Simone Simon stars in Val Lewton’s atmospheric 1942 “Cat People” (midnight), which serves as both the middle point of a weekend’s worth of Halloween movies on Turner Classic Movies and a credible stand-in for the Noir Alley feature they usually program on midnight Saturday night.
The rest of today’s TCM lineup has “The Hypnotic Eye” (6:45 a.m.), “Chamber of Horrors” (8:15 a.m.), “Spider Baby” (10 a.m.), “The Devil’s Own” (11:30 a.m.), “The Curse of Frankenstein” (1:15 p.m.), “The Haunting” (2:45 p.m.), “The Tomb of Ligeia” (4:45 p.m.), “The Fly” (6:15 p.m.), “Frankenstein” (8 p.m.), “Young Frankenstein” (9:30 p.m.), “Who’s Superstitious?” (11:30 p.m.), “Black Cats and Broomsticks” (11:45 p.m.), “The Leopard Man” (1:22 a.m.), “Let’s Scare Jessica to Death” (2:45 a.m.) and “Carnival of Souls” (4:30 a.m.).
Mostly sports again in primetime broadcast slots, led by Game 4 of the World Series, which began with historically low ratings. It’s Houston at Atlanta (Fox, 8 p.m.), with Atlanta leading the series 2-1.
College football dominates, though with Penn State at Ohio State (ABC, 7:30 p.m.) and North Carolina at Notre Dame (NBC, 7:30 p.m.) as well as the slew of games earlier in the day listed below.
A Halloween-themed “World’s Funniest Animals” (CW, 9 p.m.) includes costumed canines and haunting horses. Robert Englund, erstwhile Freddy Kruger is special guest.