by LORRAINE CARPENTER

Get ready, get set, and get gross for Halloween week, where there’s all manner of tom-ghoulery for goths, gays, giggers, rave kids, real kids, medieval revellers and theatre-goers.

Never one to be outdone, the fearsome Foufounes Électriques is staging a six-day bash this Halloween, beginning with the Creeping Living Dead party on Sunday, Oct. 27 (9 p.m., $8). This all-hallowed edition of the Replikant/Elysium goth-industrial night features glam-punk act Evil Boys From Hell, DJs Uriel, Vulcain, Kaotik, Mr. Black and Drizztkun, listening sessions for new albums by Funker Vogt and Assemblage 23, and $400 in costume prizes. For all Foufs frights, visit www.foufounes.qc.ca.

Be afraid of the Darkwave Nights when this terrifying team unfolds the fourth annual Buried Alive at Saphir on Friday, Nov. 1. Wear your wickedest digs as you watch local batcave rockers Bordello, along with spidery sounds by DJs Mr. Black and Uriel.

From the goth tip to the goth whip, it’s the Fetish Masquerade at the Funhouse Lounge on Saturday, Oct. 26 (10 p.m., $8), featuring a BDSM performance by Ronald & Danielle and goth-friendly, electro-fied sounds by DJ Zilon, while Cream Night Club holds their annual, Il Bolero-sponsored Masquerade 2002 simultaneously.

Tired of sexual excess? Go innocent at Café Campus on Thursday, Oct.31 (10 p.m., $5), where childhood heroes are the theme, from Superman to Passepartout to Pikachu. Enter the costume contest while DJ Niko spins a scary smorgasbord of morbid music. Bring your request wish list, but there’ll be no sitting on laps, kids.

Tell me about your childhood. Do you need large doses of garage, deep house and Afro Latin rhythms to get your head together? Let Jojo Flores administer the cure at Jello Bar’s Therapy on Thursday, Oct. 31. This counselling is cheap, $5 to $8, and the bearer of best costume goes home $200 richer.

For tropical treats and Guyanese ghoulishness, drop into the 10th annual Touloulou Ball at Club Balattou on Thursday, Oct. 31 (9 p.m., $5, free for costumed ladies). Women ask men to dance, and don’t take no for an answer, and three “Touloulou” ladies will be chosen based on their costumes, the number of men they’ve acquired and their ability to maintain anonymity. Hot mama!

Are you easily scared? Take refuge at God’s place, where the pretty get props. Hyped by the Web site of the same name, the Do You Look Good party happens at the St-Denis/Viger church on Friday, Nov. 1 at 10 p.m. Dare to dance to the unholy sounds of DJs Scary Skeptik, Haunted Damage, Evil Drum and Creepy Japaï. The best costume wins a “trip south.” To hell?

Creeps for queers (and their frightful friends)

There’s wicked wildlife at Unity II on Thursday, Oct. 31, where everything’s $3 and everybody knows you’re game. See hostess Sheena Hershey, Queen of the Jungle at la Nuit Des Cannibales, featuring the succulent sounds of DJ Stefane Lippe. Cover your finger-lickin’ flesh with any old costume or, if you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em in a cannibal costume. Prizes provided, but BYO-utensils.

For more evil in the village, Cabaret Mado celebrates Madoween on Tuesday, Oct. 29 (10 p.m., $3), featuring DJ Marc Laflamme, special prizes and the horror hostess herself, Mado. Meanwhile, Magnolia goes ghostly on Saturday, Nov. 2 (10 p.m., $5) with DJ Maryse and $300 for best-dressed dyke.

For a new Village alternative, Sputnik gets spooky on Saturday, Nov. 2 (10 p.m., $3), with a show by Plastik Patrik & Kiki Lee. Later, Patrik takes the tables with DJ Tök while la Maison Hantée’s Danielle Hubbard and Louis Guillemette lurk and linger all night long. Also spinning evil electro and ghastly glam, DJ Frigid will put fear in your feet at le Parking on Thursday, Oct. 31, celebrating one year of chilly “tchunes” with the decadent Double Overdose, where everything’s $2.25.

For a daring drag king extravaganza, hiss at the moon on Saturday, Nov. 2, when Halloween Meow Mix curls up at la Sala Rossa (9:30 p.m., $7). Tonja Livingston and friends perform for “bent girls and their buddies,” while DJs Mim and Gaylord spin the night away.

They live!

Crawl into Café Chaos on Thursday, Oct. 31, when WD-40 haunt the house with their homage to the Misfits. This B-horror party also features Sexie the Dominatrix, DJ Gore and $10 pitchers after 10 p.m., so come one, come all, and drink with the damned (9 p.m., $5, $4 with costume, free after the show). On Friday, Nov. 1, Chaos offers the same salacious beer deal with Gutter Demons and Crankenstein live (9 p.m., $5), and an otherwise fiendishly free party with DJ Stomp.

Gothic, medieval and metallic music is yours at the Zest on Saturday, Nov. 2, when Howling Syn, Liva and Moonlyght terrorize with a triple album launch (7 p.m., $10). Costumes and horned hands are encouraged, and more info can be culled at 252-7007.

For raucous, rancid rock ’n’ roll, see Chicoutimi’s les Mustangs and local wretches the Wrongdoers and Scat Rag Boosters at Casa del Popolo on Thursday, Oct. 31, 9 p.m., $5. Get yer rockabilly raunch at Murphy’s Pub on Saturday, Oct. 26 with Rock ’n’ Roll Resurrection, an evening of hellraising Halloween hijinks with Bloodshot Bill, the Alley Dukes and the Brains (9 p.m., $5). Costume and door prizes include gift certificates for tattoos, threads and music, so let’s have a party, gals and greasers.

L’Alizé hosts Halloween on Thursday, Oct. 31 (9 p.m., $6) with morbid music by Perséphone, Muse des Hommes and les Zinnomables. The Spectrum dishes diseased techno with the Virus Tour on Saturday, Oct. 26 (8:30 p.m., $25), featuring DJs Lab 4, Mick Beatle, Lou Cypher Project and KPS 1000, an all-ages show with no vaccine.

Are you a strange animal? Gun for Gowan at SAT’s Animal Halloween on Thursday, Oct. 31, with live sets by Stamba and Alice and the Serial Numbers and spun sounds by DJs Pfreud and Philgood. Beastly costumes are mandatory, so don faux-furs and don’t forget your $10–$15 (presale at Centre Records).

Rave robbin’

For quasi-legal horror among the hordes, Jubokxe Productions presents Pumpkinz on Saturday, Oct. 26. Check the infoline, (418) 821-6474, or www.ravezone.qc.ca for details.

The bare-assed, broadsword-toting babe on the flyer for Sona’s Freaky isn’t just some 12 year old’s stunted D&D jackoff fantasy (although you young lads will want to seek this one out). The Demon Warrior Princess herself will be present, no doubt hacking and slashing imperiously amid the D&D-themed décor, alongside DJs Joey Beltram, Angel Alanis and Rectangle, on Friday, Oct. 25. On Saturday, Oct. 26, the scary sounds continue with Low End Specialists, Eddie Ammador and the Triple Tek Sound Crew, staying live on six turntables (plus, the warrior lady will still be lurking around, looking for orcs and stuff). The bar is ajar ’til 2 a.m. and a weekend pass will set you back 30 bones.

Exit holds their Halloween Bash on Thursday, Oct. 31, with a surprise DJ and $300 for best costume, while Aria’s Special Halloween Weekend promises Luke Slater on Friday, Nov. 1, and Steve Lawler on Saturday, Nov. 2.

Another flesh feast hits Wave ([450] 671-0481) on Friday, Nov. 1, with the Halloween Cannibal Party, offering over $2,000 in prizes, while Laval’s Red Lite afterhours gets witchy all weekend long, from Friday, Nov. 1, to Sunday, Nov. 3, with resident DJs and costume prizes, $10–$20.

Still fearsome after five years, Ray Junior’s Gloom takes place at Chateau Medieval Sire Howard on Saturday, Nov. 2. This crazed costume ball features DJs Manu Le Malin, Laurent Hô and Tonio from Paris, Montrealers Mateo Murphy, Mad, and J-Flash, and Ottawa’s Hashek over 12 terrifying hours, all for $35–$40. Dig for details at (450) 625-7000, or www.rayjunior.com.

Stage frights and other delights

Trotting out the time warp again, the classic Halloween horror of Rocky Horror Picture Show hits the Rialto, Oct. 31 through Nov. 2. The “multimedia” shows happen nightly at 9 p.m. and midnight, with the lovely Plastik Patrik taking on MC duties for the weekend gigs. That’s $11.95–$13.95, Frankenfriends.

For more scary celluloid, see the Spasm Festival at Club Soda on Friday, Nov. 1 (9 p.m., $12), offering frightful, amateur horror shorts.

Party with the dead at La Fête des Morts, a festive, poetic, Mexican-inspired theatrical experience running nightly through Nov. 3 (8 p.m., $20). You’ll be driven out to an unspecified graveyard for this highly anticipated, allegedly non-macabre play, conceived by Céline Bonnier and Nathalie Claude, so make reservations at 527-7240 and don’t forget to dress warmly (and look lively).

Spend Halloween in King Arthur’s court with Samonios, a medieval soirée at Chateau Mont-Royal on Saturday, Oct. 26 (9 p.m., $35 at Admissions outlets). A winner among costumed lords, ladies, knights and peasants wins a trip to Cuba, so suit up and revel with acrobats, swashbucklers, dancers, fire eaters, live graf-art, puppets and DJ Kevin Kast’s funk, soul, house and tribal tunes. •

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