TCM PRIME TIME FEATURE: Classic Horror - Mondays in October
Throughout the month leading up to Halloween, TCM presents a festival of shiver-inducing fright films highlighted by the premiere of the latest entry in our A night at the Movies documentary series, A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King (2011). Unlike previous entries that featured the view- point of various industry insiders, this one focuses exclusively on the one- and-only master of horror storytelling, Stephen King.
Taking viewers through their darkest hours are five full nights of horror classics, arranged roughly by decade and ranging from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) to Repulsion (1965). Also raising goosebumps will be such masterworks of the genre as Nosferatu (1922), Frankenstein (1931), Cat People (1942), House of Wax (1953) and Night of the Living Dead (1968).
TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: VAL LEWTON
Saturday, October 29, 2011
8:00 PM suspense Cat People (1942)
8:00 PM
73 min
TV-PG suspense Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph.
73 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Jacques Tourneur. Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jack Holt, Jane Randolph. Storyline and plot elements don't hold up, but moments of shock and terror are undiminished in the first of producer Val Lewton's famous horror films. Smith falls in love with strange, shy woman (Simon) who fears ancient curse of the panther inside her. Followed by THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE. Remade in 1982.
9:30 PM documentary Martin Scorsese Presents, Val Lewton: The Man In The Shadows (2007)
9:30 PM
C-77 min
TV-PG documentary Martin Scorsese Presents, Val Lewton: The Man In The Shadows (2007)
This TCM original documentary looks at the imaginative producer who fashioned a lasting body of beautiful and unsettling films on meager budgets.
Dir: Kent Jones
C-77 min, TV-PG , CC
11:00 PM horror Body Snatcher, The (1945)
11:00 PM
78 min
TV-PG horror Body Snatcher, The (1945)
To continue his medical experiments, a doctor must buy corpses from a grave robber.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell.
78 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Robert Wise. Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade, Rita Corday. Fine, atmospheric tale from Robert Louis Stevenson short story of doctor (Daniell) who is forced to deal with scurrilous character (Karloff) in order to get cadavers for experiments in 19th-century Edinburgh. Last film to team Karloff and Lugosi, their scenes together are eerie and compelling. Classic Val Lewton thriller. Screenplay by Philip MacDonald and Carlos Keith (Lewton).
12:30 AM horror Isle Of The Dead (1945)
12:30 AM
72 min
TV-PG horror Isle Of The Dead (1945)
The inhabitants of a Balkans island under quarantine fear that one of their number is a vampire.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer.
72 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Mark Robson. Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery, Helene Thimig, Jason Robards (Sr.). Eerie horror tale of assorted characters stranded on Greek island during quarantine--one of them possibly a vampire. Good Val Lewton production.
2:00 AM horror Bedlam (1946)
2:00 AM
79 min
TV-PG horror Bedlam (1946)
When an actress tries to reform an asylum, its corrupt keeper has her committed.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House.
79 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Mark Robson. Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Ian Wolfe, Richard Fraser, Billy House, Jason Robards, Sr. Atmospheric chiller of courageous Lee trying to expose shameful conditions at notorious 18th-century London insane asylum run by corrupt head Karloff. Producer Val Lewton also coscripted under pseudonym Carlos Keith. Robert Clarke appears unbilled.
3:30 AM horror Seventh Victim, The (1943)
3:30 AM
71 min
TV-G horror Seventh Victim, The (1943)
A girl's search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell.
71 min, TV-G , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Mark Robson. Tom Conway, Kim Hunter, Jean Brooks, Evelyn Brent, Elizabeth Russell, Hugh Beaumont, Erford Gage, Isabel Jewell, Barbara Hale. Offbeat Val Lewton chiller of innocent Hunter stumbling onto N.Y.C. group of devil-worshipers. Genuinely eerie.
5:00 AM horror Ghost Ship, The (1943)
5:00 AM
69 min
TV-PG horror Ghost Ship, The (1943)
A young innocent signs on with a ship whose captain is going mad.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett.
69 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Mark Robson. Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett, Ben Bard, Lawrence Tierney. Offbeat Val Lewton melodrama about young man who signs on merchant ship run by power-crazy captain (Dix) who's obsessed with "authority.'' Absorbing mood piece with unfortunately abrupt conclusion.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
6:15 AM
66 min
TV-PG suspense Leopard Man, The (1943)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks.
66 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Jacques Tourneur. Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell, Margaret Landry, Abner Biberman. Intriguing but flawed Val Lewton thriller about series of murders in small New Mexico town blamed on escaped leopard. Based on novel Black Alibi by Cornell Woolrich
TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: CLASSIC HORROR
Sunday, October 30, 2011
7:30 AM horror White Zombie (1932)
7:30 AM
67 min
TV-PG horror White Zombie (1932)
A zombie master menaces newlyweds on a Haitian plantation.
Dir: Victor Halperin Cast: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn.
67 min, TV-PG CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Victor Halperin. Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn, Robert Frazer, John Harron, Brandon Hurst, Clarence Muse. Zombie master Lugosi menaces newlyweds on Haitian sugar plantation; eerie, unique low-budget chiller.
8:45 AM horror Devil Doll, The (1936)
8:45 AM
78 min
TV-PG horror Devil Doll, The (1936)
A Devil's Island escapee shrinks murderous slaves and sells them to his victims as dolls.
Dir: Tod Browning Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton.
78 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Tod Browning. Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Robert Greig, Lucy Beaumont, Henry B. Walthall, Grace Ford, Rafaela Ottiano. Very entertaining yarn of Devil's Island escapee Barrymore shrinking humans to doll size to carry out nefarious schemes. Coscripted by Erich von Stroheim.
10:15 AM horror Uninvited, The (1944)
10:15 AM
99 min
TV-PG horror Uninvited, The (1944)
A brother and sister buy a house with a ghostly secret.
Dir: Lewis Allen Cast: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp.
99 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Lewis Allen. Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Gail Russell, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dorothy Stickney, Barbara Everest, Alan Napier. Eerie ghost suspenser about Russell disturbed by dead mother's specter; Milland and Hussey, new owners of haunted house, try to solve mystery. No trick ending in this ingenious film, which introduced Victor Young's melody "Stella by Starlight.'' Spooky cinematography by Charles Lang, Jr. Scripted by Dodie Smith and Frank Partos, from Dorothy Macardle's novel.
12:00 PM suspense Berserk (1967)
12:00 PM
C-96 min
TV-PG suspense Berserk (1967)
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Dir: Jim O'Connolly Cast: Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors.
C-96 min, TV-PG , CC
2:00 PM suspense Dial M For Murder (1954)
2:00 PM
C-105 min
TV-PG suspense Dial M For Murder (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he'd hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings.
C-105 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Alfred Hitchcock. Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson. Frederick Knott's suspense play of man plotting wife's murder and subsequent police investigation: stagey at times but slick and entertaining. Filmed in 3-D. Remade for TV in 1981 with Angie Dickinson and Christopher Plummer, and in 1998 as A PERFECT MURDER.
4:00 PM horror Them! (1954)
4:00 PM
93 min
TV-PG horror Them! (1954)
Federal agents fight to destroy a colony of mutated giant ants.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon.
93 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Gordon Douglas. James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens. First-rate '50s sci-fi about giant ant mutations running wild in the Southwest. Intelligent script (by Ted Sherdeman, from George Worthing Yates' story) extremely well directed, with memorable climax in L.A. sewers. Fess Parker has small but memorable role. Look fast for Leonard Nimoy at a teletype machine.
6:00 PM horror Forbidden Planet (1956)
6:00 PM
C-99 min
TV-PG horror Forbidden Planet (1956)
A group of space troopers investigates the destruction of a colony on a remote planet.
Dir: Fred McLeod Wilcox Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen.
C-99 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Fred McLeod Wilcox. Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Richard Anderson, Earl Holliman, George Wallace, James Drury. Sci-fi version of Shakespeare's The Tempest remains one of the most ambitious and intelligent films of its genre; only slow, deliberate pacing works against it, as Nielsen and fellow space travelers visit planet where expatriate Pidgeon has built a one-man empire with daughter Francis and obedient Robby the Robot. Great effects, eerie electronic score. Beware 95m. reissue prints. Lavish use of wide-screen CinemaScope is severely diminished on television.
TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: CLASSIC HORROR
Monday October 31, 2011 Halloween
7:15 AM
C-90 min
TV-PG horror Reptile, The (1966)
Indian snake worshippers turn an explorer's daughter into a hideous monster.
Dir: John Gilling Cast: Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel, Ray Barrett.
C-90 min, TV-PG
8:45 AM horror Gorgon, The (1964)
8:45 AM
C-83 min
TV-PG horror Gorgon, The (1964)
A mythical monster turns men to stone in a remote European village.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco.
C-83 min, TV-PG
10:15 AM horror Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966)
10:15 AM
C-90 min
TV-14 horror Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966)
Four travelers unwittingly revive the bloodsucking count.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir.
C-90 min, TV-14
12:00 PM horror Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1969)
12:00 PM
C-92 min
TV-14 horror Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1969)
Dracula goes after the niece of the monsignor who destroyed his castle.
Dir: Freddie Francis Cast: Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson.
C-92 min, TV-14
1:45 PM horror Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957)
1:45 PM
C-83 min
TV-14 horror Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957)
A scientist's attempts to create life unleash a bloodthirsty monster.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart.
C-83 min, TV-14 CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Terence Fisher. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Valerie Gaunt, Noel Hood. OK retelling of original Shelley tale, with Cushing as Baron von Frankenstein, whose experimentation with creation of life becomes an obsession. First of Hammer Films' long-running horror series, and itself followed by six sequels, starting with THE RE VENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN.
3:15 PM horror Frankenstein Created Woman (1966)
3:15 PM
C-92 min
TV-14 horror Frankenstein Created Woman (1966)
Baron Frankenstein puts a wrongly executed man's brain into a beautiful woman's body.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters.
C-92 min, TV-14
5:00 PM horror Mummy, The (1959)
5:00 PM
C-88 min
TV-PG horror Mummy, The (1959)
A resurrected mummy stalks the archaeologists who defiled his tomb.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux.
C-88 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Terence Fisher. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, Felix Aylmer, Raymond Huntley. Against warnings of severe consequences, archeologists desecrate ancient tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka. They return to England and those consequences. Stylish Hammer resurrection of Universal's Kharis series.
6:30 PM horror Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The (1964)
6:30 PM
C-80 min
TV-PG horror Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The (1964)
An unearthed mummy returns to life to claim the reincarnation of his lost love.
Dir: Michael Carreras Cast: Ronald Howard, Terence Morgan, Fred Clark.
C-80 min, TV-PG , CC
TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: CLASSIC HORROR
Monday October 31, 2011 Halloween
8:00 PM horror Village Of The Damned (1960)
8:00 PM
77 min
TV-14 horror Village Of The Damned (1960)
After a mysterious blackout, the inhabitants of a British village give birth to emotionless, super-powered offspring.
Dir: Wolf Rilla Cast: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens.
77 min, TV-14 , CC
9:30 PM horror Night of the Living Dead (1968)
9:30 PM
96 min
TV-MA horror Night of the Living Dead (1968)
A space probe unleashes microbes that turn the dead into flesh-eating zombies.
Dir: George A. Romero Cast: Judith O'Dea, Russell Streiner, Duane Jones.
96 min, TV-MA , CC
11:15 PM TCM Night at the Movies: Horror (2011)
11:15 PM
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12:15 AM horror Innocents, The (1961)
12:15 AM
99 min
TV-PG horror Innocents, The (1961)
A governess convinces herself the children in her charge are haunted.
Dir: Jack Clayton Cast: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins.
99 min, TV-PG , CC
2:00 AM horror Haunting, The (1963)
2:00 AM
112 min
TV-PG horror Haunting, The (1963)
A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there.
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson.
112 min, TV-PG , CC
4:00 AM horror Repulsion (1965)
4:00 AM
105 min
TV-PG horror Repulsion (1965)
Strange dreams haunt a beautiful young woman left alone in her apartment.
Dir: Roman Polanski Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser.
105 min, TV-PG
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