Scores of residents in Salford claim they were kept awake until the early hours of Sunday morning by a zombie rave three miles away in Trafford.
The Zombie Nation event, at Bowlers Exhibition Centre in Trafford Park, was held from 9pm on Saturday until 4am on Sunday morning.
Venue bosses said sound engineers kept tabs on the noise levels - and pointed out that there were other events being held nearby.
On the website, the event was advertised as the 'UK's only rave within a scarefest'.
But the concept was less fun for people trying to get a decent night's sleep in parts of Eccles.
One woman, who lives in Monton, said: "Myself and family were kept awake most of the night with the loud thudding bass beat coming from Bowlers.
"How on earth the council permitted this is beyond me, I seem to remember the same thing happening last year.
"Weekends are precious and should be relaxing times, a break away from the stressful working week and we shouldn’t have to have this noise pollution forced upon us.
"Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure age 18 I would have loved this kind of event, but surely the venue and the council have an obligation to residents to make sure it is adequately sound proofed?"
Laura-Jayne Derbyshire, who lives in Swinton, said: "I was kept awake by the wretched noise of Bowlers at the weekend. It’s literally beyond ridiculous. It went on until about 5.30am and this is a regular occurrence."
Another woman, who lives in Ellesmere Park, added: "The noise could be heard with the windows closed until around 6am. We could not have the windows open as we usually would. Occasionally it would increase in volume even further for short periods of time.
"There was also a constant whining noise from an unknown source."
John Rabbitt, treasurer of Ellesmere Park Residents' Association, said a 'number of residents' were disturbed throughout the night.
He said: "It is our intention to write a formal complaint to the organisers, and to the local authority, regarding this excessive noise which continued virtually all through the night."
The noise was so bad that the local MP for Worsley and Eccles South, Barbara Keeley, said she will be raising the complaints with the council and event organisers.
She said: “I have received reports from constituents who were disturbed by excessive noise from Bowlers night club lasting from Saturday evening until after 6am on Sunday. This level of disturbance is clearly unacceptable.
“I will now be raising these complaints with Salford City Council and with Bowlers nightclub directly. I hope that they will both take action to ensure that local residents are not exposed to this level of noise disturbance within their own homes at weekends.”
Three complaints were made to Trafford Council about the issue - but it is unclear at this stage how many were made to the local authority in Salford, where most of the complainants live.
A spokesman for Trafford Council said: “Trafford Council has received three complaints of noise nuisance allegedly emanating from an event this weekend at the Bowlers Exhibition Centre. We will be investigating these complaints with the venue, and also assisting Salford City Council with any investigations they carry out on behalf of their residents.”
Simon Colderley, a spokesman for Bowlers, said: "We did have an event on Saturday evening. We have numerous events throughout the year.
"We haven't had any form of sound complaint for 18 months, and we have had numerous events on the same scale, if not bigger. We didn't do anything different. We weren't the only event operating in the area.
"The finger has been pointed at us. I have had a couple of complaints via email. I contacted them straight away. We have had sound checkers that have gone round any possible sites where we had had a problem. When they heard an underlying base issue we turned the sound down."
Another club night was held nearby at Victoria Warehouse. The Don't Let Daddy Know night was held until 5am.
An Academy Music Group spokeswoman, speaking on behalf of Victoria Warehouse, said bosses did not receive any reports of noise issues.
"Since taking on the venue operation of O2 Victoria Warehouse Manchester, we have an on-site acoustic noise engineer who is present at every show, both gig and club, to manage and record all sound levels both inside and outside our venue, and the local vicinity, for the duration of the entire event," she added.
