31 Days of Halloween 2009 - Horror Movies for Oct. 21

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1:00 AM [Turner Classic Movies]
The Old Dark House (1932)
Now this is more like it. The original film, not the William Castle version, this stars Boris Karloff as the creepy butler of a gloomy, deranged family. There's pyromania, alcoholism, religius fanaticism, and just plain strangeness with some great dialogue.

8:30 AM [SyFy]
The Insatiable
One of my favorite direct to video releases, it's the story of a young man who captures a vampire serial killer after he fails to kill her, having fallen in love. Mind games ensue, Michael Biehn plays a former marine in a wheelchair, and if you like bunnies, you probably shouldn't watch this.

2:45 PM (1991) [Independent Film Channel]
Afraid of the Dark
Odd movie where a young boy, facing an operation to recover his sight, believes that someone is stalking and killing blind women in his neighborhood. But is that actually happening? The second half goes into some bizarre territory and let's just say an unreliable narrator is putting it mildly.

8:00 PM [American Movie Classics]
Ghostbusters
Ray. If someone asks if you are a god, you say, "yes!"

10:30 PM [American Movie Classics]
Ghostbusters II
If my hands weren't tied by the unalterable fetters of the law, then I would invoke the tradition of our illustrious forebears, reach back to a purer, sterner justice, and have you BURNED AT THE STAKE!

Double feature on AMC, you can study up on all the ghost fighting while you're waiting to see if they're actually going to make a third one or not (still in scripting, release date says 2012, so I wouldn't get too excited yet). But hey, you can keep yourself company with the Stay-Puft Man, the most adorable giant marshmallow ever.

The penguins alone could not have saved us

31 Days of Halloween 2009 - Horror Movies for Oct. 21