The great thing about the Halloween season is that it gives highbrow art cinemas the excuse to program the most ridiculous horror films. Silver Springs’ Halloween on Screen is taking full advantage of the scare season to screen nine utterly fun, freaky, and only sometimes terrifying films. Interestingly, while the rest of the world is vampire crazy these days, five of the nine films presented this year center around the life and times of a werewolf. Two are from the classic horror of the thirties: 1935’s Werewolf of London (one of the first to spell out the creature mythic origins), 1941’s The Wolfman (with both Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff). But the other three consider how the legend has been remade by contemporary filmmakers: Joe Dante’s 1981’s The Howling places the creature in the hum-drum reality of modern America; Michael Wadleigh’s 1981 Wolfen attempts to both scare and provoke its audience to think about issues like homelessness; and John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London retells the tale with a tongue in (wolf) cheek approach. Of course zombies (Shaun of the Dead) and vampires (Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror) are also present at this monster mash.