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Turner Classic Movies (October Horror)
Every October TCM (Turner Classic Movies channel) airs classic horror movies.
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2024 October Horror on TCM News
October’s “Star of the Month” on TCM will be Bela Lugosi. TCM will air popular films starring Lugosi every Wednesday night throughout the month. Thursday nights in October are titled “Creepy Cinema with Mario Cantone” featuring your favorite Creepy Cinema with hilarious commentary from host Mario.
HALLOWEEN BONUS: Enjoy horror/thriller movies ALL DAY October 30th and October 31st.
2024 TCM October Horror Schedule
PLEASE NOTE: Date/times are subject to change (all times shown in ET)
Airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times/dates can vary by TV provider.
Schedule last updated on 9/01/24
Horror and Science-Fiction movies airing this month on TCM
Monday, September 9, 2024
- 8:00am – 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
- 6:00pm – Eyes Without a Face (1959)
Thursday, September 12, 2024
- 8:00pm – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Friday, September 13, 2024
- 12:45am – Logan’s Run (1975)
- 3:00am – Demon Seed (1977)
- 4:45am – Brainstorm (1983)
- 6:45am – The Seventh Victim (1943)
- 10:30am – Bedlam (1946)
- 12:00pm – Isle of the Dead (1945)
- 1:15pm – The Ghost Ship (1943)
- 2:30pm – I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
- 5:00pm – The Body Snatcher (1945)
Friday, September 20, 2024
- 4:00am – Westworld (1973)
Saturday, September 21, 2024
- 4:00pm – Soylent Green (1973)
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
- 2:15pm – The Seventh Victim (1943)
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- 10:15am – Them! (1954)
Thursday, September 26, 2024
- 1:30am – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
October Horror Films on TCM
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Start of the Month: Bela Lugosi
- 8:00pm – Dracula (1931)
- 9:30pm – Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
- 11:00pm – Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Creepy Cinema with Mario Cantone (starts at 8pm)
- 1:30am – The Wolf Man (1941)
- 3:00am – The Devil-Doll (1936)
- 4:30am – The Walking Dead (1936)
- 6:00am – Queen of Outer Space (1958)
- 7:30am – Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
- 9:00am – Forbidden Planet (1956)
- 10:45am – The Invisible Boy (1957)
- 12:30pm – The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
- 2:00pm – The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
- 3:30pm – Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
- 5:00pm – The Thing from Another World (1951)
- 6:30pm – Invaders from Mars (1953)
- 8:00pm – Sudden Fear (1952)
- 10:15pm – In This Our Life (1942)
Friday, October 4, 2024
- 12:15am – House of Wax (1953)
- 2:00am – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
- 3:45am – Mad Love (1935)
- 5:00am – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Sunday, October 6, 2024
- 6:00am – The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
- 7:15am – A Bucket of Blood (1959)
- 8:30am – The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)
- 3:15pm – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Start of the Month: Bela Lugosi
- 8:00pm – Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
- 9:30pm – Zombies on Broadway (1945)
- 10:45pm – You’ll Find Out (1940)
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Creepy Cinema with Mario Cantone (starts at 8pm)
- 12:30am – Spooks Run Wild (1941)
- 1:45am – Ghosts on the Loose (1943)
- 3:00am – The Death Kiss (1933)
- 4:15am – Scared to Death (1947)
- 5:30am – The Gorilla (1939)
- 8:00pm – Rear Window (1954)
- 10:15pm – Sisters (1972)
- 11:59pm – Poltergeist (1982)
Friday, October 11, 2024
- 2:00am – The Haunting (1963)
- 4:00am – Spirits of the Dead (1968)
- 6:15am – Carnival of Souls (1962)
Saturday, October 12, 2024
- 6:00pm – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Sunday, October 13, 2024
- 6:15am – Chamber of Horrors (1966)
- 8:00am – Two on a Guillotine (1965)
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Start of the Month: Bela Lugosi
- 8:00pm – White Zombie (1932)
- 9:15pm – The Body Snatcher (1945)
- 10:45pm – Devil Bat (1940)
- 11:59pm – Mark of the Vampire (1935)
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Creepy Cinema with Mario Cantone (starts at 8pm)
- 1:15am – The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
- 2:45am – Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
- 4:15am – Queen of Outer Space (1958)
- TBA
Friday, October 18, 2024
- 3:15am – The Reptile (1966)
- 5:00am – The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
Saturday, October 19, 2024
- 6:30pm – Village of the Damned (1960)
Sunday, October 20, 2024
- 6:15am – The Ghost Ship (1943)
- 7:30am – Isle of the Dead (1945)
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Start of the Month: Bela Lugosi
- 8:00pm – The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
- 9:30pm – Bowery at Midnight (1942)
- 10:45pm – The Saint’s Double Trouble (1940)
- 11:59pm – Broadminded (1931)
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Creepy Cinema with Mario Cantone (starts at 8pm)
- 1:30am – Genius at Work (1947)
- 2:45am – Ninotchka (1939)
- 4:45am – 50 Million Frenchmen (1931)
- 8:00pm – The Night Digger (1971)
- 10:00pm – The Brood (1979)
- 11:45pm – Demon Seed (1977)
Friday, October 25, 2024
- 1:30am – They Live (1988)
- 3:15am – The Hidden (1987)
- 5:00am – The Shout (1978)
- 6:45am – The Thing from Another World (1951)
- 8:15am – Transatlantic Tunnel (1935)
Sunday, October 27, 2024
- 7:15am – I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
- 12:00pm – The Invisible Boy (1957)
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
ALL-DAY HORROR AND THRILLERS
- 6:00am – House on Haunted Hill (1958)
- 7:15am – From Beyond the Grave (1973)
- 9:00am – Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
- 10:45am – Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
- 12:30pm – The Mummy (1959)
- 2:15pm – Horror of Dracula (1958)
- 3:45pm – The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
- 5:15pm – The Beast with Five Finers (1946)
- 6:45pm – The Seventh Victim (1943)
- 8:00pm – Psycho (1960)
- 11:45pm – Blue Velvet (1986)
Thursday, October 31, 2024
HAPPY HALLOWEEN HORROR
- 2:00am – The Strangler (1964)
- 3:45am – Night Must Fall (1964)
- 5:30am – Return to Glennascaul (1953)
- 6:00am – Doctor X (1932)
- 7:30am – Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
- 9:00am – Thirteen Women (1932)
- 10:15am – Freaks (1932)
- 11:30am – The Bat (1959)
- 1:00pm – The Wolf Man (1941)
- 2:15pm – The Black Cat (1941)
- 3:45pm – Dracula (1931)
- 5:15pm – Frankenstein (1931)
- 6:30pm – Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- 12:00am – Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- 1:45am – The Devil’s Own (1966)
- 3:30am – The Devil’s Bride (1968)
- 5:15am – Eye of the Devil (1966)
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TCM October Horror Archives
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A lot of my favorites play in either the wee hours of the morning when I am asleep, or extremely early when I am at work. I wish they would give their horror movie slots better prime time.
Love the old movies; how about some Charlie Chan movies, & The bowery boys, great old time ones. Thanks
I suggest classic horror weekends devoted to particular monsters — there were five weekends this year, 2022, to cover all the films for one each: Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, Mummy, then a mix of Phantom of the Opera, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Invisible Man films. This means that one could see Nosferatu (both 1922 and 1979 versions), Dracula (1931), Son of Dracula, Dracula’s Daughter, House of Dracula, The Brides of Dracula, et al.
It seems the old classic “The Wolf Man” with Lon Cheney Jr. has been given the heave-ho this Halloween season. Why? And what of “Dracula” with Frank Langella? Or one of the scariest movies of them all — “Don’t Look Now” which is unsettling to say the least. I would think all these movies would be considered the sort of Halloween Classics that TCM would be sure to feature. Trick or Treat — more trick than treat this year.
Why are Rasputin The Mad Monk and The Devil’s Bride blocked on Sling? These are two I was looking forward to the most this year! 🙁
They look to save all our VERY CLASSIC 1930s-40s Halloween Movies till Halloween !! The ones they have been showing on Monday Nights ARE NOT the ones many of us want to see !! Been disappointed with their October Halloween Line-Up for last 2 years. We are going to voice this too to TCM directly if possible.
Is this wrong? It has way more if you search by “horror”:
http://escapepress.com/tcmsched/tcmbig_10.htm
This 2022 schedule by TCM is one of the smallest and worst in years. It’s doesn’t like there are any good theme nights like they normally on Fridays or Sundays.
This is the first schedule since Discovery took control of TCM and it looks like cost-cutting has had an impact in licensing.
The Fog and the Howling are on the 10th
I agree. I so look forward to October and watching all the oldies but goodies. I am very disappointed by 2022 October schedule. Putting most on in the middle of the night. Boo. Where is Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, The Mummy (original), Cat People, Banshee, any Edgar Allan Poe, the Werewolf, etc etc. Shame on TCM!
I agree. I’m heartbroken. I look to tcm to show the old black n whites that were from the 30s. Who is making these decisions and why omit the gems. Viewers of all ages and races appreciat3 those classics.
The Fog 1980- Halloween 3 season of the Witch- and Christine!!!!!!
I love TCM! I can’t tell you how excited I am to see what TCM has in store for us for 2022. Please play all of the greats with actors like Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Dwight Frye, Peter Lorre, Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill…
TCM has always been my favorite channel but you miss putting the big monster movies, when I was a kid, I loved those shows, dinosaurs, giant spiders, scorpions, my wife enjoy this time of year and anticipate your movies, need to show the younger generation, that the early days had movies as good a Michael Myers.
The Fog 1980- Halloween 3 season of the Witch- Christine!!!! exorcist!!!!
Why is there no star of the month for October? No monster of the month?
Star of the Month is Lucille Ball
TCM needs to have 31 days of Halloween instead of just a three day Halloween Marathon 10/29- 10/31
yes the good old movies are @ 2am! come on! we that appreciate the best horror movies from 20-40 years ago cannot stay up that late!
Just so you know check out Tubi they do have some of the old good stuff.