The annual Scary Movies film series put on by New York City’s Film Society of Lincoln Center at Halloweentime is always chock full of cool movies new and old, and this year’s is no exception. The lineup was just announced, and includes the NYC premieres of several noteworthy films—and a must-see stage performance.

Making their Manhattan debuts at the fest, which runs Thursday-Monday, October 27-31, are Ti West’s haunted-hotel opus THE INNKEEPERS (pictured left; review), Ben Wheatley’s horror/crime hybrid KILL LIST (review), the international multidirector anthology THE THEATRE BIZARRE (review) and Scott Leberecht’s moody LA vampire film MIDNIGHT SON (review), along with a big-screening of Mariano Baino’s 1993 supernatural chiller DARK WATERS. In addition, Scary Movies will present a special performance of Stuart Gordon’s acclaimed stage production NEVERMORE—AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE, starring Jeffrey Combs as the famed horror author, which won deserved raves in Los Angeles and Montreal. It’s part of a Poe celebration that will also include showings of Gordon and Combs’ BLACK CAT episode of MASTERS OF HORROR and Roger Corman’s Vincent Price-starring classic HOUSE OF USHER; Gordon and Combs will be on hand for a screening of RE-ANIMATOR as well.

And that’s not all: In addition to BLACK CAT, two more feline-friendly fear flicks, the 1969 Michael Sarrazin-starrer EYE OF THE CAT and the new Korean production THE CAT, are part of the lineup, as are the classics THE SEVENTH VICTIM and POLTERGEIST. It’ll all go down at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam); here’s the full schedule:

Thursday, October 27

7 p.m.: THE CAT

9:15 p.m.: KILL LIST

Friday, October 28

4:15 p.m.: THE CAT

6:30 p.m.: DARK WATERS followed by Q&A with director Mariano Baino

9:00 p.m.: THE INNKEEPERS followed by Q&A with director Ti West

Saturday, October 29

5:15 p.m.: POLTERGEIST

7:30 p.m.: THE THEATRE BIZARRE followed by Q&A with actor Udo Kier and directors Buddy Giovinazzo, Douglas Buck, David Gregory and Jeremy Kasten, as well as a post-screening reception

Sunday, October 30

1:15 p.m.: HOUSE OF USHER

3 p.m.: THE SEVENTH VICTIM

4:45 p.m.: EYE OF THE CAT

7 p.m.: MIDNIGHT SON followed by Q&A with director Scott Leberecht, producer Matt Compton and Jo D. Jonz from the cast

9:30 p.m.: RE-ANIMATOR introduced by Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs

Monday, October 31

4:30 p.m.: HOUSE OF USHER

6:30 p.m.: MASTERS OF HORROR: THE BLACK CAT plus live performance of NEVERMORE—AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE, followed by reception

For tickets and further info, head over to the Film Society’s official website. 

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