Channel 03

The Haunted Screen

What the dark does with an audience.

Named for Lotte Eisner's study of German expressionism, programmed for the hours when the house is quiet. Horror is the genre most honest about why we watch together: it is easier to look when someone is beside you. These prints have frightened three generations and are not finished.

The rotation 21 films · 107 screenings a week

1. Carnival of Souls 1962 · Herk Harvey 78 min
2. White Zombie 1932 · Victor Halperin 65 min
3. Dementia 13 1963 · Francis Ford Coppola 75 min
4. The Little Shop of Horrors 1960 · Roger Corman 73 min
5. The Cat and the Canary 1927 · Paul Leni 84 min
6. The Phantom of the Opera 1925 · Rupert Julian 103 min
7. The Terror 1963 · Roger Corman 79 min
8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1920 · John S. Robertson 83 min
9. A Bucket of Blood 1959 · Roger Corman 65 min
10. Bluebeard 1944 · Edgar G. Ulmer 71 min
11. The Bat Whispers 1930 · Roland West 85 min
12. The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923 · Wallace Worsley 116 min
13. Murder! 1930 · Alfred Hitchcock 102 min
14. The Thirteenth Chair 1929 · Tod Browning 72 min
15. The Devil Bat 1940 · Jean Yarbrough 68 min
16. Invisible Ghost 1941 · Joseph H. Lewis 63 min
17. The Most Dangerous Game 1932 · Ernest B. Schoedsack, Irving Pichel 62 min
18. The Vampire Bat 1933 · Frank R. Strayer 63 min
19. Outward Bound 1930 · Robert Milton 83 min
20. Dead Men Walk 1943 · Sam Newfield 63 min
21. The Mad Monster 1942 · Sam Newfield 77 min

Every film starts on the hour or the half hour, and the station break — test card and countdown — runs until it does. The week repeats: what is on at nine this Tuesday is on at nine next Tuesday. It has been running, notionally, since the epoch, and is at the same frame for everyone who tunes in. See what's coming in the Guide.