Every October TCM (Turner Classic Movies channel) airs classic horror movies.
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2023 TCM October Horror Schedule
*date/times are subject to change – all times shown in Eastern*
(Last updated on 9/01/23)
Please note we only include horror films airing on TCM in the lineup below.
2023 News: A “Creepy Cinema” collection of features will air every Tuesday beginning October 3rd. The films will be introduced by actor Mario Cantone and TCM host Ben Mankiewicz. Beginning October 6th, the network also will spotlight Gothic movies each Friday and will add its “Creepy Comedies” lineup to the schedule on Sunday, October 29th. “TCM’s Terror-Thon” will air for 48 hours straight October 30th-31st.
Saturday, September 2, 2023
- 8:00pm – The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
- 3:15am – Soylent Green (1973)
Sunday, September 10, 2023
- 6:00pm – Psycho (1960)
Monday, September 18, 2023
- 8:00pm – Them! (1954)
- 10:00pm – Tarantula (1955)
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
- 1:30am – The Wasp Woman (1960)
- 3:00am – The Black Scorpion (1957)
- 4:30am – The Cosmic Monster (1958)
Thursday, September 21, 2023
- 8:00pm – The Birds (1963)
Thursday, September 28, 2023
- 10:00am – House on Haunted Hill (1958)
Sunday, October 1, 2023
- 2:00am – Godzilla (1954)
- 4:00am – Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
Monday, October 2, 2023
- 2:00am – The X from Outer Space (1967)
- 4:00am – Genocide (1968)
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
- 8:00pm – Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- 10:00pm – Dressed to Kill (1980)
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
- 12:00am – Cat People (1942)
- 1:30am – The Hunger (1983)
- 3:15am – Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
- 5:00am – The Wasp Woman (1960)
Saturday, October 7, 2023
- 1:45am – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Monday, October 9, 2023
- 8:00am – It! (1967)
- 9:45am – The Mummy’s Shroud (1967)
- 11:30am – Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
- 1:00pm – Crack-Up (1946)
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
- 6:00am – King Kong (1933)
- 8:00am – Son of Kong (1933)
- 9:15am – Kongo (1932)
- 10:45am – The Death Kiss (1933)
- 12:15pm – Doctor X (1932)
- 1:45pm – The Walking Dead (1936)
- 3:00pm – The Vampire Bat (1933)
- 4:15pm – I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
- 5:30pm – Isle of the Dead (1945)
- 6:45pm – The Leopard Man (1943)
- 8:00pm – Cape Fear (1962)
- 10:00pm – The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- 11:45pm – From Beyond the Grave (1973)
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
- 3:15am – House of Dark Shadows (1970)
Friday, October 13, 2023
- 6:00am – Hausu (1977)
- 7:45am – Mark of the Vampire (1935)
- 9:00am – Night of Dark Shadows (1971)
- 10:45am – Death Curse of Tartu (1966)
- 12:30pm – The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
- 1:45pm – The Ghost Ship (1943)
- 3:00pm – Two on a Guillotine (1965)
- 5:00pm – Tormented (1960)
- 6:30pm – The Terror (1963)
- 8:00pm – Gaslight (1944)
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
- 3:00am – King Kong (1933)
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
- 12:30am – Poltergeist (1982)
- 4:15am – Village of the Damned (1960)
- 5:45am – Children of the Damned (1964)
Thursday, October 19, 2023
- 4:00pm – Freaks (1932)
- 5:15pm – The Devil-Doll (1936)
- 6:45pm – Mark of the Vampire (1935)
Saturday, October 21, 2023
- 1:30am – The Haunting (1963)
Sunday, October 22, 2023
- 4:15pm – The Nanny (1965)
Monday, October 23, 2023
- 12:30am – The Mysterious Island (1929)
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
- 3:30am – House of Wax (1953)
- 5:15am – House on Haunted Hill (1958)
- 6:30am – The Bat (1959)
- 8:00pm – Soylent Green (1973)
- 10:00pm – The Omega Man (1971)
Thursday, October 26, 2023
- 4:00am – The Awakening (1980)
Friday, October 27, 2023
- 8:00pm – Frankenstein (1931)
- 9:30pm – Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Saturday, October 28, 2023
- 2:00am – Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
- 3:30am – The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
- 5:00am – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
Sunday, October 29, 2023
- 9:45pm – The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930)
- 10:30pm – The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954)
TCM Terror-Thon
Monday, October 30, 2023
- 12:00am – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
- 2:00am – Cure (1997)
- 4:15am – Kuroneko (1968)
- 6:00am – Chamber of Horrors (1966)
- 7:45am – Freaks (1932)
- 9:00am – Mad Love (1935)
- 10:30am – White Zombie (1932)
- 11:45am – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
- 1:45pm – The Body Snatcher (1945)
- 3:15pm – The Seventh Victim (1943)
- 6:15pm – The Devil’s Bride (1968)
- 9:45pm – The Devil’s Own (1966)
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
- 4:45am – The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
- 6:30am – Rasputin–The Mad Monk (1966)
- 8:15am – Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
- 10:00am – The Mummy (1959)
- 11:45am – Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
- 1:15pm – The Invisible Man (1933)
- 2:30pm – The Black Cat (1934)
- 3:45pm – Frankenstein (1931)
- 5:00pm – Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- 6:30pm – The Wolf Man (1941)
- 10:00pm – When a Stranger Calls (1979)
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
- 1:30am – Carnival of Souls (1962)
- 3:00am – Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- 4:45am – Spider Baby (1964)
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TCM October Horror Archives
- 2022 Turner Classic Movies (October Horror)
- 2021 Turner Classic Movies (October Horror)
- 2020 Turner Classic Movies (October Horror)
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- 2018 Turner Classic Movies (October Horror)
- 2017 Turner Classic Movies (October Horror)
- 2016 Turner Classic Movies (October Horror)
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Please show, Rasputin: The Mad Monk, and To The Devil A Daughter. Both starring Christopher Lee. I haven’t seen either of these films and I don’t want to purchase them on DVD until I see them.
Would love to see Invasion of the BodySnatchers, especially the original with Kevin Mc Carthage’s…remake with Donald Sutherland also a good one!!
The Haunting with Julie Harris is always aMUST…Thank You! What happened to a Psycho???
Do you have the film INVADERS FROM MARS?
I would include “She” (1965) @ 00:30 EDT, Tuesday 13 October.
I love TCM even more when they break away from their RomCom addiction.
Thank You for looking outside the box.
P.S. You could rerun a few miniseries that your company (Turner Network) produced like: Bette Davis in The Dark Secret Of Harvest Home (1978).
WOW!! THAT is a GREAT idea…and with Thomas Tryon (the author side) in mind….how about “THE OTHER!?!”
Would like to see an airing of Universal’s “The Invisible Man” and a few sequels. Also “The Shuttered Room” from 1967. A TCM Underground airing of “The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant” with Bruce Dern would be great! Also have some requests for Non-Halloween/Horror Films that we would like to see. Will add a few titles if you have a section for those. Happy Halloween 2020 TCM, Masks Optional…
You forgot to add Corruption (1968) on the list. It will air on Tuesday, October 8, 4:00AM EST. Also Death Curse of Tartu came out in 1966.
TCM is the best!
Love seeing what TCM has to offer since, to me, AMC’s line-up has gone downhill ever since MonsterFest became FearFest in 2008. Plus, this year Peter Cushing is TCM’s “Star of the Month” for October, so Monday nights’ movies are dedicated to him! Gonna be a great October on TCM.
I’m a little disappointed there aren’t many Vincent Price movies or Alfred Hitchcock on schedule, but still very excited to see some of my faves on here, and to check out some I haven’t seen before. Also October 23rd’s lineup you listed is incorrect- their website lists Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Blob & The Tingler! I love it!
Thank you for catching that, all updated 🎃
Only eight Vincent Price movies are featured this year.
Yes, 8 out of all 31 days. House on Haunted Hill is my favorite, and they usually show it more than once- but oh well, it is still a good lineup!
For Admin, for those of us living is time zones other than Eastern, could you allow an option for different time zones?
Thank you for the idea David, I will see what we can do!
I love TCM! They should include ‘The Monster That Challenged the World’ and ‘Day of the Triffids’. Those were actually pretty scary movies for back in the 50’s/60’s. (I remember those from the ‘Creature Double Feature’ on Saturdays back in the day!)
Not bad but I was hoping for more Mummy movies from Hammer and a few more Werewolf one s as well.
Additionally, Peter Cushing is Star of the Month in October!!!!!! woot woot
It’s a good line up for Halloween. But I’d like too see more from hammer studio. Like Dracula has risen from the grave.
Wait!!! You forgot “The Tingler”!!
October 23, 2020
Happy Halloween everyone
Happy Halloween Aretha
Happy Halloween Aretha!
Presumably all these are shown in the US, they’re not listed on the UK Sky TCM channel?
A print tab and print friendly schedule would be a really nice feature! Thanks
Thank you for the suggestion Markus, we just added this feature 🙂
Cant wait for all these goodies ya hoo love all these scarey movies time to light the fire place and make popcorn and get scarey and have a great halloween thanks for all the great ones except you left friday the 13th whoa that one is classic we want jason……..
which channel is this on?
Depends on where you are – TCM.
Lol.