Monday, Oct. 24
Halloween
Director John Carpenter’s low-budget shocker created a template for many later horror films and in 2006 was selected for the National Film Registry. Jamie Lee Curtis stars. (1978) 8 p.m., AMC
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Tuesday, Oct. 25
Let Me In
A bullied boy is befriended by a strange girl in the English-language adaptation of Let the Right One In, a 2008 Swedish film based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Both versions received wide acclaim. (2010) 9 p.m., Starz
Wednesday, Oct. 26
The Changeling
Winner of the first Genie Award for the best Canadian-produced feature, this thriller is set in a Victorian mansion inhabited by a widowed composer and the ghost of a child. George C. Scott stars. (1980) 3:45 p.m., IFC
Thursday, Oct. 27
Shiloh
A boy tries to protect an abused dog from its owner in this above-average family film, adapted from a Newbery Medal–winning children’s novel. (1996) 7:10 a.m., Encore
Friday, Oct. 28
The Black Room
Boris Karloff showed he could do more than monosyllabic monsters in this Gothic chiller. Karloff plays identical twins—one good, one evil—who are cursed by a family prophecy. (1935) 10 p.m., TCM
Saturday, Oct. 29
Love & Other Drugs
On-screen chemistry between Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway as commitment-shy lovers buoys this romantic comedy. Both were nominated for Golden Globes. (2010) 8 p.m., HBO
Sunday, Oct. 30
Dial M for Murder
Alfred Hitchcock directed this classic thriller about a husband’s elaborate plot to have his wife killed. Ray Milland and Grace Kelly star. (1954) 2 p.m., TCM
