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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM 1966
Sunday, 10:30 p.m., TCM
From the Broadway hit of the same name, comes this musical comedy — one that’s actually funny. The story centers on Rome’s laziest slave (Zero Mostel, far left, with, clockwise, Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and Buster Crabbe), who connives to gain his freedom by assisting his young master in winning the heart of a still-virgin courtesan-in-training. All that stands in the way is her owner, Lycus (Silvers). The Oscar-winning score is by Stephen Sondheim.
HALLOWEEN 1978
Monday, 8 p.m., AMC
Whether you are out at the parade or out trick-or- treating yourself, this is the perfect movie to scare the mask right off you. A psycho (Tony Moran) who’d been locked up 15 years earlier for killing his sister, escapes from an asylum for the criminally insane and heads back to his hometown to slash and dash a town’s-worth of teens. Horrifying. With Jamie Lee Curtis (above) and Donald Pleasance.
REPULSION 1965
Monday, 4 a.m., TCM
Even more horrifying than slashed-up teens is this Roman Polanski horror-fest about a shy, sexually repressed manicurist (Catherine Deneuve, left, with Patrick Wymark) living in London. When left alone for the weekend, she slowly descends into madness, first killing a potential suitor and moving on to slashing her fat landlord with a razor. Her hallucinations include terrifying images of hands coming out of the walls to molest her. You may never sleep again.
EVE’s BAYOU 1997
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., BET
The year is 1962 and the place is Louisiana. The Batiste family is wealthy, good-looking and headed by the charismatic Dr. Louis Batiste, (Samuel L. Jackson). The perfect family starts to unravel when the youngest, most naive daughter (Jurnee Smollett, right with Lynn Whitfield) catches her father cheating on her beautiful mother (Whitfield). With Debbi Morgan and Diahann Carroll.