Sun Sentinel Palm Beach Edition

A GHOULISHLY GOOD TIME

- By Phillip Valys Staff writer

Horror houses, pub crawls, moon observance­s and a family scarecrow fest ... we’ve got your haunt.

Makeup-caked monsters, schemers and jokers, Playboy bunnies, people costumed as “fake news,” mongers of fear, peddlers of terror, mothers of dragons and other skimpily clad carousers will open their treat bags on Halloween.

But one day isn’t enough. Not for us.

Wynwood Fear Factory

3 p.m. Saturday -11:59 p.m. Sunday at the RC Cola Plant, 550 NW 24th St., Miami; $55-$165 via Eventbrite.com; WynwoodFea­rFactory.com

This year’s music bill has performanc­es from chart-topping rapper Wiz Khalifa, French producer DJ Snake (Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” album), DJ Porter Robinson, Steve Angello (exSwedish House Mafia) and hip-hop duo Big Gigantic. French DJ Martin Solveig and Miami’s own Cedric Gervais will also perform. Art installati­ons, haunted houses, scare zones, and merchant and food vendors round out the diversions. Costumes are encouraged.

Fright Nights West Palm Beach

6-11 p.m. today and 6 p.m.-midnight Friday and Saturday at South Florida Fairground­s, 9067 Southern Blvd., West Palm Beach; $25, plus $5 parking fee; 561-793-0333 or MyFright Nights.com

This year’s jumble of pop-up haunted houses offers frightenin­gs by occult worshipper­s, Dr. Frankenste­in, serial killers, escaped mental-asylum patients and Kim Kardashian’s hairstylis­t. Only one of those nightmare scenarios is false. The event will also feature midway rides, games, scare zones and carnival food.

Moonfest 2017

8 p.m. Saturday until 1 a.m. Sunday, along Clematis Street in West Palm Beach; $5, $75 for VIP via Ticketfly .com; Moonfest.me

Downtown West Palm Beach’s musicheavy block party will include West Palm Beach rockers Surfer Blood and early-2000s hardcore and electronic­a duo Jackal and Hyde. Other acts include Fort Lauderdale’s Octo Gato, Tchaa, Big Chief and Afrobeta. The festival’s usual 21-and-older revelers can dress up for a $1,000 costume contest and walk through a haunted house.

Enigma Haunt

7-10 p.m. today and Sunday-Tuesday and 7 p.m.-midnight Friday and Saturday, through Tuesday, at 21069 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton; $25-$30, $45 for VIP; 855-994-2868 or Enigma Haunt.com

A horde of snarling, marauding zombies haunt the Everglades after a viral epidemic breaks out in South Florida. Safe camps have been erected to protect unbitten civilians from exposure. This is the scenario that unfolds across 20,000 square feet and three rooms, with 80 actors ready to scare you in the darkness. Mummies, clowns and psycho butchers will provide scares in “Realms of Terror,” another attraction.

Scarecrow Festival and Contest

2-5 p.m. Saturday at Richard and Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum, 300 N. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach; $10; 561-832-4164 or HSPBC.org

Straw anchors this family-friendly festival, whose small-town throwback vibe can be blamed on its bounty of bake sales, pumpkin patches and pie-eating contests. A $300 prize will go to the bestdresse­d scarecrow ($200 for second, $100 for third), and there will be face-painting, corn-shuckin’, arts and crafts and a haystack hunt for Halloween treats.

X Scream Haunted House

7-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday at G-Star School of the Arts, 2030 S. Congress Ave., West Palm Beach; $8-$10 via Eventbrite.com, $10-$13 at the door; XScreamHau­ntedHouse.com

For this event’s unlucky 13th anniversar­y, scary monsters and super creeps will freak out at two themed haunted houses and mazes — “Tale of the Dragon Witch” and “The Void” — which we hear is a cutting satire of the White House. Other diversions include hayrides, live music and food.

Wicked Manors

7-11 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31, along Wilton Drive in Wilton Manors; free; 954-463-9005 or WickedMano­rs.org

The question, “How many Wonder Woman/Joan Crawford/Jessica Jones impersonat­ors will fit on one city block?” may be answered at this block party, this year themed “HeroIcons.” The night of vamping, over-the-top shenanigan­s and barely there costumes and will be emceed by drag performer Miss Misty Eyez (she does a mean Adele cover), along with DJ Laz morning show co-hosts Ms. Bryan and Kimmy B. They’ll judge four costume contests — Kids, Best Group, Best Theme and Most Sex Appeal — and a herothemed “flash mob” will likewise scare the Drive. Proceeds will benefit the city’s Pride Center at Equality Park.

Hutter’s Zombie Crawl West Palm Beach

5:30 p.m. Friday -4 a.m. Saturday at Roxy’s Pub, 309 Clematis St., West Palm Beach; $19 via Wantickets.com; WPBZombieC­rawl.com

More opportunit­ies for the shambling, drunken and zombie will appear on this downtown Clematis crawl, which touts a sweet deal: five drinks from five bars for the cost of one South Beach mojito. Drag a leg to Roxy’s Pub to register, then moan into a pumpkin-beer pint at Banko Cantina, Monarchy Nightclub and Pawn Shop Lounge. The crawl ends on Roxy’s rooftop, where a $1,000 costume contest will be held. A Groupon for the crawl costs $15 for one drinker and $27 for two.

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