The HORROR Channel

TCM often show the original version of The Haunting made in 1963. I agree it is a great horror film which very rarely gets shown on terrestrial TV these days. It last aired on BBC2 in a late night slot in 1999 I think.
TCM is probably the best UK channel for showing the old horror films, although Film Four used to show a few great titles a few years ago on it's long since axed channel Film Four Extreme.
 
The Horror Channel is awful! I like all the films involving sorority girls camping and the like...though some are so bad they're not even funny. It doesn't even show classics like Dr Terror's House of Horrors, or the old Hammer movies. Or even the Evil Dead!

TCM irritates me cause of the adverts in it, though it does show classics like Westworld a lot, which I love.
 
Yes the quality of TCM has somewhat gone downhill since the adverts on the channel started 2 years ago. I remember loving this channel pre-2003 when there were no adverts and I used to record many of the films shown uninterupted.
There are still many great films on TCM though and great for fans of the older films.
 
The original. The remake was absoloute bollocks. Some of the cgi was good. But the completley fecked it up with the
big ghost
at the end.

I cant stand CZJ anway, so that didnt help. :)

The original scared the bejeezers out of me when the ghost is banging, and when she is lying on the couch with someone holding her hand :eek:
 
The original was easilly the best version for it's terrifying scenary and the actors in the original were fantastic, especially Claire Bloom.
It's the case with many of these remakes. The original versions are often the best versions. Any modern day remakes do nothing but damage the success of the original.
 
I'm talking about the B&W original. Ive watched sooo many quality old films on that channel late night.

Has anyone seen the one called "Our House With Mother" or something. Its from the 60's or 70's I think. Its colour and is about single mother who lives with her 8 kiRAB in this house after the dad walks out.

The mother then dies of illness and instead of reporting it, the children keep her body in the house and carry on as if nothings happened?

Its quite chilling, the eldest daughter pretenRAB to be channeling orders from the dead mother. Then the "father" turns up and tried to con the kiRAB out of the house and money.

Its a really strange film but its quite good. Ive seen it on TCM a couple of times.

I also saw one a black and white one where A woman was killed at the start in this building and the guy has lost his memory and he thinks he was reposnsible for the murder. This woman starts helping him but it soon becomes clear that she is more involved than he originally thought.
I cant remember the title but most of the film was set on the top floor of this building.

Village Of The Damned is also a good film to catch on TCM.
You get the same films quite often but its good if you have missed any.
 
Another great horror title on TCM to watch out for is Mark of the Vampire (1935). It is only 1 hour long, but is very watchable and good for it's age.
 
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