Independent Film Channel and Turner Classic Movies has a great line-up of Horror Films for Halloween. It all begins very early on IFC with psychological thriller, “Afraid of The Dark,”(1992) at 8:20 AM EST. At 9:00 PM EST watch “Haxan” (1922) movie about witchcraft in the Middle Ages. So powerful are some images that even some modern viewers will turn away from the TV screen. At 10:50 PM EST watch Peter Lorre in...

TCM starts its Halloween movie fest Monday, 10/30 at 2:00 AM (EST) with George Franju’s, “Eyes Without a Face (1959).” This movie has been hailed as the most “elegant of gore movies.” The movie based on a novel written by Jean Redon is both a beautiful, but disturbing story. A doctor (Pierre Brasseur) has a beautiful daughter (Edith Scob) that has had a horrible auto accident. Her face is monstrously...

I am having a little get-together tonight with friends and family and we are going to watch “The Screaming Skull” I figured we could use a laugh or two. Just reading the title looks like the Screaming Skull is going to give us all a headache!!! Filmed in 1958 the era of B-movies, what else can we expect? But it’s that time of year when you just want to sit around your TV set with friends and not so much get scared, but...

This news went under the radar… I just heard this today, Jane Wyatt died in her sleep of natural causes, on 10/20/06 at the age of 96. Jane Wyatt is known as the mom on the Father Knows Best 1950′s TV series. She also played Spock’s mom on the Star Trek series. Wyatt had a successful film career in the 1930s and ’40s, notably as Ronald Colman’s lover in 1937′s “Lost Horizon.” She also had a...

This Friday night 10/27 Turner Classic Movies has a great line-up of classic horror films. So get the popcorn, curl up on your favorite couch and watch these gems if you dare. The frightful night begins at 8:00 PM EST with White Zombie (1932) with Bela Lugosi–movie inspired by the American interest in voodoo back in the 30′s. Lugosi plays an evil man who owns a sugar mill in the Island of Haiti. Gee I wonder why Haiti? Just...

Stanley Kubrick’s wife, Christiane gives a rare interview and reveals much more than most books have about her husband, his work and his epic Cold War satire… Excerpt: “What’s interesting is that Kubrick didn’t think that his films might make the slightest bit of difference. “He was never that naive,” says Christiane. “He couldn’t make a film unless he fell in love with the story. Then he couldn’t wait to get...