Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 19

I always get the movie "Blood of Dracula" confused with a Hammer Dracula movie, or Andy Warhol's "Blood FOR Dracula." (IMDb seems to have the same problem, since right now their entry for the movie has the wrong poster up.)

But then I remember that this movie is basically "I Was a Teenage Vampire," and it all becomes clear. Watch it on AMC at 9 A.M., or on the 23rd at 6 A.M.

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 18

This post comes early because today's pick is on early. At 2 A.M. on TCM, to be exact. It's Roger Corman's "A Bucket of Blood" and it's one of his best, starring Dick Miller in his first Walter Paisley role, as a pathetic waiter in a beatnik coffee house who desperately wants to be an artist, but due to a complete lack of talent, can't pull it off. Until he accidentally kills something, that is...

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 17

Tonight's TCM horror movie offerings are from 1958 and 1959.

At 5:00 P.M. it's the first Hammer Dracula movie, "Horror of Dracula." And this Drac ain't a glittery emo kid.



Then we have two William Castle movies. First up is "House on Haunted Hill" at 6:30 P.M. Castle's gimmick with this one was "Emergo," AKA a plastic skeleton that floated above the theater. "More startling than 3D!"



Finally there's "The Tingler" at 8 P.M. Set your cell phone on vibrate, stick it under a seat cushion, sit down, and have someone call you at the appropriate times to replicate the "Percepto!" gimmick that accompanied the flick's original release...

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 16

Never heard of the 2006 serial killer movie "Horsemen," starring Dennis Quaid as a detective who might be dealing with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

Yeah. I never had either. It's on at 4:15 P.M. on IFC.

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 15

Peter Lorre stars in the haunted hand movie "The Beast With Five Fingers" at 6:30 A.M. on TMC. Oliver Stone remade it as "The Hand" in 1981, starring Michael Caine, but this version is better, not the least of which because Luis Bunuel helped direct some of the creepy hand sequences...

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 14

"Science fiction becomes science fact" in "Kingdom of the Spiders," starring William Shatner. Yes. William Shatner and thousands of tarantulas. Now THAT'S entertainment! Watch it at 1 P.M. on IFC.

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 13

"The Village" is on AMC at 1 P.M. It's a bad, bad movie, and I am only including it because the first post I ever wrote on this here blog was back in 2004, and it was about "The Village," and I'm feeling nostalgic. Read it here.

Poor M. Night Shyamalan. Actually, no. He has no one to blame but himself. So, instead of anything from "The Village," here is a scary trailer for Shayamalan's next movie:



And one of the only funny things "Tosh.0" has ever done:

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Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 12

"Borderland," which came out in 2007, looks to be a horror movie in the torture porn/foreign-countries-are-scary vein, with Mexico being the scary country in question. Frankly, it doesn't look that great, but pickings today are rather slim. It's on IFC at 5:45 P.M.

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 11

I was happy to see that when IFC aired "The Shining" on Sunday, they did not cut out the naughty bits, as it were. They still air commercials, which is a bummer, but hopefully you've got a DVR, or Betamax, and can just record and skip that nonsense.

Because tonight's movie is something that, were it to be censored, would just be silly. It's David Cronenberg's "Shivers," (or, as it was known in the U.S., "They Came From Within"), and it's basically a horror movie about sex and a killer venereal disease. So. Yeah. With the naughty bits cut out, it would just be a bad 70's movie set in an ugly Canadian highrise. Watch it at 10:30 P.M. on IFC.

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 10

Another Monday, another night of horror movies on TCM. Tonight's focus is on horror films of the 1940s, beginning with 1941's "The Wolf Man" at 5:00pm. Poor, poor Larry Talbot...



The 1944 thriller "The Uninvited," starring Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey, follows at 6:15 P.M. I do not like the voice of the Uninvited!



The great anthology horror movie "Dead of Night" is on at 8 P.M.; scary ventriloquist puppet alert! (Can't find the trailer, so here's the first 10 minutes instead.)



"I Walked With a Zombie" is always a must-see. Watch it at 10 P.M. "All the weird black magic that the white man seldom sees!"



Finally, we have "Cat People" at 11:15 P.M., and the odd but wonderful sequel, "The Curse of the Cat People," at 12:45 A.M.