Svengoolie’s February Films Want to Be Your Bloody Valentine

There’s nothing scarier than this freezing February weather … but it’s the perfect time to light a fire, turn on the tube, and warm up with Svengoolie‘s February film picks. Every Saturday night, on MeTV‘s Svengoolie Classic Horror & Sci-Fi Movie, Svengoolie and his Sven Squad bring you the very best in retro, throwback spooky cinema — and this month, you’ll have dates with a lady who truly has two very different sides to her personality, the Transylvanian count who never drinks wine, aliens who invade southern California, and much more.

All films begin at 8pm EST on MeTV.

February 7: The Gorgon (1964)

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And you thought you’d had some bad hair days! Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing star in this Hammer Films update of the Medusa myth, transporting the action to early 20th century Germany. Someone is turning a small village’s residents to stone … but which of the townspeople is secretly transforming into an angry lady with snakes on her head??

February 14: Dracula (1931) & Dinoshark (2010)

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Isn’t it bloody romantic? Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Bela Lugosi as the vamp who always knocks the ladies dead (literally). But Svengoolie isn’t just showing this Universal classic because it’s an excellent date movie; it’s also the 95th anniversary of the film’s original release!

Though most of us couldn’t imagine anyone else in the part, at one point before filming, Universal considered Lon Chaney for the role, before going to Lugosi, who had played the role in the Broadway production.

Then, the Sven Squad present: he’s a dino … he’s a shark … he’s a … well, you probably pieced that together already. This Roger Corman-produced creature feature originally aired on the SyFy Network, where it was created as a sequel to the 2004 film Dinocroc. Eric Balfour, who you may recall from his turns on 2000s shows like The OC and Six Feet Under, as well as SyFy series Haven, stars as the only man wise enough to notice that a giant swimming dinosaur is knocking off tourists in Puerto Vallarta (hey, people are here to vacation! Not notice murderous rampaging prehistoric reptiles!).

February 21: The Mist (2007)

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The Sven Squad get misty…just holding your haaaaaaand. Excuse me, that was incorrect: they’re getting misty by showing this 2007 Stephen King adaptation about a group of small-town Maine residents who get trapped inside a grocery store when a mysterious mist falls across the land, concealing grotesque monsters from beyond.

Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden lead a large ensemble cast directed by Frank Darabont, who had previously collaborated with King on The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. But Darabont’s connection to the tale goes deeper — after reading the original story in 1980, the director wanted it to become his feature debut. But after a number of years writing screenplays and directing TV, Darabont hit the directing world with Shawshank instead (not too shabby a start!)

February 28: The War of the Worlds (1953)

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The first of many cinematic adaptations of H.G. Wells’ novel, this tale of Martians initiating a takeover of 1950s America won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects and influenced countless sci-fi films that came after. Though Byron Haskin handled the directing duties, Paramount had been trying to adapt the book since 1925 (!!), and spoke to everyone from Cecil B. DeMille to Alfred Hitchcock about helming it.

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