The year 2009 has been a huge one for scary entities — what with all those homoerotic, orgy-loving vampires on HBO’s True Blood and the brain-munching undead of Zombieland.

The freaky frights continue Saturday with a little holiday we like to call Halloween, when ladies dress up as slutty nurses/maids/librarians/princesses/policewomen/bumblebees/rhododendrons/etc. and dudes dress up in whatever they can get away with to hang out with the slutty nurses/librarians/etc. NYC’s big East Village Halloween Party is the biggest Big Apple bash, where “Hundreds of Puppets, 53 Bands, Dancers and Artists, and Thousands of other New Yorkers in Costumes of their Own Creation” stumble up 6th Ave., then descend upon watering holes the city over to get liquored up enough to attempt a real vampire orgy. If you wanna skip the parade and go straight to the boozing, our friends at MyOpenBar.com have a rundown of the best free-booze options for the big night, including their own Halloween Freak Out at Greenpoint’s Callbox Lounge, the “douchiest sports bar in town.” Or if your in the mood to hang with some of the biggest assholes in the world, Vice magazine is throwing a massive Brooklyn warehouse bash to celebrate its 15th anniversary with a budget of $250,000!