Horror Movies on TV Picks (posted 1.14.2002)
The Black Cat
90 minutes- USA, 1934, Premiere, BW, Video
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
Julie Bishop, Julie Bishop, Henry Armetta
Albert Conti, Luis Alberni, Lucille Lund, Herman Bing
Newlyweds become pawns in a deadly game of life and death between
a satanist and the father of a murdered woman.
Fri Jan 24 01:30A TCM- Turner Classic Movies
Blood Surf
120 minutes- USA, 2000, (CC), Video, In Stereo
Directed by James D.R. Hickox and starring
Archie Adamos, Duncan Regehr, Joel West
Matt Borlenghi, Maureen Larrazabal, Susan Africa
A giant crocodile makes meals of surfers who get their kicks by practicing
their sport in dangerous waters.
Sun Jan 12 07:00P SCIFI- Science Fiction
The Brain That
Wouldn't Die
90 minutes- USA, 1959, BW, Video
Directed by Joseph Green and starring
Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Adele Lamont
Paula Maurice, Bruce Brighton, Doris Brent
A mad scientist keeps his dead fiancee's severed head alive while
searching for a suitable body.
Sat Jan 25 05:05A AMC- American Movie Classics
The Conqueror
Worm
90 minutes- NR, England, 1968, Premiere, Video, Violence
Directed by Michael Reeves and starring
Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies
Hilary Dwyer, Robert Russell, Patrick Wymark
Wilfrid Brambell, Nicky Henson, Bernard Kay
A vengeance-hungry soldier hunts 17th-century Britain for the witchfinder
and his henchman who raped his fiancee.
Sat Jan 11 01:30A FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Thu Jan 16 12:45A FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
The Crimson Cult
90 minutes- PG, England, 1968, Video, Violence
Directed by Vernon Sewell and starring
Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Mark Eden
Barbara Steele, Virginia Wetherell, Michael Gough
The commemoration of an ancient witch burning brings a long-dead sorceress
back from the grave for vengeance.
Sun Jan 12 08:30A MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Tue Jan 21 09:45A MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Crucible of Horror
90 minutes- GP, England, 1969, Video, Violence
Directed by Viktor Ritelis and starring
Michael Gough, Yvonne Mitchell, Sharon Gurney
Simon Gough, Olaf Pooley, David Butler
A murdered tyrant returns from the grave to revenge himself against
his wife and daughter.
Wed Jan 8 08:45A TMCE- The Movie Channel
Wed Jan 8 05:15P TMCE- The Movie Channel
Thu Jan 9 04:30A TMCE- The Movie Channel
Tue Jan 28 07:10A TMCE- The Movie Channel
Def by Temptation
95 minutes- R, USA, 1990, (CC), Video, Adult language, adult situations,
graphic violence, nudity
Directed by James Bond III and starring
Cynthia Bond, Kadeem Hardison, James Bond III
Bill Nunn, Minnie Gentry, Melba Moore
A seductive demon sets her sights on a young divinity student whose
ancestors pledged to destroy her.
Wed Jan 1 01:15A MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Sat Jan 11 11:15P MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Wed Jan 15 08:00P MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Tue Jan 21 01:30A MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Thu Jan 30 09:35P MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Dr. Terror's House
of Horrors
120 minutes- England, 1965, Video
Directed by Freddie Francis and starring
Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Roy Castle
Donald Sutherland, Neil McCallum, Max Adrian
Jeremy Kemp, Peter Madden, Michael Gough
Five railway travelers are regaled with tales of vampires, werewolves
and ``things that go bump in the night.''.
Sat Jan 25 03:05A AMC- American Movie Classics
Ed Gein
90 minutes- NR, USA, 2001, iTV, (CC), Video, SS, In Stereo, Graphic
violence
Directed by Chuck Parello and starring
Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgress, Sally Champlin
Carol Mansell, Nancy Linehan Charles, Pat Skipper
Based on the story of the 1950s serial killer whose grisly crimes
were the inspiration for ``Psycho'' and other films.
Fri Jan 3 03:30A SHOE- Showtime
Sat Jan 11 03:15A SHOE- Showtime
Thu Jan 16 12:00A SHOE- Showtime
The Exorcist
165 minutes- USA, 1973, Video, SS
Directed by William Friedkin and starring
Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair
Jason Miller, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn
William Friedkin's Oscar-winning account of the battle to save a 12-year-old
girl from demonic possession.
Wed Jan 1 10:15P TSO- Turner South
Sat Jan 4 11:00P TNT- Turner Television
Sun Jan 5 02:10P TNT- Turner Television
Fri Jan 10 10:00P TSO- Turner South
Tue Jan 14 05:15P TSO- Turner South
Frankenstein
75 minutes- USA, 1931, BW, Video
Directed by James Whale and starring
Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke
John Boles, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye
Lionel Belmore, Michael Mark, Pauline Moore, Francis Ford
Based on Mary Shelley's classic about a scientist who creates a living
being from stolen corpses.
Sat Jan 11 09:30P TCM- Turner Classic Movies
Frankenstein and
the Monster From Hell
90 minutes- R, England, 1974, (CC), Graphic violence
Directed by Terence Fisher and starring
Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith
David Prowse, Patrick Troughton, Bernard Lee
The infamous doctor inadvertently creates an ape-like beast with a
taste for human flesh.
Tue Jan 21 06:30A MAXE2- Cinemax # 2
Frogs
100 minutes- PG, USA, 1972, (CC), Video, LBOX
Directed by George McCowan and starring
Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark
Adam Roarke, Judy Pace, Lynn Bordon
Mae Mercer
A plantation is overrun by vengeful animals during a birthday celebration
for a man who plans to destroy the bayous.
Thu Jan 2 11:20A MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Fri Jan 3 04:45A MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Fri Jan 3 05:45A PLEX- Encore's Movie Plex
Fri Jan 3 01:35P FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Sat Jan 4 05:00A FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Fri Jan 10 09:50A MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Fri Jan 10 10:50A PLEX- Encore's Movie Plex
Fri Jan 10 04:20P MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Fri Jan 10 05:20P PLEX- Encore's Movie Plex
Sat Jan 11 02:20A MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Sat Jan 11 03:20A PLEX- Encore's Movie Plex
Wed Jan 15 01:15P FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Wed Jan 15 02:45P MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Mon Jan 20 11:20A MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Tue Jan 28 07:20A MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Tue Jan 28 02:30P FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Tue Jan 28 03:00P MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
The Fury
150 minutes- USA, 1978, Video
Directed by Brian De Palma and starring
Kirk Douglas, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Irving
John Cassavetes, Andrew Stevens, Fiona Lewis
Charles Durning, Carol Rossen, Joyce Easton, Daryl Hannah
Brian De Palma's tale of a psychic whose telepathic powers have put
him at the center of an international conspiracy.
Sat Jan 18 12:50A AMC- American Movie Classics
Hand of Death
61 minutes- USA, 1962, BW
Directed by Gene Nelson and starring
John Agar, Paula Raymond, Steve Dunne
Roy Gordon, John Alonzo, Joe Besser
A chemical accident transforms a research scientist into a monster
whose touch means death.
Fri Jan 17 08:01P FMC- Fox Movie Channel
The Haunted House
of Horror
95 minutes- PG, United Kingdom, 1970, Premiere, iTV
Directed by Michael Armstrong and starring
Frankie Avalon, Jill Haworth, Richard O'Sullivan
Dennis Price, George Sewell
A young Londoner and his Carnaby Street gang hold a seance in a haunted
house.
Thu Jan 23 10:00A SHOE- Showtime
Mon Jan 27 02:30P SHOE- Showtime
Fri Jan 31 12:15P SHOE- Showtime
The Haunted Palace
90 minutes- USA, 1963, Video
Directed by Roger Corman and starring
Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr.
Frank Maxwell, Leo Gordon, Elisha Cook Jr.
John Dierkes, Milton Parsons, Harry Ellerbe, I. Stanford Jolley
An ancient warlock casts a spell over the new inhabitants of his New
England mansion. Based on an H.P. Lovecraft story.
Tue Jan 7 02:00P FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Sat Jan 11 12:45A AMC- American Movie Classics
Sun Jan 12 08:30A FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Thu Jan 23 11:45A FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Wed Jan 29 11:30A FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Hush... Hush,
Sweet Charlotte
145 minutes- USA, 1965, (CC), BW, Video
Directed by Robert Aldrich and starring
Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten
Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Victor Buono
A decaying plantation is the setting for this macabre tale of two
spinsters and a 37-year-old ax murder.
Sun Jan 19 01:40A AMC- American Movie Classics
Thu Jan 30 01:25P AMC- American Movie Classics
The Incredible
Melting Man
90 minutes- R, USA, 1978, Video, Adult language, violence
Directed by William Sachs and starring
Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey
Michael Alldredge, Ann Sweeny, Lisle Wilson
An astronaut is transformed into a murderous gelatinous mass after
returning from an ill-fated space voyage.
Sat Jan 18 03:00A FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Thu Jan 30 03:00A FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Madhouse
95 minutes- PG, England, 1974, Video, Violence
Directed by Jim Clark and starring
Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry
Adrienne Corri, Natasha Pyne, Linda Hayden
Jenny Wright, Barry Dennen
Clips from classic horror films highlight this story of a movie star
suspected of murdering fellow TV cast members.
Wed Jan 8 08:00A SHOXE- Showtime Extreme
Wed Jan 8 06:45P SHOXE- Showtime Extreme
Sat Jan 11 08:20A SHOXE- Showtime Extreme
Wed Jan 15 03:15A SHOXE- Showtime Extreme
Thu Jan 23 01:15P SHOXE- Showtime Extreme
Mon Jan 27 10:25A SHOXE- Showtime Extreme
Mon Jan 27 06:45P SHOXE- Showtime Extreme
Tue Jan 28 04:35A SHOXE- Showtime Extreme
The Mummy
75 minutes- USA, 1932, BW, Video
Directed by Karl Freund and starring
Boris Karloff, David Manners, Zita Johann
Edward Van Sloan, Arthur Byron, Bramwell Fletcher
Noble Johnson, Leonard Mudie, Eddie Kane, Henry Victor
A 3,700-year-old Egyptian pursues a modern-day woman he believes to
be the reincarnation of his beloved princess.
Sat Jan 11 10:45P TCM- Turner Classic Movies
The Oblong Box
100 minutes- M, England, 1969, iTV, Video, Violence
Directed by Gordon Hessler and starring
Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alister Williamson
Hilary Dwyer, Peter Arne, Maxwell Shaw
Sally Geeson
A man who was horribly disfigured during an African safari embarks
on a spree of bloody revenge.
Thu Jan 30 04:15A SHOE- Showtime
The Return of
the Living Dead
95 minutes- R, USA, 1985, iTV, Video, Adult language, graphic violence,
nudity
Directed by Dan O'Bannon and starring
Clu Gulager, Don Calfa, James Karen
Thom Mathews, Beverly Randolph, Linnea Quigley
Toxic waste gives birth to an army of brain-munching zombies in this
semi-sequel to George Romero's cult chiller.
Mon Jan 6 01:00A SHOE- Showtime
Thu Jan 9 11:00P SHOE- Showtime
Sat Jan 25 02:05A SHOE- Showtime
Thu Jan 30 01:00A SHOE- Showtime
Rosemary's Baby
180 minutes- R, USA, 1968, Video, Adult language, adult situations,
violence
Directed by Roman Polanski and starring
Mia Farrow, Ruth Gordon, John Cassavetes
Charles Grodin, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans
Ralph Bellamy, Elisha Cook Jr., Tony Curtis, Patsy Kelly
An actor's wife comes to the realization that she is carrying Satan's
child in this adaptation of Ira Levin's novel.
Sat Jan 11 08:00P BRAVO- Bravo
Sun Jan 12 01:00A BRAVO- Bravo
Scream Blacula
Scream
95 minutes- PG, USA, 1973, Video, Adult language, violence
Directed by Bob Kelljan and starring
William Marshall, Pam Grier, Don Mitchell
Michael Conrad, Richard Lawson, Lynn Moody
The resurrected African vampire enlists the aid of a voodoo priestess
in the hopes of ending his tortured existence.
Fri Jan 3 12:00P FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Wed Jan 8 11:15A FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Mon Jan 20 06:15P FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Sisters
105 minutes- R, USA, 1973, Video, LBOX, Adult language, adult situations,
violence
Directed by Brian De Palma and starring
Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
William Finley, Lisle Wilson, Barnard Hughes
Olympia Dukakis, Dolph Sweet, Mary Davenport
Brian De Palma's unnerving account of a separated Siamese twin blamed
for a murder that her twin might have committed.
Fri Jan 3 04:15A IFC- Independent Film Channel
Wed Jan 15 06:00A IFC- Independent Film Channel
Thu Jan 16 03:15A IFC- Independent Film Channel
Son of Frankenstein
105 minutes- USA, 1939, Premiere, BW, Video
Directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring
Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson, Emma Dunn
Edgar Norton, Lionel Belmore, Lawrence Grant, Ward Bond
A grave robber who survived the hangman's noose convinces the baron's
son to resurrect the monster.
Fri Jan 24 08:00P TCM- Turner Classic Movies
Terror of the
Tongs
80 minutes- England, 1961, (CC)
Directed by Anthony Bushell and starring
Geoffrey Toone, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Monlaur
Marne Maitland, Brian Worth, Ewen Solon
A British sea captain sets out to crush the Red Dragons, a secret
society terrorizing Hong Kong.
Thu Jan 2 10:00A MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Fri Jan 10 01:10P MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Fri Jan 10 02:10P PLEX- Encore's Movie Plex
Sat Jan 11 01:00A MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Sat Jan 11 02:00A PLEX- Encore's Movie Plex
Mon Jan 20 08:15A MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
Sun Jan 26 05:00A MYST- Encore's Mystery Channel
The Thing With
Two Heads
95 minutes- PG, USA, 1972, In Stereo
Directed by Lee Frost and starring
Ray Milland, Roosevelt Grier, Don Marshall
Roger Perry, Chelsea Brown, Kathy Baumann
Lee Frost, Tommy Cook
An ironic twist of fate leaves the head of a bigoted scientist transplanted
onto the shoulders of a black convict.
Sun Jan 5 12:30P FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Wed Jan 8 09:35A FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Tue Jan 21 01:30P FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Wed Jan 22 02:35A FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
Fri Jan 31 01:00P FLIX- Flix Movie Channel
The Tingler
105 minutes- USA, 1959, BW
Directed by William Castle and starring
Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman
Patricia Cutts, Philip Coolidge, Pamela Lincoln
A mad scientist manages to isolate a horrible creature that exists
in everyone, lying dormant until aroused by fear.
Sun Jan 26 04:50A AMC- American Movie Classics
