Weekend plans | Halloween suggestions

The Addams Family

Great success during its appearance on Broadway, the musical The Adams family is coming to Montreal these days. With considerable resources – including a cast of 28 performers-dancers and 7 musicians – director René Simard directs a show full of humor and at times very touching. The members of the strange and macabre Addams clan are played by performers in full mastery of their art and whose vocal prowess commands admiration. One of the most enjoyable musicals of recent years.

Until November 5 at the Théâtre St-Denis (then from December 21 to January 7).

Stéphanie Morin, The Press

Illumi in Halloween mode

Witches, monsters and ghosts have invaded Illumi, in Laval. Until October 31, young and old can discover, on foot or by car, the Halloween touch added to the dazzling route made up of 25 million lights. To the music of horror films, they will be able to stroll among the colorful skeletons who have transformed the enchanted forest into a disenchanted forest or even take a photo in front of some 1000 pumpkin lanterns.

Véronique Larocque, The Press

Ghost Train

Ghosts will haunt the Exporail site on Saturday and Sunday. The Canadian Railway Museum called on Fantômes Montréal to bring to life the tragic story of a railway worker from the beginning of the 20th century^e century. The presentations, aimed at young people and adults aged 10 and over, take place aboard a ghost train according to a fixed schedule. The rest of the museum will also be decorated with skeletons, bats, spiders and other friendly Halloween characters. It is best to book online.

Marie Tison, The Press

For horror movie fans

SPASM, Montreal’s unusual short film festival, is celebrating Halloween three times rather than once this year. Horror cinema fans, you are first invited to a quiz to test your knowledge this Thursday. The next day and October 31 will follow the Great Horror Evening during which terrifying short films will be presented. Saturday, time for the Halloween party which will take costumed festival-goers back to the 1990s and 2000s.

The SPASM festival is held at the Plaza Theater until October 31. A package also allows you to listen to short films online.

Véronique Larocque, The Press

Candy harvest on Promenade Masson

This Saturday, it will be Halloween early on Promenade Masson in Montreal. Costumed children are invited to stop at identified businesses to receive treats during the Massonloween event. On the Church Square, two “tunnels of mysteries” will await the brave. In one of them, we will dive into the world of a fortune teller, while in the second, intended for an informed public, we will discover a cabinet of curiosities. Mascots will also be part of the party on the commercial artery in the afternoon. All activities are free.

This Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Promenade Masson, in Montreal

Véronique Laroque, The Press

Stations on reminder

We leave this Halloween special for a moment to talk about this dance show: choreographer Louise Lecavalier is back on the Usine C stage with her solo Stationspresented to a sold-out audience in 2021. Our colleague Luc Boulanger, who saw Stations at its creation, then wrote: “A dance which reflects as much the dark side as the bright side of the human being. And which lets the body express strength and dizziness, surpassing itself and limits, joy and pain. » A great opportunity to (re)see this great performer who has been setting the stages on fire for over 45 years. October 27 and 28 and October 1^er november.

Stéphanie Morin, The Press

At the movie theater : Humanist vampire seeking consenting suicide

“With its ghostly industrial suburb, its retro interiors plunged into darkness and its atypical heroine, a tender cross between the Billie of Slush heart and Wednesday Addams, this first feature film by Ariane Louis-Seize shares family resemblances with the best that has been done in the genre in recent years,” writes our journalist Manon Dumais in her review.