With Halloween only five weeks away, there’s no better time to dive into the delightful world of movies about slashers/hauntings/zombies/lunatics and mysterious found footage.

Sure, you could stream your way through dozens of horror flicks, but horror is an experience best enjoyed in the company of others.

Here’s a sampling of where you can get your fix in and around Chicago before Halloween:

Chicago Horror Film Festival (9/28/18 -9/30/18 – Red Roof Inn in Dekalb). Festival of independent horror shorts will likely be a mixed bag of experiences, but it looks like there’s some legitimate fun to be had at the Red Roof Inn.

The Massacre (9/29/18-9/30/18 -Davis Theater, 4614 N. Lincoln ). 24 hours of horror kicks off at noon with silent short “The Sealed Room” (with live organ)! The schedule includes bona fide classics (The Mummy, Texas Chainsaw Massacre), questionable sequels (Psycho II, Nightmare on Elm St. 4) and gloriously decadent sleaze (Female Trouble).

Music Box of Horrors (10/13/18-10/14/18 – Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport). The iconic Music Box has a fun variety of films that range from wildly commercial (Freddy vs. Jason) to mostly unknown (Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell).

The Logan Theatre (10/5/18-10/26/18, 2646 N. Milwaukee). The Logan’s rolling out the big guns for October: Seven, The Exorcist, Psycho, The Thing, Nosferatu and Rosemary’s Baby are can’t-misses on the big screen.