IMAGI-MOVIES ON TCM, MAY, 2024

Greetings, Friends, Fiends, & #TCMParty goers! I’m back! I’m taking time off from making videos/streaming until August, due to prepping for the family’s big move, so I figured I’d do some posting here on my admittedly oft-neglected blog. What better way than to revive one of my more popular regular features, the schedule for Imagi-Movies airing on TCM.

For those who might not be familiar with it, I basically scan the monthly TCM (Turner Classic Movies) schedules & I provide a list of the classic Horror, Science-Fiction, & Fantastic films popping up during the month, or “IMAGI-MOVIES“, as I call them, using a term coined by the legendary publisher of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND, Forrest J. Ackerman!
Please note, that I include films that have an air or fantasy, or a call for the viewer to suspend their disbelief, whether realized by special effects, or just as a concept. This is why this month’s listings include films like BRIGADOON (1954) – a mythical Scottish village reappears from the Highland mists every 100 years – and a Wheeler & Woolsey comedy short, MUMMY’S BOYS (1936), as it deals with the due finding themselves in a

I also try to insert some of my takes on certain films, or trends, and make recommendations.

For instance, May has historically been a light month for IMAGI-MOVIES on TCM (22 in 2014, 17 in 2013), though you can probably find STAR WARS films in abundance on other services, around the traditional “May the Fourth” celebration. This month is fairly light in offerings, spread out over the month, though occasionally clumped together.

Sorry that I missed TODAY’S offerings. I’ll try to get a bigger jump on June’s schedule. In any case, let’s hit it, keeping in mind that all times listed are Eastern Daylight Time, and that all schedules are subject to change by TCM.

Saturday, May 4, 2024

1:45 pm Angels in the Outfield (1951)
8:24 am The Walking Dead (1936)

TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2024

12:30 am FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956)

saturDAY, MAY 7, 2024

8:26 am Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2024

5:00 am Haunted Gold (1932)
6:00 am Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book (1942)
8:00 pm The Fisher King (1991)

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2024

10:15 pm Lili (1953)

FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2024

7:45 am One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966) – Man From U.N.C.L.E. feature film
3:45 pm How to Steal the World (1968) – Man From U.N.C.L.E. feature film

SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2024

8:00 pm The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
10:00 pm Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2024

8:00 pm The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) A story from Dr. Suess!
12:15 am Donkey Skin (1970)
2:00 am The Glass Slipper (1955)
3:45 am Brigadoon (1954)

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2024

5:45 am The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2024

6:15 am Mummy’s Boys (1936)
7:30 am My Demon Lover (1987)
9:00 am The Smiling Ghost (1941)
10:30 am Singapore Woman (1941)
11:45 am The Reptile (1966)
1:30 pm Death Curse of Tartu (1966)
3:00 pm Curse of the Demon (1958)
4:30 pm The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964)
6:00 pm Sphinx (1981)
8:00 pm JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963)
10:00 pm KING KONG (1933)
12:00 am METROPOLIS (1926)
2:45 am Modern Times (1936)
4:15 am Eraserhead (1977)

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2024

6:00 am Beauty and the Beast (1946)
4:00 pm Invitation to the Dance (1956) Gene Kelly dances flawlessly with animated characters.

TOTAL = 33* Different films being shown on 11* Days.

*Not including the 7 films shown on May 1

There you have it, Friends & Fiends! A somewhat wide ranging assortment. I’m curious as to what will be in the offing for June, as we no doubt will once more be ignored in our request for bringing back the TCM Drive-In Double Features, which served as the “Big Bang” in the creation of the #TCMParty & the #DriveInMob, and I do not have access to a June schedule at this time.

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