for nothing else but their fresh hot apple cider donuts, it's worth the trip!

Bauman's Harvest Festival goes big with mazes, obstacle courses, rides, farm animals and more family-friendly fun. There's also seasonal drinks and food, including fresh apple cider and apple cider donuts. Parking is free.

Find the fun near you: The family farm that made Hillsboro famous on "Little People, Big World" is Roloff Farms. Plumper Farms on NW Old Cornelius Pass Road, Frog Pond Farm in Wilsonville. Fall has been falling at Liepold Farms in Boring since 1998. Take a ride on the Boo Train at Flower Farmer in Canby. “Pigtucky Derby Pig Races” is the fall event you didn't even know you needed and it's only at French Prairie Gardens in St. Paul. Hoffman Farms has 20 varieties of pumpkins, a 10-acre corn maze, the “Scholls Valley Railroad,” and live music on the weekends. In Aurora at
Fir Point Farms you can visit Hazel’s Nut House, a little wooden hut carpeted with nutshells. In Hood River Packer Orchards have been around for over 100 years, and 10 years ago they added a pumpkin patch, a corn maze, animals and a big hay slide to the party.

Of course Sauvie Island is a great place to visit in the fall with three fun farms featuring all the picture taking, pumpkin picking, animal petting, corn mazes and hayrides you could want. The Maize At The Pumpkin Patch, Bella Organic (who also has a haunted corn maze) and Topaz Farm.

HAUNTED HOUSES

Keeping Portland, free and spooky, local artist Mike Bennett has opened a free, immersive haunted house in Northeast Portland. Dead Media Video Rentals, features famous movie monsters going back to the 30’s through today. It’s a walk-through storyline set inside a fictional video rental store. And the owner says it’s all ages, so just 4 out of 10 on the scary scale.

The Fear PDX is 13 haunted attractions including 5 featured haunted houses in one location at 12219 NE Glisan Street Portland.

Scaregrounds PDX at Oaks Park is an entire Haunted Theme Park. 2 immersive main haunted houses + 5 additional haunted houses (upgraded ticket) + Halloween theme park serving food, drinks, oddities.

The Cinema of Horrors Haunted House in Kelso offers up four haunted houses with movie-quality scares! Just 45 minutes from Portland, located at the Three Rivers Crossing in Kelso, WA

Shanghai Tunnels Underground Tours at the Haunted Merchant Hotel. Named one of the most haunted places in America by Conde Nast, USA Today, Thrillist and Cosmopolitan Magazine. Now with over 14,000 square feet of underground space.

The historic Irvington Peace House has been transformed into Crow Manor, a seasonal haunted house attraction raising money for Doernbecher Children's Hospital.

BEST PLACES TO VIEW FALL FOLIAGE

Portland’s fall color starts popping in October as maples, oaks and dogwoods shift from green to gold, orange and red. Peak timing varies, but the Farmers’ Almanac and Travel Oregon point to mid‑ to late October. In town, late October is usually reliable, with color lasting into early November. Some of our favorites include:

Portland Japanese Garden at Washington Park comes alive this time of year and if you don't take some pictures you'll kick yourself later. The colors are breathtaking.

Speaking of peak picture taking, Cathedral Park is an incredible backdrop in the fall against the St. John's Bridge.

Pittock Mansion. I mean, have you ever been? The sweeping views of this beautiful place we call home, plus the nearby hiking trails through the trees. Magical in the fall!

The living museum that is Hoyt Arboretum. With more species of shrubs and trees than any other arboretum in the country!

STACEY & MIKE'S WATCHLIST

STACEY: War, Slow Horses and American Hostage. American Hostage stars John Hamm and Giovani Ribisi. The show is based on a real 1977 63-hour standoff in Indianapolis, Indiana that is broadcast in real time on the radio so lots of cool old school broadcast equipment.

MIKE: MOBLAND Love Guy Ritchie (even if Madonna no longer does), Tom Hardy and new this season: Johnny Flynn!

From the couch...

Google Trends Top 5 horror flicks:

“Buddy” (Apple TV) - Kids trapped inside a sinister children’s show try to escape its evil unicorn host.
“Other Mommy” (AMC+ / theaters) - Jessica Chastain stars as a mother protecting her daughter from a supernatural entity that looks just like her.
“The Whisper Man” (Netflix) - A widowed father gets pulled into a child-abduction case tied to a notorious serial killer.
“Passenger” (Paramount+) - A couple picks up something demonic after stopping at a gruesome roadside accident.
“Brute 1976” (Amazon Prime) - A group stranded in the desert is hunted by a family of masked killers.

"Saturday Night Live" returns this weekend. "Obsession" star Inde Navarette is the Halloween host with musical guest Gracie Abrams.

Freeform has the 31 Nights of Halloween and AMC has FearFest hosted by the Crypt Keeper.

HBO Max has a curated collection called "Horror Comes Home", and Hulu has Huluween.

The new "Carrie" miniseries is streaming on Prime Video.

Apple TV will steam “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!” for free Oct. 17 and 18. "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" will be free to watch on Nov. 14 and 15, and "A Charlie Brown Christmas" will be free on Dec. 12 and 13. Of course if you have an Apple+ subscription you get to watch them anytime you want.

In theaters...

The number-one film at the box office Halloween could be a documentary. Hollywood forecasters expect the Elizabeth Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything" to make another 20-million dollars this weekend. If you say the Netflix limited series The Dropout starring Amanda Seyfried, this looks pretty interesting. Its strongest competition is last week's hit movie, "Clayface," which is scoring high with fans of the DC Universe.

LAIKA’s love letter to Portland, the stop-motion animated movie Wildwood hits theaters next Friday Oct 23 - a girl is trying to save her brother who was taken by a murder of crows and is now somewhere in Forest park. so many northwest spots are beautifully depicted like the cherry blossoms at Waterfront Park, Forest Park, Powell’s books. Wildwood is based on the 2011 fantasy novel written by Portland musician Colin Meloy (frontman of The Decemberists) and illustrated by his wife Carson Ellis.

The horror movie Other Mommy hits theaters Oct 9. Jessica Chastain plays a nice normal mommy to a little girl but also plays a shape shifting psycho version of her mom. It will be #1 projected to scare up $20 at the box office.

Verity is the thriller based on the Colleen Hoover novel (so good!) starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett. Out Friday Oct. 2

The newest "Street Fighter" movie comes out on the 16th.

The concert film documenting the final Ozzy Osbourne live performance, "Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning", hits theaters October 28th.

You've seen the giant colorful black bird statues all over downtown, October 23rd we'll finally get to see their inspiration on the big screen. LAIKA Studios’ stop-motion animated film Wildwood is a love letter to Portland. Based on the 2011 fantasy novel written by Portland musician Colin Meloy (frontman of The Decemberists) and illustrated by his wife Carson Ellis. Landmarks captured include the St. Johns Bridge, the cherry blossoms at Waterfront Park, Powell's Books, Forest Park, and Pittock Mansion (where the evil witch Alexandra lives!)

For those getting that silly little stirring in their hearts picturing the lights, the music and the wonder of you-know-what season, here's a fun look at what's coming. And ROB LOWE is part of it! And of course that means you-know-who is getting ready to flip the switch to you-know-what! Keep listening to guess the first song and win!

LISTEN to HALLOWEEN RADIO on the free iHeart Radio app all spooky season.