Between now and Halloween, the schedule for the film series at Webster University is decidedly creepy, with retrospectives devoted to Roman Polanski, German expressionism and movie vampires.

Eccentric actor Crispin Glover returns to Moore Auditorium from Aug. 22-24, to perform one of his slide-show monologues and to screen his freak-show movies “What Is It?” and “It is Fine, Everything is Fine.”

The Polanski series will offer double-features of his early films “Knife and the Water” and “Repulsion” on Sept. 12, and “Cul-de-Sac” and “Rosemary’s Baby” on Sept. 14.  The documentary “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,” about the director’s legal predicament and the publicity-hound judge who reneged on a plea bargain in the statutory rape case, screens Sept. 20-22.

A different kind of celebrity recluse gets profiled in “Patti Smith: Dream of Life,” Oct. 2-4.

Another promising documentary on the schedule is “Goth Cruise” (Aug. 29-31) about a small contingent of gloomy night crawlers who join a couple thousand “normal” folks on a boat trip to sunny Bermuda.

Those Goths would surely appreciate the buffet of horror flicks on the menu. On Halloween, it’s “Shadow of the Vampire,” starring Willem Dafoe as the ultimate method actor. On Nov. 1, it’s Werner Herzog’s”Nosferatu,” with Klaus Kinski as the pasty-faced bloodsucker, and on Nov. 2 it’s the silent “Nosferatu,” starring the mysterious Max Shreck.  On Sept. 13, it’s the classic “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (part of a series of German silents that also includes “Metropolis” on Sept. 5-7, “The Golem” on Oct. 5 and the carnival-themed horror film “Waxworks” on Oct. 25).  And the horror show moves to the Schlafly Bottleworks on Oct. 1 for Dario Argento’s “Suspiria.”

Year after year, Webster continues to show films that have fallen through the cracks of commercial distribution. And if you’re wondering what the world would be like without it, check out Mike Judge’s cautionary comedy “Idiocracy” on Oct. 16.