Halloween movies galore on Turner Classic Movies

Our household has been watching some great Halloween-type movies on Turner Classic Movies this weekend, including two Fay Wray movies: “Doctor X,” a classic 1932 flick about a reporter investigating a series of cannibalistic murders at a medical college (that’s Lionel Atwill pictured), and “Mystery of the Wax Museum,” a 1933 movie about a disfigured sculptor who turns murder victims into wax statues. Great stuff.

It’s easy to forget that this great archive of classic movies is available on TCM 24/7. Check their schedule for all the great scary movies. A few coming up this week:

Tuesday, Oct. 27: 

8 p.m. – Poltergeist (1982). Evil spirits abduct a suburban family’s daughter. Craig T. Nelson.

12 a.m. – The Haunting (1963). Psychic investigators move into a haunted house. Julie Harris.

2 a.m. – Village of the Damned (1960). Residents of a British village give birth to emotionless, super-powered offspring. George Sanders.

Friday, Oct. 30:

11:15 a.m. – The Walking Dead (1936). A framed man comes back from the dead seeking revenge. Boris Karloff.

6:45 p.m. – Isle of the Dead (1945). Quarantined residents of a Balkans island fear that one of their numbers is a vampire. Boris Karloff.

8 p.m. – Gaslight (1944). A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion. Ingrid Bergman

12 a.m. – Psycho (1960). A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent “mother.” Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh.

Image: Warner Archives