Each Halloween, thousands of clowns, monsters and superheroes descend on Filante Street in Sydney's north-west.
It's usually a quiet suburban street, but at this time of the year it looks more like the set of a horror movie.
Skeletons adorn the lawns, ghouls patrol the streets on bikes and throngs of trick-or-treaters go door to door, looking for lollies and chocolates.
Filante Street, in Kellyville Ridge, started being an unofficial Halloween spot eight years ago, when they had about 200 visitors. This year, street organisers say that number could top 6,000.
So, what's it like to go from living on a quiet suburban street to being the life of the Halloween party overnight?
How a suburban street became a Halloween hotspot
Filante Street is known for its Christmas decorations, and parents already walked their children up and down the street on Halloween to go trick-or-treating.
A few parents, including Natalie Heckmann, helped organise a Halloween event eight years ago.
"We always used to have, like, a Christmas sort of celebration, just the street party. So we just sort of started doing a Halloween one as well," Ms Heckmann says.
"Because we knew each other in the street, everyone was happy to decorate … It became a real community thing."
Ms Heckmann put flyers in letterboxes and had her kids tell their friends at school. She also created a Facebook page, which helped people find out about the street's Halloween activities (as well as other events in the area). Now, the group has 5,000 members.
Each year, there are more visitors than the year before, and there's no signs of the growth slowing anytime soon.
Families spend hundreds on lollies but still run out
When your street draws thousands of visitors for Halloween, the logistics can be tricky.
Andrea Hilton-Furey, who lives on the street, says some households spent $400 on treats last year and still ran out.
"We didn't expect it to be as busy, because it was a Monday night," Ms Hilton-Furey says.
This year, Ms Hilton-Furey has asked the community to donate lollies and chocolates to help cater for the crowds that turn up in their street. The response has been "very positive" and there have been hundreds of donations.
"We got a lot of support from the … community," Ms Hilton-Funey says.
"A lot of the smaller businesses [also] donated."
Halloween etiquette on Filante Street
As well as the Facebook group, Ms Heckmann organises a map showing where all the houses with spooky decorations are in the area.
While the whole street feels like a party, houses have the right not to celebrate Halloween or decorate.
Ms Heckmann says trick-or-treaters are generally guided by adults and know not to knock on undecorated homes.
"Kids know or the parents know, to tell the kids not to knock on those doors if they aren't decorated," she says.
Halloween-themed motorbikes are a key attraction
Eddie Gile adds character to the local Halloween spirit every year, riding his motorbike while in costume and dropping "rev bombs" for the kids, who scream and laugh at the sight.
It began 12 years ago when he decided to entertain the local trick-or-treaters, then he was asked by local parents to keep coming back. Now he's a regular fixture around The Ponds, Kellyville Ridge and Stanhope Gardens.
He rides around with five mates, stopping at five locations including Filante Street to put on a show and hand out lollies.
"On the day, you see everyone just … going crazy," Mr Gile says.
"They hear the motorbikes coming, you see them running towards the kerb, jumping up and down.
"We [have] to get off the motorbikes to do photos with lot of the participants. It was fantastic."
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