So it begins…scheduled programming swept aside like dead leaves… it can only be…the start of Halloween Week on CaB TV!
4.00-ish: Gruesome Gaming Stream
Watch as a man wrestles with arcane technology and an unnecessarily convoluted streaming set-up in order to bring you VILE HORRORS from the EARLY 2000s.
5.00: Repulsive Random Video Selection
Your host dives deep into the Youtube Folder Of The Damned to reveal obscure and inexplicable recordings that are guaranteed to leave minds boggled and bricks shat.
5.35: Dramarama: Spooky – In A Dark, Dark Box.
A grandmother incessantly reads a repetitive spooky poem to her grandson, leaving him in a state of being unable to separate the natural from the supernatural.
6.00: Dark Shadows – Episode 01
Convinced of an old Collins family legend of buried treasure, Handyman Willie Loomis accidentally releases vampire Barnabas Collins from his tomb. Barnabas introduces himself as a distant relative from England and begins to romance Victoria Winters, the new governess at Collinwood Manor. At the same time, the town of Collinsport is being upset by a series of deadly attacks.
6.22: 40 Minutes: Ghost Train
A journey by Intercity into the world of the supernatural.
Do you believe in ghosts? Helen McCormick does. She found an ancient crucifix in her cellar – and then saw a medieval monk walk past her kitchen window. Ambulanceman Ken Lobley rescued his aunt after a warning from an apparition. Nichola Thompson, aged 13, was reading, looked up, and saw her grandmother – wearing the pink shroud she’d been buried in two years earlier. Rev Jack Richardson investigates spooky Harnham Hall in Northumberland. He blesses the earthly remains of Kate Babington, who died a prisoner at Harnham in 1670. Eddie Burks, a ‘clairsentient’, is summoned to an RAF base to contact the ghost of an airman. Eerily, he describes how the man died and why he returns. And four nurses spend the night in ‘the most haunted house in Britain’ – with strange tales to tell the following morning….
7.05: Clive Barker’s A – Z Of Horror – The Devil You Know
Clive Barker asks what made The Exorcist one of the scariest horror movies ever. He also looks at the work of New England writer Shirley Jackson, a sculptor who captured the face of madness, and the hyping of horror B movies.
7.50: Film: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1983 American dark fantasy horror film directed by Jack Clayton and produced by Walt Disney Productions, from a screenplay written by Ray Bradbury, based on his 1962 novel of the same name. The title was taken from a line in Act IV of William Shakespeare‘s Macbeth: “By the pricking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes.” It stars Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, and Pam Grier.
In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.
9.25: Film: In The Mouth Of Madness (1994)
In the Mouth of Madness is a 1994 American horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter and written by Michael De Luca. It stars Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner and Charlton Heston. Informally, the film is the third installment in Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy, preceded by The Thing and Prince of Darkness.
When horror novelist Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow) goes missing, insurance investigator John Trent (Sam Neill) scrutinizes the claim made by his publisher, Jackson Harglow (Charlton Heston), and endeavors to retrieve a yet-to-be-released manuscript and ascertain the writer’s whereabouts. Accompanied by the novelist’s editor, Linda Styles (Julie Carmen), and disturbed by nightmares from reading Cane’s other novels, Trent makes an eerie nighttime trek to a supernatural town in New Hampshire.
