Each year around Halloween, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) dedicates select nights throughout the month of October to the horror genre and this year is no exception. The classic film network has pulled back the curtain on this year’s programming scheduled and here’s what they have in store!
October 3-4, 2019
TCM Primetime will host its “Bewitched!” block of horror films based on themes of witches and witchcraft.
- 8:00 PM – Bell Book and Candle
- 9:45 PM – Horror Hotel
- 11:15 PM – The Devil’s Own
- 1:00 AM – Suspiria (1977)
- 2:45 AM – Night of Dark Shadows
- 4:30 AM – Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
October 4-5, 2019
Join TCM has they celebrate their Monster of the Month, Godzilla! Enjoy a full night of films featuring one of history’s most recognizable movie monsters.
- 8:00 PM – Godzilla (1954)
- 9:30 PM – Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
- 11:00 PM – Godzilla Raids Again
- 12:30 AM – Mothra vs Godzilla
- 2:15 AM – Mothra
- 4:00 AM – The Town That Dreaded Sundown
October 10-11, 2019
On October 10, TCM Primetime will play a nightlong block of films around the theme of “Black Magic.”
- 8:00 PM – The Black Cat
- 9:15 PM – Curse of the Demon
- 10:45 PM – The Seventh Victim
- 12:15 AM – The Devil’s Bride
- 2:00 AM – The Blood on Satan’s Claw
- 3:45 AM – Dracula A.D.
- 5:30 AM – Eye of the Devil
October 11-12, 2019
On October 11, TCM will continue its celebration of its Monster of the Month with a second night long programming block dedicated to Godzilla.
- 8:00 PM – Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
- 9:45 PM – Invasion of Astro-Monster
- 11:30 PM – Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
- 1:00 AM – Son of Godzilla
- 2:45 AM – Destroy All Monsters
- 4:30 AM – Ghoulies
October 17-18, 2019
TCM Primetime dedicates this night long block of horror to the theme of “Ghost Stories,” featuring films about ghosts, hauntings, poltergeists, and more.
- 8:00 PM – The Uninvited (1944)
- 10:00 PM – The Haunting (1963)
- 12:00 AM – The Fog (1980)
- 1:45 AM – Poltergeist (1982)
- 3:45 AM – Kuroneko
- 5:30 AM – The Phantom Carriage
October 18-19, 2019
For its third night dedicated to their Monster of the Month, TCM Primetime will feature some of the later entries in the Godzilla franchise and strangely, a couple of blaxploitation horrors.
- 8:00 PM – All Monsters Attack
- 9:30 PM – Godzilla vs. Hedorah
- 11:15 PM – Godzilla vs. Gigan
- 1:00 AM – Rodan
- 2:30 AM – Sugar Hill
- 4:15 AM – Blacula
October 24-25, 2019
Join TCM Primetime for a night of horror films curated around the theme of “The Undead.”
- 8:00 PM – Horror of Dracula
- 9:30 PM – The Gorgon
- 11:15 PM – The Plague of the Zombies
- 1:00 AM – Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- 3:00 AM – The Hunger
- 4:45 AM – Nosferatu (1922)
October 25-26, 2019
In its final night dedicated to its Monster of the Month, Godzilla, TCM Primetime will air four more of the classic monster films.
- 8:00 PM – Godzilla vs. Megalon
- 9:30 PM – Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla
- 11:00 PM – Terror of Mechagodzilla
- 12:30 AM – The War of the Gargantuas
- 6:00 PM – The Haunting (1963)
October 27, 2019
- 6:00 AM – King Kong (1933)
- 11:45 AM – Black Cats and Broomsticks
- 5:30 PM – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
October 28, 2019
- 12:00 AM – The Haunted Hotel
- 3:30 AM – Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell
October 29, 2019
- 3:00 PM – The Seventh Victim
October 30, 2019
- 8:00 PM – Mad Love (1935)
- 9:15 PM – The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
- 10:30 PM – Cat People (1942)
- 11:45 PM – I Walked With A Zombie
October 31, 2019
- 1:00 AM – The Walking Dead (1936)
- 2:15 AM – Mark of the Vampire (1935)
- 3:30 AM – Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
- 4:45 AM – A Bucket of Blood
- 6:45 AM – Freaks (1932)
- 8:00 AM – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
- 9:45 AM – The Bat
- 11:15 AM – House on Haunted Hill (1958)
- 12:45 PM – Black Cats and Broomsticks
- 1:00 PM – From Beyond the Grave
- 2:45 PM – Black Sabbath
- 4:30 PM – Chamber of Horrors
- 6:15 PM – House of Wax (1953)
- 8:00 PM – Bride of Frankenstein
- 9:30 PM – The Devil-Doll
- 11:00 PM – House of Usher
November 1, 2019
- 12:30 AM – Pit and the Pendulum
- 2:00 AM – The Haunted Palace
- 3:45 AM – Die, Monster, Die!
- 5:15 AM – The Curse of Frankenstein
- 6:45 AM – Dracula, Prince of Darkness
