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CeLeBrity sPOtLiGhts - Malvern Daily Record
CELEBRITY
SPOTLIGHTS
Rachel Bloom
Dr. David Eagleman
David Krumholtz
Elyes Gabel
Richard Rawlings
the story!
Tom Mison stars in a “Sleepy
Hollow”/“Bones” crossover
Thursday on Fox.
WHAT'S FOR
DINNER
Featuring:
“Fact or Fiction”
EXCLUSIVE!
Featured
Stories
“Supergirl”
“Wicked City”
“Ash vs Evil Dead”
SPECIAL
Profiled
athlete
Carson Palmer
movies to
watch
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“Wicked City”
Ed Westwick and Erika Christensen
visit the dark side of early-1980s L.A.
in “Wicked City.”
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CELEBRITY
4 Rachel Bloom
“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”
mines her sense of humor.
5 Dr. David Eagleman
The man behind the brain.
6 David Krumholtz
Drawing on his own
memories for his role.
8 Elyes Gabel
“Supergirl”
Melissa Benoist says she
can be “awkward” ... yet
she’s “Supergirl.”
“Ash vs Evil Dead”
“It’s been a long time since I’ve been
covered in crap and thrown to the
ground by Deadites and attacked ... .”
15
Reveals there will be
something extra, to
Monday’s special.
9 Richard Rawlings
Details on this
entrepreneur!
FOOD
7 “Fact or Fiction”
“It’s stuff that you just
plain didn’t know.”
- Michael McKean
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
Get in the HALLOWEEN
spirit
Turn out the lights, turn on
the TV!
REALITY
14 “Brain Surgery Live”
MOVIES
Review, Our Top DVD pick,
and Coming Soon on DVD.
16-17 Carson Palmer
Veteran QB aims to keep
Cards in flight!
the story!
18-19 Featuring: Theatrical
SPORTS
20-30 Full of fun, festive Halloween
‘How To’ projects, a quiz and themed
programs to watch!
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“Really (the brain is) the
greatest computer ever
invented and there is such
little known about it.”
-David George
Editor's choice
STORY
By George Dickie
So you went the extra mile last year decorating the
house, buying plenty of candy and even getting yourself
in the spirit of Halloween. Everyone loved what you did
and all your trick-or-treaters seemed to go away happy.
And still, your house got egged.
Pictured: Jason Hawes stars in “Ghost Hunters” Wednesday on Syfy.
actual exorcism is performed at the suburban St. Louis
house that inspired the 1973 horror classic.
That’ll teach you.
Also live is A&E Network’s “Fear: Buried Alive” on
Monday, Oct. 26, in which – yep – three people are
buried in coffins, where they endure, as the press release
says, “a series of escalating horrors designed to test the
strength of their psyches.” As if being buried alive wasn’t
test enough.
This year, instead of wasting your time trying to please
a bunch of ingrates and miscreants, why not draw
the curtains, shut off all the lights and do something
constructive like watch TV? And since it is, after all,
Halloween, why not tune in to the fine holiday fare being
offered by the broadcast and cable networks this week?
For sheer quantity, you can’t beat Syfy, which has the
final week of its eighth annual “31 Days of Halloween,”
featuring Halloween-themed episodes of series including
“Ghost Hunters,” featuring Jason Hawes and the TAPS
team, and “Paranormal Witness” (Wednesday, Oct. 28)
and wall-to-wall spooky flicks such as “Cabin in the
Woods,” “The Omen,” “The Fog” and “Zombie Apocalypse”
– airing multiple times. Boo!
Probably the most noteworthy is on Fox with the “Bones”/
“Sleepy Hollow” crossover on Thursday, Oct. 29, which
finds Brennan and Booth (Emily Deschanel, David
Boreanaz) crossing paths with Ichabod Crane and Abbie
Mills (Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie) as they seek clues
related to the discovery of grisly human remains. Over
on NBC, it’s the Season 5 premiere of “Grimm” on Friday,
Oct. 30, which picks up where Season 4 left off, with Nick
(David Giuntoli) going rogue following the deaths of his
mother and girlfriend.
In a more humorous vein is the new Starz horror/comedy
series “Ash vs. Evil Dead” on Halloween night Saturday,
Oct. 31, in which Bruce Campbell resurrects his monsterhunter character from his B-movies of the 1980s. Also
that night on Sundance Channel is the second-season
opener of the award-winning international hit “The
Returned,” about inhabitants of an idyllic French mountain
town who are unaware they’re dead.
Destination America on Friday takes a page from “The
Exorcist” in presenting “Exorcism: Live!” in which an
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Foodies will also have a smorgasbord of themed
programming from which to choose on Food Network,
including finales of “Halloween Wars” (Sunday, Oct. 25)
and “Halloween Baking Championship” (Monday) and
holiday editions of “Southern at Heart (Sunday) and “Beat
Bobby Flay” (Monday). The network also offers up recipes
throughout the day on Sunday. And over on sister network
Cooking Channel,”Ro’s Tasty Treats” shows how to throw
a spook-tastic Halloween party.
Finally, it’s not officially Halloween without the annual
“Treehouse of Horrors” episode of “The Simpsons” on
Sunday, in which Bart dies and radiation exposure gives
Lisa, Bart and Milhouse superpowers. Cowabunga!
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CELEBRITY
Jay Bobbin’s Q&A
RachelBloom
of ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Monday on The CW
Where did you develop the sensibility
that goes into your acting, writing and
composing on “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”?
I always felt like a neurotic little New Yorker
who wanted to be on Broadway, living
in Southern California. And kids were
pretty mean about it. And I went through a
period of, basically, pretty bad depression
and OCD right around puberty. It was
also around the time that I was wearing
sweatpants to school and cutting my own
hair.
Long story short, it culminated in seventh
grade with the popular kids paying the
most popular kid to ask me out as a prank.
I was happy, but everyone was like, “You’re
a dork for being happy.” It was a lot of that
type of stuff, so I think my sense of humor
has always tended towards either really,
really dark or really, really happy.
Since your Rebecca’s devotion to
Vincent Rodriguez’s Josh is pivotal
to the series, what was your role in
casting him?
It’s interesting because – I don’t know
how interesting this is, but I was in
Germany for my friend’s wedding, so I was
watching a lot of these tapes while I was in
Germany. That makes me sound way more
cosmopolitan and interesting than I usually
am, but I remember using any cell-phone
minutes to talk about how amazing Vince
was.
I was like, “Oh, Vince is it. Can we just stop
auditioning people now? He’s it.” A lot of
what’s in the pilot was stuff that he came
up with in his audition scene that we just
kept. He just ... he blew it out of the water.
It was amazing.
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CELEBRITY
George Dickie’s Q&A
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DR.DavidEagleman
of ‘The Brain With David Eagleman’ Wednesday on PBS
We keep hearing that there will one day be software that will enable writing to be done by computer. Is that
a real possibility?
We’re a long way off from that. ... So far, it hasn’t gotten far at all partially because our computational power isn’t
near what the brain is but it will be. The other thing is a lot of (artificial intelligence), I think, tries to take short cuts
and put in kluges to try and make something work real quick and so it ends up being nothing like a human.
I think probably the right way to make AI is to have it grow up and have an entire childhood, childhood experiences
and suffering and longing and joy and love and all the experiences that one has. That’s what makes a writer. I
mean, in order to write like a human, you have to essentially have to have lived the life of a human, and that’s what
I think AI is going to eventually look like but it’ll be way past our lifetime ... .
How can one maintain brain fitness as they age?
Social life is, in my opinion, the most important piece of it because people are unpredictable and it takes a lot of
work to deal with other people. So I think socializing is the fastest, easiest way to go there. There are all these
things about doing puzzles and Sudoku and crosswords and all that, that’s probably useful, too. It’s probably not as
much of a challenge. It doesn’t keep you as fit.
But you know, these nuns that I went to and talked to in this convent, they’re in their 80s, some of them in their 90s
and they’re very busy. They have chores everyday. They get up, they have to drive each other places. They have
to deal with each other all day long. I mean, they’re really keeping active lives. It’s not like they’re solving physics
equations. They don’t need to do that. You just have to be (relating to someone else).
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CELEBRITY
George Dickie’s Q&A
David
Krumholtz
‘Gigi Does It’ Thursday on IFC
You mentioned your
grandmother would
sometimes flash
the grandkids. Was
she aware she was
screwing with you
when she was doing
that?
To get into your character on “Gigi Does It,” you’re
drawing on memories of your grandmother, imagining
what it’s like to be a 77-year-old Jewish grandmother
from ...?
New York. She is from New York originally. Lives in Boca Raton (Fla.). But yeah, I’m
trying to kind of interpret what a lot of these older women are like. After 40 years of
marriage, kids, raising kids, or potentially working out in a male-dominated business
world, because that generation of women were “Mad Men”-type secretaries, and
so they get to a certain point, it seems – the archetype, that character – they
get to a certain point where they just kind of say, “F... it.” And they live life to the
fullest, no inner monolog, no filter, just the real thing. ... It’s kind of what “Mama’s
Family” got away with back in the day – Vicki Lawrence – is just that bawdy, brassy
grandmother who tells it like it is, who likes being in charge, who relishes the role of
people waiting on her hand and foot.
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Oh, my grandmother was one of
the most devilish, mischievous
people I’ve ever met in my life.
She loved to create a stir. And
absolutely, she knew what she
was doing. She would just kind
of flash you and laugh.
She liked to do a lot of things.
She particularly loved messing
with my father, torturing him. He
was the foil to all her comedy,
and he was perfect because
he never saw it coming, even
though it was constant. He
always was unassuming in
assuming – you know, it’s his
mother – that she wouldn’t do
that to him. But she wouldn’t
ridicule him.
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FOOD
McKean
George Dickie’s What's for Dinner
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explores common food
myths and origins on
‘Food: Fact or Fiction’
Anyone who has ever wondered why fries are French or whether chicken
soup can really cure what ails you will want to take note of a new series
debuting this week on Cooking Channel.
In “Food: Fact or Fiction,” premiering Monday, Oct. 26, host Michael McKean
(“Better Call Saul,” “This Is Spinal Tap”) explores longstanding adages about
food and seeks to debunk or prove some of the most common food myths.
Along the way, he delves into the history of some common comestibles and
reveals fascinating stories about them.
“It’s a lot of stuff I didn’t know,” he says. “And the more we talked about it (in
creating the six episode, half-hour series) and the more we went through
it, the more we realized just axiomatic things about food have entered the
language but we don’t know where they came from.”
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One popular food legend explored is how fried potatoes became known as French fries. McKean explains it actually
dates back to an 18th century conflict between France and Germany.
“There was a Frenchman who was captured by the Germans,” he says. “And when he was thrown into military prison, he
was being fed potatoes, and at first he wouldn’t eat them because it’s pig food. ... But he developed a taste for it and he
came back to Paris with this idea of, ‘We can do all these things with potatoes. Look at this stuff. We can chop them up
and fry them.’ And nobody would put it on the menu because it was pig food. Everybody knew what a potato was.
“But the French street peddlers got ahold of the idea,” he continues, “(and) they started making French fries, basically
fried potatoes, and it became a huge hit. And it was kind of a street-level food, kind of a popular food. Rather than
cordon bleu, it was just good. It was just throw a little salt on there – Jesus, c’mon, I could go for a stack of fries right
now.
“So anyway, (the show is) not just mythology,” McKean says, “it’s stuff that you just plain didn’t know.”
What book are you currently
reading?
What did you have for
dinner last night?
“I’m reading two books right now,
kind of juggling them depending
on my mood. I’m reading a 1970
novel by R.F. Delderfield. ... And
the book is called, ‘God Is an
Englishman,’ and it’s kind of a
wonderful Dickensian novel. ...
And I’m also reading a book of
science fiction stories by Paolo
Bacigalupi ... who’s this very good
science fiction writer.”
“For dinner last night, my
daughter made a rice and
bean and green salad
with some kind of Asian
dressing on it. All my gals
cook like crazy. It’s great.
My wife (actress Annette
O’Toole) is a very good
cook, both the girls are.
But yeah, she fed me good
last night.”
What is your next project?
“I’m going to take a little time
off, unless something comes
up, and just do some writing
at home and kind of take care
of some business. And we’re
going to do a family vacation
this Christmas and we don’t
know quite what we’re going
to do but we’re going to have
some fun.”
When was
your last
vacation,
where and
why?
“We went to
Hawaii a year ago
– in December of
2014, and it was
the six of us and
we had a real
blast. ...”
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CELEBRITY
By Jay Bobbin’s Q&A
Checking in!
Given last winter’s post-Super Bowl episode, and now
a 90-minute airing after the “Supergirl” premiere, Elyes
Gabel knows how much CBS is behind “Scorpion.”
Elyes Gabel
Birthdate: May 8, 1983
Birthplace: London
The top-billed actor on the Monday adventure-drama
series is pleased about the expanded Oct. 26 story that
locks genius Walter O’Brien (Gabel) and his comrades
inside a “smart” building that becomes a potential death
trap. “I suppose the hope is for it to be translated past
the 90-minute special as a two-parter,” Gabel says, “so
we’ve filmed enough footage for it to be cut into two
(hour-long) episodes.”
Current residence:
Los Angeles
Marital status:
Single (but
reportedly
dating his
“Scorpion”
co-star
Katharine
McPhee)
A big factor in the ratings success “Scorpion” has found
since its premiere last year, Gabel believes, is the
humor that underscores the action.
“In another world, this would be a comedy,” the native
Englishman reasons. “With things like, ‘Are they going
to get out of that cruise ship?,’ there are so many
possible comic story lines ... but the audience likes
the jeopardy plus the slight wink that’s trying to be a
trademark of the show. The energy is always up, but
there’s always some kind of funny bit they might expect.
And often, they get it.”
The real Walter O’Brien is among the executive
producers of “Scorpion,” and Gabel consults with him
often on portraying him. “Rudimentarily, it’s his story,”
the actor notes, “but I suppose the thing the producers
try to instill in me, in having a relationship and dialogue
with him, is that this is a hybrid. We’re creating a
fictionalized interpretation of his life.”
Among Gabel’s main joys in making “Scorpion” are
the Walter-and-Paige scenes with co-star Katharine
McPhee, with whom he’s reportedly involved with
off-camera.
“You shoot a lot of scenes just because they’re there,”
he says, “and that doesn’t mean you’re not trying your
hardest to imbue them with character and meet your
objectives – but certain things are just easier to shoot,
and that’s definitely what I experience with Katharine.
She does a very good job with me about keeping a
natural tone to it.”
Other television work includes: “Game of Thrones,”
“The Messengers,” “Body of Proof,” “The Borgias,”
“Silent Witness,” “Psychoville,” “Identity,” “Waterloo
Road,” “Casualty”
Movie work includes: “M-5” (aka “Spooks: The Greater
Good”), “A Most Violent Year,” “Interstellar,” “World War
Z,” “Welcome to the Punch,” “Widow Detective,” “Exit
Strategy,” “Everywhere and Nowhere,” “Kingdom of
Dust,” “Boogeyman 3”
On his ongoing recognition from “Game of
Thrones” fans: “The show is a huge beast, and as
peripheral a character as I was on it (as Dothraki
Rakharo the first two seasons), there’s still a huge
attachment. (Viewers) have been in a relationship with
it for so long, it doesn’t matter where you were in the
show, you’re always a part of it. I’ll get, ‘I know you,
man! I saw you once, man!’ It’s a great feeling.”
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DID YOU KNOW?
R i c h a rdRaw ling s
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- Born March 30, 1969, in Fort Worth, TX.
- Raised by his father, who is also a car lover.
- He has held several jobs to feed his car habit. He
was a firefighter, police officer and paramedic all
before he was 21 years old.
- He took a bullet in his arm in the early ‘90s as he
fought off a carjacker who was trying to steal his ‘65
Mustang 2/2 Fastback.
- He met Aaron Kaufman – the head builder at Gas
Monkey Garage – when Kaufman was working at a
local car shop. Years later, he remembered Aaron and
asked him to join him in his Gas Monkey venture.
- To draw attention to the garage, he and Kaufman
assembled a ‘31 Ford “rat rod” that they planned
to drive in the 2005 Bullrun USA, a secretive and
notorious “rally” that started in Los Angeles.
Richard Rawlings is an entrepreneur, a
car and motorcycle enthusiast and one
of the stars of the reality show “Fast N’
Loud” on Discovery Channel.
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- A veteran of transcontinental road rallies, he has won
the Gumball 3000 and the Bullrun – twice.
chance. The show quickly gained viewers in the U.S. and
around the world.
- The current world record holder in the Cannonball Run,
he was even recognized by Jay Leno for the achievement,
having broken the record that stood since 1979. He
covered the 2,811 miles from New York to Los Angeles in
31 hours and 59 minutes with an average speed of 87.6
miles per hour.
- First and foremost he is an entrepreneur, he wants to
sell a style, push a brand, and make sure Gas Monkey
Garage never stops growing. He has a retail shop and
bars, as well as several other Gas Monkey branded
ventures and he plans on expanding even more.
- Since opening the garage, he tried for several years
to sell the concept of his TV show “Fast N’ Loud,” and
in 2012, Discovery Channel finally agreed to give it a
- His biography, “Fast N’ Loud: Blood, Sweat and Beers,”
was released in May, by HarperCollins Publishers.
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STORY
Erika Christensen stars in
“Wicked City,” premiering
Tuesday on ABC.
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STORY
Los Angeles is a
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‘Wicked
City’
in new ABC drama
series
By Jay Bobbin
You can tell just from its title that “Wicked City” isn’t
going to paint early-1980s Los Angeles in a particularly
pretty way.
Premiering Tuesday, Oct. 27, the ABC melodrama has
a moody look and tone befitting the series’ theme. As
two homicide detectives (played by Jeremy Sisto, who
represented that career previously on “Law & Order,”
and Gabriel Luna) pursue a serial killer (“Gossip
Girl” veteran Ed Westwick and his new cohort (Erika
Christensen, in a huge departure from her recent
“Parenthood” role) along the Sunset Strip, journalists
(Evan Ross and “American Horror Story” alum Taissa
Farmiga) and others become involved in the pursuit.
The actual Sunset Strip is a major filming location
for “Wicked City,” and creator and executive producer
Steven Baigelman reports that more than 30 years
later, “There’s a lot of the strip that does look the same,
actually. We have to be very, very careful about how we
shoot things, and we have great visual effects working
for us, so we are able to really re-create the era pretty
much down to the way it was.
“I think you are going to find that when you watch the
show, you are not going to watch it from a place of
nostalgia,” Baigelman adds. “You are actually going to
feel like you are there,” in an era the producer cites as
a time when L.A. was “the murder capital of the country
and also the serial-killer capital of the country.”
In having a pivotal role in “Wicked City,” Christensen
notes she’s grateful to have “found a good variety” in
moving out of “Parenthood” mode. “What really struck
me about (playing) Ms. Betty Beaumont,” the actress
reflects, “is how quickly she might change from the
PIictured: Ed Westwick
outset to the end of the pilot. Right away, you get the
sense that she’s all in for whatever this is with Kent
(played by Westwick). I’m betting she goes down the rabbit
hole with him, and I find that really interesting from where
she starts ... a nurse and single mom, kind of a cowed
person, not super-confident, not super-comfortable in her
own skin. And she may blossom.”
A relative of Westwick has been “a great resource” for
his “Wicked City” work, he reveals: “My mother is a
psychologist, so I was able to have some quite interesting
conversations with her. I think there is an individual here
who is living multiple personalities. It’s one of the ways we
see him manipulate so easily, and so well, the people that
he interacts with.
“I did research into the serial killers that we all know. Ted
Bundy, his charm was notorious. For me, that kind of
resonates when thinking about how Kent would be, so
there was all of that that came into my thinking and my
process. And as the story develops and as I learn more
as the scripts come in, I will be informed more, and that
journey will continue for me.”
Music also has a big role (and “a very healthy budget,”
Baigelman confirms) in “Wicked City,” to the extent that
such talents as Joe Walsh, Ratt’s Stephen Pearcy and the
All-American Rejects’ Tyson Ritter have guest spots.
“I have two older brothers,” Westwick says, “so they kind
of grew up in that era, although not in Los Angeles (but)
in the U.K. I feel like we were flooded with images of Los
Angeles and the music of that time and everything like
that. It didn’t work out for me being a rock star; I would
have liked to have done that, but I’ll watch it on
TV instead.”
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STORY
Melissa Benoist stars in
"Supergirl," premiering
Monday on CBS.
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STORY
S
‘Supergirl’
comes to Earth ...
and to CBS
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Back in the day, CBS was the home of “The Incredible
Hulk” and the original version of “The Flash.”
It’s been a while, but the network now driven largely by
crime procedurals is welcoming another superhero ... or,
more accurately, a superheroine.
“Supergirl” lands Monday, Oct. 26, with “Glee” alum
Melissa Benoist in the plum part of the Man of Steel’s
cousin from Krypton, also known as Kara Zor-El or (in
her earthly life) Kara Danvers. The character also fueled
a 1984 movie starring Helen Slater; in a nice move, that
actress will recur as Supergirl’s adoptive mother, with
former television “Superman” Dean Cain as Dad.
“I auditioned the day after Halloween last year,” Benoist
recalls of her initial brush with the much-pursued title role,
“and it was a Saturday morning. And I think the second
that I saw in my email inbox the title ‘Supergirl,’ I just
knew automatically that it was something important and
it was something exciting and rare that I wanted to be a
part of.”
Still, Benoist notes she’s been undergoing a considerable
physical education for the part. “I’m terrible at sports,”
she allows. “I’m not coordinated in that way. I would have
moments where I felt confident and where I felt strong
and brave and like I could do anything. But then, like
everyone else, I have really, really awkward horribly
awkward – moments.”
Also in the impressive “Supergirl” cast: Calista Flockhart
(“Ally McBeal”) as Kara’s high-powered media-mogul
boss, Cat Grant, who also employs former Daily Planet
photographer James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks); Jeremy
Jordan (“Smash”) as a tech-expert co-worker and
confidant; Chyler Leigh (“Grey’s Anatomy”) as Kara’s
foster sibling, Alex Danvers; Jenna Dewan Tatum
(“Witches of East End”) as Lois Lane’s sister Lucy;
Laura Benanti (“Nashville”) as Kara’s birth mother; Peter
Facinelli (“Twilight”) as the enigmatic Maxwell Lord; and
David Harewood (“Homeland”) as an ex-CIA man with a
keen interest in Kara.
If “Supergirl” seems more suited to sister network The
CW, where its executive producers Greg Berlanti and
Andrew Kreisberg have the current version of “The
Flash” and “Arrow” (plus the forthcoming “Legends of
Tomorrow”), soon-to-exit CBS Entertainment chief Nina
Tassler says she was sold from the start on acquiring it:
“The journey that they were taking the character on, we
felt, just spoke to sort of where today’s generation is.
“We also really responded to the fact that it had a very
broad appeal,” Tassler adds, “so we felt that we could
have genre fans, but we also felt the relationship of this
young woman to the people at work ... it was a great
workplace comedy. And, more importantly, we thought
that this was a genre and this was a franchise that would
certainly open up and bring in new viewers.”
Benoist instantly becomes one of the new television
season’s most prominent stars, a position Flockhart
knows more than a bit about from her “McBeal” days.
However, not a lot of advice is being shared there,
apparently.
“She knows what she’s doing,” Flockhart says of Benoist.
“She’s very confident. I have a little bit of insight, I guess,
that I could probably provide for her – but she’s got it all
together. She’s got it going on.”
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STORY
NatGeo
brings
viewers
into the
operating
room on ‘Brain
Surgery Live’
By George Dickie
Pictured: Bryant Gumbel
If you’ve ever found yourself complaining that much of
what’s on television these days isn’t exactly brain surgery,
you might want to check out a new special on National
Geographic Channel that literally is.
“Brain Surgery Live With Mental Floss,” airing live in
Eastern and Central time zones on Sunday, Oct. 25,
brings viewers into the cutting-edge surgical theater at
Cleveland’s UH Case Medical Center to watch an actual
procedure. Bryant Gumbel is the host of the two-hour
special that’s creatively guided by Mental Floss magazine,
and neurosurgeon Dr. Rahul Jandial will provide expert
commentary.
The surgery being performed is known as Deep Brain
Stimulation surgery – or DBS – a delicate though low-risk
procedure used to treat essential tremor and Parkinson’s
disease. Here, an incision is made in the skull and the
patient, who is fully awake and able to speak throughout,
helps guide the surgeons to the affected area where
electrodes are then implanted. A battery of tests then
determine whether they’ve pinpointed the problem area.
“(Neurosurgeons) use this surgery almost like a (what)
pacemaker does for the heart, to try to adjust the brain to
correct whatever the physical ailment is,” explains David
George, executive producer and president of Leftfield
Pictures, which produced the special. “Some people,
from what I understand, they can show very significant
improvement in some of these physical ailments if they
can find the part of the brain (that is afflicted).”
Along the way, viewers will see exactly what the
neurosurgical team sees – live images of the brain – and
they’ll get lessons on the brain and how it functions,
the latest technologies used in cranial surgery and how
virtual reality is changing medicine. They’ll also get a
background of the patient, who at this writing had not yet
been identified.
“My hope is that people walk away with a deeper
fascination and education on the brain, understanding
how it works” George says. “And really (it’s) the greatest
computer ever invented and there is such little known
about it. I think if people can walk away with a deeper
understanding of how the brain works, no matter if they
watch for five minutes or they watch for the two hours, I
think that really is the goal of everybody involved – really,
really understanding how complex (the brain is) and how
far we’ve come with understanding the brain and how far
we have to go.”
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STORY
S
Campbell
resurrects
B-movie monster hunter
in Starz’s ‘Ash vs Evil
Dead’
By George Dickie
Pictured: Bruce Campbell
It’s been more than two decades since Bruce Campbell
last inhabited his over-the-top monster hunter character of
Ash Williams from three 1980s and ‘90s B-movies. So while
bringing him back for the new horror comedy series “Ash vs
Evil Dead,” premiering Halloween night Saturday, Oct. 31,
on Starz, didn’t seem all that alien to him, it did hurt.
past; Jill Marie Jones (“Sleepy Hollow”) as Amanda,
a disgraced Michigan state trooper determined to
prove Ash was behind the murder of her partner; and
Lucy Lawless (“Xena: Warrior Princess”) as Ruby,
a mysterious figure who thinks Ash is behind the
outbreaks.
“You know, Ash has always been playing in front of me,”
explains the 57-year-old actor, who is also an executive
producer with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert (who also return
from the original movies). “I sign Ash’s face every time I go
to a convention, so that character is not that far removed.
But the physical act of it, it’s been a long time since I’ve
been covered in crap and thrown to the ground by Deadites
and attacked and all the usual stuff that comes with it. So
that was a big eye opener, of getting back into the daily
grind of being attacked by dolls and Sam Raimi throwing
things at my face. You know, that’s definitely eye opening
to go, ‘Wow, I’m in my 50s now. Is this really still going to
work?’ But it’s good; I do a lot more stretching now.”
“She is obsessive and antagonistic toward Ash,” Lawless
says of her character. “Unforgiving, remorseless, maybe
criminally insane. I don’t know. I’m waiting to see what
happens in the second season because the character,
by the end of the season you really know who she is
and what she’s about. And you know that the crap is
going to hit the fan.”
As the series opens, Ash is 30 years older – physically but
clearly not emotionally. Still a stock boy at the local discount
store, the aging lothario has spent the last three decades
avoiding responsibility and the terrors of the Evil Dead. But
when a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of humanity,
the chainsaw-handed Ash must face his own demons and
answer the call.
Also in the cast are Ray Santiago (“Touch”) as Pablo,
Ash’s sidekick; Dana DeLorenzo (“A Very Harold & Kumar
3D Christmas”) as Kelly, a wild child trying to outrun her
While fans of the original movies will be in their glory
with “Ash,” newbies might want to know there is
considerable violence, blood and gore – but the overall
camp and silliness of the show’s tone neutralizes much
of it. And viewers of a certain age will want to take note
of the soundtrack of 1970s rock.
“This is a TV show that’s perfect for all the B-side
songs,” Campbell says, “not the ones you’re immediately
familiar with that you’ve heard 100 million times but
ones that you have not heard in awhile. ... I just know
that Ash being who he is living his low-budget life, it’s
the kind of rock and roll that’s got to go with him, that’s
got to be there. So I think we’re going to make a lot of
old rock bands pretty happy.”
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SPORTS
CarsonPalmer
Comeback
Kid
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Full Name: Carson Hilton Palmer
Born: December 27, 1979
Birthplace: Fresno, California
Height/Weight: 6 foot 5 inches/235-pounds
Teams: Arizona Cardinals, 2013-present; Oakland Raiders,
2011-2012, Cincinatti Bengals, 2003-2010
Position: Quarterback
No.: 3
Honors and Achievements: Pro Bowl, 2005, 2006;
Pro Bowl MVP, 2006; AFC Player of the Month, Sept., 2005;
NFL Passing Touchdowns Leader (2005); first quarterback
to throw for 4,000 yards for three different teams; Heisman
Trophy winner, 2002
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SPORTS
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By George Dickie
When the subject of elite
quarterbacks in the NFL comes up,
very seldom do you hear Carson
Palmer’s name, but that appears
to be changing. The 35-year-old
quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals
got off to another great start this
season, and hopefully it continues as
Palmer and the Cardinals host Joe
Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens on
Monday, Oct. 26, on ESPN.
Palmer’s NFL career has been a
roller coaster ride over the years. The
Cincinnati Bengals drafted him with
top overall pick in 2003, having great
expectations for the 2002 Heisman
Trophy winner out of USC. Palmer
held the clipboard his first season
and took over in 2004. His best year
was 2005, when he led the Bengals
to the playoffs but was injured
early on in a loss to the Pittsburgh
Steelers, who went on to win the
Super Bowl.
The Bengals made the post-season
again in 2009, but relations between
them and Palmer were souring,
which eventually led to Palmer
signing with the Oakland Raiders for
two seasons. He was traded to the
Cardinals for a sixth-round draft pick
in 2013, which is now looking like a
great deal for the Cards.
CarsonPalmer
In 2014, Palmer started only six
games before tearing an ACL
just days after signing a contract
extension with the Cards. By the time
Arizona reached the playoffs as a
Wild Card team, they were on their
third-string quarterback and their
offense was unproductive in a loss
to the Carolina Panthers. If Palmer
can stay upright and their defense
remains solid, the Cards could be a
major contender in the NFC.
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MOVIES
JAY BOBBIN's Theatrical movie review
review
Robert De Niro
appeals as Anne
Hathaway’s
‘Intern’
The idea of a movie that casts Robert De Niro as
Often echoing “Baby Boom,” on which Meyers also was
someone known as “The Intern” is amusing to begin with. a major creative factor, “The Intern” makes a lot of points
about the differences between generations. If those seem
Add to that the fact that it’s written and directed by Nancy a little heavy-handed at times, Meyers absolutely has
hedged her bets by making an extremely agreeable team
Meyers – who has been meeting the needs of such
of De Niro and Hathaway. There’s no question the two
veteran talents as Meryl Streep (in “It’s Complicated”)
Oscar-winners will “bring it,” and they appear to have a
and Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton (in “Something’s
true joy in working together that transcends their roles
Gotta Give”) – and you know you’re not going to get
and the plot.
something hard-hitting.
Which is OK, since no one does this kind of middle-age
or post-middle-age fantasy better than Meyers does. By
casting Anne Hathaway as De Niro’s boss in “The Intern,”
the filmmaker also services a younger demographic, as
she did in the entertaining “The Holiday” ... and it’s a very
pleasant blend.
The Hathaway character oversees a fashion-oriented
Web site, and since it’s a new venture, the heat is very
much on her. She resists getting too familiar with De
Niro, who’s part of the firm’s senior internship program,
but he eventually proves invaluable to her – not only for
his own background in the business world, but also for
the sympathetic and reliable ear and shoulder he is.
Frankly, it’s the kind of magic you for to the movies for
... and it works so well, the film seems to lose some of it
mojo any time the camera is off the two of them, though
it’s nice to see Rene Russo as an intended love match
for De Niro. There also are subplots involving Hathaway’s
home life and De Niro’s exchanges with younger male
co-workers, and while they’re meant to flesh out the
story, De Niro and Hathaway together remains the main
event here.
The two-hour running time of “The Intern” happily
supplies a lot of that. It’s a nice addition to the resumes
of both stars, and it lets Nancy Meyers keep her crown
as the queen of the kind of movie she does so well.
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MOVIES
JAY BOBBIN's movie review
movies to watch
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“PIXELS”
Fans of video games of the 1980s are likely
to get the biggest kick out of this effectscrammed fantasy directed by Chris Columbus
... no slouch in the fantasy department, as
the first two “Harry Potter” movies proved.
Adam Sandler plays a champ of such games,
summoned to help his childhood friend – the
U.S. president (Kevin James ... yes, the
“King of Queens” as president) – counter
an attack by aliens that take the form of the
games’ characters. Michelle Monaghan, Peter
Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Josh Gad and
Sean Bean also appear, but the top stars
here clearly are the visual wizards behind
the scenes. DVD extras: two “making-of”
documentaries; music video. ››› (PG-13: AS,
P) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand)
Pictured: Peter Dinklage
Top Pick
DVD
upcoming DVD releases
Coming Soon on DVD...
“INSIDE OUT” (Nov. 3): A
youngster’s emotions take over,
quite literally, when she moves
to a new town in this animated
Disney-Pixar tale; voices include
Amy Poehler and Bill Hader.
(PG: AS)
“VACATION” (Nov. 3): All grown
up now, Rusty Griswold (Ed
Helms) follows his father’s path
by taking his own family on an
eventful trek to Walley World.
(R: AS, N, P)
“MR. HOLMES” (Nov. 10): The
retired Sherlock Holmes (Ian
McKellen) is determined to solve
one last mystery; Laura Linney
also stars. (PG: AS, V)
“TERMINATOR GENISYS” (Nov.
10): He’ll be back, all right: Arnold
Schwarzenegger returns in a
reboot of the sci-fi saga.
(PG-13: N, P, V)
“TRAINWRECK” (Nov. 10):
A sports doctor (Bill Hader)
prompts a free-spirited journalist
(Amy Schumer) to consider
commitment. (R and unrated
versions: AS, N, P)
“ZOO: SEASON ONE” (Dec. 1):
CBS’ miniseries, based on a novel
co-written by James Patterson,
puts animals on the warpath
around the world; James Wolk
and Kristen Connolly star.
(Not rated: AS, P, V)
Pictured: “INSIDE OUT”
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HALLOWEEN SHOWS
“Sleepy Hollow”
SUNDAY
8 p.m.FOX
The Simpsons
In this season’s typically surreal
Halloween special “Treehouse of Horror
XXVI,’’ Sideshow Bob (voice of Kelsey
Grammer) finally makes good on his oftrepeated threat to kill Bart (voice of Nancy
Cartwright), then proceeds to reanimate
the corpse. In another tale, Homer (voice
of Dan Castellaneta) wakes up with
short-term memory loss, then, finally,
radiation exposure bestows superpowers
on Lisa (voice of Yeardley Smith), Bart
and Milhouse (voice of Pamela Hayden).
Previous “Treehouse of Horror’’ episodes
can been seen in primetime on Sunday
through Friday on FXX.
MONDAY
10 p.m A&E Cursed: The Bell Witch
This new five-episode docu-series
explores one of America’s most
enduring ghost stories, which started
in early 19th-century Tennessee when,
as legend has it, a landowner named
John Bell was cursed from beyond the
grave by a woman he had killed. The
spell she supposedly cast doomed the
first-born male in each generation of
Bell’s descendants. Now, contemporary
descendant John Ceallach seeks to break
the curse so his oldest son will be spared.
WEDNESDAY
9 p.m SYFY Ghost Hunters
In a special new Halloween-themed
episode called “Darker Learning,’’ Jason
Hawes and the TAPS team are on
location at Southern Vermont College
in Bennington, Vt., where they try to
determine whether -- as local legend
would have it -- a mysterious, doomed
love triangle and suicides could be
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responsible for paranormal activity in the
area.
10 p.m SYFY Paranormal Witness
As the title suggests, a new Halloweenthemed episode called “The Real
Conjuring’’ explores the true details in
the story that inspired the 2013 horror
movie blockbuster “The Conjuring.’’ The
case involves a Rhode Island family that
is forced into a terrifying battle with the
relentless spirit of a murderous witch
in their home. Syfy also will air “The
Conjuring’’ on Halloween night.
THURSDAY
8 p.m FOX Bones
Crossover alert! As Brennan (Emily
Deschanel) and her team examine a
headless corpse, they receive a visit from
FBI Agent Abbie Mills and Ichabod Crane
(Nicole Beharie, Tom Mison), who have
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HALLOWEEN SHOWS
traveled from Sleepy Hollow to claim the
remains for their own investigation. Joined
by Booth (David Boreanaz), they try to
identify the 200-year-old murder victim and
how he/she is linked to a contemporary
homicide case. Booth and Brennan
also find time to prank each other in the
new episode “The Resurrection in the
Remains.’’
9 p.m FOX Sleepy Hollow
Continuing a Halloween-themed crossover
event that started on “Bones,’’ Ichabod
and Abbie (Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie)
try to prove to Booth and Brennan
(David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel)
that supernatural forces are at work, as
Pandora (Shannyn Sossamon) resurrects
one of Ichabod’s old nemeses, dangerous
Redcoat Gen. Howe (guest Nicholas
Guest). Unless our heroes can intervene,
they soon may face a British army of the
undead in the new episode “Dead Men Tell
No Tales.’’
5 of the supernatural hit opens with “The
Grimm Identity,’’ which finds Nick (David
Giuntoli) still reeling from his mother’s
beheading and the death of his beloved
Juliette. Also trying to accept that he
is the father of a child by his former
nemesis Adalind (Claire Coffee), Nick
struggles to reaffirm his identity, a quest
that puts him at odds with those closest
to him. Elizabeth Rodriguez (“Fear the
Walking Dead’’) guest stars.
SATURDAY
9 p.m Ghost Adventures
A two-hour special episode called
“Deadwood: City of Ghosts’’ finds
the team embarking on a full-scale
investigation of a town with a reputation
as one of the deadliest in American
history: Deadwood, S.D., a place
shrouded in betrayal, violence and
reports of paranormal activity. At the
famous Bullock Hotel, Zak Bagans
meets a man who claims to have a
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special connection to Billy, the spirit of
a young boy, but the two men soon feel
an inexplicable sense of hostility toward
each other.
10 p.m SUNDANCE
The Returned
A 2015 English-language adaptation
on A&E stiffed (no pun intended) after
just one season, but this classy Frenchlanguage original, about a quiet Alpine
village where some deceased locals
start to return without explanation,
is back with new episodes. Season
2 opens with the arrival of a new
character, Berg (Laurent Lucas), an
engineer who has come to the town
seeking answers to its myriad mysteries.
Anne Consigny and Yara Pilartz, who
respectively play Claire and Camille, are
among the returning cast members.
By Jay Bobbin and John Crook
9 p.m ANIMAL PLANET
Monsters Inside Me
“There’s Something Living in My Knee’’
sounds like a misguided horror movie, but
it’s actually the episode title of this new
season premiere, built around the case of
a 7-year-old who scrapes his knee on an
Orange County, Calif., beach. As the joint
swells to the size of a big orange and the
wound turns black, doctors suspect the
lad has a MRSA infection. When the mom
investigates on her own, however, she
finds something that’s both shocking and
horrifying.
9 p.m DESTINATION AMERICA
Exorcism: Live!
The Tennessee Wraith Chasers from
the Destination America series “Ghost
Asylum’’ are part of the team exploring
the St. Louis house that was the site of a
1949 exorcism that inspired the hit book
and movie “The Exorcist.’’ According to
producers of this new two-hour special,
no one subsequently ever attempted
to cleanse the house of any lingering
demonic entities, so the TWC team, joined
with medium Chip Coffey (“Paranormal
State’’), hope to connect with any troubled
spirits there.
FRIDAY
9 p.m NBC Grimm
The Grimm is feeling very grim as Season
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HALLOWEEN
By John Crook
1)
As brothers Stefan and Damon (Paul Wesley,
Ian Somerhalder) deal with their undead urges,
in which fictional town is The CW’s “The Vampire
Diaries” set?
2)
Which veteran actor played Uncle Fester on
ABC’s “The Addams Family” (1964-66)?
3)
What was the address at which “The Munsters”
resided on that 1964-66 CBS sitcom?
4)
Name the 1963-65 ABC anthology that began
weekly with this advisory: “There is nothing wrong with
your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture.”
6)
“Werewolf,” one of Fox’s first shows when the
network began in 1987, starred a television Western
veteran as the apparent chief of the series’ line of
werewolves. Who was that actor?
7)
On the original mid-1980s NBC series version
of “V,” which actor – known for playing one of the big
screen’s most heinous villains – portrayed friendly
alien Willie?
8)
“Bates Motel” was a 1987 NBC TV movie spinoff
of “Psycho.” Who played the site’s new proprietor?
9)
In the syndicated 1987-90 “Friday the 13th”
television series, which store was home base for the
show’s stories?
5)
In “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” a classic episode
of “The Twilight Zone” first shown on CBS in 1963, who
10)
Who is the author of the novels on which the
played the airline passenger who believed he saw a
HBO series “True Blood” is based?
creature tearing the plane apart while in flight?
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HALLOWEEN
Lon Chaney The so-called “Man of a Thousand Faces” made
a particular face, that of the Phantom of the Opera, one of the
most enduring images in horror.
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BY JAY BOBBIN
Boris Karloff Frankenstein’s monster. ’Nuff said?
Bela Lugosi Like Karloff, all it takes is the mention of one role
– Count Dracula – to justify Lugosi’s place on this list.
Elsa Lanchester The get-up has been much mocked ever since,
but British acting veteran Lanchester became an immediate
icon as the “Bride of Frankenstein.”
Lon Chaney Jr. Terror stayed in the family, thanks to Junior’s
portrayal of the Wolf Man, a part that his natural appearance
made him ideally suited for.
Peter Lorre Lorre’s unusual look made him a natural for the
horror genre, but he even could be scary on a more subtle
level, evidenced by his haunting portrayal of a child-killer in the
classic “M.”
Vincent Price He became a caricature of himself in later years,
as in “Theater of Blood” ... but in his prime (“House of Wax,”
etc.), the refined Price could be quite a frightening fellow.
John Carradine Though he also made many other types of
films, the presence of the craggy-faced father of fellow actors
David, Keith and Robert often signaled something scary was
on the way.
Anthony Perkins Here’s a case of an actor whose horror cred
comes down to one role (all together, now) – Norman Bates
in “Psycho.” If the film’s very last shot doesn’t creep you out,
nothing will.
Boris Karloff
John Hurt While he isn’t only a horror actor, Hurt can lay claim
to one of the knock-your-socks-off scare sequences in all of
movie history, given what happens to him in the pivotal scene
of “Alien.”
Heather O’Rourke Sometimes innocents can be terrifying,
demonstrated by young O’Rourke as the target of specters
(“They’re he-e-e-ere!”) in “Poltergeist.”
Robert Englund “A Nightmare on Elm Street” might have
yielded a few too many chapters – even extending to the
television series “Freddy’s Nightmares” – but the sharp-fingered
Mr. Krueger was good for some solid screams early on.
Tobin Bell So effective as the lethally clever Jigsaw in the
“Saw” movies that the series just won’t let him die, though
the character technically is dead, Bell is back yet again in the
current “Saw 3D.”
Lon Chaney Jr.
Bela Lugosi
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HALLOWEEN
Check out our favorite halloween playlist from the SYFY network!
Brought to you by
set the mood for the perfect
Halloween party!
For those looking to take a laissez-faire approach, there are tons of great
Spotify playlists to choose from, but for those looking to get involved, go the
Guardians of the Galaxy route and make your own. Here are some choice
selections to make sure you’re on point.
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Thriller
Michael Jackson
Monster Mash
Bobby “Boris” Pickett
Werewolves of London
Warren Zevon
Witch Doctor
David Seville
Bad Moon Rising
Creedence Clearwater Revival
I Put a Spell on You
Jay Hawkins
Ghostbusters
Ray Parker, Jr
Somebody’s
Watching Me
Rockwell
Psycho Killer
Talking Heads
Abracadabra
Steve Miller Band
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HALLOWEEN
Check out our favorite HALLOWEEN TREAT from the cooking channel!
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Make Halloween Candy Bark
Basically all you need to do to make Halloween Candy Bark is chop up some Halloween candy, melt some
chocolate, spread it on foil and top it with the chopped candy. You can use assorted candy- made with Snickers,
M&Ms, Reese’s Pieces and candy corn - or select a combination of your favorites. In the picture is Reese’s Pieces,
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Reese’s Fast Break Bars and Butterfingers to make a peanut butter lovers’ bark.
Ingredients
Assorted Halloween candy, about 15 pieces or packs
(you want the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 cups chopped
candy)
Directions
Line a baking sheet with foil, shiny-side up; smooth
out the creases.
Cut the candy bars into pieces. If you’re using candies
like M&Ms or Reese’s Pieces, crush them if you’d
like or leave them whole. (They crush easily if you
put them in a resealable plastic bag and smack them
against the counter, or use a coffee mug to crush
them in the bag.)
Create a double boiler by putting a glass or metal
bowl over a saucepan of barely simmering water,
making sure the bowl doesn’t touch the water. Add
the chocolate and stir until melted and smooth. Do not
overheat the chocolate or it will seize.
Remove the bowl from the pan and wipe the
condensation from the bottom. Pour the melted
chocolate onto the prepared baking sheet; use the
rubber spatula to spread it into a 10-to-12-inch circle,
about 1/4-inch thick.
Press the candy pieces into the chocolate, arranging
them so each bite has a mix of flavors, colors and
textures. Refrigerate the chocolate for 1 hour to
completely set before breaking it into large pieces.
Break into pieces and store in an airtight container at
room temperature for 1 to 2 weeks.
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HALLOWEEN
OCT. 25
Best Friends Whenever Cyd and
Shelby teleport to New York for the
Central Park Spooktacular and end
up trapped in a haunted house with
some familiar faces. DISNEY 7:30 pm
Ro’s Tasty Treats: Halloween (N)
Spider cookies, cauldron pops and a
show-stopping zombie brain Halloween cake for a spook-tastic Halloween
party. COOK 8 pm
Game Shakers Double G asks Babe
and Kenzie to help him scare Triple G
on Halloween, but the girls decide to
reveal his plan to Triple G. NICK 8 pm
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (N) Holt and Peralta compete for the title of “amazing detective slash genius” in their third annual
Halloween heist. FOX 8:30 pm
Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn The
Quads and their parents are all excited
for the Halloween dance. NICK 8:30 pm
Halloween Sweets Unwrapped Host
Marc Summers goes door to door
searching for frighteningly fun Halloween sweets. COOK 9 pm
Toy Story OF TERROR! When
Woody, Buzz and the gang stop at a
motel, one of them goes missing and
the rest must figure out what is going
on before they suffer the same fate.
DISNEY 9 pm
Halloween Wars (N) For the final
battle, two teams made up of an expert pumpkin carver, cake decorator,
and sugar artist must create terrifying
and scream-worthy displays of an undead dinner party. FOOD 9 pm
OCT. 26
iCarly Carly, Sam and Freddie do
their Halloween webcast from an
apartment that is rumored to be
haunted. NICK 8 pm
Halloween Baking Championship (N)
The final four bakers bake it out in a
haunted house cake battle. FOOD 9 pm
Austin & Ally The group is inspired
to tell their own scary stories after attending the Central Park Spooktacular
in New York. DISNEY 9:35 pm
Beat Bobby Flay Chefs Geoffrey Zakarian and Jeff Mauro are playing the
tricks and culinary instructor James
Gillespie and restaurateur Rob Maffucci are serving up the Halloween
treats. FOOD 10:30 pm
OCT. 27
Fresh Off the Boat (N) Louis wants
to make his street a prime trick-ortreat destination. ABC 8:30 pm
OCT. 28
The Middle (N) Brick provides an introduction for “Twilight Zone”-like stories featuring the Hecks. ABC 8 pm
Bella and the Bulldogs (N) During
Halloween, Troy and Sawyer try to
scare the girls at the annual football and
cheerleader camp out. NICK 8 pm
The Goldbergs (N) Barry and Eric
talk Adam into taking Dana to a
haunted house. ABC 8:30 pm
HALLOWEEN PROGRAMMING
Modern Family When Claire lets Phil
take charge of Halloween, he decides
to do something different than her
usual fright-fest theme. ABC 9 pm
Halloween II (1981) A killer follows
his injured target to the hospital on
Oct. 31 in Haddonfield, Ill. AMC 9 pm
Bob’s Burgers The Belcher kids ditch
their usual trick-or-treating route and
head to a neighborhood known for
distributing full-size candy bars. CARTOON 9 pm
blackish (N) Dre’s nieces and nephews come to the neighborhood to
trick-or-treat, to the disappointment of
his own kids. ABC 9:31 pm
American Pickers Mike and Frank tour
a former penitentiary with a seriously
spooky vibe. HISTORY 11:03 pm
Duck Dynasty The Robertsons host
their church’s annual trick-or-treat
event at the Duck Commander warehouse. A&E 11:32 pm
OCT. 29
Blue Bloods Nicky and Erin take Jack
and Sean trick-or-treating. ION 7 pm
Jeff Dunham: Minding the Monsters In the spirit of Halloween, Jeff
Dunham performs with his special
cast of characters including Walter,
Bubba J, Peanut, Jose and Achmed
all decked out in their Halloween best.
COMEDY 7 pm
Halloween Sweets Unwrapped Host
Marc Summers goes door to door
searching for frighteningly fun Halloween sweets. COOK 7 pm
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie
Brown Linus waits in the pumpkin
patch for the elusive Halloween symbol to appear. ABC 8 pm
Bones (N) Brennan and Booth come
up with Halloween pranks. FOX 8 pm
K.C. Undercover Ernie and Judy
travel to New York during the Central
Park Spooktacular to catch an evil
wolf serum; K.C. and Marisa throw a
party back home. DISNEY 8 pm
Mysteries at the Museum A man’s
attempt to bring back his love from the
dead; a whip used in voodoo practice.
TRAVEL 8 pm
Modern Family Claire must rein in her
enthusiasm for Halloween and keep her
celebration kid-friendly. USA 8 pm
Bob’s Burgers The kids’ Halloween
adventure goes awry when Louise’s
friend Millie takes them hostage. CARTOON 9 pm
Key & Peele Sketches include Jordan
and Keegan celebrate Halloween by
fleeing racist zombies. COMEDY 9 pm
Austin & Ally A power outage traps
the four friends in a Sonic Boom on
Halloween. DISNEY 9:30 pm
The Player (N) The House bets on
whether Alex can stop a serial killer
by Halloween. NBC 10 pm
OCT. 30
South Park The Goth Kids celebrate
Halloween. COMEDY 7:30 pm
Last Man Standing (N) When Mike
and Chuck decide to spend Halloween watching football instead of
passing out candy, their wives decide
to prank them; Kyle dresses up as Ed.
ABC 8 pm
The Cleveland Show Donna’s sexy
Halloween costume lands her in trouble
with the police. CARTOON 9:30 pm
Jessie Stuart tells the Ross kids
about a ghost named Abigail while
trick-or-treating. DISNEY 9:30 pm
Ghost Adventures The truth behind
the legend of Vlad The Impaler, the
inspiration for Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.”
TRAVEL 10 pm
Family Guy Peter and Joe perform
painful and humiliating Halloween
pranks on unsuspecting family and
friends. CARTOON 10:30 pm
Friends At Monica’s Halloween party,
Phoebe meets her twin sister’s fiance
and finds that she is attracted to him.
NICK 11 pm
OCT. 31
The Fairly OddParents Timmy wishes
that everyone’s Halloween costumes
were real and scary. NICK 7 am
Power Rangers Dino Charge When a
monster kidnaps a Ranger and takes
on their appearance during a Halloween party. NICK Noon
Jessie The Ross kids become concerned that history is repeating itself
after a scary old doorman tells them
a building legend about a nanny who
did something terrible to the kids
in her care on Halloween. DISNEY
12:30 pm
Halloween Baking Championship
The final four bakers bake it out in a
haunted house cake battle. FOOD 1
pm
Halloween Wars For the final battle,
two teams made up of an expert
pumpkin carver, cake decorator, and
sugar artist must create terrifying and
scream-worthy displays of an undead
dinner party. FOOD 2 pm
The Real Story of Halloween Allhallows Eve remains a time for people
to consider their own mortality, from
its roots as a pagan holiday honoring
departed souls to modern traditions
of breaking rules, pushing boundaries
and wearing disguises. HISTORY 3
pm
Austin & Ally Austin’s new record
label owner, Jimmy Starr, invites him
to perform at the Starr Records Halloween party, where he will perform
a duet with famous musician to Ally’s
new song. DISNEY 3:30 pm
The Amazing World of Gumball
Against Darwin’s advice, Gumball refuses to forward a scare email, bringing down a curse on the whole family.
CARTOON 3:45 pm
Teen Titans Go! Raven tries to return
the spirit of Halloween to the holiday.
CARTOON 4:15 pm
Halloween Sweets Unwrapped Host
Marc Summers goes door to door
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searching for frighteningly fun Halloween sweets. COOK 5 pm
NCIS The NCIS team investigates
when a Marine is attacked in his
home and his daughter is kidnapped
on Halloween. USA 5 pm
Haunted Thundermans The Thundermans travel to New Orleans to
help the Hathaways and the Prestons
when a super villain escapes Ghost
World on Halloween. NICK 5:30 pm
I Didn’t Do It Logan and Delia go to
New York for a presentation as Marie
Antionette and Albert Einstein and run
into familiar faces at New York’s biggest
Halloween party. DISNEY 6:30 pm
Halloween Wars Teams made up of
pumpkin carvers, cake decorators
and sugar artists battle to create Halloween-themed displays depicting a
zombie prom. COOK 7 pm
Austin & Ally The group is inspired
to tell their own scary stories after attending the Central Park Spooktacular
in New York. DISNEY 7 pm
Regular Show While en route to visit
Muscle Man’s mother, the guys tell
scary stories to keep Muscle Man from
falling asleep. CARTOON 7:30 pm
Liv and Maddie Maddie and Willow
join in on the Senior Scare, in which
high school seniors scare middle
school students. DISNEY 7:30 pm
Best Friends Whenever Cyd and
Shelby teleport to New York for the
Central Park Spooktacular and end
up trapped in a haunted house with
some familiar faces. DISNEY 8 pm
Henry Danger When Jasper dresses
as Kid Danger for Halloween, a case
of mistaken identity causes the real
Kid Danger and Captain Man to come
to his rescue. NICK 8 pm
NCIS DiNozzo’s latest fling leads to
an interesting Halloween. USA 8 pm
King of the Hill Hank’s revenge
against another parent (voice of Sally
Field) almost ruins Halloween when it
is seen as a cult activity. CARTOON
9 pm
K.C. Undercover Ernie and Judy
travel to New York during the Central
Park Spooktacular to catch an evil
wolf serum.. DISNEY 9 pm
100 Things to Do Before High
School CJ is determined to end Principal Hader’s dislike of Halloween in
time to rescue the school’s canceled
Halloween festivities. NICK 9 pm
Jessie Stuart tells the Ross kids
about a ghost named Abigail while
trick-or-treating. DISNEY 9:30 pm
Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn The
Quads and their parents are all excited for the Halloween dance. NICK
9:30 pm
The Cleveland Show Cleveland Jr.
cannot go trick-or-treating because his
father thinks he is too old. CARTOON
10 pm
Pawn Stars Corey and Chumlee try
to pull off the perfect duo Halloween
costume. HISTORY 11:03 pm
HALLOWEEN
10/25
10/26
Brooklyn Nine Fear: Buried
Nine, Fox 8:30 Alive, A&E,
8 p.m.
p.m.
Family Guy
Fox, 9 p.m.
Last Man on
Earth Fox,
9:30 p.m.
The Exorcist
(1973) BBC
America 11 pm
Carrie (1976)
CINEMAX 1:30
am
Lost Boys:
The Tribe
(2008) SYFY
1:30 am
Cursed: The
Bell Witch
A&E, 10 p.m.
Apocalypse
L.A. (2014)
SYFY 11 pm
10/27
10/28
War of the
Worlds:
American
Experience
PBS, 8 pm
The Middle
ABC, 8 pm
Fresh Off the
Boat ABC,
8:30 p.m.
Modern Family
ABC, 9 pm
Secrets of the
Dead PBS, 9
pm
Monica the
Medium ABC
Family, 8 p.m.
Face Off Syfy,
9 pm
Quiz Answers
from page 22:
The Goldbergs
ABC, 8:30 pm
Criminal Minds
CBS, 9 pm
blackish ABC,
9:31 pm
10/29
It’s the
Great
Pumpkin,
Charlie
Brown ABC,
8 pm
The Player
NBC, 10 pm
From Dusk
Till Dawn
(1996)
BBC-A 8 pm
Expedition
Unknown
Travel, 9 pm
American
Horror Story:
Hotel FX, 10 pm
1) Mystic Falls, Va.
2) Jackie Coogan
3) 1313 Mockingbird Lane
4) “The Outer Limits”
5) William Shatner
6) Chuck Connors
10/30
Last Man
Standing
ABC, 8 pm
Ghost
Adventures
Travel, 9 pm
Live From
Lincoln
Center PBS
9 pm
H
10/31
Stephen King’s
Rose Red
Spike TV, 2002
miniseries, 5:30 pm
The Conjuring
2013, Syfy, 9 pm
Curse of the
Demon 1957,
TCM, 10 pm
Why Horror
Showtime 10
pm
Z Nation
Syfy, 10 pm
7) Robert Englund (“A
Nightmare on Elm Street”)
8) Bud Cort
9) Vendredi’s Antiques
10) Charlaine Harris
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OCT. 25
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Two unseen scientists manipulate the
gory goings-on at a backwoods cabin
inhabited by a group of unsuspecting
college friends. SYFY 9 pm
Thinner (1996) An elderly Gypsy
king’s weight-loss curse prompts an
obese lawyer to call in a mob boss’s
debt. SUND 10:45 pm
Blade: Trinity (2004) Blade and a pair
of vampire slayers battle Dracula, the
newly resurrected ancestor of the undead. SYFY 11 pm
Jacob’s Ladder (1990) A Vietnam vet
prone to flashbacks walks the edge of
sanity as he searches for the cause of
his nightmarish visions. SUND 12:45
am
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) Desperado brothers kidnap a preacher
and his kids, commandeer their RV
and wind up in a Mexican strip joint
where vampires lurk. BBC-A 1:30 am
Carrie (1976) A social misfit with
psychic powers wreaks havoc at her
prom to get even with pranksters.
CINEMAX 1:30 am
Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008) After
moving to a new California town, a
young woman learns that her new
friends are a pack of vampires. SYFY
1:30 am
OCT. 26
Cujo (1983) Bitten by a rabid bat, a
huge dog traps a Maine woman and
her young son in their Ford Pinto.
SUND 8 pm, SUND Midnight
Silver Bullet (1985) A boy in a
wheelchair stops a werewolf with his
uncle and sister. SUND 10 pm
My Bloody Valentine (2009) Ten
years after he accidentally caused the
deaths of five miners, a man returns
to the town of Harmony and faces a
pickaxe-wielding killer. IFC 11 pm
Apocalypse L.A. (2014) After a
meteor strike releases an amoeba
into the atmosphere, mutations and
extreme violence take place, so several friends have to battle across Los
Angeles to make it to safety. SYFY
11 pm
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Teens struggle to stay awake when
a razor-gloved killer invades their
dreams. AMC 1 am
Zombie Apocalypse (2011) After
a zombie plague wipes out most of
America, a small band of survivors
fights its way across the country to
reach a rumored refuge on the island
of Catalina. SYFY 1 am
The Hills Have Eyes (2006) A family
road trip takes a terrifying turn when
the travelers become stranded in a
government atomic zone inhabited by
a band of bloodthirsty mutants. IFC
1:15 am
Silent House (2011) Horrifying
events turn panic to real terror when
a young woman becomes trapped in
the old house she’s helping her father
and uncle renovate. STARZ 1:30 am
OCT. 27
Friday the 13th, Part 2 (1981) Mrs.
Voorhees’ son Jason is waiting when
another load of teens tries to make a
buck at Camp Crystal. AMC 8 pm
Devil’s Due (2014) A newlywed
initially blames his pregnant wife’s
odd behavior on nerves, but as the
months pass, it becomes apparent to
both of them that the changes to her
body and mind stem from something
sinister. HBO2 8 pm
Firestarter (1984) Quasifederal
agents hunt a man,who can bend
minds, and his daughter,who can
start fires by staring. SUND 8 pm
Friday the 13th - Part III (1982) New
teens learn of Camp Crystal Lake’s
grisly heritage. AMC 10 pm
Riding the Bullet (2004) A troubled
Maine art student meets sinister drivers while hitchhiking to see his mother in the hospital. SUND 10:30 pm
Jeepers Creepers (2001) A cloaked
figure terrorizes two siblings after they
discover mutilated bodies in a country
drainpipe. IFC 11 pm
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
(1984) Hockey-masked Jason goes
after another batch of teens at Crystal
Lake. AMC Midnight
The Dead 2: India (2013) As a zombie plague spreads across India, an
American turbine engineer battles his
way back to Mumbai to rescue his
pregnant lover. SYFY Midnight
Deliver Us From Evil (2014) A New
York cop joins forces with an unconventional priest to combat demonic
forces in their city. STARZ 12:40 am
Mama (2013) As a woman tries to
reintroduce her lover’s traumatized
nieces to a normal life, disturbing
questions and occurrences suggest
that a supernatural presence has followed the girls to her home. FX 1 am
Silent Hill (2006) A woman searches
for her missing daughter in a town that
has been enveloped in a living darkness, against which the remaining humans fight a losing battle for survival.
IFC 1 am
returns to his Illinois hometown to continue his bloody rampage. AMC 7 pm
Pet Sematary (1989) A family’s life in
small-town Maine is shattered by the
evil unleashed from an ancient American Indian burial ground. SUND 8 pm
Halloween II (1981) A killer follows
his injured target to the hospital on
Oct. 31 in Haddonfield, Ill. AMC 9 pm
The Devil’s Rejects (2005) A vengeful sheriff and two bounty hunters
track a murderous family on the run.
SHO2 10 pm
Pet Sematary (1989) A family’s life
in small-town Maine is shattered by
the evil unleashed from an ancient
American Indian burial ground. SUND
10 pm
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
(1982) Two people discover that a
TV commercial will cue a madman’s
Halloween masks to explode. AMC
11 pm
Stay Alive (2006) An online game
becomes terrifyingly real when its
young players begin to die along with
their onscreen characters. STARZ
12:15 am
The Faculty (1998) High-school
students gradually begin to suspect
that their teachers are from another
planet. HBO2 12:30 am
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) Dr. Loomis
renews his hunt for killer Mike, who
OCT. 28
Girl vs. Monster (2012) With help
from her friends, a savvy teen must
battle an immortal monster and her
army. DISNEY 7 pm
Halloween (1978) John Carpenter’s
chiller about an escaped maniac who
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has escaped from the hospital once
again. AMC 1 am
OCT. 29
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) Dr. Loomis
renews his hunt for killer Mike, who
has escaped from the hospital once
again. AMC 8 pm
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) Desperado brothers kidnap a preacher
and his kids, commandeer their RV
and wind up in a Mexican strip joint
where vampires lurk. BBC-A 8 pm
Halloween 5: The Revenge of
Michael Myers (1989) Dr. Loomis
meets Mike’s 9-year-old niece, who
seems to know when he’s going to kill
next. AMC 10 pm
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael
Myers (1995) An ancient Celtic ritual
drives Dr. Loomis’ patient to sacrifice
an entire family in Haddonfield, Ill.
AMC Midnight
Quarantine (2008) Trapped in an
apartment building, a reporter and her
cameraman record the outbreak of a
horrifying disease that turns humans
into voracious cannibals. BBC-A Midnight
Smiley (2012) A mentally fragile college student believes that she will be
the next victim of a serial killer who can
be summoned through the Internet.
SHO2 1:45 am
OCT. 30
Saw: The Final Chapter 3D (2010)
As a fierce battle rages over Jigsaw’s
terrible legacy, survivors seek support
HALLOWEEN MOVIES
from a fellow survivor and self-help
guru, who has a few dark secrets of
his own. IFC 7 pm
Blade II (2002) Blade forms an alliance with a band of hardened
enemies in order to battle powerful
vampires. SYFY 7:30 pm
Halloween: Resurrection (2002) Internet users watch six collegians as they
spend the night in Michael Myers’ childhood home. AMC 8 pm
The Evil Dead (1981) Teens in a remote cabin accidentally resurrect demonic forces with a taped incantation
and the Book of the Dead. STARZ 8
pm
Cat People (1942) A New York architect marries a Serbian artist who
turns into a black panther when
aroused. TCM 8 pm
Poltergeist (1982) A suburban couple’s
little girl is drawn from her bedroom into
a nightmarish other dimension. ABC
FAMILY 8:30 pm
Evil Dead 2 (1987) Cabin visitors fight
protean spirits of the dead with a chainsaw, a shotgun and Egyptian incantations. STARZ 9:30 pm
Halloween (1978) John Carpenter’s
chiller about an escaped maniac who
returns to his Illinois hometown to
continue his bloody rampage. AMC
10 pm
The Exorcist (1973) An actress calls
upon Jesuit priests to try to end the
demonic possession of her 12-yearold daughter. BBC-A 10:30 pm
The Seventh Victim (1943) A young
woman seeks her sister and finds
Greenwich Village satanists and
Dante’s Restaurant. TCM 11 pm
Scream 3 (2000) Murders draw a
young woman, a reporter and an
ex-policeman to the set of a movie
inspired by horrific events that they
survived. WGN-A 11 pm
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
(1986) An American Indian helps a
broke and homeless family, once
again prey to a poltergeist. ABC
FAMILY Midnight
The Leopard Man (1943) Authorities
track an escaped circus leopard suspected of killing a number of peasants in a New Mexico town. TCM
12:15 am
Quarantine (2008) Trapped in an
apartment building, a reporter and her
cameraman record the outbreak of a
horrifying disease that turns humans
into voracious cannibals. BBC-A 1 am
Sinister (2012) A true-crime novelist
and his family become the targets of
a supernatural entity when he uses
found footage to unravel the murders
of his home’s previous occupants.
SYFY 1 am
OCT. 31
Dreamcatcher (2003) While staying
at a cabin in the woods, telepathic
friends confront aliens that are being
hunted by the military. CINEMAX 6
am
Riding the Bullet (2004) A troubled
Maine art student meets sinister drivers while hitchhiking to see his mother in the hospital. SUND 6 am
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
(1982) Two people discover that a
TV commercial will cue a madman’s
Halloween masks to explode. AMC
6:30 am
Doctor X (1932) A reporter saves
a mad doctor’s daughter from a fullmoon killer with synthetic flesh. TCM
7 am
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The
Dream Child (1989) A young woman
wages a desperate battle to protect
the soul of her unborn child from
dream stalker Freddy Krueger. IFC
7:15 am
Thinner (1996) An elderly Gypsy
king’s weight-loss curse prompts an
obese lawyer to call in a mob boss’s
debt. SUND 8 am
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
(2005) While visiting an excavation
site in Kenya, a former priest sees
signs of demonic possession. CINEMAX 8:15 am
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) Dr. Loomis
renews his hunt for killer Mike, who
has escaped from the hospital once
again. AMC 8:30 am
The Omen (2006) An American diplomat and his wife learn that the child
they adopted may be the son of Satan. SYFY 8:30 am
White Zombie (1932) A voodoo
master of sugar-mill zombies holds
another man’s bride in his Haitian
castle. TCM 8:30 am
Final Destination (2000) Teens meet
with horrible ends after a classmate’s
precognitive vision leads to their ejection
from a doomed airliner. SPIKE 9 am
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Freddy Krueger, a badly burned
boogeyman with razors on his glove,
haunts and kills teens in their dreams.
IFC 9:15 am
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
New allies and old friends aid Alice
in her worldwide search for those responsible for the T-virus outbreak that
continues to turn humans into flesheating zombies. TBS 9:30 am
Dementia 13 (1963) Ax murders follow
a heart attack at an Irish castle full of
mourners. TCM 9:45 am
Silver Bullet (1985) A boy in a
wheelchair stops a werewolf with his
uncle and sister. SUND 10 am
Halloween 5: The Revenge of
Michael Myers (1989) Dr. Loomis
meets Mike’s 9-year-old niece, who
seems to know when he’s going to kill
next. AMC 10:30 am
The Exorcist (1973) An actress calls
upon Jesuit priests to try to end the
demonic possession of her 12-yearold daughter. BBC-A 10:30 am
1408 (2007) A writer who specializes
in debunking supernatural phenomena experiences true terror when he
spends a night in a reputedly haunted
room of a hotel. SYFY 11 am
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985) Mass murderer
Freddy Krueger invades the nightmares of a new teenager and uses
his body to continue his dirty work.
IFC 11:15 am
The Fearless Vampire Killers
(1967) A professor and his helper
crash a vampire ball at the castle of
Count Von Krolock. TCM 11:15 am
Final Destination 2 (2003) Death
returns to claim the lives of those
who did not die in a horrible highway
calamity as they were meant to do.
SPIKE 11:30 am
The Final Destination (2009) A horrifying premonition saves a young
man and his friends from death during a racetrack accident, but terrible
fates await them nonetheless. TBS
11:30 am
Firestarter (1984) Quasifederal
agents hunt a man,who can bend
minds, and his daughter,who can
start fires by staring. SUND Noon
Poltergeist (1982) A suburban
couple’s little girl is drawn from her
bedroom into a nightmarish other dimension. ABC FAMILY 12:30 pm
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael
Myers (1995) An ancient Celtic ritual
drives Dr. Loomis’ patient to sacrifice
an entire family in Haddonfield, Ill.
AMC 12:30 pm
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream
Warriors (1987) Institutionalized teenagers who share similar nightmares join
forces to rid themselves of a murderer’s
influence. IFC 1:15 pm
Final Destination 5 (2011) When a
man’s premonition saves them from a
fatal bridge collapse, several unfortunate souls learn that Death will not be
cheated. TBS 1:15 pm
Homicidal (1961) A bride pays a
man to wed her, stabs the justice of
the peace, then heads for a mansion
inhabited by oddballs. TCM 1:15 pm
Blade II (2002) Blade forms an alliance with a band of hardened
enemies in order to battle powerful
vampires. SYFY 1:30 pm
Annabelle (2014) Members of a satanic cult invade the home of a man
and his pregnant wife and turn a
vintage doll into a conduit for ultimate
evil. CINEMAX 1:50 pm
The Messengers (2007) A teen and
her younger brother desperately try
to warn their disbelieving family about
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ominous apparitions that only the children see. ENCORE 2 pm
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Internet users watch six collegians as
they spend the night in Michael Myers’ childhood home. AMC 2:30 pm
Cujo (1983) Bitten by a rabid bat, a
huge dog traps a Maine woman and
her young son in their Ford Pinto.
SUND 2:30 pm
Sleepy Hollow (1999) A Colonial-era
constable probes a series of grisly
decapitations in an upstate New York
hamlet. ABC FAMILY 3 pm
The Tingler (1959) A pathologist
discovers that people die of fright
because of an organism on the spinal
cord. TCM 3 pm
Compound Fracture (2013) A broken family has to heal old wounds
to escape a high-tech compound
haunted by the vengeful ghosts of
their past. TMC 3 pm
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The
Dream Master (1988) Grotesque
Freddy Krueger gives some more
suburban teenagers something to
dream about. IFC 3:30 pm
Slither (2006) A small-town sheriff and
his team encounter waves of wormlike alien organisms that are intent on
devouring all life on Earth. CINEMAX
3:35 pm
When a Stranger Calls (2006) A sadistic
stranger subjects a teenage baby-sitter
to an increasingly threatening round of
phone calls. ENCORE 3:35 pm
Insidious (2010) Parents take drastic
measures when it seems their new
home is haunted and their comatose
son is possessed by a malevolent entity. SYFY 4 pm
Halloween (1978) John Carpenter’s
chiller about an escaped maniac who
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returns to his Illinois hometown to continue his bloody
rampage. AMC 4:30 pm
Pet Sematary (1989) A family’s life in small-town
Maine is shattered by the evil unleashed from an ancient American Indian burial ground. SUND 4:30 pm
House of Wax (1953) A fire-scarred sculptor uses
horrible methods to restore the marvelous wax creations his crippled hands cannot. TCM 4:30 pm
Willow Creek (2013) A man and his girlfriend
camp in the woods to capture firsthand evidence
of Bigfoot. TMC 4:30 pm
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Animated. The Pumpkin King gives the yuletide season
a touch of Halloween in an animated tale from the
mind of Tim Burton. ABC FAMILY 5:30 pm
Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later (1998) In hiding for two decades, a traumatized woman learns
her murderous brother has returned for her. CINEMAX 5:15 pm
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream
Child (1989) A young woman wages a desperate
battle to protect the soul of her unborn child from
dream stalker Freddy Krueger. IFC 5:30 pm
The Devil’s Bride (1968) A 1920s duke and his
friends form a pentagram to ward off a satanist.
TCM 6:15 pm
Halloween II (1981) A killer follows his injured
target to the hospital on Oct. 31 in Haddonfield,
Ill. AMC 6:30 pm
The Shining (1980) A writer goes mad while serving as caretaker with his wife and clairvoyant son at
a snowbound Colorado hotel. SUND 6:30 pm
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) The Lamberts
believe that they have defeated the spirits that
haunted their family, but they soon discover that
evil is not beaten so easily. SYFY 6:30 pm
Fright Night (1985) The host of a late-night TV
horror show believes a teen’s next-door neighbor
is a vampire. ENCORE 7:10 pm
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Freddy
Krueger, a badly burned boogeyman with razors on his glove, haunts and kills teens in their
dreams. IFC 7:30 pm
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Corrupted
by a lord, Oscar Wilde’s London aristocrat stays
young, but his portrait begins to age. TCM 8 pm
The Lost Boys (1987) A woman and her sons
move to a coastal California town full of teenage
vampire punks. VH1 8 pm
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) Two people discover that a TV commercial will cue a madman’s
Halloween masks to explode. AMC 8:30 pm
The Conjuring (2013) Paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren confront a powerful
demonic entity when they try to help parents and
children being terrorized in their secluded farmhouse. SYFY 9 pm
Halloween (2007) A psychiatrist follows an escaped psychopath’s blood-soaked trail back to
his hometown. IFC 9:30 pm
The Pyramid (2014) Archaeologists realize that something is hunting them as they try to find their way out of
the catacombs of a newly discovered pyramid that is
unlike any others in Egypt. HBO 9:45 pm
Curse of the Demon (1957) In England a U.S.
psychologist seeks to return a doctor’s ancient
death-curse scripted on parchment. TCM 10 pm
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
(1988) Dr. Loomis renews his hunt for killer Mike,
who has escaped from the hospital once again.
AMC 10:30 pm
Crawlspace (2013) Tim and Susan find that
their dream home has a dark past: Children of
the previous owner drowned in the pool, and the
couple don’t know that he still lives within the
walls of the house, but his sanity is gone. TMC
10:30 pm
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) Desperado brothers kidnap a preacher and his kids, commandeer
their RV and wind up in a Mexican strip joint
where vampires lurk. VH1 10:30 pm
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
(1999) A bank robber headed for a Mexican
heist stumbles into a bar frequented by the undead, where he’s turned into a vampire. WGN-A
11 pm
The Shining (1980) A writer goes mad while serving as caretaker with his wife and clairvoyant son at
a snowbound Colorado hotel. SUND 11:06 pm
Sleepy Hollow (1999) A Colonial-era constable
probes a series of grisly decapitations in an upstate New York hamlet. ABC FAMILY 11:30 pm
Final Destination (2000) Teens meet with horrible
ends after a classmate’s precognitive vision leads to
their ejection from a doomed airliner. SPIKE 11:30 pm
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) A young woman tries to save her
friends from the clutches of young Leatherface
and his murderous clan. SYFY 11:30 pm
Dead of Night (1945) Summoned to an English estate, a man recalls it from his nightmare and there
meets other guests with nightmares. TCM 11:30
pm
Halloween: Resurrection (2002) Internet users
watch six collegians as they spend the night in
Michael Myers’ childhood home. IFC Midnight
Night of the Living Dead (1968) People hide
in a house from carnivorous walking corpses revived by radiation fallout. TMC 12:05 am
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) Dr. Loomis meets Mike’s 9-year-old
niece, who seems to know when he’s going to
kill next. AMC 12:30 am
House of 1000 Corpses (2003) Four travelers
take refuge in the home of a clan of demented
killers. Written and directed by musician Rob
Zombie. CINEMAX 12:35 am
The Lost Boys (1987) A woman and her sons
move to a coastal California town full of teenage
vampire punks. VH1 1 am
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s
Daughter (2000) An executioner’s daughter joins
an outlaw who escaped death, in a journey that
leads to vampires. WGN-A 1 am
Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008) After moving to a
new California town, a young woman learns that
her new friends are a pack of vampires. SYFY
1:30 am
Mark of the Vampire (1935) An elderly criminologist devises a unique scheme to unmask the killer
behind a series of gruesome murders. TCM 1:30
am
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Young
adults encounter a houseful of demented butchers who chase them with chain saws and other
deadly tools. TMC 1:45 am
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