What’s On!? The Shut In Guide to Halloween

              

 

It’s Halloween Weekend and who doesn’t love October 31st!?

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But most of us are either too old or too tired to celebrate in the traditional way– trick or treating, parties, and playing dress up.   If you still want to do something to celebrate, go out to the CVS and buy yourself a set of plastic fangs, a bag of snickers and some microwave popcorn and spend the weekend with our SHUT IN’S GUIDE TO HALLOWEEN WEEKEND!

 

All times are eastern, please double check your local listings!

Friday Night:  Our Picks for October 28, 2011

  • 10:00pm  on Cinemax,  “Black Swan”:  Darren Aranofsky’s supernatural thriller is a great kickoff to the weekend
  • 10:00pm  our alternate pick, on ENCORE, “Hellboy” with Ron Perlman, Selma Blair
  • 12:00am on ENCORE, “Predator 2”  all star cast. will entertain enough till 2:15
  • 2:15am  on Turner Classic Movies, “Motel Hell”  from 1980 with Rory Calhoun, Nancy Parsons and um a farmer with a ‘healthy harvest’.
  • 2:30am On IFC, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”
  • 3:30am On ENCORE, John Carpenter’s “The Thing”  is well worth your time.
  • 4:00am another alternate pick on Showtime the light 2010 remake of  “Piranha”
Saturday Day and Night:  Our Picks for October 29, 2011
  • 5:30 am on AMC, “The Three Stooges”  In this episode, a Mad Scientist Wants the Boys Brains
  • 6:00am on AMC, “The Three Stooges”  Bellboy stooges encounter vaudevillian with a Gorilla
  • 6:30am on AMC, “The Mummy”  The Boris Karloff Original
  • 8:15am on AMC, “The Bride of Frankenstein” again, with Boris Karloff
  • 9:00am our alternate pick, on Turner Classic Movies, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”
  • 10:00am on AMC, “Lake Placid”  every Halloween marathon needs some bad camp
  • 10:00am on CineMAX you can catch “Final Destination” A horrifying premonition saves a young man (Bobby Campo) and his friends from death during a racetrack accident, but terrible fates await them
  • 11:00am  on IFC “The Three Stooges” find themselves in a haunted house.
  • 11:00am – 8:00pm alternate pick, REELZ channel for Masters of Horror.  This acclaimed series features one-hour horror movies made by some of the best of the craft, including John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing),Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre),
  • 12:00pm – 6:00pm on OLN a Ghosthunters International Marathon explores haunted locales around the world
  • 2:00pm –  10:00pm  on AMC watch Halloween 1, 3, 4, and 5, back to back.
  • 7:00pm alternate pick on the SYFY channel, “Resident Evil: Apocalypse”  reaaaaaly alternate.
  • 8:00pm  Here’s where you’ll have a tough choice to make, that is, if you’re not already mired in Halloweens
  • 8:00pm Choice 1:  You can go with Turner Classic Movies “Cat People”
  • 8:00pm Choice 2:  You can go with the IFC Channel and “The Shining”
  • 9:00pm alternate pick, MTV “Scream” if you want more laughs with your fear
  • 9:30pm  Pick of the Night on Turner Classic Movies:  Martin Scorsese Presents “Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows” produced and hosted by Martin Scorsese. Check out two of Lewton’s films airing Sunday early am.
  • 11:00pm  Another GREAT PICK on Turner Classic Movies “Invasion of The Body Snatchers” from 1956
  • 11:00pm alternate pick if you missed it earlier, on IFC Channel, “The Shining”
  • 11:00pm – 3:00am alternate pick:  TV Land prsents, Roseanne’s Wicked Halloween Bash begins showing all of the Halloween episodes of Roseanne.  the series concludes the same time Sunday night.
  • 12:00pm alternate pick, our only specifically Gay Horror film on the LOGO channel, “Hell Bent”
  • 12:50 The ‘missing’ Halloween from the AMC playlist, “Halloween II” on CineMAX
  • 1:00am REELZ Channel Presents the top 10 Scary Movies
  • 2:00am go to IFC Channel to watch a classic horror film, “Carrie”
  • 2:15am or if you have TMC-X you can check out “The Blair Witch Project”
  • 3:45am and if you’re really love Blair Witch, stick around for “Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2”
  • 4:15am on AMC check out “Bride of Frankenstein” again
Sunday Day and Night:  October 30, 2011
  • 5:00am on Turner Classic Movies, the 1943 psychological thriller “The Ghost Ship” from Val Lewton profiled Saturday night by the Martin Scorsese produced documentary
  • 5:30am if you want something more well known go over to ENCORE for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
  • 6:00am to 10:00pm  on Nickelodeon, special Halloween episodes of all their regular programming
  • 6:30am on AMC “The Mummy” with Boris Karloff
  • 6:15am if you’ve already seen “The Mummy” this weekend check out Turner Classic Movies, for “The Leopard Man” a psychological thriller from producer Val Lewton (see last night’s documentary)
  • 8:45am on Turner Classic Movies, check out “Devil Doll”
  • 10:00am –  6pm AMC will be running the full Halloween Series (well, 1, 3, 4 and 5) again
  • 12:00pm go to BBC America to watch “Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein” with Robert Deniro
  • 12:00pm to 6pm alternate pick, the OLN Ghost Hunters Marathon continues
  • 1:00pm on the BIO channel, Steven King Biography
  • 2:00pm switch back to Turner Classic Movies for “Dial M for Murder” our only Hitchcock this weekend
  • 2:00pm – 10pm:  back to back showing of all 4 parts of Stephen King’s “The Stand” on CHILLER
  • 3:00pm watch FX to see “The Sixth Sense” recently listed on our 5 Scariest Movie Moments
  • 2:30pm alternate pick head over to BBC America to watch “Hannibal” the sequel to “Silence of the Lambs”
  • 3:00pm need a break from movies? the BIO channel profiles The Munsters on TV-OGRAPHY
  • 3:30pm HBO is showing the Horror film, “The Rite”  with Anthony Hopkins (or go make some lunch)
  • 5:00pm go to BBC America for a must watch Halloween Classic with “The Exorcist”
  • 6:00pm on Turner Classic Movies…Anne Francis stars in….”Forbidden Planet”
  • 8:00pm Head to Fox for” The Simpsons” annual “Treehouse of Horror” if you’re big on tradition
  • 8:00pm alternate; if like us, you’re kind of sick of ToH, check out “Van Helsing” on ABC Family  or another showing of “Scream” on MTV
  • 9:00pm  The Fox animated Halloween night continues with “Family Guy: Screams of Silence”
  • 9:00pm Eli Roth fans should go to IFC and check out “Hostel”
  • 10:00pm go to Cinemax to watch this reboot of “Predators” with Adrian Brody and more
  • 10:00pm to 6am Chiller is  reairing of all 4 episode of Stephen King’s “The Stand”
  • 10:00pm alternate pick:  if you missed the Exorcist at 5pm here’s your chance to check it out again on BBC America
  • 11:00pm-3:00am alternate pick:  the conclusion of Sat’s Roseanne’s Wicked Halloween Bash on TV Land
  • 1:00am pick a repeat that you missed, HBO will be showing “The Rite” MTV will show “Scream” and AMC restarts the “Halloween” series.
  • 2:40am  Showtime Beyond will be showing “Scream 2”
  • 4:20am Switch over to ENCORE for the 1979 “Dracula” with Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier
  • 5:00am  If you have Outer, you can catch “Firestarter” with Drew Barrymore to start (or end) your day
Monday, October 31st, 2011, HALLOWEEN DAY:  For the most part just put on TCM and Watch All Day!
    • 7:00am till 10:00am various network morning news/talk shows will have halloween tips, costumes and more
    • 8:00am on Encore, watch Jennifer Lopez, John Voight and a snake in “Anaconda”
    • 9:00am on AMC watch “The Three Stooges”  in a haunted house
    • 10:15am  head to Turner Classic Movies for some Halloween Classics starting with “Dracula: Prince of Darkness”
    • 12:00pm stay with Turner Classic Movies for “Dracula has Risen”
    • 1:45pm stick around some more for “Curse of Frankenstein”
    • Take a short break, and eat some candy
    • 5:00pm check out Turner Classic Movies for the original “The Mummy”
    • 6:30pm stick around for “The Curse of The Mummy”
    • 7:00pm on OLN Ghost Hunters LIVE six hour special
    • 8:00pm also on Turner Classic Movies watch “Village of the Damned”
    • 8:00pm alternate, check out “The Crazies” on ENCORE
    • 9:30pm on Turner Classic Movies watch the George Romero Classic “Night of the Living Dead”
    • 11:15pm cap off your marathon watching TCM’s NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: HORROR (2011)

 

NETFLIX STREAMING

 

If there are any gaps or movies you want to skip or if you’re missing one of the channels, here are some great NETFLIX streaming recommendations that you can watch whenever you want:
Red State
The Evil Dead
Killer Klownz from Outer Space
Night of the Living Dead
Return of the Living Dead
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Last Exorcism
Poltergeist 2
The Wolfman
Night of the Comet
The Fly (either the Vincent Price or Jeff Goldblum version)
An American Werewolf in London
From Dusk Till Dawn
Dracula and
The Swarm