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Devil’s night out
A ghoulish guide to Halloween
BY NINA MACLAUGHLIN

For the first year in recent memory, we don’t have SpookyWorld to kick around anymore. Where else could you find (over the years) Tiny Tim, Alice Cooper, Elvira, and the dude who played Jason in Friday the 13th VI all in one place? There’s still a whole lot of haunting going on, but while you’re making the rounds of spooky hayrides, horror-rock shows, and fright-film fests, spill a little blood out of the goblet for the dearly departed original.

The spirit of SpookyWorld survives in the Trail of Terror and other attractions at FrightFest, which runs the next two weekends at Six Flags in Agawam ($25-$40; 413-786-9300). Witch’s Woods pitches its peaked hats at Nashoba Valley Ski Area, on Power Road in Westford ($20; 978-692-3033). Hammond Castle’s annual "Castle of the Damned" skips the jump-and-scare routine for subtler, psychological thrills; it’s up Friday and Saturday nights through October 30 at 80 Hesperus Avenue in Gloucester ($10; 781-853-0583). This Saturday and Sunday, the folks at Theater in the Open present a trail’s worth of scary skits and scenes in "Maudslay Is Haunted," in Maudslay State Park, 1 Curzon Mill Road in Newburyport ($5; 978-465-2572). And Salem’s sprawling "Festival of the Dead" opens this Friday, October 22, and runs through Halloween. For the complete performance schedule, see www.festivalofthedead.com.

With Halloween falling on a Sunday, there are more music gigs than we can count, but a few special ones stand out. Dresden Dolls throw a costume party on October 30 at Avalon, 15 Lansdowne Street in Boston, with their British doppelgänger the Tiger Lillies, a theatrical group who once collaborated with the late Edward Gorey ($15.25; 617-931-2000). On Halloween, JAM’N 94.5’s Monster Jam brings Young Buck, Jadakiss, Fabolous, and Trick Daddy to the FleetCenter ($55-$94; 617-931-2000). Big D & the Kids Table play their annual Halloween-night gig at Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street, with Kicked in the Head and Lost City Angels ($15; 617-931-2000). The Roxy, 279 Tremont Street in the Theater District, hosts Particle with guests John Popper and Rob Wasserman. And the Boston Landmarks Orchestra unearths the classical canon’s creepiest works for a Halloween show at Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street in Boston (free; 617-520-2202).

For clubgoers, Halloween night offers up plenty of role playing. At the Pill’s Halloween Show at the Middle East, 480 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square, the Information are performing as Depeche Mode, the Cignal as Primal Scream, the Bon Savants as Pulp, and Emergency Music do Blur ($10; 617-864-EAST). Next door at ZuZu, 474 Massachusetts Avenue, Big Digits join the electro-erotic mutant-disco outfit Heloise and the Savoir Faire Dancers ($5; 617-492-5162, extension 237). At Zeitgeist Gallery, 1353 Cambridge Street in Inman Square, the "Festival of Jewish Music on Halloween" features something called the Rocky Hora Dybbuk Orchestra plus Khevre, Jumbo Knish Factory, and Smackin’ the Brass ($15, $10 for students; 617-876-6060).

The Museum of Fine Arts screens what may well be the original horror flick on October 28 as Boston Pops pianist Bob Winter provides a live soundtrack to the 1919 silent Unheimliche Geschichten/Eerie Stories. That’s 465 Huntington Avenue in Boston ($8; 617-369-3306). Starting at midnight on October 30, the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street in Brookline, hosts its annual 13-hour Horror Movie Marathon ($20; 617-734-2500). And Bruce Campbell battles undead enemies in Evil Dead 2 at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street in Harvard Square, on Halloween night.

Mexico’s Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, follows Halloween, but on October 29, the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center presents a guide to the holiday with performances, workshops, altars, and sugar-skull decorating. That’s 41 Second Street, in Cambridge ($12, $6 for kids; 617-577-1400, extension 10). Then for an actual Day of the Dead celebration, you can go to Forest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Avenue in Jamaica Plain, on November 2 (free; 617-524-0128).


Issue Date: October 22 - 28, 2004
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