Wednesday on TV: "Scary Movie" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street"

"Scary Movie" is broadcast on MTV. And "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is one of many horror movies aired on T.V. this Halloween.

What's on TV

HORROR FILM (2000) 18h on MTV. Keenen Ivory Wayans' horror parody had the biggest opening of a box office film at its first appearance in the summer of 2000. Eighteen years and four suites later, it remains what it's always been: a torrid, 90-minute gag filled, it's good for anyone looking to laugh rather than scream at Halloween – although his humor will not please everyone. "If you're amused by jokes about male genitalia, pubic hair, flatulence and mutilation, it should be a huge success," said A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times. "If you're not here and you have not seen the half-dozen blockbusters he's referring to (" The Blair Witch Project "," The Matrix "," The Sixth Sense "and" The Usual Suspects ", in addition to the films" Shout "and" What you did last summer "), then, miss absolutely everything."

HALLOWEEN 5: THE REVIEW OF MICHAEL MYERS (1989) 19h on AMC. Nearly three decades before the release of the latest movie "Halloween," Danielle Harris embodies the niece of murderer Michael Myers in this fifth installation of the series. The infamous murderer is played here by Donald L. Shanks, and Donald Pleasence resumes his original role as Dr. Sam Loomis, the heroic psychiatrist. It's fun for the fans of the series, but it's not a great choice for those who have to watch TV in front of their door and expect to be tricked into watching – R rating of the film is well deserved.

HOUSE OF WAX (1953) 20h on TCM. "This first major stroke in 3D is a horror package that was cheap and obvious twenty years ago," writes Bosley Crowther in his April 1953 review in The Times of this extravagant Warner Bros. movie. when he came out that year. Although viewers can not feel the 3D effects of the original theatrical release, they can nonetheless discover the story of a sculptor who kills people and exposes their wax-covered corpses in a museum in good old 2D. .

HE (2016) 21h on HBO. This adaptation of Stephen King's "It" contributed to the inauguration of a The revival of fanciful movies in 2017, motivated in part by the terrifying portrait of Billy Skarsgard depicting Pennywise, a clown who tracks a group of young people in a small town in America. Skarsgard will have work to do for him, surpassing the fears of another genre simultaneously on HBO Signature, where Meryl Streep plays the role of fashion magazine editor in THE DEVIL IN PRADA (2006), also broadcast at 9 pm, could be even more frightening.