As we all know, I'm a little nerdy for the lesser known horror film and this gigantic 50 disc box set that is "Horror Classics: Anniversary Edition" has been burning a hole in my DVD collection for awhile now. Having bought it 2 years ago, I really could never make time to sit down to at least watch a few of the movies I haven't seen in this set (hint, the movies I have seen is the number between 9 and 11). 

It seems pretty perfect that I write about classic horror on this fixer upper of a blog and I needed to organize out how I will consume myself with these horror films. So for one time and one time only, I, B, the certified 30s-50s horror nerd, will become a TCM-like programmer. 1982's holiday special "A Disney Halloween Treat" and "Hocus Pocus" will be watched sometime during the gaps below,  

**Most of the movies are clickable for a trailer/tease**

**Most of the movies are also on YouTube in their entirety**

October 4

Vincent Price

1. The Bat (1959)

2. Last Man on Earth (1964)

October 10

Boris Karloff Part 1

1. The Terror (1963)

2. Doomed to Die (1940)

October 11

Bela Lugosi Part 1

1. The Corpse Vanishes (1942)

2. Invisible Ghost (1941)

3. One Body Too Many (1944)

4. Black Dragons (1942)

Miscellaneous - Science-y, Wience-y

1. Maniac (1934)

2. The Monster Maker (1944)

3. The Indestructible Man (1956)

4. The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1956)

October 18

Miscellaneous - Creature Features

1. The Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)

2. The Giant Gila Monster (1959)

3. The Killer Shrews (1959)

Miscellaneous - Zombies

1. I Walked With a Zombie (1943)

2. Revolt of the Zombies (1936)

3. King of the Zombies (1941)

October 24

Boris Karloff Part 2

1. The Fatal Hour (1940)

2. The Ape (1940)

Miscellaneous 

1. Bluebeard (1944)

2. The Amazing Mr. X (1948)

October 25

Bela Lugosi Part 2

[ALL from the Bela Lugosi Collection: The Franchise Collection]

1. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

2. The Black Cat (1934)

3. The Raven (1935)

4. The Invisible Ray (1936)

5. Black Friday (1940)

Miscellaneous

1. Swamp Women (1955)

2. The Screaming Skull (1958)

3. Bloodlust (1959)

It's that time of year again! It's that time of bags and bags of caramel apple milky ways, peanuts with candy corn, and every casserole made from my online recipe book. But most importantly, it is the time for all the classic horror movies that AMC and ABC Family just won't touch! Turner Classic Movies does not entirely knock it out of the park (How many times can a girl watch "The Devil Doll" or "The Dead of Night" without wanting to recreate a few classic murder movie scenes?), but a whole night devoted to Val Lewton! Halloween Disney things! Homicidal! Mark of the Vampire! The Haunting! The list only goes so far, 

I do understand that Turner Classic can only acquire so many movies considering copyright, but maybe it's time to break out some Universal or, be still my heart, anything creepy lingering in the Warner Archives now forgotten. A night of German expressionism maybe? I find myself very excited for Val Lewton night (which will summon every ounce of my TCM Halloween marathon watching skills acquired in the past 5 years...), a little known British production of "Fall of the House of Usher", and the Spencer Tracy version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" which I have not seen yet! This will prove to be a very productive October.

**CLICK ON TITLE FOR TRAILER**

Friday, October 2nd

TCM Spotlight: Haunted Houses

7:00 pm  Two on a Guillotine (1965)

9:00  House on Haunted Hill (1958) *

10:30 The Haunting (1963) *

12:30 am The House of Seven Corpses (1974)

2:30 House of Dark Shadows (1970) *

Friday, October 9th

TCM Spotlight: Rogue Body Parts

7:00 pm Mad Love (1935) *

8:30 The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)

10:15 Hands of a Stranger (1962)

12:00 am The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)

1:30 Corruption (1967)

3:15 Eyes Without a Face (1959)

Friday, October 16

TCM Spotlight: Scary Kids

7:00 pm The Nanny (1965)

8:45 The Bad Seed (1956)

11:00 The Children of the Damned (1964) 

12:45 am The Village of the Damned (1961) 

2:15 The Curse of the Cat People (1944) *

3:30 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) *

Friday, October 23

TCM Spotlight: Literary Horror

7:00 pm Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

9:30 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) *

11:45 The Fall of the House of Usher (1949) 

1:00 am The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) *

3:00 The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) *

Wednesday, October 28

TCM Spotlight: Treasures from the Disney Vault

7:45 pm    The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) *

9:00 (Short) The Old Mill (1937) *

9:15 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: The Plausible Impossible (1956)

10:15 Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

12:00 am (Short) Lonesome Ghosts (1937) *

12:15 (Short) Frankenweenie (1984) *

1:00 The Ghosts of Buxley Hall (1980)

4:00 Return from Witch Mountain (1978)

Thursday, October 29

6:45 am Freaks (1932) *

8:15 The Devil Doll (1936) *

9:45 House on Haunted Hill (1958) *

11:15 Macabre (1958)

12:45 pm Suspicion (1941) *

2:30 Stage Fright (1950)

4:30 A Bucket of Blood (1959) *

Friday, October 30

7:15 am The Mummy (1959) *

8:45 Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966) *

10:30 Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) *

12:15 pm Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1969) *

2:00 Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed! (1969) *

3:45 Crescendo (1972)

5:15 Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) 

TCM Spotlight: Val Lewton Horror

7:00 Cat People (1942) *

8:30 Martin Scorsese Presents, Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007) *

10:00 The Seventh Victim (1943) *

11:15 The Leopard Man (1941) *

12:30 am The Ghost Ship (1943) *

1:45 The Body Snatcher (1945) *

3:15 Isle of the Dead (1945) *

4:30 Bedlam (1946) *

Saturday, October 31

6:00 am   Doctor X (1932) *

7:30 White Zombie (1932) *

8:45 Dementia 13 (1963)

10:15 The Fearless Vampire Killers (1966)

12:15 Homicidal (1961) *

2:00 The Tingler (1959) *

3:30  House of Wax (1953) *

5:15 The Devil's Bride/The Devil Rides Out (1968) *

The Essentials: Happy Halloween

7:00 The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) *

9:00 Curse of the Demon (1958) *

10:30 Dead of Night (1945) *

12:30 am Mark of the Vampire (1935) *

1:45-2:45 David Lynch Shorts

1. Forbidden City - Episode 1 (1:05:39)
2. Theory for Turntables - The Quietest Moment of the Softest Rock  (1:19:03)
3. Dreadful Thoughts - Frankenstein Book Club Parts 1 (1:12:47), 2 (1:03:59), 3 (59.31)
4. The Nerdist - Paul McCartney (1:24:51)

I waited impatiently for the Grimm panel since last Thursday and as of yesterday at 5 pm, I finally had the pleasure of seeing that beautiful post-pregnancy glow on Claire Coffee (Adalind), the adorable nuttiness all over Silas Weir Mitchell (Monroe) and even Russell Hornsby had a strange giddy swagger about him. (Hornsby and wife Denise Walker just had a little boy, Walker, two weeks ago.) Although the panel I saw was edited, I couldn't help that the questions asked by both the moderator and the audience were a bit on the lukewarm side. It almost made me nervous about where the show is going considering my own fearful opinions. Sure, the questions asked were cute and expected with the giddiness of the impending Loch Ness Monster storyline, the lack of Juliette and Kelly, and of course the "Spoilers" teasing game of it all. In other words, the off season responses a fan would expect.

The truth is, with the ever growing phenomenon of Comic Con and the genre of fantasy/sci fi becoming very prominent in acting content, Grimm and the Grimm world should have every right to be lovingly nit picked. Who better to lovingly nitpick than me with my last two opinion pieces about the show? We all expect the cute young kids and young adults to ask about characters and make up logistics about Grimm or how magical and immersive SWM is as an actor and that's fine, but these are the questions I would have asked (in an imaginary world where I have the ability of confidence-ing)...

"I would like to ask a question considering the friendship of Nick and Monroe. In season 1 and 2 there was this fairly solid sense of masculine closeness, but now that there is basically this Grimm army, when, how, and will you [creators David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf, director/producer Norberto Barba] come back to that focus between the two characters?"

"Are there any early editing choices you [Greenwalt/Kouf/Barba] made to the show that you regret now? And if there are, would you want to rework them back into the show somehow?"

"Where do you [Greenwalt/Kouf/Barba/Coffee/Turner] think Grimm stands on the Bechdel scale? Do you think changing Juliette into a hexenbiest and the whole "hexenbitch" phenomena made where you are on the scale better or worse?"

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"To Silas, I was wondering if in all of your magical Germanic-ness if you have more ideas of what you would want to bring to the show in terms of content and if they had not made it into Season 5, would you care to divulge future possibilities?"

"To Bree and Claire, as women where do you think Grimm ranks in terms of feminism both within the show and even in the broader genre of fantasy/sci fi? Do you think it could be better and how, either in terms of the writing or characters in general?

"David [Giuntoli], I thought you portrayed the duality between Grimm and cop brilliantly in the last few seasons just in terms of that pressure cooking acting. Now that it is no secret (and this also goes to the producers), what other aspects of the character will be his internal war now outside of all of the loss and bitterness or will that be the only highlights of who Nick is as a character? Where does his darkness go from here? Will things get psychologically worse before it gets better, if at all?"

"Not to throw out episode ideas which I'm sure you [Kouf/Greenwalt/Barba] hear plenty of, but what do you think about a first-Wesen account (as it were) of experiencing the Grimm-ness in Nick's eyes? Or do you think it's frightening alone just from hearing it from other characters or even just to divulge the unseen just once? 

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"Claire, now that Adalind is insistent on being a better mother to Baby-Grimm now that Diana is gone, do you think she will lose her autonomy as a woman losing herself into the role of a mother? Now that Adalind has been weakened throughout the show in more ways than one, do you think she will jump back into some aspect of her old self at some point? What would you like to see paralleled or differentiated from her experiences as a daughter to an emotionally abusive mother to her own role as a mother? Do you think she can or will rise above her [mother-daughter issue] genetics?"

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"Sasha [Roiz], producers, speculate with me. I know that you said that the royal storyline will be put aside for a bit, but now that the King is dead, do you think Mia Gaudot will be back to make a power play? Will we also see just a tiny ounce of Sean's backstory, just a teeny bit?"

"Russell [Hornsby], you seriously crushed it in that tent scene during the "Mishipeshu" episode, is there more impending scenery chewing to expect from you in the next season? What would you like to have happen to Hank outside of being a friend/extension of Nick?"

BONUS! My new favorite person and one of the many in the current running to be my spirit animal, Yael Tygiel interviewed cast and crew for my favorite podcast, Afterbuzz TV. Check out this magic-ness. (Click on the playlist button for the others)