Lately, a man in entrance of me on the checkout had simply two issues in his procuring basket: big baggage of Twizzlers and a naughty nurse costume. My first thought was: I wish to go to that get together. My second was: I’m manner behind on a Halloween recreation plan.

Not any extra, now that I put collectively this information to what to do in and round New York Metropolis in the course of the yr’s spookiest month.

First up, Halloween evening traditions. Gown to impress when the perennially well-liked Village Halloween Parade turns 50 this yr. The free occasion begins at 7 p.m., rain or shine, and runs on Sixth Avenue from Canal Avenue to fifteenth Avenue. Throughout city within the East Village, Theater for the New Metropolis hosts its forty seventh annual Village Halloween Costume Ball. There shall be a fancy dress competitors, dancing to swing and Latin bands, and the prospect to point out off your (required) costume or formal put on.

A Halloween with out Horror films is sort of a Christmas with out Hallmark films about big-city girls falling for small-town bookstore homeowners. New scary movies in theaters now are the Agatha Christie-inspired “A Haunting in Venice”; the twisted sister story “The Nun II”; and “Noticed X,” the tenth movie within the franchise.

Revival choices embody two movies concerning the darkish aspect of showbiz: Hitchcock’s Marlene Dietrich-led “Stage Fright” (1950), on the Metrograph Theater (Oct. 13); and “Bloodsucking Freaks” (1976), an exploitation movie a few demented theater troupe, at Movie Noir Cinema (Oct. 20). For a basic scary film for youths, Movie Discussion board presents a matinee of “Creature From the Black Lagoon” (1954) in 3-D. (Oct. 29).

For a sneak peek at what horror followers shall be drooling over subsequent, take a look at the Brooklyn Horror Movie Competition (Oct. 12-19), at Nitehawk Cinema’s Williamsburg and Prospect Park places. The roster contains “The place the Satan Roams,” a brand new movie about killer sideshow performers from the Catskills-based horror moviemaking Adams Household; and “Devil Needs You,” a documentary on “Michelle Remembers,” a memoir about repressed recollections that helped spark the Satanic Panic of the ’80s. The wonderful California-chic zombie drama “Messiah of Evil” is exhibiting in a newly restored model to rejoice its fiftieth birthday.

For bingeable scares at residence, new horror collection embody “The Fall of the Home of Usher,” Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story (Netflix, Oct. 12), and “Goosebumps,” an adaptation of R.L. Stine’s horror books for youngsters (Disney+, Oct. 13). Again to scare once more are new seasons of the killer doll present “Chucky” (Peacock, Oct. 4) and the anthology collection “Creepshow” (Shudder, Oct. 13).

For real-life horror tales, attempt “John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams,” a brand new unscripted anthology concerning the evils that lurk behind closed doorways, from the director of “Halloween” (Peacock, Oct. 13), or the docuseries “Psycho: The Misplaced Tapes of Ed Gein,” which explores the life and crimes of the deranged serial killer who impressed “The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath” and different horror movies (now on MGM+).

“TerrorVision,” an immersive horror expertise at “Horrorwood Studios” in Instances Sq. (300 W. forty third St.), guarantees 20,000 sq. ft of scary rooms and passageways. A solid of 140 actors will endeavor to scare your pants off with “seemingly unattainable results always occurring throughout,” based on the information launch. A “hen ticket” permits you to put on an amulet so monsters received’t goal you.

Yvie Oddly, Jaida, Plastique and different well-liked “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alumni are among the many scary-good drag queens within the “Night time of the Residing Drag” tour. The present makes two stops in New Jersey, together with Atlantic Metropolis (Oct. 6) and Newark on Halloween evening.

Horror followers have twisted senses of humor, which is why it comes as no shock that “Noticed,” James Wan’s sinister 2004 film, will get the song-and-dance remedy in “SAW The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Noticed,” now on the AMT Theater (345 West forty fifth Avenue). The present’s web site warns visitors who sit within the entrance and second rows to not put on stainable clothes “until a blood splatter splash or two or three would go along with your outfit.”

On Oct. 13, the Highline String Quintet performs two horror-movie themed live shows as a part of the Candlelight collection on the Sheen Middle for Thought and Tradition. Among the many musical alternatives are Bernard Herrmann’s sounds-like-stabbing prelude from “Psycho” and Goblin’s sounds-like-a-possessed-music-box rating from “Suspiria.”

All throughout Halloween weekend, “Nosferatu, A 3D Symphony of Horror,” a digital reimagining of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 vampire basic, shall be livestreamed in dwell 3D by the corporate Theater in Quarantine. (Ticket consumers will get 3D glasses within the mail.)

Halloween Home takes over the Oculus at 185 Greenwich Avenue via Nov. 1. A collection of immersive rooms that embody a Vampires’ Lair and a Horror Film Graveyard, it’s a not-too haunted home that’s acceptable for all ages and temperaments. The web site guarantees there shall be no actors or soar scares.

If there’s one factor horror films train you, it’s how one can run. On Oct. 28, the Queens NYC Halloween Half, 10K and 5K all happen at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The races begin and end on the Unisphere, close to the Queens Museum of Artwork.

The New York Public Library presents free methods to maintain youngsters comfortable earlier than they get bitten by the trick-or-treating bug. In Manhattan, the Macomb’s Bridge Library hosts a pumpkin adorning class (Oct. 20). Youngsters 4 and over are invited to a Creepy Crafternoon (Oct. 30) on the Sedgwick Library within the Bronx. On Staten Island, the Mariners Harbor Library presents a category on the science of sweet corn (Oct. 12), and on Halloween, teenagers are invited to the West New Brighton department to observe the campy killer-doll movie “M3gan” and make M3gan-inspired masks.

All through October within the Bronx, the New York Botanical Backyard’s annual Fall-O-Ween options a number of family-friendly occasions, together with pumpkin adorning and a large skeleton parade with works by the puppeteer Lucrecia Novoa. The grasp pumpkin carver Adam Bierton hosts workshops on choose weekends.

Hungry for horror? The writer Sarah Lohman is providing a collection of spooky-themed on-line courses via the Brooklyn Brainery, together with “A Culinary Historical past of Funeral Meals” (Oct. 10) and “Cult Meals” (Oct. 12).

If scares aren’t your factor, October is prime time for choosing. Admission is free on the Queens County Farm Museum’s pumpkin patch, open every day via Halloween. Demarest Farms in Hillsdale, N.J., is open for apple selecting on choose dates via Oct. 9; $8 will get you entry to the orchard and a petting zoo. At Decker Farm on Staten Island, let off steam with the awesome-sounding bungee-assisted pumpkin chucking.