It’s that time of year again! If you’re anything like me, it’s the time when you start to seek out the old Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, and Boris Karloff movies>>> to get you in the Halloween mood! And look what I found!!! I am so excited about some of these old movies!
Every year I end up watching the same horror movies from the (+/-) 1940s, and I have yet to tire of them. I know it would be easier to buy or tape the movies, but with this search and seek mode, I get a wider variety of the old scary movies.
Here is a list of the movies that both TCM and AMC are showing this year. I have only included the old movies… not the more recent movies that I cannot sit through… much too realistic/scary for me! (I did notice that AMC is showing a lot of the more modern movies… but they simply aren’t “cozy enough” for me!)
I am going to go right now to set up a few of these movies on my Replay machine (like a TIVO)… Hopefully you will be able to find a movie or two that you want to watch!
TCM (Turner Classic Movies) “48 Hours of Horror”
Friday, October 30:
Mad Love 6:15 a
The Beast with Five Fingers 7:30 a
I Walked With a Zombie 9:00 a
Curse of the Demon 10:15 a
The Gorgon 12:00 p
Mr. Sardonicus 1:30 p
The Tomb of Ligeia 3:15 p
The Tingler 5:00 p
House of Usher 6:30 p
Dead of Night 8:00 p
Torture Garden 10:00 p
Twice-Told Tales 11:45 p
Kwaidan 2:00 a
Spirits of the Dead 4:45 a
Saturday, October 31:
Tell-Tale Heart 7:00 a
Cat People 7:30 a
Freaks 9:00 a
The Devil Doll 10:15 a
Mark of the Vampire 11:45 a
The Devil Bat 1:00 p
White Zombie 2:15 p
The Body Snatcher 3:30 p
Bedlam 5:00 p
The Ghoul 6:30 p
The Haunted Palace 8:00 p
Die, Monster, Die! 9:30 p
The Shuttered Room 11:00 p
The Dunwich Horror 12:45 a
Blood Feast 2:30 a
AMC (American Movie Classics)
Saturday, October 25:
The Curse of Frankenstein 6:15 a
Son of Frankenstein 8:15 a
House of Frankenstein 10:30 a
Sunday, October 26:
Jack the Ripper 5:00 a
Monday, October 27:
Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte 4:00 a
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The Invisible Man 6:00 a
Bride of Frankenstein 7:45 a
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman 9:30 a
Wednesday, October 29:
The Mummy’s Hand 6:00 a
Thursday, October 30:
The Mummy 6:00 a
Friday, October 31:
The Fly 2:30 a
House of Dracula 4:30 a
House of Frankenstein 6:00 a
Horror of Dracula 7:30 a
Danna - cozy mystery list says
This comment was submited by Alfred on another of the posts, but I am moving it to this blog:
Hello,
The three scary movies I remember growing up were the Gargoyles, Mysterious Island (with the big Chicken they had, and the two people who got put in the honeycomb sealed up by bees.) Also, the first time I watched that movie our phone rang and when I went to pick it up, it was ringing on the other end. Talk about scary for a pre-teenager.
Also, there was one movie (but I can’t remember the title) about a woman who had a voodoo doll and if it lost the chain, it came to life. In the end it terrorized her and she shoved it in the oven to kill it, and when she opened the oven door the fumes overtook her and she became possessed by it can anyone help me with the title?
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Hi Alfred,
I think that I found the movie you are looking for… It is the third part of a movie that featured Karen Black in three scary vignettes:
Trilogy of Terror (1975)
Chris Well says
I love the Universal Monsters. Anytime I see them, it’s like I’m 10 years old again.
I also recently got a great bargain for $5 … a two-disc set with three movies each starring Vincent Price (HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, THE BAT, and THE LAST MAN ON EARTH) and Christopher Lee (HORROR EXPRESS, COUNT DRACULA AND HIS VAMPIRE BRIDE, and CIRCUS OF FEAR). One of the best DVD purchases I’ve ever made.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Chris, some of those titles sound very familiar to me! Maybe you hit on it… Those old scary movies do take us back to our younger days…