It's the most wonderful time of the year!
Because I care, I've scoured some TV listings and found some movies you can't miss:
There's AMC's
Monsterfest, an entire week of scary movies, Oct. 23-31, including:
Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, Village of the Damned, Dracula, Friday the 13th and Halloween movies, The Devil's Rain, Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, Hellraiser, Exorcist III and a bunch of others.
Turner Classic Movies will show
thirty-nine Alfred Hitchcock films from Oct. 24-30. They're also showing
Nosferatu,
The Unknown and
The Haunting. The big can't-miss here is
London After Midnight. Thought to be lost for good, this Lon Chaney vampire flick has been reconstructed entirely from stills and will be shown for the first time in 50 years in any format.
The Independent Film Channel has the
Indie Screams weekend with
Suspiria, Inferno and
Deep Red by Dario Argento, and
Black Sunday, Bay of Blood and
Baron Blood by Mario Bava.
Black Sunday is the film with the wicked opening scene of a witch getting a spiked mask hammered onto her face. IFC will also be showing
The Wicker Man on Oct. 29 (
don't miss this one!).
Shatner alert: Our ol' buddy Bill takes on satanist Ernest Borgnine in
The Devil's Rain. Also, you probably already knew that
Halloween villain Michael Myers wears a modified Captain Kirk mask. No wonder he's my favorite movie bad guy.
I don't get premium movie channels, so I didn't check those. If you know of any other good movies on this month, by all means let us know.
Here's Wikipedia's article on
horror film.