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WHERE, OH WEREWOLF

WEREWOLF? There wolf – at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, which is hosting an all-night marathon of werewolf flicks for Halloween.

The frightfest kicks off at 9 Saturday night with Joe Dante’s “The Howling” (1981) and shuts down with the 5:40 showing the next morning of an erotic number called “The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman” (1971), starring Spanish horror superstar Paul Naschy, who has appeared in a dozen or so werewolf films.

In between, fans will be treated to Neil Jordan’s “The Company of Wolves” (1984); Terence Fisher’s “The Curse of the Werewolf” (1961); Mike Nichols’ “Wolf” (1994), with Jack Nicholson as a book editor turned creature; and Rod Daniel’s “Teen Wolf” (1985), in which Michael J. Fox discovers that being a werewolf makes him popular on campus.

“It’s a good chance to rediscover some classics, and to have a lot of fun,” Pioneer programmer Ray Privett says of the marathon.

“But there’s more to it. The werewolf legend is a potent one for modern America. At its core, the werewolf myth is about how humans establish civilization to distinguish themselves from animals.

“And there’s a full moon on Halloween weekend – so what choice did we have?”

The Pioneer is at on Third Street at Avenue A, in the East Village; (212) 591-0434.

* Also on the fright front: The Landmark Loew’s Jersey in Jersey City (across from the PATH station) on Friday and Saturday will unreel five flicks featuring horror icon Boris Karloff:

Edgar G. Ulmer’s “The Black Cat” (1934), the first teaming of Karloff and Bela Lugosi; Karl Freund’s “The Mummy” (1932); and three classics directed by James Whale: “The Old Dark House” (1932), “Frankenstein” (1931) and “Bride of Frankenstein” (1935).

“Bride” – with scene-stealer Ernest Thesiger as the demented Dr. Septimus Pretorius – represents one of the few times that a sequel outdid the original. Elsa Lanchester has two roles: the Bride and “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley.

Details: (201) 798-6055.

* Even the Silent Clowns series at the New-York Historical Society is getting into the Halloween spirit, unreeling Paul Leni’s spooker “The Cat and the Canary” (1927) at 2 p.m. next Sunday.

The setting is “the grotesque mansion of an eccentric millionaire,” to which relatives have been summoned for the midnight reading of his will.

The Society is at 170 Central Park West, at 76th Street; (212) 712-7237.

V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post; vam@nypost.com