If it’s Halloween season, it must be time for a bumper crop of horror-film screenings in the New York City area. Read on for the info on a bunch of ’em, including the scoop on a one-week run of Andrzej Zulawski’s uncut Eurotrash gem POSSESSION (pictured).

Fango got the first word that a new 35mm print of the complete and uncensored director’s cut of POSSESSION, a true psychosexual freakout starring Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill and a Carlo Rambaldi-created tentacle monster, will be playing the Film Forum (209 West Houston Street). Released by Bleeding Light Film Group, it’ll have a full run from Friday-Thursday, December 2-8 with several daily showings; keep an eye on the site for further details. Also of interest at Film Forum is a Bernard Herrmann Series starting this Friday, October 21 and running through Thursday, November 3, with double features of movies featuring scores by the master composer. Among them are Martin Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER and J. Lee Thompson’s original CAPE FEAR on Friday, Oct. 28, Robert Wise’s THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS on Sunday, Oct. 30, Hitchcock’s PSYCHO and Brian De Palma’s OBSESSION on Halloween, Monday, Oct. 31 and the Ray Harryhausen favorites THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD and JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS Tuesday, Nov. 1, plus a single show of Henry Levin’s JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m.

Nearby, 92YTribeca (200 Hudson Street at Canal) has an eclectic slate of genre fare on tap for Halloweentime. You can check out Tobe Hooper’s LIFEFORCE this Saturday, Oct. 22 at 9:30 p.m.; Larry Cohen’s GOD TOLD ME TO on Sunday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m.; Ron Underwood’s TREMORS on Friday, Oct. 28 at 8 p.m.; and a double feature of Don Dohler’s FIEND and Brian Yuzna’s SOCIETY on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 8 p.m.

Across town at Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue), Friday-Sunday, Nov. 4-6 will see a Frank Henenlotter retrospective, with Manhattan’s master of mad movies appearing in person. The titles screening will be BRAIN DAMAGE, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 6 at 4:30 p.m.; FRANKENHOOKER, Nov. 4 at 9:30 p.m. and Nov. 5 at 9:30 p.m.; BASKET CASE, Nov. 5 at 4:45 p.m. and Nov. 6 at 6:30 p.m.; and BASKET CASE 2, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 6 at 8:30 p.m.

Over in Queens’ Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria), you can catch the musical version of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS as part of the Jim Henson’s Fantastic World series Saturday, Oct. 29 at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 30 at 1 p.m.; Ridley Scott’s ALIEN on Friday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 30 at 4 p.m., and Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m., as part of the See It Big series; a special 80th-anniversary showing of James Whale’s FRANKENSTEIN, with Sara Karloff in person, Sunday, Oct. 30 at 7:30 p.m.; and CHANDU THE MAGICIAN on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 5 p.m., THE MAD MAGICIAN on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 6:30 p.m. and Herschell Gordon Lewis’ THE WIZARD OF GORE Sunday, Dec. 18 at 7 p.m., as part of the Magicians on Screen series. In addition, on Sunday the 30th at 2:30 p.m., “Movie Monsters and More: A Master Class With Special Effects Makeup Artist Mike Marino” will be hosted by the prosthetics wizard behind BLACK SWAN and many others. Tickets for the latter are $15 ($10 for Museum members, free for Silver Screen and Red Carpet Kids members), and include admission to any of the above-listed films that day.

Finally, Brooklyn’s BAMcinématek at the BAM Rose Cinemas (Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue) has a pair of films of interest showing this weekend as part of its Sneak Previews from IFC Films: Ben Wheatley’s unnerving crime/horror hybrid KILL LIST on Friday, Oct. 21 at 9:30 p.m. and Justin Kurzel’s true-serial-killer drama SNOWTOWN on Sunday, Oct. 23 at 9 p.m. The Cinématek’s Puppets on Film series will present Quentin Dupieux’s RUBBER on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 9:15 p.m. and Joe Dante’s GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH on Monday, Nov. 14 at 9:15 p.m., and its See You Next Wednesday: 8 Films by John Landis program includes a double bill of AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON and the compilation movie COMING SOON (narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis) on Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m.

And of course, there’s the great Scary Movies 5 going on at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater starting next week; go here for all those details. There’s something for every horrific taste this fall/winter…

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