HALLOWEEN on TCM: Vincent Price, star of the month!

[jeffbert]

No, it HAMMER; I think it is called THE REPTILE. Neither Cushing nor Lee are in it, but it is pretty good, even without them.

[jeffbert]

Sun 10/20:

2:00 AM
TV-14 horror
Kwaidan (1965)
Four stories mix love and the supernatural in exotic settings.

Dir: Masaki Kobayashi Cast: Rentaro Mikuni , Michiyo Aratama , Misako Watanabe .
C- 161 min, TV-14 CLOSE

I am sure I saw this a few years ago, as I usually watch TCM's foreign films, especially Japanese ones. I think I have seen 3 or 4 all together, I recall nothing about this one, other than that it was good. :d evil:

CYBOTRON: Sorry I neglected to comment on Horror Castle, earlier. I do not recall that title, though I will watch it this year!



I almost died laughing when watching the 1st story on Twice-Told Tales! I was just a bit disappointed that the following stories lacked that type of ending.




ANYWAY, I SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS WEEK BY WEEK, so for this coming week:

TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: FRIDAY NIGHT SPOTLIGHT:
8:00 PM 1381536000 horror
Horror of Dracula C- 81 min
TV-PG (1958)
The legendary count tries to turn his enemies' women into his bloodthirsty brides.

Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing , Michael Gough , Melissa Stribling .
C- 81 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Terence Fisher. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Melissa Stribling, Michael Gough, Carol Marsh, John Van Eyssen, Valerie Gaunt, Miles Malleson. Probably Hammer Films' best shocker, a handsomely mounted retelling of the Stoker tale, with fantasy elements deemphasized. Lee is smooth as the Count, and Cushing perfect as tireless Professor Van Helsing. Script by Jimmy Sangster; full-blooded score by James Bernard. Released in Britain as DRACULA; followed by six sequels, the first of which was DRACULA--PRINCE OF DARKNESS.

REVIEW: widescreen close captioned Buy The DVD
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9:30 PM 1381541400 horror
Isle Of The Dead
72 min
TV-PG (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.

REVIEW: close captioned
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11:00 PM 1381546800 horror
Dead of Night
103 min
TV-14 (1945)
Guests at a country estate share stories of the supernatural.

Dir: [Alberto] Cavalcanti Cast: Mervyn Johns , Roland Culver , Hartley Power .
103 min, TV-14 , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, Charles Crichton. Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Antony Baird, Judy Kelly, Miles Malleson, Sally Ann Howes, Googie Withers, Ralph Michael, Michael Redgrave, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Frederick Valk. Classic chiller of gathering at a country house, where guests trade supernatural stories. One of them (Johns) has been having a nightmare that now seems to be coming true; final sequence with Redgrave as a schizophrenic ventriloquist is a knockout. U.S. theatrical version ran 77m.; complete edition has been restored for TV.

REVIEW: close captioned
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1:00 AM 1381554000 horror
Haunting, The (1963) 112 min
TV-PG
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 CLOSE widescreen close captioned
Terror awaits inside an 18th century mansion in "The Haunting" (1963) a gripping paranormal thriller starring Richard Johnson, Julie Harris, and Claire Bloom. Evil lurks in every... more
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3:00 AM 1381561200 horror
House of Seven Corpses, The
C- 88 min
TV-14 (1974)
A director courts disaster by filming his horror movie in a real haunted house.

Dir: Paul Harrison Cast: John Ireland , Faith Domergue , John Carradine .
C- 88 min, TV-14
A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult... more

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4:30 AM 1381566600 horror
Horror Castle (1963)
C- 84 min
TV-14
A Holocaust survivor tortures women in the dungeons of an ancient castle.

Dir: Anthony Dawson Cast: Rossana Podestà , Georges Rivière , Christopher Lee .

Sat 10/12: Only a few scattered horror films, the SUSPENSE films are also scary:

8:30 AM 93 min
TV-PG suspense
Mystery Street (1950)
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim's bones to go on.

Dir: John Sturges Cast: Ricardo Montalban , Sally Forrest , Bruce Bennett .
93 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: John Sturges. Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester, Marshall Thompson, Jan Sterling, Eamon Ryan, Betsy Blair. The skeleton of a murdered B girl is studied by Cape Cod cop Montalban and Harvard doctor Bennett in an early movie depiction of forensic science. Intelligent, realistic mystery is well acted and engrossing, if slow paced.

REVIEW: close captioned
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10:30 AM 1381588200 suspense
Scream of Fear (1961) 81 min
TV-PG suspense Scream of Fear (1961)
A wheelchair-bound heiress doubts her sanity when she sees her dead father's body around the family estate.

Dir: Seth Holt Cast: Susan Strasberg , Ronald Lewis , Ann Todd .
81 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE close captioned Buy The DVD
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The 2-disc "Hammer Films: Icons of Horror Collection" assembles four classics from the revered U.K. gothic film studio. Hammer Films was well known for its atmospheric horror... more

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12:00 PM 1381593600 horror
Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, The (1961)
C- 88 min
TV-PG
An eminent doctor releases a dark force from within himself.

Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Paul Massie , Dawn Addams , Christopher Lee .
C- 88 min, TV-PG CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Terence Fisher. Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David Kossoff, Francis De Wolff, Norma Marla. Uneven, sometimes unintentionally funny reworking of Stevenson story stresses Mr. and Mrs. relationship, plus fact that doctor himself is a weakling (and Hyde is suave and handsome!). Unfortunately, dialogue and situations are boring. Look for Oliver Reed as a bouncer. Originally shown in U.S. as HOUSE OF FRIGHT. Megascope.

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4:30 PM 80 min, TV-G horror
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
No one believes an amateur astronomer's spaceship sighting until the town's people begin disappearing.

Dir: Jack Arnold Cast: Richard Carlson , Barbara Rush , Charles Drake .
80 min, TV-G CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Jack Arnold. Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Russell Johnson, Joe Sawyer, Kathleen Hughes. Intriguing science-fiction based on a Ray Bradbury story. An alien ship crashes in the Arizona desert; its passengers assume the identities of nearby townspeople so they can effect repairs unnoticed--they think. Remarkably sober for its era, with crisp performances and real restraint, even in its use of 3-D. The 1996 TV movie IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE II is a much inferior remake, rather than the sequel the title suggests.

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6:00 PM 95 min, TV-PG horror
World, The Flesh, And The Devil, The (1959)
One woman and two men are the only people left alive after a nuclear disaster.

Dir: Ranald MacDougall Cast: Harry Belafonte , Inger Stevens , Mel Ferrer .
95 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Ranald MacDougall. Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer. Belafonte and Stevens are only survivors of worldwide nuclear accident; their uneasy relationship is jarred by arrival of Ferrer. Intriguing film starts well, bogs down halfway through, and presents ridiculous conclusion. Best scenes are at beginning, when Belafonte is alone in an impressively deserted Manhattan. CinemaScope.

I do not consider World, The Flesh, And The Devil to be a horror, though is is apocalyptic, because as I recall, it has no real horror elements. It does have conflict between the 2 men, competing for the 1 woman.

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Sun night 10/13:

12:00 AM
89 min TV-PG
silent
Nosferatu (1922)

In this silent film, a beautiful woman risks her life to end a vampire's plague of death and pestilence.
Dir: F. W. Murnau Cast: Max Schreck , Gustav von Wangenheim , Alexander Granach .
CLOSE
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

D: F. W. Murnau. Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schroeder. Early film version of Dracula is brilliantly eerie, full of imaginative touches that none of the later films quite recaptured. Schreck's vampire is also the ugliest in film history. The making of this film is dramatized in SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE. Remade in 1979.
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2:00 AM
73 min
TV-PG

Vampyr (1932)

Classic tale of a young traveler finding himself in a sinister castle.
Dir: Carl Th. Dreyer Cast: Maurice Schutz , Rena Mandel , Nicolas Degunzburg .
CLOSE
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

D: Carl Theodor Dreyer. Julian West (Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg), Sybille Schmitz, Maurice Schutz, Henriette Gerard. Dreyer's stylized use of light, shadow, and camera angles takes precedence over the plot in this chilling vampire-in-a-castle tale. Based on the novella Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu; filmed several times later. Originally made in French, German, and English versions.
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3:15 AM
61 min
TV-PG

Vampire Bat, The (1933)

Villagers suspect the town simpleton of being a vampire.
Dir: Frank Strayer Cast: Lionel Atwill , Fay Wray , Melvyn Douglas .
CLOSE
LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

D: Frank Strayer. Lionel Atwill, Melvyn Douglas, Fay Wray, Dwight Frye, Maude Eburne, George E. Stone, Lionel Belmore. Good cast helps average story along. Atwill stars as mad doctor forced to kill townsfolk in search of "blood substitute.'' Beware shorter prints.
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4:30 AM
76 min
TV-14

Vampire, The (1957)

An experimental treatment turns a small-town doctor into a ravening vam