Tuesday, October 11th

3:15 am, Scream and Scream Again (1970):  Although Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee are given top billing in this chilling masterpiece, their combined screen time makes up only about 1/5 of the total run time of the film.  This is a classic studio horror film and shouldn’t be missed however.  A serial killer is on the loose, draining the blood of his victims.  When police follow the trail back to the home of an eccentric scientist, the plot thickens!

Friday, October 14

8 pm, The Cat and the Canary (1939):  Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard lead the cast of this classic gem.  The family of Cyrus Norman gather ten years after his death for the reading of his will.  To their surprise, the entire fortune has been left to his niece, Joyce.  However, the family is cursed with a streak of madness and there is a second will in case Joyce is proven to be insane.  Unsurprisingly, other family members decide it might just be easy enough to push her over the edge.

9:30 pm, The Fearless Vampire Killers (1966):  This horror comedy, directed by Roman Polanski, stars Jack MacGowran as the bumbling Professor Abronsius, who travels to Transylvania in search of vampires with his assistant, Alfred (played by Polanski, himself).  Alfred soon falls for the beautiful Sarah (Sharon Tate), but Sarah seems to have fallen under the spell of a mysterious count.

11:30 pm, Little Shop of Horrors (1960):  Before it became a hit movie musical, Little Shop of Horrors was a cult sensation directed by the one and only Roger Corman.  Seymour finds an unusual plant at the local flower market and takes it home, only to discover that this plant has a mind of its own and a thirst for fresh blood and meat.  Look for a very young Jack Nicholson among the cast!

Saturday, October 15th

1 am, Young Frankenstein (1974):  Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder struck gold with their parody sequel to the Frankenstein franchise which finds Dr. Frederick Frankenstein journeying to his ancestral home and seduced into completing his grandfather’s work.  With an all star cast including Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, and Peter Boyle, this is one film you don’t want to miss.

3 am, Hillibillys in a Haunted House (1967):  Country singers on their way to Nashville have car trouble and seek help at a creepy old mansion.  Not only is the mansion haunted, but it also serves as headquarters to an international ring of spies intent on stealing a secret formula for rocket fuel.  You just can’t make this stuff up!  Featuring John Carradine and Basil Rathbone alongside country legends Merle Haggard and Molly Bee, this film is fun for the whole family.

4:30 am, Spooks Run Wild (1941):  Starring the famous Bowery Boys (Leo Gorcey, David Gorcey, Huntz Hall, etc.), a group of juvenile delinquents who featured in a series of films for Banner Productions, this installment finds the young men sent to a summer camp to rehabilitate them.  They sneak out after hearing stories of a monster killer and find themselves face to face with Bela Lugosi who they fear has turned their comrade Peewee into a zombie.

5:45 am, Ghosts on the Loose (1943):  The East Side Kids aka the Bowery Boys find themselves in trouble again as they head to the suburbs to fix up the house one of their sisters is planning to move into with her new husband.  Unbeknownst to them, they go to the wrong house.  Not only is the house haunted, but Nazi spies have infiltrated the house and are up to no good!

7 am, Master MInds (1949):  The Bowery Boys are at it again.  When their buddy Sach overdoses on sugar, he finds himself in a trance and begins to predict the future.  Slip decides to make money off of Sach by setting him up in a carnival, but when an evil scientist played by Alan Napier kidnaps Sach, the boys have to track him down before the doctor can transfer Sach’s mind and abilities into a monster of his own creation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_nFBWpKoQo

8:15 am, Spook Busters (1946):  The Bowery Boys set themselves up as ghost exterminators and find themselves tangling with a mad scientist who lures them to his mansion in the hopes of using one of the boy’s brains in his monster gorilla.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkoNoGtI5LY

9:30 am, Spook Chasers (1957):  The Bowery Boys face off with crooks in a haunted old house in the country after one of their own has been ordered to seek quieter surroundings to calm his nerves!

10:45, The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954):  In the final installment in TCM’s marathon, the Bowery boys meet a family of Mad Scientists and their house of horrors which include a man eating plant, a giant gorilla, a creepy butler, and a vampiress.

8 pm, The Innocents (1961):  Based on the Henry James classic The Turn of the Screw, this adaptation features Deborah Kerr as a young governess hired to take care of two children in a beautiful countryside manor.  The governess slowly becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted, and that the children may be possessed by two of the former residents.  This film is near perfection in pacing and mood as the tension builds and we become more and more uncertain whether the haunting is real or the governess is simply succumbing to madness.

Sunday, October 16th

12 am, Eye of the Devil (1966):  A French nobleman leaves his wife and children behind to travel to his ancestral home when the vines begin to fail.  Though he has told her to remain in Paris, his young wife follows him and stumbles upon ancient rituals performed to save the crops.  What’s more?  The final ritual involves the sacrifice of the landowner, her husband, in order to save the vineyard.  Don’t miss this classic starring Donald Pleasance, Deborah Kerr, and David Niven!

8 pm, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957):  This lush adaptation of Frankenstein from Hammer Studios stars Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein and Christopher Lee as the Creature!

9:45 pm, The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958):  Continuing the story begun in The Curse of Frankenstein, Peter Cushing once again stars as Victor Frankenstein.  After he escapes execution, the doctor escapes to Germany, changes his names, and continues his experiments.

Monday, October 17th

12 am, Kurutta Ippeiji (1926):  A man infiltrates an insane asylum to help his wife escape in this Japanese classic.

2 am, Goke: Body Snatcher from Hell (1968):  This classic Japanese horror film finds survivors of a plane crash under attack by an alien species who turns its victims into vampire like creatures.

3:30 am, The X from Outer Space (1967):  A reptilian extraterrestrial lays waste to the Japanese countryside!

8 pm, Horror Hotel (1960):  Alternately known as The City of the Dead, Horror Hotel centers around a young coed who is studying the development of witchcraft in New England.  On the advice of her professor, she decides to spend her winter break in a small village in the New England countryside and finds herself marked as a sacrifice by the local undead coven.  The film stars Christopher Lee and Nan Barlow.

9:30 pm, Horror Express (1972):  The year is 1906 and an English anthropologist has just discovered what he thinks may be the Missing Link frozen in the Chinese countryside.  He takes his find on board a train headed across the continent for further study, but en route, the creature thaws out and begins killing passengers aboard the train.  The film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L86jAuTQZ-E

11:15 pm, The House that Dripped Blood:  In this anthology tale, investigators from Scotland Yard look into four different murders that all happened in the same home.  The film boasts a cast full of British stars including Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott, Jon Pertwee, Joanna Dunham, and Nyree Dawn Porter!

Tuesday, October 18th

1:15 am, The Creeping Flesh (1972):  Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing star in this creature feature.  When a scientist discovers a rare set of bones in New Guinea and brings them back to London to study, he has no idea the evil he will unleash!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzIYUD4Eq3k

3 am, The Oblong Box (1969):  Vincent Price and Christopher Lee team up in this classic.  When a grave robber steals a coffin, he has no idea that the man inside is actually quite mad and has faked his own death.

6:15 pm, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932):  Another adaptation of the Stevenson classic, this time with Frederic March in the title roles as the poor doctor torn in two by his failed experiments to cure mental illness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzZcgHByouU

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