I scour the skeds so you don't have to, to find the hidden movie gems from all over the channelverse: from the HBO family of channels, Showtime and The Movie Channel, and Turner Classic Movies, which air films uncut and uninterrupted (and sometimes in letterbox). But ya gotta turn to The SciFi Channel once in a while, too, commercials and editing be damned -- there's nothing like geeking out in front of the tube with really bad movies featuring built-in breaks for munchie refills and snark attacks.

(All times are Eastern. Times between midnight and 5:59am actually refer to the previous date. In other words, 2am Saturday really means the overnight twilight zone between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Links in movie titles go to my review. Movies frequently air more than once over the course of the month, so if you miss something mentioned here, search listings for additional showings.)

THURSDAY 10.26

TCM 9:15PM: Adam's Rib. Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy bicker as a metaphor for sex.

TCM 12:15AM: The African Queen. Hepburn and Bogart, but pretty much the same deal with the bickering.

OuterMax 10:10AM: National Lampoon's Animal House. Needs no introduction.

FRIDAY 10.27

TCM The dead arise just in time for Halloween!

8:00PM: White Zombie. 1932 Bela Lugosi flick.
9:15PM: I Walked With A Zombie. Voodoo nursing circa 1943.
10:30PM: The Walking Dead. Boris Karloff, 1936.
11:45PM: Creature With the Atom Brain. Best. Title. Ever. From 1955, of course.
2:00AM: Night of the Living Dead. George Romero's 1968 classic.

Showtime 5:00PM: Saved! Christian evangelical sendup. Comedy for Jesus!

OuterMax 1:05PM: They Live. Alien invasion as metaphor for conformity and consumerism. Plus: Rowdy Roddy Piper!

SciFi 11:00AM: Sasquatch Hunters. I just love that title.

SATURDAY 10.28

TCM 8:30AM: The Quatermass Xperiment. Brit director Val Guest's 1956 SF thriller about rampaging space fungus.

TCM 4:00PM: The Day the Earth Stood Still. Klaatu, barada, nic-harumph!

TCM 6:00PM: King Kong. The 1933 version. Spoiler: Beauty kills the beast.

SUNDAY 10.29

TCM 12:00m: The Phantom of the Opera. The awesome silent 1925 Lon Chaney flick.

OuterMax 3:30PM: Repo Man. Remember, the more you drive, the dumber you are ....

TMC 9:15AM: Withnail and I. The British cult favorite.

MONDAY 10.30

Cinemax 6:40AM: Remains of the Day. If emotional repression could be bottled, it'd be Anthony Hopkins in this movie.

OuterMax 8:05PM: Ravenous. Scary-cool flick about cannibals in the old West. Yee-haw!

Showtime 5:55PM: Sahara. Not quite Indiana Jones IV, but it'll do in a pinch.

TUESDAY 10.31

TCM Turner Classic Movies does Halloween in style with three Vincent Price chillers ... :

8:00PM: The Masque of the Red Death
9:45PM: House of Usher
11:15PM: The Abominable Dr. Phibes

...and two creepy British SF horror flicks about alien kids:

2:45AM: Village of the Damned
4:15AM: Children of the Damned

Cinemax 6:00AM: The Omega Man. Biowarfare goes horribly wrong, as if there were any another possibility.

TMC 4:30PM: The Final Cut. This Is Your Life done Twilight Zone style, with Robin Williams as a psychological undertaker.

WEDNESDAY 11.01

There's absolutely nothing worth watching on TV today. Go play outside.

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MaryAnn Johanson
author of The Totally Geeky Guide to The Princess Bride
minder of FlickFilosopher.com

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