Thread: TCM - A Night at the Movies-The Horrors of Stephen King

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Monday October 3, 2011 8:00 pm ET
Monday October 3, 2011 11:30 pm ET
Monday October 17, 2011 4:00 am ET
Monday October 24, 2011 9:30 pm ET
Monday October 31, 2011 11:15 pm ET

Turner Classic Movies will celebrate Halloween this year with an all-new special produced by DreamWorks Television and presented as part of TCM's ongoing A Night at the Movies documentary series. In October, TCM will premiere A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King, with the master storyteller himself discussing the classic horror films that influenced him the most.

TCM's A Night at the Movies specials are written, produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker and author Laurent Bouzereau (The Making of Steven Spielberg's "Jaws"; All About "The Birds"), with Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey (TNT's Falling Skies) serving as executive producers. The series began in October 2009 with A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers, followed in December 2009 with A Night at the Movies: The Gigantic World of Epics.

In A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King, which premieres on TCM Monday, Oct. 3, at 8 p.m. (ET), Stephen King discusses how he discovered terror at the movie theater. He takes viewers on a journey through many aspects of the horror genre, including vampires, zombies, demons and ghosts. He also examines the fundamental reasons behind moviegoers' incessant craving for being frightened. Along the way, he discusses the movies that have had a real impact on his writing, including Freaks (1932), Cat People (1942), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Night of the Living Dead (1968) and The Changeling (1980).

A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King will kick off an entire month of classic horror on TCM, with each Monday night's lineup packed with memorable chillers. The offerings include Universal classics like Frankenstein (1931) and The Wolf Man (1941), Val Lewton thrillers like Cat People (1942) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Hammer classics like Horror of Dracula (1958) and cult favorites from William Castle and Roger Corman, to name a few.

BW&C-60m. Descriptive Video. Letterboxed. Closed Captioning.

STARTS TONITE!! And afterwards it's a night of horror flicks! The lineup for tonite is:

Frankenstein (’31)
Freaks (’32)
A Night at the Movies:
The Horrors of Stephen King (’11)(rerun of 8PM showing)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (’32)
Mark of the Vampire (’35)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (’19)
Nosferatu (’22)
The Phantom of the Opera (‘25)

TCM is so much better than AMC at this time of year.

Plus no commercials with TCM!!

AMC is great for new horror, but when it comes to classic stuff in general, TCM is the place to be.

My only problem now is that Terra Nova is on at 8PM so I'll have to catch the later showing. I really should just break down & do the DVR thing, but even when all we had was tape, I'd never watch what I'd taped.

I missed the premiere, but I'm sure they'll show it again, and again. I'm always interested in anything involving Mr. King.

Yeah, I went with Terra Nova instead then went to bed.

AMC used to be SO GOOD at Halloween, but it's been 6 or 7 years since that was true. Their old Monsterfests were incredible. TCM sure seems to be the place to be now ... I'm a little sad I don't get that channel, but I've got enough of the classics I'll be OK for awhile.

Wish I'd seen this thread earlier. I would love to see The Horrors of Stephen King. Maybe they'll run it again.

I just checked. A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King is on again October 18 at 3:00 AM central time.

It's also being rerun on Halloween at 11:15.

This was on last nite & I was too sick to get outta bed to post about it.

It's worth watching too. I agree with him on pretty much everything he said about movies. Except for The Shining. I think he really though Kubrick missed the mark on that one. But taken on its own it's a stunning movie. He said more or less that in his book the hotel burned, in Kubrick's movie the hotel froze, that was Kubrick's vision in a nutshell, the polar opposite of Uncle Stevie's.

His desert island movie, if he had to choose ONLY ONE would be the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers. If he could choose several of his movies he'd choose Misery, maybe Cujo & I forget the other one. He'd also add in Psycho, The Exorcist & another one I've forgotten.