Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Trick Or Treat

There are a few choices on the dial tonight for people who finish up early with their trick-or-treating.

AMC is running a marathon of the "Halloween" series all day and all night long. BET has "Leprechaun: Back 2 the Hood" beginning at 8 p.m. The Disney Channel is running "Twitches" also at 8 p.m., while Sci-Fi offers "Jeepers Creepers" and "Jeepers Creepers 2" starting at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., respectively. Turner Classic is running a marathon of Vincent Price movies, beginning with "Masque of the Red Death" at 8 p.m.

On the reality/documentary side, Bravo is running "Even Scarier Movie Moments" at 8 and 9 p.m., while the History Channel offers to teach you about exorcisms at 8 p.m. E! offers the delightfully-titled "20 Most Horrifying Celebrity Murders," also at 8 p.m.

The best picks of the horror genre are "Red Dragon" (USA, 9 p.m.), the last of the Hannibal Lecter series starring Anthony Hopkins and Edward Norton. It's also a remake of the 1986 movie "Manhunter," starring William L. Petersen and Brian Cox and directed by Michael Mann.

Viewers should also try to catch "The Sixth Sense" (ABC Family, 8 p.m.) starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment. I asked a producer at the Austin Film Festival, who insisted on being pitched every detail of a script, if he would have wanted to know about the twist in "The Sixth Sense" before reading it. "Good point," he said. "I don't know. That'd be up to the writer."

TUESDAY'S BEST BETS: No doubt there will be plenty of Halloween themes playing out on the regular Tuesday offerings. Both "Standoff" (Fox, 8 p.m.) and "House" (Fox, 9 p.m.) return after baseball-related breaks, but in flip-flopped timeslots. Viewers who missed "Friday Night Lights" (NBC, 8 p.m.) in its Monday trial timeslot can catch the rerun tonight here.

3 comments:

Phillip Ramati said...

I've talked about VM in the past and will do so in the future. Today's update is to give viewers a chance to catch Halloween-related programs.

Little Miss Sunshine is hilarious, Flags of our Fathers was solid, haven't seen Last King. I also highly recommend The Prestige.

Anonymous said...

what no mention of NCIS ? Shame on you !!!!

Anonymous said...

what no mention of NCIS ? Shame on you !!!!