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justaprogressive

(6,246 posts)
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 11:30 AM Oct 31

Anyone gonna watch Halloween movies tonight?

I've got a double feature planned!

Warmed up last night with Roman Polanski's
"The Fearless Vampire Killers"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061655/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_3

(It's a gem in my collection!)

Kronos (colorized version! ) & Village of the Damned





Happy Halloween Everybody!
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Anyone gonna watch Halloween movies tonight? (Original Post) justaprogressive Oct 31 OP
Thinking "War Of The Worlds" (original) and/or "Them!" lastlib Oct 31 #1
Coppola's DRACULA. FalloutShelter Oct 31 #2
Village of the Damned is one of those forgotten classics that delivers true chills. Midnight Writer Oct 31 #3
I plan to watch IT: Welcome To Derry Mad_Dem_X Oct 31 #4
been watching them all month Coldwater Oct 31 #5
No!!! Nittersing Oct 31 #6
Nope,gonna be busy handing out treats to young ones. mwmisses4289 Oct 31 #7
Me too, debm55 Oct 31 #11
Young Frankenstein counts NotASurfer Oct 31 #8
Watching Kiss of the Vampire displacedvermoter Oct 31 #9
Now on The Satanic Rites of Dracula displacedvermoter Oct 31 #12
Now watching Frankenstein 1931 displacedvermoter Oct 31 #16
Now watching Bride of Frankenstein 1935 displacedvermoter Oct 31 #20
Ghost of Frankenstein 1942 displacedvermoter Oct 31 #21
Now watching The Crimson Cult displacedvermoter Oct 31 #23
You mean the nightly news? Probably. WhiteTara Oct 31 #10
Our family has been watching horror double features all month sarisataka Oct 31 #13
I've got a question for you then... justaprogressive Oct 31 #15
A good question that has me a bit stumped sarisataka Oct 31 #17
It was shown during a weekend-long New Years twilight zone marathon justaprogressive Oct 31 #18
That makes me wonder if it is from season four sarisataka Oct 31 #19
We had an enjoyable night (though not many trick or treats with the rain here) sarisataka Nov 1 #24
Well I can't say for certain justaprogressive Nov 1 #25
It gives me one of those brain tickles sarisataka Nov 1 #28
I'm delighted that you see it that way! justaprogressive Nov 1 #29
No, I think I'll just sit in the pumpkin patch Wolf Frankula Oct 31 #14
Well, I just finished binging (a rewatch) of many episodes of each season of The Handmaid's Tale...So yeah. electric_blue68 Oct 31 #22
Arsenic and Old Lace, a Cary Grant classic. On You tube. nt in2herbs Nov 1 #26
Every Halloween John Coktosten Nov 1 #27
we watched Hocus Pocus and Hocus Pocus 2 and Practical Magic last night. yellowdogintexas Nov 1 #30

Midnight Writer

(25,117 posts)
3. Village of the Damned is one of those forgotten classics that delivers true chills.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 11:44 AM
Oct 31

Highly recommended for Halloween scares.

No gore, just a very frightening scenario played out in a sleepy English village.

Coldwater

(814 posts)
5. been watching them all month
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 11:52 AM
Oct 31

the last couple of days it was Final Destination 1 through 5

RIP Tony Todd who we lost just about this time last year

Nittersing

(8,063 posts)
6. No!!!
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 11:53 AM
Oct 31

Never been a fan of creepy, horror kind of movies. I get visuals stuck in my head and have trouble getting rid of them.

But y'all enjoy!!!

mwmisses4289

(3,071 posts)
7. Nope,gonna be busy handing out treats to young ones.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 11:57 AM
Oct 31

My scary movie list would be things like Coco, Rocky horror picture show, love at first bite, young frankenstein....you get the idea.

displacedvermoter

(4,079 posts)
12. Now on The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 01:33 PM
Oct 31

Another Hammer film, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, Joanna Lumley

sarisataka

(22,191 posts)
13. Our family has been watching horror double features all month
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 01:47 PM
Oct 31

One modern (ish) movie and one classic (anything from Universal, through 50s schlock to Hammer)

Tonight we get together with another couple and marathon the Twilight Zone. His wife and I are savants on the series, we compete to who can identify the episode before the opening narration. It is rare for it to go past six seconds before she or I call out which episode it is.

justaprogressive

(6,246 posts)
15. I've got a question for you then...
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 02:13 PM
Oct 31

Twilight Zone episode in a Western town that depicts the nativity...

could never find it

Thanks in advance!

sarisataka

(22,191 posts)
17. A good question that has me a bit stumped
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 04:44 PM
Oct 31

I think it may be the episode "Dust" about a man whose son is going to be hanged. The father may pray before a nativity scene. I'll have to ask Theresa tonight.

The only Christmas episode TZ did featured Art Carney as a drunken store Santa.

justaprogressive

(6,246 posts)
18. It was shown during a weekend-long New Years twilight zone marathon
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 04:54 PM
Oct 31

in the 90's never saw it again...

sarisataka

(22,191 posts)
19. That makes me wonder if it is from season four
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 04:58 PM
Oct 31

In that season they did hour long episodes and they are some of the rarest and least known.
Even Teresa and I can struggle on them because the marathons do not typically show them.
I'll see if she can confirm it or if she knows which one of the lost episodes that is

sarisataka

(22,191 posts)
24. We had an enjoyable night (though not many trick or treats with the rain here)
Sat Nov 1, 2025, 01:19 PM
Nov 1

Teresa couldn’t think of an episode with a Nativity in a western setting either. She is going to pull out her DVDs to research this.

She asked if you were sure it was the Twilight Zone and not possibly Outer Limits or the Hitchcock show

justaprogressive

(6,246 posts)
25. Well I can't say for certain
Sat Nov 1, 2025, 01:30 PM
Nov 1

but since I own the complete original, Hitchcock Presents and The
Outer Limits and have binge-watched them in the last three
years, I'm sure it's not them.

It is definitely filmed in B+W. Western town type building.

I have an image in my mind of the room. It's like a bar or cafe or bus stop/
restaurant. I think "Joseph" and "Mary" were Mexican not white.

That's all I got!

Thanks for your help!

sarisataka

(22,191 posts)
28. It gives me one of those brain tickles
Sat Nov 1, 2025, 02:23 PM
Nov 1

Because what you are describing is exactly what I am picture in my head. So i'm sure you're right and it exists.

This promises to be an enjoyable research trip through classic t v

justaprogressive

(6,246 posts)
29. I'm delighted that you see it that way!
Sat Nov 1, 2025, 02:30 PM
Nov 1

I also love puzzles like this, things necessitating bulldog-like tenacity...

electric_blue68

(25,562 posts)
22. Well, I just finished binging (a rewatch) of many episodes of each season of The Handmaid's Tale...So yeah.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 09:46 PM
Oct 31

Last night.

 

John Coktosten

(179 posts)
27. Every Halloween
Sat Nov 1, 2025, 01:44 PM
Nov 1

I watch:

Night of the living dead (1968)
Halloween (1978)
Halloween 2 (1981)

On 10/30 I watch:
The thing from another world (1951)
Creature from the black lagoon (1954)
Dawn of the dead (1978)

Love 'em!

yellowdogintexas

(23,586 posts)
30. we watched Hocus Pocus and Hocus Pocus 2 and Practical Magic last night.
Sat Nov 1, 2025, 05:23 PM
Nov 1

usually we watch more Halloween movies than we have this year.

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