House of Torment
Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group’s House of Torment will open for the season on Friday the 13th. This year’s haunted house will introduce three new themes: The Arrival, Torment '99 and The Abandoned. Additional attractions include mini escape games, axe throwing, a zombie simulation and a secret bar. This event may be too intense for children 12 years of age and under, according to the House of Torment website.
- Sept. 13-Nov. 9, 7 p.m.
- Tickets start at $19
- 2632 Ridgepoint Drive, Austin
- www.houseoftorment.com
Hotel Van Zandt will bring back this event for a second year with flash tattoos by Tiny Tats ATX, tarot readings by Mak Jagger and tequila poured by Tequila 512. A tattoo can also give guests a free cocktail at Brass Poppy, Hotel Van Zandt’s new first-floor cocktail bar and lounge.
- Sept. 13, 4-8 p.m.
- Free (admission)
- 605 Davis St., Austin
- www.hotelvanzandt.com/events/tattoos-tarot-tequila
Alamo Drafthouse’s Cinema Village, Lakeline and Slaughter Lane locations will host a screening of the 1986 movie "Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives." The Lakeline location will also host Vorhees a Jolly Good Fellow, a “Friday the 13th” talk-comedy show from the hosts of Alamo Drafthouse’s Master Pancake Theater.
- Sept. 13, showtimes vary
- $12.75 (tickets)
- 2700 W. Anderson Lane; 14028 Hwy. 183, Bldg. F; 5701 W. Slaughter Lane, Ste. F
- www.drafthouse.com
Rockabilly Brewing in Hutto will host an emo music night with on-site tattoo artists. Enjoy an evening of music with tattoos and merch from local tattoo parlor East Street Tattoo.
- Sept. 13, noon (tattoos) 6 p.m. (music)
- Tattoos start at $30
- 1133 CR 137, Hutto
- Facebook: Rockabilly Brewing
This Friday the 13th will mark opening weekend for the Bastrop Opera House’s production of "Young Frankenstein." The show, adapted from actor and director Mel Brooks’ 1974 film of the same name, follows Frederick Frankenstein, the grandson of the original mad scientist Victor Frankenstein, and the inheritance of his family’s Transylvanian estate.
- Sept. 13-29, 7:30 p.m. (Fridays and Saturdays); 2:30 p.m. (Sundays)
- $30 (tickets)
- 711 Spring St., Bastrop
- www.bastropoperahouse.org
San Marcos’ gothic cafe and boutique will have all-day free admission to its on-site museum, the Parapeculiar Museum of Haunted Items, a lecture with the museum’s curators, an artisan night market, psychic readings and a limited-time drink.
- Sept. 13, 6 p.m. (artisan market)
- Free (admission)
- 329 Cheatham St., San Marcos
- Facebook: Triple Six Social
