Turner Rides Again

 

Every year, I try to give you kind folks a disembodied heads-up to horror showing in October. In that time, we have found that Turner Classics has a hand so hot that the skin is falling off. This year is no different. There are at least 105 times that the cable channel will show some form of horror film. Add to that Peter Cushing, who is the Star of the Month. Once again, Turner reigns supreme.

Let’s have a look:

The Stars

Peter Cushing films include (Oct 12) Dr. Who & the Daleks (1965) 9:30pm, Daleks: Earth Invasion 2150 A.D. (1966) 11pm, She (1965) 12:30am and Corruption (1967) 4:30am; (Oct19)  Horror of Dracula (1958) 9:30pm, The Mummy (1959) 11:15pm, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) 1 am, Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) 2:45am and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1970) 4:30am; and (Oct 26) Nothing but the Night (1972) 8pm, Madhouse (1974) 9:45pm, From Beyond the Grave (1973) 11:30pm, Scream & Scream Again (1970) , The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) 3:15am and Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) 4:45am.

Lon Chaney, Sr. has a small marathon of three films on Oct 14 with The Unholy Three (1925) at 10:15am, The Unknown (1927) at Noon and The Blackbird (1926) at 1pm.

Lon Chaney, Jr. films include the cult classic Spider Baby (1964) Oct 16 at 4:45pm (this was his last film), Indestructible Man (1956) Oct 29 at 4pm, and The Wolf Man (1941) Oct 31 at 4:45pm.

Boris Karloff films include The Ghoul (1933) Oct 9 at 8 pm, Black Sabbath (1963) Oct 16 at 12:15am, The Mummy (1932) Oct 24 at 5am, The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) Oct 30 at 8am, The Walking Dead (1936) Oct 30 at 5:30pm, and The Body Snatcher (1945) Oct 31 at 3am.

Christopher Lee films (aside from appearances with Peter Cushing) include The Wicker Man (1974) 12:45am

Peter Lorre films include The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) Oct 26 at 6am, and Mad Love (1935) Oct 30 at 4:15pm.

Bela Lugosi films include Dracula (1931) Oct 2 at 8pm, Mark of the Vampire (1935) Oct 9 at 11pm and Oct 14 at 5:15pm, Island of Lost Souls (1932) Oct 30 at 10:45am, White Zombie (1932) Oct 30 at Noon, and The Vampire Bat (1933) Oct 30 at 1:30pm.

Vincent Price films (aside from appearances with Peter Cushing) include The House on Haunted Hill (1958) Oct 2 at 11pm, The Raven (1963) Oct 16 at 3:15pm, Twice Told Tales (1963) Oct 16 at 10pm, The Tingler (1959) Oct 23 at 11:15pm, and House of Wax (1953) Oct 31 at 9am.

Also found:

A Foreign Triple Feature on Oct 25 with Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) midnight, Diabolique (1955) 2 am and Eyes Without a Face (1959) 4:15 am.

A pair of Nasty Kids movies on Halloween with Children of the Damned (1964) 10:45am and The Bad Seed (1956) 12:30pm, not to mention that Village of the Damned (1960) is showing on Oct 16 at 9:15am.

Of course, the Giant Monsters dominate on Oct 12 with The Killer Shrews (1959) 7:45am, King Kong (1933) 9am, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) 11am and Godzilla (1954) 12:30pm, The Green Slime (1969) 4:45pm, and Night of the Lepus (1972) 6:330pm. Also, Them! (1954) is showing on Halloween at 10pm.

For laughs, there is Little Shop of Horrors (1960) Oct 16 at 8am, Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers (1966) Oct 17 at 1:45am, I Married a Witch (1942) Oct 19 at 6am, Topper (1937) Oct 22 at 2:30pm, Topper Takes a Trip (1939) Oct 22 at 4:15pm, and Angel on My Shoulder (1946) Oct 29 at 12:30pm.

 

Other Classics include:

The Haunting (1963) Oct 2 at 12:30am and Oct 31 at 6pm

Night of the Living Dead (1968) Oct 9 at 12:15am and Oct 22 at 1am

The Creature of the Black Lagoon (1954) Oct 12 at 2pm and Oct 23 at 8pm

Freaks (1932) Oct 14 at 4pm and Oct 31 at 6am

Devil Doll (1936) Oct 14 at 6:30pm and Oct 29 at 7am

Carnival of Souls (1962) Oct 16 at 12:15pm

Dead of Night (1945) Oct 16 at 8pm

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) Oct 22 at 11:30pm and Oct 30 at 2:45pm

The Blob (1958) Oct 23 at 9:30pm

The Thing from Another World (1951) Oct 23 at 12:45am

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Oct 25 at 5:30pm

Doctor X (1932) Oct 30 at 6:30am and Return of Dr. X (1939) at 6:45pm

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) Oct 31 at 7:35am

I Walked with a Zombie (1943) Oct 31 at 1:30am

 

Aside from some of the lesser known films from above, Turner has chosen a few that are not likely to be found showing anywhere else. They include Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace (1964) Oct 5 at 4:30pm, The 13^th Chair (1929) Oct 14 at 2:30pm, Francis Ford Coppola’s Dementia 13 (1963) Oct 16 at 1:45pm, Rollerball (1975) Oct 17 at 5:45pm, Ninja III: The Domination (1984) Oct 23 at 2:30am, Brainstorm (1983) Oct 24 at 2:15pm, From Hell It Came (1957) Oct 29 at 5:15pm, The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959) Oct 30 at 8pm and The Seventh Victim (1943) Oct 31 at Midnight and Nov 1 at 10am.

This covers just about all the films to be shown in October at Turner. All times are Eastern Standard. 

Once again, I’d like to thank Turner Classics for its continued October efforts at doing their level best to scare the pants off us. It is kind of them to give us a whole month, while most stations barely give us the day!