This week's horror and fantasy movies

[Cadaverino]

A selective list of horror and fantasy movies on television. Cadaverino's Picks are in dark red. All times are Central — check your local program guide.

Fri., 10/5 — The Curse of the Werewolf (1961). The son of a servant assaulted by a beggar becomes a wolfman in 18th-century Spain. (THMAX, 2:20 am)

Fri., 10/5 — Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006). Capt. Jack Sparrow must find a way to avoid the clutches of ghostly pirate Davey Jones and his crew or be damned for all eternity. (SKF, 5:00 am)

Fri., 10/5 — The Vampire (1957). A small-town doctor cannot stop taking the pills that turn him into a fanged killer. (TCM, 9:30 am)

Fri., 10/5 — The Return of Dracula (1958). Gone to California without a passport, Dracula poses as an artist and moves in with a family. (TCM, 11:00 am)

Fri., 10/5 — Dead Men Walk (1943). A bad doctor comes back as a vampire for revenge on his good twin. (TCM, 12:30 pm)

Fri., 10/5 — The Skeleton Key (2005). A woman takes a job as a hospice nurse for a couple who live in a New Orleans house with a troublesome history. (MOMAX, 1:00 pm)

Fri., 10/5 — The Other (1972). Based on Thomas Tryon's novel about twin brothers whose macabre game of life and death extends beyond the grave. (EMYST, 3:15 pm)

Fri., 10/5 — Gremlins (1984). An inventor gives his son an odd little creature which multiplies into monsters which wreck the town. (HBOC, 5:00 pm)

Fri., 10/5 — The Return of the Vampire (1944). Exposed by a bomb in the London blitz, the vampire resumes with a werewolf helper. (TCM, 5:45 pm)

Fri., 10/5 — Meet Joe Black (1998). Death takes human form, asking a principled widower to guide him in exchange for more time on Earth. (AMC, 5:45 pm)

Fri., 10/5 — The Vampire Bat (1933). A mad scientist drains villagers for blood to feed the living blob he has created. (TCM, 6:45 pm)

Fri., 10/5 — Cat People (1942). A New York architect marries a Serbian artist who turns into a black panther when aroused. (TCM, 8:45)

Fri., 10/5 — Edward Scissorhands (1990). A deceased inventor's unfinished creation becomes an instant celebrity when a cheery suburbanite brings him home. (ELOVE, 9:20 pm)

Fri., 10/5 — Monster House (2006). No adults believe three youths' assertion that a neighboring residence is a living creature that means them harm. Animated. (STARZ, 11:20 pm)

Sat., 10/6 — Curse of the Demon (1957). In England a U.S. psychologist seeks to return a doctor's ancient death-curse scripted on parchment. (TCM, 12:00 mid)

Sat., 10/6 — The Haunted Mansion (2003). A real estate agent and his family encounter ghosts in an old New Orleans house on a remote bayou. (DISN, 1:00 am)

Sat., 10/6 — I Walked With a Zombie (1943). A nurse takes a planter's listless wife to a West Indies voodoo ritual. (TCM, 3:00 am)

Sat., 10/6 — The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977). A shipwrecked man and a feline woman flee a mad scientist who makes half-human beasts. From the H.G. Wells book. (EMYST, 3:30 am)

Sat., 10/6 — The Leopard Man (1943). Authorities track an escaped circus leopard suspected of killing a number of peasants in a New Mexico town. (TCM, 4:15 am)

Sat., 10/6 — Ghost Rider (2007). A motorcycle stuntman, who sold his soul to save a loved one, becomes a fiery agent for justice at night in the presence of evil. Based on the comic book. (IN4, 6:00 am)

Sat., 10/6 — The Others (2001). A devout woman with two sunlight-sensitive children believes ghosts inhabit her darkened island mansion. (TNT, 7:45 am)

Sat., 10/6 — When a Stranger Calls (2006). A sadistic stranger subjects a teenage baby-sitter to an increasingly threatening round of phone calls. (STARZ, 11:10 am)

Sat., 10/6 — The Eye (2002). After receiving a corneal transplant, a young woman begins to have increasingly malevolent visions. (IFC, 5:00 pm)

Sat., 10/6 — The Wicker Man (2006). A lawman uncovers strange rituals, a sinister harvest festival and possible human sacrifice as he searches for a missing girl on a secluded island. (HBO, 6:00 pm)

Sat., 10/6 — King Kong (2005). Members of a film crew encounter prehistoric beasts and a gigantic ape on mysterious Skull Island. (HBOZ, 8:00 pm)

Sat., 10/6 — Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). A poor boy and four spoiled children win a tour through the incredible factory of an odd candy-maker. Based on the book by Roald Dahl. (HBO, 8:30 pm)

Sat., 10/6 — Pitch Black (2000). After crash landing on a distant planet, survivors must fight deadly creatures that come out only at night. (FLIX, 10:00 pm)

Sat., 10/6 — Hideaway (1995). An antiques dealer feels a connection to a killer satanist who also walked in the land of the dead. From the Dean R. Koontz book. (EACT, 10:00 pm)

[Uncle POE]

Excellent work as always, Cadaverino!

I just wanted to mention the line-up of films on TCM this Friday, ... some of my all-time favorites. These movies may not be the "classics" in the vein of Universal's heyday, but they were classics to me growing up in NE Ohio in conjunction with its numerous horror movie hosts --- Hoolihan & Big Chuck (Fridays, 11:30), SuperHost's Mad Theatre I and II (Saturdays, 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.) and The Ghoul (Saturdays, 11:00 p.m.).

"The Return of Dracula" --- back in my day was known as "The Curse of Dracula", and its finale is just a childhood memory that takes me back to a specific moment in time for me as a kid.

"The Return of the Vampire" --- simple and to the point. Lugosi, a werewolf, a graveyard, a crypt, etc etc. I could write pages about this often overlooked classic, but suffice it to say, I regard it as a great example of a bare-boned, horror story.

"The Curse of the Demon" --- Yeah, the big demon was intimidating for me as a kid, but this was the first movie where I realized I was just as scared about all the other stuff going on, and the concept of the Demon was almost anti-climactic. I've been meaning to mention this over on the "remakes" thread, because part of me would love to see it remade, but would dread the outcome far more.

I strongly encourage fans of horror films to take the time to indulge or at least record these movies; they are films of unique quality and charm that really can't be done in today's age and with today's sensibilities.

[Cadaverino]

A selective list of horror and fantasy movies on television. Cadaverino's Picks are in dark red. All times are Central — check your local program guide.

Sun., 10/7 — Halloween (1978). John Carpenter's chiller about an escaped maniac who returns to his Illinois hometown to continue his bloody rampage. (IFC, 1:00 am)

Sun., 10/7 — Leprechaun (1992). An Irish fairy escapes from a crate and goes on a gory quest for his 100 stolen gold coins. (SCIFI, 3:00 am)

Sun., 10/7 — Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994). Boogeyman Freddy Krueger brings real-life terror to the set of the seventh Elm Street movie. (EMYST, 4:00 am)

Sun., 10/7 — Leprechaun 2 (1994). An evil Irish fairy travels 1,000 years to California in search of a suitable bride. (SCIFI, 5:00 am)

Sun., 10/7 — The Covenant (2006). The death of a student at an elite Massachusetts academy threatens to shatter a pact that has protected four families with eldritch powers since the 17th century. Based on the comic book. (STARZ, 10:30 am)

Sun., 10/7 — The Grudge 2 (2006). A young woman encounters a terrible curse while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo. (SCIN, 4:20 pm)

Sun., 10/7 — Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). Signs of Voldemort's return emerge as Harry's friends help him prepare for a tournament with Europe's best student wizards. Based on the novel by J.K. Rowling. (HBO2, 6:00 pm)

Sun., 10/7 — Tremors (1990). Four big worms with multiple tongues dig high-speed around people in the middle of nowhere. (MAX, 8:00 pm)

Sun.–Mon., 10/7–10/8 — Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001). Two witches try to stop a villain who wants to permanently transform trick-or-treaters into their costume characters. (DISN, 12:00 mid)

Mon., 10/8 — Pulse (2001). Bewildered residents of Tokyo investigate strange events linked to computers and the Internet. (SUNDANCE, 4:00 am)

Mon., 10/8 — Pan's Labyrinth (2006). In 1944 Spain, a lonely girl encounters a faun in an ancient maze and must complete three dangerous tasks to achieve immortality. (HBO2, 5:55 am)

Mon., 10/8 — The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). Children join forces with the lion mystic Aslan to free the land of Narnia from the White Witch's wintry spell. Based on the novel by C.S. Lewis. (ENCORE, 10:10 am)

Mon., 10/9 — The Haunted Mansion (2003). A real estate agent and his family encounter ghosts in an old New Orleans house on a remote bayou. (TOOND, 9:05 pm)

Mon., 10/9 — Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971). A poor boy and his grandfather win a tour through a wily candymaker's marvelous factory. (HBOF, 9:15 pm)

Tue., 10/9 — Stephen King's Thinner (1996). An elderly Gypsy king's weight-loss curse prompts an obese lawyer to call in a mob boss's debt. Based on the King book. (MAX, 5:15 am)

Tue., 10/9 — Jaws 2 (1978). Amity's citizens and police chief dread another tourist season with a huge white shark near the beach. (EACT, 9:30 am)

Tue., 10/9 — The Messengers (2007). A teen and her younger brother desperately try to warn their disbelieving family about ominous apparitions that only the children see. (IN6, 11:30 am)

Tue., 10/9 — Night of the Living Dead (1968). People hide in a house from carnivorous walking corpses revived by radiation fallout. (EMYST, 12:20 pm)

Tue.–Wed., 10/9–10/10 — Halloweentown High (2004). Two witches protect a group of students from the legendary Knights of the Iron Dagger. (DISN, 12 mid)

Wed., 10/10 — *batteries not included (1987). Tiny flying saucers join an elderly couple and fellow tenants against a land developer's henchmen. (ACMAX, 6:10 am)

Wed., 10/10 — The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). Corrupted by a lord, Oscar Wilde's London aristocrat stays young, but his portrait begins to age. (TCM, 6:30 am)

Wed., 10/10 — House on Haunted Hill (1999). A theme-park mogul invites five guests to an abandoned asylum and offers $1 million to anyone who stays there all night. Based on the story by Robb White. (HBOSIG, 6:50 am)

Wed., 10/10 — The Body Snatcher (1945). A carriage cabby sells cadavers to a medical-school doctor in 19th-century Edinburgh. (TCM, 10:15 am)

Wed., 10/10 — The Curse of the Werewolf (1961). The son of a servant assaulted by a beggar becomes a wolfman in 18th-century Spain. (THMAX, 10:30 am)

Wed., 10/10 — Race With the Devil (1975). Two men and their wives flee in their RV from the Texas scene of a satanic sacrifice. (EACT, 11:20 am)

Wed., 10/10 — Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941). A Victorian London doctor drinks a potion and frees his bad side. From the Robert Louis Stevenson novel. (TCM, 11:45 am)

Wed., 10/10 — The Lost Boys (1987). A woman and her sons move to a coastal California town full of teenage vampire punks. (ACMAX, 8:10 pm)

Thu., 10/11 — Gremlins (1984). An inventor gives his son an odd little creature which multiplies into monsters which wreck the town. (HBOC, 5:35 am)

Thu., 10/11 — Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). The Pumpkin King gives the yuletide season a touch of Halloween in an animated tale from the mind of Tim Burton. (STARZ, 8:35 am)

Thu., 10/11 — Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005). Two young brothers play a mysterious game that propels them into an outer-space adventure. Based on a book by Chris Van Allsburg. (SKF, 11:30 am)

Thu.–Fri., 10/11–10/12 — Twitches (2005). Reunited on their 21st birthday, twin sisters use their magic powers to save their kingdom from the forces of darkness. (DISN, 12:00 mid)

Fri., 10/12 — The Skeleton Key (2005). A woman takes a job as a hospice nurse for a couple who live in a New Orleans house with a troublesome history. (MOMAX, 1:00 am)

Fri., 10/12 — Jaws the Revenge (1987). A huge white shark harasses a New England widow and her marine-biologist son in the Bahamas. (EACT, 11:15 am)

Fri., 10/12 — Magic in the Water (1995). A local sea-monster legend entrances a divorced radio psychologist and his kids while they vacation on a Canadian lake. (SHOW, 4:00 pm)

Sat., 10/13 — Strait-Jacket (1964). A paroled ax murderer comes under suspicion during a rash of new killings. (TCM, 1:30 am)

Sat., 10/13 — 13 Ghosts (1960). A couple and their children occupy a house haunted by 12 ghosts who are seeking a 13th. (TCM, 3:15 am)

Sat., 10/13 — Nightwatch (1998). A police inspector suspects a law student or his friend of serial killings and eerie events at the city morgue. (AMC, 4:15 am)

Sat., 10/13 — The Tingler (1959). A mad pathologist discovers that people die of fright because of an organism on their spinal cord. (TCM, 4:45 am)

Sat., 10/13 — Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006). Capt. Jack Sparrow must find a way to avoid the clutches of ghostly pirate Davey Jones and his crew or be damned for all eternity. (STARZ, 5:00 am)

Sat., 10/13 — Wolf (1994). Bitten by a wolf in Vermont, a middle-aged Manhattan editor feels sudden vitality and begins turning into a werewolf. (ENCORE, 5:00 am)

Sat., 10/13 — Dracula (1979). Van Helsing investigates as the vampire count scales walls and visits bedrooms at an English manor. (HBOSIG, 7:35 am)

Sat., 10/13 — The Other (1972). Based on Thomas Tryon's novel about twin brothers whose macabre game of life and death extends beyond the grave. (EMYST, 1:35 pm)

Sat., 10/13 — Hook (1991). Aided by Tinker Bell, a corporate lawyer turns into Peter Pan to rescue his children from Captain Hook. (FAM, 3:00 pm)

[Cadaverino]

A selective list of horror and fantasy movies on television. Cadaverino's Picks are in dark red. All times are Central — check your local program guide.

Sat.–Sun., 10/13–10/14 — Ghost (1990). A slain Manhattan yuppie reaches out to his lover, with a medium as his middlewoman. (OXYGEN, 12:00 mid)

Sun., 10/14 — Phantoms (1998). A British professor comes to the aid of vacationing sisters who discover eerie killings in a Colorado ski town. From the Dean Koontz book. (ENCORE, 2:00 am)

Sun., 10/14 — Jaws III (1983). An engineer and a marine biologist face a mother white shark at a Florida sea park. (EACT, 9:00 am)

Sun., 10/14 — Monster House (2006). No adults believe three youths' assertion that a neighboring residence is a living creature that means them harm. Animated. (SKF, 10:00 am)

Sun., 10/14 — Firestarter (1984). Quasifederal agents hunt a man, who can bend minds, and his daughter, who can start fires by staring. From the Stephen King book. (MAX, 10:45 am)

Sun., 10/14 — The Fog (2005). Residents of a seaside community fall prey to malevolent entities hidden within the thick mist around their homes. (EMYST, 11:40 am)

Sun., 10/14 — The Haunting (1999). A parapsychologist and three others stay in a house reputed to be the site of many awful tragedies. Based on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. (THMAX, 12:45 pm)

Sun., 10/14 — When a Stranger Calls (2006). A sadistic stranger subjects a teenage baby-sitter to an increasingly threatening round of phone calls. (STARZ, 7:20 pm)

Mon., 10/15 — Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971). A poor boy and his grandfather win a tour through a wily candymaker's marvelous factory. (HBOF, 12:30 am)

Mon. 10/15 — Eyes Without a Face (1959). A Paris surgeon tries to fix his daughter's face with skin from kidnapped women. (TCM, 6:30 am)

Mon., 10/15 — Vampyr (1932). A young man visits an isolated inn, and comes under the spell of an old vampire. (TCM, 8:15 am)

Mon., 10/15 — The Lost Boys (1987). A woman and her sons move to a coastal California town full of teenage vampire punks. (ACMAX, 1:30 pm)

Mon. 10/15 — The Last Mimzy (2007). The parents and teacher of a pair of siblings notice the children are developing amazing mental abilities following their discovery of a box of strange toys. Based on the story "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett. (IN4, 2:00 pm)

Mon., 10/15 — Edward Scissorhands (1990). A deceased inventor's unfinished creation becomes an instant celebrity when a cheery suburbanite brings him home. (ELOVE, 7:45 pm)

Mon.–Tue., 10/15–10/16 — The Haunted Mansion (2003). A real estate agent and his family encounter ghosts in an old New Orleans house on a remote bayou. (DISN, 12:00 mid)

Tue., 10/16 — The Omen (2006). An American diplomat and his wife learn that the child they adopted may be the son of Satan. (HBOZ, 1:00 am)

Tue., 10/16 — The Curse of the Werewolf (1961). The son of a servant assaulted by a beggar becomes a wolfman in 18th-century Spain. (THMAX, 8:25 am)

Tue., 10/16 — The Reaping (2007). A former Christian missionary who now debunks religious phenomena encounters biblical plagues in a small town. (IN5, 12:30 pm)

Tue., 10/16 — Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). A designer and his wife try to stop hundreds of creatures from taking over New York. (MOMAX, 5:10 pm)

Tue.–Wed., 10/16–10/17 — Casper Meets Wendy (1998). Friendly ghost Casper helps a witch protect her aunts from an evil warlock. (DISN, 12:00 mid)

Wed., 10/17 — The Raven (1963). Three sorcerers bicker the black-magic way in 15th-century England. (EMYST, 11:40 am)

Wed., 10/17 — The Covenant (2006). The death of a student at an elite Massachusetts academy threatens to shatter a pact that has protected four families with eldritch powers since the 17th century. Based on the comic book. (STARZ, 11:50 am)

Thu., 10/18 — King Kong (2005). Members of a film crew encounter prehistoric beasts and a gigantic ape on mysterious Skull Island. (HBOZ, 4:00 am)

Thu., 10/18 — I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997). A killer stalks North Carolina teens who disposed of an auto accident's live victim. (TBS, 5:30 am)

Thu., 10/18 — The Grudge (2004). An American exchange student and her boyfriend encounter vengeful spirits that haunt a house in Tokyo. (TBS, 7:30 am)

Thu., 10/18 — Gremlins (1984). An inventor gives his son an odd little creature which multiplies into monsters which wreck the town. (HBOC, 11:40 am)

Thu., 10/18 — The Eye (2002). After receiving a corneal transplant, a young woman begins to have increasingly malevolent visions. (IFC, 3:50 pm)

Thu., 10/18 — Between Two Worlds (1944). A ship sails on with a cynical newsman, a suicidal couple and others who are dead but don't know it. (TCM, 4:00 pm)

Thu., 10/18 — Highlander: The Final Dimension (1994). An evil immortal swordsman catches up to his sorcerer foe at a deserted New Jersey refinery. (TMC, 4:40 pm)

Thu., 10/18 — Raising Cain (1992). A scientist with multiple personalities sets out to complete his late father's experiments in child development. (ENCORE, 7:05 pm)

Fri., 10/19 — Frailty (2002). A boy tries to protect his brother after their seemingly normal father goes on a killing spree. (SCIFI, 7:00 am)

Fri., 10/19 — The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1959). A surgeon prepares to put his fiancee's head on a model's body. (TCM, 10:00 am)

Fri., 10/19 — Soul of a Monster (1944). A sinister woman uses hypnosis to control the thoughts and actions of the doctor who owes her his life. (TCM, 11:30 am)

Fri., 10/19 — Pulse (2006). Some friends think a new Web site is just a hoax with a clever marketing campaign until everyone who logs on dies. (SBLK, 11:30 am)

Fri., 10/19 — Tomb of Ligeia (1964). An English nobleman becomes obsessed with the notion that his dead wife still lives. Based on the tale by Edgar Allan Poe. (TCM, 2:15 pm)

Fri., 10/19 — The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971). Living corpse Dr. Phibes visits his late wife's surgeons with rats, bats and other biblical plagues. (TCM, 3:45 pm)

Fri., 10/19 — Dementia 13 (1963). Ax murders follow a heart attack at an Irish castle full of mourners. (TCM, 5:45 pm)

Fri., 10/19 — Berserk (1967). Scotland Yard looks into spiking, buzzsawing and knifing at ringmaster Monica's traveling circus. (TCM, 7:00 pm)

Fri., 10/19 — Scream of Fear (1961). A young woman in a wheelchair sees a corpse no one else sees on the French Riviera. (TCM, 8:45 pm)

Fri., 10/19 — Die! Die! My Darling! (1965). An eccentric Englishwoman locks up her dead son's ex-girlfriend without any food, to cleanse her soul. (TCM, 10:15 pm)

Fri.–Sat., 10/19–10/20 — Mark of the Vampire (1935). A police inspector and a hypnotist solve a Czech castle murder with a trick. (TCM, 12:00 mid)

Sat., 10/20 — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001). An orphan attends a school of witchcraft and wizardry and pieces together the mystery of his parents' deaths. Based on a book by J.K. Rowling. (DISN, 1:00 am)

Sat., 10/20 — Freaks (1932). Sideshow performers punish acrobat Cleopatra for humiliating their friend, tiny Hans. (TCM, 1:15 am)

Sat., 10/20 — The Devil Doll (1936). A framed Devil's Island convict inherits a process for shrinking living things. (TCM, 2:30 am)

Sat., 10/20 — London After Midnight (1927). Silent. A Scotland Yard inspector investigates grave goings-on at the mansion of a deceased London man, in a restored version of a film believed lost. (TCM, 4:00 am)

Sat., 10/20 — Final Destination (2000). Teens meet with horrible ends after a classmate's precognitive vision leads to their ejection from a doomed airliner. (USA, 5:00 am)

Sat., 10/20 — And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973). An English doctor helps a lord and his bride cope with a severed hand and a curse. (AMC, 6:00 am)

Sat., 10/20 — The Flesh Eaters (1964). Travelers are stranded on an island with a mad marine biologist and his tiny carnivorous sea creatures. (AMC, 7:45 am)

Sat., 10/20 — Race With the Devil (1975). Two men and their wives flee in their RV from the Texas scene of a satanic sacrifice. (EACT, 10:20 am)

Sat., 10/20 — Teen Witch (1989). A girl with a crush on the captain of the football team turns into a witch on her 16th birthday. (FAM, 5:00 pm)

Sat., 10/20 — Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005). In 19th-century Europe, a gifted pianist mistakenly weds a dead woman who takes him to the underworld. Animated. (FAM, 9:00 pm)

Sat., 10/20 — Jeepers Creepers II (2003). A winged creature terrorizes basketball players, coaches and cheerleaders who have become stranded on a highway. (SCIFI, 11:00 pm)

[Cadaverino]

A selective list of horror and fantasy movies on television. Cadaverino's Picks are in dark red. All times are Central — check your local program guide.

Sun., 10/21 — The Omen (2006). An American diplomat and his wife learn that the child they adopted may be the son of Satan. (HBO, 1:55 am)

Sun., 10/21 — The Lost Boys (1987). A woman and her sons move to a coastal California town full of teenage vampire punks. (ACMAX, 4:05 am)

Sun., 10/21 — The Raven (1963). Three sorcerers bicker the black-magic way in 15th-century England. (EMYST, 4:35 am)

Sun., 10/21 — The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977). A shipwrecked man and a feline woman flee a mad scientist who makes half-human beasts. From the H.G. Wells book. (EMYST, 7:50 am)

Sun., 10/21 — The Wicker Man (2006). A lawman uncovers strange rituals, a sinister harvest festival and possible human sacrifice as he searches for a missing girl on a secluded island. (HBO, 8:00 am)

Sun., 10/21 — House of Usher (1960). Mad aristocrat Roderick Usher thinks his sister is dead and buries her alive. (TCM, 11:00 am)

Sun., 10/21 — The Innocents (1961). A Victorian governess fears a boy and girl have been possessed by a dead couple. Based on the Henry James book The Turn of the Screw. (FMC, 3:00 pm)

Sun., 10/21 — Dark Water (2002). A schoolgirl's ghost haunts a divorced woman and her young daughter after they move into a dilapidated building. (TMC, 5:15 pm)

Mon., 10/22 — Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006). Capt. Jack Sparrow must find a way to avoid the clutches of ghostly pirate Davey Jones and his crew or be damned for all eternity. (SKF, 1:20 am)

Mon., 10/22 — The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). Children join forces with the lion mystic Aslan to free the land of Narnia from the White Witch's wintry spell. Based on the novel by C.S. Lewis. (SCIN, 2:30 am)

Mon., 10/22 — The Covenant (2006). The death of a student at an elite Massachusetts academy threatens to shatter a pact that has protected four families with eldritch powers since the 17th century. Based on the comic book. (STARZ, 6:05 am)

Mon., 10/22 — The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964). Relatives die as they feared and the maid loses her head soon after a millionaire is buried alive. (AMC, 6:15 am)

Mon., 10/22 — The Messengers (2007). A teen and her younger brother desperately try to warn their disbelieving family about ominous apparitions that only the children see. (IN5, 7:30 am)

Mon., 10/22 — The Fog (2005). Residents of a seaside community fall prey to malevolent entities hidden within the thick mist around their homes. (EMYST, 9:00 am)

Mon., 10/22 — King Kong (2005). Members of a film crew encounter prehistoric beasts and a gigantic ape on mysterious Skull Island. (HBOZ, 9:00 am)

Mon., 10/22 — Bridge to Terabithia (2007). A boy and his new friend, the class outsider, create an imaginary world in which they rule as king and queen. Based on the novel by Katherine Paterson. (IN4, 9:00 am)

Mon., 10/22 — Jaws III (1983). An engineer and a marine biologist face a mother white shark at a Florida sea park. (EACT, 9:05 am)

Mon., 10/22 — Magic in the Water (1995). A local sea-monster legend entrances a divorced radio psychologist and his kids while they vacation on a Canadian lake. (SHOTOO, 9:15 am)

Mon., 10/22 — Monster House (2006). No adults believe three youths' assertion that a neighboring residence is a living creature that means them harm. Animated. (STARZ, 9:30 am)

Mon., 10/22 — Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). The Pumpkin King gives the yuletide season a touch of Halloween in an animated tale from the mind of Tim Burton. (SKF, 9:30 am)

Mon. 10/22 — When a Stranger Calls (2006). A sadistic stranger subjects a teenage baby-sitter to an increasingly threatening round of phone calls. (STARZ, 11:05 am).

Mon., 10/22 — Phantoms (1998). A British professor comes to the aid of vacationing sisters who discover eerie killings in a Colorado ski town. From the Dean Koontz book. (SHOW, 3:15 pm)

Mon., 10/22 — Ghost (1990). A slain Manhattan yuppie reaches out to his lover, with a medium as his middlewoman. (OXYGEN, 5:00 pm)

Mon. 10/22 — Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986). An American Indian helps a broke and homeless family, once again prey to a poltergeist. (AMC, 5:00 pm)

Mon., 10/22 — Poltergeist (1982). A suburban couple's little girl is drawn from her bedroom into a nightmarish other dimension. (FAM, 6:30 pm)

Mon., 10/22 — Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 (2000). A London antiques dealer travels to New Orleans to save his estranged daughter from his nemesis, Count Dracula. (AMC, 9:00 pm)

Tue., 10/23 — Audrey Rose (1977). Parents of a girl notice odd behavior after a man tells them she holds his dead daughter's spirit. (3:20 am)

Tue., 10/23 — Blood of the Vampire (1958). A couple enter the asylum of a mad vampire doctor and his one-eyed assistant. (AMC, 3:30 am)

Tue., 10/23 — Gremlins (1984). An inventor gives his son an odd little creature which multiplies into monsters which wreck the town. (HBOC, 6:50 am)

Tue., 10/23 — Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). Signs of Voldemort's return emerge as Harry's friends help him prepare for a tournament with Europe's best student wizards. Based on a book by J.K. Rowling. (HBO2, 9:15 am)

Tue., 10/23 — The Fog (1980). Californians are haunted by corpses from a 100-year-old shipwreck. (AMC, 11:00 am)

Tue., 10/23 — Ghost Dad (1990). A businessman emerges from an ill-fated cab ride and returns to his family as a ghost. (SBLK, 11:20 am)

Tue., 10/23 — Casper's Scare School (2006). Casper wants to learn how to be a hobgoblin but returns to his friendly ways after learning about a diabolical plot. Animated. (TOON, 5:00 pm)

Tue., 10/23 — Boogeyman (2005). A man confronts the visions that have haunted him since a terrifying incident in his childhood home. (FAM, 8:00 pm)

Tue., 10/23 — House on Haunted Hill (1999). A theme-park mogul invites five guests to an abandoned asylum and offers $1 million to anyone who stays there all night. Based on the story by Robb White. (HBOSIG, 11:45 pm)

Wed., 10/24 — Dragonslayer (1981). A sorcerer's apprentice reluctantly inherits the task of killing a fire-breathing dragon. (MOMAX, 6:40 am)

Wed., 10/24 — Edward Scissorhands (1990). A deceased inventor's unfinished creation becomes an instant celebrity when a cheery suburbanite brings him home. (ELOVE, 10:50 am)

Wed., 10/24 — Jaws: The Revenge (1987). A huge white shark harasses a New England widow and her marine-biologist son in the Bahamas. (EACT, 12:10 pm)

Wed., 10/24 — Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). A poor boy and four spoiled children win a tour through the incredible factory of an odd candy-maker. Based on the book by Roald Dahl. (HBO, 2:15 pm)

Wed., 10/24 — The Skeleton Key (2005). A woman takes a job as a hospice nurse for a couple who live in a New Orleans house with a troublesome history. (MOMAX, 6:10 pm)

Wed., 10/24 — Halloween (1978). John Carpenter's chiller about an escaped maniac who returns to his Illinois hometown to continue his bloody rampage. (AMC, 7:00 pm)

Wed., 10/24 — Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). The Pumpkin King gives the yuletide season a touch of Halloween in an animated tale from the mind of Tim Burton. (DISN, 7:00 pm)

Thu., 10/25 — Blood of Dracula (1957). A girls-school teacher turns a student into a vampire with an amulet. (AMC, 3:15 am)

Thu., 10/25 — What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). A Hollywood child-star has-been torments her famous sister, now in a wheelchair. (MAX, 3:20 am)

Thu., 10/25 — Howl's Moving Castle (2004). After a witch transforms her into a crone, a hat maker seeks shelter at the ambulatory home of an unusual wizard. Animated. Based on the book by Diana Wynne Jones. (SCIN, 4:20 am)

Thu., 10/25 — Final Destination (2000). Teens meet with horrible ends after a classmate's precognitive vision leads to their ejection from a doomed airliner. (SCIFI, 6:00 pm)

Thu., 10/25 — The Lost Boys (1987). A woman and her sons move to a coastal California town full of teenage vampire punks. (ACMAX, 7:00 pm)

Thu., 10/25 — Wes Craven Presents: They (2002). A psychology student and her friends begin to have nightmares, resulting in strange marks appearing on their bodies. (FX, 11:00 pm)

Fri., 10/26 — Critters 2: The Main Course (1988). Alien bounty hunters hunt man-eating hairballs, for whom a boy visiting his aunt is blamed. (TNT, 1:30 am)

Fri., 10/26 — Race With the Devil (1975). Two men and their wives flee in their RV from the Texas scene of a satanic sacrifice. (EACT, 1:30 am)

Fri., 10/26 — The Grudge 2 (2006). A young woman encounters a terrible curse while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo. (SCIN, 10:20 am)

Fri., 10/26 — Voodoo Island (1957). Zombies and chomping plants greet an expedition led by a debunker of the occult. (TCM, 11:15 am)

Fri., 10/26 — King of the Zombies (1941). An Allied hero catches a caped madman making walking dead for the Axis. (TCM, 2:00 pm)

Fri., 10/26 — Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1965). Half-mad Charlotte lives in a Louisiana mansion with her greedy cousin and family doctor. (FMC, 2:30 pm)

Fri., 10/26 — Revenge of the Zombies (1943). A mad bayou doctor makes zombies for Hitler after practicing on his wife. (TCM, 3:15 pm)

Fri., 10/26 — Zombies of Mora Tau (1957). A fortune hunter leads a search for diamonds guarded by undead sailors off the coast of Africa. (TCM, 4:30 pm)

Fri., 10/26 — White Zombie (1932). A voodoo master of sugar-mill zombies holds another man's bride in his Haitian castle. (TCM, 5:45 pm)

Fri., 10/26 — An American Haunting (2005). Strange and terrifying events plague a family in 1817 Tennessee after a fellow citizen places a curse on the father. Based on a book by Brent Monahan. (FAM, 7:00 pm)

Fri., 10/26 — Dark Water (2005). Mysterious events trouble a mother and daughter after they move into a dilapidated New York apartment building. (FX, 7:00 pm)

Fri., 10/26 — A Bucket of Blood (1959). A busboy is embraced by the beatnik art community when he develops an impressive but morbid method of sculpturing. (TCM, 7:00 pm)

Fri., 10/26 — Leprechaun (1992). An Irish fairy escapes from a crate and goes on a gory quest for his 100 stolen gold coins. (BRAVO, 8:00 pm)

Fri., 10/26 — Creature From the Haunted Sea (1961). A greedy gangster's monster hoax is for real. (TCM, 8:15 pm)

Fri., 10/26 — The Pit and the Pendulum (1961). A plot to drive a man insane backfires when the intended victim adopts his late father's sadistic persona. Based on a tale by Edgar Allan Poe. (TCM, 9:30 pm)

Fri., 10/26 — The Terror (1963). A French lieutenant follows a ghostly beauty to a baron's Baltic coast castle. (TCM, 11:00 pm)

Sat., 10/27 — Carnival of Souls (1962). After emerging from a car which plunged into a river, a woman becomes a church organist in Salt Lake City. (TCM, 1:00 am)

Sat., 10/27 — The Other (1972). Based on Thomas Tryon's novel about twin brothers whose macabre game of life and death extends beyond the grave. (FMC, 1:00 am)

Sat., 10/27 — Darkness Falls (2003). The spirit of a woman who was lynched more than 150 years earlier haunts residents of a New Englan. (FX, 1:00 pm)

Sat., 10/27 — Pulse (2006). Some friends think a new Web site is just a hoax with a clever marketing campaign until everyone who logs on dies. (STARZ, 1:30 pm)

Sat., 10/27 — The Blair Witch Project (1999). A filmmaking crew hikes into Maryland's Black Hills Forest seeking clues about a legendary witch. (FX, 3:00 pm)

Sat., 10/27 — Halloween: Resurrection (2002). Internet users watch six collegians as they spend the night in Michael Myers' childhood home. (FX, 5:00 pm)

Sat., 10/27 — Stephen King's It (1990). Seven friends engage in a struggle with the demon they first encountered 30 years earlier in their Maine hometown. From the Stephen King book. (FAM, 7:00 pm)

Sat., 10/27 — Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later (1998). In hiding for two decades, a traumatized woman learns her murderous brother has returned for her. (FX, 7:00 pm)

Sat., 10/27 — The Exorcist (1973). An actress calls upon Jesuits to try to end her 12-year-old daughter's possession by the devil. (AMC, 7:00 pm)

Sat., 10/27 — Bats (1999). A bat-loving zoologist in Gallup, Texas, must find a way to stop genetically altered bats from killing people. (ENCORE, 11:30 pm)

[Cadaverino]

A selective list of horror and fantasy movies on television. Cadaverino's Picks are in dark red. All times are Central — check your local program guide.

Sun., 10/28 — Race With the Devil (1975). Two men and their wives flee in their RV from the Texas scene of a satanic sacrifice. (FMC, 1:00 am)

Sun., 10/28 — Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006). Capt. Jack Sparrow must find a way to avoid the clutches of ghostly pirate Davey Jones and his crew or be damned for all eternity. (1:10 am)

Sun., 10/28 — The Flesh Eaters (1964). Travelers are stranded on an island with a mad marine biologist and his tiny carnivorous sea creatures. (AMC, 4:15 am)

Sun., 10/28 — The Beast Must Die (1974). A millionaire plans to hunt whichever one of his guests turns into a werewolf under a full moon. (AMC, 6:00 am)

Sun., 10/28 — The Undying Monster (1942). Scotland Yard puts a man and a woman on the case of a coastal werewolf. (FMC, 6:30 am)

Sun., 10/28 — Dark Water (2002). A schoolgirl's ghost haunts a divorced woman and her young daughter after they move into a dilapidated building. (SUNDAE, 6:30 am)

Sun., 10/28 — Jaws 2 (1978). Amity's citizens and police chief dread another tourist season with a huge white shark near the beach. (EACT, 7:20 am)

Sun., 10/28 — Ghost Dad (1990). A businessman emerges from an ill-fated cab ride and returns to his family as a ghost. (SBLK, 8:00 am)

Sun., 10/28 — The Alligator People (1959). A nurse tells psychiatrists how her husband was mutated by a mad scientist in the bayou. (FMC, 8:00 am)

Sun., 10/28 — The Horror of It All (1964). Creepy relatives greet a corny American at his British girlfriend's ancestral estate. (FMC, 9:30 am)

Sun., 10/28 — Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). The Pumpkin King gives the yuletide season a touch of Halloween in an animated tale from the mind of Tim Burton. (SKF, 10:40 am)

Sun., 10/28 — Children of the Corn (1984). A doctor and his girlfriend see no adults in a Nebraska town run by a crop of teens. From a Stephen King story. (AMC, 3:00 pm)

Sun., 10/28 — Casper (1995). A teen who lost her mother befriends friendly ghost Casper while staying at a mean heiress's haunted mansion (FAM, 3:00 pm)

Sun., 10/28 — Amazing Stories: The Movie (1989). Two tales from the TV series: One has a cartoonist gunner in a doomed B-17; the other, a bad teacher and black magic. (EMYST, 3:10 pm)

Sun., 10/28 — Vault of Horror (1973). Five tales: "Midnight Mess," "The Neat Job," "This Trick'll Kill You," "Bargain in Death," "Drawn and Quartered." (FMC, 3:30 pm)

Sun., 10/28 — Highlander: The Final Dimension (1994). An evil immortal swordsman catches up to his sorcerer foe at a deserted New Jersey refinery. (EACT, 5:10 pm)

Sun., 10/28 — Devils of Darkness (1965). One British tourist rescues another from Count Sinistre, vampire artist of Brittany. (FMC, 7:00 pm)

Sun., 10/28 — The Omen (2006). An American diplomat and his wife learn that the child they adopted may be the son of Satan. (HBO, 9:30 pm)

Sun., 10/28 — Wolf (1994). Bitten by a wolf in Vermont, a middle-aged Manhattan editor feels sudden vitality and begins turning into a werewolf. (ENCORE, 10:35 pm)

Mon., 10/29 — Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell (1968). Survivors of a plane crash contend with a bloblike alien that turns them into bloodthirsty predators. (TCM, 1:00 am)

Mon., 10/29 — Kwaidan (1964). Japanese ghost stories from tales by Lafcadio Hearn include a samurai who wakes up with a corpse. (TCM, 2:30 am)

Mon., 10/29 — Blithe Spirit (1945). The ghost of a novelist's first wife visits him and his second wife. Based on a play by Noel Coward. (ELOVE, 3:00 am)

Mon., 10/29 — Hideaway (1995). An antiques dealer feels a connection to a killer satanist who also walked in the land of the dead. From the Dean R. Koontz book. (EMYST, 1:15 pm)

Mon., 10/29 — Howl's Moving Castle (2004). After a witch transforms her into a crone, a hat maker seeks shelter at the ambulatory home of an unusual wizard. Animated. Based on the book by Diana Wynne Jones. (SCIN, 10:40 pm)

Mon., 10/29 — Pan's Labyrinth (2006). In 1944 Spain a lonely girl encounters a faun in an ancient maze and must complete three dangerous tasks to achieve immortality. (HBO2, 10:55 pm)

Mon., 10/29 — Beauty and the Beast (1963). A fairy-tale lady falls in love with a duke who is cursed to look like a werewolf. (ELOVE, 11:35 pm)

Tue., 10/30 — The Lost Boys (1987). A woman and her sons move to a coastal California town full of teenage vampire punks (ACMAX, 12:20 am)

Tue., 10/30 — Amazing Stories: The Movie V (1992). Tales from the TV series: "The Sitter," "Grandpa's Ghost," "Dorothy and Ben" and "Gershwin's Trunk." (EMYST, 4:30 am)

Tue., 10/30 — The Prestige (2006). After an illusion goes tragically wrong, two 19th-century magicians engage in a bitter and potentially deadly rivalry. Based on the novel by Christopher Priest. (SCIN, 4:45 am)

Tue., 10/30 — Monster House (2006). No adults believe three youths' assertion that a neighboring residence is a living creature that means them harm. Animated (SKF, 5:00 am)

Tue., 10/30 — Edward Scissorhands (1990). A deceased inventor's unfinished creation becomes an instant celebrity when a cheery suburbanite brings him home. (ENCORE, 6:20 am)

Tue., 10/30 — Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986). An American Indian helps a broke and homeless family, once again prey to a poltergeist. (AMC, 8:45 am)

Tue., 10/30 — Carrie (2002). Tormented by her fellow high-school students, a teenager uses telekinesis as a tool for vengeance. Based on a book by Stephen King, previously filmed in 1976. (USA, 11:30 am)

Tue., 10/30 — Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971). A poor boy and his grandfather win a tour through a wily candymaker's marvelous factory. (HBOF, 12:55 pm)

Tue., 10/30 — The Black Cauldron (1985). An aspiring warrior and his comrades must keep a magical artifact out of the grasp of the evil Horned King. Animated (TOOND, 4:01 pm)

Tue., 10/30 — Ghost Rider (2007). A motorcycle stuntman, who sold his soul to save a loved one, becomes a fiery agent for justice at night in the presence of evil. Based on the comic book. (IN4, 5:00 pm)

Tue., 10/30 — The Haunted Mansion (2003). A real estate agent and his family encounter ghosts in an old New Orleans house on a remote bayou. (FAM, 8:00 pm)

Wed., 10/31 — The Exorcist III: The Legion (1990). A police detective investigates a series of slayings done in the style of an executed killer. (HDNETMV, 4:15 am)

Wed., 10/31 — Audrey Rose (1977). Parents of a girl notice odd behavior after a man tells them she holds his dead daughter's spirit. (SHOW, 4:35 am)

Wed., 10/31 — The Devil Bat (1941). A crazed chemist uses mutated bats to gain vengeance against the businessmen who prospered from his work. (TCM, 5:00 am)

Wed., 10/31 — The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964). Disaster soon ensues when the U.S. backer of a cursed Egyptian dig takes a mummy to England. (TCM, 6:30 am)

Wed., 10/31 — The Innocents (1961). A Victorian governess fears a boy and girl have been possessed by a dead couple. Based on the Henry James book The Turn of the Screw. (FMC, 6:30 am)

Wed., 10/31 — Casper's Scare School (2006). Casper wants to learn how to be a hobgoblin but returns to his friendly ways after learning about a diabolical plot. Animated. (TOON, 11:30 am)

Wed., 10/31 — Ghost (1990). A slain Manhattan yuppie reaches out to his lover, with a medium as his middlewoman. (OXYGEN, 5:00 pm)

Thu., 11/1 — The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). Children join forces with the lion mystic Aslan to free the land of Narnia from the White Witch's wintry spell. Based on the novel by C.S. Lewis. (SKF, 5:00 am)

Thu., 11/1 — Beauty and the Beast (1946). To save her father, a Frenchwoman offers her life to a bestial yet noble man who grows to love her. (TCM, 7:00 pm)

Fri., 11/2 — The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989). An 18th-century German officer recalls his exploits in war, on the moon and in the underworld. (MOJOHD, 3:30 pm)

Fri., 11/2 — Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). A swashbuckler must rescue a governor's daughter from a pirate and his mates, who turn into skeletons by moonlight. (USA, 7:00 pm)

Sat., 11/3 — Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). A designer and his wife try to stop hundreds of creatures from taking over New York. (HBOF, 2:30 pm)

Sat., 11/3 — Army of Darkness (1992). A time-warped supermarket worker fights in medieval England with a chainsaw and a '73 Oldsmobile. (EACT, 7:35 pm)

Sat., 11/3 — Night at the Museum (2006). A night watchman at a museum of natural history discovers that exhibits come alive after the building closes. Based on the book by Milan Trenc. (MAX, 9:00 pm)