 |
| Witches be cray (The Wizard of Oz; Hocus Pocus) |
Happy Halloween! Keeping with the day of spooks, tonight's Top Pick is the AMC docuseries Eli Roth's History of Horror, which this week is spotlighting witches. Yay witches! It should cover classic witches like the Wicked Witch of the West to modern ones, like Hereditary.
Elsewhere, there are creepy movies and television shows galore! Some will make you laugh, some might even scare you. Also, The hunt for Eric Rudolph continues, Syfy's two originals finish their freshmen seasons, and Asleep at the Wheel gets a ACL tribute.
When someone asks you if you're a god, you say "yes," here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, October 31!
FOR THE RECORD: Arashi's Diary -Voyage- (Netflix, 3 a.m., special)
Black Christmas 🎥 (HBO, 8 p.m.): This is the poorly received 2019 remake-ish film with Imogen Poots, Aleyse Shannon, and Lily Donoghue. The IMDb ratings is especially harsh.
Candy Cane Christmas 🎥 (Lifetime, 8 p.m.): Joyride, but... a Christmas movie?
FOR THE RECORD: Croc Terror: Man Eating Monster (Reelz); Ghost Nation (Travel Channel, special); Group Chat: The Show (Nickelodeon, 8:30 p.m., season finale); Nickelodeon's Unfiltered (Nickelodeon, season finale); Should I Stay or Go? (HGTV)
FOR THE RECORD: Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (Animal Planet); Iyanla: Fix My Life (OWN, season premiere); Live Rescue (A&E); The Substitute (Nickelodeon, season premiere)
FOR THE RECORD: 48 Hours (CBS); Destination Fear (Travel Channel); Mega Zoo (Animal Planet)
Brogan: Master of Castles (Syfy, 1:22 a.m.): Mildred launches her dragon attack against the queen's castle, so Brogan and Mildred finally fight.
Lost in Space 📺 (MeTV, 1 a.m.): When Dr. Smith and Will become trapped in a cave during a cosmic storm, Will soon finds himself pulled through a time warp that send him back to Earth, where he lands in a Scottish castle and meets a headless ghost.
Purgatony (Syfy, 1:07 a.m.): Tony goes to Earth on an assignment to deliver preliminary judgments on living people who appear likely to wind up in either heaven or hell.
The Greg Gutfeld Show (Fox News, 10 p.m.): Charlie Hurt, Walter Kirn, Kat Timpf, and Tyrus
Elsewhere, there are creepy movies and television shows galore! Some will make you laugh, some might even scare you. Also, The hunt for Eric Rudolph continues, Syfy's two originals finish their freshmen seasons, and Asleep at the Wheel gets a ACL tribute.
When someone asks you if you're a god, you say "yes," here's what's on television for tonight, Saturday, October 31!
STREAMING & EARLY PRIMETIME
Bride of Chucky 🎥 (IFC, 7 p.m.): Spend the afternoon and evening with various movies of the Child's Play franchise. In the fourth installment, Chucky, the doll possessed by a serial killer, discovers the perfect mate to kill and revive into the body of another doll. Jennifer Tilly stars and this is what IMDb thinks she is best known for. Also, John Ritter and a young Katherine Heigl.
Dark Shadows 📺 (Decades, 7 p.m.): Spend the weekend with some early Barnabas Collins episodes. In this episode, Barnabas finds Maggie in the cemetery and puts her in the coffin in the mausoleum secret room.
The Fall (Ovation, 7 p.m.): When Eastwood's investigation into Olson's murder throws open some uncomfortable truths for Burns, Gibson comes under increased pressure in her hunt for Belfast's killer.
The Munsters 📺 (Cozi, 7 p.m.): Spend the afternoon with the Munsters! In this season one episode, when Eddie brings the family pet bat Igor to school for the Pet Fair Playground, he does not realize it's really Grandpa in disguise, and trades him for the weekend with a classmate. I always preferred the season two theme song.
NASCAR 2020: Under Pressure (MotorTrend.com, 3 a.m.): SERIES PREMIERE. Vroom! Vroom!!
The Simpsons (FXX, 7 p.m.): You have to wait until after Halloween for the this year's "Treehouse" episode, but FXX has a marathon of all the previous ones. This particular episode is the 20th and one of the better ones of the somewhat recent era.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 🎥 (MTV, 6 p.m.): Vampires... but they sparkle!!
QUICK HITS:
Saturday Night Football 🏈 (ABC, 7:30 p.m.): Ohio State at Penn State
🕗 EASTERN / 🕖 CENTRAL
Christine 🎥 (Starz Encore, 8 p.m.): This Stephen King adaptation about an evil car was a favorite in my circle of high school friends.
The Lost Boys 🎥 (Sundance TV, 8 p.m.): Dianne Wiest and her sons move to a coastal California town full of teenage vampire punks. This is about as close as Joel Schumacher came to making a good movie. (Hot take?)
Manhunt: Deadly Games (CBS, 8 p.m.): Eric manipulates locals, militia and FBI alike as he plans a major counterattack. Richard appears on 60 Minutes in a high-stakes gamble to save his reputation once and for all. Later, Brennan realizes he needs to change course to catch Eric, and he forms an alliance with Embry. In Atlanta, Kathy Scruggs comes face-to-face with Richard.
The Meg 🎥 (TNT, 8 p.m.): A 75-foot-long prehistoric shark doesn't like people. Whodathunkit?
One Royal Holiday 🎥 (Hallmark Channel, 8 p.m.): Hashtag white people.
A Quiet Place 🎥 (FX, 8 p.m.): Yeah, I'm listing this good movie again. I like it.
Roseanne 📺 (Cozi, 8 p.m.): Spend the evening with the Halloween episodes of Roseanne. Of course, the first up is the second season "BOO!," an '80s classic.
Svengoolie: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man 🎥 (MeTV, 8 p.m.): The resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of a mad scientist, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis, but also revive the frozen body of Frankenstein's inhuman creation.
QUICK HITS:
Fox College Football 🏈 (Fox): Oklahoma at Texas Tech
🕘 EASTERN / 🕗 CENTRAL
Hocus Pocus 🎥 (Freeform, 9:20 p.m.): This family-friendly flick starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy is a Halloween standard for many Millennials. I don't care for it. [*shrugs*]
The Rocky Horror Picture Show 🎥 (Paramount Network, 9:15 p.m.): Brad and Janet are stranded at Dr. Frank N. Furter's mansion with weirdos from the Transylvania galaxy.
This Weekend in Pop Culture (WOT&Pop Culture, 9:30 p.m.): What pop culture have you consumed lately? Have you been to the movie theater?
🕙 EASTERN / 🕘 CENTRAL
Cranberry Christmas 🎥 (Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, 10 p.m.): Cranberries or bust.
⭐ Eli Roth's History of Horror (AMC, 10 p.m.): The witch is a towering figure in the history of horror. The archetypical evil witch is everything mainstream religion tells believers a woman should not be -- and that unapologetic, very female power frightens men and fascinates women.
The First Purge 🎥 (FX, 10 p.m.): Violence and mayhem spread across the nation when the New Founding Fathers of America try a radical sociological experiment that allows citizens to vent their aggression for one night in an isolated community. In Tuesday's election, the party is not on the ballot. Next time.
Them! 🎥 (TCM, 10 p.m.): Classic '50s flick about two bug experts, a state trooper, and an FBI agent tracking giant mutant ants from New Mexico to Los Angeles. I love it.
🕚 EASTERN / 🕙 CENTRAL
ACL Presents: 50 Years of Asleep at the Wheel: A Retrospective (PBS, 11 p.m.): Spanning nearly 50 years of performances, country music group Asleep at the Wheel's songs include "Boogie Back to Texas," "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" and "Take Me Back to Tulsa."
Ghostbusters 🎥 (Freeform, 11:30 p.m.): The original! Back when you could call Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson.
💤💤😴💤💤
Brogan: Master of Castles (Syfy, 1:22 a.m.): Mildred launches her dragon attack against the queen's castle, so Brogan and Mildred finally fight.
Kolchak: The Night Stalker 📺 (MeTV, midnight): The first based on a Native American legend, a Diablero shaman spirit murders for jewels to pay back his debt and be released from his Earthly bonds.
Lost in Space 📺 (MeTV, 1 a.m.): When Dr. Smith and Will become trapped in a cave during a cosmic storm, Will soon finds himself pulled through a time warp that send him back to Earth, where he lands in a Scottish castle and meets a headless ghost.
Magical Girl Friendship Squad (Syfy, midnight): SEASON FINALE. Alex and Daisy take a look at their friendship and the whole universe may be at stake.
Wild Life (Syfy, 12:15 a.m.): SEASON FINALE. The critters go tubing on the river, and Marny meets a fellow dolphin.
LATE-NIGHT TV
Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:30 p.m.): John Mulaney and The Strokes
SNL Vintage 📺 (NBC, 10 p.m.): Dana Carvey and The Wallflowers (21 Oct 2000)
⭐: Top Pick
💲: Game show
🎥: Movie
📺: Throwback
✔️: Video/gif/photo included
SNL Vintage 📺 (NBC, 10 p.m.): Dana Carvey and The Wallflowers (21 Oct 2000)
----------
Note: All times are Eastern.
Key Sources: The Futon Critic; IMDb; TV Passport; Zap2it⭐: Top Pick
💲: Game show
🎥: Movie
📺: Throwback
✔️: Video/gif/photo included
🏈⚾🏒🥊🏎️: Sportsballs
Happy watching, everyone! Also, remember, new SNL tomorrow means a slightly early WOT.
Happy watching, everyone! Also, remember, new SNL tomorrow means a slightly early WOT.
No comments:
Post a Comment