Binge-ful Watching: Turner Classic Movies October Horror Schedule

by B Condon 1:17 PM

I love Turner Classic Movies in October with movies full of the suspenseful ambience, the cheesy '60s Gothic Hammer auras, the movies that manage to be scary without a plethora of CGI effects. But this year, there's something magical about the line-up (aptly titled "TCM Special Theme: Ghost Stories") is that I have not seen that many of these! For a channel who in the past has spent a lot of time playing repeats (although I never complain for the ten millionth view of the original "The Haunting"), I am pleasantly surprised.And DUDE! The old Dark Shadows movies!!!

All movies are linked to a trailer or clip.

Thursday, October 2

7:00 Topper (1937)

9:00  The Time of Their Lives (1946)

10:30 The Canterville Ghost (1944)

12:15 AM A Place of One's Own (1945)

2:30 AM The Cockeyed Miracle (1946)

3:30 AM Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

Saturday, October 4

11:00 AM The Mummy (1959)

12:45 A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers (2009)

2:00 Peeping Tom (1960)

Thursday, October 9

7:00 Portrait of Jennie (1948)

8:45 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) *

10:45 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) *

1:00 AM A Guy Named Joe (1943)

3:15 AM The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959)

Thursday, October 16

7:00 The Ghost Breakers (1940)

8:30 The Old Dark House (1963) *

10:15 The Smiling Ghost (1941)

11:45 The Ghost Goes West (1936)

1:15 AM Ghost Chasers (1951)

2:30 AM Spook Busters (1946)

3:45 AM Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)

Thursday, October 23

7:00 The Innocents (1961) *

9:00 The Uninvited (1944) *

11:00 The Woman in White (1948)

1:00 AM Night of Dark Shadows (1971)

3:00 AM The Others (2001)

Saturday, October 25

11:15 AM Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) *

1:00 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982) *

3:30 Mad Love (1935) *

4:45 The Birds (1963) *

7:00 The Haunting (1963) *

9:00 Village of the Damned (1961) *

10:30 The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) *

12:15 A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King (2011) *

Tuesday, October 28

5:00 AM Nosferatu (1922) *

6:45 AM The Vampire Bat (1933)

8:00 AM Dead Men Walk (1943)

9:15 Isle of the Dead (1945) *

10:45 The Return of the Vampire (1944)

12:00 House of Dark Shadows (1970)

2:00 Horror of Dracula (1958) *

3:30 Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1965) *

5:15 Dracula has Risen From the Grave (1969) *

7:00 Dead of Night (1945) *

9:00 Twice Told Tales (1963) 

11:15 Kwaidan (1965)

2 AM The House That Dripped Blood (1970)

4 AM Torture Garden (1967)

Thursday, October 30

7:00 House on Haunted Hill (1958) *

8:30 The Legend of Hell House (1973)

10:15 13 Ghosts (1960)

12:00 AM The Haunting (1963) *

2:00 AM Burnt Offerings (1976)

Friday, October 31

5:00 AM London After Midnight (1927) *

6:00 AM Mark of the Vampire (1935) *

7:15 AM The Devil Doll (1936) *

8:45 AM I Walked With a Zombie (1943) *

10:00 Cat People (1942) *

11:15 The Tingler (1959) *

12:45 Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007)

2:15 Dementia 13 (1963)

3:45 Carnival of Souls (1962)

5:15 Repulsion (1965)

7;00 Night of the Living Dead (1968)

9:00 Curse of the Demon (1958) *

10:45 House of Wax (1953) *

12:30 AM Poltergeist (1982) *

2:30 AM Strait-Jacket (1964) *

4:15 AM Eyes Without a Face (1959)

5:45 AM Doctor X (1932)

7:15 AM Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)