Bela Lugosi as Dracula (tonight at 8:00 PM and again on Halloween)
We're into a new month, and that means that it's time for a new Star of the Month on TCM. This being October, it's the month with Halloween at the end of it and so horror movies are a big thing. With that in mind, TCM picked Bela Lugosi as their Star of the Month for October. His movies will be airing on the first four Wednesdays in October. The last Wednesday, being in the run-up to Halloween itself, is being given over to TCM's annual Halloween marathon. Dracula itself is getting a second airing in that marathon; not having blogged about it before, I'm planning to record tonight's (8:00 PM) first airing and doing a post on it for Halloween.
One other movie that's worth mentioning is Broadminded, airing at midnight between October 23 and 24, so still the evening of October 23 in more westerly time zones. This one isn't a horror, but a Joe E. Brown comedy with Bela Lugosi as a man who consistently winds up on the wrong end of Brown's actions, although not intended by Brown. It's interesting seeing Lugosi doing comedy, and the move starts off so strangely -- I blogged about it many years ago but won't spoil the ridiculous opening here -- that it's decidedly worth a watch.
I've got several more horror films to post about over the course of October.
No comments:
Post a Comment