AMC FEAR FEST vs TCM CLASSIC HORROR 2011!

Written By: Ken Hulsey
Sources: AMC / TCM

It's time once again to pit the two top classic movie networks against each other mano-e-mano in a cage match of Halloween programming. As in the past decade or so I have given the schedules from both networks a once over to name the king of Halloween movies.

In the early part of the last decade AMC (American Movie Classics) ruled the cable wire with their "Monsterfest" celebration of horror, monster and sci fi films. As the years moved on AMC began to migrate their programing from the "classics" to modern slasher films and my interest migrated right along with it to other networks.

Likewise TCM (Turner Classic Movies) began to pick up the slack with a better selection of films though they never put together anything as magnificent as the long-dead "Monsterfest."

That was then, this is now and TCM has put together a schedule of classic horror films for 2011 that harkens back to the good old days.

Here is your blurb from the TCM website:

Classic Horror - Mondays in October

Throughout the month leading up to Halloween, TCM presents a festival of shiver-inducing fright films highlighted by the premiere of the latest entry in our A night at the Movies documentary series, A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King (2011). Unlike previous entries that featured the view- point of various industry insiders, this one focuses exclusively on the one- and-only master of horror storytelling, Stephen King.

Taking viewers through their darkest hours are five full nights of horror classics, arranged roughly by decade and ranging from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) to Repulsion (1965). Also raising goosebumps will be such masterworks of the genre as Nosferatu (1922), Frankenstein (1931), Cat People (1942), House of Wax (1953) and Night of the Living Dead (1968).

Featured Films:

• A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King
• Frankenstein (1931)
• Freaks
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
• Mark of the Vampire
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Nosferatu
• The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• The Wolf Man
• The Uninvited
• Dead of Night
• I Walked With a Zombie
• Cat People
• The Curse of the Cat People
• The Devil Bat
• Dead Men Walk
• Horror of Dracula
• House on Haunted Hill
• The Tingler
• House of Wax
• Curse of the Demon
• A Bucket of Blood
• Carnival of Souls
• Dementia 13
• Strait-Jacket
• The Pit and the Pendulum
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Devil's Bride
• Village of the Damned
• Night of the Living Dead
• The Innocents
• The Haunting (1963)
• Repulsion

You don't have to take my word for it! Check out the schedules for yourself:

AMC Fearfest
TMC Classic Horror

Spend Your Halloween With Sasquatch!

ANIMAL PLANET’S FINDING BIGFOOT RETURNS TO THE WOODS TO INVESTIGATE SASQUATCH’S ORIGIN IN HALLOWEEN SPECIAL

Source: Animal Planet

This fall, the Bigfoot Field Research Organization (BFRO) team from Animal Planet's FINDING BIGFOOT trudges deep into California's Redwood forest to investigate one of the most infamous and disputed pieces of Bigfoot evidence ever - the Patterson-Gimlin footage. Premiering Sunday, October 30, at 9 PM (ET/PT), the two-hour special FINDING BIGFOOT: BIRTH OF A LEGEND takes viewers to the site where the notorious footage was captured to investigate the elusive beast's existence and settle the more than 50-year-old debate originated by the tape.

Outfitted with the latest technology, including night-vision and infrared cameras, the BFRO team also scours the Redwoods to uncover additional evidence of the presence of Sasquatch. With more Bigfoot signals discovered in the Redwoods than anywhere else in North America, each broken branch or peculiar noise could mean a Squatch is lurking nearby.

Prior to the debut of the special, the BFRO team will make an appearance at this year's New York Comic Con convention. On Friday, October 14, at 6:30 PM, the entire cast -- Bobo, Cliff, Matt and Ranae - will debunk Bigfoot myths with a special sneak preview of the BIRTH OF A LEGEND special. Following the sneak peek, the team will discuss its Squatchin' experiences from the show and share years of Bigfoot knowledge and research on a panel.

In FINDING BIGFOOT, a four-person team from the BFRO -- a leading scientific research organization exploring the Bigfoot/Sasquatch mystery -- investigates Sasquatch sightings by interviewing locals, examining evidence and infiltrating the woodlands and forests in places where Bigfoot has been reported.

The 10 Best Low-Budget Films of All Time

by Armand Vaquer


Just being a mega-costly movie of today doesn't always equal success at the box office. Many of these behemoths tank, while some movies made on shoestring budgets occasionally become hits and make many times their cost.

"The 10 Best Low-Budget Films of All Time" came across my desk this morning and I found the movies listed interesting.

The site begins with:

Success is relative in Hollywood. Some movies tank at the box office but cost so little to make that the studio still comes out ahead (especially when they use creative accounting), while others have to earn back their huge budgets just to break even. But the films here aren't just low-budget compared with what they earned; they're cheap, period.

To take a look at "The 10 Best Low-Budget Films of All Time," go here.