Fancast’s 24-Hour Halloween Movie Festival

From midnight to midnight, witching hour to witching hour on October 31st, Fancast Movies will be featuring a new fright flick every hour on the hour, to properly celebrate the Halloween spirit of thrills, chills, creeps and yucks (and more than a few ‘yuks’ as well). Here’s the holiday playlist!

1. Night of the Living Dead [watch the movie]
George A. Romero’s seminal riff on I Am Legend defined the modern conception of zombies, even though these undead creatures that corner a small group of survivors in a Pennsylvania farmhouse are never referred to with the z-word. The news only calls them “ghouls” that feast on the flesh of the living.

2. The Vampire [watch the movie]
A small-town doctor trying to develop a serum that will improve human brain power instead gets whacked out on a drug made from the blood of vampire bats and becomes a freakish monster.

3. The Haunted Palace [watch the movie]
The legendary creepshow veteran Vincent Price finds himself ever-increasingly possessed by the spirit of his warlock grandfather, who intends to make unholy sacrifices in order to rule the world.

4. The Conqueror Worm [watch the movie]
Vincent Price returns as a nefarious and corrupt Witchfinder General who hunts down and brutalizes those poor souls suspected of witchcraft.

5. Crawlspace [watch the movie]
A homicidal maniac doctor who feels predestined to follow the dark path of his Nazi war criminal father runs a boarding house for innocent young women to spy upon them before committing brutal murder.

6. Wicked Stepmother [watch the movie]
Bette Davis is a sour witch with dastardly plans for the family she’s just married into. Can David Rasche put a stop to her nefarious plans?

7. Murders in the Rue Morgue [watch the movie]
Jason Robards stars in Edgar Allen Poe’s tale of strange, mysterious and grisly deaths within a Parisian theatre company.

8. The House Where Evil Dwells [watch the movie]
An American couple in Japan find their home haunted by the traumatized spirits of a long-dead samurai and the betrayers he killed.

9. Cry of the Banshee [watch the movie]
Vincent Price is a sadistic 16th-Century Irish judge who disrupts a coven of Druid witches, only to find himself and his entire family line cursed by the spirit of the “sidhe” taking the form of a mild-mannered stable boy who wreaks violent vengeance.

10. Twice Told Tales [watch the movie]
Renowned author Nathaniel Hawthorne’s trio of horror tales - Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, Rappaccini’s Daughter and The House of the Seven Gables - are given life with the help of Vincent Price.

11. Count Yorga, Vampire [watch the movie]
A reclusive bloodsucker (or as Blade would call him, ’suckhead’) preys upon unlucky travelers in order to build himself a harem of vampiric women in his thrall.

12. Ghoulies II [watch the movie]
Ugly little swarming gremlin-esque monsters hole themselves up in a dilapidated carnival and feast on the flesh of fun-seekers.

13. Pumpkinhead [watch the movie]
Don’t piss off Lance Henriksen, and especially don’t kill his kid. Otherwise, he’ll consult with the occult and sic a vengeance demon on your marauding biker gang asses!

14. J.D.’s Revenge [watch the movie]
The ghost of J.D., a murdered gangster kingpin from the pinstripe era, returns to possess the soul of a New Orleans law student, make love to his woman and get the revenge he craves!

15. Vampire’s Kiss [watch the movie]
Nicolas Cage is a yuppie literary agent who becomes convinced that Jennifer Beals has transformed him into an undead bloodsucking creature of the night. Is that scarier than a real vampire, or just funnier?

16. 28 Days Later [watch the movie]
Danny Boyle redefined the zombie genre with this nightmare-inducing tale of fast-moving creatures decimating the UK and leaving Cillian Murphy and Brendan Gleeson alone to deal with the aftermath.

17. The Comedy of Terrors [watch the movie]
Vincent Price is back again, and this time he’s playing an undertaker who, with the help of his cringing assistant Peter Lorre, is trying to poison his senile father-in-law (Boris Karloff) to take over his buinsess, while he’s also boosting his ledger by quietly smothering wealthy old men in their sleep - that is, until his latest victim (Basil Rathbone) refuses to stay dead!

18. Troll 2 [watch the movie]
A horde of hideous goblins completely defeat the purpose of vegetarianism by hunting down humans in order to turn them into plants before eating them. And yes, there is nary a troll to be found.

19. Blacula [watch the movie]
An African prince is victimized and entombed by a racist Count Dracula, but he wakes up in 1970s Los Angeles to get himself some revenge.

20. Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield [watch the movie]
The true-life story of the rural Wisconsin serial killer that inspired The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as portrayed by Kane Hodder, the erstwhile Jason Voorhees from most of the Friday the 13th movies.

21. Frankenstein’s Daughter [watch the movie]
An innocent teenage girl is malevolently transformed into what can only be described as a She-Monster of the Night!

22. Carnival of Souls [watch the movie]
This cult classic zombie movie that predates George Romero’s work is a moody atmospheric piece featuring a woman who emerges from a car crash devoid of identity and drawn to unsettling ghouls.

23. Midnight Meat Train [watch the movie]
The story of a photographer (Bradley Cooper) who starts to stalk a notorious subway serial killer (Vinnie Jones) as part of his growing obsession with the dark side of human nature.

24. Amytiville II: The Possession [watch the movie]
A prequel to The Amityville Horror which features Burt Young as the awful patriarch of an awful family whose eldest son is possessed by a demon.