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11 Halloween events in Philly to keep your weekend spooky

Henri David's Halloween soiree returns.
Henri David's Halloween soiree returns.Read moreMike Lynch

Halloween may be on a Monday this year, but the weekend is full of enough events for those looking for glamour, gore, and frights to keep you up at night.

» READ MORE: Nosferatu

9:30 p.m. Friday, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St. $30, 215-893-1999

» READ MORE: The Haunting of Poe: A Burlesque Masquerade

7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday, Franky Bradley's, 1320 Chancellor St.,$15-20. 

» READ MORE: Henri David's Halloween Ball

9 p.m. Sunday, Sheraton City Center, $25 in costume, $60 for voyeurs. 215-732-7711

» READ MORE: The Birds at Curio Theatre Company 

8 p.m. through Saturday, Curio Theatre Company at Calvary Center for Culture and Community, 4740 Baltimore Avenue, $15-$25. 215-525-1350.

This isn't a screening of the squawk-and-peck Hitchcock classic, but the mad tale of its source material: Daphne du Maurier's short story, about the desperate collapse of society, adapted by Irish playwright Conor McPherson. With touches of The Night of the Living Dead in its paranoid telling of a couple's taking shelter from mass migration, this 1952 story is still creepy.

» READ MORE: Fright Factory 

7:30 p.m. through Sunday, 38 Jackson St. $13-$28.

The Travel Channel named the South Philly Fright Factory one of the "Scariest Haunts in America," with its denizens bloodily dolled-up and menacing. It's 25,000 square feet of terror, all taking place in an old house on Jackson Street. The only time South Philly is scarier is when the Eagles lose.

» READ MORE: The B-52s

8 p.m. Sunday, The Fillmore, 29 E. Allen St. $50.

» READ MORE: Black Magic Bash

7-10 p.m. Saturday, Watkins Street Warehouse, 1003 Watkins St., $50 adults, $35 Philadelphia Magic Garden Members, 215-733-0390.

Head down to South Philly to artist Isaiah Zagar's Watkins Street Warehouse for an arty Halloween party. The West Philadelphia Orchestra will provide the bumping soundtrack, while the much-lauded South Philly Barbacoa is on top of the food (tix include food and drink). Costumes are required, but get creative: You don't want to be overshadowed by the surroundings.

» READ MORE: Frankenstein: Modern Prometheus

7 p.m. Friday, 4 & 7 p.m. Saturday, 1 & 4 p.m. Sunday, Canal Studio Theatre, 243 N. Union St., Lambertville. $37 -$39 advance, $40-$42 at the door. 609-397-7616.

No, we didn't know that Mary Shelley's monster or his doctor could dance. Roxey Ballet calls this a futurisitic adaptation of Shelley's horror classic.  Roxey is familiar with horror adaptation: Dracula is usually the subject of the ballet company's Halloween show.

» READ MORE: Making Time's Pure Halloween

9 p.m. Saturday, 714 Girard Ave. $15-$20. 

The Philly DJ collective's hipster holiday soirees are always cute, but this one features a live set from S U R V I V E, the electronic ensemble responsible for the '80s retro score to Netflix's spooky Stranger Things. Whoa. German DJ Boys Noize rounds out the bill.

» READ MORE: Pennhurst Asylum

6:30-10:30 through Sunday, 100 Commonwealth Dr., Spring City. $16-$78. 855-HAUNT-00.

Suburbia's answer to Fairmount's famous Terror Behind Prison Walls is a former psychiatric hospital turned horror show. There're three attractions in one here: the Asylum, Terror Tunnel, and Dungeon of Lost Souls. It's evil in action -- and worth the drive to Chester County.