With these excursion ideas for young and old we immerse ourselves in the dark atmosphere of Halloween.
Published at 11:45 am.
The Addams Family
The musical “The Adams Family,” which was a huge hit during its Broadway run, is coming to Montreal these days. With considerable resources – including a cast of 28 actors-dancers and 7 musicians – director René Simard stages a show full of humor and sometimes very touching. The members of the strange and macabre Addams clan are played by artists who have mastered their craft and whose vocal abilities inspire admiration. One of the most enjoyable musicals of recent years.
Until November 5th at the Théâtre St-Denis (then from December 21st to January 7th).
Stephanie Morin, La Presse
Illumi in Halloween mode
PHOTO SARAH MONGEAU-BIRKETT, LA PRESSE ARCHIVE
Illumi
Witches, monsters and ghosts have invaded Illumi in Laval. Until October 31st, young and old can discover the Halloween touch on foot or by car along the dazzling route of 25 million lights. To the music of horror films, they can walk among the colorful skeletons that have turned the enchanted forest into a disillusioned forest, or even take a photo in front of around 1,000 jack-o-lanterns.
Véronique Larocque, La Presse
Ghost train
PHOTO PROVIDED BY EXPORAIL
A scary story at Exporail
Ghosts will haunt the Exporail site on Saturday and Sunday. The Canadian Railway Museum commissioned Fantômes Montréal to bring to life the tragic story of a railway worker at the beginning of the 20th century. The lectures, which are aimed at young people and adults aged 10 and over, take place in 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’s best to book online.
Marie Tison, La Presse
For horror film fans
PHOTO JULIEN HÉLIE PHOTOGRAPHER, PROVIDED BY SPASM FESTIVAL
The SPASM festival takes place at the Plaza Theater and online.
SPASM, Montreal’s unusual short film festival, is celebrating Halloween three times this year instead of just once. Horror cinema fans, you are invited to a quiz this Thursday to test your knowledge. The next day and on October 31st is the Great Horror Evening, where frightening short films are presented. The Halloween party takes place on Saturday and takes costumed festival-goers back to the 1990s and 2000s.
The SPASM festival takes place at the Plaza Theater until October 31st. A package also allows you to listen to short films online.
Véronique Larocque, La Presse
Candy harvest on the Masson promenade
PHOTO PROVIDED BY PROMENADE MASSON
It’s Halloween early this Saturday on Montreal’s Promenade Masson. Costumed children are invited to stop by select stores for treats during the Massonloween event. Two “Tunnels of Secrets” await the brave ones on the church square. In one of them we immerse ourselves in the world of a fortune teller, while in the second, intended for an informed audience, we discover a cabinet of curiosities. Mascots will also be present on the shopping street in the afternoon. All activities are free.
This Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Promenade Masson in Montreal
Véronique Laroque, La Presse
Abseiling stations
PHOTO ANDRÉ CORNELLIER PROVIDED BY FACTORY C
Louise Lecavalier is back with her solo exhibition Stations.
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 “Stations”, which will be presented to a sold-out audience in 2021. Our colleague Luc Boulanger, who saw “Stations Creation,” then wrote: “A dance that reflects both the dark and the light side of man.” And that brings the body to strength and dizziness, self-transcendence and limits, joy and pain can be expressed. » A great opportunity to see (again) this great artist who has been setting stages on fire for over 45 years. October 27th and 28th and November 1st.
Stephanie Morin, La Presse
In the cinema: Humanistic vampire seeks consensual suicide
“With its spooky industrial suburbia, its retro-dark interiors, and its atypical heroine, a delicate cross between Billie from Cœur de Slush and Wednesday Addams, Ariane Louis-Seize’s first feature bears familial resemblances to the best the genre has has changed in recent years,” writes our journalist Manon Dumais in her review.