TCM Schedule for Wednesday, October 30: Horror/Horror/Suspense

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

12:15 AM Forever Amber (1947)
In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene
Runtime: 140 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


2:45 AM The Three Musketeers (1973)
A country boy joins the famed musketeers and fights to protect the queen's name.
Dir: Richard Lester Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:45 AM Hollywood Without Make-Up (1966)
In this special, Ken Murray hosts his own behind-the-scenes home movies of some of Hollywood's greatest stars.
Dir: Rudy Behlmer Cast: Ken Murray
Runtime: 50 mins Genre: Documentary Rating: TV-G CC: Y


6:00 AM House on Haunted Hill (1958)
The owner of a supposedly haunted mansion offers $10,000 to anyone dumb enough to attempt to spend the night there.
Dir: William Castle Cast: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
Runtime: 75 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

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7:15 AM From Beyond the Grave (1973)
Grim fates await those who purchase antiques from Peter Cushing in this creepy anthology horror film, which is based on the stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes.
Dir: Kevin Connor Cast: Peter Cushing, Diana Dors
Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



9:00 AM Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
Set in swinging London during the early seventies in an abandoned church, a group of hippies are conducting a black mass.
Dir: Alan Gibson Cast: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



10:45 AM Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Baron Frankenstein puts a wrongly executed man's brain into a beautiful woman's body.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



12:30 PM The Mummy (1959)
A resurrected mummy stalks the archaeologists who defiled his tomb.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



2:15 PM Horror of Dracula (1958)
The legendary count tries to turn his enemies' women into his bloodthirsty brides.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



3:45 PM The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
A retelling of Shelley's famous novel, but told in flashbacks from the point of view of Dr. Frankenstein, awaiting execution for the murder of his wife in the climactic confrontation with the monster.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



5:15 PM The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
After a famous pianist's murder, his hand returns to wreak vengeance.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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6:45 PM The Seventh Victim (1943)
A girl's search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
Dir: Mark Robson Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
Runtime: 71 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



8:00 PM Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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10:00 PM Peeping Tom (1960)
Raised by a sadist, a cinematographer kills young women while filming their fear.
Dir: Michael Powell Cast: Karl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-14 CC: Y



12:00 AM Blue Velvet (1986)
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Dir: David Lynch Cast: Kyle Maclachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-MA CC: Y



2:15 AM The Strangler (1964)
Completely dominated by his neurotic, bed-ridden mother, an overweight lab technician develops a doll fetish and a bad habit of murdering nurses.
Dir: Burt Topper Cast: Victor Buono, David Mclean, Diane Sayer
Runtime: 89 mins Genre: Horror/Science-Fiction Rating: TV-PG CC: Y



3:45 AM Night Must Fall (1964)
A psychopath worms his way into an elderly woman's household.
Dir: Karel Reisz Cast: Albert Finney, Mona Washbourne, Susan Hampshire
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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5:30 AM Return to Glennascaul (1953)
Short film starring Orson Welles. The plot is derived from the ubiquitous story of the vanishing hitchhiker.
Dir: Hilton Edwards Cast: Orson Welles, Michael Laurence, Shelah Richards
Runtime: 23 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: Y