Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 22

Hey, remember this one? I forgot Scarlett Johansson was in it. And I forgot the title is grammatically incorrect, unless the movie is actually about eight freaks with legs, in which case, I forgot about that, too.

Eight Legged Freaks is on AMC at 5:30pm.

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 21

At 8:51pm, TCM will air the 1953 animated short "The Tell-Tale Heart," a little seen, but really cool version of the Poe story, narrated by James Mason. (Swoon, that voice!)

You can wait till tonight to watch it...Or you can watch it right here, right now!

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 20

Hitchcock is all the rage.

I don't mean the films of Hitchcock. I mean the man himself. Or at least some less than appealing stories about the man.

One of those stories can be found in The Girl, which premieres tonight on HBO. This movie is based on a book by Donald Spoto (who wrote one really great book about Hitchcock's movies, and then turned around and wrote a couple of hatchet jobs about Hitchcock, the man).



For fun, here's a look at the trailer for Hitchcock, which will be a theatrical release, and stars Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock. Frankly, it looks to be the better movie...

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 19

Whoops! Seems I lost a post somewhere this week, and I can't remember what my pick for today was.

But a quick perusal of TV Guide reveals a movie called Mulberry Street on IFC tonight at 11:45pm. And the movie sounds A LOT like REC (and therefore, also lot like the movie Quarantine). Like, a lot a lot. But maybe I'm wrong about that?

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 18

Remember when Japanese horror movies were all the rage? What happened there? Did America just grow tired of creepy little girls, or women whose faces are covered by long hair? Or did all the American remakes of those movies just kill the whole thing dead?

Ju-on was one of the most influential of those Japanese horror movies, and was, indeed remade in 2004 as The Grudge, starring Sarah Michelle Geller. But it's the Japanese version you can watch tonight at midnight on Sundance.

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 17

Rosemary's Baby is one of my all-time favorite movies, period. That it also happens to be a horror movie is just an added bonus. Seriously, I could watch it every day and never be bored by it.

Apparently, this is a rare first trailer for the movie. I just can't imagine this ever making it to theaters; it's downright psychedelic!




This is the much more conventional trailer:




It's on AMC at 9am, which is actually kind of a shame, since they air a ridiculous number of commercials during movies. But that's what DVRs are for, right?

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 16

Corridors of Blood has a gory title, but is actually not all that horrifying, at least in the monsters and blood-shedding sense.

Boris Karloff stars as a 19th century surgeon experimenting with anesthesia, who finds himself dealing with a drug addiction, a murder, and blackmail. Christopher Lee is one of the bad guys.

Watch it at 4:30am on AMC

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 15

I suppose the premise of the 2009 Norwegian horror movie Dead Snow can be summed up in two words: Nazi zombies. The language of visceral terror is universal!

But maybe it should be summed up in three words: Cold Nazi zombies.



Watch it at 3am and 9am on IFC.

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 14

The Descent is one of the better horror movies to come out within the past ten years, even if the viewing of it, was, for me, one of my worst days at the movies ever.

But I don't want to go into that! The Descent! Scary cave monsters! Strong women! A kind-of-disappointing ending! The Descent!

It's on IFC at 5pm and 11:15pm.

Musty TV's Maniacal Movie Countdown - Day 13

Evil Dead 2, y'all. I really shouldn't have to say much more than that, right?



You can watch the movie on IFC at 7:15pm and 11:15pm.

As an added bonus, here's an episode of the British series "The Incredibly Strange Film Show", which aired in the U.S. sometime in the 1990s, featuring interviews with Bruce Cambpbell and Sam Raimi. It's pretty funny.