Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Here are a few movies on Fox Movies, TCM, and Sundance for the coming month of October that you may be interested in. All times Eastern. Don't forget, some of these movies may end up being edited, time compressed, or in the wrong aspect ratio. You know how it is.
This month's post is a little sparse on descriptions because guys, I am so behind on the October shenanigans I am planning. Frankly, Sundance and Fox are showing a lot of films they've shown in the recent past, so there's not much to mention for either channel. But look out for TCM, because this month it is going to kick your butt first and ask questions never, that's how fierce it is.
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Fox Movie Channel
La Metamorphose Des Cloportes (1966)
October 1, 2:00 PM (also twice on the 11th and again on the 28th)
French-Italian comedy/drama about three bungling criminals who talk their successful criminal pal into helping them with a heist, but screw it up so badly that he gets arrested while the bunglers get away.
In Old Chicago (1937)
October 2, 6:00 AM (also the 15th, 18th,
Fictional account of two competitive sons of the famed Mrs. O'Leary, owner of the barn where the Great Chicago Fire began, just before the night the fire began. This is the first of two Tyrone Power movies showing back to back, the second Captain From Castile (1947). Following that are two Victor Mature films, I Wake Up Screaming and Kiss of Death.
Chad Hanna (1940)
October 14, 8:00 AM (also the 19th,
John Carradine, Linda Darnell, and Henry Fonda star in a movie about life and love with circus performers in 1840s New York. On again the next morning.
HALLOWEEN
Fox Movies digs out the closest things to horror films they have for a Halloween bonanza, for various values of both "horror" and "bonanza":
6:00 AM House On Skull Mountain (1974)
7:30 AM Journey to Midnight (1968)
9:30 AM The Legend of Hell House (1973)
11:15 AM Vault of Horror (1973)
12:45 PM Journey to Midnight (1968)
2:45 PM House On Skull Mountain (1974)
4:15 PM The Legend of Hell House (1973)
6:00 PM The Fury (1978)
8:00 PM Predator 2 (1990)
10:00 PM Predator 2 (again)
12:00 midnight Naked Lunch (1990)
2:00 AM Frankenstein Unbound (1991)
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Sundance
Enter the Void (2009)
October 2, 12:30 AM (on again the 5th at 2:00 AM
Gaspar Noé's "psychedelic melodrama" starring Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta about an American drug dealer who is shot by police in Tokyo and has a drug-and-bullet-induced out-of-body experience.
Eraserhead (1977)
October 21, 2:40 AM
David Lynch's surreal industrial nightmare, ""a dream of dark and troubling things."
Bloody Reunion (2006)
October 26, 10:35 PM
Lim Dae-Woong's slasher flick about a school reunion attended by former students who endured a torturous time while in school.
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TCM
TCM's star of the month is Buster Keaton (!) and the theme is classic horror, so don't make any plans that involve leaving the house.
Buster Keaton on October 2:
8:00 PM The General (1927)
9:30 PM Cops (1922)
10:00 PM Our Hospitality (1923)
11:30 PM The Love Nest (1923)
12:00 AM The Navigator (1924)
1:15 AM The Boat (1921)
1:45 AM The Goat (1921)
2:15 AM The Playhouse (1921)
2:45 AM The Scarecrow (1920)
3:15 AM The Electric House (1922)
3:45 AM The Balloonatic (1923)
4:15 AM The Paleface (1922)
4:45 AM Convict 13 (1920)
5:15 AM Speak Easily (1932)
Classic Horror on October 3 through the morning of October 4:
8:00 PM TCM Night at the Movies: Horror (2011): The premier of a new TCM documentary.
9:00 PM Frankenstein (1931)
10:15 PM Freaks (1932)
11:30 PM TCM Night at the Movies: Horror (2011)
12:30 AM Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1932)
2:15 AM Mark Of The Vampire (1935)
3:30 AM The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1919)
4:45 AM Nosferatu (1922)
6:15 AM The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Buster Keaton on October 9:
8:00 PM Sherlock Jr. (1924)
9:00 PM Good Night Nurse (1918)
9:30 PM Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)
11:00 PM The Cameraman (1928)
12:30 AM Coney Island (1917)
1:00 AM Back Stage (1919)
1:30 AM Limelight (1952)
4:00 AM The Bell Boy (1918)
4:30 AM She Went To The Races (1945)
6:00 AM The Haunted House (1921)
6:30 AM Hard Luck (1921)
Classic Horror October 10:
8:00 PM The Wolf Man (1941)
9:15 PM The Uninvited (1944)
11:00 PM Dead of Night (1945)
1:00 AM I Walked With A Zombie (1943)
2:15 AM Cat People (1942)
3:45 AM Curse of the Cat People, The (1944)
5:00 AM The Devil Bat (1940)
6:15 AM Dead Men Walk (1943)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
October 11, 9:00 PM
Wooo! This film has shamefully never been given a proper DVD release, so grab a copy.
Heavy Metal (1981)
October 14, 3:45 AM (early morning the 15th)
First in this month's two-way tie for the What The Shit Is This Selection. This cult animated feature chronicles a mysterious green orb and the destruction it brings to all who encounter it. Heavy Metal is full of nudity, immature humor, and bad animation... but to be fair, it didn't look that bad back in 1990 when I first saw it. Most consider it a film to be watched only by now-40-something men who sentimentally remember the horniness that resulted from watching the film when they were adolescents, but I do think there's a bit more to it than that. Not much mind you, but if you don't mind puerile humor and animated breasts, check it out.
Light in the Piazza (1962)
October 16, 2:15 PM
The other film in the two-way tie for What The Shit Is This. SPOILERS! This film is about a middle-aged couple who spar over the fact that the father feels the mother (Livvy DeHavilland) coddles their 20-something mentally challenged daughter (Yvette Mimieux). He threatens to leave his wife if she doesn't get rid of their daughter somehow, either marry her off or put her in a home. The beautiful daughter's mental condition is portrayed as perpetual naivete rather than an actual disability. When a handsome Italian boy falls for her, the mom worries whether it's fair to let him marry her or not. The film portrays the Italian family as being so clueless due to language and culture barriers that they have no idea that the girl is mentally ill, they just see her as charmingly naive, so the mom takes advantage of it and marries her off without telling them she's disabled. This is considered a happy ending, love conquering all. Whee.
Buster Keaton on October 16:
8:00 PM Seven Chances (1925)
9:00 PM One Week (1920)
9:30 PM The Three Ages (1923)
10:45 PM My Wife's Relations (1922)
11:15 PM Daydreams (1922)
11:45 PM Neighbors (1921)
12:15 AM Spite Marriage (1929)
1:45 AM Free and Easy (1930)
3:30 AM The Garage (1920)
4:00 AM The Blacksmith (1922)
4:30 AM Sidewalks Of New York (1931)
Classic Horror October 17:
8:00 PM Horror of Dracula (1958)
9:30 PM House On Haunted Hill (1959)
11:00 PM The Tingler (1959)
12:30 AM House Of Wax (1953)
2:15 AM Curse of the Demon (1958)
5:00 AM A Bucket of Blood (1959)
October 21:
TCM is showing a host of B-movies with female lead characters in a marathon they cheekily call "Ladies Night." Super, super classy, just like the movies they're showing:
8:00 PM She (1965)
10:00 PM Prehistoric Women (1967)
12:00 AM The Viking Queen (1967)
2:00 AM The Gamma People (1956)
3:30 AM The Wild, Wild Planet (1965)
My Name is Julia Ross (1945)
October 22, 11:45 PM
Nina Foch stars in this gem of a B-movie about a woman hired to work as a secretary for a rich family and winds up a prisoner instead. Hard to find so definitely check it out and record it if you have a chance. Part of Nina Foch night, including American in Paris,
Illegal, Cry of the Werewolf, Executive Suite, and I Love a Mystery.
Buster Keaton on October 23:
8:00 PM College (1927)
9:15 PM The High Sign (1921)
9:45 PM Go West (1925)
11:00 PM The Frozen North (1922)
11:30 PM Battling Butler (1926)
12:45 AM The Saphead (1920)
2:15 AM Doughboys (1930)
3:45 AM Parlor, Bedroom And Bath (1931)
5:15 AM The Passionate Plumber (1932)
6:30 AM What! No Beer? (1933)
Classic Horror October 24:
8:00 PM Carnival of Souls (1962)
10:30 PM Dementia 13 (1963)
12:00 AM Strait-Jacket (1964)
1:45 AM Pit And The Pendulum (1961)
3:15 AM The Masque Of The Red Death (1964)
5:00 AM The Devil's Bride (1968)
Halloween Horror:
Starting October 28, there are dozens of horror films being shown on TCM, including a back-to-back showing of two of my favorite films, The Innocents and The Haunting on Halloween night.
October 28:
8:00 PM Dead Ringer (1964)
10:00 PM The Black Room (1935)
11:15 PM The Other (1972)
1:00 AM Dead Men Walk (1943)
2:15 AM Motel Hell (1980)
4:00 AM 10 Rillington Place (1971)
October 29:
8:00 PM Cat People (1942)
9:30 PM Martin Scorsese Presents, Val Lewton: The Man In The Shadows (2007)
11:00 PM The Body Snatcher (1945)
October 30:
12:30 AM Isle Of The Dead (1945)
2:00 AM Bedlam (1946)
3:30 AM The Seventh Victim (1943)
5:00 AM The Ghost Ship (1943)
6:15 AM The Leopard Man (1943)
7:30 AM White Zombie (1932)
8:45 AM The Devil Doll (1936)
10:15 AM The Uninvited (1944)
12:00 PM Berserk (1967)
October 31:
7:15 AM The Reptile (1966)
8:45 AM The Gorgon (1964)
10:15 AM Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966)
12:00 PM Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1969)
1:45 PM The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
3:15 PM Frankenstein Created Woman (1966)
5:00 PM The Mummy (1959)
6:30 PM Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964)
8:00 PM Village Of The Damned (1960)
9:30 PM Night of the Living Dead (1968)
11:15 PM TCM Night at the Movies: Horror (2011)
12:15 AM The Innocents (1961)
2:00 AM The Haunting (1963)
4:00 AM Repulsion (1965)
Somebody call me on November 1st and make sure I haven't gone into a movie-induced bliss coma.
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5 comments:
Fox understands me. The only way to follow up Predator 2 is by watching Predator 2 again.
I refuse to leave the house at all during TCM's horror days/nights! Is there anything good that they are NOT showing? Val Lewton, William Castle, all the greats! I LOVE October, love Halloween -- I am so happy I got TCM back I could just scream -- with horror! MUWAHAHAHA!
Yay! You have TCM again!
I shamefully admit that while I was typing this schedule up, I was thinking I should see Predator 2 again because I barely remember it from the first viewing.
My word verification is ingump. For reals.
what a great post. thank you for this guide!
Unfortunately, I only have TCM out of the three channels, but this post will make for the perfect quick reference guide throughout the month of Awesometober! You deserve the Nobel Prize!
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