Forget the overgore the young kids are watchin'. I like my horror laughable.
Good ol' B movies with blatant gaffes, overacting and old school special effects. There's no better go-to channel for such Halloween mischief as TCM. Check out their 48 Hours of Horror lineup & enjoy their taglines.
Thursday, October 30:
Mad Love (Karl Freund) - "Dead hands that live...and love...and kill!"
The Beast with Five Fingers (Robert Florey) - "It walks like a spider...it stalks like a cobra!"
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur) - "She's alive...yet dead! She's dead... yet alive!"
Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur) - "Chosen... singled out to die... victim of his imagination or victim of a demon?"
The Gorgon (Terence Fisher) - "A Monster with the Power to Turn Living Screaming Flesh into Stone!"
Mr. Sardonicus (William Castle) - "A man of evil...with a face that could stop a heart!"
The Tomb of Ligeia (Roger Corman) - "Cat or Woman or a Thing Too Evil to Mention?"
The Tingler (William Castle) - "Bring your date and watch her tingle!"
House of Usher (Roger Corman) - "I heard her first feeble movements in the coffin... we had put her living in the tomb!"
Horror Anthologies:
Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer) - "You can't cheat a ghost!"
Torture Garden (Freddie Francis) - "Do You Dare See What Dr. Diabolo Sees?"
Twice-Told Tales (Sidney Salkow) - "A trio of terror!"
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
Spirits of the Dead (Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim) - "The ultimate orgy of evil."
Friday, Halloween:
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur) - "She knew strange, fierce pleasures that no other woman could ever feel!"
Freaks (Tod Browning) - "The Love Story of a Siren, a Giant, and a Dwarf!"
The Devil Doll (Tod Browning) - "We'll make the whole world small! "
Mark of the Vampire (Tod Browning) - "We must all die."
The Devil Bat (Jean Yarbrough) - "He's Trained His Brood of Blood-Hungry Bats to Kill on Command!"
White Zombie (Victor Halperin) - "The Dead Walk Among Us!"
The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise) - "Foul Fingers Crimson with Dead Men's Blood!"
Bedlam (Mark Robson) - "Sensational Secrets of Infamous Mad-house Exposed!"
The Ghoul (T. Hayes Hunter) - "We all know that dead men don't come back."
Based on H.P. Lovecraft:
H. P. Lovecraft Profile
The Haunted Palace (Roger Corman) - "What was the terrifying thing in the pit that wanted women?"
Die, Monster, Die! (Daniel Haller) - "Face the ultimate in diabolism!"
The Shuttered Room (David Greene) - "Squashed into absurdity by an anvil emphasis on brutality, sexual trimmings and haunted-house spookery."
The Dunwich Horror (Daniel Haller) - "The Devil's Spawn is about to open the Gates of Hell!"