Monster of the month

We're already into October, which means Halloween comes up at the end of the month. Of course, it's become common in recent years to draw out holidays for a long time, notably Halloween and Christmas. So a lot of places spend all of October doing Halloween-type stuff.

TCM is no different; there are going to be horror movies sprinkled throughout the month. There are going to be generic horror movies on Tuesday nights, mostly likely picked because Halloween falls on a Tuesday this year. But there's also a "Monster of the Month" in addition to the traditional Star of the Month (more on that one at the end of the week). TCM will be showing a bunch of Dracula movies on Sunday in prime time. For the most part, this means a limited number of movies because Silent Sunday Nights won't have Dracula movies.

As I understand it, there was a copyright problem for F.W. Murnau and folks from the estate of Bram Stoker when they made Nosferatu, because apparently Dracula is the only vampire or something; I wouldn't be surprised if that caused problems with other retellings of the tale in the silent era. Besides, Hollywood only would have made one silent Dracula if anybody had bothered to make it. But Nosferatu is this week's Silent Sunday Night selection, overnight tonight at 12:30 AM.