Halloween 2026 in Paris: a queer horror ball settles into a former cinema

In Montreuil, Discoquette takes over the Bal Chavaux for a Halloween night inspired by Carrie, blending queer DJ sets, gothic drag, and digital projections.

There are invitations to the ball you’d perhaps be better off not turning down… On October 31, 2026, Halloween adopts a horror-film vibe at the Bal Chavaux in Montreuil, where Discoquette summons the world of Carrie for a queer, arty and festive night. Housed in a former cinema, this Halloween party on the edge of Paris (and easily reachable by metro) aims to keep cinema’s monsters, club denizens and other enfant terribles dancing until dawn.

A Halloween Ball in an Old Cinema in Montreuil

The Bal Chavaux now occupies the old Méliès cinema spaces at the foot of Croix-de-Chavaux. Built in the 1970s, the building has since swapped its role: where big-screen films once drew crowds, concerts and club nights have now taken center stage. The former main cinema hall was originally designed to host several hundred people.

For Halloween, Discoquette is tapping into that cinematic heritage by summoning the great figures of horror cinema. Psycho, The Exorcist, Midsommar, and Carrie set the tone for this edition, billed as “fear projected on the big screen.”

And it's hard to top Carrie as the symbolic host of the night. The tragic heroine linked to one of horror fiction’s most disastrous prom nights, she now serves as the perfect pretext to imagine a different, more inclusive kind of prom.

Dark disco, house, and electro: Halloween shifts into queer club mode

On the music side, Azo et CHERIII are billed back-to-back: the former is notably a cofounder of the Queer Future Club in Brussels, while CHERIII has carried London’s Homodrop nights all the way to Berlin’s Panorama Bar. Alongside them, we find Fenouil2000 with a blend of dark disco, electro and house.

A night in an old cinema is also the perfect pretext to add another artistic layer with a visual performance. The House of Belles Plantes, made up of Gala Maldoror, Loretta, Scott Von Teufel and Stevie Rosebush, is on the lineup to deliver gothic drag to Montreuil's Halloween night. K-You, aka Gloria Gaypierre behind the decks for the occasion, rounds out the cast.

Finally, digital artist Talia’Kah, a member of the FLINTA VJ collective Ctrl-F, will handle the visual side. VJing operates as the graphic counterpart to DJing: images, animations, and effects are mixed and projected to the rhythm of the music. In an old cinema hall, it's hard to imagine a more fitting nod.

Between horror cinema, drag, digital projections, and queer club culture, Carrie at the Bal Chavaux isn’t planning to celebrate Halloween by halves. And for once, a Carrie-inspired party that promises to end up covered in glitter—no complaints from us.

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