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TCM’s October Schedule is Loaded With Incredible Classic Horror

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If you want to catch up on classic horror this October, TCM has you covered.

You may be disappointed that AMC’s FearFest is only running for one week this Halloween season, but Turner Classic Movies is celebrating the season proper with an entire month of classic horror that kicks off October 1st and runs through the big day.

This year’s TCM October schedule is loaded with gems that span several decades, including Nosferatu, Bride of Frankenstein, The Old Dark House, White Zombie, House of Dracula, The Bad Seed, Children of the Damned, Thirteen Ghosts, Psycho, Poltergeist, Curse of Frankenstein, I Walked With a Zombie and Onibaba!

Check out the full schedule on TCM’s website and find some highlights below via Reddit.

Sunday October 1, 2017

  1. 8:00 PM Dracula (1931)
  2. 9:30 PM Dracula’s Daughter (1936)
  3. 11:00 PM Son Of Dracula (1943)

Monday October 2, 2017

  1. 12:30 AM Nosferatu (1922)

Tuesday October 3, 2017

  1. 8:00 PM Frankenstein (1931)
  2. 9:30 PM Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)
  3. 11:00 PM The Mummy (1932)

Wednesday October 4, 2017

  1. 12:30 AM The Wolf Man (1941)
  2. 2:00 AM Island Of Lost Souls (1933)
  3. 3:30 AM The Black Cat (1934)
  4. 4:45 AM The Invisible Man (1933)

Sunday October 8, 2017

  1. 2:00 AM Night Of The Strangler (1975)
  2. 2:15: PM My Blood Runs Cold (1965)
  3. 8:00 PM The Return Of Dracula (1958)
  4. 9:30 PM House Of Dracula (1945)
  5. 10:45 PM Billy The Kid vs. Dracula (1966)

Monday October 9, 2017

  1. 12:15 Am The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1920)
  2. 2:00 AM Jigoku (Hell) (1960)
  3. 4:00 AM Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan (1959)

Tuesday October 10, 2017

  1. 8:00 PM Cat People (1942)
  2. 9:30 PM The Body Snatcher (1945)
  3. 11:00 Martin Scorsese presents: Val Lewton – The Man In The Shadows (2007)

Wednesday October 11, 2017

  1. 12:30 AM I Walked With A Zombie (1943)
  2. 2:00 AM The Seventh Victim (1943)
  3. 3:30 AM Bedlam (1946)
  4. 5:00 AM The Leopard Man (1943)
  5. 6:15 AM The Ghost Ship (1943)
  6. 7:30 AM Isle Of The Dead (1945)

Thursday October 12, 2017

  1. 5:00 AM The Power (1968)

Friday October 13, 2017

  1. 6:30 AM Kiss Of The Tarantula (1976)
  2. 8:00 AM Snake Woman (1961)
  3. 9:30 AM Village Of The Damned (1961)
  4. 11:00 AM The Nanny (1965)
  5. 1:00 PM The Innocents (1961)
  6. 2:45 PM A Place Of One’s Own (1945)
  7. 4:30 PM The Bad Seed (1956)
  8. 6:45 PM The Curse Of The Cat People (1944)

Sunday October 15, 2017

  1. 2:15 AM Blacula (1972)
  2. 4:00 AM Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
  3. 8:00 PM Horror Of Dracula (1958)
  4. 9:45 PM The Brides Of Dracula (1960)
  5. 11:30 PM Black Cats And Broomsticks (1955)

Monday October 16, 2017

  1. 12:00 AM The Phantom Carriage (1922)
  2. 2:00 AM Diabolique (1955)
  3. 4:15 AM Gaslight (1944)

Tuesday October 17, 2017

  1. 8:00 PM The Devil’s Bride (1968)
  2. 9:45 PM The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957)
  3. 11:15 PM The Mummy (1959)

Wednesday October 18, 2017

  1. 1:00 AM The Curse Of The Werewolf (1961)
  2. 2:45 AM The Plague Of The Zombies (1966)
  3. 4:30 AM The Reptile (1966)

Sunday October 22, 2017

  1. 2:00 AM Willard (1971)
  2. 3:45 AM Ben (1972)
  3. 8:00 PM Dracula, Prince Of Darkness (1965)
  4. 10:00 PM Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (1969)

Monday October 23, 2017

  1. 12:00 AM The Monster (1925)
  2. 2:00 AM Eyes Without A Face (1960)
  3. 3:45 AM Kwaidan (1965)

Tuesday October 24, 2017

  1. 8:00 PM The Innocents (1961)
  2. 10:00 PM Diary Of A Madman (1963)

Wednesday October 25, 2017

  1. 12:00 Curse Of The Demon (1958)
  2. 2:00 AM Carnival Of Souls (1962)
  3. 3:30 AM From Beyond The Grave (1973)
  4. 10:00 AM The Devil’s Own (1966)

Thursday October 26, 2017

  1. 5:30 AM Rasputin, The Mad Monk (1966)

Friday October 27, 2017

  1. 8:00 PM Psycho (1960)
  2. 10:15 Pretty Poison (1968)

Saturday October 28, 2017

  1. 6:15 AM Mark Of The Vampire (1935)
  2. 7:30 AM The Devil-Doll (1936)
  3. 9:00 AM What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)
  4. 11:30 AM Little Shop Of Horrors (1960)
  5. 1:00 PM Village Of The Damned (1961)
  6. 2:30 PM Children Of The Damned (1964)
  7. 4:15 PM House Of Dark Shadows (1970)
  8. 6:00 PM Night Of Dark Shadows (1971)

Sunday October 29, 2017

  1. 12:00 AM “M” (1951)
  2. 2:00 AM The Brood (1979)
  3. 3:45 AM Repulsion (1965)
  4. 8:00 PM Taste The Blood Of Dracula (1970)
  5. 10:00 PM Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)

Monday October 30, 2017

  1. 12:00 AM Häxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages (1922)
  2. 2:15 AM Onibaba (1964)
  3. 4:15 AM Ugetsu (1953)

Tuesday October 31, 2017

  1. 8:30 AM White Zombie (1932)
  2. 10:00 AM Mad Love (1935)
  3. 11:30 AM Dementia 13 (1963)
  4. 1:00 PM 13 Ghosts (1960)
  5. 2:30 PM The Fearless Vampire Killers (1966)
  6. 4:30 PM House Of Wax (1953)
  7. 6:00 PM Poltergeist (1982)
  8. 8:00 PM The Old Dark House (1932)
  9. 9:30 PM The Haunting (1963)
  10. 11:30 PM House On Haunted Hill (1958)

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‘Lockbox’ Review: An Underdeveloped Supernatural Mystery with Little Inside

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Let’s start with the good news. Lockbox looks far better than its misleading marketing materials suggest, a supernatural horror movie so darkly lit and color graded that you’ll have to squint your way through jump scares. It’s also anchored by reliable genre performers. That’s also about where the good news ends with this rote adaptation of Knifepoint Horror Podcast story “Winthrop.”

The empathetic Carla Gugino gives her all as Ellen, a saint of a woman with boundless patience who takes on life’s hard luck with a kind smile. After giving up her career as a fashion designer to become caretaker for a dying mother, she’s then forced to reinvent herself once more when her caretaker role ends. That catches us up to the events of Lockbox, where Ellen is asked to take in a cousin she hasn’t seen in quite some time who’s dealing with severe PTSD.

Just as Ellen finally establishes a real connection with Winthrop (Lou Taylor Pucci), it’s interrupted by the arrival of peculiar neighbor Vahna (Katharine Isabelle), who spells clear trouble. When Vahna shows up dead, it sets in motion a supernatural battle of possession.

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Director Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism, Prey for the Devil) and screenwriter Justin Yoffe approach Lockbox in the broadest of brushstrokes, dooming it from the start with clunky storytelling and woefully underdeveloped themes of heady topics like PTSD. Winthrop is a character that comes loaded with emotional baggage and trauma that’s piled on throughout his tragic life, but much like its title, his interiority and history are treated like a tightly guarded secret meant to prolong the supernatural mystery.

The problem here, though, is that Lockbox is too sparse to sustain mystery at all, and it instead robs Winthrop of characterization. It winds up trapping the talented Pucci without anywhere to go, toggling between wounded animal and mentally disoriented. 

From there, Lockbox bounds through plot developments without any sense of stakes or purpose, peppered by a smattering of haphazard paint-by-numbers jump scares. The only unwavering constant is Ellen’s resolute faith, and Stamm seems to leave it entirely to Gugino to guide confused audiences through this inconsequential story right up until its supernatural climax.

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To give more credit, Lockbox at least injects an unconventional exorcism here; just don’t expect much in the way of explanation. When the film finally reveals the meaning behind its title, it dangles a fascinating carrot it has zero interest in delivering. More than a severe lack of fleshing out its characters beyond plot drivers or devices, this faith-based flick also seems terrified to offer any worldbuilding whatsoever. 

Yoffe’s script stretches the short story beyond its means instead of fleshing it out, and Stamm fills out the gaps with cheap CGI scares and overwrought performances; Isabelle’s Vahna is beyond cartoonish in her villainy. It’s also pretty nonsensical, treating only Ellen’s faith with the utmost sincerity and largely squandering its typically reliable talent. So much so that the final imagery, pure sunkissed saccharine sentimentality, leaves you with the feeling that this horror movie might be better suited as an entry in Chicken Soup for the Soul. 

Lockbox releases in select theaters on July 3, 2026.

2 skulls out of 5

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