Roger Corman double feature day!

12:45 AM [Turner Classic Movies]
Horror House
Teenagers get killed at a party. Stars Frankie Avalon. Not sure how good the movie is, but hang around after the movie's over and at 2:15, you can catch a couple of shorts: More Dangerous Than Dynamite, about the perils of doing laundry with gasoline, and Time Out For Trouble, about household accidents. To be honest, those sound far more terrifying and engrossing than anything HH could provide.

1:05 AM [Flix]
Miner's Massacre
Zombie miner tries to kill meddling kids who are possibly after his gold. I am only including this because I get to say "zombie miner" and because Karen Black plays someone called Aunt Nelly. Sweet.

1:30 AM [American Movie Classics]
Magic
Anthony Hopkins is a ventriloquist with multiple personality disorder and a dummy named Fats. This combination cannot end well, and in fact, it doesn't - after a few murders, an attempted romance with Ann-Margret, and way too much subtext between Hopkins and the dummy.

3:00 AM [Turner Classic Movies]
Tales of Terror
The first of two Roger Corman movies based on the works of Poe, this one is an anthology of three tales: Morella, in which Vincent Price gets way too attached to a corpse and his daughter; The Black Cat, where Peter Lorre discovers good old Vincent is sleeping with his wife and takes appropriately ghoulish revenge; and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, which has Basil Rathbone hypnotizing a dying man and trapping him between life and death. Naturally, there's a lot of death, love that turns horribly wrong, and Vincent Price.

4:00 AM [American Movie Classics]
The Curse of the Living Corpse
Guy afraid of being buried alive is apparently... buried alive. Everyone is cursed to die a certain way - and I have to say, if you're told your fate is to drown, why would think in the middle of a bunch of murders, hey I should probably take a bath?

4:30 AM (1961) [Turner Classic Movies]
The Pit and the Pendulum
Vincent Price is a Spanish (really?) nobleman who goes utterly crazy with the help of his hot, mysterious wife and a dark past involving the Spanish Inquisition. Although it totally differs from the Poe story and the hero's kind of ineffectual, Price is always worth a watch when he's going nuts. And it has a great ending freeze frame.

10:30 AM [American Movie Classics]
Warlock
A 17th century warlock and witchhunter both go forward in time to 1980s Los Angeles after Satan decides he'd rather have them battle in a sunnier clime. With the help of a girl named Kassandra cursed by rapid aging (warlock dude), the witchhunter tries to stop the world from ending. Prety nifty, although apparently there's a cut scene where a woman rips "open her blouse to reveal the "Eyes of Satan' in place of her nipples." I am not making this up, though Wikipedia might be.

11:35 PM [Encore Mystery]
Haunted
Quiet little period ghost story starring Aidan Quinn and Kate Beckinsale. I'm fond of this because it's an oldfashioned throwback to the tales of E.F. Benson and M. R. James, where country houses held mysterious secrets, people had haunted childhoods, and everyone was very witty even if they were dead.

So the delightful icon I use for most of the halloween posts (aka oh my god what is wrong with your eye) comes from the manga, Uzumaki. Now I've already expressed my deep love of the movie version of it, but I've been neglectful in regards to the manga. It kicks ass. For detailed synopses, Wikipedia has a thorough overview up, but it's basically about people in a Japanese town who become obsessed by spirals. Naturally, it ends in insanity, mutilation, and horrible death.

The last/lost chapter is possibly the best in that it taps on my favorite thing: things beyond mortal comprehension in outer space that man was not meant to know and the insanity that ensues when anyone attempts to understand the unfathomable. It's a story of some students (the same ones as in the main part of the story) who discover a spiral-shaped galaxy, an astronomer who attempts to take the claim for himself, and telepathy. Lots and lots of telepathy. Plus, the panel above which comes from the end page. Man, I love Junji Ito.

Lezrod - Ciudad sin Dios
Storey/Ayers/Grief - Stochastic Motion
NASA - Saturn Radio Sounds

(Note to self: Going to Yahoo! Answers is bound to get you annoyed at people. I read a question where someone was asking about what the spirals meant in Uzumaki, and three out of four people thought the questioner was an idiot since Naruto doesn't have galaxies or spirals. Gah.)