urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:psychomachia Jen Jen 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:psychomachia:88375 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z <object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B8Vm0tE-wbE"></param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B8Vm0tE-wbE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350" allowScriptAccess="never"></embed> </object> <br /><br />A few horror movie marathons today, in case you don't want to change the channel... <br /><br /><b>9:00 AM [SyFy]<br />Night of the Living Dead (1968)</b><br />"It has been established that persons who have recently died have been returning to life and committing acts of murder. A widespread investigation of funeral homes, morgues, and hospitals has concluded that the unburied dead have been returning to life and seeking human victims. It's hard for us here to be reporting this to you, but it does seem to be a fact."<br /><br /><b>9:00 AM [Spike]<br />Friday the 13th Part III <br />11:00 AM [Spike]<br />Friday the 13th Part II</b><br />Spike has its own double feature of Friday the 13th sequels, albeit not in order. Watch the third one first, where you find out Jason survived his attack at the hands of the two survivors in the previous movie. Then watch the second one to find out who's killing the teenagers at Crystal Lake and who survives. Spoiler hint: it's Jason and it's the people you saw at the beginning of the movie you watched right before this one. <br /><br /><b>6:00 PM [American Movie Classics]<br />Halloween (1978) <br />8:00 PM [American Movie Classics]<br />Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers <br />10:00 PM [American Movie Classics]<br />Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers</b><br />AMC has a mini-marathon of Halloween movies: the awesome original, the fourth one where Laurie has a daughter who goes crazy (not in later continuity), and the fifth one, in which the crazy daughter sticks around where her uncle tried to kill her in order to give him another great shot at killing her. <br /><br /><b>5:00 PM [Turner Classic Movies]<br />Poltergeist <br />7:00 PM [Turner Classic Movies]<br />The Power <br />9:00 PM [Turner Classic Movies]<br />The Haunting (1963) <br />11:00 PM [Turner Classic Movies]<br />Village of the Damned (1960)</b><br />Meanwhile, TCM has a great evening slate of movies: the first Poltergeist where we learn that building a housing development over mass graves is probably not the best idea; The Power where George Hamilton and Suzanne Pleshette are menaced by a killer psychic; the original The Haunting which still has some of the spookiest haunted house shots I've ever seen (interior and exterior); and the original Village of the Damned, where creepy-eyed children want you to do what they say and they'll kill you if you don't. Theme of the evening: psychic powers only lead to disaster.