Given that we boast the most spectacular Halloween parade in the country, New Yorkers obviously know this holiday’s not just for kids.
But those who don’t feel ready to don a costume and march up Sixth Ave. do have other options. What better way to celebrate spookiness, for example, than by sitting in a pitch-dark room scaring oneself silly? Whether you’re more interested in slasher flicks or psychological terror, big-screen chills await all weekend ... and beyond ...
MIDNIGHT MOVIES
If you’re planning to stay up late, you’ll have some difficult decisions to make tonight and tomorrow. The Landmark Sunshine has Sam Raimi’s “Evil Dead 2,” and thanks to Raimi’s twisted sense of humor, this is a horror franchise worth revisiting (landmarktheatres.com).
Williamsburg’s Spectacle Theatre will screen 1981’s “Venom,” a botched-kidnapping movie that was meant to be directed by Tobe Hooper; after “creative differences” with notoriously difficult star Klaus Kinski, Hooper was replaced by Piers Haggard (spectacletheater.com).
Halloween wouldn’t be complete without an interactive “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” which you can catch at the Chelsea Clearview (clearviewcinemas.com). But if you’ve done the Time Warp once too often, IFC is offering shadowcast screenings of “Ghostbusters” this weekend, hosted by performance group the Minions of Gozer (ifccenter.com).
CREEPY CLASSICS
The originals are often the best, and the city’s art houses are going all out in their attempts to terrify us.
Film Forum has a rare print of the Australian freakout “Wake in Fright” through Tuesday, and follows that up on Wednesday with “Repulsion,” Roman Polanski’s descent into sexual dread (filmforum.org).
Speaking of psychosexual head trips, the Museum of the Moving Image has the mother of them all, in Hitchcock’s eternally chilling “Psycho” (movingimage.us). MoMI’s also got “The Birds,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Poltergeist.” But Brooklyn’s Nitehawk Cinema will go back even further, with 1922’s silent masterpiece “Nosferatu” (nitehawkcinema.com).
DEADLY DISCOVERIES
Many of the films in Lincoln Center’s “Scary Movies” program are actually decades old, but have rarely been seen since their release. Now’s your chance to catch Wes Craven’s “Deadly Blessing,” featuring an unknown Sharon Stone, or Martin Sheen in John Schlesinger’s Santeria thriller “The Believers” (filmlinc.com). BAM’s “For Demon Lovers” series is similarly geared toward nostalgists, with the highlight being 1977’s oddly unsettling “Demon Seed,” in which Julie Christie’s computer aims to impregnate her (bam.org).
MORE TREATS THAN TRICKS
Looking for something new? You’ll find a few frights in the recently released “Silent Hill: Revelation,” “Paranormal Activity 4 ” and “Sinister. ” But the real winners are this year’s crop of barely scary kid flicks. If the little goblins in your life could use a break from Halloween parties, bring them to the multiplex for the animated comedies “ParaNorman ” or “Hotel Transylvania. ” And you don’t even need to be a kid to enjoy Tim Burton’s stop-motion charmer “Frankenweenie, ” a black-and-white homage to classic fright films that’s designed to enchant all ages.
Many of these programs are running through the 31st; for schedules, tickets, and directions, visit each venue’s website.
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