TODAY – SATURDAY

Zombie shootouts and house that comes alive

Take your potshots at the lumbering undead at "General Savage’s Zombie Paintball," one of two attractions presented in a Kakaako warehouse by Scream808.

The facility will have a paintball shooting gallery where you can fulfill your "Walking Dead" fantasy.

"You’ll shoot live zombies," said Doug Farrar of Scream808. "You can have six guys shooting, maybe a few more. They’ll shoot the zombies, not each other."

Visitors can also take in Farrar’s haunted house attraction, "The Revenge of Dr. Carnage." Last Halloween Farrar ran a haunted house based on a psychiatrist who went insane studying the brains of executed criminals. This year he’s following up with a sequel that will send visitors through a maze of horrors.

"You’re going to enter his lair, like his workshop, and it’s just real gory back there. Body parts everywhere," Farrar said.

While the interior will be filled with dead bodies, the house itself might seem to be alive. "We’ll have moving roofs, moving floors. You’ll go through a big tunnel, and your equilibrium will get thrown off and you think you’re going to fall over. We got some big props here, and you’ll really feel it."

Farrar is keeping his attraction open an extra night, after Halloween. Sunday night will be a "blackout" event. Visitors will carry glow sticks, but the lights will be turned off.

Where: 445 Cooke St.

When: 7 p.m.-closing, 11 p.m-1 a.m.

Cost: $15-$20

Info: scream808.com

Events promise nightmare journeys through a haunted plantation

As if one nightmare isn’t enough, Dole Plantation will offer two to ensure you have a good night of fright. 

"Nightmare at Dole Plantation" is a haunted house under a huge tent, said Kevin Okada of Nightmares Live, producer of the show. "It will have everything that you might have nightmares about … clowns, werewolves, vampires. It’s longer, bigger and scarier than any previous year we’ve done it." 

Okada goes to the mainland to buy unique items and custom-orders others, including an "evil tiki" that was made for the Travel Channel reality show "Making Monsters." "We wanted it to talk to customers, we wanted it to breathe smoke," he said. "We can program this thing to say anything we want." 

Dole Plantation will also offer the "Nightmare Express," a train ride through the grounds with ghostly narration by storyteller Lopaka Kapanui. 

"The thing about Dole Plantation, and Kapanui confirmed it, is Dole Plantation is haunted because the land hasn’t been touched for so many years," Okada said. "Nothing has been built on top of the pineapple fields. On a good night you can actually see something. The first year we did it, we put actors out there to scare people, and the actors got so scared because things were happening to them!" 

This year there will be no actors in the fields, but Okada expects some angry ghosts to be out there. "The spirits aren’t used to this train operating at night," he said. 

Where: Dole Plantation, 64-1550 Kamehameha Highway, Wahiawa 

When: 7-11 p.m. 

Cost: House of Nightmares, $13; Nightmare Express, $10 

Info: doleplantation.com 

Haunted village promises terror unique to isles 

It doesn’t take much to make Hawaii’s Plantation Village spooky. The village consists of restored plantation buildings and replicas, and some say the spirits of the deceased plantation workers reside there. 

"Our slogan is, ‘We don’t build haunted houses, ours are actually haunted,’" said Noah Latorga of Hawaii’s Plantation Village, adding that both the SyFy and the Travel Channel have sent ghost-hunting television crews to the village to film ghosts. 

Latorga said the facility has trouble retaining employees because they get spooked. "They get touched, and there’s a choking spirit in one of the Okinawan houses, where sometimes they feel pressure on their neck," he said. "People see apparitions of a little girl at the Portuguese house. … A lot of the tourists who come, they experience the supernatural stuff even though they don’t know the stories."

For Halloween , he’s managed to scare up about 50 people to act as spirits and monsters to spook visitors. But you may not be able to tell who’s an actor and who’s a real ghost. "It happens quite often where we’ve had people say that was a really scary part, when we don’t have actors in certain areas," Latorga said. 

Be prepared for a cultural experience as well as a scary one. "Hawaii was a pretty interesting place where all the different cultures got together and worked on the plantations. They all brought their own superstitions and made Hawaii a superstitious place," Latorga said. "A lot of our characters are based on Hawaii’s superstitions." 

Where: Hawaii’s Plantation Village, 94-695 Waipahu St., Waipahu 

When: 7-11 p.m. 

Cost: $15-$20 

Fear you can feel at a haunted circus 

Get ready to freak out at the "Circus of the Dead," a haunted house with a backstory from the big top. 

"It was a haunted circus and it was abandoned," said Laurinda Titus-Luciano of ScareHawaii, the creator of the attraction. "It has clowns and a snake man and many of the type of creatures that would inhabit an abandoned circus. 

"We have 29 elements of fear, we have five different phobias, we have startle effects that will make you cringe, and really gruesome scenes," she added. 

Titus-Luciano herself gets in on the fun, playing a former beauty queen who’s gone off her rocker. "I have long, long, long blond hair that goes to my calves," she said, speaking of her actual hair. "My face is like a skeleton, and my hair is all down and around it. I come out of nowhere and because I have the hair, I use my hair to kind of give them a visual scare. But also, my hair will touch them from time to time because my hair is so long. It trips them out because there’s a strobe light going. … I change from being very nice to something very vicious." 

The "Circus of the Dead" will have some other touchy-feely-creepy things too, like compressed-air-propelled spiders flying at you and ankle ticklers to give your hamstrings the heebie-jeebies. 

"This is not a haunted house that you look at," she said. "It’s a haunted house that you feel." 

Where: Pearlridge Center Uptown, located next to First Hawaiian Bank. 

When: 7 p.m.-midnight 

Cost: $15-$25 

Info: scarehawaii.com or 330-1600. 

Info: hawaiihauntedplantation.com.