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

[jeffbert]

No problem, Cybotron!

I do not watch the syfy channel, too much good stuff on TCM.

Weds 10/30:

1:30 PM 81 min
TV-PG suspense
Fingers At The Window (1942)
A magician uses hypnosis to create an army of murderers.

Dir: Charles Lederer Cast: Lew Ayres , Laraine Day , Basil Rathbone .
81 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Charles Lederer. Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone, Walter Kingsford, Miles Mander, James Flavin. Entertaining mystery of Ayres and Day tracking down maniac killer masterminding repeated axe murders.

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4:45 PM 70 min
TV-PG crime
Bluebeard (1944)
A 19th-century Parisian puppeteer is killing the young women he employs.

Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer Cast: John Carradine , Jean Parker , Nils Asther .
70 min, TV-PG CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Edgar G Ulmer. Jean Parker, John Carradine, Nils Asther, Ludwig Stossel, Iris Adrian, Emmett Lynn. Surprisingly effective story set in 19th-century Paris. Incurable strangler Carradine falls for smart girl Parker, who senses that something is wrong.

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6:00 PM 1383170400 suspense
Undercurrent (1946)
6:00 PM 116 min
TV-PG suspense Undercurrent (1946)
A sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.

Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Katharine Hepburn , Robert Taylor , Robert Mitchum .
116 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Vincente Minnelli. Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Marjorie Main, Jayne Meadows, Clinton Sundberg. Stale melodramatics of newly married Hepburn, whose husband (Taylor) is bitterly estranged from his brother; however, there's more to the story than she realizes. Saved only by the fine cast and usual high MGM production quality.

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12:00 AM 62 min
TV-PG horror
Freaks (1932)
A lady trapeze artist violates the code of the side show when she plots to murder her midget husband.

Dir: Tod Browning Cast: Wallace Ford , Leila Hyams , Olga Baclanova .
62 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Tod Browning. Wallace Ford, Olga Baclanova, Leila Hyams, Harry Earles, Roscoe Ates, Johnny Eck, Daisy and Violet Hilton, Prince Randian, Zip and Pip, Schlitze. A unique movie about a traveling sideshow and the camaraderie of its unusual performers, goaded to vengeance by cruel trapeze star Baclanova. Horror-film master Tod Browning gathered an incredible cast of real-life sideshow freaks for this bizarre and fascinating film. Severely cut in U.S. during release and banned in the U.K. for 30 years, some reissue prints are missing brief epilogue; aka NATURE'S MISTAKES.

Thurs HALLOWEEN:

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.

REVIEW: widescreen
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7:30 AM 1383219000 horror
Mummy, The (1959)
88 min
TV-PG
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.

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9:00 AM 1383224400 horror
Horror Castle (1963)
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 .
C- 84 min, TV-14 CLOSE widescreen The Virgin Of Nuremberg (Horror Castle)
Marriage is deadly in "The Virgin of Nuremberg" (2004)! Rossana Podesta stars as a terrorized bride left alone in her husband's castle to survive a series of gruesome slayings by a... more

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10:30 AM 1383229800 horror
Castle of the Living Dead, The (1964) 90 min
TV-14
A traveling circus entertains a medieval count who uses them in his bizarre experiments.

Dir: Michael Reeves Cast: Christopher Lee , Donald Sutherland ,
90 min, TV-14 CLOSE widescreen
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12:15 PM 1383236100 horror
Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1965) E90 min
TV-14
Four travelers unwittingly revive the bloodsucking count.

Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Christopher Lee , Barbara Shelley , Andrew Keir .
C- 90 min, TV-14 CLOSE widescreen
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1:45 PM 1383241500 horror
Devil's Bride, The (1968) 96 min
TV-14
Small town Satanists lure an innocent brother and sister into their coven.

Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Christopher Lee , Charles Gray , Nike Arrighi .
C- 96 min, TV-14 CLOSE widescreen
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3:45 PM 1383248700 horror
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1969) 92 min
TV-14
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 CLOSE widescreen
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5:30 PM 1383255000 horror
Horror Express (1972)
5:30 PM C- 88 min
TV-14
An anthropologist discovers a frozen monster which he believes may be the Missing Link.

Dir: Eugenio Martin Cast: Christopher Lee , Peter Cushing , Telly Savalas .
C- 88 min, TV-14 CLOSE widescreen Buy The DVD
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The '70s horror classic returns like you've never seen it before! Screen legends Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing star as rival turn-of-the-century anthropologists transporting a... more
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TCM PRIMETIME - WHAT'S ON TONIGHT: STAR OF THE MONTH: VINCENT PRICE
8:00 PM 1383264000 horror
Pit And The Pendulum (1961) 80 min
TV-PG
A young man investigates his sister's death in a mysterious castle.

Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Vincent Price , John Kerr , Barbara Steele .
C- 80 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE widescreen close captioned
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9:30 PM 1383269400 horror
Haunted Palace, The (1963) 87 min
TV-PG
After inheriting a decaying estate, a man discovers his family's deadly secret.

Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Vincent Price , Debra Paget , Lon Chaney [Jr.] .
C- 87 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE widescreen close captioned
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11:15 PM 1383275700 horror
Masque Of The Red Death, The (1964)
89 min
TV-14
A sadistic nobleman isolates his court from a world stricken with the plague.

Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Vincent Price , Hazel Court , Jane Asher .
C- 89 min, TV-14 , CC CLOSE widescreen close captioned
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1:00 AM 1383282000 horror
Abominable Dr. Phibes, The (1971)
95 min
TV-14 horror Abominable Dr. Phibes, The (1971)
A madman uses the plagues of ancient Egypt to avenge his wife's death.

Dir: Robert Fuest Cast: Vincent Price , Joseph Cotten , Virginia North .
C- 95 min, TV-14 , CC CLOSE widescreen close captioned --
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2:45 AM 1383288300 horror Twice-Told Tales (1963) 120 min
TV-14 horror Twice-Told Tales (1963)
A poisonous young beauty, the secrets of eternal life and a haunted house chill this collection of Nathaniel Hawthorne stories.

Dir: Sidney Salkow Cast: Vincent Price , Sebastian Cabot , Mari Blanchard .
C- 120 min, TV-14 CLOSE widescreen
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5:00 AM 1383296400 Horror
Tomb Of Ligeia, The (1964) buy dvd EXPAND
82 min
TV-PG
A man's obsession with his dead wife leads to trouble for his new bride.

Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Vincent Price , Elizabeth Shepherd , John Westbrook .
CC CLOSE widescreen

11/01:

6:30 AM 1383301800 horror
Conqueror Worm, The (1968) [MY comments here: UK title: Witchfinder General. I heard that VP was a bit confused when he heard that he was in this film. Apparently, the US version added a quote from Poe at the beginning. ]
87 min
TV-MA
A corrupt witch hunter uses bogus accusations to satisfy his greed and lust.

Dir: Michael Reeves Cast: Vincent Price , Ian Ogilvy , Rupert Davies .
C- 87 min, TV-MA CLOSE
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8:15 AM 1383308100 horror
Theatre of Blood (1973) EXPAND
104 min
TV-14 horror Theatre of Blood (1973)
Using deaths from Shakespeare's plays, an actor takes revenge on the critics who panned his work.

Dir: Douglas Hickox Cast: Diana Rigg , Dennis Price , Ian Hendry .
C- 104 min, TV-14 CLOSE

[jeffbert]

1st, Sat 10/5; I do not know how I missed it earlier!

6:30 AM C- 106 min
TV-G horror
Captain Nemo And The Underwater City (1970)
The infamous submarine captain rescues six shipwreck survivors.

Dir: James Hill Cast: Robert Ryan , Chuck Connors , Nanette Newman .
C- 106 min, TV-G CLOSE widescreen
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10:30 AM 1380983400 horror
Gorgon, The (1964) 83 min
TV-PG
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 , CC CLOSE widescreen close captioned Buy The DVD
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12:00 PM 1380988800 horror
Devil's Bride, The (1968)
C- 96 min
TV-14
Small town Satanists lure an innocent brother and sister into their coven.

Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Christopher Lee , Charles Gray , Nike Arrighi .
C- 96 min, TV-14

a few that combine the Western w/ the classic monsters:
Sat/Sun 10/5:

2:00 AM C- 74 min
TV-PG horror
Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula (1966)
The notorious outlaw fights to save his fiancie from the dreaded vampire.

Dir: William Beaudine Sr. Cast: Chuck Courtney , John Carradine , Melinda Plowman .
C- 74 min, TV-PG CLOSE
What do you get when you cross an outlaw and a blood-sucking vampire? A goofy camp classic, that's what! Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch... more ---

3:15 AM 1381043700 horror
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
83 min
TV-PG
Baron Frankenstein's granddaughter turns the legendary outlaw's partner into a monster.

Dir: William Beaudine Sr. Cast: John Lupton , Cal Bolder , Narda Onyx .
C- 83 min, TV-PG CLOSE

Sat/Sun 10/12:

2:15 AM 65 min
TV-G silent
West of Zanzibar (1928)
In this silent film, a mad African dictator plots revenge on the trader who stole his wife.

Dir: Tod Browning Cast: Lon Chaney , Lionel Barrymore , Mary Nolan .
65 min, TV-G LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Tod Browning. Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter, Jacqueline Gadsdon. Crippled Chaney rules a jungle monarchy and lives for one thing: revenge on the man who ruined his life. His scheme: to despoil the man's beautiful young daughter (Nolan). Pat ending nearly mars seamy, bizarre story; remade as KONGO. Originally released at 69m.

REVIEW:
Revenge is a dish best served cold in director Tod Browning’s lurid tale of love and vengeance starring Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore and Mary Nolan. When his dying wife returns with...
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3:30 AM 1381649400 silent
Unholy Three (1925) 86 min
TV-G
In this silent film, a ventriloquist masquerades as an old lady to front a crime ring.

Dir: Tod Browning Cast: Lon Chaney , Mae Busch , Matt Moore .
86 min, TV-G CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Tod Browning. Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen, Harry Earles. In departure from horrific roles, Chaney plays sideshow ventriloquist who teams with strongman and midget to form underworld trio. Corny aspects of story can't mar fascination with basic idea, or Chaney's performance. Remade in 1930.

Sun/Mon 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 .
89 min, TV-PG 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.

REVIEW: F. W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922) has been established as the ultimate vampire film, particularly faithful to Bram Stoker's famous novel "Dracula." Gustav von Wagenheim stars as real... more
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2:00 AM 1381730400 horror Vampyr (1932)
73 min
TV-PG
Classic tale of a young traveler finding himself in a sinister castle.

Dir: Carl Th. Dreyer Cast: Maurice Schutz , Rena Mandel , Nicolas Degunzburg .
73 min, TV-PG 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 1381734900 horror
Vampire Bat, The (1933)
61 min
TV-PG horror Vampire Bat, The (1933)
Villagers suspect the town simpleton of being a vampire.

Dir: Frank Strayer Cast: Lionel Atwill , Fay Wray , Melvyn Douglas .
61 min, TV-PG 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.

REVIEW: Buy The DVD
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One of the earliest portrayals of vampires on film can be seen in "The Vampire Bat," (1933) a low-budget thriller from lesser-known Majestic Pictures. The bloodsucking winged...
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4:30 AM 1381739400 horror
Vampire, The (1957) 76 min
TV-14
An experimental treatment turns a small-town doctor into a ravening vampire.

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Sat/Sun 10/19:

12:00 AM 71 min
TV-G suspense
Miracles For Sale (1939)
A magician turns detective to investigate murder and a phony seance.

Dir: Tod Browning Cast: Robert Young , Florence Rice , Frank Craven .
71 min, TV-G CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Tod Browning. Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven, Henry Hull, Lee Bowman, Cliff Clark, Astrid Allwyn, Walter Kingsford. Young is an ex-magician who now devises elaborate illusions for a living and tries to expose fake spiritualists. When murder rears its head and Rice is threatened, he has his hands full. Browning's last movie is a slick whodunit that cheats its audience a bit too often and features a red herring character who's painfully obvious.
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1:15 AM 1382246100 silent London After Midnight (1927)47 min
TV-PG silent London After Midnight (1927)
In this silent film, vampires are suspected in an unsolved murder.

Dir: Tod Browning Cast: Lon Chaney , Marceline Day , Henry B. Walthall .
47 min,
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2:15 AM 1382249700 horror
Incubus (1965) 74 min
TV-14 horror Incubus (1965)
An evil spirit plots to snare the soul of a courageous and good man.

Dir: Leslie Stevens Cast: William Shatner , Milos Milos , Allyson Ames .
74 min, TV-14 CLOSE
"American Pie's" (1999) Tara Reid is a medical student who makes a terrifying discovery in this blood-spattered horror movie. Reid and her friends break down in the middle of nowhere... more
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3:45 AM 1382255100 horror
Hypnotic Eye, The (1960)
78 min
TV-PG horror

A city is stricken by a wave of self-mutilations performed by beautiful women who appear to be in a hypnotic trance.

Dir: George Blair Cast: Jacques Bergerac , Merry Anders , Marcia Henderson .
78 min, TV-PG CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: George Blair. Jacques Bergerac, Merry Anders, Marcia Henderson, Allison Hayes. Partially successful chiller of theatrical mesmerizer with penchant for having female victims disfigure themselves.

REVIEW: widescreen
A sulfuric acid facial. A lye cocktail. A close encounter with whirring fan blades. A flammable shampoo and a lit gas burner. Something is driving beautiful women into grotesque acts... more
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5:15 AM 1382260500 horror
Rosie (1960) 19 min
TV-G
A failed pilot to a TV sitcom about an eerie-looking talking dog that befriends a boy.

Sun 10/20:

12:00 AM 107 min
TV-14 silent
Haxan (1922)
Scenes trace the history of witchcraft from the middle ages to the early 20th century.

Dir: Benjamin Christensen Cast: Benjamin Christensen ,
107 min, TV-14 CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Benjamin Christensen. Oscar Stribolt, Clara Pontoppidan, Karen Winther, Maren Pedersen. Visually stunning history of the occult, recreating actual incidents based on records of witch trials, demonic possessions, and torture by the Inquisition. Writer-director Christensen plays Satan himself in this genuinely scary, no-holds-barred silent film. A shortened version was released in 1968 featuring commentary by William S. Burroughs. Original title: HAXAN.

REVIEW:
One of the most famous cult/horror films from the silent era, "Häxan" explores a devilish hypothesis that the witches during the Middle Ages suffered from the same madness as... more
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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

Mon 10/21:

6:15 PM 96 min
TV-PG horror
Eye of the Devil (1966)
A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.

Dir: J. Lee Thompson Cast: Deborah Kerr , David Niven , Donald Pleasence .
96 min, TV-PG , CC

Tues 10/22:

4:30 PM 93 min
TV-PG horror
Place of One's Own, A (1945)
An elderly woman's caregiver becomes possessed by a murdered girl's spirit.

Dir: Bernard Knowles Cast: Margaret Lockwood , James Mason , Barbara Mullen .
93 min, TV-PG CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Bernard Knowles. James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Barbara Mullen, Dennis Price, Helen Haye, Ernest Thesiger. Well-made film about couple who buy "haunted'' house, and young woman who becomes possessed by spirit of former owner. Well acted but low-key. Mason plays unusual role of older, retired man.

Sun10/ 27:

4:15 PM 90 min
TV-14 horror
Children Of The Damned (1964)
Space invaders impregnate six women with super-powered offspring.

Dir: Anton M. Leader Cast: Ian Hendry , Alan Badel , Barbara Ferris .
90 min, TV-14 , CC CLOSE widescreen close captioned Buy The DVD
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6:00 PM 1382911200 horror
Them! (1954) 93 min
TV-PG
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.

Late night, 10/27, 28
1:00 AM C- 90 min
TV-G silent
Phantom of the Opera, The (1925)
In this silent film, a hideously deformed man haunts the sewers beneath the Paris Opera.

Dir: Rupert Julian Cast: Lon Chaney , Mary Philbin , Norman Kerry .
C- 90 min, TV-G CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Rupert Julian. Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Snitz Edwards, Gibson Gowland. Classic melodrama with Chaney as the vengeful composer who lives in the catacombs under the Paris Opera House and kidnaps young Philbin as his singing protegee. Famous unmasking scene still packs a jolt, and the Bal Masque is especially impressive in two-color Technicolor. One of Chaney's finest hours. Most prints are of the 1929 reissue version, but the original is available on DVD; running times vary. Remade several times, and transformed into a Broadway musical.
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3:00 AM 1382943600 suspense
Diabolique (1955)
117 min
TV-MA suspense Diabolique (1955)
A cruel man's wife and lover plot to kill him.

Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot Cast: Paul Meurisse , Vera Clouzot , Simone Signoret .
117 min, TV-MA CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Michel Serrault. Tyrannical school- master (Meurisse) is bumped off by his long-suffering wife (Clouzot) and mistress (Signoret). Classic chiller builds slowly, surely to final quarter hour that will drive you right up the wall. A must. Older American prints run 107m. Aka LES DIABOLIQUES; remade for U.S. TV as REFLECTIONS OF MURDER (1974) and HOUSE OF SECRETS (1993), and for theaters in 1996. Rereleased theatrically in 1994 with 9m. of footage edited out of original U.S. theatrical version.

Hitchcock was on Dick Cavett's show, & compared Diabolique to Psycho. I highly recommend it!

Weds, 10/30:

12:00 AM 62 min
TV-PG horror
Freaks (1932)
A lady trapeze artist violates the code of the side show when she plots to murder her midget husband.

Dir: Tod Browning Cast: Wallace Ford , Leila Hyams , Olga Baclanova .
62 min, TV-PG , CC

[cybotron]

wow that Vincent fest is great! The Haunted palace in HD!

[jeffbert]

I am disappointed that WAR-GODS OF THE DEEP is absent, though it is far from one of VP's more memorable films, it goes nicely with MASTER OF THE WORLD.

Other than VP's films, one I want to highlight is CURSE OF THE DEMON, mainly because they basically remade it a few years ago, as Drag Me to Hell plot very much the same. I do not recall which one was better.

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Fri 10/18:
12:30 AM 1382157000 horror
Curse of the Demon (1958)
82 min
An anthropologist investigates a devil worshipper who commands a deadly demon.

Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Dana Andrews , Peggy Cummins , Niall MacGinnis .
82 min, TV-PG , CC CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW: D: Jacques Tourneur. Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Athene Seyler, Liam Redmond, Reginald Beckwith, Maurice Denham. Andrews is a stuffily cynical psychologist who doesn't believe that series of deaths have been caused by ancient curse, but film convinces audience right off the bat and never lets up. Charles Bennett and producer Hal E. Chester adapted Montague R. James' story ''Casting the Runes.'' Exceptional shocker, originally called NIGHT OF THE DEMON. 83m. American version circulated for many years.

REVIEW: widescreen close captioned

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Master of the world was made from the plot of two Verne books that aren't very well known, "Master of the world", and "Robur the Conqueror". I think the later is a sequel to the former. Another obscure Verne book, "Face the Flag" was the basis for "The Fabulous world of Jules Verne", a movie made in the late 50's and released in the US in the early '60s. I remember seeing that one as part of a double feature with "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea".

[EyeOdyssey]

YES! They're playing Masque of the Red Death!

They played Night of the Living Dead last night. I can't believe that after I watched for the first time I forgot the genius quote of "They're dead, they're all messed up." in all seriousness, that should be a T-shirt.

And The Devil's Bride is playing right now. I recall seeing it years ago during the Hammer Marathon. I think it's the film where Set (Sutekh, Seth) is brought up at the very ending.

[jeffbert]

I read both those Verne novels; they are available on one or both of the Gutenberg sites, one is .org, I do not recall the other one's suffix. Anyway, compare the scenes in 20,000 & Master, when Nemo leaves Ned on deck & begins to submerge; while Robur suspends Bronson & the other guy from the rope while the Albatross ["Albatross, Albatross, ALBATROSS!" "dO YA GET WAFERS WITH IT?"] LOSES ALTITUDE over a mountain.

[jeffbert]

EyeOdyssey: I have seen all those Hammer films they are showing today, though I think one of the others' title is unfamiliar to me. How can they omit the one with the cobra girl? I nearly died laughing when they 1st showed her face!

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Fri 10/11:
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

As I recall, this one had a short story that was used as the basis for The Twilight Zone's Twenty Two. "Room for one more, honey."

[EyeOdyssey]

EyeOdyssey: I have seen all those Hammer films they are showing today, though I think one of the others' title is unfamiliar to me. How can they omit the one with the cobra girl? I nearly died laughing when they 1st showed her face!

Cobra girl? I have to see that one (sounds very silly), what's the title of the film? Is the monster a Ray Harryhausen type stop motion special effect, or is it an animatronic? I assume it's the face of a human on the body of a cobra, in a way similar to the talking serpent from the 7 Faces of Dr. Lao?