What To Catch On TCM This Week -October 27- November 2, 2019

This is one of my favorite seasons on TCM next to the holiday season. Some of the best horror and suspense films are on TCM this time of year. Here are a few that I think are really worth the watch.

King Kong - A filmmaker sets off to film a movie with an unknown ingenue and an unsuspecting crew to film on a the far away and uncharted Skull Island. Carl Denham is looking for the infamous monster Kong and gets more than he bargains for in the gigantic Kong. Watch the most famous King climb the Empire State Building with his love. Sunday, October 27th 4:00 AM MST. 


The Picture of Dorian Gray - Dorian Gray is a handsome and wealthy young man that makes an unusual wish, that a portrait of him should age instead of himself. From there his life begins to spiral into forbidden debauchery and murder. This is one of the best stories of morality and the lesson of "be careful what you wish for because you just might get it." My favorite is how the picture looks at the end. Sunday, October 27th 6:00 AM MST.

 Cape Fear - One of the best suspense-noir films ever made and first story boarded and drafted by Alfred Hitchcock to direct, but he left and British director J. Lee Thompson took over and produced one of the most creepy character's ever put on celluloid in Robert Mitchum's Max Cady. Sunday, October 27th 1:30 PM MST. 

The Night Visitor - A farmer has been wrongly accused of murder and sent to an insane asylum and becomes insane from being locked up, escapes and begins a killing spree on those who have wronged him. Max von Sydow  plays the insane farmer turned murder in perfect form. I saw this on a local midnight movie show when I was a kid, it was kind of like an Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, but the movies weren't B movies, although there were some cheesy ones sometimes, but this movie was one of the really good ones and made me like watching Max von Sydow, he's an amazing artist. Tuesday, October 29th 2:15 PM MST. 

Victor/Victoria - Two friends in desperate straits, come up with an amazingly good plan to fund their life - female impersonation. Victoria is talked into impersonating a man that impersonates women by her new best friend/gay "lover", Toddy. As  you can imagine everything goes wrong ending with Victor/Victoria falling madly in love with a mobster. Watch James Garner woe Julia Andrews Tuesday, October 29th 9:00 PM MST. 

The Little Shop of Horrors - Poor little Seymour Krelboyne is madly in love with his co-worker Audrey and begins experimenting with plants to get her attention, unfortunately he goes over board and creates a real man eater of a plant. Watch for a very young Jack Nicholson as a mad dental patient that loves pain. Wednesday, October 30th 1:30 AM MST. 

A Bucket of Blood - A Roger Corman film set in a beatnik cafe with art and poetry and a lot of murder. A simple minded busboy accidentally kills his land lady's cat and turns it into a piece of art that becomes the talk of the town. His popularity gets under his skin and he goes on a murderous rampage for his next piece of art. Wednesday, October 30th 2:45 AM MST. 


House On Haunted Hill - An odd millionaire invites guests to party for his new wife in a haunted mansion and decides to offer ever party guest $10,000 to stay in the house over night. His new wife however thinks that it might be a scheme to get rid of her forever. Vincent Price is menacing as the eccentric millionaire. Thursday, October 31st 9:15 AM MST. 

Chamber of Horrors - Wax museum owners and detectives Danova and Hyde-White help to track down a serial killer that swears revenge on those that captured him. This was supposed to be a pilot for a television show called House of Wax. I could only imagine what they would've had then get up to.  Thursday, October 31st 2:30 PM MST. 

House of Usher - An older brother determined that the evil in his family bloodline die with him and his sister refuses to allow her to marry and fakes her death so that her fiancee' will leave with out her. Vincent Price is at his very worst in this Poe classic about the fall of the great house of Usher. Thursday, October 31st 9:00 PM MST. 

Hooper - Burt Reynold's plays a stuntman that wants to get out of the game because everything is starting to catch up with him. I remember going to the drive-in with my parents to see this in Albuquerque and loving the appeal of Burt Reynolds, he was witty, smart and could deliver a good joke like no tomorrow. I really like this movie because of the stunts and but more because of Sally Fields, her and Burt play very well together and they make movie making look like a lot of fun, but then again Mr. Reynolds always said that his objective in making movies was to have fun with his friends and have a good time doing it. Friday, November 1st 12:30 PM MST. 

Dr.Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Air Force commander Jack D. Ripper has gone off his rocker and has just ordered that H-Bombs should be dropped on Russia and triggers "Wing Attack Plan R".  This is one of Sellers greatest acting feats as he portray's three different character including Dr.Strangelove who has come up with the whole plan. Kubrick's genius is everywhere in this film and is probably his best critique on the craziness of America. Friday, November 1st 7:30 PM MST. 

The Quiet Man - Sean Thornton has moved back to Ireland to purchase his family home and immediately falls in love with local beauty Mary Kate, unfortunately her older brother wanted to buy the land that Sean is buying and is upset when Sean out bids him and will not give Mary Kate his consent to marry. Unwilling to give each other up they marry anyway, but Mary Kate wants her dowry and sees it as her birthright and Sean refuses to fight her brother because of his boxing past. Saturday, November 2nd 1:30 PM MST.