Are the programmers at American Movie Classics on drugs?

[Nevernose]

Tonight, Halloween -- a celebration of everything frightening, they give us...

Halloween 5: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween: Resurrection

Do they need a copy of the freaking OED to define for them what a "classic" is? Those movies aren't even "modern classics." Goodfellas is a modern classic; Schindler's List is a modern classic. THOSE movies just plain suck.

If they're not on drugs, they should be.

[begin_within]

1. They should have run the real old Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, Mummy

Even if they aren't necessarily as scary as more recent ones, if they really wanted to show "Classics" they should have shown those old ones. What better night of the year for those?

[Broken_Hero]

2. I agree

they have been rerunning a bunch of Halloweens, Friday the 13th, and Hellraisers the past two weeks...I do admit, I enjoy Hellraiser I and II...but they replay the same movie...over and over again...and I didn't seen any older movies, like the ones you listed.

[Giant Robot]

3. They played them throughout last week

but during the mornings, so I missed some of them, but they played The Wolfman, Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, etc.

[noonwitch]

4. I stopped watching that channel when they started allowing advertisements

They used to be more like TCM and show movies uniterrupted. Not anymore.

[leftofthedial]

5. They've been running old horror movie "classics" all week

They showed a bunch of "Halloween" movies last night.

You see, last night was Halloween. You might have see the jack-o-lanterns or the gaggles of little kids in costumes. Their programming last night was a theme related to the holiday.

[Nevernose]

8. Then why not play GOOD horror movies -- or at least classics?

Halloween 5? Surely crack cocaine was responsible for the creation of Halloween 5.

Not to mention the fact that -- although it does, indeed, contain the word "Halloween" -- Halloween 5 is hardly a classic. Yes, I understand that last night was Halloween, but why not play something good, or scary, or good AND scary? Their programming for the last week was "related to the holiday," and some good ones, too. But on the big night, they chose Halloween 5.

Halloween parts one or two I can understand, and I could've even tolerated part three, but parts five and six?

[leftofthedial]

11. One needs plenty of Halloween punch

to tolerate pretty much anything that was on TV last night

[anarch]

6. most likely, yes

You'd be surprised how many people you run into each day are, in fact, on drugs.

[Nevernose]

9. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised at all.

My point being that with those kind of decisions and they weren't on drugs, then they should be. And if they ARE on drugs, they're either not taking the right ones or should seriously consider sobriety as a lifestyle choice.

[KatyaR]

7. Now see, if they'd actually had Mike Meyers star in Halloween 5,

I might have watched it. Otherwise, forget it. I hate horror movies anyway--at least those made after 1960.

Those movies were probably the only ones they could afford to show . . . .

[Generic Brad]

10. Those are classic examples of bad horror movies

I suppose that qualifies them as classic in some manner.

[qnr]

12. Well, technically, those are classics. At least in one of the subordinate

definitions of the word. i.e:

Of a well-known type; typical: a classic mistake.

-or-

A typical or traditional example.