Hi classic horror film fans! :)

While at home enjoying the Ulmer fest today on TCM, I thought I'd
look ahead to their schedule for October and share my findings.
While not quite as extensive as last year when they featured Boris
Karloff and Hammer films all month, there are still some pretty good
films on there. I wish AMC was like it used to be, because their
horror fests were better, but now they pretty much suck----too many
ads, and not enough good classic stuff. TCM has less to offer
(though sometimes more rare things too), but TCM shows their films
uncut and commercial free! :)

Here are some horror and sci-fi gems I unearthed from TCM's October
schedule (all times EST):

Sunday, Oct 3

8:00 AM The Time Machine (1960) A turn-of-the-century inventor
sends himself into the future to save humanity. Rod Taylor, Yvette
Mimieux, Alan Young. D: George Pal. C 103m. LBX CC DVS

8:30 PM Village Of The Damned (1960) After a mysterious blackout,
the inhabitants of a British village give birth to emotionless,
super-powered offspring. George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael
Gwynn. D: Wolf Rilla. BW 77m. LBX CC DVS

10:00 PM Children Of The Damned (1964) Space invaders impregnate
six women with super-powered offspring. Ian Hendry, Alan Badel,
Barbara Ferris. D: Anton Leader. BW 89m. LBX CC

***note: For several Sunday nights/Monday early morning, TCM will
be airing chapters from a French silent serial, which is fantasy and
features a costumed hero, called JUDEX (they start at 12am, but for
some reason TCM's schedule just shows 12am for all the chapters):

Monday, Oct 4

12:00 AM The Prologue (1917) 36m.

12:00 AM The Mysterious Shadow (1917) 26m.

12:00 AM The Atonement (1917) 16m.

12:00 AM The Fantastic Dog Pack (1917) 37m.


Saturday, Oct 9

12:00 PM Forbidden Planet (1956) A group of space troopers
investigates the destruction of a colony on a remote planet. Walter
Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen. D: Fred M. Wilcox. C 99m. LBX
CC


Sunday, Oct 10

8:15 PM The Devil Bat (1941) A mad scientist trains killer bats to
respond to a special scent. Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, David
O'Brien. D: Jean Yarbrough. BW 68m.


Monday, Oct 4

More JUDEX serial chapters:

12:00 AM The Licorice Kid (1917) 23m.

12:00 AM The Woman in Black (1917) 30m.

12:00 AM The Secret of the Tomb (1917) 26m.

12:00 AM The Tragic Mill (1917) 26m.


Saturday, Oct 16

3:15 AM The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Joan of Arc braves the
threat of torture to stand fast for her beliefs. Renee Falconetti,
Eugene Silain, Antonin Artaud. D: Carl Theodor Dreyer. BW 82m.
*NOTE: I consider this a horror film on some levels---try it and
let me know what you think*

Sunday, Oct 17

1:00 AM I Walked With A Zombie (1943) A nurse in the Caribbean
resorts to voodoo to cure her patient, even though she's in love
with the woman's husband. Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison. D:
Jacques Tourneur. BW 69m. CC DVS

2:15 AM Freaks (1932) A lady trapeze artist violates the code of
the side show when she plots to murder her midget husband. Wallace
Ford, Olga Baclanova, Harry Earles. D: Tod Browning. BW 65m. CC

12:00 PM Abbott And Costello Meet The Invisible Man (1951) Two
bumbling private eyes turn a boxer invisible to save him from being
framed for murder. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Arthur Franz. D:
Charles Lamont. BW 82m. CC

7:30 PM The Blob (1958) A misunderstood teen fights to save his
town from a gelatinous monster from outer space. Steve McQueen,
Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe. D: Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr. C 82m. LBX

9:00 PM Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (1956) Space invaders attack
the nation's capital. Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Morris Ankrum. D:
Fred F. Sears. BW 83m. LBX

10:30 PM The Thing From Another World (1951) The crew of a remote
Arctic base fights off a murderous monster from outer space. Kenneth
Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness. D: Christian Nyby. BW 87m.
CC DVS


Monday, Oct 18

More of the JUDEX serial:

12:00 AM The Underground Passsges of the Chateau-Rouge (1917) 24m.

12:00 AM When the Child Appeared (1917) 24m.

12:00 AM Jacqueline's Heart (1917) 9m.

12:00 AM The Water Goddess (1917) 26m.

12:00 AM Love's Forgiveness (1917) 8m.

10:00 PM The Birds (1963) In a California coastal area, flocks of
birds unaccountably make deadly attacks on humans. Rod Taylor, Tippi
Hedren, Jessica Tandy. D: Alfred Hitchcock. C 119m. LBX CC


Thursday, Oct 21

6:30 AM The Lost World (1925) In this silent film, a scientist
tries to prove the existence of dinosaurs in South America. Bessie
Love, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone. D: Harry Hoyt. BW 93m.

8:30 AM Tarzan, The Ape Man (1932) A British lord raised by apes
kidnaps a beautiful noblewoman exploring Africa with her father.
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith. D: W.S. Van
Dyke II. BW 100m. CC DVS

10:30 AM King Kong (1933) A film crew discovers the "eighth wonder
of the world," a giant prehistoric ape, and brings him back to New
York, where he wreaks havoc. Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong. D: Merian
C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. BW 100m. CC DVS

12:30 PM Son Of Kong (1933) Producer Carl Denham returns to Skull
Island in search of more monsters. Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack,
Frank Reicher. D: Ernest B. Schoedsack. BW 70m.


Sunday, Oct 24

9:00 PM The Raven (1935) An insane plastic surgeon plots to kill
people in ways inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. Boris Karloff, Bela
Lugosi, Irene Ware. D: Louis Friedlander. BW 61m. CC

10:15 PM Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1932) Robert Louis Stevenson's
classic tale of a scientist who unleashes the beast within. Fredric
March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart. D: Rouben Mamoulian. BW 96m. CC

Monday, Oct 25

12:00 AM Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) A doctor's research into
the roots of evil turns him into a hideous monster. John Barrymore,
Martha Mansfield, Brandon Hurst. D: John S. Robertson. 63m.

2:00 AM Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1941) A scientist's investigations
into the nature of good and evil turn him into a murderous monster.
Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner. D: Victor Fleming. BW
113m. CC DVS

4:00 AM Mad Love (1935) A mad doctor grafts the hands of a murderer
on to a concert pianist's wrists. Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin
Clive. D: Karl Freund. BW 68m. CC

8:00 PM Dracula (1931) The legendary bloodsucker stakes his claim
on a British estate in search of new blood. Bela Lugosi, Helen
Chandler, Dwight Frye. D: Tod Browning. BW 74m.

9:30 PM The Mummy (1932) An Egyptian mummy returns to life to stalk
the reincarnation of his lost love. Boris Karloff, Zita Johann,
David Manners. D: Karl Freund. BW 73m.

10:45 PM The Wolf Man (1941) A British nobleman undergoes a
startling transformation when he's bitten by a gypsy werewolf. Lon
Chaney, Jr., Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy. D: George Waggner. BW 70m.
CC


Tuesday, Oct 26

12:00 AM The Invisible Man (1933) A scientist's experiments with
invisibility turn him into a madman. Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart,
Una O'Connor. D: James Whale. BW 71m. CC

1:15 AM Frankenstein (1931) A crazed scientist creates a living
being from body parts, not realizing it has a madman's brain. Boris
Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke. D: James Whale. BW 70m. CC

2:30 AM Bride of Frankenstein (1935) To save his wife, Baron
Frankenstein must build a mate for his monster. Boris Karloff, Colin
Clive, Elsa Lanchester. D: James Whale. BW 75m. CC

4:00 AM Son Of Frankenstein (1939) The legendary scientist's son is
tempted to resume his father's horrible experiments. Boris Karloff,
Bela Lugosi, Basil Rathbone. D: Rowland V. Lee. BW 99m. CC


Friday, Oct 29

8:00 PM Mad Love (1935) A mad doctor grafts the hands of a murderer
on to a concert pianist's wrists. Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin
Clive. D: Karl Freund. BW 68m. CC

9:15 PM The Beast With Five Fingers (1946) After a famous pianist's
murder, his hand returns to wreak vengeance. Peter Lorre, Robert
Alda, J. Carrol Naish. D: Robert Florey. BW 89m. CC


Saturday, Oct 30

12:30 AM Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939) 70m.

2:00 AM M (1931) The mob sets out to catch a child killer whose
crimes are attracting too much police attention. Peter Lorre, Otto
Wernicke, Gustaf Grundgens. D: Fritz Lang. BW 111m.

4:00 AM You'll Find Out (1940) Kay Kyser and his band fight to save
a young girl trapped in a haunted mansion. Kay Kyser, Boris Karloff,
Peter Lorre. D: David Butler. BW 97m. CC

10:15 PM Psycho (1960) A woman on the run gets mixed up with a
repressed young man and his violent mother. Anthony Perkins, Janet
Leigh, Vera Miles. D: Alfred Hitchcock. BW 108m. LBX CC


Sunday, Oct 31

6:00 AM The Unholy Night (1929) A mad strangler haunts the London
fog. Ernest Torrence, Roland Young, Boris Karloff. D: Lionel
Barrymore. BW 93m.

8:00 AM I Walked With A Zombie (1943) A nurse in the Caribbean
resorts to voodoo to cure her patient, even though she's in love
with the woman's husband. Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison. D:
Jacques Tourneur. BW 69m. CC DVS

10:00 AM You'll Find Out (1940) Kay Kyser and his band fight to
save a young girl trapped in a haunted mansion. Kay Kyser, Boris
Karloff, Peter Lorre. D: David Butler. BW 97m. CC

12:00 PM Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Scientists track a
prehistoric monster in the South American jungle while it tracks
them. Julie Adams, Richard Carlson, Richard Denning. D: Jack Arnold.
BW 79m. CC

3:30 PM The Bad Seed (1956) A woman suspects that her perfect
little girl is a ruthless killer. Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack,
Henry Jones. D: Mervyn LeRoy. BW 129m. CC

8:30 PM House On Haunted Hill (1959) A millionaire offers total
strangers a fortune to spend the night in a haunted house. Vincent
Price, Richard Long, Carol Ohmart. D: William Castle. BW 75m. LBX CC

10:00 PM The Haunting (1963) A team of psychic investigators moves
into a haunted house that destroys all who live there. Julie Harris,
Claire Bloom, Russ Tamblyn. D: Robert Wise. BW 112m. LBX CC


Monday, Nov 1

12:00 AM The Phantom of the Opera (1925) In this silent film, a
hideously deformed man haunts the sewers beneath the Paris Opera.
Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry. D: Rupert Julian. BW & C
90m.

1:45 AM The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) A man remains young and
handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin. Hurd
Hatfield, Angela Lansbury, Donna Reed. D: Albert Lewin. BW & C 110m.
CC

3:45 AM The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1939) A deformed bell ringer
rescues a gypsy girl falsely accused of witchcraft and murder.
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke. D: William
Dieterle. BW 117m. CC DVS


Enjoy! :)

Mark