Perfect Halloween Theme Marathons!

If you know me, you know I love to program TV. If you're a crazy fan like me, you can see all 750 hours of October programming here at 31 Days of Halloween. But the best of the best are the 10 days preceding Halloween, when I break out theme marathons for all the essential Halloween fixins of terror.

The theme starts off at 4am with a day-long marathon of the finest TV: two excellent films and two five hour marathons, one of chilling real life documentaries and the other of dazzling drama TV shows. At 6pm the main course is served, ten hours of the absolute mightiest, greatest, most perfect 5 films the theme has to offer:

6pm: an all-time classic
8: a modern classic
10: a fan-favorite
12: a found footage classic
2: an underrated gem (also found footage save in cases where there simply aren't a lot of found footage options to choose from)

In general, movies are only shown once over the course of the month, but the finest films are shown twice (at relatively opposite ends of the month). The sole exception is Trick 'r Treat which is, being the ultimate Halloween film, shown several times. Then on Samhain itself a bunch of in-theaters and recently released films are debuted. Halloween programming ends at sunrise on November 1st, because sunrise is what drives the demons back into the netherworld for another year.


Movies are coded in RED.
Documentary programs & series are coded in GREEN.
Fictional (drama, comedy) television series are coded in BLUE.

Alien Night 

(Saturday, October 20th 2012)

4am: Fire in the Sky

6: Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files

7: Alien Files [Canada]

8: Ancient Aliens

9: Ancient Aliens

10: Sightings

10.30: Sightings

11: Fourth Kind

1: Falling Skies

2: Falling Skies

3: The X-Files

4: The X-Files

5: The X-Files

6: Alien

8: Monsters (2010)

10: Altered

12: Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County

2: The Wicksborro Incident

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Possession Night

(Sunday, October 21st 2012)

4am: The Exorcism of Emily Rose

6: Exorcism: Driving Out the Devil

7: Is it Real? s1e9 "Exorcism" 

8: A Haunting s1e8 "The Diabolical"

9: A Haunting s3e24 "The Possessed"

10: A Haunting s4e9 "Ghost Hunter"

11: Fallen

1: Apparitions

2: Apparitions 

3: Apparitions

4: The Secret Circle s1e4 "Heather"

5: The Secret Circle s1e5 "Slither"

6: The Exorcist

8: Requiem

10: Exorcismus

12: [REC] 2

2: The Last Exorcism

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Witch Night

(Monday, October 22nd 2012)

4am: Hocus Pocus

6: Witchcraft: Myths & Legends [National Geographic]

7: Salem Witch Trials [History Channel]

8: Witchcraft: The Magick Rituals of the Coven

9: Secret Circles Hidden Prayers

10: Curse of the Blair Witch

11: Witches of Eastwick

1: Charmed

2: Charmed

3: The Secret Circle

4: The Secret Circle

5: Eastwick (2009)

6: The Wicker Man

8: The Craft

10: Suspiria

12: The Blair Witch Project

2: Paranormal Activity 3

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Campfire Night (Anthology Night)

(Tuesday, October 23rd 2012)

4am: Nightmares

6: Urban Legends

6.30: Urban Legends

7: Urban Legends

7.30: Urban Legends

8: Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

9: Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

10: Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

11: From a Whisper to a Scream (The Offspring)

1: Tales from the Crypt

1.30: Tales from the Crypt

2: Tales from the Crypt

2.30: Tales from the Crypt

3: Are You Afraid of the Dark?

3.30: Are You Afraid of the Dark?

4: Goosebumps

4.30: RL Stine's The Haunting Hour

5: Masters of Horror

6: Masters of Horror

6: Tales from the Crypt

8: Trick 'r Treat

10: Campfire Tales

12: V/H/S

2: Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror

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Vampire Night

(Wednesday, October 24th 2012)

4am: Fright Night

6: Lost Tapes s2e1 "Vampire"

6.30: Lost Tapes s3e3 "Strigoi Vampire"

7: Diary of a Vampire: The Legacy of Bram Stoker

8: Vampire Secrets

9: Real Vampires... Exposed!

10: MonsterQuest s2e10 "Vampires in America"

11: The Lost Boys

1: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

2: The Vampire Diaries

3: True Blood

4: True Blood

5: True Blood

6: Bram Stoker's Dracula

8: Let the Right One In

10: Interview With the Vampire

12: Vampires (2010)

2: 50 Days of Night

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Creature Night

(Thursday, October 25th 2012)

4am: Jeepers Creepers

6: Destination Truth

7: Animal X

7.30: Animal X

8: Sasquatch: When Legend Meets Science

9: MonsterQuest

10: MonsterQuest

11: Feast

2: Grimm

3: Grimm

4: Lost Tapes

4.30: Lost Tapes

5: Lost Tapes

5.30: Lost Tapes

6: Carnosaur

8: The Descent

10: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

12: Trollhunter

2: Cloverfield

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Killer Night

(Friday, October 26th 2012)

4am: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

6: The First 48

7: Snapped

8: Snapped

9: American Justice

10: American Justice

11: Wilderness Survival for Girls

1: Pretty Little Liars

2: Dexter

3: Dexter

4: Dexter

5: Dexter

6: Scream

8: American Psycho

10: Penny Dreadful

12: Alone With Her

2: Man Bites Dog

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Ghost Night

(Saturday, October 27th 2012)

4am: Atrocious

6: Most Haunted

7:  Most Haunted

8: A Haunting

9: A Haunting

10: A Haunting

11: Insidious

1: Being Human

2: American Horror Story

3: American Horror Story

4: American Horror Story

5: Real Scary Stories

5.30: Real Scary Stories

6: Poltergeist

8: Session 9

10: From Within

12: Paranormal Activity

2: Lake Mungo

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Zombie Night

(Sunday, October 28th 2012)

4am: Wicked Little Things

6: The Unexplained: Zombies

7: History's Mysteries: Zombies

8: Lost Tapes s3e1 "Zombies"

8.30: Zombies: A Living History

10: Beyond Bizarre

11: Deadgirl

1: The Walking Dead

2: The Walking Dead

3: The Walking Dead

4: The Walking Dead

5: Fear Itself s1e6 "New Years Day"

6: Dawn of the Dead

8: 28 Days Later

10: Perkins' 14

12: [REC]

2: Diary of the Dead

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Night of the Full Moon (Wolf Night)

(Monday, October 29th 2012)

4am: Blood and Chocolate

6: Freak Encounters s1e2 "Werewolf"

6.30: Lost Tapes s2e4 "Werewolf"

7: The Real Wolfman

8: MonsterQuest s1e14 "American Werewolf"

9: Werewolves: The Dark Survivors

11: Big Bad Wolf

1: Being Human

2: Teen Wolf

3: Teen Wolf

4: Teen Wolf

5: Teen Wolf 

6: The Howling

8: Ginger Snaps

10: Dog Soldiers

12: Eyes in the Dark

2: Wild Country

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Devil's Night

(Tuesday, October 30th 2012)

4am: The Gate

6: Gates of Hell [History Channel]

7.30: Lost Tapes s1e14 "Hellhound"

8: Lost Tapes s2e10 "Dover Demon"

8.30: Lost Tapes s2e7 "Jersey Devil"

9: Devil Worship: The Rise of Satanism

10: A Haunting s2e4 "Where Demons Dwell"

11: Devil

1: Reaper

2: Reaper

3: Todd McFarlane's Spawn

3.30: Todd McFarlane's Spawn

4: Todd McFarlane's Spawn

4.30: Todd McFarlane's Spawn

5: Todd McFarlane's Spawn

5.30: Todd McFarlane's Spawn

6: Jacob's Ladder

8: The House of the Devil

10: Night of the Demons (2009)

12: Paranormal Activity 2

2: The Devil Inside

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All Hallow's Eve

(Wednesday, October 31st 2012)

4am: Trick 'r Treat

6: Halloween (1978)

8: [REC] 3 Genesis

10: The Hole

12: Fun Size 

2pm: Kill List

4: House at the End of the Street (2012)

6: Trick 'r Treat

8: Chernobyl Diaries

10: The Cabin in the Woods

12: Paranormal Activity 4

2: Trick 'r Treat

4: Intruders

6: Trick 'r Treat