Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 30

Once again, all you need to do today is turn it to Turner Classic Movies when you wake up, and leave it on that channel for the rest of the day. You can view the schedule here. They'll be re-running most of the movies that have been a part of their horror-filled Mondays, with some added classics thrown in, such as "Them!" at 4 P.M...



...and "Forbidden Planet" at 6 P.M. (And for the record, "Forbidden Planet" is a movie I will always associate with Halloween merely because it makes a cameo appearance in the movie "Halloween."

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 29

Oh boy. We're nearing the home stretch, aren't we? Since Halloween falls on a Monday, I imagine the majority of this year's tricking will happen tonight, with a few treats thrown in here and there...

...like the 1964 movie "It's Alive!" No, not the one about a monster baby. This one is about a crazed farmer who kidnaps tourists in order to feed them to his pet dinosaur. REALLY. He also terrorizes them with whistles and rats served for dinner.

Seriously, this movie is the best. It's on the MGM Movie channel at 10:55 A.M, a channel I didn't even know I had until recently. But! If YOU don't have it, no worries. You can watch the entire movie right here!

[Edited to add: Whoops! Look like a made a mistake! This is actually on Sunday morning. Doesn't change your ability to watch it above though!]

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 28

"How To Make a Monster" is superfun for any fan of 1950s horror movies, particularly the "I Was a Teenage [fill in the blank]" ones. When a movie studio vows to stop making horror movies, their resident special effects make-up guy gets his revenge, via monster make-up of course!

In black and white and color! Watch it at 4:45 A.M. on AMC.

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 27

Finally! "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" is on at 8 P.M. on ABC. I have been waiting in the pumpkin patch for the past week, hoping for its arrival, and at last, it is here.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone dressed up as Charlie Brown's holey ghost for Halloween; seems kind of obvious, and yet, nope. Guess this year's costume dilemma is solved! Although, I'll need to be prepared to carry a bag full of rocks by evening's end.

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 26

"The Bad Seed" is on TCM at 2:45 P.M., and it's the mother of all evil children movies. Alas, my favorite scene isn't embeddable, (it involves a calm discussion of shoes), but you can watch part of it here.

The trailer is surprisingly lame. There are so many great moments in the movie, and very few of them are actually featured in the trailer!

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 25

Technically, this one's on tomorrow, but it's in the wee hours of the morning, so if you just stay up really late, it'll be like you watched it today. Got it? Good.

Anyway, it's "Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster," and according to "The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film": "Don't miss. It's the worst."

Sold!

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 24

Just turn the channel to TCM at 7 P.M., and leave it there for the rest of the night, as their Monday's-are-a-horror marathon continues. This week, it's films from the 1960s, starting with the AWESOME "Carnival of Souls."



The equally low-budget and weird "Dementia 13," Francis Ford Coppola's first non-nudie directing effort, follows at 7:30 P.M.



Joan Crawford and her terrifying charm bracelet star in "Strait-Jacket," at 9 P.M.



Then we get some Poe horror, starting with Roger Corman's "The Pit and the Pendulum" at 10:45 P.M.



It's followed by "The Masque of the Red Death" at 12:15 A.M.



Finally, to end the horrifying evening, we have "The Devil's Bride", (AKA "The Devil Rides Out"), starring Christopher Lee, at 2 A.M.

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 23

I don't know what channel 32 is, but it doesn't seem to be a channel that would normally show a horror movie from the 1970s, so take this pick with a grain of salt. SUPPOSEDLY, at 8 P.M., they will be airing "Horror Express," a 1972 Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing vehicle about an alien entity let loose on a Tran-Siberian train in 1906.

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 22

"Cry of the Werewolf," from 1944, is the first full-length movie to feature a female werewolf. And man, is she a bitch! Watch it at 10 P.M. on TCM.

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 21

"The Gamma People" is a Cold War science fiction flick about an Eastern European dictatorship attempting to create a generation of geniuses via gamma rays. Problem is, not all of the kids turn out to be geniuses. 11 P.M. on TCM.



It's followed by "The Wild, Wild Planet" at 12:30 A.M., a "space horror" movie about...well, I'm not really sure what it's about, but the trailer is pretty great.