Thurs. Nov. 2

Some ideas seem so obvious once someone points them out to you. Like Lez Zeppelin: an all-female, New York-based quartet playing the songs of the most macho of macho bands - well, some of the time - Led Zeppelin. There are those who think this is the ultimate male fantasy - never mind the Suicide Girls. Brooke Gengras, who takes the stage as Roberta Plant, says, "It's funny and it's a schtick that it's an all-girl band, but really we just truly love Led Zeppelin." You can check 'em out at lezzeppelin.com or go to the Middle East Downstairs Thursday Nov. 2, where they're playing with the opener, Bad Jamie. Show starts at 9. Tickets: $20.

472 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 617-864-3278 mideastclub.com

ongoing until oct 31 

Cemeteries: They're not just for the dead and flesh-eating zombies anymore. If you're like us, you grew up with more than slight fear of what might lurk amidst the gravestones, and watching George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead'' didn't help. Neither did camping out in a friend's yard whose family lived across from the local cemetery. (That friend was buried there after an auto accident.)

Oct. 13 - 31 (weekends)

 I was a krazed klown once with the Insane Clown Posse. Really. It was four years ago. They were the celebrity crazies at Spooky World down in Foxborough, but I got to dress up with the other SW "actors" in a puffy clown suit and lurk in the bones and gore, while fondling a dismembered fake foot. "Foot fetish," was my best line. I would growl it to an inquisitive visitor. Spooky World world, owned by Dave Bertolino, went down after 2003, but John Denley of Boneyard Productions bought it from Bertolino and launched it this year at Bayside Expo Center. He's got three huge (4000 square-feet) haunted houses in there as well as three other main attractions and various B-level celebs showing up to do the meet-and-greet on various weekends. (Wrestler Kane is there Oct. 28, 4-6 p.m., and Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster) and R.A. Mihailoff (the original Leatherface) are slated, too. Denley's also got a tag the kids can wear - a zombie protective device so the wandering psychos stay away. There's also a guarantee the patrolling monsters will not touch anyone. Call this Spooky World a PG experience. Bertolino went opening weekend and raved about a house called "The Experiment" - "a very cool haunted house with high energy. That made the event, with the jump-and-scare stuff. He's got great staffing. I enjoyed it and my son thought it was great." Tickets: $24.50 (adult).

Columbia Point, South Boston, 800-697-3287 spookyworld.com

Oct.  31

I was a krazed klown once with the Insane Clown Posse. Really. It was four years ago. They were the celebrity crazies in a cage down at Spooky World down in Foxborough, but I got to dress up with the other SW "actors" in a puffy clown suit roam the cavern or lurk in the bones and gore, while fondling a dismembered fake foot. "Foot fetish," was my best line. I would growl it to an inquisitive visitor. One year, we got to hang with Alice Cooper. Spooky World, owned by Dave Bertolino, went down after 2003, but John Denley of Boneyard Productions acquired the franchise from Bertolino and launched it this year at Bayside Expo. Now, is it really as horrifying next to Morrissey Blvd. as it was "deep in the Foxborough Woods," as they used to put it? Isn't outside inherently more terrifying than inside? Yeah, maybe. But Denley's got three huge (4000 square-feet) haunted houses in there as well as three other main attractions and various C-level celebs showing up to do the meet-and-greet on various weekends. Wrestler Kane is there Oct. 28, 4-6 p.m., and Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster) and R.A. Mihailoff (the original Leatherface) are slated, too. Check website for details.Denley's also got a tag the kids can wear - a zombie protective badge,so the wandering psychos stay away. There's also a guarantee the patrolling monsters will not touch anyone. Call this Spooky World a PG-rated experience. Bertolino went opening weekend and raved about a house called "The Experiment" - "a very cool haunted house with high energy. That made the event, with the jump-and-scare stuff. He's got great staffing. I enjoyed it and my son thought it was great." Tickets: $24.50 (adult). Kids cheaper, and there are discount coupons out and about everywhere. Check for hours of operation; they're open some afternoons as well as evenings.

Columbia Point, South Boston, 800-697-3287 spookyworld.com

Oct 27.-29,31

The Coolidge Corner Theatre lives for holidays like Halloween. The theatre doesn't need much of an excuse to go bananas for some off-the-wall festival or event, but Halloween is right in their wheelhouse. On Friday, the 2th, there's the midnight "Boy Band Sing-A-Long" meaning aging teens can along to tracks by the New Kids, N'Sync, the Backstreet Boys and more. But you'll get history, too: Programmer Henri of Austin's Alamo Drafhouse went back to the vaults for the Jackson 5 and Menudo, too. The next night, you do the same to "Hedwig & the Angry Inch" and they'll be giving a way a real piece of the Berlin Wall to the most Hedwigged out customer. Also on Saturday, the Halloween Marathon kicks up: 13 hours of terror and gore, running until noon Sunday. It starts with our call as the most realistic and frightening movie ever - Wes Craven's "Last House on the Left" - shot in cinema verite style and featuring the most realistic psycho killers the screen has seen. (Shot on a low budget, before Craven went mainstream.) Makes you gasp and squirm. Watch for what the killers make the trapped hippie girls do. Yeech! Watch how the revenge happens. Double yeech! Also: "Equinox," "Night of the Comet," "Vampire Circus," "The Gate" and "Near Dark." On Tuesday at 8 p.m. - the actual night of Halloween - it's time for the classic "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde" with the live score played by the Boston ensemble, Devil Music Ensemble.

290 Harvard St., Brookline, 617-734-2500 coolidge.org