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Title: Horror Marathon on TCM this Wednesday
Description: Castle Of The Living Dead, Spider Baby


William D'Annucci - January 28, 2008 09:06 AM (GMT)
I'm not certain if this was brought up before, but I'm sure some people would like advance notice about TCM's Wednesday schedule. Get your recorders set...

6:45 AM Terror, The (1963)
A lost soldier discovers a mysterious beauty haunting a half-deserted castle. Cast: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight. Dir: Roger Corman. C-79 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
8:15 AM Horror Castle (1963)
A Holocaust survivor tortures women in the dungeons of an ancient castle. Cast: Rosanna Podesta, Georges Riviere, Christopher Lee. Dir: Antonio Margheriti. C-84 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
9:45 AM Castle of the Living Dead, The (1964)
A traveling circus entertains a medieval count who uses them in his bizarre experiments. Cast: Christopher Lee, Gaia Germani, Donald Sutherland. Dir: Luciano Rici, Lorenzo Sabatini. BW-90 mins, TV-14, Letterbox Format
11:30 AM Haunting, The (1963)
A team of psychic investigators moves into a haunted house that destroys all who live there. Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Russ Tamblyn. Dir: Robert Wise. BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
1:30 PM Children Of The Damned (1964)
Space invaders impregnate six women with super-powered offspring. Cast: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris. Dir: Anton Leader. BW-90 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format
3:00 PM Spider Baby (1968)
Greedy relatives try to repossess the decaying mansion of an inbred Southern family. Cast: Lon Chaney, Jr., Quinn K. Redeker, Sid Haig. Dir: Jack Hill. BW-84 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format
4:30 PM Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)
A religious fanatic imprisons her late son's sinful fiancee. Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers, Donald Sutherland. Dir: Silvio Narizzano. C-96 mins, TV-14, CC
6:15 PM Eye Of The Devil (1967)
A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret. Cast: David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Donald Pleasence. Dir: J. Lee Thompson. BW-96 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

David Austin - January 29, 2008 12:01 AM (GMT)
I've seen most of these at one point or another, but I'm not familiar with Eye of the Devil. Any good?

Joel Stein - January 29, 2008 02:11 AM (GMT)
I'm also curious about EYE OF THE DEVIL, if anyone could offer some feedback.

Wasn't there some controversy about TCM's last airing of CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD? Matting an already pan 'n' scan print for faux widescreen and other such nonsense, perhaps perpetrated by those dipshits who spliced unrelated footage into VAMPIRE BAT? Anyone remember this, or am I thinking of something else?

JEFFREY ALLEN RYDELL - January 29, 2008 03:37 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (Joel Stein @ Jan 28 2008, 09:11 PM)
I'm also curious about EYE OF THE DEVIL, if anyone could offer some feedback.

Wasn't there some controversy about TCM's last airing of CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD? Matting an already pan 'n' scan print for faux widescreen and other such nonsense, perhaps perpetrated by those dipshits who spliced unrelated footage into VAMPIRE BAT? Anyone remember this, or am I thinking of something else?

Haven't seen EYE, but it oughta be mentioned that Sharon Tate's in it.

And yeah - the CASTLE presentation is a cropped, then matted affair.

Bill Picard - January 29, 2008 04:26 AM (GMT)
A shame they're not coupling it with the promo short "All Eyes on Sharon Tate" that was shot on-set with the cast. TCM played it unannounced sometime last year and I caught it by accident but wouldn't mind seeing it again.

EDIT: Oh Christ, of course it's on youtube. Never mind.

John Black - January 29, 2008 08:32 AM (GMT)
As I mentioned on the TV board, I have always found EYE OF THE DEVIL to be rather talky, if not boring. Good cast, including David Hemmings and Sharon Tate, but the story is dull and predictable. I don't even recall any thrills in it. I do think that the film may have been re-edited before its theatrical release.

John Bernhard - January 29, 2008 01:15 PM (GMT)
Last time TCM ran CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD it was a bogus version, 16 mm full screen matted and cropped all around. Maybe they upgraded?
EYE OF THE DEVIL was the victim of some tampering, and Kim Novak was supposed to star but was hurting in a pre production riding accident. Also curiously known as 13, this supernatural thriller has a few good scenes ( Kerr and Tate on the rooftop ) and a lot of crptic ones. It fails to gel together completely but is certainly worth a look. Talky and boring?...yeah, guilty as charged.
That Sharon Tate featurette almost always precedes or follows this film when TCM airs it so keep an EYE out for it.

Tim Rogerson - January 29, 2008 02:40 PM (GMT)
Eye of the Devil turns up regularly on the UK version of TCM although their print only runs 86m in Pal (translating to 90m in NTSC) so i would query the running time above.

Bob Gutowski - January 29, 2008 05:39 PM (GMT)
The sound of the TCM The Haunting is fuller than that on the English language version of the DVD, alas (the French soundtrack is pretty terrific)!




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