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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 9/25/24
Horror and Science-Fiction movies airing this month on TCM
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- 10:15am – Them! (1954)
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Saturday, September 28, 2024
- 3:45am – Night of the Living Dead (1968)
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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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!
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!
Thank you for catching that, all updated 🎃