Halloween is this coming Tuesday. TV channels have been airing horror-themed stuff all month, of course, but as the actual day gets closer the amount of stuff increases. TCM is doing a whole marathon. For some reason, I thought that the marathon was starting on Sunday afternoon immediately after the repeat showing of Experiment in Terror on Noir Alley. But in fact it looks as though the more traditional horror doesn't begin until the prime-time lineup on Sunday evening, October 29. The afternoon lineup is frightening suspence, and four pretty good movies, but not stuff that would normally be called horror in the TV listings.
Sunday night's lineup is a double-feature of horror comedies, or comedic horror films, one featuring Abbott and Costello and the other the Bowery Boys, with a Laurel and Hardy short in between. There's still Silent Sunday Nights (an early version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring John Barrymore) and TCM Imports (two Japanese horror films that I have to admit I'm not familiar with). Monday night brings a bunch of stuff from the 1960s and 1970s, while the daytime lineup on Tuesday reverts back to more classic fare from the 1930s, including the 1931 Frankenstein at 3:45 PM. Finally, on Tuesday night we get another set of movies reminiscent of the Sunday afternoon lineup, a mix of frightening thrillers that might not be true horror (eg. Sorry, Wrong Number) and a few closer to traditional horror films (Carnival of Souls).
FXM isn't doing anything on Tuesday, at least not in the FXM Retro portion of the lineup that us classic movie fans would like. There will be horror movies on Monday night and Tuesday night, however, with a bunch of commercials. A bit surprising, there is a block of older horror movies on Monday, four of them starting with House of the Damned at 9:05 AM. I've blogged about all of those before, but none of them is without merit.
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